skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment.

I had always assumed they were taking the same master and just carving it into vinyl. I wonder what percentage of "modern vinyl releases" are actually remastering before pressing...
Cruise ships are worse than planes, although maybe that would also be considered international travel. There's a lot more focus on getting drunk on a boat though.
check out multi-methods and multiple-dispatch OO
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This was meant as more than a throwaway comment, please see the many discussions - Oracle's chief security officer got extremely upset by it.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-to-sinner-customers-rev...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043432
Important background: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil...

All "election material" in the UK is required to carry an imprint saying who published it. Either the unknown advertiser here or Facebook themselves are probably breaking the law, although up until now this has not been well-enforced on websites.

This law exists to prevent British politics being flooded by unaccountable lies, and this seems to have broken down quite badly just now. In fact, I don't think there was more than a tiny amount of political Facebook advertising carried out by third parties prior to 2010 elections.
There’s nothing new about this. It’s like having a co-founder in a relatively low risk small business. The fact that we need a co-founder to aford a shelter says a lot about where our society is heading and the simple presence of such articles should worry us.
Cool idea, but what drone would you actually be able to use for spelunking?
They buy data from 3rd party networks instead of putting their own tracker across the web. I stop seeing alarmist clickbait articles talking about how "Facebook tracks you."

The tracking is more nuanced, which makes people care less. See telcos/5 eyes.
This is definitely one of the enabling technologies for Apple to use their own ARM-based CPUs on MacBooks
Isn't the source code zipped up alongside the binaries?
It's easy to object to something you can't do. I'm sure there's a decent amount of people who would maintain their objections, but many others would "evolve their values" when such behavior became possible and beneficial to them.
I use r2 almost all the time, it's just so fast and convenient, and it makes working with Binary Ninja easier.
Also use IDA when all else fails.

And the decompiler is dope for IDA
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I really enjoyed the presentation of the content. The transitions were very cool (maybe a tad long but nothing worth complaining about in my opinion). Plus the transitions probably acted as a filler for loading time instead of having a traditional loading spinner.

Really impressed with how polished, smooth, and immersive the whole experience is.

How content is presented is just as important as content itself in many cases. I welcome and appreciate creative explorations like this.
OP does have a point that this software was subsidized by tax payers. One could argue the NSA needs advanced tools and that the costs of IDA Pro add up.
Show HN: Qase.io – a free test case management tool for Dev and QA teams
I took a couple of semesters of Spanish in school, but not enough to be able to do much with it. I've found Duolingo to be very effective for helping build up vocabulary, and even for learning grammar rules. A couple of things I've found to be very helpful:

- Each lesson has a guide that shows what's new. This is a bit hard to find on the website (click on the lightbulb above the "Practice" button for any lesson), and (last I checked) isn't available at all on mobile.

- There's a discussion board associated with each sentence. This can be immensely helpful for getting tips from more experienced speakers regarding various tricky aspects of the language.

Is it enough to build fluency by itself? Doubtful. But I find it very helpful for building vocab with a ~20-minute daily investment.
I really like this article. It reflects a historical perspective that I find lacking in most tech media, where the limits of data and method are almost always overlooked, and it's imagined that the world is entirely different today than it was in 1990. In fact, the world is very much the same today -- it's the COMPUTERS that are different (and the network). We're just looking at it through glasses with tinted lenses.

(BTW, I've also worked with petabyte-scale social media data, and the author's suggestion that we often don't ask clear questions or use clearly discriminate methods is spot on. Too often we imagine that deeper dives into higher resolution data will yield more and better information. But we very rarely test that assumption.)

I think the core problem is, we seldom take the effort to understand the limits of our big data or its sources. And that's because, in the end, nobody really cares if our datamined conclusions are real or imaginary, just as long as the graphs look cool.
Ask HN: How to learn programming from open source project?
I think read other’ programs is one of the best way to learn programming. But it’s difficult to do that, anyone can share your experience? Thanks
Hasn't the British parliament that kind of power already? From what I understood, they got documents from the Six4Three/Facebook lawsuit by telling someone they would be in contempt of parliament.
>It’s very easy just to tell someone a few things that they might try googling.

That seems to frequently be perceived as an insult though.

For some reason, everyone thinks that "computer people" can be counted on to solve their Windows PC problems for free, though they wouldn't ask their relative who's a car salesman to fix their car.
> He is also a voracious reader. Most likely after he purchased his shares he continued reading and thinking about the state of things and where they are headed. He read something that made him question his investment thesis and re-think things that he was previously confident in.

