skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone,

I've developed my own chopped and screwed workstation that is connected with Soundcloud so you can chop and screw any song directly from the browser.

I'm still working on refining some of the effects and functionality but would love to get some feedback from anyone who loves chopped and screwed.

https://screw.pounding.systems/
nobody cared about their privacy because there was no widespread systematic effort to invade it.

I don't care about my privacy in the street despite it being public because there's no-one following my every step taking note of where I go, how fast, what music I'm listening to, what I'm looking at... (although the astute reader will argue that this is less and less true, there's more and more tech tracking our activity in real life too)
I know that being obtuse is sometimes fun..

But no paper (even high school level) which does that should ever be accepted..
I feel you. You seem to be reasonable and empathetic and understand that sometimes priorities change and that an imperfect roadmap can still bring benefits over a hidden one. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who feel entitled to get anything you ever mentioned, even (especially) if they’re getting it for free, and managing those people when they complain is time consuming and drains your sanity. Both of which take your time and energy away from improving the product to all the reasonable people.
> What could explain this sales pipeline, if the F-35 was the boondoggle this article implies it to be?

Easy, desire to please American politicians to fetch political support from the USA and strengthen your position as military ally. Ideally, you will be looking so scary that you wouldn’t have to actually use the plane.
> Besides, it's not invisible despite calling it that. It's visible in the visible spectrum and hearable in the human hearing range

We didn't wait Musk to know planes weren't literally invisible or silent lmao, maybe don't take your military analysis from a man child with 0 experience in the domain.

They either fly high enough that you neither hear nor see them, or low/fast enough that you're dead long before you're even aware something is coming.

Also we already have unmanned aircrafts, a lot of them. Internet army experts will tell you f35 are useless because they're not invisible (duh) meanwhile in eastern Europe people are getting killed by 70+ years old tanks and other ww2 era surplus
The collection of biometric data is already normalized.

It has been normalized since the 1920s, when the FBI's central fingerprint repository was created.

And the end goal isn't the system that currently exists. It is a system in which the movement of passengers isn't halted. Someone watched 1990's Total Recall and said "we need a security checkpoint like that".

Also, the "Overton window" is a libertarian bullshit response to the natural shifts that occur in society, usually trotted out whenever libertarians get pissed off that "muh freedom" no longer excuses their bigotry and they can't make "because their knee-grows" jokes anymore.
There were so many excellent touches and insights in the documentary. And I got goosebumps in a couple of places.

Also the Half-Life documentary they released last year was one hour long. The Half-Life 2 documentary is two hours long. I sure doesn't feel like 2 hours.

Highly recommended. (There are manual English subtitles included that seem perfect too, if you need them.)
Elon Musk is not a scientist. He employs scientists.
The Thrax Programming Language
The alternative is having empty shelves in stores.
> code from Google.

I spilled my coffee, I was just talking the other day to some coworkers how I don't trust google open source. Sure they open their code but they don't give a damn about contributions or making it easy for you to use the projects. I feel a lot of this sentiment extends to GCP as well.

So many google projects are better than your average community one, but they never gain traction outside of google because it is just too damn hard to use them outside of google infra.

The only Google project that seems to evade this rule that I know of is Go.
People paid him for such nonsense?
Awesome proposition, but good grief what a terrible website. It looks like some dodgy knockoff site and scrolling is broken. Not really inspiring confidence.
Confidential Computing or Cryptographic Computing? – Communications of the ACM
I mean... I'm not categorically against the internet becoming the exclusive playground of FAANG companies, but I perceive many don't agree.
Whats his unconvential views on vaccines? I am not convinced he has any. Could not find anything obvious at leadt
From a technical and high-level economic point of view, solar should be 'overbuilt' so that it supplied excess energy a decent percentage of the time, to make up for when it doesn't output near 100%. It sounds like the main issue is how the incentives are set up and rewards are distributed, not with building more solar in and of itself.

This article is light on exact details. When prices go negative, who is paying that and how, exactly? It sounds like it's at least partially effectively a government subsidy through credits. Is that necessary to compel the amount of building? The article doesn't even ask that question. They talk about trades making large profits by buying electricity when it's cheap and selling it when it's expensive. How are they doing that? Either they're actually storing the energy somehow (which is something that likely should be rewarded), or they're predicting electricity demand and supply and trading derivatives, in which case what inefficiencies are driving that market to be very lucrative for pure traders? And finally, are the high electricity prices in California at all related to the wholesale pricing? From what I could quickly find online, California's wholesale prices are not particularly high (lower than Texas, in fact). But that's usually only part of a household's electricity bill.
There is. In fact it's called a "land port" for a reason, the park has a huge freight yard connected to 2 rail lines it's just not shown in this picture because it's shared infrastructure of the industrial park.
What does it work on? Or was it just hugged to death already?
Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor
So here's the thing. Almost none of the problems I have with C++ are related to "flexible efficiency and raw power of C". You could easily have language that is even more flexible and powerful, but much easier to use. Or not even use, just install.

