skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankfully there is nothing at all but entrenched competition preventing you from leaving and becoming one of those execs on your own.

This very website is here to help you achieve this dream.

The delta in your compensation to theirs is the effective price that you are willing to pay to not bother with that hassle.
Looks like rust inspired (docs.rs) but for the typescript ecosystem. Neat!
Did you mean seconds? 2-3 frames on 144 FPS would be roughly 17 ms which I think is too short for a human to notice.

Also, did you enable VSync on both the tests? And the same form of VSync? That can have an impact on input lag.
> most people wouldn’t choose PHP for a new project

Is this really true?

I used to be a full-time PHP developer but I personally don't touch that language anymore. But it's still very popular around the world, I've seen multiple projects start this year use PHP, because that's the language the founders/most developers in the company are familiar with. Probably depends a lot on where in the world you're located.

Last Stack Overflow survey had ~20% of the people answering the survey saying that they still use PHP in some capacity.
+ comments haha. i am so sorry.

u so fat that: "Uranus' orbit is 20x further from the Sun than Earth, which means it only gets 0.25% as much sunlight."

wish i was an astronomer :').
Robert Sapolsky’s book “A Primate’s Memoir” is about the importance of status in baboon tribes. High status males and females are more successful at reproducing, healthier, and have lower levels of stress hormones. That said, some individuals have found alternative strategies that also work. After reading that book, I’ve never been able to take status games among humans so seriously.
This smells like an automated summary.
Microsoft catching strays.
While I don't really _disagree_ with any of this, I want to raise a point from the other direction - it's possible (and for some of us, absolutely necessary) to build software such that holding a large "structure of thoughts and possibilities" in your head is not required.

I find myself largely incapable of doing so, open-plan office or not, and have compensated by adopting development approaches that break problems down in consistent enough ways (into small enough pieces) that the structures I have to pick up and put down are never all that complex. Which is good, because they fall out of my head just all the time. ADHD, a very poor memory for detail, and a role that has me responsible for juggling many tasks concurrently would _destroy_ my productivity if this article were universal truth.

Don't get me wrong, I _hate_ working in an open-plan office. But the impact it has on my output is not because the interruptions affect my flow, it's because the constant social contact stresses the heck out of me >.<
> Seriously considering just getting a record player so I can get rid of these middle men though. It's too much.

Do it! I started buying CDs again, and it's great. I get the best quality sound — we can argue about that another time ;) — all the music is _mine_, and after I convert it to FLAC for my walkman or iPhone (play via VLC) it's as convenient.
The French have tons of hydro, more than any other industrialised country can feasibly add.
That seems high but I know pricing can vary significantly across countries. Is that somewhere in Europe for example? Or any government or Apple taxes included?

in the US, going through the official website, it shows $14 a month or $11.66 a month if paying for the upcoming year at once. Premium and Music are part of the same product here and I'm not sure if you can unbundle.

For comparison, Spotify Premium here looks to be $11/mo.
Correct. I do not open amazon e-books in the Kindle app. I jailbroke my kindle to allow for OPDS connection to my calibre server, and put it in airplane mode when not copying books from the server.
I'm sure people said the same thing about being able to travel to the other side of the world in less than a day, when it used to take years. Yet here we are.
If you're seriously considering dropping Linux, I suggest investigating the BSDs as an alternative rather than Windows. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Yes, that makes more sense.
The modern design trends, removal of color from the user interface, increasing the amount of white space everywhere. And the gradual dumbing down of everything. I think those are each a real step back, compared to the old versions. So it slowly kept getting worse, bit by bit, until we got to where we are now.
The marginal effect, yes.

But it's a long game. Go after rich people, persist for some time, advertise it, they get gun-shy, stay away, find other channels. Street sellers would indeed dry up.

Follow the money.
They need to dogfood their foundry service from their chip design and keep the same interface for both in-house and external so the pain points are ground down.
Is "ampacity" really a better word than "current"? And the unit symbol is just "A", like "30 A".

I realize I'm nitty but this is a technical-minded forum after all.
Lord knows many of them hate their families.

Workaholism is a self soothe for those who should consider divorce.
Light trucks sell well because of the chicken tax loophole.
I have tried it, and I feel like this is not a good toolkit for desktop apps. It's great for embedded hardware with custom interfaces such as vending machines, car on-board PCs, screens in public transport, but it does not have that native look-n-feel on desktop, at least not out of the box.
My inner middle-schooler is giggling over the headline.
That's interesting. Can you point to one of these piano tuning apps that are $100+?
LLM is an unthinking parrot with randomness injected in...
“That Hideous Strength” is also a good takedown of Longtermism (and its predecessors).
It's exactly why Uranus was my favorite planet growing up. It was such an outlier, which, if I dig farther into my psyche, probably aligned well with my self view as the only kid in my class who geeked out on space.
I think the interruptions in a group setting have huge disastrous effects as nobody really ever gets into a good flow state.

