jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The comfort noise that he is referring to is the white noise that is intentionally introduced by modern digital cell phones. Most cell phones have a CODEC that will detect silence and rather than wasting valuable bandwidth on nothing, a silence packet is sent that says something like "quiet for the next 250ms" or something like that. The GSM specification for the AMR CODEC provides for a feature called comfort noise. It turns out that on the other end, if the listener hears total silence, they worry that the connection was lost. So instead it will provide white noise, specifically +/- 2048 (of a 16 bit word). Since a pseudo random number generator on the phone is typically used, it is making white noise, similar to the white noise you hear on an old fashioned analog phone or as the author references, a radio tuned to no station and you hear random static a percentage of which is cosmic MW background radiation from the big bang. It is ironic that with all that digital technology and people still like the comfort of white noise in the background, not complete silence. Of course the carriers could instead use some extra BW and transmit the actual background noise of whoever you are talking to.
Been tempted to buy one of their phones, they are so cheap in Singapore compared to other makers for similar specs.
for the record, i don't work for microsoft, so note trying to shamelessly solicit outlook, reading back on my post, i imagine some would think so.
If you only want it for http you could use Fiddler (http://www.fiddler2.com)
I recently cancelled my Netflix account.

Cancelling was easy enough. However about one week later, I got a churn email in the style of "Hey Ywain, here are 3 good reasons for you to ~~give us your money~~ subscribe again".

I was pretty sure my account was set to not receive any kind of promotional emails, so I clicked the "Unsubscribe" link. The link asks you to login, and immediately after login it redirects you to the one-click page to resume your subscription rather than the communications settings page.

Even after manually navigating to the communications settings page, I was able to verify that my account was, in fact, set to not receive any kind of emails at all from Netflix, so there's nothing more I can unsubscribe from.

Very disappointed in Netflix, and won't be resubscribing any time soon.

Re. Amazon, the process to unsubscribe from Prime is a textbook dark pattern which requires 3 or 4 clicks on pages with 3 buttons where 2 out of the 3 will stop the unsubscribe flow and the third button being of course the less obvious one.
$99 a year to release an app is going to break the bank?
There are a number of fiscal sponsors for open source out there that you can use to sidestep the need to register a 501(c)(3), for example Conservancy or SPI:

https://sfconservancy.org/
https://www.spi-inc.org/
I can influence patterns I see with my thoughts when I’m in the right headspace.
Thanks to tpope, vim comes with some out of the box editing support for rebase¹. So, you don't even need to use change word. :F[ixup] to change to fixup, which supports ranges too(super useful with <count>V or V<movement>).

The standard vim {in,de}crement commands are bound to :Cycle in rebase buffers as well, so you can use <C-{a/x}> from anywhere in the line to twiddle the command for the current commit.

¹ :e $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/gitrebase.vim
and your point would be...what?
Ethan Perlstein uses ethnic stereotypes to market his company. He opportunistically uses rare disease kids to shield against complaints. I would steer clear.
Here is who you can write to if you want to encourage your state to approve the relevant licenses: http://www.ncleg.net/representation/whorepresentsme.aspx
Erowid store massive amounts of information about drugs, including user stories. It's a great resource for beginning research, and has a section for psilocybin mushrooms.

https://www.erowid.org/
From the article it sounds like those punishments were for something else, and happened before she uploaded this video.
Photos reveal potential likely chemistry

Photos say nothing about chemistry, using the dating-normal definition of the term. They only provide appearance, and usually an idealized version of that.
Rippetoe's Starting Strength is the best place to learn the barbell movements and will take care of your first 3-6 months of training.

From there, you have a wealth of options like his Practical Programming, Wendler's 5/3/1 books, and the Tactical Barbell books for combining strength and endurance training. The Barbell Medicine podcast and strongerbyscience.com are also great.

If you find yourself wanting to compete, Juggernaut Training and the Renaissance Training groups are great sources.

If you want something portable you can do at home, Pavel's Simple and Sinister is your best bet for kettlebell work, and Overcoming Gravity will teach you bodyweight work that only requires a pull-up bar.
Hi there, we're capturing windows at the client, send them across through our video bridge (to get through proxies & firewalls and scale beyond 2+ users per channel) and then the windows are shown on the remote end. We don't store any shared windows, videos, images, or audio data. We only capture anonymized usage stats to get an idea what we need to optimize for (e.g. # of sessions and users per session).

Our security concept was recently approved after an extensive vendor risk assessment by a large global enterprise. This is a positive indication but obviously don't hesitate to drop us a mail if you want to discuss specific requirements!
Maybe richer people drive bikes?