C++ was always by far the most inefficient langauge to work with for me, because there's just so much chore and nonsense that you have to get through to get anything done, and almost none of it has any reasonable purpose, there's no efficency tradeoff. I'm pretty sure that the insane build situation or UB in uninitialized variables or unspecified argument evaluation order never really benefited anybody, they are just bad decisions in the language, and that's all.
Łódź seems to be the only one translating to ??d?, all others have normal ASCII characters in the places 1, 2 and 4
> The part about abortions sounds like a blatant conspiracy theory.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/was-covid-v...

Many countries are stopping the vaccine/booster rollout to the pregnant. They make up funny reasons, but it's safe to consider they know more than we do and simply dont want the data out there.

Govts and big pharma really do not want the data to be analyzed. And they should actually most supportive of showing all available data (anonymized obviously).

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350147366/ex-public-servan...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-...

It's not a consp theory: the FDA, CDC and big pharma have clearly conspired against us, trying to make the C19 vaccine look better, vilifying everyone who did not want it.
Many of my customers are in an industry with a huge C++ code base and it's all under active development. Safety certification requirements are onerous and lead-times for development are long: many are now experimenting with C++17 and C++20 is on the long-term horizon but not yet a requirement. Because of the safety certification requirements and the fact that the expected lifecycle of the software is the order of decades after their products have been released, changing any lines of their code for any reason is always risky. Lives can be at stake.

But this is a multi-billion-dollar industry. If you're working on scripting a little browser "app" for a phone things may be different.
Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines
On windows, clumsy[1] is a great tool for this. The animated gif on their homepage is a super intuitive demo of the functionality too.

1: https://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
Ask HN: What factors laid the foundation for tech interviews as they are today?
I am working as a software engineer for a decade. And I've interviewed with a lot of various companies through my career.
All the interview preparation books, yet, miss one point — how did the bar was even set and why.

Given current AI trend, live coding sessions are transforming a lot as well. I can see more companies leaning towards virtual sessions with "prepare a blank project with your favorite IDE, share your screen and let's go". This means, that the companies acknowledge that the AI is a little trick a candidate can utilize to make a better impression.

On the other hand, this is just interviewees adapting to a relatively high standard that the industry did set. It was discussed a ton of times, how other jobs don't require a person to present the fitness in such a rigorous manner. When companies treat every other candidate as an impostor.

Not only a candidate should be a jack of many trades but also be humble once they get put into a job that may not necessarily require those algo and system design skills right away or in a year's time.

We all know that. But I'm very curious to learn how it all started, who set the "Olympic team fit" standard.
A Brief History of the Internet's Biggest BGP Incidents (2023)
> Some people will tell you "yeah bro just use docker with this and that and you will have a reproducible build system everywhere", but the thing is - I do not want to learn a completely unrelated tool and spend hours writing some scripts just to be able to continue working on my project

You're working with some seriously hairy technologies, dealing with very knotty compatibility issues, and you don't want to learn... Docker?

I find this odd because it's relatively simple (certainly much simpler that a lot of what you're currently dealing with), well documented, has a very small, simple syntax and would probably solve your problems with much less effort than setting up a third development machine.
Hey @rented_mule thanks very much for sharing, and i want to thank you for what you and the board and the operators over at the water company do for your community! I'm glad that there are people in the world like you and the rest there, who help the community!

While i understand that funding might be very limited or non-existent, actually, your situation sounds almost exactly the kind that could benefit from support from a government entity. It could run the gamut from free training, to actual technical advisement, support, to direct funding for cybersecurity/protection operations, etc. Tlo be clear, i don't mean that the gov. comes in there and takes over - no, no, no. I mean, that some gov. entity comes to you asks what they can do to help. Sure they can advise on best practice, but its your show, and you should run it your way....its simply that they might have the know-whow and funding to help you and your water company. At least, that's what i figure shoiuld happen to help communities like yours and others! :-)
I feel the need to comment on one sentence in it: “companies are god damn children and must be told no explicitly by every person individually.”

While it's true that children will often go out of their ways to test boundaries, I have no trouble giving them the benefit of the doubt and saying that children are innocently experimenting.

