skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that was a nice side effect - but only a side effect. The real reason why the music was released in this format was space saving. If you would have wanted to release a song with all the tracks already mixed together, you would have had to store it as an uncompressed or losslessly compressed "waveform" file, and a very modest song would already have filled up an Amiga 880 KB floppy disk all by itself. Contrast this to Lemmings, which had not only ~10 songs, but also the sound effects, graphics, game code and 120 levels (although some levels were 100% identical to earlier levels, just with a tougher distribution of Lemmings skills and/or higher quota of Lemmings to save) on 2 floppies...
> Video is not a good format for skimming around to get a quick overall impression

Download the subs.

yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub [...]
The situations where an 8k screen beats a 4k screen for video content are already niche at best. If you need to upscale then don't even bother.
Anyone can translate any video to their language inserting just an YOUTUBE LINK.

It is FREE, period.

Please try out clicking on Dashboard on top-left and let us know how you liked.
No Credit Cards, no lock ins!

https://autodubber.neurals.ai/?y=2
not to mention the caffeine.

coke's so bad for kids. give them juice or milk instead.
There's a big push on Swish which is a mobile banking app and only available to people with BankID - there are smaller places that are Swish-only which means you cannot pay with a card or cash but a Swedish-specific app. I am now with Handelsbanken so this issue is solved but when I first visited it was an issue!

But regardless of those more niche issues, did you try joining a Gym before getting a Swedish card/personnummer?
I worked a six month contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering in Cupertino. I was staying in a 1BR apartment on the edge of Cupertino and San Jose, and my rent for that apartment was $2k/month. That was 2014. During that gig, my wife stayed here in Austin, and we were paying considerably less than $2k for our 4BR house we have in one of the nicer neighborhoods.
I saw shacks (not fit for human habitation) on postage stamp size lots in Cupertino where the property was for sale, the land had a value of $700k, but the property overall had a value of $600k. The house literally had a value of negative 100k, because that's what it would take to knock it down and rip everything out and start building fresh. Meanwhile, the median home cost in the Austin area was like $200k.

I totally get how house prices are much cheaper here in Austin. But the housing prices have rapidly gone up -- like 3-4x in just a few years. And our property taxes are going up as fast as the law will allow. What house you could have bought for $300k just a few years ago will now cost you over $1m. It's going to take a long time for the property taxes to catch up to the home values, unless that law gets changed.
I hope my wife and I can continue to afford to live here long enough to retire, and then sell our house for ridiculous amounts of money so that we can afford to buy another place somewhere else where the weather is more moderate and the prices aren't so totally out of whack. We will just have to see what happens.

EDIT: I will add that I calculated how much I was making as a contractor for Apple, and I realized that they'd have to pay me over $250k to have the same amount of take home pay, were they to make me an offer to become a permanent employee. At that time, only VPs were making that kind of money, so I was very relieved when I was told that my work was done and my contract was ending, and that my early Christmas present that year was that I would be able to move back home to Austin.
JetBrains Rider is the most viable alternative. I know it's not open source, but pragmatically it supports Linux/macOS/Windows really well, and has lots of IDE features for linting, auto-completion, and refactoring. I know Microsoft wants people to use VS Code now, but it's just not in the same league yet.
SEEKING WORK | Remote Work | Worldwide Availability

Technologies: Kotlin (Android), Python (Django), Java, Stripe, FHIR

About Me: Formerly at Google and Amazon, I possess over 9 years of professional experience in software engineering.

Contact: Email me at myerou {at} paleblueapps.com
I like but don't love my Glove80. The build quality just feels a little cheap given how decidedly not cheap the price tag is. And the thumb clusters are quite pointy. I do like how the key well shape makes it easy to reach an extra row of keys; I have all my parens and braces below the zxcvb row, where on an ordinary keyboard all the modifiers would be.
I have a similar goal as you. Initially I tried reading "How to Prove It: A Structured Approach" but I only got so far, mostly because I decided to prioritize upskilling and getting a new job first.

There's also a relevant hackernews post[0], and one of the suggestions there was "Proofs: A Long Form Textbooks by Jay Cummings".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31800081
Probably just doing that so they can maintain their exclusive right to import it legally.
Microsoft – A ‘Velvet Sweatshop’ or a High-Tech Heaven?”
Any old-timer want to share his story ?
I think No Country or The Road are much better starting points. McCarthy's style takes some warming up to, especially regarding the terse run-on sentences and his strict lack of punctuation or indication of the speaker during dialogue.

Blood Meridian is a heavy and dense book that is a difficult enough read even after you are somewhat used to his unique style and tone (desolate, gut-wrenching, violent, quasi-mythical, beautiful). I also think it somewhat undeservedly overshadows his other work when it comes to internet discussions.
Show HN: Turn Multiple Documents into Comparative Tables with GPT
Hello fellow hackers!