This might be "Wet roads cause rain"
Thanks - appreciate that. It sucks that this post has been flagged though, despite there being no guideline violations or anything of that sort.
Its the most annoying thing. Also, APIs having previous versions deprecated.
True, but what made the Mono REPL particularly remarkable was that it launched with much of the functionality of a notebook, with things like inline graphics.
Could be some 3rd party libs doing that behind its back
Medibuntu has made the step of installing codecs with shaky legal status incredibly easy. I used to cuss a lot more about video decoding in Linux.
Congrats to Daniel and Dave! I'm biased b/c I know these guys, but I'm excited about their startup. And hats off to Dan b/c it's never easy to leave a salaried, full-time gig for the ground floor of a startup.
Agreed, drop a little more carbon into the steel and you've got your own new stainless steel that for all intensive purposes is probably identical to 3,000 types of steel already on the market by different producers globally.

Steel is steel, they probably researched the steel that works best as an antenna whilst not compromising the physical strength of the unit (for instance, you don't want the metal case to be the thing most likely to shatter on the device).
Pretty sure he knows that.
The initial proposal was for the carbon tax to be revenue-neutral and (IIRC) returned as a per-capita rebate. That didn't pass, so the followup used the revenue for social programs as an attempt at bipartisanship. The followup also failed to pass, though.
Remember one of the goals was 'just works' too. As they wanted to move people off win3x. The win3x apps had to work/look the same but pick up some of the nice styling from win9x. Some programs would also roll their own system menu and put it in that spot. That would cause a cover up of the close. For a run of the mill application it was just a style and they could have put it anywhere. For programs that controlled the whole window including the title bar area it was a tough choice. Even then it did not always come out looking right. The win95 style guide basically told everyone to knock it off and let windows control it.

Was it all a good choice? For some it was annoying. There was a shortcut that did the same thing. If you double clicked the upper left it would close the window too. Which is how they taught people to use win3x. Most certainly it was an interesting compromise to the constraints they had.

Copying the style was all on everyone else though. They wanted it to be familiar to windows users. All to 'gain market-share' I guess.
Rural areas typically involve longer distances, which is not something this vehicle will excel at.
Google is basically a startup builder. And a really good one.

How many companies manage to stay so innovative after having found their rainmaker product?

However, they should probably sell their successful startups instead of killing them.

But I guess they don’t need the money.
I wrote a chrome headless framework that types using semi-realistic key presses (timing, mistakes, corrections) and does semi-realistic scrolling / swiping and clicking / tapping.

It's not very hard to get something that would be too hard for almost every website beside Google and Facebook to bother with. If it's a 1 on a 0-9 scale in difficulty, most websites just don't have the resources to detect it

It took me like ~3 hours to write it, but I guarantee it would take months for someone to detect it, and even then, they'd have a lot of false positives and negatives.
As the technology to do this becomes exponentially cheaper, integrity (in all it's ramifications) becomes exponentially more valuable.

- - - -

Sooner or later, nanotech will mature and all of this will escape the digital realm (largely photons and electrons) into "real" life (IRL) (protons and neutrons) and we'll have to deal with that.
"I personally think accuracy issues are because security vendors don’t want to show that their expensive software found nothing"

That might be a bit cynical, not sure I'd call openvas expensive.. I think it comes down to the fact that the damage of a single false negative can far outweigh the cost of the false positives. In the end, these scanners are mostly a tool to help document your security efforts, often for compliance reasons, making you think about and document the choices you make from a security perspective.
What kind of SD card are you using? How many writes/transfer speed? The fact that the card can die on you and lose 400 GB of data gives me nightmares.

I got a Rock Pi recently and it supports M.2 slot and eMMC that goes up to 64 GB, this makes me less nervous.
I have a little pet project from a long time ago that I tried to start with this, it lets me describe recipes like this:

Recipe|Turkey Stuffing
I|4 C==French bread hand torn into small pieces (about 1/4 inch pieces)
I|3/4 C==Butter
I|3/4 C==Onion (minced)
I|1 C==Celery
I|1 Tbsp==Salt (less if bird is butterball or self basting)
I|pinch==Pepper
I|2 Tbsp==Sage, thyme, and marjoram mixture
D|Melt butter in large skillet over low heat
D|Add onion and celery & spices, stirring often until it all smells great.
D|Pour 1/3 of the hot mixture over all the bread, then toss, then 1/3 more, toss, then last 1/3 and toss.

From there it can produce a pretty webpage to view the recipe, or produce an ingredient list for shopping (and it has some basic concept of combining shopping lists sanely), and lets me search by ingredient.

