skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which is irrelevant. In a world where the CD didn't exist, someone would have built a phonograph with Line-Out, which later would have been connected to the Line-In of a PC.

The quality of which would have been lower than that of a CD. Incidentally: many phonograph/amplifier combinations had the option (or even a built in) cassette recorder so that part was readily available from the 70's onward.

> Assuming that MP3 wouldn't have disrupted the music industry if they'd have sticked to Vinyl and Cassette is ridiculous.

You're welcome to your opinions as well.

> Even today, Vinyl rips of music exists.

Yes, they do. But they're not close to the quality that you get when you use FLAC on a CD image, or a high quality MP3 encoding (lossy, but not quite that lossy).

In order to rip vinyl you will have to do your own A->D, you've already gone through a whole pile of analogue stuff, you will have picked up some hum, lost some high and lost a lot of low. CD audio put master tape quality in the hands of millions and then when MP3 happened suddenly all of that was instantly available. If the required steps had been reliant on someone doing all of that work it would have been a lot less quick in terms of adoption. Building the hardware to do this properly so that you'd get something equivalent to a HiFi set on subsequent output isn't all that easy, especially not if you care about modulation depth.

> The core of this disruption was not in the process of creating the MP3, it was the ease of music distribution without any involvement of a music label.

That was another required step, but the widespread availability of master tape grade digital content was an enabler as well and I really don't see why you would deny that.

FWIW I'm the guy that encoded the dutch broadcast archive for TROS so that they could easily call up tracks without running to the physical archive. Trucks with CDs would arrive and harddrives would go the other way. We did many thousands of them. Without the CDs ripping at 40 speed or so that would have absolutely never happened. Ripping a vinyl record at any level of quality will take you more than an hour, there are all kinds of environmental factors, you'll wear out needles like there is no tomorrow and you're going to be busy fiddling with tone arm pressure and all kinds of finicky bits if you want to get even close to something that's good enough for broadcasters.
Yeah I think there are tons of graphics frameworks for 2D with no built-in entity management system (SDL2, Monogame, SFML), but it seems like when people work in 3D, they tend to make an entire engine. I think people would be less mystified by 3D if they could just plug in a 3D PBR rendering engine and then implement game logic any way they want, in any language they want (e.g: have bindings to a rendering engine coded in C++ but the game logic is all python, lua, C#, whatever). I think Three.js actually is kind of like this, but idk how useful it is for updating real time games. There's also always Ogre, but I just wonder why there aren't more rendering engines out there
So assuming 25 to 45% capacity factor, $10k to $18k per effective kW. Depreciate that linearly over 20 year's and you get 5.8 to 10.5¢ per kWh before maintenance and operations. Given Arizona pays about 16¢/kWh, the project seems likely to be viable.
Show HN: I Made a Cyborg Al Gore-Themed Algorithm Guessing Game
Hey HN, finally found the time to finish my pet project. I built a Wordle-style game where you guess the programming language & algorithm of a piece of partly redacted code. As you answer incorrectly, the code becomes more visible to help you get the right answer. The normal mode has typical algorithms and languages that most programmers would be familiar with, but there are more difficult modes for those that want a challenge, wether you want to see a variety of programming languages or different algorithms (or both!). Would love to get feedback on it. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks!

P.S. If you are in education, and want to use this for your classroom, let me know! I'd be happy to work with you to create a mode pertaining to the algorithms that you use in your classroom (AP CS classes, college courses, etc.).
> In my early 20s, I would go dancing sometimes and someone would approach me saying "you should buy me a drink" and I remember saying no because I had like 50$ total.

You just avoided the worst type of people anyway.
Surplus value is an essential piece to any of this actually working - if you don't have surplus value, there's no signal to inform on where our collective energy/ resources should be focused.

If there's a lot of surplus value in building a chair, that's a sign that we need more chairs. If you can't generate surplus value with the 7th coffee shop in the same city block, that's a sign there's too many coffee shops.

Any system that aims to remove surplus value removes this signal, which leaves you with a centrally controlled economy/system - and those tend to not only never work (at basically any scale) but tend to make everyone's life worse and worse over time and/or fail catastrophically.

Also, for what it's worth, I think you might be projecting on to some assumptions you have about janitorial work.
~$100/mile really highlights the challenge of transmission.

Already, our transmission and distribution costs are more expensive than generation costs. Utilities want us to ignore these costs, as unavoidably, because they get to "rate base" T&D costs and charge a fixed rate of profit, meaning that anything extra they can spend on T&D is more profit that, without any competition.

This is why residential solar get such stiff propaganda against it by utilities, going as far to say that residential solar "freeloads" on the grid, rather than saving everybody costs on the grid by reducing the peak needs of T&D.

