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by jnaina | 2025-09-05 01:31:45+00:00
I have over 400 CDs and SACDs in my collection, from the 80s to the oughts. Have ripped them to my Roon server connect to a Qnap NAS with now over 30 TB storage, as Flac or DSF files. For those CDs that have over the years degraded and can't be ripped, I wrote a scrapping agent for an (in)famous Russian Music Archive site and have > 1M magnet links stored on a MariaDB instance running on the Qnap. I only download albums/tracks as backups, for those I have paid for, via Put.IO

My Marantz Amp is Roon Ready and the Roon App (both the desktop and the iPhone version) is pretty good and sound quality is amazing as the App streams the files bit perfect without any downmixing, via ethernet.

Roon unfortunately doesn't handle DVD-A and DTS formats properly. I use Plex server and Infuse running on the Apple TV for those, and they work well. (Yes, I know I can convert .dts files to multi-channel FLACs using ffmpeg, but too many files, and I have not gotten around building an automated conversion workflow)
by learningstud | 2025-09-05 01:32:00+00:00
Naive optimism, sheer ignorance, and a general inability to think.

Let's face it. Can you claim that the code you wrote yesterday is free of errors? Most programmers cannot, yet everyone that studied calculus knows that the fundamental theorem of calculus is true without the need to test it again and again because mathematicians proved it. As if the development of logic in the 20th century was nothing, programmers keep thinking that logic is an innate skill that doesn't require focused study. The fact that programs become more incomprehensible instead of gaining more clarity as in math points to the anti-intellectual tendency of programmers and their general inability to think. Programmers have been vibe coding long before the introduction of AI agents.
by tomhow | 2025-09-05 01:32:20+00:00
Please don't post flamebait on HN. This is clearly against the guidelines. While I understand it is a reflection of your own experience, it's caused one of the worst flamewars I've seen on HN in quite some time, and we all have to take some responsibility for how others will respond to the words we use.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45128233 and marked it off topic.
by dundercoder | 2025-09-05 01:33:07+00:00
We read to them from the time they were born. Simple stories and picture books at first. I think exposure is key, but I’ve also found that kids learn way more with what they observe than what they are told to do. So they see mom and dad reading is going to have a much larger effect than just telling them to read. We take them to the local library and let them pick whatever books they want to try. One of ours took a long time to ever find anything, then discovered he loved dragons, so for a year he devoured any dragon book. Even graphic novels, which I had thought “Isn’t my 12 year old to old for these?” Primed the pump and she’ll go through 2-3 chapter books per week.

We also made age appropriate audiobooks available to them and all 4 adore listening. Congrats on your baby! I’ve never been more exhausted in my life but I’m loving it.
by zackify | 2025-09-05 01:33:24+00:00
100% why am I going to use a permissionless blockchain….

To get coins fully controlled by circle.

On a chain with low fees controlled by Coinbase (base) for example.

In this case this new L1 won’t even be distributed by anyone initially too.

It all seems like a Ponzi scheme or small utility for international users. Otherwise I don’t know why you’d trust these centralized authorities.

What stops someone at circle deciding to issue more usdc without real dollar backing
by _mlbt | 2025-09-05 01:33:30+00:00
> Another example of communism that isn’t some impoverished corrupt nation economically isolated from global trade through US led embargo: on base housing at your local military base.

Military on base housing has been privatized since the 90s. You are provided a housing allowance as part of your pay that is then paid to corporate landlords.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_housing_privatizati...
by slt2021 | 2025-09-05 01:33:34+00:00
the only secret thing was the agreement from JFK to remove missiles from Turkey, that part was hidden from the public to artificially prop up JFK's image as tough on Soviets, while in reality:

1. Blockade was not full, two American warships, the USS Essex and the USS Gearing, were ready to intercept tanker Bucharest, which could have led to war. Instead, Kennedy ordered to let the Bucharest through the quarantine

2. U-2 plane was shot down and Maj. Rudolf Anderson has died

as for "weapons and cash continue to pour" - it does not conflict with the Russian strategy, you might be surprised, but it is perfectly fine for Russians, that the US's allies are expending their resources on overpriced US military gear, that is dependent on Chinese rare earth exports
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-05 01:34:25+00:00
For sure. As I understand it, though, the Gibbs phenomenon arises due to the sinc kernel's infinite support (sinc in Fourier domain = rectangular window in time domain, equivalent to no window at all.)

No amount of precision, no number of coefficients, no degree of lowpass filtering can get around the fact that sin(x)/x never decays all the way to zero. So if you don't have an infinitely-long (or seamlessly repeating) input signal, you must apply something besides a rectangular window to it or you will get Gibbs ringing.

