skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone have a good alternative to loom? It’s honestly a great tool but I foresee the 20 free videos going away with this eventually
I'm thrilled it works for you and I'm sorry yours is so bad. Mine is average I'd guess, but I actually avoid those apps that generate these sounds because once I listened and heard the REAL silence, I knew if I did it much longer it would drive me bonkers whenever my tinnitus came back. I've had it since early childhood so I think I learned to tolerate it better, I can mostly ignore it these days. So I'd just say to other people, be careful with those apps/sounds, you might get dependent on it VERY quickly.
This would work if governments were empowered on a granular level, but they aren't. If you've decided (Republican|Democrat)s are evil then you'll always vote for the same party, and there is no accountability.
I’m not sure what the tragedy is. If I have trash there is literally nowhere else for it but the landfill.
"people who earn it", you mean like the amazon truck drivers and people working for Uber. /s

People who create the most value are the ones paid the least.
There's lots of infrastructure which people gain nothing from directly. This sounds like an Anarcho-primitivist line of argument.
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There are some drugs with known tinnitus side effects, you may want to look at meds you’re taking. A friend had good luck cutting out one of the otc pain relievers he was taking and having tinnitus symptoms go away
First, you need to divorce yourself from the idea that you can do EVERYTHING that needs to be done. There just isn't enough time in the day even if you are highly organized and even if you didn't also have a full-time job.

You have to focus on the tasks that are most important to the overall success of your project. The problem is - that set of tasks does not align up perfectly with the tasks you personally find the most enjoyable or have the most talent with.

You have to spend some time doing things that are not pleasant to do and doing things that you struggle to figure out how to do. You will find yourself being constantly drawn to tasks that are in your 'comfort zone'. But you can't allow yourself the luxury of only doing those things and neglecting other critical items.

Divide tasks into a couple categories - Fun and not fun. When picking the next thing to work on, make sure you choose something in the latter category at least a few times each week.
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Ah, product from the company known to blatantly ignore GPL. I'm so thrilled.
> But it seems hard to make money at that scale and with a non-advertising business model.

I don't think that seems hard at all, really. Companies do it all the time. What it makes hard is becoming a multibillion dollar behemoth, but that isn't (and shouldn't be) everyone's goal.
> It means everytime you invoke the identifier, you have to quote it.

Well yes hence “use quoted identifiers for maximum compatibility”. That does not mean “use quoted identifiers except when you don’t want to”.
A decade is a lifetime? I knew the life expectancy in the USA was contracting but I didn't think it was that bad
I usually have 2-10 tabs open, and ~100 bookmarks. But I save all the interesting links here: https://links.l3m.in/ . If this counts then I'm at 3.9k+ bookmarks.
I'm angry how useless this is
It’s well-executed and convenient. That’s worth a lot.
You mean Wh right? Not watts minus hours as W-h would suggest.
Base 12 being 3-smooth, any number with 2 or 3 as a factor has a reciprocal with a terminating expansion.

base 60 is 5-smooth, so any number with 2,3,5 as a factor has a terminating expansion.

Just as SI has to add in deg min sec for fields like astronomy.

As the practical numbers are quite dense up to 60, they could divide by multiplication of the reciprocal for many more numbers.

Floating point is more complicated than just the base as the radix also matters. C(++) finally got decimal radix support this year in the standards and IBM has had decimal floats for a long time.

FFT and encryption often use mixed radix despite being a binary base too.

It is a far more complicated subject than it appears on the surface.

But there are problems that aren't easily solvable in base 10. The degrees of a circle are an example and why navigation uses the nautical mile, where 1 nautical mile= 1 minute of latitude is an example.

12,60,360 are Superior highly composite numbers and 12 is the smallest 3-smooth and 60 is the smallest 5-smooth.

This also means that with using 360 degrees one can divide a circle or semicircle in 12 sections with just a square, 345 triangle and equalatrral triangle. Where decimal or even radians requires the square root of 2, pi, etc...

I am a fan of universal units of measurement, but had they been base 12 it would have been better IMHO. SI could be more broadly adopted if it has been base 12.
that's not true, the technological innovations of yesterday have brought more wealth, less poverty, and more overall benefit to the entirety of humanity than saying "i don't like these inventors who make new things that make life easier for everyone, lets kill them"

the roman empire literally killed people who invented new things because the emperors thought it would have put too many people out of work. we know now through economics that this is nonsense, and more productivity ends up not only making more for everyone but also making plenty of jobs to fill in what has been automated or made more efficient.

there is easily going to be plenty of benefit for the future of this, you're trying to view it through the lens of "how does this benefit me or some rando on another continent right now". and your lack of knowing an answer doesn't mean there isn't benefit, but for some reason you've mistaken it as that.
The orbital tracks at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision clearly show how a high-speed collision can raise the orbits of the resulting debris, having imparted significant acceleration to them. (For example: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision#/medi...>)

That smash "created at least 1,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm (4 in)".
What's the thing you're objecting to? Elon Musk? If someone else did this would it be fine?
> If you've decided (Republican|Democrat)s are evil then you'll always vote for the same party

Which describes some voters but certainly not all. You'll notice power changes quite often in the US, clearly some voters are changing their minds.

