skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's because people have gotten used to be able to buy a new one when the old one is crap - actually, most people never get to that point, they just lose them in the piles of stuff they have. Few people use tweezers that much.
"At the time, audio codecs were mostly divided into two categories: there were high-delay, high-fidelity transform codecs (like MP3, AAC, and Vorbis) that were unsuitable for real-time operation, and there were low-delay speech codecs (like AMR, Speex, and G.729) with limited audio quality."

I did not know this about audio codecs, but it makes a lot of sense, and this article is interesting, if not fascinating to anyone who is interested in audio codecs, sound engineering, and/or mathematical transforms...
Thanks for sharing this. I used to be like what you said too, and things also flipped to me at some point, and I find it weird as well.

I used to be hugely self-driven and get a lot done but it seems that I get lost when working on really big projects. Some room for improvement in this field.
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What do you mean by theory?
If I were dictator the dump would charge the manufacturer full sales price to dispose of a major appliance that is less than five years old.
What disappoints me about Apple News+ is the lack of good UI for long reads, which must surely be the point of including things like the New Yorker. You can save articles, but there's no good UI to queue up what to read and then read them later. I use Pocket for this sort of thing -- seems like a missed opportunity.

(Right now you can't even remove magazines after adding them. Really feels like a beta product.)
It'd be not-that-difficult, technology wise, to integrate with Reddit, with submissions instead going to changeaview.com instead of reddit.com's comment section.
Awwww, why not? Won't get to play those reindeer games?

Why? My nose glows to bright of a bright, bright red? Uh ohhhhhhhhh! Oh no! How exclusive! Important secrets! Watch out!
It depends whether your industry wants to have a good reputation or not. If you're OK with all being seen as scum who try to get whatever they can, I guess not.

Suppose an airline collapses, leaving passengers stranded. Better run airlines _could_ say "Sucks to be you, choose a better airline next time" and charge full fare to anybody stranded trying to get home. But actually they mostly don't do that, usually "rescue" fares will be offered at a steep discount to secure good will. A customer who has a now worthless $500 ticket often finds that a rival company will swap that plus $50 for a ticket home on their plane.
I love my Nikon D80, a fairly mid-range to high-end DSLR from 2006. It might be challenging to repair (since it is full of a ton of complex and tiny mechanical and electronic components), but it has lasted me over a decade and still competes favorably with smartphone cameras (despite the huge advances in sensors [the D80 has a CCD] and processing since then). I haven’t needed to repair it and haven’t really considered replacing it for the last 12 (going on 13) years.

It wasn’t too cheap, but it was obviously meant to last. Nikon has since made cheaper, junkier consumer cameras (basically anything without the sub-command/aperture dial, which is under the shutter button), but the slightly higher-end models have stayed very similarly long-lasting and well-designed as my old D80.

The question is: will any smartphone ever begin to compete with that kind of longevity?
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So something basic like changing the battery, or adding new memory/drives ... the YouTube repairers are lying when they say you have to entirely dismantle, unglue, fight Apple's customs interventions and suing of parts suppliers??

[Sorry, I just realised this can only be sarcasm.]
I'm currently at a games studio. Graphics in general fascinate me, and I'd be happy at any job which allows for fast iterating and a visual interactive system to work on, where the underlying problems are difficult and performance sensitive.

A lot of the recent outcry over games industry being horrible is a bit exaggerated. I'm glad some of these issues are getting attention, but it's far from being like that everywhere.

It's really compelling work.
Of course it's not justifiable. The question is, parents were rationalizing school bribery, was this man rationalizing medicare bribery?
>As for your other point, there are objectively very few (if any) topics as interesting as games for CS people, given the so many areas of CS (and non-CS) they encompass at the same time. Hardly any other area of work touches so many domains. Only operating systems, browsers and CAD apps (and maybe Emacs ;) are close as vast.

What is interesting is subjective, and I am not going to seriously tell anyone what is interesting or not. But there are certainly areas in CS with just as much or more breadth and depth than game development. As someone who works in AI now, I would say it covers even more areas of CS, and requires more math.

There is also computer security, which can be as high level as web app security, or as abstract as the number theory powering cryptography.