Managing and comparing data across numerous documents is time-consuming. That's why we created Tactic Generate, an app that lets you transform scattered information from documents into a structured, tabular output.

One great use case in scientific research is performing a literature review where you pull in lots of papers to compare their methods, experimental results, and conclusions. These docs might all be written and structured differently, making the comparative process very manual. With Tactic Generate, literature reviews will be much faster and easier, potentially helping scientists spot patterns across many more papers than previously possible. Personally, I have an academic background as a battery materials researcher, and I wish I’d had a tool like this to help me extract and compare synthesis methods, chemical formulas, and electronic properties observed across a wide range of scientific literature.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I think there are also lots of other applications in business domains we can apply this to.

This app lets you upload lots of papers and documents, ask questions about them, and get answers back in the form of a table, where we group the answers by document or topic. This allows you to use an LLM to ask the same question about lots of documents at the same time and get the answer for each document in a table, along with total summaries.

I think there is a lot of potential here in moving away from a pure, chat-like experience, and giving the user more control over how the LLM is used to extract information from a collection of underlying documents and what the display and output looks like.

The demo video on the landing page is targeted toward business applications, but you can swap out the business topics for scientific ones and it becomes very powerful for those subjects.

This is a super early alpha version of this product, but we wanted to get it out there and collect your feedback. Please let us know what you think.
If they were using it to educate people about the consequences of piracy, I could understand why they would host that, but that's not the case here. What is the purpose of this?
If you happen to live near a UPS store or Whole Foods, sure, but Amazon has to be doing a lot of business shipping to people in remote areas.
It's not required that the memory be uninitialized. The trick also permits reusing the same memory without clearing every time.
That's where our roots are as well :)
InfiniteGlass Window Manager
I haven't read anything by Windschuttle. But Charles Clark famously declared that he was pushing "my kind of history", which was a poetic and spitually uplifting narrative in his opinion. Shortly before his death, he gave an interview about this topic, admitted he had fabricated many things, but believed his motive was sufficient excuse for doing so. You can equivocate all you want about inferring and complication, but he actually admitted it.

The "You're probably a [insert anything]!" is one of those pesky little logical fallacies intended to divert attention from the subject.
What? What have plants, evolved for extinct species got to do with anything? Who are the cults and god's in this metaphor?
Since LLM are good at translating perhaps that's one of the reasons they seem to do a decent job of explaining things.
They make turf based fire starters which smell of not much at all, and burn much longer than those awful kerosene ones.
Thousands of ducks released to protect Thai rice fields from pests [video]
I totally agree, there's no economic incentive, and sadly the "industry" will make sure complexity/size/scale will keep on growing. How much more performance and quantity do we need in CPU/RAM/storage/storage bandwidth for regular apps which I assume is the vast majority of computing at home/office.

Sure, games are ever-demanding and will continue going that way probably for a while longer especially on the pure graphics side.

Many apps do contain truck loads of libraries and dependencies, which have dependencies and all of that alone, accounts to massive code size.
wait, that break is from Blowfly?! I was a DJ for years and I love Blowfly and never knew that, how embarassing, TIL.
Yandex.ru seems to be the real deal, uncensored internet (except anything not politically compliant with russia) while yandex.com doesn’t give me that useful results for the movie query. Google.com feels so censored and crippled now.
English is increasingly using the singular 'they' as a workaround, since alternative options like 've,' 'ze,' 'zhe,' and 'xer' didn't gain traction. This comes with its own set of issues—initially, it was a bit disorienting for me, and even now it often requires a mental pause to parse what the speaker is referring to.

I'd welcome a more authoritarian approach here: globally adopt a new pronoun, go through a transitional period, and then we're all on the same page. Some sci-fi novels have toyed with this concept.

IMO gendered pronouns don't add much value in many languages (with exceptions - poetry etc.). In Slavic languages, it's relatively straightforward to deduce gender from the pronoun, but in Germanic and Romance languages, it's more obfuscated.
Microsoft executive says that working overtime and on weekends is a norm
Trackers are amazing and they still live on, for example, https://dirtywave.com/products/m8-tracker

although I have no background on playing trackers, I find my philosophy of designing music language very close to the idea of trackers (https://glicol.org). and it also occurred to me: maybe in the future we would say Algorave is the budget dance music in 2020?

