skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is tested against visqol. See the code and esp. COMPARISON.md

Visqol is still the overall winner
My personal ecosystem is built around Apple-native formats.
Indeed, using the code directly might be a good idea:)

https://github.com/andraindrops/yomuco/blob/main/src/index.t...
"We'll fix that later" is at best a hopeful fantasy, and at worst a lie intended to manipulate. It doesn't happen.

We need to be clear here. If what needs to be fixed is something that will inevitably cause serious problems down the road, then it should be fixed immediately. If it may cause minor problems then maybe you should never fix it. And there's a lot in between.

The biggest problem is that bosses aren't in a good position to understand the code you're looking at. So if you're a professional, you'll make the call as to whether or not some tech debt is worth fixing now or not.

The boss's job is to communicate the urgency and importance of your task, how it fits in with the company's goals, etc. Your job is to carry out the task with a reasonably balanced ratio of quality to time.
Good luck, I really do believe your idea is a good one that can help people! HN is full of privacy obsessed tech people so take the feedback with a grain of salt.

However, lowering the barrier to getting to try out you app is going to give you much better user retention. When I download any app and it immediately asks for an account and or a credit card, I usually just uninstall it. I suspect that is true for most people.
A company that would be worth caring about would also care about its employees. Companies that actually care about its employees exist, but they’re mostly pretty small. You might care about a company, but the company often sees you as a replaceable part and they’ll throw you to the curb if it suits them.
The balance should be like in any profession that affects society, there is a minimum of quality and certification, before whatever is done in a garage or home kitchen is allowed to be consumed by others.
Aahhh, I still have my set of floppies for MacMinix! I ran than on a Powerbook 140 back then, it was quite cool!
This predates Linux by quite a bit, having any way to have a shell on MacOS back then was incredible.
People are either misusing this meme or it makes no sense.
harry8 has it right.

If the outstanding loan is $83M and you think it's worth $20M, you're unlikely to bid at all, it's not worth your time, since the lender is expected to bid $83M.

Now if you thought it was somewhere $75M to $80M, maybe the lender would rather a quick sale with a small loss, and it might be worth the time and expense to qualify to bid and attend.

This result tells us something about the market value, but not that much. It's a rushed sale without due dilligence, so that diminishes the value by an unknown amount, but we can say the diminished value is probably much less than the loan amount (which I believe from the report I linked elsewhere is $83M). I don't follow foreclosure auctions much, so I don't have a sense of what's the typical difference between a foreclosure auction value and a later willing seller sales value, but I imagine it would be significant most of the time.
Don't make people sign in before being able to try it or see what it is.
I find both to be useful in different stages. The casual style is very helpful when starting out. But once I have put in a few weeks or months of study in, then the rigor and preciseness of academic style is good as well.

I agree with you in the sense that something has "died" in writings the follow academic paper speak these days. Just yesterday I saw an ancient article surfaced by Scientific American and Peter Norvig on System Analysis by Strachey. It uses quite a bit of formal language but is super approachable at the same time. That kind of skill is rarely seen these days.
Side question: can anyone tell me the point of Loom? My team uses it to record a screencast and then paste the link on Slack or GitHub. I do the same but I don’t need extra software because my OS already has the functionality and both services accept uploads.
It only does linear projection matrix correction and it needs user to mark page corners on screen
I honestly think, everyone who uses the term "meatbag" should see a therapist sometimes. There is so much negativity in this term
> Sometimes they add "We'll fix that later."

The answer to that answer is more questions:

- how will we fix it, properly, later when we can't fix it now? Won't there be more features to be done later?

- what if we fix it later and it creates its own issues and then someone will ask why did we touch it when it was working? If it breaks now, we can fix those breakages because we are already touching it.

- if later, as part of which release?

Don't actually ask these questions - they will piss-off your boss even more.
Agree, its painful to browse and read. Feels almost intentionally obtuse. They'd be much better off with the stacked pages style of Andy M [1] and obsidian publish [2]

[1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/

[2] https://obsidian.md/publish
This does provide an amusing mental image of some theoretical commercial real estate person who specializes in distressed properties, not specifically this auction, but showing up to some "auction on the courthouse steps" type thing with an actual Pelican case crammed full of USD 100 notes. I wonder what's the largest recent real estate transaction that's been done actually in cash. I imagine it would raise a few KYC red flags and reporting requirements, of course.