If that is the case then I take my hat off to him. I was also wondering why he would be pulling out of something he'd gone in the previous quarter.
In my particular case, I realized I really didn't care about traffic stats with any kind of intimate detail, so I just wrote a thing that tagged the user with a cookie and sent a POST to my site with JS, but even then I eventually just gave up and decided that I really have no interest in the analytics since I really don't have any plans of trying to monetize my blog.
Where I live, we get both. They change both the time and the bus schedules in accordance with the seasons.
Facebook unfortunately is very useful for social events and events with people you have recently met and want to organize meetups or events with. Facebook messenger or Whatsapp groups are two of the most convenient ways because people will usually have one of those.

And of course, the choice between the two doesn't matter for this.
Certainly, enjoy what you want to enjoy. In response to your original statement here:

>How does it affect your life that I listen to music encoded at 24/196?

It doesn't, but Monty contributes to the Xiph project, which constantly has to deal with thousands of people saying "why doesn't Opus/Vorbis support 192 kHz??" This is his answer to that general question. There is actual money on the line for companies that use audio codec technology, and supporting useless formats that have no psychoacoustic effect is a waste of time, money, and effort.
Ask HN: How big was your MVP when your first client signed up?
In loc, features or whatever else.
The former (high-speed affordable transport) will certainly be part of the solution in twenty years. If by no other means, then by lvl 5 autonomous cars.
I am looking into how to implement pdf signing with certificates for a side project I am trying to turn into a business (think signing an offer letter). can anyone point me to some good resources for learning more? I have only a basic understanding of cryptography. or if you'd be willing to chat sometime id really appreciate it.
> even though the barrier to entry for new services is so low.

Except for the entire social network that remains on the old service & not the new one -- which comprises most of the value one obtains from a social network.
This is similar to what I've been thinking. I usually say "the brain is more like a board than a CEO".

One additional interesting tidbit I've noticed is that when the brain decides on a belief, it seems to suppress alternative beliefs. For example, with the old-lady-young-lady picture, it's hard to see them both at the same time.
Same with IBM. I just read the Canadian prime minister praising the work done on a new payroll system, so I decided to look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system

> In June 2011, IBM won the contract to set up the system, using PeopleSoft software; the original contract was for $5.7 million, but IBM was eventually paid $185 million.

...that's 32x the original price.

Everyone in software knows exactly how IBM and Oracle make their money. That part's not a mystery. The bigger mystery to me is why these governments and big companies keep spending money on these professional leeches and expecting a different result.

Do other gov contractors charge 32x the original budget? Do construction, or ad companies, or accountants? Or is it just software?
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The competitors are supposed to have provided that information in the first place. As should all participants in the election.
If your users "sign in with FB", you know their user ID (or at least an identifier), that you can then use to retarget ads to those people.
Maybe it'll be like the history of lobsters, where it starts as housing for the poor but eventually becomes housing for the rich.
> Hospitals want you to visit more often

Maybe this is true in the US but not sure it's valid point in Europe where, given how the health system works, most of the time patients are actually a cost for the business hence less patients the better really.
the heavily moderated upvote/downvote system of prioritizing content is great when dealing with technical topics that aren't too emotional and don't challenge cultural established norms too heavily. however there are many aspects of life that are too messy, too heated & too shameful to be effectively dealt with in this format. these tend to turn into shadow topics that are better out of sight & out of mind, only discussed behind closed doors where the risk of vulnerability is limited and even then they still carry potential repercussions. in 'real name only' networks there are far too many risks to ever be a real person at all so we cultivate a brand that is the best & most superficial version of ourselves. we hide our pain, our doubts, our regrets. this extends to pseudonymous networks as well and anywhere that a cumulative identity is present. very few people want to be recognized as assholes and no one wants to be a pariah, a victim or a failure even if they really are. in a sense the only time you're really talking to anyone is when you've both stripped your personhood away and have nothing to lose.
> I was 8 and putting counters on my geocities sites

How is a hit counter at all related to tracking users?
I'm not sure TPU is a good example. That one is already super Google specific and difficult to externalize except through a hosted service. Google's internal infra is pretty complex.
Was this comment machine-generated? Every comment by your account is negative and unsubstantial.
It's more like "the flexibility to change any input" produces incorrect behavior, full stop.

When it comes to distributed systems, you have to be following some mathematical idea of how you're going to maintain some sort of consistency or correctness, or it just won't happen. The environment is just so much more hostile than the ones most people are used to. Most programming methodologies haven't grown up in the presence of an adversary that, for all practical purposes, is out to get you.

Another such discipline is the security domain, and we're having the same sorts of issues there, too. As a whole community, we're really just beginning to grapple with the idea of programming in an environment that has hostile, intelligent entities out to get you. There's still a contingent of people who insist it's not even an issue! Though it's shrinking fairly rapidly.
Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?
Another day, another story of Facebook's reach overextending, breaching privacy unnecessarily, and generally acting in some form of bad faith.