This was my Algorave performance during the pandemic (I was actually tested positive 3 days before the performance streaming):

https://youtu.be/atoTujbQdwI?si=qVWvJrDZ0rupPIqf&t=260
Yet, not only does the number one C++ engine use refcounting, plenty of commercial engines now have C++ relegated to the core engine, with a scripting language using some form of automatic memory management on top, that drives most of the game code.
Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough
It's anything that's traditionally fermented, isn't it? Beer, kefir, cheese, natto etc.
It's like "hey look at this thing! It can only do 1/10th of what Lazarus can!"
Any female here want to share similar story about any company she has worked with ?
If a corporation indirectly kills millions, then no one is accountable, but try to steal from them and you end up in prison.
Interesting… all of my dad's 5.25 failed.
The problem is that you hardly arrive at the correct solution the first time, game development (in the higher game logic layers at least) is an inherently incremental and chaotic process, while Rust heavily prefers careful upfront planning and despises the sort of 'creative chaos' that makes a game work.
THAT'S what that music is. Thank you.
Not sure if unpatched arbitrary file-upload vulnerabilities that rexult in blogspam and hosted malware, or doctored documents do serve any purpose? But maybe I'm just not thinking adversarial enough :-/
The Sourtoe Cocktail
This is a great article, but wondering how these datasets are made - I would love to make a fine-tuned model on our own code base
Is Netflix available in there now? They were famously absent for the first few years of that feature.
The end result is testable
I remember I had Octamed - 8 tracks! Bliss.
I'm not sure if taking regular breaks and doing exercises can fully mitigate the RSI and discomfort/pain that drives many to use ergonomic keyboards and input devices.

Personally, my wrists start to hurt after only an hour or two of use of a "normal" keyboard and mouse. It doesn't matter if I've spent the previous 3 months offline doing yoga (getting very thorough full-body movement) or totally absorbed in some computer-y project - "normal" input devices hurt! My shoulders and back are more tolerant, but eventually they start to ache too.

It's likely I didn't take care of myself properly earlier in life, but using a split keyboard and tilted thumb-operated trackball mean I can continue coding without nerve pain.

To be clear, the goal is not exactly to move less - it's to keep the wrists and shoulders in a neutral, less-stressful position.
Nice to wake up to a breakbeat thread on HN!

I grew up making/listening to funk, hiphop and drum and bass. Crate digging for breaks in old record stores was fun - that was a thing that got started by hip hop DJs/producers state side and was such a buzz to find a few bars of naked drums on a record. I have hundreds of breaks from crate digging back in the day, there’s a lot you can learn about production by dissecting them - figuring out how they sounded so fat - drum miking, compression, tape saturation, great playing.

These days there’s a lot of multitracks floating around and also ML stem separators make it pretty easy to extract drums from anywhere (although with a bit of phasing artifacts).

It’s interesting that to my knowledge there haven’t been any copyright lawsuits for drum breaks - although the record industry has been vicious about suing for sampling anything else - maybe one day in the future there will be and all aging DnB producers will be bankrupted :D

Back to the amen - it’s a special break. It has so much energy, especially sped up - to the best of my knowledge started by a couple of UK DJs mixing in hiphop records with house/acid with these breaks on them, playing at 44rpm instead of 33rpm to try to beat match them - and seeing the crowd reaction. There was an origin story on one of the Fabio & Grooverider shows of which London club this first happened and how it took off from there - people deliberately recreating that sound with sampling and chopped up/sped up breaks.

Amen still reigns supreme although there’s a lot of other great breaks too!
> Only if you're running your own instance, otherwise you're at the mercy of whoever's instance you are on: if they decide to cut off some other instance for whatever reason, then, no, you won't see that other instance without running your own instance.

And if I sign up to individual servers, they could ban me. There are risks in every model, but unlike in a centralised model, with a federated system I get to choose along a wide spectrum with respect to which risks I'm prepared to take. I could just sign up to the dominant server if I'm comfortable with that. I can pay someone to run an instance for me, I can run my own, I can find an instance run by someone I trust. The worst case is that I get the same upsides and downsides as in a centralised system.

> It's a social problem, not a technological one, so you get all the downsides of centralisation with none of the upsides.

To me this notion that there are upsides is comical, because of the above. I get choice. That's an upside. For my Mastodon setup I opted to run my own private instance because it gives me a level of control of the interface, and who I federate with and a number of other things that I don't get from the big instances. For Lemmy, I couldn't be bothered, because it's not (for now anyway) important enough. For ForgeFed, who knows, we'll see. But unlike with a centralised system, when I make that choice I don't choose away communication with all of those on other instances.

So to me, it is strictly better, and your hypotheticals are irrelevant because my worst case is to go back to the centralised model and register an account with a dominant instance.
You're right, because that's how I feel about the 90s and MODtracker music. Best era, best limitations.
Likewise! What sort of plugins are you making?
It's really evil and indeed against the customer, and it applies to pretty much any real product out there nowadays from cars to washing machines to water boilers. It's all designed to fall apart, break and stop working.

What about the incalculable environmental factor for all of this? Nobody cares.
Does this mean that those employees who refuse to do overtime and work on weekends have poor work ethics and are lazy ?
From what I recall and can find online, the original game was only released in Japan and North America.
I hate how cynical and jaded everyone on Hacker News is.
Uh, does that imply boars are more radioactive elsewhere, too? Northern Germany, Poland, France ...

