skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah reminded me of when I was a kid walking into the living room with a few people around many times and turning off the TV (crt of course) that was just showing a black screen. It was so loud and obvious to me. Now all the TVs seem to have bizarre screensavers
Msi is making an intel based handheld called the claw. Its pretty sweet.
More concretely speaking, ZIP needs a base overhead of 22+ bytes, plus a per-file overhead of 76+ bytes plus twice the length of the file name. In comparison PNG needs only 64 bytes of overhead.
> When a symphony clicks with you, when you find the time to listen to it all in one go, and when you are in the right state of mind to take it in, it's a rare experience.

I don't think it's rare. Engagement happens when there is a balance between what is familiar and what is foreign. You might look at all the cover art, names and reviews, but if it's too familiar or too foreign, it won't click.

So music you like should be sorted by familiarity. If you're not switched on, you can tell your system, 'don't play this in a while' and the next time it chooses to play it to you, it'll be far more interesting.
Some countries don’t have the space for landfill and need the energy. If we’re moving towards renewables and less plastic/plastic alternatives then I think this is an acceptable intermediate use of plastic waste.
And how does that compare to Europe?
... of course retrieving content from the internet can always be a little slow on a bad day for a contribution to tail latency, whether that content is being fetched for a good or a bad reason.
They all have very bad power consumption lol
My mother’s doctors do similar things - partly because they have internalized the “cultural impossibility” of old Asians to cut carbs and if someone says they are cutting carbs, according to their experience it’s often a lie. It’s also possible that some of these doctors have indoctrinated themselves into believing this can never work.
If you have a reference showing audible noise resulting from interference on a speaker cable running from an amplifier to a passive speaker then please share it.
Fujitsu is an extremely large company, and their subsidiary ( ICL ) was making the software. You asked the question to the head of the parent company in HQ. I would not be surprised that was his answer.
I'm not sure yet. Standard Ebooks does great work, but as far as I know there is no API, so that makes pulling books harder. Once Citadel supports plugins, I'd be happy to see some content sources as plugins!
This I think is just trolling, but I kid you not, at a chip design corp they wanted us to abolish the term dummy [devices] (i.e. non-functional transistors/resistors/etc you put on ends of an array so all functional devices have the same neighborhood, which reduces lithography variation)
I grew up half a block from a freight train line, and you could hear it, but it wasn’t really an issue. Trains have gotten a lot louder in the US recently due to lack of rail maintenance. (Concretely, the transbay BART tube is screeches was above osha safety limits inside the car these days, but was quiet when new. The problem is that you need to grind rails to have a rounded top or they screech (and wear out train wheels), but BART doesn’t bother.

Anyway, noise pollution has a real impact on health, but so does particulate carbon and benzene from freeways. Before moving near a major road, find out what sort of PM 2.5 is typical, and check to see if everything is coated in black dust. If so, and you can afford some other place, move there instead.
See also SQLCoder by defog.ai: https://github.com/defog-ai/sqlcoder
Pretty much although it doesn't end up being quite as bad as it sounds.

For example, your code wants to compare a string with some other object, if the other object understands 'string' then the built in method for comparing two strings can work. Otherwise you get a #doesNotUnderstand exception.

Making arbitrary comparisons is a bit silly though, so in practice it doesn't happen very often.
Why do that with the preprocessor rather than the `--wrap` flag? That's what most malloc libraries do.
Once you relax the invariants a bit, it becomes much easier to delete from your reddish-blackish trees :)

If you don't have to implement deletion, things are already a lot easier. And if you decide to implement a persistent red-black tree then they can be downright easy, even without relaxed invariants.

Relaxed invariants:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-leaning_red%E2%80%93black...

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Years ago, I played around with red-black trees and I figured that I could relax the invariants and make the code a lot simpler -- and maybe get slightly worse theoretical performance and quite likely slightly better practical performance for small trees. I looked around for other people's ideas along the same lines and found AA trees, which didn't quite please me. A few years later, Sedgewick's left-leaning red-black trees came out.