But business is clearly still good and it seems like they're still able to recruit plenty of talent. So what's the other side here? Internally, are there feelings of consternation about all the negative press or is there a bigger piece that is missed by it?

I'm really curious what the other side is here, especially given FB hasn't slowed down at all despite all the press.
for individuals it is attractive because you don't pay income tax on the imputed rent.
At least in the US, the millions of empty homes are mostly in places people don't want to live, for a variety of reasons (mostly related to limited opportunities).

If you wish, you can buy a lovely, well-located mansion for $800,000 in Milwaukee right now:
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/40453573_zpid/globalre...

Or one of the many empty houses for around $20,000:
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/40456506_zpid/globalre...

Note that you will need to do substantial renovation, lead abatement, etc, and when you're done, the house will probably be worth around $50,000 at most, and not be in a safe neighborhood.

The political problem is mostly around providing enough homes in the places people want to live. The technologies to do this (multi-story apartment buildings, electric mass transit) are generally over 100 years old.
Here's a potential angle: If you're going to use a tool internally it's in your best interest to be able hire people w/ experience with that tool. (ie, people learn the tool for free on their own time)
As far as I know, Facebook isn't doing anything directly illegal with all this data tracking, and as a consequence there really is no incentive for them to stop. If they were violating a law, we could charge and/or sue the people involved and it would (theoretically) stop.
I'm pretty sure everything in your last paragraph could be done with enough good input (sensors, approach mins, DTED, Digital Wx updates, etc) and the correct application of 1's and 0's. Not really that hard of a problem to solve unless you're operating somewhere very data-austere.

To your first point-and I think you hit it but I wanted to emphasize-some helicopters are hard to fly, some mission sets are more difficult than others; hovering with a 30 knot tailwind in a $32 million dollar aircraft with SCAS and AFCS is still a pain in the ass especially when it's low light and you're on goggles...but I guess the AI wouldn't need to be aided, so call that a win.
The UK had a live-fire civil war until the late 90s. Violence has long been marginalised, but it's always there on the edge and as a possibility (police or demonstrators) at every demo.
> Subsampling is often done because you can get the level of prediction desired at a much lower cost, both in terms of hardware and employee hours.

While that's valid, I think the author's concern is that authors frequently do not demonstrate that the subsampling is representative. So the conclusions from the sampled data my not be as accurate as is claimed.

(edit: minor phrasing change)
Why is Google never brought up in these? Isn’t Facebook pixel similar to Google Analytics?
fair enough, but an empty battery has more potential energy than an empty gas tank
> I imagine batteries are much more dangerous to handle than mechanical car parts

If you imagine batteries are much more dangerous to handle than mechanical car parts containing gasoline, you are not sufficiently familiar with gasoline.

> and software is much more important in a Tesla on the road

Doing things in software doesn't make them more dangerous than doing them mechanically. Removing the speed governor or modifications that increase power output have the same consequences whether they are implemented in software or hardware.
You may want to look into Pathological Demand Avoidance. It's very new, and has basically no awareness outside of the UK, but it seems to describe a class of people (including myself), who exhibit symptoms similar to people who are classically autistic or have aspergers, but with much better social skills.

Webpage:
https://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/pda.aspx

Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Pathological-Avoidance-...
Like how banks keep track of fractional pennies when calculating interest, because rounding them off at time of calculation would introduce cumulative error. Instead, they round them off at payment time.
For Java, not for native code. Fortunately we have Ghidra to look at itself?
The way this sometimes works is that people want to do higher quality work than might be strictly necessary, and charge appropriately. That way you can feel proud of what you do (a quality job) and make money doing it.

Price-sensitive customers may feel differently.
when I was a kid a crawled into half collapsed etruscan tombs often (which in hindsight was not a good idea) and it felt ok but this video gave me instant claustrophobia.

It's incredible that people can do this as a hobby :)
My anecdotal experience is that music sounds the best to me currently via my good headphones connected to either my phone's good DAC, or to my PC's separate sound card.

Phone = LG V20 which has an [ES9218](https://www.androidauthority.com/lg-v20-quad-dac-explained-7...) chip for its DAC.

Headphones = Sennheiser HD380 pro, pretty good for under $200.

Soundcard = "ASUS Xonar DGX PCI-E GX2.5".

Sound source = FLAC, Google Play Music subscription)

I'd like to upgrade to a really nice DAC and headphone amp to connect to the PC via USB, but that's way down the list of spending priorities.

I know that I'd probably have trouble distinguishing between audio components and sources in a blind listening test, and of course I have tinnitus, but I think my current "setup" if you can call it that is good enough for most stuff.