I love game development, and games, but it is a bit disingenuous to hold game development up as being the ultimate discipline in CS. It is certainly not.
I just dug around a bit to find the likely source of the "crypto magic pixie dust" quote, and I think it's Gary McGraw. He uses that phrase a lot, and a search of "crypto fairy dust" in Google Books brings up books by him dating as far back as 1999.
Go error handling is a little bit more verbose, although I find it more readable and consistent than checked exceptions in Java, that everyone seems to find a way to abuse or ignore (wrap into catch all).

Go codebases do tend to be a little shorter due to lack of getters/setters... and generics are not used that often in production codebases anyway, relative to all the rest of typical code (that’s procedural anyway).
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I like that this exists, as someone who writes everything in Markdown.

(I should note that there is a platform that offers something similar to this already: https://buttondown.email/)

But while Markdown on its own is great to see more of in the email space, I think there's room to extend the idea. A few years ago, an employee of CakeMail created this great demo of a concept that mixed shortcodes and Markdown, but never followed through with the idea: http://cakedown.alexandredeschamps.ca/

Part of the problem with that design was that it was built around specific components in Foundation for Emails, which kinda backed that design in a corner, but there's room to allow end users to custom-build components for easy access, along the lines of what MJML can do. To me, I think that idea has a ton of blue water around it. Nobody is combining shortcodes and Markdown in this way for email clients, and it could potentially be very valuable as an alternative to the overly complex WYSIWYG editors the rest of the email market uses.

I run a newsletter with 10k+ subscribers (https://tedium.co/) and I run it on Craft CMS in a way that replicates the CakeMail approach to a degree, with my own flourishes (which was convenient as I already use shortcodes for my text). It allows me to throw in ads on the fly and simply add design features to content without a lot of extra work. I'd love to see the general idea get picked up by some new email provider.

I think we need more thinking in this direction, because a lot of email tools are built for marketing, which means that editorial concerns get short shrift. I could see stuff like this making a lot of sense for the growing editorial newsletter market if it's handled the right way.
It looks like “key man” insurance is basically a life insurance policy. What happens if you have some sort of falling out with one of the founders? Or you decide to start a competing company? Or you decide to go full time with one of the other three startups.

Having a single point of failure in a business is a big problem. Having a single point of failure that isn’t 100% committed to that business sounds insane
Woweee! You sure showed him on this internet forum. Sure looks like somebody's always right, and thank God for that!

I bet it feels really good to educate the public with guerilla campaigns to promote and get out the awareness to the masses!

Yay! Thank you so mich for enlightening me! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!1one
Lol no thanks. Hire a robot
Thanks for sharing this. I agree with you and wish I were aware of that three years ago.

I think that the biggest lesson I can draw from all of this storm is not to focus too much on the end result, specially when working on long-term projects.
Counter-argument: none of the shady shit they'd done had enough of an effect to interest law enforcement, right until they got control of the Presidency.

It seems to make sense to me now. All the fear mongering over immigrants and drugs flooding across the border when an American company (Purdue Pharma) engineered the worst actual drug epidemic in generations makes me wonder about the effectiveness of spending literally billions on the "War on Drugs" while not addressing the real issues.
Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.
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This seems like Polytheism to me.

I find it deeply amusing how much Mankind loves polytheism and yet most of today's major religions are monotheistic.
>cars come with long warranties these days anyway

Mercedes-Benz E-Class comes with a 4-year or 50,000 mile warranty in the United States, which actually has pretty high level consumer protection when it comes to cars. However, in my country, the E-Class has a 2-year warranty and I get the feeling that the situation might be the same in many of the other European countries. That's not that much of a warranty for a car starting at 48,071 euros (53,996 USD).
I don't like the subreddit but if I did, I would be interested in participating in their community on a separate website. To each their own, I guess.

Why I don't like it: a big part of it is people taking troll posts seriously. The third post down on changeaview.com when I visited it is "To be transgender or to condone it is nothing short of a lie". Then the author goes through a bunch of talking points. They're not there to give people a fair chance to change their view but to get people to read their garbage. Still, people argue posts like these and get to feel good about it, when they're really just helping to provide attention to trolls.
> Why is it not okay to raise the price to what the market (insurance companies) will pay?

Because the health care market in the U.S. is uniquely dysfunctional at the moment. One of the reasons for this is that most people are unwilling to accept the consequences of free-market economics in the health-care market, specifically, that some people cost more to maintain than they contribute and so on a hard-nosed economic analysis they should simply be allowed to die (or euthanized). So what we have now is a system that starts with free-market rhetoric, but then applies a ton of patches and hacks so that people are insulated from free-market consequences. That just doesn't work. And part of the reason it doesn't work is that it opens the door for rent-seeers like Shkreli to move in.