In any case, what's the endpoint of this argument? Democracy isn't worth it because voters can get polarized?
5 of those 6 were with debris. There is >500K pieces of debris in orbit bigger than 1cm in size, many of those in unknown orbits Adding 30K satellites in known orbits where debris cannot stay in orbit and required by law to have disposal plans before launch will not meaningfully change those odds.
You're thinking of social-media-type "reputation".

Instead, think of the goal being to associate measures of worth with the reviewers. If you're publicly rated by a bunch of worthwhile people, count yourself lucky.
Thank KYC/AML for that.

Money is not data, it is a complex social construct. Moving money requires interacting with that social construct, i.e. government regulations.

Yes, crypto was supposed to get around that. No, government didn't agree.
As a loom customer, color me very surprised. I did not expect it to have such a strong business since we generally just sporadically use it and it's a vitamin not a painkiller. Just goes to show how you can't accurately evaluate companies based on your own limited experience. Congrats to the team
No it doesn't. What it definitely could mean with democrats in power is the USA becoming just as insane as Europe thinking the big corporations are the "bad guys" and we have to "drill" them.

It's a Western problem, not a Europe problem. It's more so in Europe but this contagion that big corporations are evil and governments are good is growing more and more in the US too.
Having watched a handful of videos, raising them seems to be a long and very labor intensive process.
The more people have to all independently agree that something is the right thing to do, the harder a lone nutter has to work to get a nutty thing done in the face of common sense.

It's certainly no silver bullet - bad actors have historically taken charge of companies, industries, governments, even entire countries and carried out insane and/or malicious policies with terrible results; a process which is demonstrably ongoing in huge chunks of the world right now.

But having at least some checks and balances on power generally works out better than having none at all.
I have run TCP/IP networks of thousands of machines before all the automated tooling that's around these days to make this not cause you to loose your sanity. I've seen many of the possible cascading failure modes there are to see at this point[1]. I stand by my claim that DNS is one of the most unreliable parts of the jenga tower though.

[1] eg the first time I had root on a unix box I accidentally advertised it as a gateway over bgp and had all the "outbound" tcp traffic for the business park our office was in and a small ISP coming into my box and timing out. Yeah bgp and routing protocols are also common causes of failure, but DNS is worse.
This doesn't seem to actually be about anything or say anything interesting, useful, or surprising.

Some israeli tech workers are being mobilized because they are military reservists. It doesn't have anything to do with their being tech workers per se. And other than one grustlecore mention of taking conference calls between fights (??) it could be about reservists of any background.

Frankly it is pretty thin "our boys in the trenches"-style propaganda.
Because interest rates have been artificially low since 2001. And then we got money printing too after 2008.

Housing prices have nothing to do with 2023 interest rates. Well they do, the fact that they are stalling/falling is very much to do with the higher interest rates.

You can't look at 20+ years of loose monetary policy, take the 1 year of high interest rates, and blame that on high asset prices.

Btw, have you looked at stocks and bonds in the last 1 year? PE ratios? They've collapsed. Because asset prices collapse with high interest rates, and stocks and bonds are much faster at responding than real estate.

But still, real estate prices have fallen in every major city bar one.
> billionaires temporarily down on their luck

This is such a pretentious, bad faith line that you’ve heard from someone else and are repeating. Yeah I heard it in philosophy class freshman year too. You gloss over the possibility that maybe other people just aren’t as hateful and jealous as you and believe that capital allocating into the hands of those who have created the most value is an efficient economic system. That doesn’t equate to those people believing they will one day create that much value and profit for it. Maybe stop projecting your mindset on others.
It was partially inspired by the TRS-80 but wasn't TRS-80 compatible either.
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You can't create a Star Trek economy without advanced technology like replicators and AGI, not to mention space ships. This is how we get to that future, by letting people build the technology and profit from it. They are using the profits to build more technology. There is direct evidence of this, look at Starship, the most advanced rocket in the whole world and literally the only hope of humanity becoming a spacefaring species. It makes 0 profits itself and was built with the profits made by the evil rocket man.
I agree. I primarily use(d) Emacs, and while it’s had good support for certain languages for decades, now it handles younger languages like TypeScript and Rust exactly as well as Microsoft’s editors do. That’s freaking magical.
Reply-to-all is the standard policy on most mailing lists. Especially on -devel lists since you'll pull in (CC:) people outside of the mailing list (cross-project) into discussions from time to time.
Oh yeah, I’d give anything to hear the real silence again. Someone sent this to me as an FDA treatment that’s new, but I haven’t tried it:
https://www.lenire.com/what-is-lenire/

I’m hoping for some “silence tourism” once in awhile!
Disclosure, I'm an employee of FusionAuth, which is another auth server in this space.

