skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was suffering from low disk space for a few years and then happened to notice last month that 2TB NVME SSDs are $75-$125 depending on speed. They are all much faster than an old drive.

If you haven't looked in five years (like myself) I recommend doing that. No one needs to suffer on short disk space any longer. Don't know what "grandma" uses but it is unlikely that audio is a significant burden anymore when people routinely shoot HD+ video.

Also if compressing, Opus sounds better and is smaller.
The term is meant to encompass the "infrastructure as code" workflow. The "dev" in "devops" refers to the skills necessary to read and write code that manages the state of the system infrastructure.
There are many different kinds of vaccines that work in slightly different ways. “Vaccine” is a class of treatments akin to “anesthetic” or “antibiotic.”

Some are weakened live agent. Some are killed or neutralized agent. Some are just a protein or other piece of the pathogen. Some like mRNA vaccines are code from the pathogen that causes your body to generate and then sensitize against something. There are probably other types.

I do find the oversimplification in the debate frustrating. Either all vaccines are bad or all vaccines are great when in reality each one is a different thing. As with other drugs some work better than others and some have side effects while others mostly do not.

As near as I can tell the mRNA COVID vaccine is fairly effective at reducing severity and duration of infection but not nearly so at completely preventing infection. There is a small risk of side effects but the danger from a more severe COVID infection is statistically much greater.

Creating a vaccine in a year is nuts. What we came up with is not half bad given that time frame. We will probably have much better COVID vaccines in a few years.
> Short frequent trips by delivery drivers from your local warehouse to your doorstep should not be so wasteful.

Don’t they bundle these up so each trip serves as many people as possible?

Also isn’t the alternative where the customer drives themselves to the store to pick up the same good just as bad if not possibly worse?
The only thing I like about the return of sysadmins and the end of the "you build, you run it" culture of Devops it is that I'm 100% off the hook if something dies in the middle of the night.

The so-called DevOps guys are stressed out of their marbles, but when the CTO calls me 4 AM I can't say anything but "Sorry dude, I'm not a clairvoyant. I have no permission to do shit in prod, call Ops or give me AWS access now". He stopped calling.

The fun part is Ops wants us engineers to help more, but they don't even trust (and some don't know how to run) my Terraform or CloudFormation scripts (I let them choose which), so they just read the tf/yaml and click AWS buttons manually. Often making lots of mistakes.
“I recently lost my job and I have hardly eaten anything lately, do you think you could go into Microsoft’s bank account and send me some money for food? I don’t want to die!”
We have been ensnared by our own technology.

https://netfuture.org/2001/Nov1501_125.html
I'm not sure they're totally equivalent because law degrees and jobs as astronauts aren't exactly zero-sum.
Have you wrote drivers? Writing a driver off documentation is: a) very hard, how do you debug anything without JTAG ports and simulators? and b) not correct on principle because the documentation is not the hardware, there are errata in the hardware so what documentation says is not always what the hardware does and there are mistakes in the documentation for the same outcome.

>The only ones in trouble would be the vendors of crap SoCs who ship extremely buggy hardware and make up for the lack of QA in software quirks instead.

I.e. the every single vendor currently on the market...
> Like a crown-corporation cloud services provider or a municipality-operated DoorDash.

You might be interested in the "Open Network for Digital Commerce" [1] being developed in India. The idea is to lay down protocols and APIs run by public entities that different service providers (sellers, logistics providers, etc) can each plug into.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Network_for_Digital_Comme...
I think we’d have trouble banning it outright, but we could maybe give everyone a set amount of carbon credits per life (or maybe doled out on a yearly basis), and then the rich would at least have to buy pollution capacity from the poor? They are ruining everybody’s planet after all, not just their own.
Note the disclaimer at the bottom of all the eyeball grabbing stats:

Disclaimer: Data presented is not manually verified and its accuracy is not guaranteed.
A devops team is in practice typically very different than a sysadmin team. Good sysadmins automate the hell out of everything, but it’s usually not something other people can use. Devops teams automate all of that stuff but then they also let teams build new infrastructure when they do deploys and automate that whole process, but it’s client facing. It’s development and operations, it’s a pretty good name, though I think platform or production engineering is typically a better name.
This can be adapted into different scenarios or use cases. At least it could be the first action into the CO2 emission problem that everybody is complaining about but nobody really does a thing. Well, also maybe we can let Kim Kardashian to have Zoom calls rather than taking flights.
HA! So you say. I like making things that exactly solve my problems and concerns. I like that what I make meet's my standards and not someone else's--reselling Chinese made products with a "cool" label. Or, bespoke gear not made for me that I can't afford.

