skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a model/interpretation for why their models are more complicated.

When you don't know something very well you have to consider a lot more possibilities, your search space is much larger. If you already know where you have to go you don't need the maps of the entire city, you can just get the section that covers your expected route.

When I entered the real world after my study (15 years ago), or maybe it was just a function of growing older, over time I realized that the biggest difference between people "who know" and those who don't is that they know all the things something is NOT, and all the ways something does NOT behave. When I compare my intuition or feelings for a big database system with how I feel today, I don't actually know all that much more in hard facts. But I handled such systems enough that I know what to expect andd what not. That means I could cut the uncertainty. It's hard to describe.

Or when I think back of how suspicious and even frightened I was when I sneaked into the garage when I was a kid and started the engine of my grandfathers car. No driving, just the engine. On a deeper level I did not have any experience on what to expect, what to feel. The intellectual level is no replacement, that's other parts of the brain, it does not replace actually doing something. Back in that car just by feel my "expectation space" was far too large compared to what actually happened, and what today I would expect when I start an engine. Knowing by having witnessed others do it was no replacement for getting my own experience (but it was enough to let me override my fears and give it a try)!

After studying a lot of medical topics over the last couple of years I realized the difference between a doctor and somebody like me 10 years ago, i.e. with zero education in any medical topic or genetics or biology (everything from school long forgotten so even that had to be relearned) is not how much more they know - the gaps even today are incredible (lots and lots of details, but on a whole-system level all they can do is trial and error like any non-medical person; no way to be confident about any drug without clinical trial, not even close, and even in the early phases it's all about actual experiments) - it's that they recognize "BS". They know what does not work much more than they know what works.

Okay, I think I did a terrible job expressing my fuzzy internal model. Maybe these two parts: The route of steps taken to map a territory in the first place looks overly complicated compared to what is needed to get somewhere when you already have a map, and doing it yourself is very different from being told.
Usually, the employee screening at the entry level relies on assessment of education history of the prospect.

The problem is that educational excellence often selects for agreeableness, as there is no real reward of contrarianism in education.

From bullshit Liberal Arts essays where you are graded in function of the level of endorsement of the brain farts of the professor in question to even the CS projects that are supposed to be made in a specific technology, often some JavaEE crap avoiding using more powerful languages or ecosystems like Python, Elixir or Clojure.

I wonder how many billions has the economy lost as a result.
Yes, crazy kinds of adventures. Things or issues that seem impossible to solve, yet they (Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus) come out of them successfully most of the time, not to mention Thomson and Thompson :)
TIL of ReplayGain, thanks!

From what I quickly gathered from the specs^1, Replay Gain (RG) and Dymanic Range (DR) are indeed similar in the grand scheme of things. Both algorithms employ percentile-based statistic of RMS values. While RG is determined by the 95% percentile of RMS values on 50ms audio frames, DR uses the 80% percentile on 3-second-long audio frame RMS values. So RG is definitely on the side of short-term analysis, while DR is long-term.

What differentiates RG more plainly though is its stronger psycho-acoustical foundation in regards to frequency response: It applies a so-called "Loudness filter" (modelled after the Equal-Loudness contour^2 found in human hearing) before doing the RMS statistics. The Equal-Loudness contour (also known as "Isophone" where I come from) is in turn modelled after non-linear response of the ear to sound pressure levels in relation to the frequency. It basically adjusts for what in layman's terms I'd call "Importance" of the different ranges.

Therefore I'd say RG is very much focused on what human hearing will perceive as loud (too loud, or just loud enough), while DR focuses on "exposing offenders in all ranges of the spectrum". My educated guess would be: Loud bassy sounds would not harm an RG score, while having a significant impact on the DR, as its not attenuating low frequencies.

Would be interesting to see a comparison of the two!

[1]: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain_specif...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour
I genuinely do not comprehend how that file picker is still a thing. It's usability is a show-stopping bug of the entire framework and desktop.

> Windows' file open/save dialogues are so far ahead of everything else that the competition seems like unusable garbage to me. I'm glad KDE/Qt chose to emulate these very closely on Linux. Wouldn't want a desktop where my only choice is Gnome's take at this.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16324814
Thanks, will check those out.
This attitude makes me want to prosecute shareholders :)
I agree.

Laymen jury is a very disputed system in Europe. To have laymen scentencing someone is very, very questionable.

The US judicial system is more about revenge. Why have parole hearing with relatives?

The system in Europe is more about rehabilitation.
Don't think it's just in India to be honest. I think society in general seems to prefer 'ghosting' people more than saying no now.