Interesting that this project supports features you'd need for an internal network setup (trusted headers, forward auth) and an external facing network (support for Google/other identity providers, anonymous clients based on domain name).

I'd be careful mixing those two feature sets myself. Maybe I'm missing something.

I also loved the comparison of OSS identity providers[0]. Putting it into a google sheet for easy sharing and commenting is a great idea!

0: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Ya5KsmEpczTmoTk5J-1...
Kagi has a free tier. Maybe just give it a shot and see if it works better for you?
Makes me wonder in how far you can actually. Wouldn’t the smell molecules also more or less stay roughly in the same space without convection and gravity playing their part?
The fact that .NET Core came to be, and that there seems to be a lot of improvements regarding cross platform and tooling etc is the reason I find .NET to be interesting at this point. But I don't know much of the details. And I agree, a summary would be very nice.
I'd like to know if there's a working microphone. Google voice on a wifi eink phone sounds pretty great to me.
You can modify the login flow in Keycloak to make it more or less just pass through the credentials/claims, but that's not the default.

Maybe something like this: https://ultimatesecurity.pro/post/first-login-flow/
At 25M users it's about $40 per user, and Atlassian needs some kind of screencast data to bolster their future in training project management models. Also, they can afford it, so it's a good time to get into the market.
One problem is that a 18V, 2Ah battery MAY deliver 36Wh if the load has a resistance much higher than the internal resistance of the battery, but may ALSO deliver 18Wh if the load resistance equals the internal battery resistance.

For batteries that need to deliver a high current (meaning the resistance of the load is low), Wh can be imprecise. An example could be a car battery that is used primarily to start the engine.

Apart from such cases, I agree that one should strive to use Wh as labels instead of Ah.
Ranked-choice voting doesn't actually fix anything.

In practice, ranked-choice voting means instant runoff voting, where you basically throw out candidates who didn't get enough votes until you get someone who wins. In the US, this means that it's still going to be a choice between the Democrat and the Republican, but you'll get 10% or so of the population to feel comfortable voting for $THIRD_PARTY knowing they can still express their opinion in the Democrat-Republican race. It's political placebo, except if the results are even somewhat messy, you'll get bellyaching from people who do bad statistics to say they should have won (witness the recent Alaskan election decided in this manner).

There's another set of ranked-choice voting based on Condorcet methods, which run all two-way races simultaneously and picks the candidate who wins all of their races (with different variants for handling the case who no one can do this [1]). The downside of these methods is that they're more confusing and, if you thought that instant runoff produces unclear mandates, Condorcet methods are going to render those results even less clear.

Ultimately, the ills of American politics have very little to do with its use of the first-past-the-post voting system; switching to different systems are likely to produce the exact same results [2].

[1] The most intellectually honest, IMHO, is to just declare the race at a tie in this case. I imagine that politics would be better if we were more honest about very close results indicating ties rather than pretending that it's a decisive mandate for victory.

[2] Another statistic to remember is the vast majority of people will vote for an extremist on their side of the aisle over the moderate on the other side.
Star Trek economy is for worlds without scarcity. Given we have scarcity, we allocate finite resources to things we want. If someone does something a lot of people want, they get more money.

Some people get money in other ways (e.g. working in government and being extremely lucky in the stock market) but that seems different.
I genuinely feel like there's two camps of professionals: those who know how to do something and do it extremely well; and those who know how to describe something and break it down very well. The former are the ones making the magic happen, like Fabrice Bellard. The latter become very influential teachers like Bob Martin. Both are needed (although the former more so), but the latter usually get all the attention and credit.
No, it drives away people who don't want to develop in vim or emacs and prefer to use modern tools instead.
I remember when I learned about making servers stateless by storing session information in a database and just not writing to disk and stuff. I was amazed at how much simpler it made things and added the capacity to load-balance multiple nodes without having to bother with session stickness.

Of course it made things harder in other ways like having a separate DB for sessions.
Well I'm glad they at least aren't collecting skin samples yet.
I like to read books on my phone while traveling, especially on long flights, but the OLED screen leads to eye strain very fast. The fact that this is e-ink makes it very attractive.

If it wasn't over-specced for an e-reader (and thus overpriced) I would grab one ASAP personally.
Sure, but what's more helpful than that is being able to blacklist sites from the results and being able to say that certain sites should be given greater weight, which Kagi allows.
If Googlers had that kind of insight and influence then the layoffs a) wouldn't have been a surprise and b) wouldn't have happened at all.

