skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some of my CDs are older than most of today's "cloud" servers and can be read just fine.

And if you're happy being able to recover "some" of your data that's a perfectly legitimate option. Write CDs and DVDs, save to HDDs and SSDs, to the cloud, print on paper, or a combination of all. Only you know your data and its importance.

But what you'll want to ask yourself though is how many CDs written since than can't be read just fine. I have books from before electricity was a thing and still am thoroughly convinced paper is not the best for long term preservation.

My oldest cloud stored data that I can verify is a 25 year old email in my Yahoo mailbox. I have stamped CDs that survived that long, no written CD that I can think of.
It's interesting how, in this view, founders and VCs compartmentalize. What you call "honest business dealing" between founders and investors usually implies quite dishonest dealing with customers of the startup. The established pattern of growing fast and aiming for an exit already necessitates wringing in growth through dishonest means and, in the best case of a successful exit, eventually leaving the users/customers out to dry while the founders ride off into the sunset with full bank accounts.
Simple built-in way to encrypt and decrypt a file on a Mac via command-line?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29

anything that resonates, transmits. or "privacy is a bitch"
jEdit is the most underrated editor ever
Caribbean drunken monkeys act surprisingly much like humans
What does “the edge” mean here? It seems to have something to do with Atom CPUs to this project. What is OpenVMS and why is it interesting for it to run on Atom CPUs?
Totally on point.-

PS. There was a nice movie released 1979 about that :)
Glad there is at least one company not jumping on the bandwagon and actually caring about their current customers.

Genuine question though, before this generative AI boom Photoshop had features that in retrospect makes me think it was generative AI. Like removing and automatically filling a space. Was there something fundamentally different between that and what we currently have or was the technology similar just with far more guard rails and not “smart” and generative.
Glossing at their financial statements, about half of that is due to deferred revenue (stuff they sold but haven't delivered on, which I'd guess is sales of their currency that haven't been redeemed). No particular insight on that either way.
Because it's marketed as AI.

For me, my expectations are adjusted. I kinda know what to expect it to do, and it does quite well for what I use it for, essentially smart intellisense for coding.
I don't understand why people make an issue of that. Just add everything that needs to be ignored to the .gitignore, as long as it makes sense to someone. If I use XYZ-Obscure-Unknown-Editor, just let me add `.xyz-obscure-unknown-editor/` to the .gitignore. It literally has no negative impact on anyone.

There's no reason to gatekeep what goes to the .gitignore
I've tried a few of these and can rarely pull more than a few megabits per second (in a location where a carrier's own SIM pulls 150+). The one time I actually needed one I could barely get even 1Mbps and it had horrible latency and packet loss. Getting a refund on the non-working product was also a chore, having to argue with CS agents that try to blame bad speed & packet loss on the wrong APN being used, while only one APN works at all (the others wouldn't give you any connection, so hard to get it wrong and still connect).

Note that I am talking about these Airalo, Nomad, etc eSIMs sold online, not eSIMs sold directly by the carrier themselves (the latter would generally be as good as the carrier's own prepaid offering).
I thought Pearl was writing from 1984 onwards?

I was at university around the millennium.
UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch 'missing' after yacht sinks off Sicily
Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media
>If the stock market gets played with unusual contracts like this one, regular investors will be cheated

The more of the market the worse it would be.

But compared to regular car companies, are Tesla shareholders on the whole "regular" investors?

Or maybe more like regular speculators when they could have bought Ford or GM instead?

I suppose there would be a lot of effort put in to blur the distinction :\
> Does this work if the encoders are different?

I have no idea, honestly.

