skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would temper your expectations. Singing lessons will improve your singing faster than practicing alone but it still may take years and years to develop.

I had always enjoyed singing and I started singing and piano lessons at the same time. With consistent practice you can improve at the piano, learn more complex pieces and see your progress. With singing the process is a lot more mysterious. You probably don't understand the things that are going on inside your body very well and the teacher can't just say "Try putting your first finger on this key and your middle finger on this key".

After three years I could play reasonably complicated pop songs on the piano and read chords. I'm still a few steps the average "someone who likes to sing level".
> Battalion Azov was created on May 5, 2014

That's the usual propaganda that spreads on wiki, Azov was (officially) founded as a para military group in February 2014 (I wrongly wrote 2024 in my previous post).

CIA disinformation is not information. Azov is just one of the many incarnations of the US foreign policy, it's the same thing they do every time: they train far right extremists (azov is a neo-nazi group) then they pretend we believe they are self formed organizations, spontaneously born. It's the Afghan mujahideen of the Soviet–Afghan War all over again, been there, seen that, etc. etc.

I am European, I cooperate with news agencies, I can discern truth from lies.
How do you trigger the audio output for ios (iphone)?
Probably not a boxable/repeatable Christmas gift, but my own ESP32 project involves decoding CAN-bus signals from my car, with the hope of using existing buttons and steering-wheel controls to trigger actions. (Unfortunately the messages I'm interested in any appear to be exposed on the OBD-II port, so some wire-surgery is required.)

When it comes to projects you can just box and give away, I my imagination runs towards singular home automation tasks, where some kind of sensor or timer controls power to an appliance, or which collect statistics or sends notifications.

I'd like to have something that automatically opened my window blinds in the morning (I have to close them at night due to light pollution) but that's more of a motor problem than a logic one.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/a-chinese-rocket-narro...
>I can't take pseudoephedrine due to high blood pressure

I really miss being able to take pseudoephedrine. I mentioned to my doctor that it seemed to affect my blood pressure and he looked scandalized and told me I should never take it again. Apparently someone should have told me when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. The only real information I got was a handout for a DASH diet.
They plan to leverage their chipbuilding capacity

And present themselves as foil against Chinese overreach in the Western Pacific
At least you have some clarity now about the nature of the person you voted for.
DX == developer experience?

I think it's pretty good, but yeah, not ideal. I'm also building a product on workers, and using D1, KV, R2, queues, and am pretty happy with the DX. Running remote previews is pretty neat.
> integrated races

How?
It's built into my IDE (Jetbrains). Works great. Pretty sure VScode has something similar?

There's also GitKraken and Sublime Merge.
A New Chapter for Fast.ai: How to Solve It with Code
Hey, Journalists: X Is Now Truth Social
I write a lot of software to help people deal with German bureaucracy: letter generators, form fillers, appointment finders, tax calculators etc.

It saves people thousands of hours a year.
Depends also whose money you count. I just listened to an (slightly outdated) German national radio material about AI and election influence. It was chilling, of course. Here's the link for you German speakers, I know you exist: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ki-verstehen/harris-vs-t...
Of course it can. You take drug A for 5 days to get rid of symptom X. The symptom X does not go away. It is ineffective! You stop taking drug A and immediately experience brutal migraines that go away when you start taking drug A again. Ergo, you have become dependent on drug A for normal functioning, even though it is ineffective at ridding you of symptom X.
Well, I yet to see someone without ADHD who becomes calmer and slows down after taking stimulants.
The proliferation of Airbnbs in Lisbon is real.

Airbnbs were part of the destruction of that city for residents. They’re priced out.

Tourists are not a patsy. Their impact on the city and real estate prices was devastating.
One has to be careful not to backdate our current understanding of identity. Identities were rich and very fluid, being German was an identity, which the Dutch ("Deutsch") had until very recently. But for example religion was very important as an identity, as well as even European once like being a Frank. The Roman Empire was much more important than often credited in German/Prussian history, because it was precisely part of the nation building process to downplay the Empire, to build a Prussian Germany. My parents are boomers, and I remember how my mother was complaining about Prussian coffee. Also in Highschool I was learning Saxonian history, right now my daughters are also learning Hamburg's history.
Well now I've got to go check out the go compiler! That sounds really interesting. I was mainly referring to go having a lot more developed concurrency features, which while they're great I didn't really want to use them for my toy language, it seemed like I was throwing away a lot of what makes golang great just because of the nature of my project.