Personally I suspect the internet and the general increase in invitations/transactions/communications probably had an effect overall. If you're flooded with requests and invitations and applications, then it can easier to just 'ignore' everything than to actually come back with an answer. Well, and email I guess. Seems like people are treating everyday communications like emails in their inbox, something to just pretend doesn't exist if they find it awkward or annoying to deal with.
This brings up the delightful distinction between malum prohibitum and malum in se.
If the submitter was right, the problem was that the area of memory where a power controller's registers were mapped was not marked as "reserved", so it is entirely reasonable for memtest to poke at that memory.

In other words, the failure is actually in the laptop's BIOS that provides the memory map.
Sonarr, Lidarr and Radarr do it much better these days :)
It depends on what you compare it to, most native stacks have a more simple and understandable way of handling styling and control layout.
You can cut a lot of things with an ax, but you shouldn't criticize someone for wanting a saw, even if you can build the skill set to do the same with an ax.
> For this purpose, one uses quite different techniques than for blackhat hacking. E.g. in the whitehat case, the source code is often available etc..

I used to work at a company that did pentests (although I never did any myself). This was never the case. Every single one was approached in the same way an unprivileged attacker would approach it, apart from, when testing a production instance of an application:

- dummy accounts are set up, so that if user data must be extracted it doesn't come from real users

- you're not allowed to do anything that risks taking the application offline, destroying data, etc.
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> Also reminds me of the quote by Einstein, something about judging the ability of a fish to climb a tree.

Almost certainly not by Einstein, for what it's worth. It was probably made up by motivational speaker Matthew Kelly or someone close to him, as the earliest verifiable occurrence of the quotation is in his 2004 book The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose [1].

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/
These are all good and interesting observations, particularly the ones about Youtube. On the other hand, I still feel like something is very wrong with the Web and the Internet in general. I think it is the incessant propagandizing and ad-mongering. I can't even visit most websites these days without "shields up" on my Brave browser. The NY Times and Washington Post websites are full of slant, required by their owners. Journalistic ethics are completely out the window. Independent news sites are totally unreliable for different reasons, some only because of lack of experience(?). It's an unruly mess.

You mentioned CAD/CAM software for regular people--the prices don't reflect that these companies have gotten the idea yet.

These days, basic free-market, small government, libertarian minded people are referred to as Nazis. It is not at all comforting that such a label could be so badly mis-applied while we witness the US Government dropping a bomb every 12 minutes in multiple undeclared wars, mostly for the sake of corporate profits, and yet people like me are the bad guys? I don't get that. It is all completely counter-productive.
The opinion of one HN’er is that it is definitively a gray area. So whether or not you’re sued for it depends on if someone resourceful has a reason to sue you (e.g. LinkedIn vs HiQ); in most other cases, I don’t think anybody really cares.

There was an earlier case (I don’t recall the details) about scraping violating copyright, which might be a valid defense - that you’re engaged in unauthorized “copying” the (protected) source code (of the webpage), albeit momentarily, into your computer’s memory while your script processes it to extract the relevant contents. So even though it might be fine to copy the image/data/whatever else, you have no right to copy source code - which is certainly protected by copyright (your browser processing the same page is something the copyright owner explicitly allows, by virtue of making it available on the web). By that same token, it can also be considered illegal to save webpages on your harddisk. But do refer to the last sentence in my earlier paragraph.

The LinkedIn vs HiQ case is currently being appealed in the (court of appeals for the) 9th Circuit. Regardless of which way it rules, the decision of the 9th circuit only applies in its the states under its jurisdiction (maybe as a precedent in others, but it won’t be binding). It can still go to Supreme Court, depending on how determined the parties are.

There was a ruling in a different (but somewhat related case) in Jan 2018 that violating the ToS is not a crime https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-circuit-doubles-... To quote: “[T]aking data using a method prohibited by the applicable terms of use”— i.e., scraping — “when the taking itself generally is permitted, does not violate” the state computer crime laws”.

There was a very long discussion on HN about scraping over a year back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884357
Doesn't prevent bad actors. See various banker scams. Codifying rules helps prevent bad actors.
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On a scale of “practical” to “ideological” I’d say building a system to exchange messages in the event of catastrophe leans heavily toward practical. You can see this because governments of a wide variety of ideological persuasions would be interested in this.
I really enjoyed as a kid the Gaston Lagaffe and Spirou written and drawn by Andren Franquin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Franquin

He also authored a black humor series for adults really worth reading.
But then you don't understand your new browser. Also, as new features arrive in the original browser, you fall behind. You can't even hope to review the new changes, you can either merge them blindly or fall behind.
The Nobel prize winner W Szymborska wrote some beautiful poems.

