skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool, I'm reading more about Winamp's offerings in the new market of music and they say “Only 0.41% of creators generate enough streams to make a sustainable living out of music.” Which is true and also this [everything winamp is doing] doesn't change that. It does appeal to those 0.41% as an alternative way to collect that cash, and maybe they can market the funk out of one or two bands (STARSEED'Z on amp at the moment) but that will not move this percentage up not even one digit.
I'm the oldest of 11 kids, and I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this. I agree with your second statement, which is why conscientious people should have kids.
But allegedly can’t export google slides of any significant size.
The value proposition of only checking in your code is the more dependencies you add to your source, the more you have to keep it all up to date. As your boss, I pay you for features/value, not to maintain dependencies. I get that Mozilla stuff is cool and that you want to use React or Next or whatever, but I won't pay you to work on that stuff. I'll pay you to work on <SaaS-Of-Tomorrow>. Also, I want to have smaller deployments because our cloud bill is enormous. So make sure any dependency we are using is using the same versions and that we only include 1 of them at build time. Vendoring or including your version of structlog (then npm installing someone elses version of structlog, and so on, and so on) will end up with 1024 instances of structlog package. Totaling 400mb. For a ~3mb library.

We use package managers to explicitly say "These things are required to build and run but don't belong to me, my project, or even my organization". You don't want to write Yet Another Markup Language ;) or write another JSX. So you use a package. If you include that package into your source code, and that package is updated, and other dependencies or even - users of your package, will end up with version mismatch and will come with pitchforks and torches to your door.
My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5.

Examples of things he's memorized, for fun:

* every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map

* spelling

* many body parts, names of bones and organs, from
illustration

* chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc)

* unix filesystem commands

* numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school)

* recognizing/naming photos of places we've been since he was born

* recognizing musical instruments or musical pieces by listening

* notes on a piano

* religious facts (when Judaism began & who started it, when Muslims pray & towards what, where Jesus was born & died, etc)

* names of characters in books he's read

* wise aphorisms

He enjoys it, and dances around while answering, proud of himself. Sometimes when learning something new on YouTube, on his own, he'll say, "Dad can we add this to Anki? I want to remember this."
The author should read about Georgism, he is on the right path.
I'm not expecting a "full" explanation, just some explanation that makes sense on its face. People manage to explain quantum mechanics in HN comments and get the core ideas across qualitatively. Surely debt isn't harder.

I have yet to see any explanation (including from your comment) on how interest on debts growing at the current rate can possibly be repaid into perpetuity without causing some kind of economic catastrophe down the road.

> Note that typical household debt:income ratios are far higher than the national debt:income ratio is right now.

The concern wasn't about "right now", but about "future generations". (And you'd need to explain why household debt to income ratios are the critical metric here too, but that's secondary to this...)

> Also note that it is critical to differentiate between "bad" debt and "good debt". When someone takes out a mortgage to buy a house, almost nobody will say that the purchaser is stupid and going into ridiculous debt.

First, erm... are you sure about this? 85% of Americans beg to differ. [1]

Second... do you really believe the amount of debt isn't a factor here? If the average American took out a $10 million mortgage, wouldn't you agree it's a terrible idea? (And if you do, then how in the world is "mortgages are good debt" a rebuttal to "we're taking on too much debt"?)

Lastly: I'm not sure if you've missed it, but we've had quite a few articles and discussions lately on HN about how the current system has been transferring wealth from younger generations to older ones. And don't forget [2], which has been changing the real estate landscape over the decades. Lots of people aren't buying the idea that the growth on investments that older generations are seeing can be sustained perpetually for future generations.

> When someone takes out a bank loan to spend another weekend at the casino, almost nobody will suggest that there is anything sane about what they are doing. The same applies to national spending also.

Just because you can find debt that everyone presumably agrees is bad, that doesn't mean ballooning amounts of other debts aren't problematic.

If you're going to argue by analogy, consider this: "a little bit of salt is good for you" + "a lot of lead is bad for you" do not imply "a lot of salt is good for you".

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1212737835/many-say-its-a-bad...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/us/corporate-real-estate-...
Really chomping into Microsoft's domain here.

$195 / per device + $6/month usage. Which for corporate IT, is probably a bargain vs some depreciating hardware + Microsoft OS + Office licenses + backups/virus/etc.