In practical terms of course we all know that "cash" payment really means "ability to execute a SWIFT transfer for the funds within one business day".
There is research that does show precipitation events might influence earthquake activity:

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-heavy-snowfall-rain-may-cont...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
Here are some photos I took in Kashgar in 2008: https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=kashgar&w=36101702059%40N01

And some stories from my visit: https://theporouscity.com/show.pl/1980?id=1980

Wonderful place. Unspeakable what's been done to the people there.
I have been a remote employee (starting years before the pandemic) at a number of companies. The biggest thing I've noticed is the importance of communication. More specifically, you need a chat-first workforce. Seeing some places that were awful at remote and some that were really good, it really comes down to how comfortable people were communicating via chat.

If I were building a remote company I would hire people out of chats. I would rather hire someone off of IRC than off of LinkedIn, because I know the people on IRC can communicate (and argue!) via text. This may mean Discord now. That's my strongest opinion.

Following that is managerial. I have had places that did not have 1:1s with your direct manager, just bi-weekly or daily 15 minute standups with everyone. That is a good way to sabotage your company. Employees have nowhere to air problems besides in front of the whole group, so problems don't get mentioned until they are breaking (e.g. I have been working on other stuff for 2 months waiting for this guy to deliver something, but I need it now).

Being good enough to know what needs to be done, and being able to hire good talent and then trust them to get that stuff done. I have seen non-technical founders being run around by a D-tier CTO. You need good people to get good people as well. That place had a very difficult time landing talent.

Finally, pay well. I think the standard early startup pay range (180k + 1%) will not get you the technical talent you need. Maybe I am overestimating the technical challenges many companies face, but I would not build a business off of $180k engineers. I would rather pay double that (while being selective about talent) and get something (better) built with fewer people.
Just to put this into perspective, as the oldest child of 4 kids, and now a parent, I’ve constantly lived with competing priorities pretty much my whole life. I’ve always made time to be there when they need me. It’s surprising how understanding people are when you explain why you need to move a meeting (in case of emergencies), but usually, just blocking time in your calendar as “important meeting” does the trick. If you have someone managing your schedule, make sure they know that nothing goes there, ever.

If you have to travel, take a couple days before/after and bring your family; see the city. Even ask whomever you’re meeting where to go. More often than not, you’ll spend some time with them because people want to show off their city, which just makes it that much easier to sell when it comes time to do so.
Because modern tech is not repairable.
Thanks for the suggestion! Will look at other ways to share updates! You are welcome to sign up to the mailing list https://usefulchecklists.com/signup or follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/UsefulChecklist in the meantime!
That article seemed to be mostly about hand-wavy workarounds for subscription-based services.

I presume the author hasn't heard of the well-established, Open Source Zoneminder project, which has excellent camera and data management functionality in a self-hostable Linux environment.

https://zoneminder.com/
Beware the hype and those pushing the hype, especially when certain entities have wares to sell. While you should keep an open mind within reason, trust your experience and basic reasoning before you throw everything out to buy the snakeoil.
More frequent, focused updates for Android Studio
The auto-transcription into text is the big thing.

I personally find that most of the time when a coworker posts a video I don’t even need to watch it to get all the information I actually needed.

One could argue that what you’re doing is inconveniencing your coworkers and ensuring anybody using a screen-reader can’t actually consume your videos.
OpenAI Spring Update [video]
A professional balances the need for quality with the urgency of the task. Your example shows a clear imbalance that indicates the person is not a professional; that person is someone who can't be trusted with that balance.
One of the problems with turning skyscrapers into housing is that the typical floor plate of an office tower is not equipped with plumbing (toilet and shower and sink drainage, fresh water suppy) in the concrete slab of each floor. Only in a few spots like "break room" and bathrooms. Same problem in buildings that are 100% steel frame floor slabs and a few inches of concrete on top of the steel.

For instance here's a full floor of the building in question: https://burnettplazaftworth.com/office-space/suite-3000/

There should be a vector based PDF linked there above for closer inspection.

It's very expensive to retrofit residential walls, HVAC, plumbing etc into a building that wasn't designed for it. Not saying it can't be done, some pre-1940 skyscrapers in the lower manhattan/financial district area have been fully converted to 500+ suite rental apartment buildings. But there has to be a relatively high demand in residential leasing demand and $ per sq ft rental rates to make it viable.
I have been in Tokyo for the last 2 weeks and every place I go would be considered over-employed in the US. The only time I have seen less than 2 people staffing a convenience store was at 4am. It seems like every place I go there is at least 1 or 2 people cleaning, and still several people to handle customers. I went to this tiny ramen shop, with a ticket machine for ordering food and about 15 seats and there were 4 people working. There were more staff than people at that time, but the place does get busy at other times. Makes me wonder if eliminating all jobs in favor of automation isn't a great idea after all.
Spend 10+ hours and extra expenses commuting, you want to retain valuable staff you have to make that a good value proposition for them.
What is your tech stack? Loved the feedback.

Look at you, with that design that's cleaner than a germaphobe's smartphone screen!