Could it be that they simply aren't tested elsewhere?
Fruit juice is hardly better. A glass of, say, apple juice has several apples worth of sugar but much less than a single apple’s worth of dietary fibre.
> The most popular game engine ever is developed by a company that doesn't make games.

So? They have the feedback from thousands of games and game developers so they focus on alleviating the pain points.

If you don't have feedback, you may as well not bother.

Ship your Rust game, then you know what the pain points are. Until you ship, you're guessing.
A Thousand Tiny Quakes: Documenting Attacks in Ukraine with Seismometers
The Keyboardio Model 100[0] has 1/4-20 threaded holes (standard tripod) in the bottom, so you can add them onto whatever crazy setup you have that uses that threading. So, you'd have to hack together a stand, probably, but once you do, you can make the stand exactly the way you want it. I've heard of people mounting the keyboard to their chair.

0: https://shop.keyboard.io/pages/model100
Ever heard the expression - only paranoid survives? Maybe it's a reasonable strategy to cry wolf 100 times, out of which 99 times no wolf materializes.

Look at the recent catastrophes, from 2008 financial crisis, to COVID, to the currently raging war - who would have guessed? So we might be emphasizing things in a way that is inaccurate and excessively positive.
> Studio time used to be unbelievably expensive, so people didn't mess around.

Except some of the best music from that era is from rich people who COULD mess around (Dark Side of the Moon, for example). The 80s/90s opened that up to poor scumbags like myself.
Or Does it mean that those employees doing overtime or are working on weekends are unskilled?
Nah things are going fast, 2040-2050
True, but with this method you must be more careful than when using ferric chloride, in order to not inspire vapors from the etching bath, which may contain HCl.

Therefore this is better done outdoors or under a chemical fume hood.

In the industry, such etchings are always done under chemical fume hoods. At home, it is likely that you must work outdoors. My home has an open balcony, where I can do such operations.
Browns are apparently the best (most) selling switch type.
Fixed price only works when the client is able to present a fixed job upfront, with all needed information.
What are the other four in your best five list?

I really liked The Americans, too.
as one of those people, it sticks to drove 30m one way to get to a ups store. I already avoid Amazon because returning items is such a hassle, and about 1/3 items has to be returned because damage, false advertising (getting a product other than what was listed/depicted), or wrong measurements listed on product description or any of the other many issues. most products people won't do pickup at my house already, ups stores are a pain. I hate the whole Amazon return ecosystem.
It's always fun to go on a THX Deep Note rabbit hole trip, finding all the people who have replicated it.

Here's a neat example I just found where the original sound is just repeated and mixed at increasingly high numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvipzurlCK0. Pretty awesome.

This Pure Data recreation is pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1uNLHorEs
It was a hashing technique that would output similar outputs with similar inputs, maximizing collisions rather than minimizing it

That's why people were initially all up in arms about

But they didn't need to do that.

A regular hash where "just changing one pixel would be enough to evade the scanner" is already good enough
I was an avid Ludlum reader in my youth and recently revisited them. I was blown away by the cultural shift since then. His protagonists spends half the books arranging to use payphones and rent cars in an anonymous way. I can't tell if the job has got easier or harder since those largely stopped being possible.
Not really a show HN, should just be "MonoDevelop" or similar
Just a nitpick / editorial suggestion: The acronym "CRDT" is not extremely common, and never defined in the document. Such things trigger my obsessive personality streak hard and maybe others' too. Thankfully, Wikipedia gave me the answer, assuming this is about conflict-free replicated data types.
Very perceptive recommendation - I love Forsyth’s novels. I feel like they’re a little bit of a guilty pleasure, but damn, that guy can write a thriller.
Most people in the West think they live in democracy. But a lot of our lives are at work and at work, almost all corporations decided to implement Communism, which is just Mafia, like any other dictatorship. That's why if they like you, it's all good, if not, not so much. It's not a democracy and definitely not Meritocracy.
Mostly because it is the only available option if one wants C# instead of C++ with great tooling, asset store and official backing from platform owners.

None of Rust libraries is even close of getting there, even the studios that apparently support Rust, are shipping on Unreal.
SEEKING WORK - EU-based (WORLDWIDE availability) - Remote Technologies: iOS (Swift), Python (Django), Stripe

Super-short bio: 13+ years of professional software engineering experience

Email: mmavris{at}paleblueapps.com Looking forward to hearing from you!
X68000 designers had some foresight. Compact version, not so much.
Time, a few bucks a month, and peace of mind?

I often wish I had not done the whole self hosting on a VPS thing. It's kind of a hassle...

GitHub pages would probably make more sense.