I usually find poetry self-adoring and usually completely unreadable by what I read of Szymborska was feeric.
Too often items seem irrationally downvoted. The policy shouldn't be so one-sided, and sometimes downvotes should require justification. How do we signify this - possibly with something similar to the Vouch feature?
Micro orms are the sweet spot for me.
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No, they just have crazy neuroplasticity
I write my all own tools, currently private. To get the data I use a combination of screen scraping and Quicken OFX gateways. Everything else is basic coding and accounting. I have a CPA that advises me on tax rule updates yearly and signs my return.
If you're talking outdoor plants, this thing is great: https://www.rachio.com/

(If indoor, overkill.)
I was a physics TA in grad school. I was very good at explaining solutions to problems, so of course during exam reviews I would get big crowds to watch the explanations. I was also somewhat aware of this principle, so during a review I was trying to get students to come up with approaches or ideas while solving a problem, and they demanded "why don't you just tell us!" It was pretty frustrating.

Watching someone explain solutions well can be dangerous, since it gives you the very real feeling of understanding, without actual understanding. To actually understand, you have to try a problem from scratch. Then you will understand why the solution/approach is what it is, and why other approaches fail, which will give you intuition about which approaches work on future problems. But counter-intuitively, you will get lost in the weeds during the process, which makes you feel like you don't understand!
I got all fancy and hacked together a tinydb backend for transmission-daemon to automate pulling from an rss feed. Was using a simple text file at first (to avoid duplicates) but without proper internet service I needed a way to cache the shows until I could eventually download them.

Now I just need to figure out an efficient way to download from them from my Hungarian vps since the cellphone internets are slowwww...
It is as if Bezos charted the company’s growth by first drawing a map of antitrust laws, and then devising routes to smoothly bypass them

What if that statement was correct? Bezos comes from D.E. Shaw, and it's known that the old sphinx takes the long view.
Let say we have Codec2 with WaveNet, its 3.2Kbps now does similar to may be 16Kbps EVS. ( EVS being the codec used in VoLTE, which is slightly better then even Opus in Speeches. )

What "value" / "uses" does this bring us?

It cant be used in podcast because as shown it isn't very good with Music. And many podcast has Music in it.

While Codec 2 with WaveNet can have a 2-4x reduction in bitrate. I cant think of a application that benefits from this immediately.

The other thing I keep having in my mind is convolutional neural networks on Codec in general, Music, Movies, etc. What sort of benefits it bring us.
CGI that's not actually CGI usually looks better and lasts better (baring periodic rerenderings). ;)
Considering the original EBU R 128 standard recommendation is -23 LUFS, these still seem to be crazy numbers to me. :)
That's great! Could you be convinced to share the code for it?
How many cores do you have?
If you have 8 it is scarily close to 100% for a single core.
Lol I used to talk to Anthony back in the Halo 3 era. I never did anything nefarious/illegal, but it's interesting to know that some of my IMs were probably read by an FBI agent at one point.
Funny thing aubout the hover text for that xkcd is that Brontosaurus has been ressurected since then.... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/that-b...
My understanding is that this water needs to be produced, that is taken from a source, processed, cleaned, pumped into pipes, etc. It means that you eventually have to divert and dry up rivers, lakes, or underground reserves to produce the water. This can destroy ecosystems because they're not getting the water anymore. It is possible to use more water than comes it and thus empty the buffer.

The other issue is that it displaces water. For example, California has a water problem. Most of the water used to grow vegetables is then shipped away in the produce to far away where they're consumed: the water will never make it back to California. It puts even more strain on an already tapped out water supply.

Finally, used water becomes polluted. Some chemicals are very hard to remove from water (some fertilizers, antibiotics, antidepressants...) and so the water is not exactly as it was, it's degraded.
Pointing to one example of someone failing to do something in the past is not strong evidence it won’t happen this time. If anything there was lessons learned from that failure.
Altcoins are setup to be differentiated or killed by market forces.
> used to work at a company that did pentests (although I never did any myself). This was never the case.

brandonjm wrote above (emphasis by me): "You could essentially be paid by companies to hack their own product entirely legally".

It would be a massive waste of time and ressources not to give the internal whitehead team any internal information possible to secure the application. For this I stand by my point that the methods that I stated are usually much more effective.

Pentesting is typically applied in very different scenarios (not a company hacking their own product as in brandonjm's scenario).
I've never seen Asterix in English and just checked the Wikipedia page you linked.

I was wondering how they translated the characters' names. Since the chief is Vitalstatistix, then it must be good. Nothing to do with the French name but still funny.
> Any idea if the english translation of Witcher by Danusia Stok is good?

I've just doublechecked that the official English translation is good indeed, I haven't got first hand knowledge though
https://www.quora.com/I-intend-to-read-the-Witcher-books-but...

