skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your reply, is discovery decent on Napster/Bandcamp, and can they suggest based on your tastes or is it more non-personalized?

One of my main "issues" is that I am very slow/hesitant to listen to new music and therefore mostly stick to known tracks unless something forces new music - heck, Hotel California is still the only Eagles songs I'm familiar with. Hence I prefer to break in/expand my taste by listening to similar music (initially, at least).
Building a Fireworks Animation with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript
Rereading what I wrote, I think I emphasized poorly. America's youth in general have been on the right side of history in the US, IMHO. So I think I am wrong in the way I emphasized. I do think children are disproportionately harmed by the addictive properties of social media, but what I find primarily scary about TikTok is its potential for political malfeasance.

> What are they "doing to us" specifically?

You could have asked the same question about Wikileaks. Wikileaks was (credibly) publishing information in the interest of the public, yet Wikileaks played a direct and major part in compromising the presidency in 2016.

I think the main arguments against TikTok are:

1. They have ability to push specific agendas with plausible deniability
2. TikTok can suck in huge amounts of data and feed it to the Chinese intelligence apparatus
3. TikTok is "digital opium" under foreign supply and administration
4. China has banned our apps that both inspired and compete with TikTok in their own country
5. China has regulated TikTok in their own country because they believe it to be damaging to kids/society

> What does any of this have to do with TikTok?

The question being danced around is "should America head down the path of a great firewall or the greater path of internet balkanization?" Many here claim a firewall (banning a foreign app) is inherently authoritarian. I think a firewall is an amoral tool that can be used for good or evil. A gun can be used to defend freedom or take it. Guns are not authoritarian. A firewall is a similarly a tool of force.

> Something more specific than just "because China".

But that is the core problem. The problem is not so much TikTok, which in terms of actuality is likely not different than our own medias. The problem is China. I would be orders of magnitude more skeptical of anti TikTok efforts if TikTok were owned and operated by/in the EU.

If you start to bring up Cambridge Analytica, I think that would be pretty devastating to my stance. Maga-twitter is pretty devastating to my position too. Too few men having too much unchecked power is it's own problem which is arguably much more damaging than than anything China is doing, certainly in the long run.
Not OP, but as a native English speaker and former scientist (though not in this area), I would interpret "x does y on English tasks" to mean "we tested this in English and don't know if the effect generalizes to other languages".
(1) our little corner is cosmologically not very special,

Seems like a put down. It’s a special place. Same as mars or any other solar system. Existence is special.
Dropbear ssh is very useful when you have a full disk encryption on a remote server and want to be able to decrypt it after a reboot.
There's accusations they have biased their site based on how much they need to pay their artists. They've started commissioning mood music using session musicians. The only way to avoid it is to search for the exact artist/album you want to listen to and avoid all other features.
There is no "signup screen" for "Mastodon." It isn't a centralized platform like Twitter. You choose to follow specific instances or people - and normal people have political views (such as all of the politics in your comment, here.) If you don't want politics, don't follow politics, simple as. Unlike with Twitter, blocking actually works in the fediverse.

But honestly, if seeing one signup form was all it took to send you on a tilt about censorship and radical leftists? Stay on Twitter.
Exactly. They need to be more specific about whether they are expecting it to report actual real world biases, or to comment on whether those real world biases are desirable.
You're not "looking at the bigger picture", you're just unambiguously and spectacularly wrong.

The banking system is composed of banks, and being insolvent is bad for a bank, for a bank that is owed money by an insolvent bank, and for banks which are owed money by banks which are owed money by insolvent banks, for banks that aren't owed money by banks, and ultimately, for consumers that are owed currency. The fact the bank "freshly created" the IOU doesn't mean they don't owe anyone anything. Perhaps someone really does need to make the wfthappenedin2007 website.

Someone with no understanding of how things works might say "but if it's true that banks can print all the money they like, can't the bank and its creditors just print themselves whole again", but that isn't because they've come up with some great economic insight that has thus far eluded everyone except a few random bloggers, it's because they have no understanding of how things work and what bank credit is (the hint is in the name, it's a debt, not an asset). Delinquent loans are removed as assets from banks' balance sheets, the liabilities they owe to other banks or the Fed remain, and that bank actually needs an external injection of non-"printed" money to make them whole again. Incidentally, this is no different to a "hard money" system, except that "hard money" systems don't have the systemic capacity to meet short term withdrawal rates for solvent banks in the event of a bank run either.

And no, the elasticity of the money supply goes both ways. USD M2 went down last year, for example. Again, this isn't a very difficult fact to establish if you're not really, really determined to be wrong.

Nor is it difficult to establish that there is nothing more inherently "market based" about a state arbitrarily tying its money supply to a particular commodity than a state deciding to to tie its money to the amount of lending generated by credit markets at a particular rate.