I've tested my script (from a sibling comment of yours) with twolame [0] encoder, and I don't know if the results are good enough to indicate 64kbps true bitrate:

user@host:~/temp$ ./main.sh 36-twolame-reencoded.mp3
320: 0.032303
256: 0.045563
224: 0.059769
192: 0.074631
160: 0.204269
128: 0.229187
112: 0.309540
96: 0.302414
80: 0.310181
64: 0.367279
56: 1.133713
48: 1.106262
40: 0.444473
32: 1.030777

[0] https://www.twolame.org/
Why do you need donor tags? The README for the project has instructions for generating tags.
Why couldn’t Apple negotiate directly with Globalstar?
From this mathematical definition, the dense periodic orbits seem very hard to be satisfiable in many natural systems which aren't bound by gravity or some other form of locality.
Very interesting suggestions, all worth trying. Having a very capable coworker can help here, because they can show you what can be done in a short amount of time. Specifically I've noticed that some devs get "winded" by a change and want to take a break before moving on; others simply continue. This ability can be improved with practice, both within and across contexts. Doing things quickly is valuable for many intrinsic reasons that are often overlooked because we descry the poor extrinsic reasons. As with car repair, the odds that you forget how to reassemble the car scales with the time the repair takes. Similarly, if you can execute a feature in a day (especially a complex one that requires changes to many parts of a repo, and/or more than one repo) this is much less risky than taking many days or weeks. (To get there requires that you have firm command of your toolset in the same way a mechanic understands his tools, or a musician understands her instrument. It also requires that externalities be systematically smooth - I'm thinking particularly of a reliable, locally repeatable, fast CI/CD process.)

(The calculus here is a little different when you are doing something truly novel, as long periods of downtime are required for your brain to understand how the solution and the boundary conditions affect each other. But for creating variations of a known solution to known boundary conditions, speed is essential.)
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931581
I suspect Apple wants to enable proprietary wireless features and they don’t want to involve Qualcomm in their IP
Roblox got the multiplatform MMO experience dead right. Minecraft is atrocious in comparison; just creating an account is a painful exercise with Microsofts SSO setup and all. And then there is the Java/Bedrock schism which prevents seamless coop play. And don't get me started about modding scene on the matrix of Java/Bedrock and their own version ladders...
How 3D Printing Is Changing the Nerf Hobby
An all around cool guy. Awesome, entertaining content. Hopefully he keeps it up for a while longer and helps educate and improve the knowledge of countless individuals.
What Is a Qubit? – IBM
Everybody hates reading documentation
Replacing Twitter Embeds with Images
The U.S. has launched more manned missions in the last three years than China has in the last 20.

China has literally dropped rockets on Chinese villages.

The Soviet Union treated its astronauts as disposable, and covered up many of their failed missions.

What do you consider a free pass for Boeing btw?
Don't forget The Computer Chronicles.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. It actually resonates a lot.

I've been playing with a few ideas to increase confidence in the output. My two best ideas right now are:
1. Enable users to connect their sales data (e.g. shopify integration) so that impact can be quantitatively measured.
2. Augment the predictions with more context from the entire product page. e.g. check that there are at least 6-8 pictures, with different styles, different angles, check that the product page layout is easy to read, price and add to cart button should come out...

Curious to hear which one you think would most efficiently address your point
Many criminal sentences in the US are served concurrently. That's why SBF is sitting in prison for 25 years instead of 110.

So, no, what you said isn't absolutely true.
s/Basic/BASIC/ (HN's title autodestroy strikes again)
The US has far more deaths per flight than any other nation. There have been 19 astronauts that have died during spaceflight. [1] 14 of them have been American, with the US and USSR/Russia having a comparable number of total launches. The USSR/Russia's most recent fatality was in 1971.

NASA is paradoxical, because in terms of how they are perceived they're seen as this ultra risk averse safety-first organization, but in terms of actual behavior - they keep doing the exact same thing which has left 14 astronauts dead, and now these astronauts stranded. There just seems to be a extreme disconnect between the actual engineering staff and the managerial layer, probably exasperated by the fact that political appointees head the organization.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Because I trust a random HN commenter more than what I can find on Google easily these days (though I did still search first of course)... why will they be a brick at the end of the year?