The rest of the golang ecosystem I found really nice actually, and imo it had a really great set of tools for reading/writing to files - and also I like that everything is apart of the go binary, it certainly is easier than juggling between opam and dune (used for OCaml for example).
This is one of the great interviews of all time. Totally hilarious.

https://www.vulture.com/article/quincy-jones-in-conversation...
In what way, though?

If you choose Rust, and it turns out to be the wrong choice, how will the customer be impacted?

If you choose Go, and it turns out to be the wrong choice, how will the customer be impacted?
Exactly. It always seems weird to me that "going to the gym" is virtually synonymous with getting some exercise when the gym is the most boring place to do exercise.
The Open Data Value Chain
The genesis games are emulated. Stuff like Crazy Taxi are ported.
> Engineers + product work together to build a figma

I'm not going to tell you that what works for you doesn't work for you, but just to contribute another perspective, elaborate Figma mockups are a bit of a red flag for me. They show that a significant amount of time has been invested in a high-fidelity design of a complex UI that has never once been used do to any actual work. It's impossible to know if a UI is any good if you haven't used it in anger. A rough functional prototype might take longer to make (and, crucially, doesn't look as good in company-internal slide presentations), but it's vastly more valuable IMHO.
It was approved back in the 70s after there being some studies that showed it was somewhat effective against congestion. I suspect it was no better than a placebo, but once it gets over the hurdle of being shown to be safe to use it probably didn't take much to get it approved. I don't think it was ever a popular product until the government starting making pseudoephedrine, which is highly effective, hard to buy.
Ok, got it. So this implies installing equipment in a number of PoPs presumably based on some study of where your core customers are? And I guess this isn't for all application logic, just cache stuff, quick and easy interaction gains, and none the less still passing heavy lifting back to the DC?
I have never ever heard of software engineers going on strike until now. I guess software engineers are going the way of commoditized factory workers.

Everything on this site looks like it could have been built by AI in like 20 minutes.
I don't think it's done any damage, it's just not effective.
If you are able to say that there is a limitless amount of deuterium in the oceans, than you can say the same about the amount of uranium in the oceans, even if the amount of dissolved uranium is about one thousand times less.

Both the amounts of deuterium and of uranium in the solar system are finite and smaller than of the abundant elements. Moreover, the natural processes that create deuterium and uranium within a normal stellar system are slower than those that destroy them, so there is no chance of their quantities ever increasing.

Unlike using other chemical elements to make some stuff, using deuterium or uranium for producing energy destroys them without any means to regenerate them, so it is by definition a non-renewable process.

The hydrogen (protium) in the Sun is also non-renewable, but its quantity is enormous in comparison with the amount of deuterium existing on Earth (and the amount of energy that the Sun produces per proton is greater than the amount of energy that can be produced per deuteron).

Like deuterium is extracted from sea water, uranium can also be extracted from sea water, where it is one of the most abundant metals, except for the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals. However the energy required for extracting uranium is significantly higher, due to its much lower concentration than deuterium (though deuterium is difficult to separate due to its similarity with the lighter isotope of hydrogen, while for the uranium ions much more efficient chemical reactions would be possible, which would bind uranium ions without being affected by the other dissolved ions).
> The problem is that some methodologies (Scrum, etc.) are heavily abused and transformed into management frameworks, which is the opposite of why they were created in the first place.

At the hands of an uncreative person any tool will be the wrong tool. This is what people fail time and time again to understand.

Any quality work, gain in efficiencies, improvement potential, etc will be hindered by the desire to apply blindly and without creativity any given thought framework.
Thanks for the feedback, I will update the landing page with make it clearer the full game is paid. I also added this paragraph to my post which hopefully makes it clearer:

> For the web based version I am trying a new payment model. The original Asterogue was like most other games in that you simply buy it in the app store or on Itch and download the game. This time around I am trying a new experiment with this and instead of buying a downloadable binary, you can play the first few levels free in your browser and then you pay one-time to unlock the full game online if you want to continue. I think this strikes a nice balance for players as you get to try it out and only continue if you're actually into the game once you have picked up the vibe. I haven't really seen this done before with web based games so it's all a bit of an experiment.