I would probably have found them myself (+ some other related ideas) if I had continued to play around + systematically tried different relaxations. But I didn't, so I didn't.
If nothing he says is fundamentally wrong, why not let this narrative be around. More people than not have a distaste in science nowadays and it’s beneficial to have multiple perspectives as long as they’re not scientifically inaccurate.
Bluefin is one of the many Universal Blue images. Under the full image list https://universal-blue.org/images/, there are images for KDE (under the name Kinoite), Cinnamon, Mate, Budgie, Deepin, LXQt, and others.
A payment notice by Drew on the fediverse:

> Also, more details to come when the situation is behind us, but we have made the executive decision to credit all paying accounts with service credits for the duration of the outage, whatever that duration ends up being.

https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/111754740518692919
Ivy league schools need some high performers, in the sense that they mix admits for intelligence, wealth, diversity, athletic ability, and other factors. Clearly, many smart students attend Harvard. But so do donor kids. When you hire a Harvard grad, you can't tell which graduate you are hiring! That's a huge part of the value proposition for the wealthy. Harvard needs to admit enough truly smart students.
I was considering Bullet Train for a new project. Would you advise against it? What would you suggest for something new today?
As a seller, not going exclusive is an absolute PITA.

Based on anecdotal experience, I'd bet that most of the "50% of signed LOIs" don't actually close because the seller misrepresented themselves.

> There’s an extreme power imbalance in favor of acquirers.

Buyers do NOT like dead deal fees (it doesn't get paid out of the LP fund), so there is little incentive for them to play games there. So, no, this is not true.
~30% of the population are slow metabolizers of caffeine, yet the prevailing attitude is that coffee is considered a “net positive”.

For those with slow caffeine metabolism, it’s killing your sleep, it’s making you anxious and eventually it’s going to cut your life short.

If you’re a slow metabolizer of caffeine, your sleep quality is suffering. Cut out caffeine for two weeks - see how deeper your sleep becomes.

“ Slow caffeine metabolisers are:

Associated with a higher risk of heart disease [19]

Associated with a higher risk of hypertension [20]

Associated with impaired fasting glucose [21]

May not have the protective effects against some cancers that it appears to for “fast metabolisers” [22,23]

A recent umbrella review of 218 meta-analyses concluded that coffee presented statistical harm only in pregnancy and possible fracture risk for women. [4]”

https://www.thesustainabletrainingmethod.com/tstm-blog/2021/...
The number isn’t misleading if we’re talking about efficient movement of goods.

I’m unclear why you’d care about value at all in the context of this discussion. In context weight and volume are the most relevant metrics.
Apple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texas
What you're proposing sounds nice in theory. But interactive UI code is always kind of a mess. In my experience react is a very good middle ground.

And nobody is forcing react developers to mix too many responsibilities into one component.
When I switch between C or C++ and a (non-deterministic) VM-based language like Java or C#, it feels like 10x. The IDEs are way more advanced, including (for me) the #1 all-important: debugging. For me (a mere mortal, average programmer), the fact that null pointer exceptions are clear in Java/C# is a huge gain compared "core dump" in C or C++. Going further, I am sure many would say the same kind of productivity speed-up for C or C++ to Python or Ruby.
My memory is dim on this (having last done 6502 assembly almost 40 years ago), but the extreme lack of registers on the 6502 meant many programs were a tedious, endless parade of lda, sta instructions.
Like they would tell you the real reason, why you were dropped.
I think the point OP was trying to make was when a monopoly (justified or not) routinely fails to meet their end of the bargain, especially when it comes to safety... its time for someone else to have a turn.
Generally if your method in Smalltalk is 4 lines you're doing something wrong. Most good Smalltalk ends up being only 1 or 2 lines at the most, which is why the "coding" window always looked weird and small compared to contemporary languages.
the album Folk Singer by Muddy Waters was an ear opener for me. (1964!)