With wind, perhaps these transmission costs are somewhat unavoidable, but solar can be place elsewhere, and all solar that avoided this doubling of costs due to extra T&D costs should be highly encouraged by everyone (except the utilities, who lose out on profit).
That's true, but the question might be whether you personally should be worried if you find yourself on a 737 Max.
It's kinda careless to rewrite history just because a repo is large. Any reason you aren't doing a partial/shallow clone?
737 is f-ed, stick with A350 haha
> we used to call the Windows XP UI the "Fisher Price" UI.

I've always called it Windows Duplo. :)

> It was the first dumbed down Windows UI.

Only if you ignore Windows ME.

UI/UX-wise, Windows 2000 was the best version of Windows to date. The UI was largely unified, W2k widgets were an incremental improvement in look AND FUNCTIONALITY over NT. Keyboard navigation was lightyears ahead of any version prior or post.
I had a couple of Sirius (AKA Victor) machines that were cast offs from my father's office given to me to play with. The first one was twin floppy, and the second had a 5MB hard drive. When I got the second one I think the first one got binned. When the second one broke, I bust it up to use the PSU and HDD on another computer. Of course, I really wish now that I'd kept at least one of them, but you never know at the time what would have value in the future and what is just junk.
Correct. I just checked the project yesterday and they are presently at 3.4 :-|
That's a great reason why your dinner table is not covered by the Digital Markets Act. But here they're trying to argue the law shouldn't apply because Apple isn't getting money from iMessage, when it's clearly been part of their strategy for selling more iPhones for a long time[1][2].

[1] https://bgr.com/tech/apple-had-a-good-reason-to-bring-imessa...
[2] https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-biden-outlines-wh...
Hi!

French and Dutch are added.
It's a valid choice, but so is theirs to not continue to interact with you.
On the off chance that this is genuine, it’s a sketch. A very famous comedy duo. Unfortunately one passed away a while ago.
There's a philosophical discussion to be had here regarding the difference between a gigawatt and a jigawatt!
Maybe living in the US has made me unnecessarily pessimistic about the likelihood of having consumer protection laws make that last step. I’d be happy to be wrong but I suspect we’ll end up in the local pessimism.
What's DS&A?
I interviewed for a dream position at a huge tech co a few years ago . I cold applied after seeing the job ad in the "who is hiring" on HN. That alone felt like a big step, I had never done one of those grueling long interviews people talk about, and someone reached back out. I studied, I practiced coding fast, I did mock interviews, but I was still nervous as hell to actually try one with real stakes.

I thought my resume was a perfect fit, an intersection of fairly niche technologies and skills that I actually had. I had to do multiple screening rounds, solve leetcode-esque problems.

I made it to the onsite! My nerves were going crazy but, the first coding problem, I went right to work, my fingers were flying, and by the end of it I could see that my interviewer was more than pleased. He said I finished early and we could just chat about life at BigCo.

The second round was similar, and the third round! Fourth round, not as great, but I didn't completely whiff on the question. And..........I got rejected.

I was in the dumps for months. Maybe I wasn't cut out for big tech. I'm not smart enough. I don't have impressive credentials. But eventually I said fuck it, I'm going again. I applied to a few more jobs and.....started getting offers at top tier companies.

The algorithmic thinking is hard, coding fast is hard, not letting my nerves get the best of me is hard, explaining my thought process took practice, but just having the resilience to go through the process after hard rejection was crucial.

I had a job at the time, and part of me really wanted to just give up and say I was content with my gig at a small company. But I didn't give up.

I hope I can pass on that trait to my son one day.
You’re allowed to be anything you want, it’s just a predictable, well-trod take.

It’s no different than the people who show up in new iPhone announcement threads complaining about iOS and the App Store. We’ve heard all this before literally all the time — Google sells Pixels go buy one of those and be happy. Some of us like what Apple does with their ecosystem.
Meta to start blocking some content from reaching teens on Facebook, Instagram
When you or I wreck, how many people are injured? How much control did we have over those situations?

When a plane crashes, how many people are injured? How much control did the passengers have?
Have they though? Boeing is the least trustworthy company on planet earth these days. The airlines aren't far behind. The regulators don't seem competent.

I say this as a capitalist - Boeing should be torn apart and sold for scrap metal.I'm sure there are some decent folks there, but that place has turned into a mess.
Ok, your example is kind of strange though because the courts unilaterally added them first.
It seems like the CTO was made aware of the situation and 15 minutes later the accounts were un-suspended. [1] https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1744766353494376749 Probably some automated system or mass report (speculating, of course).
This is about a pattern of behaviour that started when Chrome launched (and had less market share than Firefox) and has continued since then. This isn't "They're trying to take our tiny market share", this is "This is how they took our quite substantial market share".
I don't think this is true. Having the user agent is incredibly useful when debugging an issue. It can even be useful for deploying workarounds.