Thanks for checking it out!
:)

I prefer the term "persistent" although people around me have translated that to "stubborn" somehow :)
The same guy wrote the QNX Raspberry Pi book
https://gitlab.com/elahav/qnx-rpi-book/
In terms of browser usage, that's a rare use-casen for me: There's very little overlap between the kinds of things I want to open and engage with on the phone versus the kinds of things I want to do on my desktop. If there were, I'd probably use Firefox synced tabs, but I haven't bothered to set that up.

For some rare exceptions, I've saved a link as a Slack note-to-self. Another simple option might be a Google Doc.

For email, I use an IMAP account, so all of the current and important stuff is not (just) on either client.
> Storing multiple projects in a single repository does not magically make them a single unit of deployment, even when you deploy them all with a single pipeline. When you have multiple projects, you always have multiple units of deployment.

It makes it easier to turn them into the same unit of deployment. There's nothing you cannot do some other way of course.

You're right about atomic deployments being difficult and sometimes one can control that risk by the order in which you change things. In a monorepo it's slightly easier to record some kind of script, makefile, dependency system that says "deploy this before that".

With browsers -for sure your user level API has to be stable and cannot change in a sudden incompatible way. When people have seen fit to have layers of APIs underneath it though, one can still have a lot of change thats theoretically hidden from users but still changes lots of APIs.
> The Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). This set of guidelines and associated materials were drafted by the Sustainable Web Design Community Group. The WSG explains how to design and implement digital products and services that put people and the planet first. The guidelines are best practices based on measurable, evidence-based research; aimed at end-users, web workers, stakeholders, tool authors, educators, and policymakers. They are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations incorporate digital products and services into broader sustainability reporting initiatives. These guidelines will enable people to better understand the Internet’s impact on sustainability reporting. This includes emissions as well as stewardship principles.

Exposing the Sustainable Development Goals

https://youtu.be/ZW2tkK52U-o

We are halfway through a plot to seize control of the world. It may seem like a conspiracy theory, but it's placed awfully prominently, and everywhere, to be such a thing. The United Nations Agenda 2030 is a sweeping program to take control of our entire world. It launched in 2015 with an ambitious "17 Goals to Transform our World" and 169 targets to hit by the year 2030. That was eight years ago, and we can get a sense of how it's going. Badly. Tyrannically. Farcically. Reading from the Agenda announcement itself, in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay introduces the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations Agenda 2030 and shows how every one of them grants the pretext to seize control over the world and all human life and activity in it. Join him to know your enemy.
It's used for a vast amount of other tissue examinations.

Pregnancies are a minority of ultrasound examinations.
We probably should fix the roads. Blame the engineers who made it this way.
There are plenty of technical decisions that don't have a clear answer (e.g. which of 1000 web frameworks should we use?), and plenty of product decisions that do. The separation between roles has nothing to do with clarity but with the (sometimes fuzzy) difference between technical decisions and product decisions.
I have been using this tool. The best feature imho is that you can quickly iterate on the grammar in the browser using the online editor in the homepage.

I was struggling though with the lack of strong typing in the returned parse tree, though I think some improvements have beenade there which I did not have a chance to look into yet
So you have Contributor License Agreements that enable you to relicense to something like GPL or MIT whenever you want to?

Because AGPL itself can not be relicensed and it even needed special wording when created to become GPL-compliant.

Since you’re a startup I believe that you use AGPL to achieve the “fair source” idea (https://fair.io/) – where you yourself can provide a hosted service without providing all your source code while hoping others won’t be as they will need to provide all theirs.

In simplified terms: It’s an anti-AWS defense. Helping you avoid being outcompeted by a big cloud vendor using your project without paying anything for it.

And AGPL is a poor “fair source” license, especially as it was never designed to be a “fair source” license but also since it doesn’t give the impression of “fair source” but rather the impression of “open source”, giving an almost deceptive and dishonest look.

And since AGPL is perpetual, unlike eg BSL and FSL, one is stuck with the “fair source” license forever, rather than having it be converted into a mainstream OSS license over time. It can eg make it hard for someone else to eventually, if your company goes away and the project gets abandoned (which is sadly the most likely outcome of most startups), pick up the project and build a company around that while using similar “fair source” principles like you.

If you are doing like what SourceHut is doing (https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-09-ip-assignment-or-lack-...) and going all in on AGPL and playing by its rules yourself as well and treating it as “open source” rather than “fair source”, then well done!

