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Ask HN: What are your must-listen weekly podcasts?
I’m curious to know what podcasts the HN community looks forward to each week. Whether it’s tech-related, storytelling, news, interviews, or something completely different, I’d love to hear your recommendations.

Here are a few questions to get the discussion started:

• Which podcasts do you never miss an episode of?
• What makes them stand out to you?
• Are there any hidden gems or lesser-known podcasts you’d recommend?
• Any specific episodes that you found particularly insightful or entertaining?

Thanks
I would really love to have the Sleep ability the protagonist from The Long Dark has. Unless they're fully awake, as long as they're a little tired they can sleep until fully rested.

I've long assumed it's probably due to people who'd do bad things with any sort of useful, "I'd like to go to sleep in the next 15 min, oh and no side effects if the fire alarm goes off in 30 min" kinds of drugs that they aren't a common OTC item.
There is a proverb: once bitten, twice shy.

If we want our teams to be broadly representative of our communities and recruiting the best people for the roles, it’s clear that we cannot put the weight of solving the problems that lie behind such experiences and choices on the underrepresented individuals themselves.

I’ve been reading the comments and it seems clear to me that many of the commenters are either unaware or dismissive of the reasons that a woman might say that she would not join a team that was otherwise only men.

Without acknowledging the data, and failing to provide any useful hypothesis for why it is the way it is (apart from “it’s not called design” or some kind of gender-based competency model or perhaps a hand-wavey “but we shouldn’t discriminate; it’s their preference”), resistance to whatever we as professionals and leaders choose to do about it will be the norm.

And it’s hard to force people to deploy critical thinking when they believe they benefit from not doing so.

My own theory is that many men benefit from single gender bro spaces (where other forms of diversity are also highly constrained) and this rather than genuine lack of empathy or creative thinking lies at the bottom of gatekeeping and making teams and working environments toxic enough to drive women who dare to enter away.

The guys who early on in my career were dismissive of women in tech roles who have changed their tunes significantly tend to have had a daughter with an aptitude for STEM. Perhaps they’ve got skin in the game and somebody who shares what it’s like coming into difficult study and work environments?
Got a few pings, but nothing of substance. Being in Europe, it’s not easy.
Microsoft ditches OpenAI board observer seat to stave off antitrust scrutiny
Only for those that equate CUDA to C++ only, and poor tooling.
I think the difference is that WeTransfer requires you download the pdf before viewing it, whereas this site lets you view the pdf in-browser (and page 1 can be viewed before the whole thing is downloaded).

That is a feature of modern browsers, but the mime type has to be set right for the browser to not treat it like a download.
XWiki 16.5.0 Is Here
The most noticeable change of this release is a revamp of the notifications watch button. In addition, the notification email contrast has been improved. This release also contains a few bug fixes, as well as improvements for developers, but most importantly it contains security fixes, with the highest severity being 10.0/10.0.
Nix, and NixOS, are designed for those of us who have to clean 10,000 proverbial litter boxes every day. I use Nix fairly extensively at work; I use it very little at home, where I don't need to worry about what dependency someone took on a specific version of Python five years ago, etc.

It's like k8s, imo - it solves some real problems at scale but is rarely going to be a good idea for individual users.
Would love to set up everything on Kamal but just feels like slightly too much management cost in maintaining a database yourself for mission critical stuff. If I'm going to use a managed DB, might as well do the same for the container?

Maybe if I just ran with sqlite and a preconfigured litestream inside the main container that'd simplify things a fair bit, but then you're immediately locked onto a single machine.
As someone not in accountancy but having worked in corporate and been forced to work on accounting software for managing budgets, approving transactions etc. - you have really gotten the short end of the stick from general usability perspective. There are so many things that don't make sense - even for the accountants that use the system on day-to-day basis - they have workarounds for (what I would consider) the most basic of things (or over-complicated solutions for something basic like manager approvals for logging expenses - why do I have to click through several screens that don't follow any sort of clear, logical flow). And it's so embedded in an organization - that you can rest assured once that client is signed up they're not switching that system. Same for HR software...
a personal vpn and a company website
To me being a night owl is an ability to do hyper focused work at night, free from daytime distractions (e.g. people talking, outdoor noise, meetings/calls/IMs/emails).

