skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since everyone is listening of crappy earbuds, they compress the hell out of it and destroy all dynamic range.

More compression and less dynamic range is beneficial for certain environments. Noisy subways. Watching TV in a noisy downtown apartment. Basically, crappy, noisy environments. In those, compression will help you actually hear the music and speech. However, the fact that this should be done in the master is an artifact of an earlier time. Now that signal processing is small and cheap enough to be ubiquitous, music should be mastered for the best equipment, then appropriate signal processing should be done by playback.

The problem is, that there is a lot of older equipment out there that wouldn't be able to do this. So the signal gets compressed before distribution, as a compromise for the least common denominator of equipment out there. Otherwise, a big chunk of the population would think the master sounds like crap. To them, in their particular situation, it would.

EDIT: Come to think of it, the current system, where most music is more compressed, but where the people who care can still get a high dynamic range version, is a very good compromise. The problem is that the latter group's selection isn't quite filled out by the market.
Yeah don’t worry you won’t ever own a company.
State/publicly-owned assets were co-opted/stolen/gifted by oligarchs at after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Assets and funds that should have found their way into the public coffers were given away or 'sold off' in an obscene case of plutocrats plundering the wealth of the people.

The beneficiaries of this massive transfer of wealth are now the ruling class of Russia. They're no better than gangsters.

Russians are poor, but their 'leaders' are rich beyond imagination, and it was all stolen from the people they are supposed to be serving.

Russia is the embodiment of modern kleptocracy.
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> he says politely "I don't understand". He's been repeating it for 40 years.

What this actually translate to is very simple:

"I can't get an edge that I am used to getting information wise from this company so I am pulling my investment".

Now of course that could be because there isn't good info that they are willing or able to give him, or simply they will not play that game with him for some reason.

Honestly he just doesn't like being in the same boat as ordinary people who invest. Or for that matter ordinary analysts or other high level investors. In order to be successful he has to go to the head of the line in some way. You have to have the tea leaves to read the tea leaves.
Dang, the rules for naming Jupiter's new moons are super strict
> I feel like until we have an internet that isn't dependent on ad-networks, this is an inevitability.

It's not just the internet. Every industry that sells anything uses direct marketing, and that requires collecting information about people. Until you eliminate all advertising and marketing, you will be tracked in some way.

Target famously predicted a teenage girl was pregnant before her father even found out. They did it by tracking and analyzing her purchases, not by digging into data from Facebook. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...)

Privacy violation is a symptom, but the cause is capitalists trying to sell as much crap as humanly possible.
I'm honestly surprised there isn't an app that pays you to tell advertisers about your friends.
TL;DR: 24/192 is useful at the mastering stage, to avoid error creep from mixing and effects. This is way beyond human hearing however, so scaling down to 16/44.1 (CD quality) in the final mix for playback won't result in noticeable degradation. CD quality was chosen on principles of human limits.

Perhaps we could give a bit of extra headroom for kicks, to widen the envelope at extremes however. A useful amount would look more like 20/48 rather than quadruple or sextuple the resolution. No one produces in this format though, the next one up is typically 24/96.
Be careful of that though. Urban is very broadly defined by the census. I live in a 7,000 person town 40 miles outside of a major city. Myself and 2 neighbors are collectively on 75 acres and are adjacent to conservation land. This area is considered urban.
Speak for yourself! I'm using Piwik but it's not giving me that kind of information.
Italian city is building a smart community from scratch
They are abiding with the law, though. They have been asked for information and replied that they don't just give out information because people ask - essentially they said 'come back with a warrant.' That's perfectly reasonable.
If lots of people, or very few, do it would that change the ethics?
Autistic burnout is partially a result of pretending to be "normal" around other people (those who don't understand and judge autistic behaviour like stimming).
"Normal" people can also experience this burnout if they're also pretending to be someone they are not (day in, day out).

Part of the problem is that people don't realize that everyone is on the spectrum, autism isn't a binary "property". The other, bigger, part of the problem is that there seems to be a negative stereotypical view of people with mental illnesses or just people who aren't "normal". Unfortunately autistic people fall towards that category in the current social context.
Bit off-topic, what what did you find is working well for you?
> Right across the Internet? Very few, I imagine!

Mainly because they don't have the resources to do it.
It doesn't matter how many things they do if they do them all badly, and can't figure out a coherent strategy. See also IBM.
But I don't care about proving anything to you. I don't need you to believe me for me to enjoy my music. You can tell me you prefer coffee from Brazil to coffee from Honduras and we can talk about what characteristics you notice, not whether or not you've done a blind A/B test.
>if an ad can convince people that your position is bunk, maybe it's not that great of a position to begin with.

