skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the OP is specifically asking freelancers because 100k as a salary is not exactly rare, it's what I've paid some of my juniors.

100k+ as a freelancer is significantly more rare - requiring either very steady work, a niche skill-set, or great marketing skills.
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> "If you download mp3/spotify"

You are misconstruing Monty's argument here. He is very much against mp3...in fact he says he could tell the difference between high bitrate mp3 and 16 bit 44k wav. The real point of the video is that 16 bit 44k wav is beyond sufficient...don't need to go beyond that to 24-bit 192kHz.
I've been developing WebGL software for a client for the last few years and my client has had quite good success selling content based on the software and consumers are using the content. The vast majority of browsers fully support WebGL (1).

The biggest performance bottle-neck is the JS itself, specifically stock three.js is quite inefficient. However, that's just a matter of optimising three.js, or using WebGL directly if you need more fine-grained control. You can get a lot done in a browser these days.
what is django got to do with this?
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If you're into plain-text file managers, and vim, you might like Ranger[0]. Like Roamer, it's written in Python.

[0] http://ranger.nongnu.org/
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SEC: Qualcomm Hired Relatives of Chinese Officials to Obtain Business

https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-36.html

Not one head rolled or Jailed.. They settled despite brazenly violating the FCPA rules which most of them are trained for every year.
Sorry for the delay, been a long day...

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NSA had been trying to install network monitoring boxes in all the places.

this was discovered, after a whistleblower from AT&T mentioned this happening in the MUX/IX in the infamous room 641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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There is way too much to educate ppl in one post on the evolution to the above, but I can go back decades if I have time - and ppl have interest...

Anyway - the NSA was running all over and installing spying boxes... they got caught.

The CEO of Qwest was convicted on "tax fraud" or some such after he had the balls to stand up to the NSA and not install their shit.

Aside: Qwest communications was founded as a splinter from a railroad company who realized they had right-of-way easments along ALL their rail lines -- which was easy to lay fiber alongside, and then build a comms co on that backbone.

Earthlink, which was funded early by key hollywood scientologists, refused to install the boxes as well -- but because they were already spying on all their user traffic to hunt for "clam" people (clam people are those that made fun of scientology due to scientology's belief that humans are evolved from clams - among a great many other weird beliefs... anyway they werent prosecuted, presumably due to holywood big-shot money... etc...)

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There was a student who was able to look up all the public-works filings for all municipal and federal digging plans/permits/etc and wrote some detailed report on the critical network infra of the US, thus revealing its weaknesses -- the report was nabbed as "national security" as "terrorists" might attack it.. (though they didnt really report on the fiber cuts which caused major upheaval and outages in silicon valley) -- but they shut that kids thesis (i think it was a thesis) down...

The revolving door with the NSA and silicon valley is wide open, obvious and pretty big...

if you want more info. email me... revealing too much on HN is stupid.
The assumption was that you have 800 train cars and that you would load roughly 33 cars every 10 minutes.

But let's take your numbers: 415K passengers per day. Let's keep the same three day evacuation period. That's ~1.2 million people. Leaving 5 million in Houston.

Here's the point: Evacuating millions of people over a weekend is a gargantuan task. Magic words like "train", "plane", or "automobile" don't instantly solve the problem.
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Market power and competition explain every problem in the US economy
"Some version of Harvey probably would have happened without climate change, and we’ll never know the hypothetical truth."

But let me write an op-ed about it anyway.
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Perhaps a more relevant question would be:

If you found out your kid tried mushrooms, do you think they'd deserve criminal charges and jail time?
Yeah I edit at 32 bit float myself, then I export down to 16 bit 44100 flac for distribution.
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> Both your inputs (ADC) and outputs (DAC) are fixed-point. Why would you want to use a floating point in between?

Fixed point arithmetic is non-trivial and not well supported by CPU instruction sets.
(Hint: you can't just use integer add/multiply.)

> I think you’re underestimating the complexity of modern musician-targeted VST effects. I’ve never programmed that kind of software. But I’m positive such effects are overwhelmingly more complex than just multiply+add these sample values. Therefore, extra temporal resolution helps.

Indeed, many audio effects require upsampling to work well with common inputs, e.g highly non-linear effects like distortion/saturation or analog filter models.
However usually they perform upsampling and downsampling internally (commonly between 2x-4x-8x).
While upsampling/downsampling is expensive (especially if you are using multiple of these types of plugins) its not clear if running at a higher sample rate across the board is worth it just to save those steps.
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The problem isn't the understanding of statistics, the problem is a grossly-misleading name.
As I recently said elsewhere on Hacker News, systemd is not the only option on Arch nowadays.

