skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most scenarios. The pi can be brought to its knees with a lot of voices and effects but that is to be expected.

What baffles me is that it randomly drops a ton of UDP packages, fails to read/write disk and randomly experiences high load only to quiet down later. Basically it seems like it really sucks at i/o. Might there be a benefit to using FreeBSD in this scenario?
This is just pedantry.

Would NYT be suing Adobe (the people who made the software), if one of their users utilized Photoshop to produce an image that violates copyright? I don’t think so.
eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
> My biggest pet peeve with typescript is how it never explains most of this stuff officially.

From my anecdotical experience, 99 % of people cannot even define a mapped type or other core TypeScript concepts.
> What's especially weird is the number of people here who are fiercely defensive of the arrangement, with the only rationale being it's the status quo

Most Americans (roughly 70%) are happy with their health insurance. That's a reason to be defensive other than it "being the status quo".
"The Pax Romana (Latin for 'Roman peace') is a roughly 200-year-long timespan of Roman history which is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stability, hegemonial power, and regional expansion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana

"Pax Americana is a term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later in the world after the end of World War II in 1945, when the United States became the world's dominant economic, cultural, and military power."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana

The US global leadership role was severely tarnished after its catastrophic war on Vietnam. And just when it seemed the country might recover its leadership role, it launched an even more catastrophic war on Iraq.

The consequences of the Iraq quagmire on US domestic politics, economic and military strength, global flows of migrants and global reputation continue to reverberate.

If this is the end of Pax Americana, it's anyone's guess what comes next.

Men who think about the Roman Empire at least once a week are fond of drawing parallels with what happened after the end of Pax Romana and what might be next for a leaderless world.
Businesses want uniformity and commonality since, in theory, it should lower development costs (see projects like flutter and fuschia, which have the goal to make every platform web based).

The problem is that users/customers have higher expectations for their user experiences than the web can offer on mobile/desktop/etc.

Robinhood, Duolingo, Slack are a few good examples of UX being huge differentiators.
I find presenting this as an open source alternative to commercial solutions a little disingenuous when any commercial use of it also requires a paid license. Like many other cases it seems like the AGPL is functioning more as a trial license.
Sex is not bimodal, it’s binary. We as a society have to be able to just get past this. I, for example, am a male (sex) - but I identify as a woman (gender identity). These two things can be true at the same time, and do not conflict.
For small amounts of text, another simple way is to paste it into the Run dialog (Winkey-R) and then copy it back out again. Works well for turning URLs into plain text and removing the editor formatting from function names before pasting into a bug report, for example.
Tesla recalls 1.6M cars in China over Autopilot and steering defects
In my experience, quitting sugar and carbs reduced my overall appetite, so the cravings were gone fairly quickly. I did have a mild headache for two days.
> beneficial for those enthusiastic about SPAs

It's almost as if some developers choose technologies based on "what'll look good on my CV"
feels like you're them, doing market research.
Honey? Where's my supersuit?
What a great resource, both for self-reflection and for a student who wanted to chase a similar career. I should really do something similar for my history of paid work.

It’s not like I have a crazy illustrious career or anything, but it can feel like kind of a blur, just a rollercoaster that led inexorably towards the present, which couldn’t be further from the truth; I would love to be able to reflect on my successes (and failures!) and see the small, concrete steps I took towards each.

Even without writing it out, I know the connections I have made and the mentors / coworkers / friends who have helped me deserve much more credit than any individual strokes of brilliance on my part! Another thing that’s very easy for me to forget, day-to-day.
The source is in the quoted tweet

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
> This article totally reminded me of one I read in the Atlantic many years ago

Probably “The Lessons of ValuJet 592” by William Langewiesche (who has written many excellent pieces on plane and ship crashes)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/03/the-les...
I doubt that these glasses, with a form factor of sunglasses, are meant to compete with the vision pro, which is basically a computer in the formfactor of a diving mask.

But it does look like a cool, maybe even useful, gadget nonetheless.
OpenAI does not want to pay as much as Apple for licensing news articles
> To change APPLE MacBook Air 13" settings you need to open APPLE MacBook Air 13" admin page. To do that you need to check what is APPLE MacBook Air 13" IP address. You will also need APPLE MacBook Air 13" password and default router login.

This website seems like generated spam - why is it even being shown here?
An opinionated toolchain for your TypeScript package's build-related tasks
I’m trans and I don’t. Only weirdo leftists love that stuff. We’re not all like that, but… an uncomfortable percentage do seem to be pretty out there with their belief systems.
hmm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
For the probably 95% of us who don't know Scottish comedy I've surmised by painfully watching this for the last 5 minutes that Limmy is evidently some popular Scottish comedian. Knowing this will help you get the "joke" that lasts about 1:30min too long where you (you being a non-Scot) has no idea what the 2nd character is attempting to say until about 2 minutes in where the joke is then dragged out for a painfully long-feeling amount of time when it's only 3 minutes.