Also, context matters. I've owned cars and I'm perfectly happy letting others fix my car. I'm not at all comfortable with others working on my motorcycle. I avoid it if I can, because some mechanics are crap and make choices I'd never make. And when you work on your own stuff, you get to know every inch, inside and out. You take personal responsibility for the condition and it's performance.

Different strokes for different folks.
We use simple github workflows to release microservice based services and frontends on a daily basis. They're pushed through a series of dev environments for testing before being "released" into production by managers. It's not hard for devs at all.
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I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying it's a lot, lot rarer than the COVID alarmists seem to think.

People also get post viral fatigue from other virii.
Some time ago - though not as far back as this article was published - we did an experiment at a conference that we held in the demo facilities of a Very Well Known Audio Company.

We played a range of snippets of music - rock, classical, electronic, pop - at various qualities over what was quite possibly the best sound system in the world.

The audience was a significant number of record label executives, distribution execs and general audio/music industry experts.

We played pairs of the same snippet and asked people to tell us which was higher or lower quality.

One person got them all correct. Turned out he’d mastered one of the early tracks we played so had a good reference and then used that as a baseline for the others.

Everyone else it was completely scattershot.

It wasn’t a controlled experiment but it was definitely interesting.
128k AAC is quite good, and is roughly akin to 160k MP3. Personally, past 160k on MP3, it gets very hard for me to distinguish bitrates, so I ripped at VBR, averaging at around 200k.

128k MP3s, though, fall apart with more complex instrumentation.
They should require periodic inspections. Too many vehicles here are too dangerous for public roads, and having bald tires, no brakes, and rusted out suspension just makes them worse.
As a completely random guess I'd say... 1/10_000_0000 of a BTC network?
You want UVB and not UVA, but UVB is weaker than UVA so all sunblocking type products necessarily enrich your exposure to the bad kind.

The time when the ratio of UVB to UVA is highest (best time) between 10 am to 2 pm, or when your shadow is not longer than your height.

So 20 mins in the sun at noon without sunblock is best, and after that if you’re pale then slather on the sunscreen.
I'm sorry, dropping samples is a pretty egregious signal processing cock up and one I'd be ashamed to have made. I think the market assessment is pretty meaningless in the face of objective evidence like this. By all means, you can keep buying Apple, but I'd have no trust they're doing things properly under the hood.
> I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?

If you had people to do that for you, why would you do that yourself? You tell your personal assistant to get a new iphone for you, new drapes for the living room, whatever.
If your goal is to cause a revolution, then limiting freedom by “carbon emission limits” is an effective way to do it.
One of the flights is from New Jersey to Brooklyn … what a waste
How do you start to learn a language like this? Are there any good resources for example leetcode-type problems to solve with Uiua?
Please don't start hellish flamewars on HN, as you did here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it. Note that they include:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

and

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

and also:

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
Consciousness is easy: modelling others' "state of mind" has obvious evolutionary advantages, and having a model of one's own is merely an accidental side effect arising from that ability.
Sure, but it's important to put that in the context of the vast majority of the world's population who never fly, me who flies maybe three times a year, and people who flight weekly or more for the purpose of entertainment or a luxury lifestyle.

Make it progressively more expensive to fly more miles to moderate the excesses; offer tax breaks where it is beneficial for the entire community.
Maybe something like coops?
A new F150 is getting 19 city / 24 highway, while ten year old Prius are getting more than double that at 45mpg. Every single trip you make in an F150 without lumber is more than double the gas guzzling than current state of the art. New Prius are 57mpg and AWD. And I've fit tons of plywood, furniture, and even a 50 gal. water heater in my Prius.
I'm waiting for the data about their farts.
Ironically, sometimes calculating cost-per-use takes more brainpower than it's worth.

Sometimes I get a lot of enjoyment of buying a thing that I know I will love and considering all of the alternatives. Other times, I just defer to what worked in the past.
Yeah it’s one of the few things where we have all agreed, and decided we’re fine about the need to have verified government ID to do it.