* https://framagit.org/taca/archnosh

One can also use the same toolset on FreeBSD/TrueOS. OpenBSD, alas, fails to provide some necessary functionality for everything to be similarly possible; but many of the tools can work there, and I use them on OpenBSD myself (alongside OpenBSD versions of the djbwares toolset).

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/openbsd-binary-packages.html...

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/

It has a shim svcadm command. (-:

* http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/guide/svcadm.html
Developer machines could be as interesting as servers, maybe more. If they can install a keylogger using a malicious or hijacked gem, then bingo!

The file overwrite and the ANSI sequence vulnerabilities are extra attack vectors. The main one has anyways been the code itself and its vetting process. This for Ruby gems and for any other open and closed source piece of code we run on our machines, starting from the processor(s) microcode.
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You shouldn't go down when one box or VPS falls over?
I wouldn't call it "tinfoil hat" because the cost/benefit is extremely low. Negligible effort in exchange for piece of mind. It's a reasonable trade-off. You can never be sure what all your software is doing unless you piece together your own linux system from scratch.
Thanks for the clarification. It's still on the high side, imo, but depending on where you live, it may be sort of a low-end floor. I would think that many people would just forgo taking money out for the first several months, but perhaps there were more than just the 2 original folks? I couldn't tell from the article.
I expect this is because some actually produce light in the visible spectrum too.
When you use numpy, you're not one semicolon away from a segfault.
I've heard two-sided marketplaces are one of the toughest business models to get started along with advertising based businesses.
Thanks for the very detailed response!

I seem to recall that after I used a JumpStart server to put a flash archive on a system, I would do a "reconfiguration boot" to have the kernel probe all the devices again and rebuild the device tree. "touch /reconfigure && reboot" I think?

I would do this with similar but not exact systems, like you mentioned - the 5 and 10 were similar but not the same...
Are random events evenly distributed? ......
As far as I know, people consistently fail to tell the difference in blind A/B tests in listening between (any decent) FLAC and a well ripped mp3 from the same source. I know I can't. I can't link to proper double blind studies but that's the general consensus in the non-BS-audiophile community as far as I know.
Hiding in plain sight and steganography along with strong encryption are the only tools to retain privacy.
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My point is that for people like you who might take public transit, walk, bike, or otherwise not take a taxi Uber lowers the total cost of a car trip, thereby increasing your demand for car trips

No, because, like I said at the beginning, if I didn't have Uber I'd get my own car, and so my marginal cost per car trip would be much lower, and so I'd use it more than the couple of quarterly rides I take nowadays.

Furthermore, Ubers like cabs drive around waiting for fares so they create traffic while not providing rides.

On the other hand, if I need to go some place after work, I'd need to take my car to work during the morning commute, creating extra traffic. Also, there's driving around looking for parking. Finally, there's UberPOOL.

Gas taxes only pay for up to 40% of road maintenance and that's in states with the highest gas taxes.

Fair enough. Sounds like states need to raise their gas taxes. But at least here Uber also pays 23% VAT. Don't they pay sales tax over there?
Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
This is the sort of claim that requires a link.
Arbitrary biological i/o; stimuli and responses can be designed and linked, sampling from anything the world of life can currently do.

Age (see Constitutional Article 2.1, 14th US Amendment).

Memorizable strings of data worth billions of dollars.

Aesthetic biology around us, and within us as a form of expression.

Wealth (as energy expenditure) driving speed and permanence vs quality or capability (think hill coefficients). Metal & rock as materials of speed, but also waste, whereas literal capabilities are mirrorable with biology, are much more efficient, but 'slow'.

(More) Von Neumann Probes everywhere, but resembling acorns, fruit flies, and yeast.

(Explicit & commercialized) synthetic symbioses for individuals and for societies, and for other life.
I'm not surprised that going back to 3Gbps works; modern high frequency signaling is so close to the boundaries of what works that even things like the length of the SATA cable and how it's oriented, and what temperature components are at, can mean the difference between a working link and one that fails when the right sequence of bits gets sent. DTLE is a way of tuning the transmitter output so that when the signal gets received at the other end, it's as "clear" as possible.

Even early SDRAM controllers had similar tunable settings for clock delays and such, because different DIMMs may vary slightly --- upon POST, the BIOS would set all the settings to nominal values, then nudge each one in one direction while reading/writing pathological data until errors occurred; then nudge them in the other direction until errors occurred, and finally settle on the average of the two extremes. I suspect a similar process needs to be done here, and if you reverse-engineered the BIOS further you would find the algorithm to do it.

More interesting information on DTLE "discrete time linear equalization" here:
http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~rbwu/rapid_content/course/highspeed...