For example if you see that errors are being thrown on your site and nearly all of them are the new release of Chrome then you can quickly narrow down it being a compatibility issue with the new version. Similarly if someone is making broken requests to your site at a high rate it may help you figure out who it is and contact them.

It can even be useful in automated use cases. If Firefox 27 has a bug it is reasonable to add very specific checks to work around it gracefully. When possible feature detection is better, but some bugs can be very hard to test for.

The problem comes from:

1. People whitelisting user agents.

2. Adding wide sweeping checks, especially if you don't constantly re-evaluate them (For example Brave versions later than 32)

In this case it seems that it is hard to actually conclude that a user-agent check was bad here. Google could have been trying to serve something that would work better on Firefox (maybe it worked around a bug). Of course that code crashed and burned, but that doesn't mean that the check was a bad idea.

I agree that user-agents are often used for evil, but they can also be used for good. It is hard to justify completely removing them. With great power comes great responsibility. Unfortunately lots of people aren't responsible.
Yep, and it's made me reconsider my conservative risk tolerance now that I'm finally financially independent. I'm not sure if I should 'swing for the fences' or 'take a knee and run out the clock'. Probably the latter. I'm not sure I'm hungry enough to put up with a startup in my 40's.
You are almost certainly safer on a 737 MAX than in a car, but that’s a low bar met easily by any modern commercial aircraft.
Hi!

I've added French and Italian.
I agree. It’s ungainly for sure, but I wouldn’t call it ugly.

Besides, if I were going to pick a British warplane originating from that era as the ugliest, I’d have to go with the Nimrod.
Being a net taker or net giver still means you take and give, you just do more of one than the other. I don’t see why this means they’d refuse to assist. People aren’t pure takers and givers.
Yes. Both remember as the models one should avoid if one can.
Looks like this is is not the only problematic example, for example: https://demo.corgea.com/338
Makes sure you don't try to get ctf.key (but not .env for example).
Another issue: https://demo.corgea.com/531#
The LLM makes up a usage of shell=True despite the original “vulnerable” code not using it.

Well, at least they are showing a real demo and not some made up results.

I think that overall the idea has some potential, but not sure we are there yet.
> Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

They (the Irish state - ministers, elected officials) shall do it forst and publish it. Then we will follow suit. /s
There was a recent blowout of a door, and now several problems were found in subsequent MAX planes. This is part of a larger saga with faults found in MAX planes that have caused some crashes, and the longstanding quality issues with Boeing.

Some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917820

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893909

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774
The very definition of FUD. I really wonder if these sites are thrown together by folks who are somehow profiting off of this.
THIS EXACTLY!!
The Max line is clearly cursed, and I think it's reasonable to be suspicious of all of the variants in it. That they've taken the newly discovered problematic ones out of service doesn't imply that the ones left in service are good -- particularly since it seems that the problems stem from systemic quality control issues rather than something special about those particular variants.
The inspection takes 4-8 hours according to BBC, so they might be already up in the air.
Its been a couple of years since I last went to Sierra with an order, but they're pretty competitive with other domestic board houses. About 7 years ago, they were were the cheapest for quick-turn turn-key builds of low-complexity boards in ultra low-volumes (>50), so I had them do a lot of stuff for me.
The Kazakh, Ukrainian and Armenian presidents were all able to give pretty good answers in the circumstances, recognising the joke, taking it as a joke but still managing to sound reasonably technically competent. I can't imagine many Western leaders responding in such an "in the know" way to what seems like a fairly obscure meme.
could you manage two hours in the morning and two in the evening or are you done for the day? either way, two hours a day should be enough to earn 300$ a month if you can find work.

that's quite a low hourly rate, so you should even be able to find jobs at upwork and similar platforms.

apart from that, find sites where you can sign up and where people hiring can find you.

post on hackernews "who wants to be hired" https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

it may take a while to find something, but it's low effort. same goes for some other sites. sign up where you can and see if you get offers.

describe what work you can do, and tell that you are looking for only 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week of work. don't explain why. for a side job 2 hours a day is normal, so noone will consider it unusual that you can only do 2 hours. they don't need to know the real reason.

when you have the time and energy then go back to those same sites and actively look for work you could do.

codementor for example. it's easy to sign up and depending on the skills you offer you'll get people contacting you. i get about one request per month, which is not enough for me to live on, but it might just be enough for you.

and considering your situation, i would also look at mechanical turk. the pay is low, but the tasks are simple and they may just be the kind of thing that you can do without making you tired. i could be wrong, but give it a try.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38918665

I didn't bother calculating the rate for driving to the airport, but eyeballing the figures for cars, it's probably as about as dangerous if you assume that the 737 Max were 10x more dangerous than average flying. Cars are still more dangerous than planes on a per-mile basis, but at the same time you're also traveling less miles on the car trip compared to the flight. Regardless if you hit a 5 minute traffic jam, you'd lose about the same amount of life as flying in a 737 Max (again, assuming it's 10x more dangerous than regular air travel).
Hi!