I'm sure it's useful for training and mentorship, but that's frankly not your employer's problem these days. People switch jobs every year, and if you train up staff only their next company is really going to reap the benefits. If learning on the job raises retention then it's only marginal. If anything it makes people "worth more" and they more easily find the next gig that comes with a pay bump

You can easily skill up by:

- watching conference videos on YouTube

- during code review

- go on your lang subreddit or forums and read about how other people skin their cats

What you want is basically unstructured interruption based code review ~ which is nice for the junior but horrible for productivity over all
Voice-to-text app works entirely locally (Mac-only)
Hmm what options are there for this?

Pumping water, Bitcoin mining, what else?
That sounds like my ideal job. The longer I've been a developer, the more I've come to dislike work that doesn't address problems faced by end-users/the org.
Every time I read Bill Gates's writings he seems to me as a reasonable guy.

But in reality he's one of the kings of a closed-source software which is defective by design because of limiting user's ability to learn something from their sources. BG can go in history as a really great man but to achieve that he needs to grant sources of Windows 7 to the FOSS community, it will value to the society more than megabytes of good thoughts, speaches, meeting and even donations to some good real-life projects such as Medicine in the third world.
I thought my ThermoWorks Signal had a dead/defective battery after trying to charge it on a standard USB power adapter. Device booted up and and functioned fine, except the battery wouldn't charge. Plugged it into the provided adapter and it started charging again.

Thanks for the PSA, I'll be sure to get that adapter off my kitchen counter right away!
When I was a teenager I had an idea:

If you rolled marbles down a hill, assuming that identical starting conditions were applied each time, then the marbles' paths and final position would be the same each time.

This also implies that if you know the starting conditions, you could calculate the state of any point in time from there.

It made me curious whether you could apply this same logic to our universe -- though I get the feeling it's not quite as simple a system as marbles on a hill.
Explanation for reduced noise cancellation in AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (2022)
Telekinesis at the Quantum Level [pdf]
Making God
I am glad the article mentions CAFE standards. Government CAFE regulations are the primary reason vehicles like Trucks and SUVs have gotten so much larger in recent years, and almost no one talks about it when these conversations come up.

Simply put, CAFE standards were modified to include a vehicle "footprint" measured in square feet in addition to vehicle weight. The larger the footprint, the lower the fuel efficiency standards for the vehicle. The intent was to give a break to heavy work trucks that needed more powerful engines, while still forcing passenger cars to be more efficient. The unintended consequence was that automakers now had a loophole to sidestep stricter emissions standards: just make the vehicle larger and heavier.

This is a good article on the subject, with graphs on the CAFE fuel efficiency target curves in it (scroll down a bit to see them):

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111946_for-pickup-truc...
CCP targets young Taiwanese voters through TikTok
I had imagined that the main cost would be certification. But maybe if the hardware is similar enough to an already certified veteran car , you could piggyback off of that. OTOH I've heard can't even swap out the engine of an old car without it needing re-certification.
>felt a lot more productive

This is the crux. There are people who want this feeling, at all costs seemingly, despite no data backing up the assumption that returning to the office makes a materially positive difference and produces positive outcomes.
Qat
Again: Fly Machines are just Linux VMs, and you have root on them.
> The very idea of popularity is up for debate: Is that trend really viral? Did everyone see that post, or is it just my little corner of the internet?

This is exactly it.

Consider a scenario that's likely fairly common given experiments I've done in the last several years. Say a site people still use to talk to/keep in touch with friends sometimes like IG/FB decides a user is "toxic" and either shadowbans them, or starts hiding their posts from friends. Maybe it isn't even because of a bad interaction, maybe the algorithm just decided their "content" wasn't suitable to be towards the top of this user's followers' feeds.

What would that look like to this user? It'd look like their friends were ignoring them, weren't interested in them, etc., possibly leading to depression (which has been proven pretty undeniably that high levels of social media use in teens results in higher levels of anxiety and depression).

The fact that people en masse are not pointing out how ridiculous this is, that a social media site can have such enormous influence on one's perception of "reality" is staggering and it should die and die quickly.
Just one quick question, can you point out an example where that worked?
>I have very little interest in how the team I'm part of performs in general.

Your job security is extremely dependent on the health of your company and team. If the structures which provide your employment contract start failing, and you do nothing about it, don’t be surprised if you get bitten.

I don’t expect appeals to empathy will work based on your posts, and I hate “we are a big family” smoke and mirrors too, but let’s be pragmatic here. The fact that your job even exists is predicated on a social and legal contract to provide your expertise for the benefit of a multi-person entity.