I had always thought Clapton Unplugged was really nicely mastered and then after I heard Folk Singer, I realized they were trying to replicate it almost in its entirety.
I assume the future is an LLM where you specify everything in plain english...
Vite is the new unofficial CRA. Superior in nearly every aspect.
Sounds like a useful problem to solve - with a different approach perhaps.

I think it is fair to expect that everything will get automated in an economically advantageous way.

And if the solution is novel & challenging, it is likely to provide valuable unexpected side benefits & capabilities.

The automation question is just: when, how, and by who.
that's fair, i was imagining that the person who was tasked with seperating the 'useful' from the 'non-useful' might have qualms over which factors to analyze when choosing whose feedback to prioritize... but i guess that's also part of the job
Gonna call bullshit on this, and saying this as someone who was without power for nearly a week in both 2021 and 2023 in Texas due to cold weather.

After looking it up online, it looks like the April 2023 outage in Montreal was caused by an ice storm, which is what the issue was in the 2023 outage in Texas. Bad ice storms are going to cause power outage mayhem in pretty much any location where lines aren't buried. I actually started to get annoyed by people complaining about the authorities during Texas' 2023 outage: I have never seen that level of tree carnage everywhere, with many roads impassable due to downed trees and lots of folks with multi-thousand dollar cleanup bills for tree damage in their yards. I don't know if this was the same situation as in Montreal, but the fact is that ice storms are just brutal to electrical infrastructure pretty much everywhere.

This is in stark contrast to Winter Storm Uri in 2021 where the whole Texas grid nearly failed because of perverse economic incentives that discouraged investment in weatherization of power plants (the problem then was brutal cold, not ice). That definitely was poor management/governance, but at least it sparked some badly needed improvements to power generator regulations. Given we're currently getting an Arctic blast, we'll see how it holds up.
The author basically says this - but companies are not sold, they are bought.

Build a great business and focus on running a great business. Selling is just time in the market. If you're creating value, someone eventually will want to buy you (US centric mindset btw).
If you want to demo the Vision Pro at an Apple Store prepare to be there a while
it's probably under a femtosecond.

What are you talking about here? A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second. 10gbs would mean one 10 billionth of a second.
You have given us nothing to counter? At least nothing but vague hand-wavey rhetoric.

Costing the UK overall $178bn is going to harm us all in the long run, so the initial article is your starter for ten.

If you want us to give a reasoned counter to your position, you first need to properly describe your position. Spouting “well you haven't cited sources either” when we ask you to cite sources is playground stuff, in a similar vein: show us yours and we'll show you ours. If you make claims and refuse to substantiate them, then complain that a counter isn't sufficiently substantiated, it isn't us that looks like they don't know how to properly discus things.
You’re the creator of the Auctioneer addon? That’s got to be one of the most popular WoW addons for a decade or more at this point.
I'm confused by this. Amazon's not an "e-commerce platform"; it's a store that's half Walmart and half flea-market. Shopify is an "e-commerce platform" to me. Which of these is FedEx intending to be?
> I was curious how they expected to have a steady supply of 'senior' skills without ever hiring, training, and promoting a junior.

You can do it, but since you're relying on others to build the pipeline, you're going to have to pay a lot more salary to the seniors than you would if you promoted them.

Maybe that makes up for the salaries of juniors and the portion of time spent by seniors on mentoring juniors. But then some seniors want to do mentoring, and you're not providing that opportunity, so more reason for them to demand more pay.

IMHO, it's workable, if not necessarily desirable, if you want a small team. If you want a big team staffed with only seniors, I think it's going to be a challenge.
It seems to similar to PS3 vs Xbox360 PowerPC story
The road to Material UI v6 and beyond
Beautiful... except they can't even compete with Amazon on shipping (literally had to have 3 things re-delivered just in the last 2 weeks). I would focus on their current business first.
I have used it enough. The smoothness is terrible if you're not using it like a 90s instant chatroom.