I've added Dutch.
Can't you avoid the horrible mess on windows by not installing any store you don't want ?

I assume you're thinking about Steam for instance ? Forgo Steam, and you're back to the iPhone situation where you only get a small portion of the ecosystem in nice and clean walled garden. You're in the mess only if you care about getting the full choice of applications, which Apple will never allow on its own.
Show HN: Asymptotic Growth Order Calculator
I'm an undergraduate student and for my math honors thesis I'm studying asymptotic growth orders, the kind you usually see written in "big-Theta" notation to describe an algorithm's time/memory usage. The most interesting part was studying how to compute the growth order of the sequence of partial sums of a given sequence - that is, the growth order of (a_1 + ... + a_n), in terms of the growth order of (a_n).

So I thought I would make a little web calculator for playing around with this. Enjoy! :-)

Some things to try:

1. The sums of the harmonic sequence (1/n) diverge, but can you find a faster-decaying sequence that also has diverging sums?

2. Can you make the growth order log(log(log(n))) using only one register?

3. What happens when you apply Σ⅟ΣΣΣ (applied from right to left) to any growth order, and why?
Looks like something Launchpad McQuack would fly. Actually, it kind of looks like Launchpad....
Gerrit is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects
For a more fun approach (if I understood your definition of fun correctly) look into RC2014 Pro, more expensive for sure, but no modern microcontroller on it.
> The survival of the individual is exactly what is being selected for. The influence of an individual gene is not distinguishable from those that are packaged with it.

Here is a counterexample where a gene or set of genes jumped ship and untethered itself from the individual they were originally embedded in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
Bad news on the arcade front:

https://www.polygon.com/22906391/sega-japan-arcades-sold-his...

Sega is leaving Japanese arcades behind. The company announced it is selling its remaining arcades to a company called Genda, Inc. (also known as GiGO), and leaving the coin-op business, where it first made a name for itself, for good.
The first worry as an American is having a pillar of your country's economy managed by incompetents.
Insulation is very important! I live near Portland in a fairly new construction and found my attic insulation is the bare minimum, currently planning to blow-in more soon. After running the numbers, between federal credits and heating savings it'll pay for itself within 2-3 years.
Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker as Its Default D-Bus Daemon
Ummm, mostly when 'you' wreck, it is definitely out of your control.
Wow. I see this as proof web surfing died because the Big Search Engines prefer to promote commercial entities over individual interests.
Soft-deletion ("recycle bin") is an important feature in many user-facing applications.

But if it's not surfaced in UI then I agree it doesn't make much sense.
I agree with many of the sentiments in this article and for the past year or so have had curation in the back of my mind when I use the Internet.

Yes, the users are on the big tech apps, but the great majority of these users aren’t interested in niche websites. Many of them began using the Internet for leisure/socializing when they created their first social media app sometime in the mid 2010s. The lack of potential interested users in this space could even be a good thing early on.

For those who want to become a link curator, it would be more in the spirit of the cause to not use a something like Linktree, but rather to self host a minimal site with good discoverability. This barrier of entry, though small, may be too much for most people however
https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-daily-driven-in-profession...
We kinda got something like this working for a relative. They have an "Aura" frame, and in their app you can set a watch folder/album. So we have a shared iCloud album set as the source and it automatically updates based on the images in that shared album.
I spoke to someone who works there about a year ago.

I was trying to gauge how an insider viewed the Max problem related to the auto trim issue which caused two airplanes [1][2] to crash, killing 346 people. This was shortly after watching the documentary Downfall: The Case Against Boeing [3].

The ignorance and non acceptance of fault made me cringe. I won't go into the details, but this wasn't a freak accident this was due to human decisions. They cut corners on how to modify an aircraft to compete with Airbus, and then doubled down to not pass down training to pilots on their hack of a fix, since it would be an increase in costs on their customers (i.e. the plane becomes more expensive to operate due to extra training for pilots).

I am doing my outmost to avoid any new planes from Boeing (higher risk with new airplanes). I've also simply started flying less.

The Boeing fiasco is what 2nd world / 3rd world corruption looks like in the west. profit interests above safety, and regulatory capture of the FAA. Also anti competitive or anti free trade practices by the US Department of Commerce [4].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall:_The_Case_Against_Boe...

4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo...