skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this in the most nonpartisan way possible: JD Vance is one of the most blatantly opportunistic politicians out there. He knows what he's saying is dumb as hell but doesn't care, because "Open Secrets found that since 2019, Vance has received over $340,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry."

> "If you plug it into your wall, people think there's Keebler elves back there making energy in the walls," he said. "It comes, of course, from fossil fuels. So you're manufacturing cars in the dirtiest economy in the world. You're still relying on fossil fuels to produce energy."

Let's pretend we don't care about the environment. What response would he have for an EV owner who wants to compare paying $2-5 to charge an EV at home to 100% and never visit a gas station again in their vehicle that goes 0-60 MPH in 2.5 seconds compared to filling up a gas car at $30-70 per tank?

By saying that EVs don't help the environment, Vance basically implies that EVs don't save on fossil fuels, but if that isn't true then his fossil fuel donors wouldn't have a problem with him saying a positive word about EVs.

> In 2022, in an interview on conservative talk radio, Vance said he didn't think there was a climate crisis. And even if there was, he said, it wouldn't be solved by buying "Chinese manufactured electric vehicles."

The most US-assembled and sourced car in America is a Tesla. If you buy a Ford or Lincoln you could be getting a car assembled in Mexico or even China. [1]

> In Vance's home state of Ohio, Biden's Inflation Reduction Act is helping fund a $3.5 billion project to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles and a new clean steel plant in the state run by U.S. steel giant Cleveland Cliffs.

...of course it is.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/business/lincoln-nautilus/ind...
My cats will happily feed raccoons.
That's because this is perfectly fine on HN, with a proud and ancient history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691
> The thought of someday being able to address an elephant in a way it can understand is downright magical. To say, “Hello, I’m Tove. Please tell me your name.”

I truly believe that thinking other species are “less intelligent” than us comes down to our own inability to have a complex dialogue with them. Time and again, we have a pioneer who is somehow able to break this barrier through sheer perseverance. Then we get Kokos of the world. Now we’ve noticed traits resembling true human toddler like understanding in dogs and even some birds.

Perhaps one day, brain interface devices and machine learning will help us cross that barrier for good, and unlock a new age of learning from our peers in the animal kingdom.
I'd love to see an alternate timeline where one of these giant companies took their trillions of dollars and said "You know what, fuck you, shareholders! We're going to be pure research now! We're going to turn our offices back into a college-campus-like playhouse of innovation! We're going to hire the best and brightest again and give them amazing things to work on rather than improving click-rates by 0.1%! We're going to do only moonshots! We're not going to maximize shareholder value!" The stock price would go to $0.01 but it would be a paradise for researchers and developers.

It would be such a breath of fresh air from all of the dollar-maximizer companies that we seem to be stuck with now.
It seems like Azure DevOps migrated to some new login mechanism recently which is visibly slower than the old one, and I was seeing random failures prior to today.
Ok, but you do realize that living on 60k in a large city is not particularly easy these days? You'll be putting down half your salary to rent, at the minimum. Same applies to the other jobs: sure, you build character. But you're also perpetually one car accident away from financial ruin.
> since they are not funded with any federal dollars they are somewhere between a government service and a private service.

This argument makes no sense at all to me (I did catch the part where you don't necessarily agree either btw).

There's no law which says that everything a government does has to be run at a pure loss on tax revenue. Many local utilities are owned by their respective governments, and are not infrequently run at a modest profit. That doesn't make them private, it makes them profitable.

> Some argue that because of this we have seen a significant degredation in the quality of mail, because the USPS explicitly and intentionally delivers the equivalent of spam mail to every address in the country.

This is quite possibly the case, but has no bearing on whether or not USPS is a government entity, which, it is.

> This ties into the current post as it seems plausible the reason USPS shares customer data with Meta is due to their requirement of self funding.

This, I do not consider plausible at all. I'm 99% sure that some youngster working on the digital side of USPS added some tracking pixels because it's all they knew how to do.
Anatomy of a VS Code Extension
"See, the mistake they made is assuming that I didn't need a fundamental understanding in order to simply regurgitate the subject material"

Right. I don't consider myself expert in how people learn stuff or acquire knowledge but speaking for myself I'll almost certainly remember it if I understand it.

A slight qualification though, there are many 'minor' facts that I've understood at the time but have eventually forgotten or I've only partially remembered them. This is especially so if I hold little interest in the subject. (It's known the mind clears dross out if it isn't reinforced or used.)

What I'm talking about are key concepts or processes in a subject that one is expected to know and retain. For me, I'll much better understand a topic if it's taught in context (why we should learn it) and or if it's of interest to me.