Overall Rating: 8/10
I do the same. It's what prompted the question: it's annoying that all these links include some tracking, and it feels (to me) that there can't possibly be enough money to be made to make that annoyance worthwhile. Evidently I'm wrong, but I don't really understand the scale at which it becomes valuable.
I subscribed to the mailing list and look forward to the unified app! I was going to put together a personal checklist for a house and car, but I never got around to it. So thanks for saving me the time!

I haven't looked at the app too closely yet, but is it possible to add my own custom criteria, too?
You install mobian and then… normally :D
WWDC might reveal some innovations to give us a path for iPads to merge into useful laptops.

Or they might reveal exciting new sticker packs for Messages.app
> Others like headspace feel heavily commercialised

The one you pointed to is $130 a year.
No you don't. Is this supposed to be comforting or a joke? I don't get it, human life is short, get on it.
If hype just means people are excited about it and talking about it, it should be a positive signal about the merit of the thing. I think people get the wrong idea by measuring P(X is good | people are excited about X) and finding it to be low. But P(X is good | people are not excited about X) is vastly lower, and 'hype' as here used is not really discrediting.
Ah, but those were not consultants or maybe you didn’t mean that. Most of these clients hired people to augment their in house EU teams so they don’t need to hire more programmers locally; after 6-12 months of using copilot/gpt they found out they now could do that work in house with only the in house people in the same time. So they let go of the outsourced team members. I see this happening everywhere. It’s mostly the people that do the ‘light’ work; crud, integrations, frontend, data cleaning that are getting removed; this is a massive portion work wise, but simple, repetitive and boring. Things like business logic, workflows, data science, ml, performance and devops are done in house or still outsourced.
You say that here, but its not in the privacy policy as far as I can see.

When you get to the stage of monetizing the site, I expect the most obvious starting point is monetizing the information inside the pdfs.

Then there's the obscurity of how much (if any) is passed on to other services (like google). You may have one policy about the PDFs, they may gave another.

So yeah, I'm in the "not for general use" camp myself. (Although there are edge cases where it may be useful.)

Don't get me wrong, I can see the upsides, and your web site looks professional, but alas the downsides are too significant to overcome the inconvenience of searching out something local.
Indeed. Using Joblib for instance (https://joblib.readthedocs.io/).
A lot of this is junk so it’s hard to take the rest seriously. CBT works just fine self-taught. You don’t need an experienced and licensed practitioner. That is totally bogus.

So I must conclude that there is zero information value in the rest.
This blocks JavaScript that isn't explicitly licensed exactly the way they want, right? In terms of the format of the license, the @licstart and @licend comments (with no comment afterwards), etc.? That's what this does?
Suddenly There Aren't Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed
You are able to add custom questions yes. Currently it's a paid feature but happy to hear feedback!
Error in installation:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement cv2>=3.0 (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for cv2>=3.0

Raised github issue.
It's always interesting to look at historical population charts. They often show that current population levels are a blip.

In Japan's case, population is currently about 124 million. It was about 30 million and almost stable until the Meiji era (~1865+), and was 70-75 million in 1945. What's happened is a massive boom during approximately the 20th century, from 40 to 125 million.
Israel's appetite for high-tech weapons highlights a Biden policy gap
https://archive.ph/dQdUP
It generates more clicks this way.

Also people already have answers in their head, so anything that comes up from a study (even a poor one) can spark conversations.

Good job in pointing out, I hadn't noticed those important details.
I work in an industry that requires 2 seperate implementations of all critical software components; so I have been involved in several reimplemenations to help satisfy that. There are definitely times where I saw a feature and thought "the original implementation was obviously doing X; and this feature does not really make sense given our architecture". However, I have never needed to rearchitect my program to implement the feature. The only real difference is that a trivial feature for one program takes a bit of work on the other. However, I could also point to functionality that took more work to implement on the original program, that the different implementation made trivial on the second program.

I have only had to do 1 major rearchitecturing, and that was on the original implementation, which had some architectural assumptions that forced an exponential blowup. I'm wasn't working on the second implementation, but they started years after us, and managed to avoid our mistake from the beginning.

To take a public example, that is far more complicated than anything I have worked on, consider the problem of running Windows applications under Linux.

Linux is a completly different implementation of a kernel than NT, and doesn't even attempt to be compatible. However, running Windows applications does not require a rearchitecture. Just a few relativly generic Kernel features, and a userspace compatiblity layer. Not to say that Wine does not take a lot of effort to write and maintain; but not nearly as much effort as implementing Windows itself. And, it is running on top of a platform that never aspired to be Windows compatible. Wine does, however, suffer from the problem that the article points outs, in that it is perpetually behind Windows. Wine also exemplifies a second problem, which is that bugs in the primary implementation end up being relied upon, so in order to be bug-for-bug compatible, you need to first discover what all the bugs you need to implement are.
> India was never one country until the modern incarnation. It was centrally administered under a series of empires, like the Austro-Hungarian empire.