Team health does also depend on nudging those who can’t RTFM to do so… you can be an asshole, but you need to be a prosocial one as far as the company is concerned.
I want to fine-tune AIs on my own decision-making in an auditable way where I can review their decisions and course correct their decision-making when they get it wrong.

Where I don't need to read every letter I receive in the mail, and every text message delivered to my phone. I want to fine-tune AIs that can make approximately the same decisions I would about what is worth spending my time on, and what can safely be sent to the rubbish bin.

I want an army of executive assistants, an org chart of AIs, working on managing my information on my behalf in a way that is aligned with me.

I do not want a neutral aggregator.

I want a biased aggregator whose bias is intentionally aligned with my own. An aggregator who is accountable and aligned only with me, not a 3rd party who happens to run the servers my communication is flowing through.

I don't think this is a novel desire. Secretaries and executive assistants have existed for a long time, and have filled this role. But I can't afford to pay someone a livable wage to sort through my email for me.
Can’t believe it’s been an year
I'd assume most of these loans are backed by a govt program: SBA loans, farm loans, etc. Same as Fannie Mae for mortgages. Banks don't want to take any risk, only risk free profits.
One way to think about high-dimensional spaces is that there is a huge amount of volume relative to the number of coordinates in the space. Yes, there are infinitely many coordinates; however, each coordinate has more dimensions to it relative to a lower-dimensional space. As you increase the dimensionality, coordinates representing meaningful data spread out, leading to a bizarre situation in which most data points in the space are as far apart as a randomly chosen pair of data points, even if the data points you are measuring the distance between should be "close" to each other.

For instance, consider a unit cube in n dimensions. The volume of this cube (1 unit on each side) remains constant, but the distance from the center to a corner increases with the square root of the number of dimensions. This implies that in high dimensions, most of the volume of a hypercube is located at its corners. This is bizarre to comprehend because it's hard to stop imagining a "cube" in the 3D sense.

Algorithms that rely on distance measures (like k-nearest neighbors or clustering) may perform poorly in high-dimensional spaces without dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA (Principal Component Analysis) or t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding). And even with these techniques, you can get very misleading results.
The issue is Wayland accessibility vs X11. How is this any different on a BSD?
It'd probably help if most new things didn't also bolt on a bunch of anti-features and come with vague promises of reaching feature parity with the thing they say they're going to replace.
We have the same advice in go. But it's lose your first 50 games as fast as possible.

https://senseis.xmp.net/?LoseYourFirst50GamesAsQuicklyAsPoss...
I felt like I also saw the momentum the OP talks about, and then when I went to try and set up Sway as my window manager in a new Void Linux installation it was a total nightmare. I need some new thing called a "seat manager" that I never needed with X11? And the only options are the bloated elogind (the whole point of Void is to avoid systemd style programs) or the somewhat feature bare seatd, neither of which I could get to work? Pass.
> to adjust the style of life

In what direction? Most of the world is only now slowly achieving the lifestyle of a middle-class Westerner in the 50s. If you think that these people are going to accept a downgrade from that, from their "dream", you are deluding yourself. One painful lessons communists learn was that human nature doesn't change and people are competitive and selfish.

> Nuclear was a missed opportunity

It wasn't the only one: GMOs and stem cells also come to mind.

> let's fund the sciences, let's make higher education accessible, let's share the bounty

I believe pretty much the same things, but we disagree on the means. I believe the way to get them is the only proven value-creation mechanism, the one that pulled mankind out of dirt: free-market capitalism.

> what is the [...] point here? That allowing VC money to do whatever it wants is going to accelerate this trend of progress?

The opposite, actually: that putting any brake on technological development (even if for completely great intentions) will delay that trend of progress to the point of endangering our survival as a species - simply because history shows us that technology is a net positive and we need every single bit of that progress to solve certain urgent civilization-ending dangers.
Serializable by default doesn't seem feasible when you really dive into the concept.

"Serializable" is a system property that describes how two or more transactions will take effect. In this context, I would define "transaction" as a business activity with a clear beginning, middle & end and exhibiting specific, predictable data dependencies. Without any knowledge of the transaction type(s) and their semantics per the business domain, it would be impossible to make assumptions about logical ordering of anything.

SQLite is the closest thing to what you are asking for. All writes are serialized by default, but this is probably not what you really want. We can ensure multiple concurrent connections don't corrupt the data files, but we aren't achieving anything in business terms with this.
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE THIS IS WILHELMINA SPEAKING

JUST A MOMENT
You got more, maybe the company got more, the senior got less: two jobs, only one pay. Now with remote work, companies really have to carve out budget and time to train people. They don't like that.
I switched to a combo: For myself, I'm back to a music library that I own. No DRM. For my wife, I signed up for Apple Music. She wants more variety than our library.
The faraday bag will only prevent the device from being bricked while it’s inside. As soon as it goes online, it’ll phone home and brick itself. Thieves may be able to move the phones inside these bags but they’re effectively useless, so their fence value is very low. They basically need to scam people into buying these things, knowing they’ll fail as soon as they’re used.