Here's another example from math: at school I recall learning parametric equations and I quickly caught on and understood them because I'd come to the conclusion that they are a really neat and cleaver way of solving stuff that would otherwise be difficult. Here, the learning reinforcement was of my own doing—not because the teacher has stressed this part of the syllabus more than any other part. The info stuck immediately because I could visualize how useful they were.
but it was also several years ago, which is when I first started playing around with python, before starting to do production work with it a few years later.

so in one sense, i.e. compared to the present, 1.5 is an early version.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
I'll never forget Bob Newhart's heartfelt eulogy for Krusty the Clown. It was better than some real life ones I heard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ7lVT7b-Q
I have noticed something along these lines in the GitHub repos. Tons of bugs piling up, issues closed out as "by design" where clearly is was not. Etc.

I honestly get the impression Azure is in decline, particularly around the .Net integrations which is their flagship ecosystem..
Good tip! Search in teams is very disappointing.
Coming from the states to Eastern Europe I was shocked at how many asian-man/white-woman pairings I saw in Budapest and Krakow. The asians are mostly Chinese playboy sons of mainland or impex business owners and often obnoxious as rich brats tend to be. Completely different vibe from my SoCal suburban violin-playing hapa friends who studied at UCs.

When you say the West I think the stereotype only really applies to the USA and maybe Canada.
Love to hear stuff like this, both because it's interesting in its own right, and because the fact that it gets published and taken seriously gives me hope that we're finally getting our heads out of our collective asses with regards to the consciousness and moral weight of non-human animals. I think there's a natural tendency for humans to anthropomorphize, to project human behaviors and motivations onto other animals, which can get pretty extreme and silly in some cases, like how we project this assumption onto non-living phenomena, like a rainstorm or machine learning model. However, I think in the case of animals, especially complex charismatic megafauna, and especially especially things like highly social mammals, it's actually a better assumption that their internal experience and motivations may resemble ours than this ridiculous contrarian backlash against it we got in the last few hundred years, where now we're supposed to treat "These tiny variations on what we are are somehow so fundamentally ontologically different that we should assume we can understand nothing about how they think, or whether they even do at all, without doing a zillion RCTs" (and this dovetails conveniently with immiserating them to an unheard-of degree at an unfathomable scale by modern industry). Similarly-shaped contrarianisms are unfortunately still much of the dominant culture of institutions, but it's nice that some of them are losing their grip
We have a program that contributes $10k/yr towards the difference. We don't get in-state for any of the nearby states and $10k/yr generally is not enough to cover the different in modern state schools.

When I was in this position, it was basically only economical to go a private school for undergrad.
I once ran my own personal URL shortener and the links still work to this day
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-virgin-wizard
> Having recently written my own fragmented-MP4 remuxing library, I felt this pain too, and my soon-to-be-published writeup has very similar things to say about the ISO's paywalling practices.

Would be curious to hear what goals you had with writing a muxer yourself as well, given that most people just use LibAV/GStreamer/GPAC and call it a day.

> I think one of the hardest parts of ISO-BMFF, aside from spec availability, is that it's pretty hard to implement "cleanly", making existing code confusing to use as reference. (My own implementation is certainly not clean either)

I certainly wouldn't call the OBS implementation "clean" either. It's very much inspired by the FFmpeg/LibAV implementation since that one is fairly straightforward (not a lot of abstraction), and gets the job done (and also is GPL/LGPL so not a huge concern looking at it).
I'm not a big thinker on such things, but my general rule is that subtyping is okay only for implementation details.

I.e. it's okay for ConsoleLogger to be a subtype of Logger, but PaidUser probably shouldn't be a subtype of User.
This is exactly what Google ASR does. Give it a try and watch how the results flow back to you, it certainly is not waiting for VAD segment breaking. I should know.