Companies, meanwhile, are doing this with fully deliberate malicious intent. They do this because capitalism rewards it. We need to say this, and keep saying it, until everyone gets it. Companies cannot be reared like children. Companies do not “mature” to become well-behaving, ethical citizens. With the profit motive in effect, companies have every incentive to work around every legislation and regulation and screw us at every opportunity they get. The profit motive must go.
Another example is Firefox copyring Chrome to court its users instead of focusing on what makes it different.
Agree with the above. Seems to me, the many of us "going with the flow" without a thorough long-term plan, are perhaps applying Agile development principles to our "career" (aka series of jobs) , whereas the author is taking the nowadays-apparently-discredited Waterfall approach , where supposedly you can know where you're going to be at date X. Which of course we now know doesn't actually work out in software. And as for careers, even more so. One cannot predict the overall economy, or who one might marry , how many kids one might have, whether everyone is healthy in extended family, what one might feel like doing to be happy later on etc ;)
Obviously I meant general fame, given I was replying to you saying you'd never heard of them.

As for theirs relative to their peers: why would you expect to be able to recognise the relative value of their contributions? Unless you're also in a position to reject membership of the Royal
Society, you're not elite enough to be able to tell if either of them is scientific elite.

> Why should one listen to them, and take their opinion seriously, over Musk, who is the first and only one in the world who has caught rocket boosters in the history of the world?

Paid a team to. That's more than nothing (none of the other US rocket contractors were seriously interested in trying, his vision did make it happen) but it's not like he did it all himself either.

> What is the author's accomplishments?

You could google her? She's got her own Wikipedia entry and the Royal Society has a bio: https://royalsociety.org/people/dorothy-bishop-11092/
Golang is a great programming language if your alternative is Java, C# or scripting languages like Python/Ruby/etc. Not everything needs to be written in C++ or Rust from the outset. It's also reasonably possible to rewrite small codebases from Golang to, e.g. Rust for better performance.
Seems like 'stylesheet' is only supported in Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Li...
MO941162, not that it gets updated that often.
> remote control + AI?

We might be getting close to advanced AI for a lot of domains, but are we ready to have one making independent decisions with bombs?

I’m not a military expert but I’d much prefer having a human making decisions rather than AI for at least the next decade. I’m not sure that remote connectivity is reliable and high bandwidth enough everywhere for a drone fighter jet
Org charts are structured around running the company day to day. The surprising one-off big boosts from an individual are by definition not reflected in an org chart.
> The only validation I'd always enforce is some sane length limit, [..]

Venture into the abyss of UTF-8 and behold the madness of multibyte characters. Diacritics dance devilishly upon characters, deceiving your simple count. Think a letter is but a single entity? Fools! Combining characters lurk in the shadows, binding invisibly, elongating the uninitiated's count into chaos. Every attempt to enumerate the true length of a string in UTF-8 conjures a specter of complications. Behold, a single glyph, yet multiple bytes cackle beneath, a multitude of codepoints coalesce in arcane unison. It is beautiful t he final snuffing of the lie s of Man ALL IS LOST ALL I S LOST the pony he comes he comes he comes the ich or permeates all MY FACE MY FACE ᵒh god no NO NOOO O NΘ stop the an * gles are n ot real ZALGΌ IS TOƝȳ THE PO NY HE COMES
Next-Gen Nvidia ConnectX-8 SuperNIC for 800Gbps Networking
Musk can be many bad things, but he is also right in some things.

Flying high might make it invisible for human observers but the idea is that it’s not invisible in that wavelength, therefore it must be possible to create devices that can detect it.

Also, this is a brand new machine that is still not ready. Just write it off, liquidate any useful work that might have been done on it and go all in drones. What’s the point of insisting on a job not done when already looks obsolete?
Human or Not? – A Social Turing Game
When it launched there was no inter-satellite connectivity at all.
> look at how many items are priced per pound in one size and per ounce in another

That is why saner countries have real consumer protection laws that make sure prices can be compared without a calculator.
It works with Firefox. It is pretty clever - (mis)uses the HTTP link header, which doesn't seem to be supported with Chrome.
Vivendi was a big ruthless bogey in that era of gaming.
> despite the fact that nukes will probably never be launched from aircrafts if at all

"if at all": that's deterrence. I don't think any nuke-able aircraft small-country customer intent is to launch, but you gotta have the ability to.

"from aircrafts": when you have no submarines/silos and carting ground launch platforms around is impractical for your country, aircraft is the only remaining option to display deterrence factors.
I didn’t say they were super human. Nothing human, is super human. They, themselves, most of all, see nothing abnormal in their abilities. I said they are different. They think differently. They learn differently.

Maybe an illustration with the benefit of hindsight. There were many renaissance men and women, but Leonardo was a bit different. That takes nothing away from anyone else, but the works of Leonardo are a bit different.

So what I’m saying, is that at MIT, most people are not Leonardo. But when you come across one, you know. Whether they make history with their gifts, is up to their own inclination.