> The two are not contradictory. They are punished with a long mortgage, but are still better off than the poor folk who try to save up for house instead and have the value of their savings stolen while they try.

It's not difficult to find savings opportunities at above the average rate of inflation, unless you define "saving" as "bury money in the ground". But yes, if you think the purpose of the economy is ensure the unproductive maximize their returns, the existing system is definitely worse...
Let's add NCDU to the list, it's super usefull to find what is taking all the disk space
> Something like scheduled gmail + a cronjob on my local machine

I would want a non-local machine, what if my house burns down with me? Whole point is that if I die, it fires
Of course. My point is that the app was “complete” a long time along yet they add more and more unnecessary features.
Presumably you'll get an email from him to tell you so
Ask HN: "Dumb" music players with stream support?
I have teenagers in school. Recently school decided to adopt regulations where use of a phone (smartphone or regular) is prohibited at premises. This is a controversial decision and kids are unhappy but willing to cooperate.

One outcome they’re very unhappy about is inability to access music during recess/between lessons.

I’ve been looking for a solution for it but it’s either all dumb (I.e. offline only with MP3 support) which makes it complex to buy and convert music to or the players are audiophile grade and cost 400€+

Are there any solutions that would be convenient (i.e. smart enough to work with any streaming), won’t resemble smartphone and cost a kidney?
It’s not either / or.

If you have proper observability in place then you can do your diagnosis without affecting your customers.
this discusses the development of a new reactive programming language designed to exclusively handle reactive programming without the complications of mixing reactive and non-reactive code, common in Embedded Domain Specific Languages (EDSLs). By avoiding traditional functions and the problematic mechanism of lifting, this language aims to offer a simpler, more reliable approach to reactive programming. It introduces features like stateful reactors, signals with dynamic dependencies, and recursively-defined reactors, aiming to enhance the comprehension and implementation of reactive programming for both language designers and users.
I keep forgetting about ncdu thanks to my old habit of du -ms * | sort -n. What is it I'm missing?
"The PSP itself represents an ARM core (ARM Cortex A5) with the TrustZone extension which is inserted into the main CPU die as a coprocessor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
The local machine would be what's keeping it from firing, not what's making it fire.
A manager has a duty to "catch" (as you put it) underperformers, to help them improve.

If you ever move to management, you'll see that as lovely as it would be if every hands-on developer was an amazing and super-productive engineer writing high-quality code and delivering tons of value , the reality is that most teams have one or more people that are struggling and aren't getting much done, but aren't forthcoming about it. They'll represent their work as very challenging (which it is, to them), meanwhile others on the team are objectively better and faster at figuring out solutions and not getting stuck, and they understand the codebase better, and the architecture, and so on. The manager has a duty to spot when this is happening, and engage with the engineer immediately to figure out what's going on and try to help them.

Engineer managers should themselves be strong engineers (and in every company I've worked at, this has been the case up the senior leadership chain), so that they can form a realistic, fair, and reasonable assessment of whether there's a discrepancy between how an engineer represents their work, versus what is shown in the actual commit history.
Quite amusing, but receiving a payment every month is a pretty good indicator if someone is still alive.
Rich Coffee Hobbyists Spend $420M in Quest for 'God Shot'
Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level and the aforementioned 135 miles from Mt. Whitney (Portal, then 11 miles to the summit).
Ouaip :-)
https://archive.ph/L8Q2f
What is the rule that says something in the lines of: if you don't verify your backups you don't have backups.

I feel that applies here, this doesn't need to take more than 10 seconds once a month (at least I would prefer it to be often enough that if it didn't come I'd recognize something was off - anything more than a month and I'd probably never notice if they stopped coming).

Each verification also serves the purpose of reminding you the service exists, that it is alive and at least gives you some indication and confidence that it will work when you want it to (also makes you think about it, after ten years maybe you'd want to update the content for it to still be relevant).
A small disclaimer - proceed with Gleam only if you are okay with its and overall BEAM’s poor performance compared to compiled languages.
Can the sensors that provide the data be trusted?

Or could anyone in control of the network inject fake sensor data?
Interesting reading this as this has been exactly me over the last year.

I don't exactly know why, but I'm not able go use Spotify in a way I enjoy, I end up looping over the same tracks, or discovering things in a very shallow, single focused way.

For the last year, I've been finding music on mostly bandcamp, and streaming my collection with astiga (which is an awesome tool I can't recommend enough). I've found it gives me a much better relationship with the music I listen to- I actually discover albums, and enjoy knowing the stories behind them.

