skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kinda like the F2P and P2W.
Looking away is F2P. You get the delay, in a 5min vid you spent 6mins.
Getting premium is P2W.

My problem is not the $10 per month, it is that those people will STILL collect and sell my data to anyone who will buy it. $10 don't keep my data 'safe'. $10 is just to avoid ads. I wonder if they will ever make a PremiumPrivate subscription that will cost $20 where you get to avoid ads AND keep your data pritave. (easy answer --> no)
First attempt has processed at 1080p 60fps, uploaded to YouTube - it will take some time for YouTube to finish processing it in 1080p - https://youtu.be/hlhn9HSH4OI

I think I can do better though, so will try another method in the morning.
Wouldn't that also destroy business models of many apps financially relying on on-prem mode like draw.io?
You and I seem to have a different recollection of the past :P

95 was only good in its final iteration, 95c. 98 was a bit of a shit show, 98 SE was kinda stable. 2000 had lots of driver problems for about the first year because it was decidedly different. XP and 7 went kinda smooth, I have to admit that.

But no, I've hardly ever been excited. I upgraded when it was time or when I got new hardware, because by the time the new version came out I had finally got rid of most of the problems with the version before that and/or identified annoying hardware/drivers.
I would not want to white knight for SO, but perhaps grey knight?

My understanding of the reasoning behind some of the moderation - flawed as that often is - is to make the questions and answers 'general'. Which means a question that is very specific to one person may be voted to close or voted down.

To take an example of another stack exchange site (chemistry.SE), they get a lot of 'homework questions'. Literally some questions are like "I have an exam in an hour PLEASE HELP". The stated policy is _not_ to just answer these questions, but to guide people towards a solution. Very frustrating for the person asking the question - who, you know, has an exam in an hour ...

Ultimately there are policies and processes intended to improve the overall quality, and sometimes that is a good thing and sometimes it leads to everyone getting annoyed with the whole thing.
> The massive downsize...

I expect you meant "downside", because when talking about file compression, a "massive downsize" sounds like a good thing :-)
There is nothing moral about how the market works. You only get as much money as your business model allows you to get. Someone invents a great mathematical identity, but oops, there is no business model, so no money. Also, if there was a way to unwatch content and get your money back, I bet most people would use it. But this doesn't exist and content makers greedily exploit this fact.
GGML is the library, GGUF is the new GGML model format.
NVME's allow namespaces to be made - effectively letting multiple users all share an NVME device without interfering with each other.
> SO used to have interesting questions, questions that I needed answered or that I found interesting to spend time on to research.

IMO a lot of the interesting questions got moderated away. Almost all of my favourite SO questions are closed as being off topic or subjective. I do think that the community struggled to scale with influx of a huge volume of users. But I also think that the strategy that they chose to deal with it was ultimately overzealous.
Anyone disagreeing with this should consider the opposite claim: that someone could counterfeit and spend a significant sum of money without having any negative effect on other people's purchasing power, not even over the longer term.
ITAR is all over the lathe/CNC world - I'm an industrial/controls engineer, and have to do compliance reviews, "production of arms" forms, and "destination control statements" for the machines we build. The main difference is that cheap 3D printers are $200 and can be carried to your bedroom, instead of $200k+, requiring riggers and 3-phase power.

Yes, you can buy old Bridgeports and Pacemakers on Craigslist, or cheap mini-mills and mini-lathes at Harbor Freight, and run them in your garage, and yes, those would be infinitely more valuable in the making of a firearm. No, this law won't prevent someone clever and determined from building a 3D printer with some aluminum scraps, an Arduino, and a few steppers. Similarly, those ITAR PoA forms don't prevent me from buying some servos and bearings from AliExpress, bolting some steel together, and downloading LinuxCNC to make a 5-axis machine that ITAR would say could be used to enable nuclear proliferation. Many in the industry [1] agree that all these restrictions are ineffective and harmful.

The good news for this law is that while a nation state can probably devote a couple engineers and dismantle some obsolete equipment to build a custom 5-axis mill, a New York gangster is more likely to be deterred by this obstacle. But whether these restrictions are completely ineffective political posturing, an opportunity to add a charge to a separate conviction, or an obstacle in front of would-be criminals that is actually effective at reducing crime, is a social question, and unfortunately answers probably depend more on your political preferences than on anything measurable.

[1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/technology-evalu...
These days, Windows Defender has a habit of declaring almost any executable a virus. I can compile a simple 'hello world' C++ code using the Microsoft C++ compiler and the resulting executable is immediately quarantined by Windows Defender as a virus.
These numerous false positives begs the question, why is Windows Defender so bad at identifying a virus? Windows Defender appears to be so bad at identifying a virus threat it seems almost worthless? With so many false positives, what happened to Windows Defender to make it so bad at detecting an actual virus?
DC is deprecated unless you’re FedRAMP (which they still haven’t got). Good luck getting that if you’re not F500.