Edit: Wait, I misread, it is $6 / month + whatever virtual machine is being hosted.
Too bad the Go compiler doesn’t work. Been checking in once every month to see if that has been fixed
It's trendy. I'm sure that on some level, many people just think that it makes them look smart, and even a little edgy without appearing politically incorrect.
I assume people will continue to use real estate as an investment for as long as they are forced to escape the inflation of their currency.
> resisting cyberattack

What cyberattack uses GPS jamming? This is just dumb journos trying to spice up the article. The Register's article says this is a side effect from trying to jam missile guidance systems. Probably by their own EW systems while defending from a missile or a shahed strike.
Sure you are joking. But I do have onedrive with hetzner stroagebox and two local backup running at two different locations for this
> Of the regular suspects (GCC, MSVC, Clang), your C codebase is probably entirely compatible with C++ as each of these has varying levels of compliance with the C and C++ standard.

yep, leave it up to the technical crowd to try and split hairs too fine.
>A massive decline in post quality. I don’t know what happened but ever since the blackout only garbage gets posted. Even the quality of niche subreddits has fallen.

The official mobile app is also really persistent about pushing content it thinks you might like which has the unintended consequence of generalizing those niche subreddits to the degree that they lose that niche focus. For example, if every /r/movies user gets /r/criterion pushed to them, the content of /r/criterion will slowly transform to match the tastes of the /r/movie users.
You could compare a 5 node ceph cluster for instance. That’s 5 servers and 3 nvme drives minimum just to store your first byte. Then you have to deal with support, etc. pricing probably comes out about the same in the end.
Yes, I've noticed this trend too. I find this entire thread positively alarming because an influx of Reddit users can be deadly for online communities.

Reddit was useful because it kept those people contained within the reddit.com domain. Now, I fear they are loose on the Internet and we may see many sites/apps/federations quickly deteriorate into uselessness.
That should naturally happen in every democratic, rich society unless it's population plummets right? How do you fix it without "fixing" "rich" or "democratic"?

If you remove "rich", larger proportion of people's income will go to pay for foodstuffs, clothing etc basics, and they will have much less left to pay for mortgages, and housing prices will fall. Problem "solved".

If you remove "democratic", there will be no NIMBYsm because no one will give a damn what people living in the area want - developers will built as much housing as people will be willing to buy, flooding the market, and prices will fall. Problem "solved".

What are other solutions? I can't think of any.

What are rich, democratic countries that do not have that problem? Only one i can think of is Japan, but they largely fixed "rich" (their GDP is stagnant over 30+ years while it more than doubled in both US and Australia. They are also dying out very quickly and have no immigration to replace dying out people. They are also only nominally democratic. This is certainly not the outcome anyone in their sane mind would like to replicate.
I believe pipewire just has support for more modern bluetooth codecs.
The way the government 'prints money' is by issuing treasuries - give me $100 today and I'll give you $105 next year or whatever. The rates required to issue those treasuries, and the publics acceptance of such, is going to be a reflection of the perceived strength of your economy. US 30 year rates, which reflect long-term perceptions on the strength of an economy, are at highs not seen since the housing market crash. [1]

When it becomes impossible for the government to print money without major consequences, it doesn't mean it's time to start cutting back on spending, rather at that point the entire economy would likely collapse in on itself in relatively short order. One can see economic issues coming from far away, but when they strike - the final collapse is often lightning quick. Again, see the housing market crash for an obvious example of such. There's also some interesting parallels and lessons one can take away from the Mexican peso crash, which was largely about 'creditors' losing faith in a currency. [2]

[1] - https://tradingeconomics.com/usgg30y:ind

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_peso_crisis
My guess would be they have multiple backups. I obviously can't say for sure since I don't work there, but it's very very good guess.
Sounds a lot like: stop using laptops and SOCs, get a last-gen desktop.
I am actually building something in this space right now.

Basically Spotlight but searches in < 10ms, half a dozen ML models used for indexing and a UI optimised for finding and opening your file as quickly as possible. All local.

And so I added a ChatGPT screen just to see if it was a good fit and what I found was that with LLMs it's more exploratory i.e. lots more back/forth and the latency is so much higher.

So not sure if the future is some hybrid like Dash or more like Spotlight/Glean where you have two separate apps.
As someone who has done quite a bit of embedded Linux development, I assure you: neither is as common as you think.
Very interesting, For sure your experience can't match anything. However can you please provide the learning references for sockets.
Does rsync replicate or ignore file deletion?
Water vapor is an invisible gas, clouds are dust + water droplets and or ice.

Pushing water higher isn’t going to change anything here. Updrafts from major storms can dump a lot of water in the stratosphere, but it doesn’t stay there for long.
People don't just get to decide something is an investment. It depends entirely on the behavior of the rest of society.
> I'm only just now realizing this that I'd always implicitly assumed that Google would not make mistakes like this.

I kind of agree, but I noticed a little while ago that there some quirk in my Google Drive where a directory was empty but the directory was also appearing in two separate parent directories.
I'm moving off Google Drive for different reasons but I'm sure I had a file in there that has disappeared.
No idea what Option Alpha is, so I looked at their FAQ:

> Do I need to download anything?