My knowledge of Slavic literature limits mostly to the Polish and some Russian authors, despite that I can recommend a Czech satire book that I liked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk

Other than that, Czeslaw Milosz for the poetry, Henryk Sienkiewicz has some great novels about the history of Poland (The Trilogy and The Teutonic Knights are damn hooking and intense), Zofia Kossak Szczucka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka) is another solid historical writer. I am aware however that my tastes in literature are somewhat eclectic.

Russian Lit: Nikolai Gogol for the stories, Solzhenitsyn for the Gulag Archipelago, and of course War and Peace (Tolstoy) and Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky). Reserve some weeks for the last two though, heh ;)

Any help you need, just shoot me an email (in the profile), but I'm not an expert by any means :P
This article is so obvious but so right. Worth a read if you're trying to keep something, just to refocus you on what's real.
It enforces no internet before sleep rule. Personally I find it hard to stick to such habits just by my own will. Too often I find some excuse to turn on my laptop just to check one thing, which then turns into one hour wasted browsing random junk.
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As a very cheap way of restoring a device to an optimal state, maintenance costs are almost like a way to repurchase something without expenses such as fabrication, assembly, transport, etc. The correct molecules are each already in the correct locations, making it much cheaper than modifying other molecules - just restore or replace the most entropic parts.

Described in another HN thread:

> If you do have a particular attachment to the taste of coffee, consider a Keurig ($120-$250) with a reusable filter. Each cup of coffee uses ~1/3 oz of ground coffee, so a 12oz bag ($6-21) gives ~33 cups.
With expensive coffee, and an expensive machine, at 10 cups per day, after 100 days (1000 cups), that's $886.36, or $8.86 per day. If you find a cheap machine and good, inexpensive coffee, you're looking at $301.82 or $3.02 per day.

Add in $13/300 paper filters for easy and compostable cleaning, and you're looking at $3.45 - $9.29 per day, depending on your coffee price. And 32oz of vinegar for the descaling ($4) for another 1000 cups, increases to $3.47 - $9.30 per day.[0]

In this way, the $4 of vinegar (and associated labor) is almost like the $120-250 for a new machine, from a certain point of view.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17362292
yup i agree, find it weird that "delegate authority" is so far down the conversation here.
It doesn't seem to affect the nuclear operation part in any way.

Nuclear power plants also have windows PCs running MS Office. There are people there who plan budgets, write reports, send e-mails, etc... The boring stuff found in every company.

Nuclear plant operation, at least for the critical part is still surprisingly low tech. There are panel full of gauges, lights, switches and levers. And there are people with paper sheets following procedures like "if pressure X exceed Y, push button Z". I don't expect a virus to have much influence on that part. It is bad for the economic operation, but not really a safety issue.

I don't know enough to know if a well targeted attack, stuxnet style can be a safety issue. I guess not, but that could probably cause a shutdown.
That’s less alarming than I’d interpreted, and I didn’t mention in the first post - your script is a good idea.
People have completely confused the technique of disinterestedness in the service of scientific inquiry with the legitimacy—and necessity—of moral judgment.

When a person puts on his or her "scientist's hat," the thing to do is to set aside moral judgment in order to get a clearer and more complete look at the culture one is investigating. That's because bias is blindness. Preconceived notions cause people to jump to conclusions and miss important details of the culture (or history) they're studying.

The mistake is that far too many people fail to realize that at some point you take the hat off. You stop being a scientist and start being a civilized human being. Radical cultural relativism is monstrous.
There's nothing sad about using it to heal the sick, house or feed the poor.

Moreover, there's not necessarily anything "good" about having taxes pay for operational costs if those operational costs are cluster bombs on yemeni children.

There's not even necessarily anything intrinsically good about paying back those bonds in dollars that are of equal or greater value. Sometimes (e.g. in times of great wealth inequality) letting inflation eat huge chunks out of the value of outstanding bonds is the best course of action for society as a whole.
The robots.txt discussion is a worthy one. For example, is it against net neutrality (the concept) to only accept being indexed by Google? I think so. In a world where every site only accepts Google and other well known search engines to index them tgere is no room for a new search engine to appear.
> Personally I like being able to throw @Repository on an Interface and get paginated CRUD operations for free.

If it doesn’t work how you expect / want it to work, now what? With a library I can go the declaration and see what’s going on and what I might be able to do. With annotation magic I have no choice but to go to google where my choices will be diving into extremely verbose and not particularly well written documentation or cargo culting based on stack overflow answers.
> The Gears of War 3 leak triggered a federal investigation, and Epic began working with the FBI to determine how its security had been breached

Ugh. Why do even supposedly "cool" companies go to the cops when they get pwned? Own up to your mistakes, change your passwords, fix your security. Don't report anything to the fucking authorities. What would punishing a kid even give you?
despite its name ("web"), webtoon is actually optimized for mobile--it's from LINE the messaging app.