Once they get the government tick off approval they’ll kill off hosted versions completely.

Last I heard they hired some guy to help with their FedRAMP certification, then got found out for blackmailing his previous employer (I guess HR didn’t Google him during hiring): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/it-worker-jai...
Show HN: Making an AI music video for techno legends with this tool I've built
I've built neural frames without much web development experience and it has turned to a powerful tool for musicians and artists to create audio-reactive visuals. Perhaps some of you might be interested in it.
I could imagine that if this mode isn't widely used, drive manufacturers haven't given much thought to performance, and it therefore might suck.
You mean the data that Stackoverflow was given freely by millions of people? They have no more moral claim to it than your local park has to the content of conversations spoken within its limits.

Besides, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc. have far more public data to train on, Stackoverflow only really provides the schema one would want for fine tuning to make sure the answers are in the right general question-code-answer-code format.

Once that is trained properly (see: to the understanding level of compression, not just memorization) you only need to update the model on new libraries and languages, which can be trained from repos and docs directly.
If you have never heard of the PDP-11 before like I did until yesterday (I should probably be banned for this from HN), this is really something worth learning about. There is an awesome project for a PDP-11 front panel replica running an emulator on a Rhaspberyy PI (the whole thing is called PiDP-11, haha). Here is more information:

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
And yet, they are trying to move Trello to the terrible rich text editor like Confluence. So far you can still opt out and send a "wtf are you doing?" feedback about the new editor, but I'm not sure how long that will last.
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police (NYTimes)

https://archive.ph/at9li

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19653647 - April 2019 (203 comments)
> IIRC in that era, the leftmost part of the title bar could be clicked to get a menu of options that contained Minimize, Maximize, Move, Resize ... I'm pretty sure this had a button there in like Windows 3.11 or 98, that I think was later hidden so you'd just click the title bar to get it?

Still there, even in Windows10. (And AFAICR even W11; only used that a couple months last year.) It's called the System Menu, IIRC. If you see nothing to click, try pressing [Alt]-[Space] -- even MS Office apps, which have gotten rid of the icon, still pop up the menu.

> And in the Windows 3 era, it was an actual button (IIRC the minus on the left wasn't minimize, it was this menu,

I also called it "the big fat hyphen" when I first started using Windows 3, but AIUI now, that was actually supposed to be a picture of the space bar. As in, you know, [Alt]-[Space].
This was about 6 months ago and I had no issues that it wasn't able to solve. It might not know about the latest features, but I don't think that matters unless you're building something cutting edge. It'll try to show you how to build what you want using the features set it's familiar with. It's probably better now with the browse plugin too.
It is somewhat common to describe C as “low level” in introductory programming or CS classes (before the student would know what an abstract machine is). Lots of people carry misunderstandings from that early simplification forwards in their careers, especially if their only interaction with C is academic and not professional.
CPU is still the first-class option, but GGML also supports Metal, cuBLAS and clBLAST for hw acceleration
The Motorola Razr (2023) is the most affordable phone with a foldable display
I've never seen the historic mansions of shovel sellers. I've seen many of railroad owners.
> CPI is ok for specific categories but the basket weighting is absolutely trash.

They are based on spending surveys:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Expenditure_Survey

So the average CPI is what an average consumer spends spread nationally. You may personally have different weightings, and so what you 'feel' inflation is like may be different than the average.
While I’ve had SO mods criticize my questions, I’ve more success getting correct answers to questions from SO than ChatGPT. With SO, I also have the benefit of knowing answers have been mostly vetted by others. If it’s wrong, someone will comment on it usually. Not so with ChatGPT
This conversation exasperates me and has happened too often even at profitable and/or well funded companies. I don’t know what it is about ordering upgraded-spec computers that inspires people to desperately want to save money, but even as the decision maker on this I’ve had to repeatedly defend spending, say, and extra $150 on MacBook Pros rather than Airs to people who are oddly fixated on the topic.

That’s like one hour of the person using the machine’s time! To save them tons of frustration and wasted time from their computer thermal throttling while, say, hooked up to multiple monitors, compiling, and running a video call.
> I don't think it was ever claimed that C was a low level language.

When I was introduced to C during high school, my teacher presented C as a low-level language compared to what we previously studied (which was Ruby).

And I just ate that up because C looked less readable than Ruby, today (10 years later) I have to disagree with my teacher. C is not a low-level language, it has access to the lower level parts, sure. But it is an high level language!
GNU assembler, nasm, if you really need to go low level, usually you don’t.
Correct.
I don't see it mentioned much in this thread.
Everyone wants to blame the government for over supply of dollars.