Streaming used to be something people cared about more. VAD is always part of those systems as well, you want to use it to start segments and to hard cut-off, but it is just the starting off point. It's kind of a big gap (to me) that's missing in available models since Whisper came out, partly I think because it does add to the complexity of using the model, and latency has to be tuned/traded-off with quality.
I would have thought Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor would have had a hand in it.
ADO vs Teams, who takes the crown for worst software of all time?
I have also noticed strange behavior that was not present before this perceived update, e.g. basic auth challenges and pop-up windows if I'm waking up my computer and still have azdo pages open.
What about for fine-tuning? Are the memory requirements comparable to inference? If not, is there a rule of thumb for the difference? Would it be realistic to do it on a macbook with 96G of unified memory?
In my mind it was a situation where you start chatting with the parent and then it's the kid to involve you in some way, but your reasons are not wrong, makes sense.
There's such a low probability of that happening, even if the US turns their back on Taiwan. It would likely result in Taiwan and Japan, at the least, rapidly building nuclear weapons. Then they'd trade the occasional word and politician would make grand gestures, but continue business as usual.
Trump seems to harbor this weird notion that America's global military hegemony and superpower status is somehow a shakedown scam the rest of the world is playing on the US, rather than the other way around.
Can someone explain how does an existing media player understand the new mdat format without modification? I assume if they find a completed moov at end of the file, it would recognize the file as a unfragmented mp4. It should then try to find a list of recognized codecs directly inside the mdat (like in the first picture), but instead they will find another moov, a bunch of moofs and sub-mdats, all of which are clearly not proper for a unfragmented mp4. Why doesn't the player report this as a "unrecognizable, badly formatted" mp4 file?
That's awesome, I wish it was more commonly the case.
right, my only point was that not everywhere in the US has a good/affordable state school you can go to. when asked for an example, i gave the example of where i grew up
Netflix is kicking US subscribers off its cheapest ad-free plan soon
We don't discuss that openly.
Appreciate the context, that is helpful. Do you notify the other party of recording in two/all party consent states? Or is recording calls the default behavior of the app?

> Eleven (11) states require the consent of everybody involved in a conversation or phone call before the conversation can be recorded. Those
states are: California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.
These laws are sometimes referred to as “two-party” consent laws but, technically, require that all parties to a conversation must give consent
before the conversation can be recorded.

https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECORDING...

(This applies regardless of the commercial nature of the call)
We have access to too much information about how to do things better and the tools to do those things, so the focus winds up on retraining and optimising rather than just dumping something out there and abandoning it.

Flash sucked but everyone knew it sucked and that you could kind of force it to do a lot of things.
That which takes place in public has never been, and will never be, subject to 4th Amendment protections. Otherwise the police would need probable cause, and therefore a warrant, to look at you while walking down the street.
They are handwriting tickets at the airport right now .
If it was "Places That Don't Exist" with Simon Reeve, it's available here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0I404gXbNg
VSCode extension marketplace is also unaccessible
> No; combining two countably infinite sets doesn't increase the cardinality of the result (because two is finite).

Agreed. But pi = 3.14...pi... isn't combing 2 infinite sets. It 'combining' infinite amounts of infinite sets and not in a linear fashion either.

You have to keep in mind the 2nd pi in the equation can be expanded to 3.14...pi...

pi = 3.14...pi... when expanded is pi = 3.14...(3.14...pi...)...

and you can keep expanding the inner pi forever.

> The digits would still be countably infinite.

How can you ever reach the first number after the inner pi in (pi = 3.14...pi...). Or put another way how do you get to the 4th '.'? You can't.

This is a classical example of countably infinite and a continuum.
So one year until the bubble bursts?
They return another day. B&H is a huge store with loyal customers, and they're often the best place to buy specific equipment.
there’s the spirit of Steve in everything today.

Within five years of SJ's death, Apple was selling last year's model iPhone at discount prices... in rose gold... running a version of iOS with Letraset text where the icons used to be.
i'm surprised to see someone call on-street parking 'squatting'. squatting is an infringement of private property rights (whether or not justified). i haven't lived in the usa for a long time, but from videos i see on youtube, on-street parking seems to be a nearly universal practice among motor vehicle owners, rather than being considered any infringement on property rights, which sounds like an extremist view similar to those of the 'sovereign citizen' movement

i haven't been in seattle this millennium, so i can't do more than guess what the mix is. over 95% of factory-built rvs in the usa have one or another of those systems, and something like 70% of diy rvs. diy rvs almost never have blackwater tanks, always either composting toilets, cassette toilets, or nothing

where will campers dump waste? it matters a lot which system we're talking about

composting-toilet waste, as i said, can easily go into the normal municipal solid-waste stream, same as disposable diapers, but with less smell and health hazard

cassette toilets can be easily emptied into any sewer-connected toilet. when i lived in the usa, most gas stations, supermarkets, and restaurants had toilets with sewer hookups; also highway rest stops and for-profit truck stops (flying j, love's, etc.) also, if you have any friends who have houses, even a single one, you can dump it into their toilet. or pay for a hot-sheets motel room once a week and use theirs

blackwater-tank systems, you're gonna have to drive to the koa kampground or a truck stop 2–4 times a year
I suppose this explains why OneDrive is down.

Attempting to save to my OneDrive folder on my Mac gets an error in Excel, and suggests that I save a copy to somewhere else.

Attempting to view my OneDrive files via the web interface shows no files and then eventually says something went wrong. Retrying cycles among different errors includes GeneralError, ServerTooBusy, and telling me to make sure I don't have any firewall or plugins that could be blocking access to api.onedrive.com.
The first sentence you're quoting is ambiguous. It might be in full agreement with you, or it might be disagreeing with you.