I just enjoy to sit in a dark silent room and do things when nothing gets in the way!
Wouldn't then the cure just be to eat organic food, rather than meat of animals that were fed way worse crap than the average person? The whole premise makes no sense...
Chiming in to say that direnv is one of the greatest projects I've ever come across and it gets damn near everything right out of the box - you can also use it without any Nix at all. (It makes a nice gateway to Nix, though; once you have your directory-based env vars, it's a shorter hop to directory-based package configuration...)
I'm not sure what your point is here. The US President is not a monarch, and even if some antifederalists used the term "elected monarch", they were obviously using it as a sort of hyperbole, rather than the normal and accepted definition of the word "monarch". Even if he somehow managed to subvert the normal checks and balances and use his power to turn himself into a dictator, that doesn't make him a monarch. Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, and Hussein were dictators too, but they were never monarchs. Monarchy is an institution where the head of state is an inherited position; anything that doesn't meet this definition is not a monarchy.
You are right but there is no legally defined threshold so it's subjective.

As a matter of fact, the Eclipse Foundation requires every contributor to declare that every piece of code is their own original creation and is not a copy/paste from other projects, with the exception possibly of other Eclipse Foundation or Apache Foundation projects because their respective licenses allow that. Even code snippets from StackOverflow are formally forbidden.

If I am not mistaken, in the Oracle-Google trial over Java on Android, at the end Google re-implementation of Java API on Android was considered fair-use, because Google kept the original "signatures" of the Java SDK API and rewrote most of the implementation with the exception of copying "0.4% of the total Java source code and was minimal" [1]
However the trial came to this conclusion after several iterations in court.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
> But school would start at the same time regardless. They'd still have to show up at 7:45 AM

Are you suggesting that the sun is irrelevant to whether someone is a morning person, and only the time on the clock matters?
For the security sanity checking of terraform infra code, take a look at Checkov.
This is really awesome I have to say!
> The above model contains several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (ERAs). [...] Another ERA is
the Mayfly Parenthood Assumption, in which all parents perish immediately upon naming their child, which
makes the math substantially easier."

This paper is just filled with hilarious quotes.
I can see them but somehow it does not find it being next to it.

Don't know if it is a windows policy I am not aware.
Again, there may be opportunity for voter fraud, but despite this, there is remarkably little evidence or even specific allegations of voter fraud within the US.

I think it's also important to distinguish voter fraud, which is perpetrated by individuals and is, by nature, limited to a few dozen extra or lost votes, and is typically only a handful of false or destroyed ballots per instance. Election fraud, on the other hand, is the subversion of electoral mechanisms, processes and assets at key points into the voting process, and is usually carried out by a conspiracy of several entities involved in the electoral process, either through key individuals or whole institutions. Election fraud typically skews the result by an amount many multiples of the number of people involved, in the order of hundreds through to millions.

Your examples of gerrymandering and voter suppression or disenfranchisement are great examples of actual election fraud that happen in public view in the US, and are a far greater threat to democracy than voter fraud. In fact, several measures meant to curb voter fraud (which happens very little anyway) are actually means of voter suppression: voter ID laws, residency proof requirements, exclusion of the criminally convicted, placement of polling stations in "safe" areas (read: less accessible from minority/poor neighbourhoods), etc etc. Taking away ballot drops and mail in ballots is yet another means of voter suppression in this vein, on par with a lack of public holidays for election days for people to actually be able to go to the polls.
Perhaps a certain trillion dollar company who's cloud is based on Xen could chip in.
From where I stand, the ReMarkable 2 appears to be the better and more capable product.
I really dislike the expression “artificially sweetened”, it makes it sound like putting 10 or 20% sugar in a drink is “natural”… The sugar they put in is also highly processed, nothing very natural about it.

Not a huge fan of the sugar alternatives, but it definitely beats sugar, which is proven to be addictive, destroys your teeth and your health in general.
While I agree with the sentiment towards CUDA, the example is a bit off, given that C++ basically lost all mindshare in distributed computing, to Java and others, and is hardly visible in CNCF projects landscape.

Displacing C++ in compiler development and HFT/HPC/GPGPU with Java 22, most likely not happening, everwhere else it has been loosing mindshare, the current cybersecurity laws versus WG21 attitude towards them, doesn't help.
MimicMotion: High-Quality Human Motion Video Generation with Confidence-Aware P
NixOS aside, Nix manages state _outside_ of / independent with respect to your operating system, which is why it's so damn useful.

With Nix, I can build OCI images the exact same way every time; with Docker, I have to hope that the `apt update` thrown in at the top doesn't accidentally put me on a new major version of some dependency that breaks the rest of the script. I tend to deal with Dockerfiles written five or more years ago, so I will admit to bias here.

I'll also admit that I don't really enjoy NixOS. It's neat enough on my headless devices but not something I'd want to try to daily drive; I'm more a fan of the Universal Blue / Project Bluefin approach.
Why do they think their hardware would not survive a move? I've worked on a number of datacenter move, sometimes with very old sun hardware, and we had very little issues.
If you mean Amazon, it's not really been based on Xen (although it's still used in places) for a long time. They largely use their own hypervisor now.
In 2019 I came up with the theory that one of the primary pruposes of the Starlink system may be to control autonomous drone swarms globally.