Personally I think it's unlikely Google would disable accounts for that. They're more likely to work around it.
I prefer to have known configuration presets (groups) version controlled.
Documents known shared environments (db host, ... etc) well.
As an asshole with it, I assure you my take is still correct. :)
The FDA submission [1] says it they have provided reasonable assurances of the effectiveness of the device.

Your link lists all kinds of information about the effectiveness like:

> 80% of participants reported a reduction in tinnitus symptoms

That doesn't sound like snake oil to me...

I'd love to hear from somebody who has tried it. If they say it helped at all, I'd write a $5000 check today.

[1]: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf21/DEN210033.pdf
I just watched The Big Short

I felt a bit eery how much the groupthink around mortgages matched todays AI hype. The unwillingness to listen to critical advice. To question the value. Data science depts who measure such things are often vilified.

It’s a kind of depressing job landscape in this way. You either go with the, often top down, groupthink against the face of measured evidence, or you’re labeled a cynical naysayer and your career suffers.
Wait, I thought conservatives were critical of Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Good to see you support it. Also, every time I hear about immigration reform, why is it always being pushed by liberals and not conservatives?

There's a lot of sarcasm in the above, but you get my point. Conservatives got us into our last two wars (though honestly, I'll excuse Afghanistan and agree the withdrawal was completely botched). Conservatives could absolutely get more funding to secure the southern border if they agreed to work with liberals to reform immigration and make a more streamlined legal process for immigration to this country. Maybe a points based system like Canada's, but a bit less permissive?
I have participated, however, my candidate was not going to win and the eventual winner was not my choice. Admittedly even in a FPTP, my candidate would lose, so no diff. That said, there have been scenarios such as described here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2019/12/12/opinion/no-it-threate... and here: https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/9/23518790/voter-confusion-gr... among other places.

You may disagree with that take and say it only happens sometimes. I think we can at least agree it's not settled that it results in better election cycles.
You misunderstand me. I am amazed by the author's attention to robust protocol design. No one wants to be "that person" who observes a missing space before an open parenthesis, so usually smoothing out flawless work is not a collaborative process.

I found myself daydreaming how blogs would work if the author turned their brilliant attention to the process of blogging itself. They would solve such a problem, to encourage collaboration.

I was therefore stunned to see a "Fix Typo" link at the bottom. Perhaps this has become widespread, but I'd never noticed it before, and the logic of having this author provide such a link amazed me.

Part of what we do in comments is appreciate various aspects of a work. I was appreciating this aspect of this work.
Who picks the reviewers and nags them to complete their reviews? This is the principal actual useful work journals do these days.
I'm not mad. I even said, "Fair enough" to them doing that. I just want to be careful so that I don't lose my Google account.
They're not necessarily buying it just for the tech; I have no doubt that Atlassian could build their own version of Loom.

I'd guess that a big part of it is customer acquisition and then raising prices or ramping customers to other Atlassian products.
...can you please point me at the place in my original comment where I am arguing for using joules instead of watt-hours?
Atlassian has a record of failed acquisitions:
Bitbucket, HipChat, Trello, OpsGenie,.. and the list goes on. Add Loom to that list.

In this market, when every single collab company is struggling, Atlassian goes and acquires a collab company when there are so many companies in the DevTools space or get your pick in AI. Spending a billion on a video sharing tool? Unsure what they were thinking and who all are advising the founders. I see the Aussie connection though..
> It should not be possible for a single human to amass any amount over a billion maybe even less.

You are constantly told about "billionaires" as though they actually have billions. They don't. They have shareholdings, which if they all sold at today's share price would equate to billions. In reality that will never happen, because the price would instantly start dipping.
> Can you pay it now please?

well i need to talk to my accountant. btw, i see we have a detailed and exhaustive license audit scheduled for the IRS tomorrow...
Anglo-Saxon? What has that to do with Common vs. Civil Law? Or is it a magic term like "Caucasian" or "Judeo-Christian" that just handwaves some psuedo-historical distinction for "us vs them"?
I think you are under informed. Science is often clear right before it is not clear. Here’s an example.

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep
+1, I got into eurorack to get away from screens. My workflow goes into a 6-channel Allen & Heath mixer, and while I'm still outputting to garageband on an ipad, the whole point was I wanted to make the kind of music I liked - shitty mix tapes of early electronic and industrial music played through a radioshack ghettoblaster or cheap headphones. I don't care about the affect of expensive production, I want to hear what the musician thought was cool in the context of the original constraints.
Sadly plausible. Young humans naturally start learning to say "no" in their Terrible Two's, and preschoolers can play games such as Simon Says. Vs. modern "AI"'s seem, at best, extremely limited in their mental scope.