The interesting thing is, there's no reason I couldn't discover and then listen to albums on Spotify in the same way, but I don't seem to actually be able to do this in practice. I guess it shows the power of UIs.
LAN parties are actually semantically closer to the internet than websites are
There's the pivot by cover | instrument path ...

eg: Hotel California -> Hayseed Dixie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keX84EUVd-I

then, if you can live with a banjo, add a didgeridoo .. surprisingly there's a cover (not of Hotel California) featuring both instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3iI8gg2fo
Much easier to be nice as default ;D
> - Use errcheck and friends to ensure errors are not ignored. - Never dereference the left hand return value if the right hand is an error.

This itself is a very concise argument for exceptions. Automatically checks errors are not ignored, and don't allow access to the left hand return value.
From the article:

> many participants had dropped out of the study since it began, a factor that affects all longitudinal studies. “We do lose more of those with higher conduct problems,” she said.

"conduct problems" here refers to the bullies. they acknowledge the bias but I don't think they corrected for it.
StarTech Unveils 15-in-1 Thunderbolt 4/USB4 Dock with Quad Display Support
What does a young person know about the old interney to want it back?
IDEA/IntelliJ based IDEs already support having their native config committed to a project repo and support a `.editorconfig` file; I'm not sure I need a third way to do so.

Like I said, a `Vagrantfile` is ruby, so besides having all the power of Vagrant and its plugins, you can also just do straight up ruby stuff, or even shell out to do other stuff.
Unfortunately you've also started spamming people about it, including those who previously unsubscribed from your marketing comms.
Interesting concept, but can I really trust that this system is alive and working when it’s my time to leave this planet?

The date not planned, but hopefully not until after XX years and god knows how many dot-com’s…

Maybe we also need a dead-man’s-switch for this dead-man’s-switch service
More young people in the southern hemisphere are dead from skin cancer than would be otherwise if we didn’t pollute the atmosphere with CFCs,l and put a hole in the ozone layer, for example.

We might’ve seen a decline in cancer rates even with more people if we didn’t pollute so much.

Imagine living in a less polluted world with the medicine we have now ? Wouldn’t that be fantastic?
Can you justify this further in the context of this specific offering which appears not to manage dynamic memory?
Oh the popular WGS services are a borderline scam. I fell for their BS unfortunately so are out a few hundred euros. I don't expect to see results for 12 months or more (if ever).

In the end I found a local company that does WGS sequencing and they are a lot more reasonable to deal with, maybe 1.5-2x the price. So perhaps look for smaller providers, they are all just reselling time on the same Illumina machines.

In your case, just confirming, your blood pressure is otherwise normal and you experienced an episode of severe hypertension after starting Sertraline (zoloft)? No other contraindicated medications? No indications of a bipolar/mania or something of that nature? I've talked to maybe 3x other people now who've had similar experiences (after scouring the internet), and the only commonality I've found is ASD.

This is a bit of a pet project of mine, so if you want to chat about ASD shenanigans, please reach out to: asd.shenanigans@mailbox.org
The author's point about the "western elite" fighting on the secessionist side for free as part of a "culture war" might need some further elaboration. As I understand it the elite seems anti-secessionist.
Fun facts I remember from looking into this in university some 9 years ago:

It’s not only the sideways movement of plates that causes a shift.

WGS 84 and other reference systems work with an underlying ellipsoid reference model. This ellipsoid is chosen to approximate the earth surface but it’s a simple shape and as such can’t account well for things like mountains and other irregularities in the shape of the earth.

Not only does that mean that your position on a mountain is less accurate, it also means that it becomes less accurate over time due to mountains growing.

These of course are tiny numbers so compared to a few cm shift of the plates it is nothing.

Another fun fact is that the ellipsoid also grows more inaccurate over time due to the earth rotating around a fixed axis.

The rotational force slowly causes the earth to flatten at the top and bottom (where the poles are) and to widen in the middle.

This too I assume is negligible

Speaking of ellipsoid, today I think it is measured via satellite. But in the past things had to be done by hand and were more local in nature. There’s a lot of history here as well since mapping has always been a very important task for governments.

So today in a lot of places a lot of data is still based on systems other than wgs84. Either because it’s historical data (e.g. property boundaries before gps was invented), or because they use a more localized reference system including a more localized ellipsoid that better matches specific country or state needs.

Perhaps one day we will use a big world wide look up table instead of a mathematical representation of the earth shape.

What I did at university was to compare a Germany-wide lookup grid with the mathematical approach of a Germany-wide reference system.

This lookup grid was created by a state agency and was more accurate because it could include more localized reference systems. In technical terms think of this as a pre calculation where each state can choose its most accurate method and then the results are put together into a country wide lookup table.

Last fun fact:
The result of this comparison showed that the difference of a German-wide reference system compared to this collection of state-wide reference systems is up to four meters.