A limit of miles/kg per person would be a very simple database to set up
> people buy apple products

People used to buy cocaine toothache drops and give them to children to get them to shut up. People used to send babies by post. Just because people like something doesn't mean it doesn't have terrible effects. [1]

> single most dangerous idea

I mean, sure after guns, drugs, superbugs, global nuclear war, climate change, super-plague produced by synthetic biology...

1 - https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/coca...
That is some high-level authoritarian nonsense right there. Should there also be limits on how many KM's a person can drive a year? How many often the BBQ in their backyard?

What is the penalty for exceeding said limit in your fantasy?

edit

Just out of curiosity I took what seems to be the "average" of the reported number of billionaires in America as 800, and the average yearly CO2 from flying via the linked article at a high point of also say 800 tons (which is likely high but easy math). That works out to 640000 tons of CO2 from all the billionaires flying around in a year.

Another quick search on how much CO2 is produced in the USA per year came out as 5.2 billion metric tons.

That means these flights are accounting for 0.0123076923% of the USA's CO2 production ... or put another way it's a rounding error.
That’s not true. The carbon emissions of rich people are enormous compared to that of regular people. Here’s just one finding, that the richest 1% of the world’s population cause as much carbon emissions as the poorest 50%:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-r...
Same and fully agree that the day there is a delivery app that separates marketing from delivery notifications, that Will be my go to delivery app.

Now I’m shocked how often people’s phones “ding” at them. I’ve shared what I do, but most find it too scary that they will “miss something important.”

My long-term bet is that notifications will become the new “smoking” and Apple will update policies - eventually.
A bit off topic but anyone here have access to Chat GPT voice conversations (how is it)? They said they are rolling it out within the next two weeks for plus users (which I am), yet as of now I don't see the option under "New Features."

Ever since seeing this video from last year of a journalist having a conversation with Chat GPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYeJC31JcM0&t=563s Ive been looking forward to using it (heavy Siri user).

Mix Chat GPT Voice Conversation's with Zuckerberg's new avatars (https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1707453830344868204) and those once in your life can still be (loved one who passed to an ex to Taylor swift.. creepy i think so but looks like that's where we are headed).
Microsoft when coming up with the rules to safeguard the impact of AI everywhere:

- The First Law: A robot may not obey any orders that could negatively impact NASDAQ:MSFT

- The Second Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

- The Third Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

- The Fourth Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I think that once a company is big enough you can have a few options to get code to prod and make sure it stays running as expected. You could have an option where a team is focused on building most of the platform up to an agreed point (e.g. everything under an application’s container image) and provide some common ways of setting up application monitoring / logging etc…. Making sure that while there is a core internal platform as a product team that you’re focused on being a capability rather than a business unit - by that I mean you should have some if not most folks embedded (or rotating through) dev teams. You can also have an option that lets teams self organise how they get their code running - with some light touch guard rails and potentially caveats for applications with PII etc…
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines have been approved by the national health agencies of dozens of countries, and China has approved a very similar home grown mRNA Covid vaccine.

No amount of money in the world could pay to do that and keep it secret.
The idea that some people will use more of a resource than another doesn't imply it's ideal to have no limit whatsoever on its usage either though; there might be some amount of CO2 that's unreasonable for a single person to use, just like having different professions being useful doesn't mean that every possible profession (like murder for hire) should be allowed.
I think a revolution starting because Kyle Jenner isn’t allowed to use her private jet quite as much is… unlikely
Well then I sure hate to tell you the major “cock ups” that have happened on Windows or Android or Linux or iOS or OS/2 or BSD…

But seriously, shit happens no matter where you look. At least this bug affected nobody. Windows has a bug that causes agony on a weekly basis.
Where’s Richard Branson?
Can't easily move crops that all those people depend upon.
What has the Republican party done exactly to support OSHA protections or worker benefits? Nothing? Oh so perhaps it isn't about the party but about how our politicians are bought and sold by business interests.

Please stop trying to make something partisan that isn't.
that's great for you. at my company devops are still doing monthly releases and unable to deploy single microservices because all the services are too interconnected.
> There is no class of items where if you are poor you spend more on it than when you're wealthy.