If it's not for some strong built-in reason (impossible-to-update firmware has a hard date after which it will crash, etc.), do you think picking up one to experiment with would still be worth it?
I made the switch from notepad++/sublime (even atom did not exist at the time). The plus side was quick editing. Most of the time you spend on a code is rewriting it (excluding reading it) and vim binding made that a breeze. And even tools provided by IDEs can be great for code massaging, VIM is still king for raw editing. And if you know the shell, you don’t miss much from IDEs.

Nowadays, I’m exploring emacs because of how easy it is to build tools in it. Vim is great for working on text, but emacs is great for creating tools that work on text.
"Here, you have a gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours. What do you do?"

"I set aside the slides for the pointless CEO presentation tomorrow and work exclusively on this."

"No, you can't cancel on the CEO. Let's say you have two guns to your head and 24 hours, what do you do?"

"I take lots of coffee, skip sleeping tonight, cancel the group status meeting for Wednesday and focus on these two things."

"If you do that we'll look bad in front of the whole group. Let's say you have three guns to your head..."
i missed any description of the actual container content on those examples.
A track which uses low-bitrate mp3 compression as an effect, specifically to get the ringing artifacts on some of the instruments, would make a fun benchmark for any quality detection method.
Wafris – an Open Source Web Application Firewall that lives in your stack
Oh dear, hope that he makes it.

Very skeptical about this "tornado" causing the sinking of the yacht, after beating this case and going free on his own yacht.

Wonder if some entity wanted to settle a score or to take him out over something that was very embarrassing. Who knows.

Will have to wait until more details about this soon.
If you're in the Seattle area then the SDF is a gem not controlled by a billionaire.
Failing Upwards Again: A terminal postmortem
Scrolling through online videos increases feelings of boredom, study finds
Human greed knows no bound, surprised it wasn’t factored.
To me that is still the case of power corrupting people. If you are surrounded by positive feedback all along, you loose some of that self-awareness.
You are arguing against a strawman and I don't think you know much about tech diving. No one has claimed that the divers set a 500kg charge on a single dive. The recent articles have claimed that several hundred kg (no exact amount) of explosives were used across several pipelines, so obviously they weren't all taken on a single dive. The boat crew could have clipped a bag of explosives to the anchor line and let it sink down on its own without even using a lift bag.

The stories claimed that six people were on the boat, with others involved on land. The investigators have only named one suspect. So I don't know why you would think it bizarre that only one arrest warrant was issued. (I hope they all get away with it.)
A friend of mine went through this same scenario while abroad. In his case he actually did have the eSIM on a contract attached to his name, but the issue is that he couldn't get it reissued from abroad for security reasons and/or activating it from abroad wasn't possible (if he could get a Wi-Fi network VPN'd back to the UK it would've probably worked). It was a nightmare to sort out, and I believe he had to ultimately arrange a physical SIM getting delivered to a friend in his home country who then forwarded it to him.

> eSIM seems like it was designed by someone from the US

eSIM was designed by committee to allow carriers more control over switching and/or moving SIMs. Carriers see the ability to easily move a physical SIM outside of their control as a problem. eSIM is the solution, putting them back into the loop and ensuring they can do obnoxious things like charge fees on issuing a (one-time-use!) eSIM QR code (the fee made sense back then as it involved delivery of a physical SIM, but now it's just pure racket).
did the word rot change meaning recently?

pin is what causes rot, not what solves it.
Ex-Stripe ('17-'20) here. Agree.

Though I am under the impression that things have gotten more sensical internally over the last year or so.