I am absolutely with you on the loudness wars though. It's a joy to listen to stuff that has real dynamic range, but it's not something I obsess over when I'm listening to music in the car for instance.
Notion’s new web clipper makes it a powerful competitor to Evernote
That image is simply terrifying.
The Parliament does have that power, yes. I don't know if the committee does and has used it, though - hence the exec saying:

"in the event that Facebook receives a request for personal data from an entity which can legally require such information, Facebook will provide information in line with normal procedures. "
It's like standing on a basketball, any perturbation in the wrong direction causes it to accelerate in that direction. The whole thing is vibrating in multiple planes, so it requires constant control inputs to keep it from veering off.
Ask HN: Roles for a 30 yoe win and Pascal dev?
I have a good friend who has around 30 years of experience and is extremely talaneted at Windows internals/API, and developing in Pacal/Delphi. He is skilled at reverse engineering and does know C and C++, but is happiest developing in Pascal. Is anyone looking for a dev who has this skill set?

I realize it’s a very small market with these skills, but wanted to give a post on HN as a shot. Thanks!
this is a subset of the defacto engineering process we learn in engineering 101
Yeah, I’m going to tell someone at work they should pay me or Google it. I didn’t do this with my mom or similar.
FWIW, I've updated now the safeclib to 12.0.0 final from the previous 12.0.0-d1, and there were no changes in the case folding tables.
And the changes from 11.0 are minimal, just 6 new entries. So it's just a minimal libc specific update, thanksfully.

For utf8-safe languages there would be 4 new scripts to add, but this affects only rust, java and cperl. All others are unicode unsafe.
“If we don’t, someone else will” is not a “get out of jail free” card for ethics. You can always find someone willing to do something for the right price, but that does not imply that nothing is unethical and everything is permitted.
There is StumpWM, a tiling Window Manager.

[0]: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm
Jerry Merryman, an inventor of the handheld calculator, dies at 86
Launch HN: The Juggernaut (YC W19) – A Publication for the South Asian Diaspora
Hi HN! I’m Snigdha, founder of The Juggernaut (https://www.thejuggernaut.com), a subscription publication for the South Asian diaspora. We charge <$5/month for original stories on South Asia and its people. I’d love your feedback — new subscribers get a free week trial :)

I’m Indian-American and grew up in New York. Being Indian wasn't cool growing up. Western media mostly focused on South Asia's poverty (Slumdog Millionaire) or stereotypes (Apu, taxi drivers). That started to change as I grew older. I saw more South Asians in the news — from those in spelling bees, which I used to participate in, to presidential candidate Kamala Harris, to tech CEOs like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella. I realized I didn’t know what was going on in the region or with South Asians nationally, let alone in my own city. My mom would forward me news on WhatsApp and I couldn’t talk to her about it meaningfully. I also found that journalism was becoming targeted: The Athletic for Sports, The Infatuation for food, Blavity for black millennials. And I noticed that as China grew, publications started China sections and readers loved Bill Bishop’s Sinocism, a newsletter with sharp China analysis. But there was no national, inclusive, well-reported publication for South Asians, the fastest growing demographic in the US and the largest diaspora in the world.

So, every weekend, I’d write a email newsletter (https://www.inkmango.com) linking to the best articles on South Asia(ns) with my thoughts on a pressing issue, from the Harvard affirmative action lawsuit to South Asian representation in Crazy Rich Asians. The newsletter grew to the thousands. After doing this for a few months, I realized linking to other publications wasn't enough. I was craving coverage I wasn't seeing. That’s why I decided to figure out what it would take to start a new publication with our own reported stories. We called it The Juggernaut.

We are starting with one new story a weekday. Our stories have included profiles on South Asian founders, an interview with comedian Hari Kondabolu, an essay on the erasure of Freddie Mercury's brownness, and an exploration of the rise of the Subtle Curry Traits Facebook group.

Media is difficult. People like free content. We launched behind a paywall because it allows us to pay journalists well and quickly, and invest in better journalism. And paid doesn’t mean exorbitant. I’d love to know — what publications do you read and why? What makes you want to pay for something? What pitfalls should we watch out for? Happy to answer any questions/comments; you can also email me at snigdha@thejuggernaut.com.
You make it sound a little negative, but really, shouldn't that be how everyone who picks individual stocks should act unless they're happy being more on the gambling side instead of the investing side of things?

If the only info you can get is fully public info, the market should have accounted for it already, and in that case, you might as well take your money and but it somewhere more useful. And if you're fine with just riding the market, why risk an individual stock when you can use an index fund?
My first reading of this headline was "Implementing a Neural Network in Scratch". Now that I would like to see.

https://scratch.mit.edu/