Not much mention that on the production supply side, we have record corporate profits.

On earnings calls CEO's just come right out and say 'because of covid, we are able to raise prices, and man it's great'.

A lot of inflation is in the supply side just raising prices and making more profit.
If there really was a supply chain issue, then the suppliers should also be squeezed, then themselves have lower profit because their source prices were higher.

But it is really just the consumer facing prices that go up. A lot of inflation is profit taking on the corporate side.
As a human, I want to get healthcare from a hospital and then walk out without paying, but that would be evil.
There are definitely people who will and still do pay for these things, Apple News+ or whatever is an example of news...also WSJ, NYT, Economist subscriptions...Instagram verified checkmarks. The question is how do these companies capture both the paying and non paying users...and that is through advertising. If you pay any attention, the amount of ads you watch is your payment to these companies for "free" services.
Fortunately I don't have to make that decision and don't pretend to know what the right decision is. But I don't need to know the right to decision to know the unethical ones when I see them.
I'm somehow very satisfied with Apple's iCloud option. You can get https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514
Is this actually news? This seems to refer to something they did a while back, and is being repeated on the occasion of the deadline being 5 months away, rather than anything new being announced by Atlassian.

FWIW my place swallowed the DC charge for now, on the basis that we'd explore our options and possibly shift away.
I feel, low to high level is a spectrum, not a binary. C is arguably in the lowest third of languages, exposing you to a lot of machine primitives like memory and thread management. It may not be as low level as assembly, but it is arguably lower level than Java or Go, and definitely nowhere near the Pythons and JS of this world.
That's you, and power to you.
I know of cafes that use YT for music. They make their own playlists of nice video clips, and they display them inside theirs shops while they play the song. So.. good music, nice video clips, and all that for $12. At this point I will have to admit that they are cheating as business (cafes/restos) that play music have a difference (and more expensive) setup that they have to follow for licensing/playing music.
It's worth pointing out that this hurts the creators who make those videos that you are watching.
My sense is that this is really a communication issue (when is it not?)

On a relative scale, C is very low level compared to how we program today if you think about levels of abstraction.

If “low level” means “runs on the CPU almost literally as written.” then no it’s not.
They provided the platform and the medium by which questions get answered. That’s not free, and expecting to get it for free isn’t realistic
The gap [in popularity] between C# and Java never has been so small
> Being able to type some characters on a keyboard does not make anyone superior to a user that uses a point+click interface.

There isn’t a causal relationship, but the two are heavily correlated. Getting deep into the details of most server software means doing so via CLI, because the people who built the software intended it to be used there, since servers are usually headless.

Even if you run a DE, chances are high you’ll still end up editing some config files in a text editor, and running commands in a terminal emulator.

It’s a bit like [n]vi[m] - learning its esoteric commands doesn’t make you good at coding or ops, but there’s a decent chance you wouldn’t bother to spend the time learning it unless you needed the speed increases it grants you.
I feel like this is the right way to start little projects like this that can throw off a few dollars, or maybe even grow to more. Very inspirational and it has me thinking too...
And? Some food places charge money for delivering the food to your home, it's not a crime to move the food yourself.

You've said nothing.
Luckily you can get the https easily. I’ve been using https://letsencrypt.org/ to get it encrypted. Was fast and free. No real barrier just a bunch of setup.
> I only need to read about the "chair" once.

In that case you probably won't like the "violin" in Charles Stross's 'The Annihilation Score' [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files#The_Annihila...
> ALT+SPACE, M, arrow keys is forever in my brain due to so many poorly behaved programs which would open their window somewhere off-screen, and that was the way to move them back onto the screen.

Happens quite often with dialog boxes that pop up to inform you of some error. Particulalrly if you're working on multiple screens and have moved the application off your main one. (Which is what at least I tend to do when working on a laptop attached to one or more external screen/s.)
The table gave a pretty good summary, thanks!
isnt assembler a high level language nowadays?
It's really hard to find any product or suite of products that replaces Atlassians offerings. Sure you can easily find a issue tracker product, but can it be a service desk at the same time? Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira also integrates really really well. You can have entire workflows that just makes sense, link to documentation, pull-requests/commits and tickets. I've frequently used this setup in a ITIL environment, entire workflows where you have tickets for test, staging and production deployments, the production deployment is a ticket that have the relevant pull-requests linked and the documentation is automatically updated because everything works together.

There's a number of companies offering "Jira replacements" at it's either just service desk features or a ticketing system, almost as if the authors never really used a full-blown Jira (/Atlassian) setup.