I always debate fleshing it out. 99% of the time spent with something like this is curating the recipes themselves, which I'm far from an expert in, and I don't want it to become a big time waster.
There is no evidence to suggest millions of bicycle commuters are waiting in the wings for more green paint.
With Teams you can set your status and ignore a message as well. I can't ignore someone who barges into my cubicle with a problem they feel is Sev 1.
a lot of software expects a usable home directory. There was another type of containerization (syos) which was designed for HPC use cases (think deploying 10k nodes doing one thing many times in parallel divvying up and pulling a shared dataset on a academic or industry (pharma), cluster with a high performance distributed filesystem underneath) that did this, however syos is not appropriate for most webscale use.
Wags used to say the name of the prototype IMKO stood for 'Иван Марангозов Копира Оригинала' - 'Ivan Marangozov Copies the Original'
I imagine that insiders are allowed to sell after earnings releases. My bet is there’s a blackout window that opens after earnings and insiders exercise their options, causing selling pressure. Just a guess though. It sure how to validate it.
Good time to remind everyone that judges are literally just attorneys that a) won an election or b) were appointed.

This one was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and will continue in her position until she dies or retires. The only option for removal is impeachment by the house and removal by the senate, which will absolutely not happen.
As Gurdjieff said, "there are many delicate parts in there, which cannot be gotten from any repair shop".

To be qualified as a Guru you should know how not to break your students, and how to fix them if they break or come to you already broken, to the extent that that is possible.

To teach people how to ignite themselves without a fire extinguisher handy is not wise?
I'd counter and say that natural resources are one, probably the most significant symbol of status with which wars and their outcome are negotiated. But the war outcome itself, rather than diplomatic or market solutions, is specifically the result of evaluation of relative symbolic status rather than underlying resource needs.

Examples: WW I was the result of royal jealousy over who had better navy boats. WW II was fought when a whole cultural identity perceived itself to have loss of status after the fall of Austrian Empire. Vietnam and the cold wars had to do with the ongoing symbolic struggle for status between different factions of aristocratic, government, or corporate interests, etc. And all the mercenary forces enabling the conflict were interested in those resources as status symbols rather than any underlying need for or lack of resources.

Same with global water supply. If the question is, how does everyone get enough water, then it's a practical problem which war only hurts. But if the question is, who controls access to what water, then it's a matter of symbolic status and war is inevitable.

This is why the argument is tough tho, because natural resources are a primary status symbol, so we say "resource war". But I think it's important to talk about the distinction because the difference is life and death.
> Most importantly, when the Fed decides to print money ad nauseam, they create massive asset inflation, which steals from the poor and gives to the rich

Presumably debtors benefit from inflation since they can pay off their debts with inflated dollars.

Presumably people with cash savings are harmed by inflation since cash loses value.
Scala's Futures work unchanged, it just has a single-threaded threadpool instead of a multithreaded one. Anything built on Futures (e.g. my Castor actor library) is unchanged as well.

Scala Futures are more or less a 1:1 mapping to Javascript Promises, and work identically.

There isn't long running IO or sleeps, same JS, but this isn't a big problem in practice. As long as you're not juggling threads directly - and most Scala code doesn't - your code should run unchanged concurrency-wise in Scala.js just with no parallelism. Though of course you can't use OS interfaces like java.nio.file.Files in the browser!
I don't like the current state of the law, but it makes sense. The law isn't what we'd like it to be, it's a self-supporting artifice constructed by legislators, lawyers, and judges (many of whom wear multiple hats through their careers).
Yeah, despite the outdated name, youtube-dl supports thousands of websites, and it seems like it already supports Khan Academy:

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
The public already agrees, but I appreciate their effort. MSM broadcasts nowadays have very few active viewers. Youtubers have many times that of the MSM. MSM are trying to play catch-up on Youtube, but they get heavily "disliked".
The interesting thing is that they only stopped him for a few minutes and, once they realized he wasn't suspicious, declined to do anything and let him go, then neglected to return his phone until it was demanded back. Despite the headline, they didn't go back and invent charges for the guy, they determined he was innocent and dropped it, though they neglected his phone.

One problem with making a federal case out of this is that it tends to incentivize the cops to make their own federal case out of this in defense, i.e. to make stuff up so they have a defense if they made a mistake.
They just enumerate all child windows, these events are not frequent enough for this to be a performance bottleneck. The check is something along the lines of

Win* GetChildAt(Win* w, int x, int y)
{
size_t i;
if (x >= w->ScreenX1 && y >= w->ScreenY1 &&
x <= w->ScreenX2 && y <= w->ScreenY2) {
for (i=0; i < w->ChildCount; i++) {
Win* child = GetChildAt(w->Child[i], x, y);
if (child) return child;
}
return w;
}
return NULL;
}

Call this on the root window and you have the deepest child at the given coordinates.