I get the joke but that execution was .. awful. Must be a Scotch delicacy sort of thing and I'm just not used to the flavor. No American would stand there for 2 minutes asking the same person "Where's the printer?" over and over again.

It might've been funny if he walked around the office asking other "Limmys" where the printer was and got all sorts of different reactions from them, but he half-assed it and made it a tiresome joke by sticking with that one tiring interaction.
That "char city[32]" looks like a challenge. Lets hope Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is not in the test set.
Pmarca's Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Thanks. I think the concern about software provider shutting down is valid. Heck, I still remember being pissed when Google deprecated two products I used within a month (a few months back).

Self-hosting might be too complex to setup, but do you think single tenant offering helps? I don't know if it makes sense for individuals tho.

In addition to HTML & CSV, there is an option to export JSON, which supports more formats. In a way, it is an open format (.json) but I'll have to add relevant documentation. PDF support will also come at one point.
Why not turn on wrapping in notepad?
> Many didn’t know about new CSS features that had shipped 10 years ago. What’s more, even when we told them about them, they didn’t seem too excited. They were doing just fine with jQuery and WordPress, thank you.

...and if jQuery and WordPress do the job, they are sound technical decisions.

What is not a sound technical decision is forever chasing the latest fashion in technology. Also known as the "oh look a shiny thing development paradigm".
Also the anime darling in the franxx!

Some of the synopsis:

> In the early 21st century, the progress of human civilization was accelerated by ground-breaking discoveries in mining technology, allowing the extraction of magma energy for a new low-cost, all-encompassing energy source.
Boston Dynamics basically just makes proof-of-concept robots, and then they pre-code demos for videos.

If you have a non-humanoid robot, like a Kuka arm, it's a "sharp tool" which is overfit to one specific range of tasks. It's never going to be able to do anything else, and if you wanted to add other tasks, you'd have to overhaul it or create some adapter.

A humanoid robot basically needs no adapter for any common task, in that every common task is already performed by humans, who all have the same components. The benefit is that the range of tasks available to the form factor is massive, versus a Boston Dynamics robot that just picks up and moves packages and can only do that. If the humanoid robot is not only far cheaper, but it can do that tasks, and thousands of others, then that's the better form factor..
Is there more freedom on Android?
I'm not well-versed in this, but I think you're wrong. A MD5 hash has 2^128 permutations, so it's like the birthday problem, you'll get 50% chance of any two files in a set having the same hash with far fewer than 2^64 files.

Besides, we're talking about probabilities. It's possible for 2 files, one after the other, to have the exact same hash just because of chance. In fact, I think there was a bitcoin bug due to this, something about making the wrong assumption that the hash of the entire blockchain and the hash of the entire blockchain + 1 block would never be the same hash, if I remember correctly.

Hashes are simply not a reliable method of uniquely identifying things. They are a convenient method but if you implement any hash-based system for identification you should also implement a escape hatch for when two different things have the same hash but must be treated differently.
> Unfortunately, nowadays I instead get addicted a lot to various websites, like YouTube and ... Hacker News.

I realized this about myself recently as well. I found a pretty good solution that works for me and may or may not work for you.

1. Disable all Youtube search history (no more recommendations!)

2. Use your hosts file to block sites you spend too much time on. To visit them you have to go through the effort of opening the hosts file and edit it (which for me requires typing in a long password because sudo). This was enough to break my habit of mindlessly visiting them. Here's an excerpt from mine:

127.0.0.1 youtube.com

127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com

#127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 chess.com

127.0.0.1 www.chess.com

127.0.0.1 reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

3. For your smartphone, uninstall all browsers and just use Firefox Focus. Turns out having to manually enter URLs and searches without auto-complete is pretty shitty user experience (which is good in this case!)
Biological sex markers are bimodal. Just ask the nearest health researcher: there isn't a single one that is strictly male or female.
What is the alternative? Because I tried them all from Clojurescript, Scala.js to Elm.

TypeScript is a very pleasurable language to use.
I think that's a coincidence.

What gets me more is that he just selected stuff that's snobbish and "intellectual."

It's so strange that people are like this that they find hard to digest stories about ultra realistic and deep characters in ultra realistic mundane situations to be called "literature."

It requires more skill and more intelligence to create an elegantly simple escapist stories about unrealistic situations and characters that speak to a combination of realism and idealism .