People complain a lot about the UI and speed of Atlassians products, but on-prem isn't really slow, even with a ton of plugins, but you do need trained staff to manage it. The UI is because of Jira doesn't really impose much in the way of restrictions on how to use it. You can basically mix and match anyway you like, service desk tickets mixed in with SCRUM workflows... doesn't mean you should, but you can.
Just wanna point out that cockpit started nearly a decade ago, so it is not a new entry in this arena either.
For those wondering running the Steam and Lutris flatpak work really well.

Kept a dual boot but switching less and less.
That's probably not relevant to Github hosting - Github would very much like to continue to operate in the EU.
> Morally, you are depriving the content creators and Youtube of revenue

No, Youtube deprive the content creators. Like all publishers they give back only a fraction of what the content is worth by abusing their monopoly.
"Employing people is no longer considered best practice"
Isn't this Election Misinformation?
I think there's a good chance this was a conscious choice by the buyer. There are quite a few people interested in "vintage" gaming nowadays. I personally would love the chance to play some Wii Sports Resort right now :)
> a question that is very specific to one person may be voted to close or voted down

That's the opposite of the guidance, or at least the guidance as it was back when I was active on SO.

General questions "What's the best way to do X" are shut down.

Questions should be specific and about actual problems you have rather than general problems.

Solving real problems with real solutions builds up a strong data set, not questions about imagined problems and their answers
> no firmware update actually improved the OtherOS functionality in any way so they lost nothing when a new firmware took it away.

At that time the respective scientists were quite concerned not to accidentally install this firmware update, and whether Sony would invent more draconian measures to disable consoles with old firmware.

This lead to a huge distrust in Sony, and accelerated the switch from the Cell to the emerging GPGPU technology for respective scientific calculation. Thus, this was some PR disaster for Sony.
Other than assembly, which barely qualifies as a language, what programming language is lower than C?
That was my point—you can do all kinds of things on the web now, but people don’t really create these multi source meta-documents. Unless you count a TikTok embed or something.
Every legislative body has the option to try again on things they want to pass as we've seen in the US in the past year. At least the council doesn't have the capability to pass the laws without the cooperation of the EU parliament.
Lessons from History: The Rise and Fall of the Telecom Bubble
You can study CTC in isolation, ignoring all the HMM background. That is how CTC was also originally introduced, by mostly ignoring any of the existing HMM literature. So e.g. look at the original CTC paper. But I think the distill.pub article (https://distill.pub/2017/ctc/) is also good.

For studying HMMs, any speech recognition lecture should cover that. We teach that at RWTH Aachen University but I don't think there are public recordings. But probably you should find some other lectures online somewhere.

You also find a lot of tutorials for Kaldi: https://kaldi-asr.org/

Maybe check this book: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/automat...

The relation of CTC and HMM becomes intuitively clear once you get the concept of HMMs. Often in terms of speech recognition, it is all formulated as finite state automata (FSA) (or finite state transducer (FST), or weighted FST (WFST)), and the CTC FST just looks a bit different (simpler) than the traditional HMMs, but in all cases, you can think about having states with possible transitions.

This is all mostly about the modeling. The training is more different. For CTC, you often calculate the log prob of the full sequence over all possible alignments directly, while for HMMs, people often use a fixed alignment, and calculate framewise cross entropy.

I did some research on the relation of CTC training and HMM training: https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/publications/downlo...

Maybe my PhD thesis gives a good overview: https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/publications/downlo...
Same. On-prem at my last employer was super slow. Cloud is wildly fast.
> Over the last 15 years, _we’ve_ built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists.

If you continue reading, he doesn't mention the community as the most important part of the "we" at all.

Added as a side-note to not be so obviously greedy:

> To our community members and customers reading this note: you are foundational to our success.
> That does make it easier to resize a window from the bottom left corner, which is indeed where you want to resize the window from in the majority of cases.

ITYM bottom right, right?
When C was declared to be "high level", there did not exist a level higher than C. Now that there are more levels above C, it is not the highest level language out there, which makes it low level compared to them. It is not the lowest level, but it's not a misunderstanding to call it low level. The playing field is not the same as it was 50 years ago, so relative terms like "low" and "high" have naturally changed referends.
Yep, because we're not getting scammed on transactions fees (capped by the ECB to 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit card transactions). I have an Amex card that has some cashback, but it's not a lot.
You can buy (and indeed I bought), cheap 2nd hand lathes or milling machines for 800 bucks, which I wouldn't consider "a lot more expensive".
In New York legislation is drafted by attorneys, the elected person and their staff don't usually write them. It's still bloody awful but I think it's worse because an actual attorney was supposed to write this
My experience with RA2 is that it doesn't work on Windows or Linux without some patching. I redid the game lately and just applied some patch that I found to make it work on Windows and it worked out of the box on Proton for me.

Not sure if it's why you get downvoted but RA2 definitely doesn't work out of the box on Windows.