Note also that the devprod team has largely been shielded from the craziness, and may still be making good decisions (but I don't know what they are in this realm personally).
Hm. Not gonna work for the volume of agriculture necessary to support a civilization. Tootle around with such things in your backyard all you like; nobody who's part of feeding billions is going to do more than give lip service to this.
I believe you can reset while keeping eSIMs provisioned: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253176559?sortBy=rank
Far from perfect indeed. Yet it encapsulated so much of software architecture that is still relied upon and hasn't been advanced significantly since.
It's possible to get stuck in merge hell where all your reviewers ok the PR but someone merged a conflict 2 seconds ago, or you've got a reviewer in Singapore while you're in SF and conflicts appeared overnight.

In general it was pretty rare, in my experience. The code bases were pretty well modularized.
My niece was about $1500 into that game before anyone realized what she was doing. She had been asking for gift cards and what not to get the credits. My sister realized what was going on when she added it all up. She thought it was a harmless game her kid was playing. It has a lot of dark patterns designed to scrape cash. There is nothing more expensive than a 'free to play' game.
Saw this pop up on my Twitter feed. I'm not entirely sure where the "core" code lives -- website says OSS but I can't seem to find the core on GitHub. But perhaps it's just early and the core's not OSS yet, or somehow obtainable another way rn. Regardless, I thought I'd share anyways since I found it interesting and perhaps somebody else knows more about the project than I do. I'm currently using Fastly's WAF (prev. sigsci), but an OSS WAF solution would be neat to see.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this article is other than as a love story to the movie. I guess I expected more sociological study of society or some such.

Maybe I'm just too stupid to understand?
Not being public makes Twitter less valuable as a product, though; for all the noise about people still using it, some influential people are not, and others are now dual or multiposting on Twitter and one or more of Threads, Bluesky or Mastodon. Now, some of them are doing that out of disgust with/distrust of Musk, or due to its increasing problems with scam ads and unmoderated propaganda and similar, but some are doing it for visibility/shareability.

Twitter traditionally had far more casual passive consumers (who saw tweets only via links) than active users, and those consumers were important to certain high-profile posters.
Normally those algorithms expect a clean reference version of the audio, as they quantify impairment. It doesn't sound like the OP has a reference version.
LLMs were never very good at directly generating original jokes, for a simple reason: writing a good joke generally starts with finding a good punchline, and then setting it up. An LLM generating token after token will first write a set-up, and then try to shoehorn a punchline into it. Prompt engineering can fairly easily work around this, but just straight-up asking an LLM for a joke never really produced good results on average.
Yes. There’s a whole family of papers by Chen, his students, and other VMware folks in this vein.
Several patterns emerged out of cloud services that enable cloud services to work better - namely event driven architectures, various cost savings strategies, HA/DR postures, etc - that cannot be applied to non-cloud architectures or even monoliths. If your team wants these patterns, you need to go cloud. Said differently: if they want experience in AWS, that's a proxy for wanting to learn these other techniques.

Moreover, this tweet is the rant of a single person that apparently doesn't care for AWS.
best way to get a promotion is to switch jobs. Be job-jumping ready and make your manager aware that staying in you current position is an invitation to leave
Related discussion the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41264270
Not OP but I still use mine quite frequently.

- My family’s old subhz car keys are dying so I cloned it & use the flipper when the real one doesn’t work. It’s a car from before the 2000s so no security whatsoever.

- Apartment, lift, gym rfid. Don’t need to bring multiple sets of cards

- IR is also helpful as a backup while I procrastinate going out and buying batteries for some remotes.
nah - a "good" paperweight can easily rival the cost of a car
My friend, I've worked in a Remedy system where tickets would routinely take over a minute to load.

Senior management keeps buying shit, so shit is what the market offers.
In the movie it's downplayed how much harm actually occurred. C8 poisoning still affects huge amount of the Mid Ohio Valley to this very day, and despite what the map says the area from Marietta to Ravenswood along the river still has a disproportionately high number of non-natural illnesses. As far as I know they were still doing active testing for blood C8 levels in 2008. My family members who worked at the Washington Works plant have had persisting health issues ranging from neurodegenerative diseases to bone marrow collapse that wouldn't show up on the ProPublica map because they aren't strictly cancers.
Roblox gets away with this due to the framing that it’s a single platform with many different experiences:

“To start, Roblox is not a single game. It's a platform that hosts millions of user-generated experiences, such as historical roleplaying games or virtual labs to simulate physics experiments. Because of the diversity of content you'll find on Roblox, we use the term experience to refer to what you play on Roblox.” https://create.roblox.com/docs/education/resources/frequentl...