All of these books can't hold a candle to the MCU up to avengers end game. 10 years of movies with multitudes of artists, story tellers and centuries of technology all coordinated and artfully put together to build a monument of story telling only to be dismissed by snobs for being "stupid".

Instead these snobs worship these slice of life books (often with shitty low effort art) about some character overcoming racism or coming to terms with his or her identity/parent/partner/son. These archetypical story types you find in literature are just as formulaic as the escapist stories we see in genres like super hero stories or star wars or lore, etc..

Make no mistake. We all have preferences but the more intelligent genre is the one with more escapism, unrealistic situations with semi realistic characters. Because these stories are harder to pull off, they are harder to make for the big screen.

People who don't understand this just aren't getting it.
No, that was not the issue, and "crashing" was never on the table. The issue was that they artificially (and for obvious reasons) made the phone look like it needed to be replaced, when all it needed was a new battery. Key point: this effect kicked in long before the battery became simply unable to run the phone at full speed at all.

Asking the user, "Your phone's battery is no longer meeting its specifications. Do you want to reduce your phone's power usage to provide additional operating time?" would not have been an unreasonable thing to do. Basically the same question the phone already asks when the charge drops below 10%!

This would empower the user to make the same decision with their phone that they would make with any other battery-operated device that is showing its age, from dimming their flashlight to turning down their radio to driving slower.

But noooooo, because Apple.
If you use jupyter check out what I'm building with Buckaroo. The aim is to have a table viewer that does the right/obvious thing for most data (formatting, sorting, downsampling large datasets, summary statistics, histograms). all customizable. Supports pandas and polars.

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
I'll admit I haven't read them that recently but from what I recall the Vital Question is slightly more readable than Oxygen. That said, all of his books are very 'thorough' in the sense that he's definitely posing them as trying to make an argument as opposed to just educational, which does definitely make them less readable than they could be. Less bedtime reading and more something to actually make time for I guess?

I have seen him give talks in person before and they've been a lot clearer - maybe there's some on youtube? He's been on a few of the 'In Our Time' podcast episodes, so they might be interesting too?
The people who do the firing are usually HR and HR often aren’t making any decisions. They follow a handbook of procedures and rules.
The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
> I can't remember, or be bothered to find out -- how expensive is it these days to just get private insurance in the USA if you've got 3 hideously expensive pre existing conditions? I have some vague recollection that the obamacare thing requires that insurance companies offer coverage to people without regard to those preexisting conditions, and intuitively that seems "fair" but it's all such a pile of crap it's frustrating to dig through and demotivating. I assume "that's the way they like it."

Take a look at your state's healthcare marketplace site. You should be able to browse plans if you put in your county/zip code and participant ages. Marketplace plans can't charge based on health history, and at least in my area, they all seem to cover the minimum required services and nothing else; they compete on networks and copay/coinsurance.

It's not the giant morass of pain that it used to be, but it's still somewhat of a pain, and often employer based plans are better; especially in terms of networks and out of area coverage.
When I think "gig work" I think jobs that require you to use a smartphone app and your car, usually in a major urban area. It's work that requires you to interact with lots of strangers and travel around town all day and without supervision to keep you on task. These are daunting propositions to a lot of people.

The sort of jobs I'm talking about are ones where you just have to get yourself to one place, a guy hands you a shovel and points at where you dig, then pays you cash at the end of the day. These jobs do exist but they aren't legal or legitimate, or if they are then you have to do paperwork and commit to a schedule to get into the tax system and compliance with government regulations. This friction keeps people who are struggling with the basics of life from working, this kind of irregular work would be much easier for people if the government removed their bureaucratic restrictions on it. Does this clarify the "word salad" for you? (BTW I don't appreciate your implication that I'm mentally ill. If you don't understand what I'm saying, it's not because I'm schizophrenic. More likely it's because you're misconstruing disagreement with confusion.)
> Pinning to a specific version doesn't protect against the author unpublishing that version.

It does if your project is also in the npm public registry and the package you're dependent on is more than 72 hours old.

https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish
Obviously, if you run some computational benchmark the difference between operating systems should be minimal.

However, what was described in the linked article were the snappiness of an Internet browser and of a graphical desktop and the USB and audio performance.

Those may depend a lot on the operating system support, so they may vary noticeably between operating systems.

While I am using both Linux and FreeBSD on x86, I have not tried FreeBSD on Arm, mainly because it has official support only for a few SBCs. Because Linux on RaspberryPi felt quite slow, I would not be surprised if a FreeBSD desktop feels snappier.