The development of perfect AI is tons of work due to the huge amount of possible different optimizations. Consequently, to the casual onlooker the early systems will look crude and later systems dangerously advanced.

The second primary engineering challenge is charging grids and logistics / manufacturing. NATO and carriers already provide lots of opportunities. I would however predict that some new, easy to deploy at global scale, form of charging grids will be in use within 20 years.

The advantage such droneswarm would provide over other nuclear nations cannot be overstated.
The generation results look amazing!
The EU will switch to permanent winter time as well: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/28/when-will-the-...
Out of passion for the art. See also: free (libre) software video games released and distributed for free (gratis).

Of course, money is a huge motivator, but so is self-expression.
Indeed, their little marriage is the only reason Kotlin matters in first place.
A different kind of problem.

Sometimes there are just five people working on a particular theme. Avoiding entirely to cite your previous work because some people could frown is stupid. Hides a fifth of the extant knowledge to the readers for no real benefit. As researchers now are required to produce constantly, they only can release small increases in their work. Each article isolated will not made any difference, but are part of a slow chain. Results don't come necessarily in a constant predictable stream. Citing the previous chapter in those science series is reasonable or even necessary to understand the current article.

Citing only your work and not other's work would be the problem.

And sometimes this things just happen. I could talk about "my curriculum" on the official web of my university. A list of several articles with my name. I never wrote, toke part on the design on the web or supported it in any way.

And is totally fake. I didn't wrote a single one of the articles cited on it.

After scratching my head a little I see that they commit a obvious mistake in the database query (that is not my problem anymore to fix).
Assisting some is nice but not on the expense of others, this is not the way.

If this article was solely for the neurodivergent then disregard my comment and I turn away for good, but if not then can you please point at the button in reader mode that removes heavy phrases and all caps and combined bold+italic+underline and put the update to the end of the article please? Thank you!
AnyDice – dice probability calculator, with a little programming language
I've been using this tool for years for TTRPG purposes. Folks at HN might take liking to the little programming language embedded within. Enjoy!
Sounds a little like a Bounded Context in Domain Driven Design jargon.
Yes, that is true.

My father was going to die anyway, due to cancer, but he was expected to live one more half of year. Nevertheless, he was stable and without any visible difficulties, so much that his spouse was completely unaware that he had cancer (he preferred to delay telling her, to keep her happy, without worries, as there was nothing to be done anyway).

Unfortunately, she died suddenly due to a hemorrhagic stroke, shortly before completing 65 years of marriage. Precisely after one week, he also died (due to some kind of kidney failure), after saying at her death that his wish had always been for them to die together, so his wish was fulfilled very soon.
Hmm, I wonder if there any open source tools for binary secret scanning.
> Anyone have ideas for a better format?

Hi, how about flamegraph? I always want to display the file hierarchy in flamegraph like format.

- previous discussion: https://x.com/laixintao/status/1744012609983295816

- my work display flamegraph in terminal: https://github.com/laixintao/flameshow
Discussion about that are on a low-point.
Consider not spewing bs instead of sighing.
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In all fairness, they didn't say "could've been avoided by you specifically" rather "could have been avoided". And this I'm inclined to agree with
> besides "it's really quick"

I can see the appeal, as the demo looks really smooth; then again, I'm a terrible slow developer, so personally I find saving few ms here and there irrelevant to my daily workflow
> shade

There is none. Nix does lots of great things, like that Firefox demo you mentioned. TFA wants bitwise identical builds, and Nix isn't great at that in general, by their own admission.

> various praises for Nix

Yep, Nix is great.

> downplaying TFA's wants

That's worth writing somewhere probably, but not when arguing that Nix solves their problem. If their problem isn't real then potato peelers solve it just as well. Nix isn't really relevant at that point.

> Nix compared to Gentoo

The commonality is that neither solve TFA's problem, and neither try very hard to do so.
I'm the same,

except i need to be a certain level of tiredness before falling asleep (i think my adhd affects this - according to all the stuff i read)

but with a little training, i can be a early riser or a night owl - although it's pita to transistion
It's called domain claiming. Your org should have notified you, or asked that you migrated the email to your personal one.
He could have tried injecting senolytics into the weared disks to remove senescent inflammatory phenotypes, as there is some research in senolytics (dasatinib+quercetin) improving arthritic knee joints by removal of senescent inflammatory cells which allows the new cartilage to grow.
This makes sense if you read the headline: "declarative. reproducible. human-friendly."