> GLP requires you to disclose the (license and source code) on request

> GPL requires to to disclose the license and (source code on request)
I would say Blender is.
tbh "community over code" branding of the conference is more irritating than the logo controversy, but anyone can re-license their code under a new framework. these organiations are fluid. maybe someone should just stand up a new license and call it the Pioneer foundation and use an arrow logo, because everyone in the world used arrows, and they say that you can always tell who the pioneers were because they're the ones with the arrows in their backs.
How would Taiwan start a nuclear program if they get invaded?
We are not talking about perfection here. Of course there is always a potential attack vector. But when you look at virtually all of the recent major breaches, they were a result of gross negligence.
Wider than DevOps. My entire company has been dead in the water for over 2 hours.
> You pay for your high salary with the fact that the one thing you can be sure most people you work with care about is how much money they extract out of Google and how they could get more.

That's every job though, right? I only work because my employer pays me and either them or someone else will probably pay me more in the future. I'm not here because I just LOVE writing code for someone else, I'm here because I like money and want lots of it.
Any of these should work.

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard

https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard (guessing, since AOSP Keyboard works and this is a fork)

Not open source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/swiftkey

Does not have glide/swipe (reserved for symbols), but I just installed and giving it a shot: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard
Didn't I see this exact same post, shilling the exact same AI music app, earlier this week?
In this sense our hearing is much better than our color vision.

We can distinguish the combination a huge number of frequencies between 20-20000Hz.

But we can only distinguish 3 independent colors of light.

Of course our vision is vastly better than hearing for determining where the sound/light comes from.
Yes, the main idea is to clone existing components and to modify them for your own website (use-case) design. You can also create from scratch using the Studio. In both cases you can save and host the components in the cloud.
If Moore's Law is reducing the cost of compute, Do you see thattrend in pricing?
If moore's law is reducing the cost of compute are there any cloud providers passing those savings to customers?
89.99999999999 also has a lot of 9s.
I love the subtle differences of lifestyle, signage, building fixtures, etc. in foreign places, it's always interesting to see problems solved in completely different ways.
> What kind of flakiness?

Black screens, X server crashes, OpenGL programs either crashing or running slow. Just general unreliability. Different driver versions seemed more reliable than others, which meant I was always very reluctant to upgrade, which then gives you more problems as you end up pinning old versions which then makes it harder to troubleshoot online...

> My nvidia problems are generally software and update related. The NVidia stuff usually works on popular distros, but as soon anything custom or a surprise update happens then there is a chance things break.

I mean if you run mixed versions then yeah that will work for some upgrades and not others. A decent package manager should prevent that; some distros refuse to put effort into packaging the nvidia-drivers out of principle. But if you keep the drivers in sync (which is what the official package from NVidia themselves does, it's not their fault some distros choose to explode it into multiple packages) and properly rebuild just the kernel module every time you do a kernel upgrade (or just reinstall the whole driver if you prefer), then it's rock solid.
I physically walked into the Turkmen embassy in Tashkent, handed them my passport with the filled form, and came back a week later. I was surprised, but it was probably the easiest central Asian visa to get.
I'm in Pittsburgh right now and struggling to buy a house.
Everything on the market are estates and get bought within a week of listing. This past one I put an offer on was sold in less than 24hrs of posting...
I was lucky to spend a lot of time with elephants during my three years around Africa.

I feel certain future generations will look on us as barbarians for keeping elephants and other intelligent animals in concrete cells. They are magnificent, and care deeply for each other.
One day when we speak to them I feel certain they’ll say humans suck and every animal knows it.
I thought Google purchased things like gigawatts for their data centers on the open market? Can you link to something that shows its bring give to them from the government for free?
Having worked with some MP4 demuxing for my extension [1], I feel the pain. Lots of times I would play the video only to find inexplicable issues such as drifting audio. I highly recommend using an mp4 inspector tool, such as mp4box [2], to debug these issues.

1: https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

2: https://gpac.github.io/mp4box.js/test/filereader.html
I'm sorry but you are just wrong. Radio is about communicating, and if the only people to communicate with are boring, then what can you really do? And ham radio has way less reach than the Internet, and requires a license, so the pool of people is way, way smaller. You can't compare the two.
You really think China will attack in the next few years when it's not even building the gas pipeline from Russia? [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-china-gas-pip...
Do they still make them or do you have an old one?
That's still a small amount for many/most locations. It's certainly less than I'd pay myself out of pocket,
down here, South America
The pages load responsively, there are no apparent bugs in the code, the organization is coherent and sensical, and the writing is concise and conveys both information and the unique voice and personality of the author

This is a better-made website than like 95% of the internet, generously

I like the cut of your kid's jib. Excellent work