Big kudos to the Purism folks for trying to figure these things out. And big fuckings to Intel for keeping this stuff NDA'd --- it only makes it harder for those trying to buy and use your products (I hope someone leaks it all eventually...)
Lots of people quite not realize the fact that they got this nasty toolbar/addon to begin with.
I believe much similar magic is possible in Python, but you get to implement it on top of the relatively simple interactions between instance dict, class dict, and metaclass. They would not be bullet-proof, and they are not built into the default implementation. But they are very possible.
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It seems like many of these big ICOs come with presales to VCs at lower prices. Doesn't this somehow violate the spirit of what blockchain technology / cryptocurrencies are supposed to adhere to?
I wasn't intentionally aiming at your comments, but some of what I wrote does seem to concern, at least loosely, some of the things you've written. As you can imagine, philosophical issues usually can't be resolved in a comment section, hence the links to material that addresses a couple of these issues. But for starters, the problem of qualia is neither here nor there. I will note that the problem is rooted in a Cartesian metaphysical tradition that persists even among materialists, though they are in an even worse place than their dualist counterparts. Whereas Cartesian dualists could at least defer to the res cogitans as the "substrate" in which qualia exist, materialists--having dropped the res cogitans while maintaining a more or less Cartesian res extensa--cannot hope to account for qualia because the res extensa, by definition, precludes qualia. The only recourse is to reexamine those broadly Cartesian metaphysical presuppositions, something few materialists seem to be doing. Putting aside the cryptodualisms of some of the more sophisticated materialists, perhaps one of the more annoying things you'll see is the invocation of "emergence" as a magical cure-all to any of the problems facing materialism.

Another issue is what seems to be the claim that when accounting for consciousness, you've either got religion or a (reductionist) materialism. Nonsense. Aristotelians have always held that animals are both composed of matter[0] and conscious. One area Aristotelians and materialists differ is their concept of matter. The materialist's concept of matter is the reason why Descartes denied non-human animals consciousness. He understood that without the res cogitans--which he denied non-human animals--the impoverished res extensa he presupposed could not "support" consciousness. Aristotelianism avoids the problem without having to take refuge in substance dualism.

[0] The exception is man. While most faculties of human beings are understood to be material, the exception is the intellect. Why? Because the intellect engages in abstraction. If matter is concrete and particular ("this red apple"), and universals existing apart from particulars are abstract ("redness"), then the intellect, in which they reside, cannot be material. Compare this with the imagination which always deals with images and thus particulars.
Which means "selective enforcement".
Having used Yesql (and having used ActiveRecord in the past), you'd be surprised how grating it can be to write and rewrite boilerplate queries along the lines of "SELECT * FROM column WHERE ID=:id". It's awesome for edge case queries where SQL really shines; it's annoying for backing simple CRUD apps.
Yes, that's an excellent question.
vidir is included in moreutils which is packaged for pretty much every distro out there.

http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
The whole point of programming language conferences is to focus on bleeding edge "what's new/potentially coming down the pike", instead of "what's being adopted massively".

Of course the type of people who want to dabble with different languages are going to move around. Most of the rest of the world wants to learn the one language that mostly gets them where they need to go, and be done with it.

There is a photo I recently saw of 1200 students starting in Berkeley's introductory data science class. They're doing Python. Are there even 1200 serious Chapel users in the world?! I mean, I love the ideas in Chapel (and even the early ZPL), and I drew inspiration from them. But the fate of a computer language is as much determined by the growth dynamics of its user community as by its differentiating features.
I feel like we have worked for the same type of company or the same company ^_^
Having supported (from an infra/ops point of view) several places that insisted on using Wordpress, I don't understand why Varnish in front of <choose your web server[1]> isn't the standard 'recommended' way of hosting it.

1: it isn't going to matter. When the WP PHP is doing 30 different SQL queries just to load the front page of the site, your web server is no longer the bottleneck, even if it's Pre-Fork Apache with mod_php.
The real nightmare is having read through 3/4 of this, only to realize it's the longest bitchy complaint I've ever read through.

No substance and a lot of arrogance.

The more curious take-away is that these extremely long winded rants of his have younger people fooled as being worthwhile.

If you have something of value to say - you distill it, condense it, so as to ease the mental effort required for someone else to understand the point you're trying to make.

It reminds me of what philosophers do - they exhaust you into thinking they're making some sophisticated point simply because they're using fancy words that produce the thought of 'am I missing something? Surely no one is spouting complete nonsense for 400 pages, it must be me'. It isn't you. It's them on a massive ego trip - this guy being a great example.
> Why would you want to use a floating point in between?

Because if you don't you accumulate small errors at each processing step due to rounding. Remember that it is very common for an input to pass through multiple digital filters, EQs, some compressors, a few plugins, then to be grouped and have more plugins applied to the group. You can end up running the sample through hundreds of equations before final output. Small errors at the beginning can be magnified.