This interpretation is confirmed in the "Conflict of Interest Statements" section of https://lix.systems/team/ which contains wording like "TMLLC declares that it has no financial stake in the future of Lix or Nix, no ties to the military-industrial-complex, and a strong commitment to avoiding such ties."

I like the concept of this section. I don't think I've seen something like this before. I think it might have been valuable in the cloud/containerization ecosystem where everyone is fishing for consulting hours by advertising the open-source components they use. Sometimes the lines get a little blurry, and it is quite frustrating.

I noticed that there is 1 out of 11 on the core team who is a "he/him". I don't know if non-he/hims are especially opposed to the war machine (e.g. like academics often are), or if are there other social factors that cause the cultural split?
You know many details about Italian ticketing systems, are you working in the industry?
Manufacturers slow Gen AI rollout on rising accuracy concerns, says study
What Is DNS Tunneling? Uses, Tools and Examples
> Europe needs the US more than the US needs Europe as far as NATO is concerned, the defence spending disparities speak for themselves.

As far as the USA hegemony is concerned, NATO is an instrumental piece of soft and hard power.

You are parroting Trump's arguments about defence spending as if the US spending is only concerning NATO, the US spend a lot in defence because it's been your bread and butter to maintain a global reach as a superpower, the moment you lose this you'll see America's influence diminish, if that's what you wish please go ahead and pull out but so far it's been very beneficial to you in the USA to be the de facto global enforcer during Pax Americana.

> I sincerely question the logic behind our servicemen putting their lives on the line for someone resenting America this bad.

Geopolitics are not based on feelings, it's based on advantages and trade-offs, your feelings don't matter for this.

Coming from a person that once said in a comment "love is a mental illness" you seem to be quite the non-rational actor, with knee-jerk reactions when your feelings are hurt. Try to comprehend that the life as you know as an American is dependent on keeping your dollar as the most powerful currency, which demands being backed by the most powerful military, with the most trading routes possible, and with trade as stable as possible around the globe.

NATO is just a piece of the puzzle, it's not about what the others allies feel about you.

You are also forgetting 4 years of Trump with a possible re-election of this piece of shit, there are reasons for allies to be resenting America, it's becoming unstable and less trustworthy.
I have mixed feelings on cpal: on the one hand, it's been really wonderful to have a library that just works on different platforms. On the other hand, it's an absolute pain in the butt for doing anything simple. I really wish it would have a simple interface for when I'm only worried about floating point data (I ended up creating my own library to wrap cpal's idiosyncrasies for my mixed midi/audio node program: https://github.com/smj-edison/clocked).
Here it is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1VdLQlGXMvaEUZIL9KuG35?si=29f...

In my location, it shows as a single track that is 4:33.
That's not a proportional comparison, n simultaneous users to 1 training. How many users across how many GPUs is that 80k?

With PNN you would have to multiply n by 1-4 million, training cost explodes.
Related [0], but one week ago I have written about my experiences using TypeScript for an invoicing system, if anyone is interested. It's especially about rounding errors and how to prevent them. Since then we have created hundreds of invoices (and cancellations) and everything worked as expected with minor hiccups in between.

[0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/javascript-rounding-errors/
The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure
I feel like there’s way too much color for this to be ‘retro’. It seems you are limited to using 16 colors at once, but those colors are drawn from a 24-bit palette unless I’m missing something.
I kinda like that it downloads its own interpreters... could be useful when using pyinstaller to have a more portable interpreter.
Thanks for this tip. I tried it and I keep getting the error:
"Error: Your account got flagged by our internal fraud protection service" even after verifying my credit card.
Sorry to hear that. My own parents divorced and it was very much for the best, but their marriage wasn't great beforehand (hardly a surprise given that they got divorced of course!)
url should be: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/lithium-industry...

currently seems broken due to an extra /at at the end.

More brining and less mining seems positive overall, but this article reads like an ad for the specific firm's technology.
> Are you suggesting that the sun is irrelevant to whether someone is a morning person, and only the time on the clock matters?

That wasn't my original argument at all, but yes - I'll argue this too.

I'm always sleepy in the "mornings" and get my best work done after I've been awake a while. It probably has more to do with metabolic flux than daylight.

I've occasionally worked so hard on things that I've had my schedule "wrap around" the clock, yet I still get the most work done in the back half of my day.
> By area? The EU's population is larger than that of the US.

Yes, by area, which second part of the sentence implied when I mentioned it's easier to end-up in different country without driving miles on end :)
I don't understand the point of the script, it's nothing more than:

du -h --max-depth=1 "$@" | sort -hr