In general, Linux has support for a much greater variety of hardware than FreeBSD, but among those kinds of devices that are supported by both it cannot be predicted which of the two operating systems will have a better performance for a certain application.
Thanks for sharing these absolute gems!
The Middle is another good one.
Tactics to control spending and save money
I quit reading. not ironic.
Every time you have to go back to an "old" project you haven't worked on in six months there is a webpack/npm dependency hell greeting you.
Exactly! Let's say Heimdall for example. It's a simple website. Can I "cast" that to the chromecast?
Discord is a poor replacement. I think it allows a lot of broad connections without depth which sounds good on the surface but unfortunately real insights require a bit of digging but the conversation has already moved ahead in the chatroom. That's why old school forums were actually a better kind of a discussion board but discord being free and not requiring technical setup won.
Lots of people have the idea that message passing is good. Maybe slow, but easier than directly hammering on shared memory.

Synchronous message passing, as in wait for the other guy then swap, is a different thing to pushing work into a queue to be dealt with later. Not just a buffer of size one; the current thread actually blocks until the exchange occurs.

It's another step in the direction of decreased throughput for decreased entropy and I think it's an important one. I personally missed the distinction for a good decade or so, seems plausible others have likewise missed it.
Western Europe, EU/NATO countries, have the wealth and technology to lead the World without USA help.
Aside, I wonder how/when "carbs" became a euphemism for refined grains and junk food instead of just saying junk food.

Presumably you aren't talking about quitting beans and broccoli, for example, nor did you add those to your diet in place of junk food.
And when I looked at COBRA ( which is basically your employer insurance without the company payins) it looked to be about the same as a similar marketplace plan.

I ended up waiting for Medicare eligibility anyway which, with supplemental and prescription drug coverage is probably not nearly as much cheaper as a lot of people assume.
What I liked about U4 was the "morality" system required to advance the game. Sure it was kind of canned and could be gamed - in fact you had to grind out the last few virtues you need to elevate, but as a kid it felt meaningful compared to standard hack and slash. Don't know of any other game that tried to do something like that. Great thing about U4 was that it did and it doesn't really drag down gameplay. In later ultimas the system existed to some extent, but was watered down and kind of muddled.

Of course you could also say screw that, rip off the blind reagents vendor and make cheap fireballs to kill everyone in town and take their gold, but you then couldn't win the game or even get the best weapons - the mystics.

Even today the 8 virtues are probably still a halfway decent ethics system to follow IRL, though you'll never be able to whack your enemies with a mystic sword.
Agree, seems like a classic “put Apple in the headline for clicks” bit of deception.

These look really cool and I’m tempted, but a 56 degree FOV and no built in PC-class computer mean this is not a Vision Pro compete.
Self-hosting is key for us as well. Companies working with sensitive data really value "on-device" / "on-premises" architecture, which it looks like you're close to nailing.

Check out Bitwarden and Gitlab's self-hosting approaches, and congrats on the launch. I'm excited to try it.

And regarding self-hosting complexity, start with a "docker-compose up" example and iterate from there.
Huh? This is the hottest year so far.
This quote from the Midjourney CEO is hilarious: "There’s no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it".

It should be "There's no way to stop us from using every picture on the Internet, and not be tracked while doing so".
>do they still copy the details with a carbon machine?

Lol. No.

I have more than 20 American credit cards plus a handful of debit cards. The vast majority of can't be copied with those old carbon machines - they are not embossed.

The last time I've seen anyone use those old carbon machines was to pay for parasailing in the Caribbean in 2009.

>here they'll just ask you to put it in the chip&pin machine and authorise the deposit

Same in the US except there no PIN.
> It harms everyone when we redefine safety

How is allowing someone to use a different name harmful to everyone ?
Agreed.

A healthy dialogue can take place because this is:

a. a first of it's kind of service

b. introduces interesting regulatory KYC challenges (I imagine)

c. is being done, by a company at scale
FWIW being involved in a commercial airliner accident is an order of magnitude more terrifying a prospect than getting in a car accident. If there's a one in a million chance that multiple of my worst nightmares could be realized-- plummeting from 30,000ft, being stranded in the middle of the ocean at night, enduring such things due to the hubris, greed, bullshittery of some shmucks currently warm and cozy in their mansions somewhere-- I will have that one in a million chance top of mind. especially when it makes the news multiple times within a few years!
Why would he want to go back to work?

The other part of the ruling is being forgotten here I think. It says he has to take down his social media clips.

If it were me, I wouldn't. That said, I can see where people have legitimate money concerns. They have to live.
The horrifying guidance I've gotten a number of times when I step into a project is "downgrade your node version 5 years and never update anything."