Or do you mean voice chat? Video streaming? Those are all pretty bog standard too.
I miss the good old days without the internet.
> If you want to play around with lossless compression, try out my "BYOM" (Bring Your Own Model) library for arithmetic encoding: https://github.com/comperical/MirrorEncode

I believe this concept is widely known in high-end compressors. (Its weakness is also widely known: decompression cannot be made much faster than compression.)
China's military and government acquire Nvidia chips despite U.S. ban
I took a look but I don’t think I’m the target audience. I’m happy with Maven. All I’m doing is importing Java dependencies to my Scala apps. I’m not going all in on the Scala library and build ecosystem.
When I was a high schooler, I built a system in my room. Like this amazing thing, it was something I felt needed to stay intact. I can identify with the guys last wish and also know for sure it won't ever happen.

Honestly, it was OK. We did not have a lot growing up and so I had scrounged this and that often building things custom to take advantage of the room and passive acoustics to get good sound.

I, and friends and family, listened to a lot of music on it.

Then I did something one day that would turn out to be special!

Just for kicks, I wondered whether recording using the same speakers that would play the recording back would sound good.

Turns out yes! It was a little like a hologram. If you played those recordings in my room, you would hear the house! Mom cooking in the kitchen, living room TV, complete with CRT wine, in the living room, people talking...

It was all there! And one could place the sounds as if they were really happening. Listening in, say the middle of the night, was dramatic. With eyes closed, it was like midday. Hard to tell otherwise.

And those recordings only worked on that system, in that room.

Today, I bet software would tease out what I did on a wider range of listening scenarios. But back then, some considered it magic, and only in that room.

So when I left home, I left it all and some tapes and encouraged anyone wanting to hear family life from some years ago to go and listen before it all gets torn apart.

My mom sold the house and that was the end of an era. Sadly, the tapes have been lost too.

All I know is you can use a capable preamp to record through your speakers and when that recording is played on that system, it will be magic!
Fedex execs have no idea, and it shows.
Yep.

No one (generally) bats an eye when voting at the city level for a $100mm road package.

But trains?

Freight should move mostly by train. We could build rail lines where there are already highways, just swap a vehicle lain for a train rail, all that 18 wheeler traffic can be reduced significantly.

Safer highways. Less congestion.
Sure. You're just wrong. Discord doesn't really do much wrong, or better. It just got popular for doing things that have already been done. It's the MSN of 2010s.

Skype was even worse than MSN.
Good catch, thank you! We created this for a hackathon we hosted and just updated it! No password needed anymore to use EXT :)
Not a rail expert, not even a casual spectator. But my unstudied impression is that the noise that penetrates the most is the ultra-low frequency rumble that comes from the diesel side of the drivetrain, with a secondary source being steel on steel squealing of bogeys around bends at the minimal range of their tolerance. But the latter doesn't have the penetrating power of the former, not by a long shot, so to eliminate that I'm not sure if barrier would really have much of an effect. A lot of these in-town runs actually do have some sort of barrier already.

Instead powertrain would have to somehow switch entirely to battery while moving through sound propagating areas, and I'm assuming (maybe generously) that this is not already being done for some thorny technical reason and not just due to systemic inertia and complacency.
I mean you could just snap some toroids on there too
It has only been a few months
> but now everyone ignores them out of habit which imo is a net negative

People ignoring ads is a net positive for the world. Unfortunately, enough people still pay attention to them to make them economically viable.
https://archive.ph/aqoLL
The free market is just an instrument to tame the beast of human greed and unscrupulousness through competition.

Doesn't always work.
One major point was to be anti-car:

> In contrast, Schalkx’s Volvo internalizes all the side effects of driving automobiles. The car is not a pleasure to drive, at least not regularly. It is dirty. Its interior stinks of plastic, which cannot be healthy – Gijs keeps the car windows open no matter the weather. Furthermore, he needs to spend a lot of time collecting plastic and making fuel, and all these disadvantages make him think twice before he gets behind the wheel.

