skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not surprising that if you make using my old headset difficult, I and millions of others will move to buying a wireless alternative — they're counting on it. That's what happened and the sales numbers mirror that. People throw away way more audio equipment today than they ever have.

Hehe, well there's converters which add Bluetooth to devices like keyboards. Surely you can get one to work on your 3.5 mm device so you're up to par? /runs

Honestly, I've been a 3.5 mm user for a lot of years in my life, and I actually love listening to my little WF-1000XM3. In fact, they're more safe to wear before I fall asleep. Because I won't be able to suffocate due to wires. Also, back in those days where I often used 3.5 mm cables I often had cable breakage at the choke points (point of entry and near the speakers). I used to burn through a couple of headsets a year as kid! I'm not missing that at all. But cool enough, Fairphone actually had a 3.5 mm headphones where you could detach the cable to replace it. And a third example: with ambient sound I can do stuff like dishes, open front door, or make up my bed without using a wire and without being attached to anything.

Do you know about VR by chance? Do people like being connected with VR, or do they prefer to be not connected? The latter ehhh..? Cause it is more convenient, that is why.

> The fact that these Sony earbuds happen to be replaceable is quite a bit different than them being _designed_ as user-replicable. You found a community member that uploaded a video showing you how to do it, now show me the manufacturer's documentation explaining how it's done.

I don't give a shit what Sony's take on it is. iFixit guide is enough for me.

> This exists for watches and cameras

Both of which are type of device which is now redundant.

> I get it, you either work for or just really dig Fairphone. Glad you found a company you like so much.

shrug and you're on the of them 3.5 mm loudmouths? :)
Interesting note: React itself uses the Closure Compiler https://legacy.reactjs.org/blog/2017/12/15/improving-the-rep...
> Less meat, especially red meat.

where this came from?
Your comment made my day. Eye opening
The Historical Map That Changed Cartography
Investigating the Correlation Between Presence and Reaction Time in Mr
If you refuse to engage with a challenging concept and instead talk about something else entirely, you make things easier. Go figure.

Strategy helps us decide which actions will help us reach a goal. It does not tell us what that goal should be. It has practically nothing to do with morality. Human societies adopt different means but they also work towards different ends.
I wonder in these situations: why don't they spin it off / sell it to some other smaller company that doesn't need a Billion Users to succeed?

Never used it myself, but it looks like a useful product. Shame to have it disappear if there are still enough people who would buy it.
I disagree. I would absolutely have thought this was real if no-one told me. It's only the first few seconds of the video that look uncanny.
> most priced possessions

as well as most prized...
Is it really a "targeted smear campaign" if they're reporting facts of twitter allowing more far right wing extremism?
Fairfield County, CT is home of some of the biggest titans on Wall Street and in the PE, Hedge Fund, etc.. sectors.

Some of those titans are not the most...ethical characters.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can download all the music you uploaded by starting a draft of a Bandcamp subscription service (after buying something to create an account and profile if you don't have one). All your albums will be added to your personal collection. I suggest FLAC.

edit:

Magic trick: open one (1) album. Change it to FLAC. Download.

Now FLAC is default for the others you open.
I guess this comment is supposed to be something snide about the deplorable state of rail in comparison to "just driving". But that 11hr drive is easily longer due to pit stops and potentially traffic depending on when you hit metro areas.

While on the train you can travel in basically first class comfort. Read a book. Get WiFi via a hotspot or just pre-download content. Bring cards or something to play games with a travel companion or a portable gaming device like a Switch. The train sounds p great honestly.
I find it troublesome to listen to the person who claims that Russia is fighting in Ukraine in a more humane way than the US in their wars

[https://civilek.info/en/2023/04/30/noam-chomsky-russia-fight...]
I agree, hence my comment about the US choosing to rely strictly on markets to allocate capital. If the only lever the country is willing to pull is to adjust interest rates, it's sort of a means to that end, however inefficient.
Currently using sunshine/moonlight to play PC games on my M2 Mac at 4k 60fps and its been very solid cannot tell its remote over gigabit connection at 70 Mbps HVEC from Radeon card. Amazing tech for sure, only way to really game on Mac and can locate PC anywhere in house, right now in garage.

Still use RDP for work though its better suited to lower bandwidth higher latency text editing IMO plus copy paste etc.
Which reaction is more likely:

Oh, we better mask up and start distancing like in the 2020's

Oh, I guess we overreacted to Covid in the 2020's.
Most people don’t need to upgrade regularly and there are not dramatic year to year changes anymore.

That said, as someone who enjoys tech and gadgets I’ll likely keep doing yearly upgrades and enjoying the subtle improvements they bring.