From the epic trial, Apple addressed why it allows them in a pretty tortured manner: https://www.polygon.com/22440737/roblox-metaverse-game-exper...

I think the best argument is that you’re a single player across games, kids speak of “playing Roblox”, there are portals between worlds, etc. This comment makes the point that all games feel the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287780

It’s pretty different from what Epic wanted to do by offering completely separate games in their App Store without paying apple commission.
Lamborghini's first EV is nearly ready – but are we?
A private music tracker called REDacted has a good overview [0] on this subject (link should be SFW, and is on a different domain than the tracker itself). What.CD, before its demise, was the first I had seen demonstrating this, but older trackers (OiNK, Waffles.fm, et al.) may have also had it.

Objectivity aside, IMO the easiest way to tell when listening is paying attention to high-frequency sounds, especially hi-hat cymbals. Unless lossy encoders have gotten remarkably better since I last tried, there’s always a marked loss of shimmer / reverb on those.

[0]: https://interviewfor.red/en/spectrals.html
Looks to me like Greenwich is really mean on timekeeping devices.
Why would you feel obliged to accept a MR in which someone has accidentally changed large amounts of code?
I played around with a Markov generator many years ago, trained on the corpus of everything I had ever said in a specific IRC channel. The resulting messages were pretty interesting - I specifically remember the realization that I apparently (used to, though honestly still do, too) talk about LEDs a lot...
> took almost 15minutes to correctly switch branches on intel machines

This can probably be fixed with trivial tuning. Just configuring Git to fetch only your branches would speed up the branch switching significantly.

> build and test are soul sucking experiences

Why? It doesn't have to be. If you are going to build the entire monorepo, then yes, but this should only happen when you are running CI, and even then you can break down the builds into smaller components.

> the whole MR becomes a nightmare to correctly review

Not if you set up code ownership properly. You also need to think what happens in case of emergencies, so having a selected list of "super users" and users with permissions to bypass reviews is important.

It sounds like this company wanted a monorepo, but nobody invested any money or time to actually think about developer productivity. When this happens, yes, of course it won't be good, because no project succeeds like this. The nice thing about a monorepo is that instead of 1,000 repos with tooling all over the place and no specialist to take care of them, you can have one repo with really good tooling and a team dedicated to just keep it running smoothly. But if nobody is actually taking care of the monorepo, it will rot just like any other codebase.
LongWriter solves the problem of LLM having inconsistent context or information
It should be marketed more like “uncle Jim” than a trustworthy, all-domain competent oracle. I think if you just gave it a twangy accent and changed some output nouns to thingy, whatchamacallit and doohickey, people would actually be able to use it more competently.
Tree and graph structures can be queried using SQL (with more or less difficulty depending on how you have chosen to encode and index them), but it's not a particularly simple and straightforward language to use for such a task.
> It's the ultimate two sided marketplace … The problem is: Getting merchants and customers on board.

OK, but then there's the third side: banks.

> find a way to debit peoples bank account with 0 fees and 0 default risk and <5s latency

Banks.
BitSummit Drift 2024: Indies Come to Japan, Again
AI is on LSD not THE LSD smh
Feasting at night is certainly aligned with the original intentions of Ramadan. Muhammad broke his fast with a date, then feasted.
That they won't write an amicus brief for the Bureau of Competition about the app store monopoly?
I remember reading somewhere wave function collapse would have some energy signature and that someone failed to detect it, indicating the many worlds interpretation could not be ruled out.