There is always more than one way to look at these phenomena, of course. But I don't think the case can be made that bandlimiting has anything to do with Gibbs.
by geekamongus | 2025-09-05 01:34:41+00:00
One of the big differences between the old days and today is that you have exponentially more musicians releasing music every day due to how easy it is for bedroom producers to create and release tracks with very little barrier to entry. I can create 10 songs in a weekend on my laptop in my basement and send them out to all of the major streaming services for about 20 bucks.

This floods the market with many, many independent musicians trying to get heard. And the only way to get heard today is to make it onto curated Spotify playlists, build a following, and hope that someone at a record company somewhere hears you and takes interest. Not only is Spotify a tool for consuming music by the public, it is also the main way that musicians have to promote themselves anymore.

As a musician (who gave up the dream of making this a job long ago), it really sucks. There is infinitely more competition out there now, and when you factor in all the AI crap making it on to Spotify (some of which they are responsible for), it is even worse.
by BurningFrog | 2025-09-05 01:37:06+00:00
Here is what I didn't like about this video:

- The scary effect music shows it's intended as a hit piece.

- The constant intermixing of Autopilot and Full Self Driving, two very different things.

- Implying that driving just based on visual input is unsafe, when that is how all humans drive.

Of course, that the video is an unserious hit piece doesn't mean these Tesla features are safe. But I need something more serious to be convinced.
by Incipient | 2025-09-05 01:37:47+00:00
If the shoe fits.

It's a pet peeve of mine when applications have stupid password requirements. It's an incredibly basic thing to get right. If you can't get that right, good luck with the rest of the application.

The only exception to this is if someone is trying to use outrageously long vaultwarden passwords (eg 100 characters) as that can technically break some ciphers, and doesn't provide meaningful security.
by femto | 2025-09-05 01:38:22+00:00
In that vein, I've always wondered whether the fact that we live in a fundamentally quantum universe is just a mathematically consistent side effect of the Fourier transform and the Universe's limited extent in space-time. Is the Planck time just the point at which we can't determine the difference in frequency of two signals because the wavelength of their beat frequency has to fit inside the Universe? It's fun to think about.
by evil-olive | 2025-09-05 01:40:01+00:00
> A new first-of-its-kind study by Dutch researchers

reading through [0] the affiliations of the "researchers" is the first red flag I notice.

the lead author is Hessel Voortman, from the Hessel Voortman Engineering Consultancy. his co-author is Rob De Vos, an "independent researcher".

by itself, that isn't necessarily a problem...but I'd prefer to read papers about climate change from actual experts in climate change, not Guy Who Owns Engineering Company and His Buddy

the next problem, from the abstract:

> We used two datasets with local sea level information all over the globe. In both datasets, we found approximately 15% of the available sets suitable to establish the rate of rise in 2020.

only 15% of the data being suitable seems kind of surprising. they elaborate on their criteria:

> The present study aims to estimate the long-term rates of sea level rise in 2020. To do so reliably, data were selected according to the following criteria:

> - Latest year in the dataset not earlier than 2015, this being a compromise between the desire to have data up to 2020 and the desire to have as many locations included as possible

> - Data available over a period of at least 60 years

> - At least 80% of the years in the range with data available

> Satellite data do not fulfill our second criterion and were, therefore, not used.

so they have a bunch of data, they come up with some cutoffs that discard 85% of the data, then draw conclusions from the other 15%?

in particular, satellite data hasn't been around for 60 years, so...toss it all out, I guess? couldn't satellite data from the past 30 years still be used to support their findings? couldn't every-other-year data fill the same purpose as well?

this smells a bit like p-hacking...if you can exclude data based on arbitrary criteria, you can reach any conclusion you want by excluding the right data.

but anyways, I think it's heartwarming that climate denial is still being done by humans. you'd think AI would have taken over that job by now.

0: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/9/1641
by dehrmann | 2025-09-05 01:40:14+00:00
> I'm sorry, but this is the exact same insight that MSN Explorer had

The internet wasn't fast enough. There are a number of dot-com era ideas that were before their time for various reasons. There's also Wordle. That game could have been made (and I think variants were) for at least a 20-year window, but it caught on late in the pandemic when our streaming queues were exhausted.
by Spivak | 2025-09-05 01:40:29+00:00
There's just one problem with your model. There's no royalty difference between a Spotify subscriber playing one song vs 1000 songs if it's just % of subscriber's listening time. Someone who gets more plays by absolute numbers is going to be upset when they don't get a proportionate amount of money. The only way to make more money on Spotify is to get more fans and/or convince your existing fans to listen to fewer artists.