This doesn’t mean everyone else at elite schools are any less special. But it does mean those individuals are operating at a level that many of us just don’t.
And you could never be sure it indeed found the needle in the haystack.
Two factions? Considering C++ has everything, I'd assume there are tens of factions.
Current US mobile coverage and prices are like europe in 2002
We already have drones that are making independent decisions with bombs, but that’s not the point. You can still have people in the loop, people that are not on board.
DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program (ACE) began with AIs fighting each other in a simulated environment in a tournament. Then the winning AI fought against a human (USAF Fighter Weapons School graduate) in that simulated environment, and won. The company that developed the winning AI, Shield AI, has gone on to deploy an AI in an actual F-16 that has flown against a human in trials.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/air-combat-evolution
To disable a satalite would you actually need to hit orbital velocity? Couldn't you just shoot your rocket up to altitude and time it such that the satalite hits it?
No, in the US we just stick fingers in our ears while we let the private sector do it while screaming “la-la-la” and closing our eyes.
My mom used to be on rural dialup, with 30Kbps on a good day. Back then (200x) you could access the internet that way. Facebook, Gmail, you name it (Gmail definitely worked better in its basic HTML mode ... RIP). It did take patience but everything worked.

Then things got more modern, and she's on a cellular data plan. Once we ran it out on purpose near the end of the month, to see what the 128Kbps fallback is like. 4x as fast as she used to have, good enough, right?

Nope. Half the web didn't load at all, due to timeouts loading resources and such.

And now people are complaining about falling back to super slow 3G.

But with everything bloated 100x since the 200x's, everything has gotten 100x better, right?

I have a fairly basic, though recent, Android phone (Moto G Play 2023). I use an app called Flashfood. It was crisply performant. Then an update got pushed that made mainly cosmetic changes... and slowed it down by a factor of 10-20. Now it feels glacial on the same phone. Do they care? Maybe they should. The super recent, $1K smartphone crowd may not be exactly the Flashfood crowd. My usage of the app is way down now, because it's just not worth the aggravation.
I wasn’t accusing you of not getting the joke, I was speaking in general. But thank you for demonstrating how it’s difficult to have a conversation with someone who takes everything literally.
The conpetition is there already. In Europe you can get satellite Internet for around $40 a month. It’s slower than Starlink (transfer is decent, but the latency is in the hundreds), but much cheaper.
Disclosure: I haven’t read the article. Just checked title match.

I remember someone quoting Germany’s former Chancellor telling “the US just want to sell their dirty gas” obtained via fracking. After she left, R invasion triggered the US receiving substantial orders for LNG. And of military equipment. I am still awaiting for someone to calculate how much it tilted trade balance. And how farther it pushed the possibility for a sustainable development.

Realpolitik is a german word.
Chrome had the advantage for a long term because their dev tools were just so much better than Firebug in both features and performance. Even today, I can't pinpoint it to specific things because it's (relatively) little and subtle differences, but Chrome's dev tools feel way more polished than Firefox's.

It's almost as if Steve Ballmer and the legendary "developers developers developers" speech still rings true today - the key to getting people to use your software is to make life as easy for the power users as possible, let them spread the word. And it's ironic how Microsoft lost its ways there... a lot of people I know have gone from Windows to Mac and convinced their close relationships (aka those whose computers they fix) to do the same. It's just so much more relaxing to boot into an OS that doesn't try to shove advertising down your throat at every turn.
> David Brooks himself is part of the very same cultural elite that he's complaining about.

Thats a strengthening of the argument, not weakening. Imagine the opposite: “he hasn’t gone there, he doesn’t understand, he’s just jealous”

> For all his faults, and least Trump is willing to lie to his base

Again, that’s a weakening of the standpoint. It’s completely backwards rationalization.

> People voted for Trump because neither side is willing to do anything to actually help people. That's why people don't trust institutions or "the establishment."

This is so much in the article that it’s arguably the entire point of it. You’re basically agreeing with it, but in a contorted contrarian way.

> It's also hard to take risks or cultivate different skills when you're saddled with college debt you can't get rid if, and when healthcare and rent are taking up a large chunk of your income.

Right, but you can only get so far with a solution that amounts to getting more kids into schools that brag about how few kids they accept. There have to be more avenues and less inbreeding/nepotism/favoritism based on brand names.

At the heart of academic movement of inclusivity sits the most entrenched and extreme form of exclusivity. This is a problem worthy of its own attention, without bringing in socioeconomic everythingism. The fact that you have tons of smart and ambitious kids coming out of non-brand-name schools unable to get their resumes looked at is a disgrace and a failure. It’s demoralizing as hell.
Well, not sure how enforceable will it be, time will tell.

There are some not so good portents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ducsx9jbsgc