You may not care or notice but smartphone cameras have gotten much better at producing photos in less than ideal lighting consistently.

The cameras are where I still see subtle, but important to me, year over year improvements and I like taking photos and videos.
dang, too bad it's out of date. The Ethan Allen Express has extended up to Burlington for over a year now...
Sweden turns to military to help police combat gang crime
> Didn't Bing's implementation argue with someone about what freaking year it was not awfully long ago?

I'm sorry, but that's a stellar example of holding an LLM wrong. These models are frozen in time.

> But "knowing" and "understanding" are two different things.

Indeed, and that is a big part of misunderstanding. GPT-4 is, on many topics, closer to understanding than knowing (note that neither is a subset of the other). The conceptual patterns are there, even if sometimes are easy to accidentally overpower by the prompt, or by the sequence of tokens already emitted.
I've posted something to this effect before but I'll post it again. I'm terrified someone is going to enshittify bandcamp.

I used to be a huge what fan, primarily for discovery. Never would've known I liked atmospheric black metal if not for them.

When they closed, I didn't really have enough "in" in the scene to know where other refugees went, so I just shopped around for anywhere else that would let me get "real" (in the what sense of real - decent encodes from raw source material that have the full spectrum and aren't just FLAC encodes of "high quality" mp3's). I don't pretend to be able to hear the difference, but I like it for archival purposes. I have plexamp transcode the audio anyway when I'm on mobile.

Turns out most people don't give a shit so most places don't offer flacs. Except bandcamp. Plus they pay artists fairly, which ended up being as important to me as the flacs as I came to support indie bands for whom selling on bandcamp was a huge lift. I like seeing CDs literally come from residential addresses in Sweden. I like supporting the random 1 dude making awesome metal out of his basement.
All of the hallway conversations I've had have been diversions.
Won't they become unusable when it rains?
This seems like the sort of thing Philip K. Dick should have warned us about.
It's a really nice idea, I've had similar thoughts myself, but sadly (and strangely) I actually think the Pi is too powerful. PICO-8 and similar works so well because the limitations are severe, 3D is a massive technical achievement on those systems, whereas the RPI can run Minecraft (to my knowledge) without too much issue. It puts it in this odd space where it can do too much to bring game development back to a simpler time, but not enough to make it an actual market.

Aside from that, it'd suffer from all the same problems as PC gaming does; different monitors to account for, no standard input method, varying specs between models, etc...

I could see it working, it's just got more issues to account for than other fantasy consoles
So I have Mitchell's version and like it as well. But he notably did not call his piece a new translation, only a new version. He doesn't speak or read any Chinese[1], so to begin with he was studying from secondary sources. He also generally just rephrased and reworded liberally. It's his version of Tao Te Ching, and to be fair this is the case for many translations.

But for example, Mitchell begins #3:

If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.

While American sinologist Robert Henricks[2] translated it as:

By not elevating the worthy, you bring it about that people will not compete.
By not valuing goods that are hard to obtain, you bring it about that people will not act like thieves.
By not displaying the desirable you bring it about that people will not be confused.

And from Chinese jurist John C. H. Wu[3]:

By not exalting the talented you will cause the people to cease from rivalry and contention.
By not prizing goods hard to get, you will cause the people to cease from robbing and stealing.
By not displaying what is desirable, you will cause the people's hearts to remain undisturbed.

Some of his changes are like this, Mitchell's version was more readable and accessible compared to the genuine translations, but compressed the message (sometimes to the point of being a bit reductive).

In other cases his edits were more substantial. In #9 for example:

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

Compare to Henricks:

To hold it upright and fill it,
Is not so good as stopping [in time].
When you pound it out and give it a point,
It won't be preserved very long.
When gold and jade fill your rooms,
You'll never be able to protect them.
Arrogance and pride with wealth and rank,
On their own bring on disaster.
When the deed is accomplished you retire;
Such is Heaven's Way!

And Wu:

As for holding to fullness,
Far better were it to stop in time!

Keep on beating and sharpening a sword,
And the edge cannot be preserved for long.

Fill your house with gold and jade,
And it can no longer be guarded.

Set store by your riches and honour,
And you will only reap a crop of calamities.

Here is the Way of Heaven:
When you have done your work, retire!

Mitchell's version differs significantly from Henricks, in meaning. He interprets Tao as the way to serenity (vs the Way of Heaven), and gold and jade like money (risk of consumerism, individual peril) instead of a gratuitous display of wealth (risk of burglary, social peril).

[1] https://scott.london/interviews/mitchell.html

[2] https://terebess.hu/english/tao/henricks.html

[3] https://terebess.hu/english/tao/wu.html
It’s moderately common. The Pacific Surfliner runs on transit track in the LOSSAN corridor and it’s being improved.
Surely you see /some/ non-epsilon value to /someone/ in non-interdictable transactions and an "asset" that you actually have to put me through thermo-rectal cryptanalysis to get your hands on.