Although I will agree this is ridiculous, as most anti-car ideas tend to be. If he’s privileged enough to consider whether he should use his car, then perhaps he should consciously live without one.
So you're saying you're happy with the khanmigo functionality, but just want to be able to use it more? Does it actually make sense to create multiple accounts, since you have to pay ($9, IIRC) for each one?

Off topic: "discreet" -> "discrete"
so it's like capcitor.js/cordova but for desktop. Still fail to see the advantage over Electron, NWJS or tauri.
> Rather than being byte code interpreter / JIT it actually generated native code in RAM hence the overhead of calling it was the same as calling regular function.

I'm not sure what you mean. What you've just described is a JIT compiler.
I think that this comes from people using the cheap and nasty SD cards, some vendors automated the app data to the sdcard, which really sucked if the sdcard was slow/faulty.
Why “of course”? I too took a long time to discover this wasn’t the case. I don’t think it’s as obvious as your wording makes it sound.
Not quite what they said, but this article talks about how lessons learned with the Steam Deck will inform future VR devices

https://www.roadtovr.com/valve-working-on-vr-steam-deckard-o...
Passive speakers are naturally balanced, the necessary conditions being (a) stray currents induced in the cable see the same impedance on both wires, therefore producing identical voltage deviations (common-mode noise), and (b) the sound produced by the speaker is a function of the voltage difference between the two wires.

If induced noise is a problem in such a setup, the actual improvement to be made would be to use twisted pair or shielded cable, rather than bare parallel wires. This helps eliminate differential-mode noise due to near-field EMI which parallel wires are susceptible to.
How many cities are split by a massive interstate highway? That noise is constant.
my opinion is that high resolution displays are the root of all evil.
Amazon is a mediocre storefront on top of a high performance logistics company. FedEx already has much of the logistics and it wouldn’t take much to compete with Amazon on the storefront side because the experience is so bad.
Exactly. I don't think his guess is any better than any else given the poor track record of the dieting industry overall. He made a lucrative career by latching on to a theory, that like virtually all diet fads, falls short when applied to real people in a controlled setting.

No one has any idea which diet (if any) is best, or the connection between insulin and obesity, or if fats are good or not, etc. All hunches. Carbs have been falling out of favor for a while now but obesity getting worse.
It seems to be a competitor to Amazon FBA
Housecurve is the same, let's you use the iPhone microphone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/housecurve/id1470695018
It wasn’t microscopes so much as detailed and thoughtful observation of macro phenomena—fossil and living specimens from around the world—that sparked the theory of speciation from natural selection. That is, it was noting the morphological, as opposed to cellular, differences and similarities among closely related species—and realizing that environmental factors drove them—that led to understanding.

Microscopes were invented in the 1600s and cell biology as a discipline began soon after. But the dynamics of speciation were perhaps too grand to have been noted in the minutiae of slides.

And it would not be for almost another century after Darwin till we understood that the mechanics of evolution were driven by random mutations of DNA.
The more I get into RSC I have the feeling their main purpose is to pump up Vercel bills. A reason to buy more of their expensive compute resources.

They are nice in theory, but I don't see that many benefits over simple SSR, or the more traditional concept of server generated HTML with interactive islands.

Next.js applications often feel way less responsive than SPAs with proper pre-rendering on first load.
Nobody's forcing them, no. But often there isn't anyone preventing them, either. React happily hands these developers enough rope to hang themselves.

To be clear: I don't mind React per se. Some of the best UI codebases I've worked in were React -- they just had a very strict separation of concerns and one-directional data flow via something like MobX or Redux. All the business logic was kept separate from the UI. But that's not fashionable these days.
An oligarchy of elected experts is precisely what representative democracy is. Giving every decision directly to the voters is not something you see in any democracy today. We elect people to make these decisions on our behalf.