(though there is usually a bit extra logic for handling, e.g., invisible and disabled windows)
Hashify + pen.io and you've got a great service.

Hashify gets a pretty UI. pen.io removes the need for a DB.
I'm sorry if this is not the world's best HN comment, but I really enjoy the aesthetics of this site. The colors and font choices are fantastic, at least to me. Thumbs up.
I think the news article exaggerates the purpose of the device described in the actual paper. It isn't intended as a competitor for opaque power generation cells. The idea is that, since you already need an anti-reflective coating to block IR light, it might as well be a coating that can scavenge a bit of the incident power instead of sending it all back into space.
I'm guessing Tim Cook is a busy, busy man right now. Wonder when we'll see iPads stop being supply-constrained.

Can anybody explain what this means?

Cook, regarding Japan: "Regarding business, had some rev. impact Q2, but wasn’t material… expecting 200M less in Q3 which is reflected in guidance. Not expecting supply or cost impact."

If supply and cost are not impacted, where does the 200M hit come from?
Wow, that's a pretty bad state of affairs in the US. I'm glad that's one area where the EU is more market-oriented.
Exploit the competitive nature of San Francisco residents to collect a huge slab of facebook user details which can then be targeted for direct marketing? Just, y'know, at a guess...
I stand corrected. Not sure what TC were referring to, their graph ranges from mid-January to mid-February and the trend should have been noticeable by then.
when I try to visit your site, my company filters you. This category is filtered: Illegal or Questionable.

I wonder what is on your site that makes them think this, it rarely happens.
Wow - for many years I've dreamed of either building or finding Blocktrix online. Thanks for making my dreams come true :)
Right. The title of this article should be changed, then, as it really has nothing to do with Fair Use at all.
This game was so freaking good, and I also agree, I'd become sort of bored of video games until this was recommended. I stayed glued to the game until I 100%ed it (didn't take me too long, maybe around 20 hours). I really really wish I could forget the game and replay it, or that there was a part 2, or something. Incredibly creative and well-made.
I have not seen any interview problems where you have to debug an issue having limited information as often is the case in embedded systems. You have a set of logs and the source code to look at. The description of the problem is "X doesn't work" where X is some protocol or procedure. This is something that took me a lot of time to become good at (to not freak out, but to be systematic).
I'd try and view it positively: you dodged a bullet in that you avoided working with a shitty organization that does things like that.
I feel that sentiment myself. The need for better online communication is a forced reality during COVID. Having to navigate such explicit communication setups like Zoom groups and break-out rooms is a challenge.

But I don't know why the marketing needs to be so "fun". I hated all the "fun" slack brought to my life... and slowed down good communication dramatically.
A few years back, I stumbled on the master transit plan for the Metro Detroit region prior to the freeway system being built. The original plan called for rail running in the median of the freeways, similar to how spots are in Chicago. The plan included artist concepts, layouts, etc. Not sure if its true or not, but I had read reports the auto industry fought the rail component of the project to its death.

It was a really fascinating document. It's somewhere on the internet; I wish I could find the link.
That was cool, except I could never hear anybody talking. :(

I could hear the videos, though.
This feels like a ridiculous comparison. Free speech protects people from going to prison. Flexible OS options enable some personal choices with a product. Even if we take a much wider view of free speech (protection from corporate interference), this is still a massive stretch.

Free speech is enshrined in the constitution because, although dangerous, lawmakers generally believe that protecting it is critical to the long term success of the nation (and not every nation even agrees with this). I see no world where exec permissions on arbitrary directories on my phone is critical to the long term success of the nation.
Apart from the obvious feels (I love that movie), the big takeaway from this for me is https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg - makes me think, considering how much I enjoy creating documentation (sort of as a relaxing technique), why the hell haven't I jazzed up my READMEs yet?!
"indefinitely" vs. "infinitely", but it took me a second to notice the difference as well.
You are swapping.
True - what I'm trying to say is: Although DC cops can easily be outnumbered by protesters, in pure numbers DC isn't under-staffed by national standards.

Even the most self-sufficient of cities would find their cops outnumbered in such a situation.
To make the decision on who is allowed to post on their website?
Yeah, I'd wager it was his laziness and proneness to shortcuts. One thing, though: Article states the radio show took place a few months after he won so probably 1984 or 1985. Federal Reserve website states that there were 7.5 billion one-dollar bills in circulation in 1999 (couldn't find numbers for years prior 1999). Increase of one-dollar bills in circulation seems to have fluctuated a lot over the course of years, might have been a significantly lower number in 1984/1985. I mean, it'd still be an impossibly long shot but I felt like pointing it out.