This is a popular HN suggestion for disbursement but it makes the math super weird.
by anthem2025 | 2025-09-05 01:40:48+00:00
“ Congress flirting with adding another $116 trillion over the next 30 years if it doesn't reform entitlement programs”

Or raise taxes.

Weird how a totally reasonable site doesn’t mention the possibility of increased revenue in an article about a sovereign wealth fund.

Whatever, minor nitpick really.

> Imagine policy decisions about energy, tech, labor standards, and even foreign relations warped by the government's financial stake

We don’t have to imagine we are seeing that playing out now with the rampant corruption of the Trump regime.
by DeviceBit | 2025-09-05 01:41:15+00:00
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by cortesoft | 2025-09-05 01:41:44+00:00
I have often thought this method made more sense. It should not be total revenue / total streams, it should be what a single person pays going to exactly what they listen to.

It isn’t fair that someone who listens to a ton of things has a much greater say in how the money is distributed even though they pay the same as someone who only listens to one artist.
by dcrazy | 2025-09-05 01:41:53+00:00
Some people might be surprised that statically typed errors have arrived so late in Swift’s life. This is because typed errors are a bad default. Without deep consideration, it is easy to design an error type that encodes too much implementation detail into the type system. Then if your implementation grows new failure modes, you either have to break your ABI (e.g. by adding a new case to your error enum) or lie about the nature of the error, calling into question the value of encoding errors in the type signature at all. And at a certain level of abstraction, it’s just impossible to predict all the failures that can occur. We learned these lessons from Java’s checked exceptions experiment.
by kjellsbells | 2025-09-05 01:43:13+00:00
It's quite tricky to explain, but yes, everything in AS/400 is an object. There is also the notion of a context, called a library, that these files-as-objects exist in. AS/400 files very frequently act in a way that today we would describe as databases (like sqlite files, say) and the library context guides how information ('records') in them is returned, eg FIFO, LIFO, etc.

I think the best explanation is contained in this very old porting guide from IBM that explains how to move UNIX programs to AS/400. It's written in a remarkably un-IBM fashion, not at all straitlaced.

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244438.pdf

For any experts out there, please correct me, it's been 30 years...
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-05 01:43:42+00:00
Yes, cope. "It’s what happens to all the fauna and flora on this planet" is cope. A literal "it's more okay if I rot to death if everything else does!"

Modern agriculture has enabled the human population to grow rapidly without people starving to death, which had "unknown unintended consequences" too. As well as the well known consequence of food being affordable and available to most people worldwide.

I'd take "unknown unintended consequences" over the well known consequences of the status quo. The current consequences is that everyone dies a miserable death. It's a very easy choice.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-05 01:44:20+00:00
These apologetics for piracy are ancient and weren't good decades ago, let alone now. Yes, digital data has no scarcity. But that doesn't mean it's a victimless crime to just take it. Someone worked hard on making that music (or game, or whatever), with society giving them the chance to turn a profit by selling copies to people. When you just take it without paying (thus violating the social contract), you are in a very real sense stealing that person's time. So while it might not be the case that a digital copy taken does not cause the original to go missing, piracy is very much theft in the moral sense. And that is why people get upset about it.
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by cat-turner | 2025-09-05 01:44:42+00:00
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by favflam | 2025-09-05 01:44:43+00:00
People are rushing to do CDO-squared (collateralized debt obligation from 2006) type financial products using stable coins. And one company has already created an ETF product linked to an on-chain CDO-style debt product.

I think the financial industry has figured out a way to do an end run around all financial regulations written since the 1930s.

I think like vaccine mandates, we will all have to "relearn" why we wrote this regulations in the first place the hard way.
by alex1138 | 2025-09-05 01:44:51+00:00
I can't defend Wiki any further after their politicization

How about not calling Peter McCullough or Ryan Cole or Pierre Kory misinformation spreaders about covid when they were right the whole time

Larry Sanger was correct

Edit: (I know we're not supposed to comment on downvotes but I seriously don't care) Those of you who insta-downvote stuff like this should not enjoy the privileges of the karma system on HN that allows you to downvote

(Further - how many of you actually work for big tech? Do you think it's ok to censor doctors like has been going on the last few years? Do you have any qualities of personal reflection, whatsoever?)
by tomhow | 2025-09-05 01:45:18+00:00
I understand the parent's comments have been highly inflammatory, and I've replied to them to point this out, but we need you to resist the urge to respond to comments like this, no matter how bad they are. Other people's offensive comments do not give us license to break the guidelines so egregiously. You've done it before and we need you to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by jedberg | 2025-09-05 01:45:27+00:00
The way budgeting works at Amazon, every team contributes items to lines in a spreadsheet. Those get rolled up at every level all the way to the CEO, who then approves or denies, and then it all rolls back down.