At the height of the Mughal Empire, it encompassed most of what would later be considered India, with the exception of the far south. You can argue that an empire is not a country, but if we argue in that way, well for most of European history, Europe didn't have countries either.

> Even Bengalis, a distinctive ethnolinguistic group, are divided between India and Bangladesh based on religion, which is a major division—a much bigger one than the religious divisions that differentiate countries in Europe.

There is a significant minority of Bengali Muslims in India, and a smaller minority of Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh. The Indian-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh divides have never neatly followed the religious divide, certainly never as neatly as religious nationalists on both sides would have it.

> For example, France and Spain—both are Catholic, and their languages were considered merely different dialects of Vulgar Latin until the 1400s.

Old French and Old Spanish were already identifiably distinct languages by the 9th century. Some argue (following Robert Wright) that a major impetus for them becoming identified as distinct languages was Charlemagne's Latin pronunciation reform. Prior to Charlemagne, Latin in Romance Europe was pronounced based on the local dialect – so the same Latin text would be read aloud using a French pronunciation in France, a Spanish pronunciation in Spain, an Italian pronunciation in Italy, etc. Monks from Britain and Ireland, having no indigenous tradition of Latin pronunciation, instead devised their own based on phonetic spelling. Charlemagne's advisors convinced him (however incorrectly) that the British/Irish tradition of pronouncing Latin was truer to the original, and so he imposed it on the Church–which suddenly made Latin and the vernacular seem like much more different languages. Now, that said, Wright's thesis is controversial – but even its academic critics, I don't think many of them would agree with you in putting the distinction between vulgar Latin and Old Romance so late.

And, while no denying the difference between Islam and Hinduism is bigger than difference between Catholicism and Protestantism, Europe shows parallel cases of countries with a common language and culture, where the major difference is the dominant religion – the primary difference between Austria and Germany, is the former has traditionally had a Catholic supermajority with a small Protestant minority, the latter was traditionally dominated by Protestants, albeit with a large Catholic minority.
The very first moment a nation with a different set of ethics decides to remove the human from the loop, game theory dictates that the rest shall do the same..

The only thing stopping it from happening right now is imperfect friend or foe detection and friendly fire risk.
I don’t think so. Basically you can be sure the lender is going to pay the loan amount so unless you’re willing to pay more you’re not going to bid at all because why bother.
It's intriguing how someone can exhibit flashes of brilliance alongside patent idiocy.
Treat it as storage space, community space, small retail space. There are so many opportunities to build better environments. I know Cyberpunk 2077 is a dystopian future, but V lives in a small apartment that is in ready walking distance to everything from guns to martial arts training to food all available within the building. That aspect of the dystopian future actually seems quite a bit better than what many people live with in US "modern society".
Cool concept, but this game made me start to feel sick by the 5 minute mark when I finished it.
Can't you still work around DASH by changing your user agent, claiming that you are running Safari? (It used to be the case, but I haven't been in the streaming industry for years now so it may be obsolete)
What is indicative of market value is the fact that the auction yielded no better buyer.

These stories about huge markdowns of commercial real-estate are not surprising. This case is indicative of the predicted instability in local and regional banking sector. Pinnacle Bank Texas is a part of a regional bank that is badly exposed in commercial real-estate, where borrowers are defaulting left and right. There is something approaching $1 trillion in commercial real-estate mortgages coming due this year, and much of it can't be feasibly refinanced due to prevailing interest rates, vanishing tenants and other problems.

2024 is going to get interesting. My prediction is: it's an election year, and The Powers That Be don't want a big banking blow-out, so there's going to be bail outs, the national banks are going to be pressured to clean up some of the mess, etc. More consolidation, more public debt, more kicking the can.
As long as there’s no mp3directcut https://mpesch3.de/) clone for Opus, the format lacks non-destructive fast editing. And while it can cut and edit raw aac, it works a lot better with mp3.

Non destructive editing is more important with the new formats, because they compress to smaller files and cause greater problems when you unpack and recompress them.

This is why mp3 still is a good format for 2024.
Unlike almost everyone, I have some eye sight issues which makes me immediate switch off dark mode as it makes it harder to read text. On this site, it’s impossible for me read most of it.

Can’t please everyone, but this is quite rare.
That’s the distaff counterpart.
You gotta let that go. It’s just not going to happen.
Not recommended. Did that and now we are having huge fights about serious stuff. Like Facebook ads and marketing copy -:)