> No, Option Alpha is a web-based trading platform that runs completely in the cloud which means you never have to download any local desktop software. We're always running, accessible from anywhere you have an internet connection. Plus, you never have to keep your browser open to run your bots either.

> Can I trade index options such as SPX?

> No, SPX as well as other index options are not supported at this time. SPX specifically has unique minimum price increments that change depending on the price of the underlying contracts being traded. SPX is the only product that behaves in this manor (sic) and it would require a major overhaul of our systems to support.

A major overhaul, you say? Why is that???

> Do I need to know how to code?

> Nope - never! Option Alpha requires no coding experience. None. Zero. Nada. Our entire platform was built with a no-code framework which means everyone can learn how to use bots and automations with no prior experience.

Man, you gotta love those no-code frameworks and how easy it is to create great products!
Hey at least the “this project needs blockchain” dementia is over.
Yes, Google backs up to tape. I've seen it done and helped design the training for the process. As of 2019 it was a robust backup process with a pain in the butt restore process. It can and will be done, but it's not fast or easy.
I had the same thought when I learned the kid was learning Hebrew. Kind of a tell.

I mean I don't want to discredit the possibility this helps a lot, let's just be real about the likely baseline.
Another hoaxer...
Does anyone ever use MetaFont/MetaPost to create fonts (typefaces)? Does FontForge have any scripting capability? I’ve never used it … only read about it. But I down all 5 “computers and typesetting” books by Knuth
A list of free APIs for use in software and web development
I was positively surprised by EFS a while back, great performance for a good price as long as you didn't store a lot (expensive $0.30/GB storage)

Didn't notice they moved to a new "Elastic Throughput" pricing, the old one being "Legacy"... it now charges $0.03/GB reads and $0.06/GB writes on top of the same $0.30/GB storage, terrible pricing.
Cashless is classist. Not everyone has easy access to banking. There's plenty of uses for credit, debit, wire, crypto, but thinking that cash doesn't have its place is short-sighted. Giving some 2-5% of every purchase to some other company for every transaction is not always the best way to do business.

As someone heavily invested in Block (SQ) and Bitcoin (BTC), I suggest using cash for small vendors.
It's frankly infuriating when you get generic responses from someone who has no internal systems access, means to address the problem, or ability to escalate to an engineer.

Often these purported super users reply with silly generic suggestions, or meaningless requests for information. There's nothing worse than posting highly specific debugging information to a forum, which is not read by engineers, and is instead replied to by someone suggesting you try logging out and in again.

For example, in this thread, "Device", "Drive for desktop version", and "Sync mode" isn't remotely relevant to restoring user files. And the super user cannot do anything with that information. If that information is truly necessary, a Google engineer can post in the thread requesting it.

And they do it all for a meaningless diamond badge. You may as well have AI doing it.
For some reason, my copy of the app "Offline Reader For Reddit" still works, and I have no idea why.
> Are there any studies proving the nature vs nurture debate

Yes, current research has IQ around 80% genetic in middle-class western society (where you don't have to worry about nutritional deficiency as a factor).
Or the fifth state, colic. It can last for months and the child will cry every waking hour. The binary flag is stuck 'on' which in my experience set every family member into a meltdown so you'll get no relief, because a baby that cries inconsolably for hours (months!) on end and can't be fixed is kryptonite to many people.

So yeah, good fucking luck if that happens. You'll have to feed on a schedule, change regularly and check even more regularly, guess appropriate temperature etc because the baby will be screaming bloody murder if awake no matter what.
However I hope the author doesn't learn about Georgism from other Australians, as there seems to be a rather twisted view of it down there.

Toilets may not circulate in the opposite direction in Australia compared to the Northern Hemisphere, but their Georgists seem to have very opposite views on whether there needs to be enough housing for people, and whether that housing should be allowed to be built in urban areas or if it should be constrained to sprawl.

(Edit: however there are some really astute housing economists in Australia, I can't recommend the book "The Asset Economy" enough)
Use nukkular subs, carriers & icebreakers.
"Everyone" except special, uc, and tactical units.
From their documentation Dash uses Spotlight for local files.

So it's not moving your file data up to the cloud just the connector data.
Wondering why you want to be a part of a bunch of wanna-be virtue signaling coders with an elitist pre-approval process, fk them.
The only way for this technology to replace humans is if people actively choose generative art over humanity's regenerative art.

Do you think you'll be replacing your artistic consumption with mostly auto-generated fare? If not, then is this repulsion you speak of aimed at generative AI, or is it aimed at some hypothetical other people of less discriminating taste who would actively choose to consume it instead of human art?