You may not think particularly highly of ISIL or North Korea, but they still bid in the global marketplace! North Korean counterfeit 100's are of /very/ high quality and accepted globally.

Alls I'm saying is that Markowitz' portfolio diversification strategy is still viable.
> Took me an afternoon to write a simple C# tool to ingest a number of files and spit out the data that she needed. She had been waiting over a year for my software team to get the go-ahead to do it as a built-in feature.

The counter to this is that this tool now has no support (which may be fine depending on the tool).

I remember my first job which was 30% SW and 70% other engineering. We wrote a few tools to automate stuff that our customers used.

One of our customers came to my manager and told us he had a tool we wrote over 5 years prior. It was a small Perl script. Their data source had changed formatting a bit and now the script no longer worked. They wanted us to update the script. Several hours were spent between the two teams arguing. My manager did not want to own it. He said he had no record of it, and none of the people on his team had any memory of it. We did not own it. They kept insisting "One of the engineers in your team (who had since left the company) wrote it, so you own it!"

I pointed out to the coworker that the request was so trivial we could have solved it in under an hour, and the company had lost more money by arguing. The counter was "If we fix it, they'll keep coming back to us and in the long run more money would be lost."

Over the years, I've realized how right he is.

I do occasionally write simple scripts to help our customers, but management always makes it clear to them that this is an unsupported prototype, and the customer needs to maintain it.
And if you don't take a salary that money becomes profit, so the profit is effectively used for salaries. Claiming my company is not profit-driven because I use 100% of the surplus revenue for my salary is of course nonsense.
Then you want to use your data in an internal system and all breaks lose.

Usually what happens the structure of your has to change because sales now wants to sale the product in a different way and your no-code tools can't support it.

No-code tools are great for solo founders but terrible for enterprise anything
Why would any researcher want to pay it?
Closure Compiler was an amazing tool, and still is.

When I was at Lucidchart, I helped convert the 600k line Closure codebase to TypeScript. [1] In fact, Lucidchart still uses Closure (for minification+library, not typechecking).

There are better approaches available in 2023, but Closure Compiler will always have special place in my heart.

[1] https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2017/11/16/converting-60...
Slightly of off topic, but how did Fridman get to the point that he could pull big tech C-execs and celebrities onto his podcast? He has such a monotone voice (no shade meant, I am the same way, no matter how hard I try otherwise) and - this might just be personal taste - but I feel like this unedited long-form interview format is the lowest bar. I would have thought that an excellent interviewer would generally be considered one who is efficient at extracting interesting data (or can at least edit it to appear so) and can engage with & challenge the interviewee; long-form seems like the opposite of this.
That's a good observation but falls apart if actual developers have to maintain the Rube-Goldberg app created by well-meaning "Citizen Developers" (© Acme No-Code Corp) using a framework which is only intended for prototypes but not fit for purpose beyond that.

Of course, that's a management issue - but managers who are easily taken in by consultancy sweet talk about the power of these frameworks are not always the most likely to understand the problems they cause or have the wisdom or resources to clean up afterwards by doing what you suggest.
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Doubtful. Seems more plausible that the bigger impact is less breakthrough changes year to year.
Nonsense. They are only able to influence your behavior if you use them. It is completely self selected.

It is the exact same thing as is argued by social media companies: they have the right to moderate the content posted on their platforms because it's their platforms. You can do whatever you want on your own site.
That's not the new bit.
Thoughts on the Manual
> That said, Lenovo and the thinkpad brand are known bad actors. They were busted for phoning home and adding spyware.

I agree about lenovo as a whole, but IIRC that spyware was never on the thinkpad brand, only ideapads and other lower end machines.
Wonder if it is a coincidence that 16% is roughly the productivity gained when allowing your development team to use AI tooling
I’ve long thought of starting an agency where “we’re developers for marketing depts”, ie, we’re seasoned devs, hire us and we’ll jump into the dev side of things and the company’s codebase, make the changes needed that you want, keep us on retainer if you want updates, and that’s that.