There is a special section called KTLO (keep the lights on). That one usually gets priority (because it's pro-customer, since customers want the existing stuff to keep working).

I've seen departmental budgets that dedicate 75% of their headcount to KTLO.
by jared_hulbert | 2025-09-05 01:46:28+00:00
YES! gcc and clang don't like to optimize this. But they do if you hardcode the size_bytes to an aligned value. It kind of makes sense, what if a user passes size_bytes as 3? With enough effort the compilers could handle this, but it's a lot to ask.

I just ran MAP_POPULATE the results are interesting.

It speeds up the counting loop. Same speed or higher as the my read() to a malloced buffer tests.

HOWEVER... It takes a longer time overall to do the population of the buffer. The end result is it's 2.5 seconds slower to run the full test when compared to the original. I did not guess that one correctly.

time ./count_10_unrolled ./mnt/datafile.bin 53687091200 unrolled loop found 167802249 10s processed at 5.39 GB/s ./count_10_unrolled ./mnt/datafile.bin 53687091200 5.58s user 6.39s system 99% cpu 11.972 total time ./count_10_populate ./mnt/datafile.bin 53687091200 unrolled loop found 167802249 10s processed at 8.99 GB/s ./count_10_populate ./mnt/datafile.bin 53687091200 5.56s user 8.99s system 99% cpu 14.551 total
by fragmede | 2025-09-05 01:47:20+00:00
Unfortunately, that picture doesn't update automatically, so if you add things to that page, you have to retake the picture. Worse, if you don't take a picture of a page, there's no digital copy of it! If you've left your paper notebook at a different location, you can't take pictures of it unless you go to where it physically is! Inconceivable, I know, but it turns out there are benefits to a digital notepad. If you're too poor/cheap to spend money on high quality tools, that's your problem, but no, your paper notebook doesn't let you draw a lasso around a section of the page, copy and paste it onto a new page, and then resize it.
by rootusrootus | 2025-09-05 01:47:43+00:00
Reminds me of a guy I knew when I was growing up. At the time he was in his 80s. Walked miles every day, he was in great shape. Still died before 90, so it did not buy him notable longevity, but he was mentally sharp and physically capable up to very near the end. That sounds way better than slowly turning into a vegetable over the last 20 years of your life.
by milkshakes | 2025-09-05 01:48:29+00:00
i actually really like your product for what it's worth. don't listen to the haters. hackers build things.

i just won't use it, and nobody should, unless they can understand exactly how it works and reason for themselves about the risks they are taking. you clearly work hard and care deeply about what you are building, and it will be very useful. but it has the potential to cause widespread harm, no matter how trustworthy you are, how much you care about it, or what your intentions are.

with respect to user security and privacy, doing your best is not much better than yolo security. the minimum standard should be to research the threat landscape, study the state of the art in methods to mitigate those threats, implement them, and test them thoroughly, yourselves and through vendors. iterate through that process continuously, alongside your development. it will never end. or, you can open source it and the internet does this for you for free. build something people love, grow traction, convert that to money. THEN figure out how to make money from them.. not the other way around. or, more likely, some combination of all of the above.

someone else linked you to simon wilson's lethal trifecta page, i would absolutely start there, and read everything linked as well. pangea and spectreops both do good work in the llm pentesting space, i'm sure there are more.
by jedberg | 2025-09-05 01:48:41+00:00
Amazon is odd that way. Everyone has a base that low, even VPs. All of the comp is in RSUs and hiring bonus for the first two years. Even someone with a total comp of $1M a year will have a base salary of $250K, and a hiring bonus of $700K a year, and then RSUs that in theory make up the rest, as long as AMZN goes up at least 15% per year.

When the stock was on a tear, some people would make 2x or 3x their expected total comp. But on down stock years, you could end up at 80% of the promised comp.
by Calavar | 2025-09-05 01:48:45+00:00
I was also in high school in that time period and had a similar experience. As I recall it, pretty much every student had a phone by 2007ish (flip phones back then), and using a phone in class was grounds to have it confiscated for the day and get a detention. This was absolutely enforced.

My college experience was similar to yours as well. All exams were paper (often blue books). Having a phone out would get you kicked out of the exam hall. But by the time I did med school, it was all digital.
by yongjik | 2025-09-05 01:49:02+00:00
Mamdani ran against Cuomo, a disgraced sex offender, and the incumbent Adams, whose corruption scandal was so bad that Trump pardoned him to sow chaos among the Democratic party. If I were a NYC resident I'd vote for a sack of potatoes over these two.

How someone gets "young people don't read" from this is beyond me.