I guess I'm late to the party, but it is starting to feel as if complaints about generative art are actually complaints about other people.

Damn kids and their rap music. Get off the lawn, right?
This is such a cop out response. Even if we want to pretend there are no other investments, the real question is why don’t we just upzone cities end build more housing instead of artificially constricting supply so the baby boomers can get rich off the younger generations.
Correlating a short cycle is much more difficult than correlating a long cycle even if you have complete information about the long cycle. If the bits on the disk have a pattern, it is much more likely to repeat against a short cycle.

However, as I pointed out, it's all pretty much moot. I've never seen anybody cough up evidence that a disk could be recovered after even a single write with merely zeroes. In fact, there was a competition and prize for a while that could be won if you could demonstrated reconstruction of a disk after even a single platter write. Nobody ever managed to claim it.
My understanding is the volunteers do make some money helping via services like this:

https://www.directly.com

(looks like they got acquired and had some big companies using them so google using something similar I imagine: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/css-corp-acquires-s...)
It's NYC. They have a way more infrastructure needs that most cities.
> I would capture the signal from these external mics at high quality and feed it into the headphones at the desired volume.

This is completely stupid, and here is why. If you're playing loud rock and I'm in your audience, I'm wearing ordinary foam plugs.

Please wear the same damn things that I'm wearing, and set up your sound accordingly.
Simulacra and Simulation [pdf]
AWS is now entering its Sun era I see.
You could have moved to another native AWS service that works (FSx for NetApp).

FSxN (https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/)

As others have mentioned among non-native services (not sure if that's acceptable to you, but it is to some) there are many 3rd party solutions that work better with NFSv4.
the vast majority of guns are not used for killing people, the entire frame of your response is flawed.
Right but this doesn't necessarily have to be a drive failure. (Pun not intended.) Imagine if there was some id collision due to a db migration or something, and then one user ends up deleting the other user's data accross all backups. Unless google never deletes any data, even when the user deletes it themselves, then you can't be saved from that.
last time I read it,it was all sysv ipc,but I think we should do posix ipc instead these days?
Note that NIMBYism has little to do with democracy, and it is mostly the opposite. NIMBYism is about a small, concentrated group of people wielding large amounts of veto power granted to them in various ways by local government.

Democracy is the solution to NIMBYism, not the cause.
For Japanese, the choose to talk only about the phonetic system is doing a lot of work, as it is (mostly) just used for grammatical purposes, with most content words being mostly or entirely composed of the non-phonetic Kanji. A typical Japanese student is still learning to write until high school. Presumably, Chinese is similarly difficult for the same reason, but I'm not familiar with that.

Hebrew's writing system has vowels, but they are typically omitted.
And besides, it is a fun and already pretty old philosophical mind game:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38428359
I'd even say making sure you have a well-constructed carrying case that allows you to keep them on your keys 24/7 is more important than any concerns about comfort or sound quality, which are still really important. Hearing protection that you don't have on you is useless against unexpected loud environments.
> C++ is not backwards compatible with C.

Yeah, it is really ironic. C++ got all the warts of C to be compatible with it and then C++ had lost its compatibility with C but not warts.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is incredible, but dangerously addictive. It's the perfect game for a 4-5 hour plane ride -- speaking from experience over the recent holidays.
Sadly, it does. For example, if you’re trying to make it from Kingman AZ to Flagstaff in a low range car, you’re going to have to charge up pretty high.
What’s old is new again: IBM 360 architecture also only used 24 bits for addresses back in the 1960s, so you could stuff data in the upper byte of pointers. Eventually, programs had to declare themselves to be in “Extended Mode” if they wanted to get access to 31-bit addressing instead.
Housing is not the only way to escape inflation. There are several government bonds in the US that are fantastic for that. As would any productive investment.

Housing (or rather, land) is unproductive investment, and should be treated as piggy banks, not as a place where wealth grows like investments do.
for file_path in sh.find(".", "-type", "f", _iter=True):
if "foo" in file_path:
print(file_path)

Note that "find" is not some special function provided by the sh module - that module just uses convenience magic where it'll map whatever function you call under it as an actual command execution (i.e. construct a sh.Command using "find" as an argument & then execute it).

You can also pipe the output of find to grep if you want to run grep for some reason instead of writing that processing in python (maybe it's faster or just more convenient)
...at least as long as you don't go anywhere near the atomic mess.
Been using fish for a year. Although I don’t like how they break compatibility with standards so that some scripts don’t work (gvm, nvm, etc), it has all the features I would usually set up manually with zsh. After trying to configure zsh a few different machines, I gave up and went for default fish on all of them.

It’s already working so well, not sure what there is to gain by porting to Rust. Security? If something can maliciously tamper with fish, it’s probably already on your system or am I missing something?