What do you think of that?
This sounds very much like a voice from a bubble. Next time you're on public transport or in some other situation where people are waiting for a short to medium time, do a quick head count of how many aren't looking at their phone. More than 10% would be surprising.
The SR71 stored fuel directly below the surface. It would seal a leak and accelerate plane to (beyond? Corrections welcome) Mach 3! Mind Blown.
You are very patient

Everyone I know who had funds on MtGox at the time of bankruptcy, ended up selling their claim (most to Fortress), for a pretty good amount, in fact more in USD than what their BTCs were worth at the time of bankruptcy
I’m not familiar with Chicago, but the only 3br showing up for me in Lincoln Square is $835k.
CSV file in git with paths to all of the files, all the training settings, and the path to the training artifacts (snapshots, loss stats etc). The training artifacts get filled in by CI when you commit. Files can be anywhere, for us it was a NAS due to PII in the data we were training on so "someone else's computer" AKA cloud wasn't an option.
> This website allows one to compare some translations side by side:

> https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jc,rh

Hey that's my website! Thanks for linking :)
I gasped. This is what will make it trivial to simply highlight a persons swimwear and tell the AI to remove.
There is a 100% chance you know about the Closure Compiler if you did any research on minification pre-2012.
chosen, yes, but -not- arbitrary.
Axiom are chosen very carefully at the foundation based on all the upper knoweledge, based on these axioms -all- above must be proved (under Goedel blessing), not -some- stuff.

Change axiom and you end with -another- math.
> At the very least, I think that the powers that be would have to implement guarantees that publishing in a lower impact factor campus publication wouldn't hurt a researcher's chances of receiving tenure.

This honestly sounds like something that should be doable by the university.
Make sure to archive your bandcamp collection, which you can do with the following script: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader
Other downloaders only target the openly available mp3 files.

I have a straightforward guide on how to get up and running on windows here: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader/issues/21

You should always archive your collection anyways. One negative thing about bandcamp is that artists/labels/bandcamp can remove anything at anytime for any reason, so things you paid for can straight up disappear. This was very disappointing to discover. Note that sometimes things are set as hidden, rather than outright removed. This info may be outdated, as the relevant support page seems to gave changed from the last time I looked at it.

Because of their no DRM policy and full on downloads, not just streaming, Bandcamp has basically become the only place I’ll buy music outside of CDs.

I’m happy enough to hand artists money if it’s easy and I can archive a lossless copy, but if they start fucking around with things, I’ll go right back to doing what I was before. That said, if they fix the outright removal of paid things problem, and start treating “artist” as first class instead of “label” in searches and links, I’ll be singing their praises.
Recommended any blog posts?
Veloren is an MMO? Thought it was just a multiplayer game
Can't this often result in the two machines RSTing each others' TCP connections, depending on firewall settings?
I don't think that's a fair position to take. PCB design is complex - there are very few complex tasks that can be whittled down to a single click of a button with good results.

Take software for example - newbies can and do write code, but it's rarely good or error-free. Codeless solutions have appeared - but there's good reasons even those aren't used often.

Any auto-routing feature is going to appeal to absolute beginners, and few if anyone else. So, we're asking a FOSS project to spend a tremendous amount of time building in a good-enough auto-routing feature that only a small portion of their audience will ever actually use, or use more than once.

If your board is simple enough for auto-routing to provide value to you - then I would assert your board is simple enough for you to spend 30 minutes doing the layout yourself.
Wall Street Prep and Marquee Group are the ones most of the banks and financial institutions use, as far as I recall.

Here's a self study package from wall street prep: https://www.wallstreetprep.com/self-study-programs/premium-p...

https://marqueegroup.ca

Get your employer to pay for it :)
>So open source is only for people who are already wealthy enough to not need to make money

In practice, yeah. Counts for me: I inherited enough money to develop the world around my open-source work, though I began that work while I was still extremely poor.

Understand that what 'need to make money' means to a Silicon Valley tech bro, is one hell of a lot different than what it would mean to a normal person. If you live in a place where the cost of living isn't impossibly brutal, if you are willing to accept that if you get sick you'll die unless you are lucky enough that government healthcare comes through for you, if you're prepared to leave nothing behind you (like a Terry Pratchett wizard, dying drunk, happy and owing vast sums of money), then there is much less stopping you from getting into open source.

It's a bit like the music business, really (which I also work in, by virtue of my project). If you can afford to persistently do the work, you get to live the life and in the long run, be the guy who's done the work, to whatever degree of recognition that gets you. I know numerous sound engineers who've blown a fair bit of money doing it, and have no great financial security, but they were in the room when the magic happened, and when the echoes die away in the live room that's what they cared about.

When you die, your bank account is just numbers. I suppose you might want to arrange that it then does something. You could also do something while you're alive, and be there to see it.

Making wealth for individuals isn't in the equation… except when they're predatory vampires there to suck wealth FROM those who do the work. Being in the music business naturally I know about those stories. I'm given to understand this happens in Silicon Valley, and open source, too ;)
And probably 2 more simple steps to the credit card number of that paying customer.
Do you have a guide or any tips on how to do this?