I disagree. Ideas are powerful and propaganda, media, and advertisement are powerful idea spreaders. This power is totally irrelevant to whether or not the idea is moral, realistic, or even just factually true
Why would you defend Facebook with a Tu Quoque?
So, the document is a catalog of numbered objects. Think dictionaries and lists. The objects point to other objects and there is a table of contents near the end of the file showing where to find everything.

To be backwards compatible, the signature is one of these objects.

1. It's a whole document signature, but you can't sign the signature because you don't have it yet. So you have to leave a hole for the signature data.

2. The specification for where this hole is (/ByteRange) should be in the signed data, some viewers do not appear to be verifying this.

So they're sticking a fake byte range on the signature, extending the hole enough to cover said fake byte range and additional objects (modified pages) and a fake table of contents (at the original offset from beginning of the file).

I'm describing one of the exploits as I understand it.

To further complicate things, you can modify pdf files by appending more objects and a new TOC at the end. Think of this as append-only versioning.

Historically this is used for editing (giving you a revision history) or form filling (adding the text you typed in), but it also is used to add additional signatures. (You have to add to the already signed document if you want a second person to sign it.)

A signature on Version 2 of a file would encompass the entire file including the embedded Version 1 and its signature.

Readers like acrobat can show you each version of file. And they can show you the version of the file as a given person signed it.
Last week my mother called me after she broke down on the side of the road. So I popped her hood, broke her timing belt, then sped off.

Have to agree with you, seems fairly pointless to kick someone while they’re down. Computer problems are stressful, so it’s not surprising someone would ask the first person they know is remotely involved with computing for help. It’s very easy just to tell someone a few things that they might try googling.
Consider the possibility that there are legitimate cases for limited tracking.

Maybe the scale, motivation and intent matter.
That sentence makes no sense.
A reminder to use Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
I guess the preferable option would be to create high-speed affordable transport so that location won't be an issue to people. I'm not sure which one is more feasible.
I won't not never uncheck a box that isn't unlike that one.
If you build your visitor out of lambdas, instead of a struct, you can propagate local state to the visitor easily by using lambda captures. There are good examples of this approach at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit
Stop those insults to other users on HN.
My comment does not imply that the government makes no errors or cannot be corrupted. Corruption and errors are a possibility with all entities, but adding more entities in the chain increases the probability of it.
It _MIGHT_ be possible today... Kind of... With an ugly hack.

If said laptop has a m.2 port that exposes PCI-e lanes you might be able to use a m.2 to PCI-e adaptor. Dump the Thunderbolt binaries from a Intel UEFI, init a Thunderbolt PCI-e card on an intel system (to load the firmware onto that Thunderbolt Card) and then get Thunderbolt at least under Linux.

Wendel from Level1Techs was able to get Thunderbolt working on a Desktop Threadripper[0].

Obv it would be an ugly (both in looks, as you will have things hanging off the laptop and software as you will have to be injecting code into your UEFI). And if you have a M.2 port with PCIe then might as well just hook the GPU directly to the M.2 <-> PCIe adaptor[1]). Either way you would be limited to 4 PCIe lanes.

And with either method, you still might not get it to work. You might want to check out the eGPU Forums[2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOlQbP63lDQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyL2tPyXFA

[2] https://egpu.io/forums/
> But that's exactly the reason why there is a lot of regulation of potentially hazardous activity.

Almost all of this as applied to hobbyists is corruption.

The amount of danger you can put yourself or others in without any involvement of automobiles is immense.

If you build an electrical device improperly it may catch fire and burn down your house and your neighbor's house and spread from there.

If you mix the wrong chemicals together you can cause an explosion, or produce poison gas, or create a large volume of something difficult to safely dispose of. These chemicals include things like propane and household cleaners that are available to anyone.

If you maintain unsanitary conditions where you live you can contract diseases that are communicable to others.

What prevents this from being more common is by and large not regulations and inspections of private citizens. It's the fact that people don't want uncontrolled fires or poison gas or staphylococcus and are generally cautious when doing things that are potentially dangerous.

And people don't want to destroy their $30,000 car or kill anyone either.
Streaming music services lack all the options in foobar2000 that I've grown accustomed to over the last 10+ years.

Personally, I buy music rather than torrent, but the pace at which I buy new music (either on bandcamp or physical CDs) costs me about the same as a Spotify premium subscription anyways, only I get to keep the music forever.
> Windows drivers do work for much longer stretches of time than Linux drivers do simply because you don't have to recompile them for every minor change to the kernel.

So do Linux dkms drivers. Windows is just using "dkms" like approach for everything. But it doesn't have any advantage in compatibility time period.