I still would likely want to avoid the legalese complexity of AGPL in my stack though and try to generally stick to permissive licenses and the occasional GPL-licensed projects, like eg Linux. And eg Google has similar guidelines when using OSS-code internally.
Godwin's Law actually predates the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

Whatever the law might be called, the result is the same: The vapid use of words as fallback insults leads to the words inevitably losing any valuable meaning.

Kelly called Trump fascist invoking Hitler, Harris called Trump fascist in kind, Democrats called Trump and Republicans racists/sexists/rapists/fascists.

As a reasonable man, all I can take away is that you guys don't like Trump and Republicans and everyone who sides with them. If that's your mojo then that's fine, but those words are otherwise worthless as far as I'm concerned. Please stop violating Godwin's Law and make an argument worth discussing instead.
> but there's no killer app for AI

In your opinion. Others will have entirely different opinions.
EYG: The stable foundation for software that runs forever
Absolutely on point and matches my experience (20+ years in software). The hard part is not software delivery; the hard part is stopping all the unnecessary technology and process and people inexorably creeping into everything everywhere.
I recently bought an RTL-SDR. I've had so much fun with it so far and learned so much, which was my goal. I designed my own antenna in Fusion 360 and built it. I'm currently developing my own SDR application with a custom spectrum display etc. So far I can demodulate AM/FM/SSB and I'm trying to get into decoding digital modes as well.

There is so much to learn and enjoy even without transmitting. I like to listen in on air traffic control and download weather satellite images.
Besides the latency, this is why I will never use game streaming. I don’t believe it can replace a dedicated computer.

Besides that, I fear the cloud gaming business model will be applied to all aspects of personal computing. Imagine if in the future the “Windows App” only allows you to use your desktop for 100 hours? Or something like a commercial Google Cloud IDE restricts you to two projects at a time without warning.

Once we lose local compute, it’s over.
That was implied, yes. The problem is that every time, like clockwork, when migrants are "dealt with" it means country is tightening professional legal immigration, and doing jack shit about illegal ones. Example - Canada has a problem with illegal migrants, to combat that they cut legal (and quite hard and complex) immigration path which Ukrainians used, maybe others too. They are also constantly raising the number of points for permanent residence (which includes education and work among other things, so is kinda for professionals). USA has a problem with migrants, it restricts H1B professional visa criteria which was very restricted in the first place.

PS: I don't mean that these restrictions are bad, maybe they are needed. I mean that often it seems that anti immigration ire is directed on the ones can be found the easiest, legal migrants who can be sent home with a flick of the pen, without getting from the comfy chair.
Not sure if it's still possible, but in eastern europe back in 2010s you could buy bottles of liquid ephedrine nose drops without a prescription. The pharmacists would get raw ephedrine and mix it in the back, filling the generic nose drop bottles. Tho they'd only give you 1 a month or so, looking at you suspiciously if you came multiple times in a row.

Back when I was obsessed with sports and being the peak athlete I can be, I'd go to the different pharmacies around town and buy a bunch of nose drops. These would get mixed in with coffee to get a dumb version of EC stack. Not sure if it was worth it, but it definitely had me wired to the gills.
management is very creative, they just sometimes don't realize that agile is not a management process, it's an engineering process. it's an easy mistake to make because they want to measure engineering output somehow and introduce measurements which cause decoherence of the engineering process state if I may use a quantum analogy instead of a car one.

IOW they're trying to do their jobs (manage employees) but engineering is a high trust profession and some managers just don't have the trust (not to say that all engineers have the integrity...)
Bad road design. We can do better.
Cough medicine in the UK is sugar + paracetamol.

My wife's a pharmacists so always laughs at it (and the decongestants) when we visit the UK.
Lots of folks use Golang on the client side, even on mobile (for which Go has really great support with go-mobile). Of course it adds around 10-20 MB to your binary and memory footprint but in todays world that's almost nothing. I think Tailscale e.g. uses Golang as a cross-platform Wireguard layer in their mobile and desktop apps, seems to work really well. You wouldn't build a native UI using Golang of course but for low-level stuff it's fantastic. Tinygo even allows you to write Golang for microcontrollers or the web via Webassembly, lots of things aren't supported there but a large part of the standard library is.
Some of us were suspicious all along. Especially of Pfizer.

But such suspicions became socially dangerous right around the time that Pfizer stood to make multiple billions selling a novel treatment for a recent pandemic.

(Pfizer testing drugs on Nigerian children)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1471980/

(Pfizer pleads guilty to criminal charges over Neurontin)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC416587/