Unless you have a link to show evidence that they know how to modify the devices to prevent them from ever phoning home again? Because even if you somehow manage to reset and wipe the device offline, it’ll still phone home and brick itself as soon as it gets a connection because the ID is in hardware.
Improv, music composition, gaming/streaming, hiking, missing my ex.
It matters enough that the question "does static typing dramatically reduce the benefits of unit testing" is an open question or at least seriously discussed in the industry. All other replies are about dynamic languages.
I couldn't help it either. Astronomy is just going to be forever plagued by this name.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/s/NH2OgxYrXK
It's a microcosm of Linux. x11 had wildly non-conformant desktops since forever, having a larger spec doesn't inherently fix things or force desktops to abide by the rules.

Projects like GNOME would have dropped AppIndicator and server-side decorations whether it was included in Wayland or not. Drilling-down on a minimal set of secure features was the only path forward if Wayland wanted developers to take the protocol seriously.
Right, the myth of the neutral aggregator.

The aggregator is going to generally have some opinion on it, whether it be your own opinion fed back to you, or those of the author.

Whether that opinion is "right" or "wrong" is in the eye of beholder..

In some ways the recommendation engines feeding you your own preferences is the easiest thing to implement that satisfies the most people at once.
There are a lot of missed opportunities with Wayland.

The sad thing to me is that Wayland is aiming at replacing X while at the same time proudly stating that they aren't going to support a fair bit of the functionality that X provides.

That makes the whole effort an exercise in regression to me.
Winning on cost doesn't necessarily mean priced the lowest. Cost savings could be put toward larger die sizes and winning on performance.
It’s exceptionally hard to financially justify exploration, when so many other problems could see substantial improvement given the costs required.
Photography, both analog and digital. I particularly enjoy the former as no computer is involved - I stare at one all day at work, thankyouverymuch.

Ham radio, in particular tinkering and construction - I am an RF engineer by education, but work outside the field - so the hobby is a good way to at least retain some skills.

Oh, and I do traditional textile dyes for my mother and a few handfuls of her fellow weaving artisans.
How does the accuracy of this compare to CREPE?

https://github.com/marl/crepe

https://github.com/maxrmorrison/torchcrepe

Does anyone know what the current state of the art is, within the Music Information Retrieval community?
IME in this model, the middleware-DB transaction were set to be serializable, but the web-user-edits were done under an optimistic concurrency model, using versions or timestamps. You’d run into edit conflicts, which for many applications is a reasonable compromise.

The DB transactions would need to be kept open for user edits only if one were using a pessimistic model.

Am I thinking about this correctly?
Interesting! Do you use it with pure oils or with sauces that are closer to emulsions? I was under the impression that it wouldn't do much for an oil since I've mostly used xanthan to thicken and stabilize water in an emulsion.
I feel the same way with AWS Q on the console. It refuses to stop nagging me.
Last reply Oct 2021 unfortunately:

https://nitter.net/webshitweekly/status/1450563491069247489
Neptune also has a ring.

Jupiter also has ring, but it is not apparent.
Don't use a big-tech solution. Podcasts were an open platform and you can keep it that way by using a open source application like AntennaPod.
Great! Go work in an office somewhere.

Guess what? I'm not an extrovert and most of my work day needs for about 15 years have been unmet.

Since Covid they are being met.
Google is consolidating their portfolio and allows you to migrate away if that is your choice
There are better apps. You want one that supports library exports if/when they also "discontinue" their services. I use pocketcasts.
Building motorized Bikes.
I'm well versed in bike ridding and maintanance, and in 2020 I started mounting 2-stroke engines on them. It's nice hobbie to learn about internal combustion engines, because it is very cheap and very diy. The community is nice (they still use those subject spefic old forums).I don't have to care too much about registrations and rules.
I use the bikes I build to go where I'm too lazy to pedal.
> How does that have anything to do with disabilities? Honest, it sounds like a form of fancy customisation and I don't doubt Wayland may not support it, but that's not why accessibility is a thing.

Only on the internet would someone discuss a change they've made due to a disability, only to have someone else say challenge them on it and imply that they're bullshitting.
I need non-GPL libraries as a reference. The problem with YIN and especially PYIN is that the MIT-code I've found sometimes looks a bit too similar to earlier code in GPL. Rewriting that into the same but in different code is fairly hard. Here I'm assuming that translating eg. GPL Python or C++ into C would mean the license is retained
ah, non-removeable software, how lovely.
eat ai cause we tell you to.