Edit: removed word inaccuracy, added difference. It’s all relative. What it mostly shows is that when working with geo data you need to know what source and what target reference systems to use. Otherwise things break
Fair, but that's hardly the state I'm concerned about.
>easy auditable - TinySSH has less than 100000 words of code

Is approximately one hundred thousand words really easily auditable?
Mistral 7B v0.2 Base: 32k context window, No sliding window
Her 59:58 is 15.2% longer than the course record of 52:03.
It is true that there have been some level of public libraries available throughout history. I am referring to the wide availability of public access that effectively democratized literacy (in concert with the public school system, of course).
> I get the desire to troubleshoot but priority 0 is make the system functional for users again, literally everything else can wait.

What numbers went into this calculation, to get such an extreme result as concluding that getting it up again is always the first priority?

When I tried to estimate the cost and benefit, I have been surprised to make the opposite conclusion multiple times. We ended up essentially in the situation of "Yeah, sure, you can reproduce the outage in production. Learn as much as you possibly can and restore service after an hour."

This is in fact the reason I prefer to keep some margin in the SLO budget -- it makes it easier to allow troubleshooting an outage in the hot path, and it frontloads some of that difficult decision.
>I'm glad we aren't currently so dedicated to destroying stuff.

Well, about that...
tmux, statically linked (musl) busybox with everything, lsof, ltrace/strace and a few more.
Under OpenBSD this is not an issue as you have systat and friends in base.
Thank you - checked and corrected.
IANAL, but I feel a bigger risk would be that you trigger it before it should.

Maybe a bug in your emailserver or that the configuration option that you used to correctly turn off the spam-filter had a bug in it and caused some of the I'm-alive signals to be dropped.
Cool project! There are many use cases where this is a good tool! Allways great to have another alternative to some other great tools.
Impressively cool!

Would also make a nice screensaver.
Hah!

Recently a bar I frequent had some issues with their Internet connection for a few days: low speed, drops and a total black out. Usually they are playing music from some internet services, which wasn't an option at this time, of course. But they do have a vinyl setup and enough records to go by while waiting for the connection to be repaired.
LLM pricing comparison tool
One angle is to simplify the setup of what you described. You can do this manually with Docker already, but the DevContainers config means your editor will do it for you.

Another angle is rent-seeking and locking you into a proprietary, expensive ecosystem. Big Tech has successfully convinced most companies to overpay by orders of magnitude for compute and bandwidth, but so far local development machines were excluded. This aims to tackle that shortcoming and make sure you enjoy all the "benefits" of the cloud even during development.
this totally depends on which language the human speaks. Chinese grammar is kind of like backwards English grammar.
I would like to remind HN that hoarding is a serious and well established mental disorder and that we should not encourage this poor soul that has fallen victim to a real estate version of this disease.

It is unusual that someone should hoard real estate and it is interesting to see the circumstances of how this happened but otherwise it is a pretty standard case.

Note how from the interviews he gets pleasure in obtaining new properties and yet has no idea what to do with them. Note he does not spend the money required to even get an architectural drawing made and yet he spends money on obtaining more and more properties.

Or the fact that he has decided not to hire security but to guard his properties by himself, which would make it much more convenient if he has fewer properties not more. But he still keeps buying more. At this point a smart thief can get a map of his properties helpfully provided on the internet, find out where he is and attack any one of his other forty something properties.

Note how in the end of the interview when he is supposed to say some inspiring words of his progress or near term plans, he does not talk about what he is going to do with the warehouse but fantasizes with great excitement about buying yet another abandoned property, a hotel.

By the way I fully sympathize with the city officials. No city will approve any building project that does not come with fully compliant drawings signed and stamped by a licensed civil engineer and/or architect (depending on the project). Nor should they. It is their job to keep the community safe and habitable.

It is kind of funny they are stealing his ideas, but that also might be understandable. They might be good ideas, after all. Here you have a town that is looking for ways to revitalize itself with little money, and here comes a young techie guy from California with what seem to be some very good ideas and some money. There probably was some excitement in city hall when this guy first submitted his plans. But then they slowly realize that this is a sad disturbed individual that is unlikely to ever accomplish anything and will not spend money on anything other than acquiring abandoned real estate.

But the town keeps deteriorating, they have to do something, and his ideas do seem pretty cheap. So they decide lets try them out ourselves. Cities do not like to own businesses. The officials cannot take outsize profits for themselves but are on the hook for any screwups. So I am sure they would have much preferred if someone else was running these things, but they simply knew that this guy was not going to get it done.

So yeah, this is an interesting case of hoarding, but that is about it. I urge Mr. Fenley to consult a psychiatrist.
Would be interesting if everything is statistically solid if this applies to other populations. I imagine the United Kingdom to be somehow cut-throat from a career perspective, maybe I am wrong.