Pretty much all pro-level mix engines use 32-bit floating point for all samples internally. This gives you enough precision that there isn't a useful limit to the number of processing steps before accumulated error becomes a problem. By all samples I mean the input comes from a 24-bit ADC and gets converted to 32-bit FP. From that point on all plugins and processes use 32-bit FP. The final output busses convert back to 24-bit and dither to feed the DAC (for higher-end gear the DAC may handle this in hardware).

As for 192 kHz I've never seen or heard a difference. Even 96 kHz seems like overkill. A lot of albums have been recorded at 48 kHz without any problems. As the video explains there is no "missed" audible information if you're sampling at 48 kHz. I know that seems counter-intuitive but the math (and experiments) bear this out.

An inaccurate but intuitive way to think about it is your ear can't register a sound at a given frequency unless it gets enough of the wave which has a certain length in the time domain (by definition). If an impulse is shorter than that then it has a different frequency, again by definition. 1/16th of a 1 kHz wave doesn't actually happen. Even if it did a speaker is a physical moving object and can't respond fast enough to make that happen (speakers can't reproduce square waves either for the same reasons - they'll end up smoothing it out somewhat). Even if it could the air can't transmit 1/16th of a wave - the effect will be a lower-amplutide wave of a different frequency. And again your ear drum can't transmit such an impulse (nor can it transmit a true square wave).

I've done a lot of live audio mixing and a little bit of studio work, including helping a band cut a vinyl album. Fun fact: almost all vinyl is made from CD masters and has been for years. The vinyl acetate (and master) are cut by squashing the crap out of the CD master and applying a lot of EQ to shape the signal (both to prevent the needle from cutting the groove walls too thin), then having the physical medium itself roll off the highs.

The only case where getting a 24-bit/192kHz recording might be worthwhile is if it is pre-mastering. Then it won't be over-compressed and over-EQ'd, but that applies just as well to any master. (For the vinyl we cut I compressed the MP3 version myself from the 24-bit 48 kHz masters so they had the best dynamic range of anything: better than the CD and far better than the Vinyl).
I think gvd was referring to herbicide resistance rather than fertilizer stocks.
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Doesn't this rule defray most of the likely causes of housing stock removing/conversion?

If only primary residences can be let within a city... I fail to see how entire apartments are short term lets.
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Modern computers operate so close to the margins that analog effects are very much visible.

As Andrew "bunnie" Huang once said, "You are not storing data, you are storing probabilistic approximation of your data."[1]

That being said, analog effects have been noticeable at the software level for a while; here's another example: https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/safevsp/

[1] http://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/sdcard-30c3-pub.pdf
15 years later, http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/28/vouchers-not-improve-stu...

I wouldn't expect charter schools to actually change much because the evidence is very clear that the most important factor in achievement, overwhelmingly, is the child's home environment.
There may be something to this. I was an elementary school kid during the late 70s (1979?) eclipse. We went out onto the playground to view it, and I'm pretty sure I ignored all the warnings to not look directly at the sun. (It's not like I hadn't looked directly at the sun before, though.)
Note that sitting in front of a speaker setup playing a carefully selected recording is not the same as the scenario above. We do not yet have the technology to fool someone walking by a room, especially for orchestral works or even an acoustic drum kit.
To potentially clarify: the test is just a form. It's a form with some questions about mood, and is currently being used to diagnose bipolar disorder (inappropriately, the author believes).
it looks like the issues for the Yesql repo are disabled now, by the maintainer was getting quite snarky and rude about the community's assumption that PRs would be reviewed, bugs fixed, feedback taken on board etc. The general consensus among the frustrated community was "just use HugSQL". I did appreciate the Yesql README file though.
I have experience in payments and donations are one of the big businesses for payments startups. Bad things happen in the world, records are broken in daily TPV/fees.

I am a pilot and there are a couple efforts run by local pilots (found them on AOPA group on FB). I reached out directly to the people who run them and asked what they need. I did the same for Katrina (using message boards instead of FB). It is not always money.
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"The only reason to pick python is momentum, libraries and mindshare."

I'm confused. Are you using this as an argument for Julia?

I don't post "LOL" very often on HN, but congrats... LOL!

Unless you code in a vacuum, solving the most basic of problems that don't require integration with other services, formats, and APIs, and can figure everything out yourself, then momentum, libraries, and mindshare are EXACTLY the things you should be optimizing for.

(FWIW I think Julia is a nice language and has an amazing dev community.)
I would love a resource like that! We went through a very similar process on my team [0], and I was pleased to see this post validating some pain points we had seen.

> In hindsight, we chose the correct trade off.

This is key, and I think it's almost something you have to blindly follow when going into the transition. It's a lot easier to justify the decision to incrementally rewrite in retrospect than it is to get excited about it in the process. I think more examples would help shift that.

[0]: https://heap.engineering/migrating-react-mobx-while-shipping...