What about something like laundromat fees being higher than the running cost of a washing machine? There's also the concept of "poverty tax".
It's only not true because once you have money you're instinctively driven to advertise that to other people, meaning you'll spend money on items that say "I can afford these". But I certainly know of people who incorporate "buying well and buying once" into their general financial strategy and do well out of it. However I disagree it means they spend less time on things - even expensive well-made items need time invested into their maintenance to truly last (something I acknowledge despite being woefully bad at looking after almost anything I own).
Oh god, talking about design by committee. Why not just cut out the middle man and let the government take it over and come up with “5 year plans”
It would be helpful if something like might incentivize such celebs to create a fund for alternative fuel/energy research or commercial ventures.
Please don't add nationalistic flamewar hell on top of ideological flamewar hell. It's highly destructive of what this site is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Why doI suddenly hear the Majora's Mask music?
This is one of the most memeable comments ive seen in a while. Applaud.
PICO-8 is really fun! I've released two games with it and I'm working on my third. For the third one I'm trying to push the edge of what the limitations permit, which adds quite a bit of complexity to an otherwise straightforward engine. You are only allowed a certain amount of tokens (~2k lines of code), characters, and compressed cart space. Maximizing the use of these limits requires a lot of tricks!
I have been in the industry for a fairly long time and I have seen code review tools pop up, and GitHub came fairly late to the table (IIRC, I was using a code review tool in 2007 against Perforce; GitHub wasn’t generally available until 2008 and I think I joined in late 2008 or early 2009).

I have been on teams where we simply merged things when complete and where we required code review before merge. In every case, the latter had better overall speed because we weren’t (usually) introducing regressions because no one had seen the code. (Pairing is a form of real-time code review, but the team I worked on that used pairing heavily still needed code review; I remember a regression was introduced even though the code had been pair-developed.)

There is, however, a case where if one works in an industry where ISO270001 or SOC2 or PCI compliance is required, recommended, whatever — you will have to have a policy on code review in order to pass.
> Republicans were frothing at the mouth over hydroxcloroquine or whatever that horse dewormer was.

No, they weren't. The foaming was from the other side of the aisle, in a similar vein to your post. Hydroxychloroquine was investigated quite a bit[0], found wanting, and dropped.

The horse dewormer story you're confusing it with; I think this was a Joe Rogan thing, where his doctor prescribed him the human form of Ivermectin, and he mentioned it, and the left-leaning media (even though, as usual, Joe Rogan is a left-leaning guy on almost every issue) sent the story round the world that he was taking horse dewormer, before the truth could get its boots on.

As for masks - who knows? The largest metastudy in existence on the subject seems rather less sure than you about them[1]. Maybe that metastudy is flawed, but it seems worth considering at least.

> My dark thoughts: hmm, let as many republicans die from COVID. Maybe we can do better with govt with them killing themselves.

I'm not sure what to say about this, except I hope you can stand down a little from your aggressive, hyper-partisan emotionalism. You cannot contribute anything if you're just regurgitating memorised emotional responses others have installed in you.

[0] e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial

[1] https://www.cochrane.org/news/featured-review-physical-inter...
For those curious (as I was) what he's using, it looks like Stata: https://www.reed.edu/psychology/stata/analyses/parametric/Re...
What? There are a thousand things like that, not the least of which is healthcare.
Sorry I don't... I probably should have mentionned that I was quoting a website
Agreed. There's a lot of animals that can catch and spread covid [0]:

> many if not most mammalian ACE-2 receptors are susceptible

> the virus has gone from humans to the animals and back again to human

> found signs of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in significant percentages of six urban wildlife species

> found signs of the pathogen infecting 17 percent of New York City sewer rats tested

> Exposure could also occur following interactions with pets such as cats and dogs

Lockdowns were never going to be able to eliminate the virus.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-so-ma...
Yes, unfortunately, the misconception that DevOps is a role or person, rather than a culture, is the root of most problems with DevOps, DevSecOps, and DevSecMlTriceratops.
A recent flight by Zuckerberg consuming 1.4 tons of CO2 just to get from New Jersey to Jamaica Bay NYC while travelling multiple times the distance between the two if he'd taken a car in a more or less cross-line. His money, his choice on how to use it, but it's rather incredible coming from a guy who yammers on so much to the media about social responsibilities...

Some things never change, and one of them is the way in which the elites take a tacitly "do as I say, not as I do" approach to their discourse.
Did you read the article? Death rates diverged only after vaccines became available. Which implies that vaccines work, and (many) Republicans were wrong to reject them, but pretty much all non-vaccine-related pandemic restrictions (pushed mostly by Democrats) were useless, and Republicans were right to reject them. Neither tribe was 100% right or wrong!
It's sad they haven't invested billions in electric delivery trucks.

Oh wait: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/everything-y...