> There's no reason Linux couldn't have stable ABIs for major kernel versions

Not sure what you are talking about. Linux does have such stable interfaces.
I haven’t seen recent details but as of a few years ago, there was an uptick in college educated young people moving to a handful of mostly coastal dense urban cores but the overall urbanization trend in the US was rather limited.
Do you think advertising works, to influence outcomes? (There are a lot of people betting enormous sums of money that it does.)

Should hostile nation states be allowed to advertise anonymously to influence electoral outcomes?

Do you think the people should get a say in whether hostile nations get to influence electoral outcomes?

The government is the agent of the people.
Depends on whom you invite in. Albeit really smart people would rent special furnishing for special occasions. Such services do exist.
Hacker News is a pretty small bubble, but news about Facebook being awful is pretty mainstream at this point. It surprises me that the majority of my family can still tolerate Facebook (and instagram/whatsapp etc.) despite what is known.

I'm pretty vocal among my family about data security/privacy, as I'd like to keep information about me and my family safe from prying eyes, but it takes a lot of effort and know-how to put up walls against the sort of electronic creepiness that's default-on for most of us. It's been almost 3 years, and most of my friends/family still don't have content blockers installed for Safari on iOS. None of my family or friends have made any moves to ditch Facebook, instagram, whatsapp, etc. even though the barrier to entry for new services is so low.

It's frustrating to know that despite how bad they are, despite every new discovery of terribleness, nothing's going to change, and they're just going to get bigger.
"Since everyone is listening of crappy earbuds, they compress the hell out of it and destroy all dynamic range."

For readers of your comment and your child comments, it is important to note that the compression you are talking about in that sentence is not the same as the compression that most people are thinking of when discussing digital file formats (mp3, etc.).

This might be helpful:

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-common-audiophile...
Use the right language: one with ML style pattern matching.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273
What if they were wasting a bunch of money on it and trying to convince others to do the same?
I've heard talks by Alan Kay where he also decries that lack of research in Universities: They aren't exploring new hardware or new OSes. He talks about how at PARC they built computers that were 5 to 10 years ahead of their time in terms of speed and functionality, and could therefore explore a different set of ideas w.r.t the interaction with the user.
I think we're past the point where differences in political opinion can be aired without fear of violent retaliation.
Except that audio DACs are generally oversampling; for example, an output filter for the AD1955 DAC is only needed to reach -3 dB at 100 kHz, even if you are feeding it a 48 kHz PCM signal. This allows these DACs to produce essentially zero energy in the frequency band from Nyquist cutoff of the input signal to filter cutoff.
There’s a very large difference between:

- Tracking the behavior of your own users on your own app, for product improvement purposes (which most users will expect)

- Sending the behavior of your own users on your app to an advertising surveillance company, with an ID that can be used to correlate that behavior with behavior elsewhere, without their knowledge, consent, or reasonable expectation

And before anyone says it, no, a generic line about third-party service partners in a sadistically long TOS/Privacy-policy does not count as meaningful consent. Even Supreme Court justices admit that they don’t read them.
So vinyl has only about the equivalent of 10-14 bits of resolution (I don't remember the exact number I heard and it has been a while) and waveforms within our hearing range are far larger than what 192khz can potentially accomodate. The only use I've found for such high-resolution is audio is using it as base material for further effects processing... certain distortion units and whatnot that operate on a sample level can sometimes give nicer output when fed super hi-res audio
Reddit itself has turned to complete garbage apart from a few gems in the rough.

Looking at you /r/justrolledintotheshop and /r/woodworking.
> mp3s should sound pretty much the same compared to 16-bit flac

I did a blind test between 128-mp3, 320-mp3 and flac hearing classical music. While it's true that the 128-mp3 is obvious to find, it also isn't too difficult to find the 320-mp3. Flac just sounds better. Described as a feeling, flac is more voluminous and doesn't feel cut short. For fun, I also let my parents take this test and they could tell, too.

That's why I converted all our CDs to FLAC. Storage is cheap anyway.
Can't speak to this specifically but many news publishers use FB for ads. Yes, Facebook does ads outside of their platform.
Do doctors set up people who suffer from chronic circulatory inflammation due to their diet / exercise regime with dieticians and psychiatrists that attempt to treat the root causes of their issues, or with a regimen of pills that make them feel like shit?
This just means that people who already know your phone number and are already your Facebook friend will see your profile if they search for your phone number. That seems pretty harmless to me.
Thank you very much for the link and explaining this.
It would be if the select committee system were an organ of the police. They are not, and warrants are not required.
Completely true, but the auditory nerve only "knows" what the mechanical part can respond to. If we don't understand how sound information is interpreted by the nervous system, we can still answer the question "is any neural/electrical/chemical signal whatsoever produced by a stimulation of a frequency or amplitude?"
you need media pressure first. The initial reluctance to probe Arron Banks indicates that.
Browsing without JS is a major pain if you're enabling it for only certain domains. If you don't do that, you don't add much security anyway.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. This is the first I've heard about it! We normally get nothing but praise during any customer support interaction. Feel free to email me directly (jordan at vector35 com) with your email address so I can try to figure out what happened. Apologies it didn't go well.
For civil society, exploitative data practices never match our mission
High resolution audio is important to me as a sound designer because of the ability to severely slow down a piece of audio without any aliasing or stuttering.

At 96KHz and higher with certain samples I can slow down by 80% and it will still sound good.
Does Samsung's Galaxy S10 Redefine the Smartphone?
I block Facebook's domain on my laptop, I wish it was as easy to do on mobile.
Can you cite a source for vehicle purchasing on hold?
Thank you Victor, I enjoyed your JS articles too!
> Plus, Oracle's massive legal machine could move the licensing innovation needle even further in the direction of Mongo's recent move to SSPL.

Proprietary licensing that has a veneer of openness isn't a legal innovation issue, it's a PR innovation issue (how to get the goodwill and community support that comes with open source while using proprietary licensing that doesn't provide the freedom of open source.) Oracle doesn't have any particular special PR competence when it comes to targeting the audience for whom open source is a big draw, and seems quite happy locking anything that they don't want to share with the community behind traditional proprietary licensing, so I wouldn't see the SSPL game and Oracle having a lot to offer each other. SSPL is for people who want to be like Oracle but pretend they aren't, and even if Oracle cared about the pretense, there's not a lot of indication that the SSPL approach works.
Reasons I would use FB for sign in

-facebook already as my bank account info

-facebook already has my social security number

-if facebook doesnt have that stuff, im sure they could buy it or brute force it in seconds. (they can brute force a key for onion addresses...)

-I dont really care if facebook knows WHEN I log in (remember we are just talking log in services, not ad analytics)

-I trust facebook's service itself to be very secure. Facebooks login system its very likely insanely complex to prevent unauthorized logins. They know so much about me, they know when someone isnt me. See also, Google. I dont trust my bank to have this kind of "me detection" like I do Facebook/Google.

Reasons I would not use FB to sign in

-no other way into account if facebook decides to lock my account.

-super arbitrary content policy

-terrible support team to resolve arbitrary issues.

From a technical perspective, facebook seems like an excellent way to verify and secure the identity of "is this me." I cant really think of anyone else at the Google/AzureAD scale who does it better than Facebook. From a customer service perspective, Facebook gets the human side wrong of how to handle people.
that's only one side of the ledger (collection). Now calculate the costs to the taxpayers (people and corps).
I think this maybe more related to that Microsoft is actually doing a massive rework of Skype, dumping the old Lync infrastructure and front end, and moving to their "teams" implementation.

In doing so they are dumping a lot of what they consider to be legacy support. With the advent and popularity of mobile apps, users today are seemingly fine with being told their their services are only available through this one channel.

So why take on the burden and effort to support something most people don't seem to care about (though they should) for what boils down to less than 2% of the user base?

This new, "we dictate to you, massive, breaking changes, and features you don't have control" mentality is a drastic change in behavior at Microsoft, Their adaptability, and building tools that worked on damn near everything, is what allowed them to dominate the office OS, this new change may play a part in them reinventing themselves and allow them to become more agile. But I can tell you, its pissing a lot of people off, from an administration perspective, their OS, and software are becoming a nightmare to manage when not used as they dictate.

Sadly though, currently there is no alternatives, Google's G suite might as well be DOA, they've let their promising online office suite wither on the vine. IBM never could get their product off the ground.

Aside from cobbling together multiple disconnected 3rd services, its really difficult to do anything but just site back and let them dictate terms.
Oracle blew a great opportunity. Internal CRUD apps developed by Oracle Forms worked pretty well, were quick to make, had a well-fitting CRUD-centric programming API, and did the job. Even though they were ugly and visually out of style, they made CRUD easy. Our Forms developers were about 4x more productive than our MVC devs. The MVC devs can put all kinds of fancy-dancy JavaScript widgets on pages that dazzle users, but they are always breaking.

But then Oracle moved their Forms client to Java, creating all kinds of versioning headaches and security risks. They should have stuck with the dedicated stand-alone EXE Forms client: a kind of GUI browser. It was a very practical tool for in-house and specialty apps, but Oracle ruined it with Java.