> What he did was entirely legal, and in no way should've impacted his fraud sentencing.

Like I said, I am not taking a position on whether his sentence was fair or not, I just don't know. The only thing I'm taking a position on is the validity of defending Shkreli on the grounds that he was merely "raising prices on those who could pay."
I wonder how the I-PACE cooling (and general battery conditioning/preservation technology) compares?
> Another way of saying this is they've been successful in maintaining strong ties via diplomacy and trade, to the benefit of their peoples.

How is it strong trade ties when one country owes billions of dollars to other?

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-owe-china-gwa...
And people wonder why I quit my job to go on walkabout every few years.
We will agree to disagree then. I enjoyed the good faith discourse regardless.
If India is rejected so should US, Russia and China.
We got 6% from Springer for a textbook (6% total split between the authors, not per-author) [1].

However we were first-time authors, and also insisted that we be allowed to leave the "author version" PDFs online as open access [2]. So it's possible the lack of a fully exclusive contract made our royalties lower.

[1] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319427140

[2] http://pcgbook.com/
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I, for one, think that the United States is the only one that should be introducing uncontrolled debris into orbit through experimental destructive testing of harmful weapons that leave orbit unisable.

As a United States citizen, I think I speak for all of us, when I say we're better than you.

We have divine right on our sides, and it just make sense.
What costs are the overhead of manufacturing? The packaging? The packaging shouldn't cost ($750-$13.50) = $736.50.
> The "defendant, who was entrusted with our nation’s critical secrets, put our country and human lives — including the lives of assets — at risk for financial gain," prosecutors said in their sentencing memo.

What does "lives of assets" mean?
I don’t think that’s a counter argument, just a specific example of what I said in my first paragraph.
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yeah it's horibble he got deported out of no where he did county jail time next thing you know he was on the plane back to Somalia
Do these companies/groups operate via rewards from law enforcement?
If Netflix doesn't like being dependent on Apple, they should have built the rails. They chose not to, and that's probably the correct move, but I don't see why they'd complain about the 30%. They could have not spun-out Roku and not have to pay for distribution to anyone! They obviously knew that being everywhere would maximize profits in the long run. But it goes hand-in-hand that now they've eliminated the capital expenses of developing a platform, they'd be paying others for distribution.

I mean that's what net neutrality was always about really, not being responsible for the rails but also regulating them to maximize the advantage to themselves (a standard commoditize your complements play). They dropped their net neutrality advocacy after they got big enough and wanted to partner with cable companies and wireless carriers for distribution, which they gladly pay for.
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All your bases are belong to us
Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize
I was thinking recently about Triplebyte which is paying to spam every public webpage I visit. Far as I can tell they're basically Barbizon modeling school for tech bro's.
Right? Patron saints are such an interesting and weird compromise to polytheism.
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Oh, thanks, you've convinced me to ignore your disclaimer.
Battery electric vehicles still have a lead acid battery in addition to the main lithium-ion one. It makes no sense to substitute a 10^3 USD lithium battery for a 10^2 USD lead battery.
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It is always interesting when the NYT and WSJ agree: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-needs-nuclear-power...
We need more computer scientists in biology and biomedical research
Need to service the turbos on Land Rover LR3/4/First gen Range Rover Sport Diesels? Easier with the body off.
From your link:

>The catastrophic scenarios predict an increase in the number of collisions per year, as opposed to a physically impassable barrier to space exploration that occurs in higher orbits.
Thank you for the heads up, I've found the issue were I was using and old airport database from 2017 (source of error / missing airport code), now turned it into a self healing one using the API. So, error should be gone.

Actually, flight codes with IATA should've also worked but API returns no results for now, I will have to ask them asap. Best
That's true. But the audiences are surely much bigger now. (Both gross population and literacy would have been lower.)
So I can see each pre I’ll investor in Lyft having a contract that prohibits shorting, though there are reports that the language is week enough that it’s possible that shareholders might actuallly be able to hedge their positions.

But what possible charge could Lyft bring against ms?

It’s not illegal for an investment bank to short a company nor is it illegal for them to write a bespoke contract that let The holder lock in a price for ther shares as long as they weren’t the ipo underwriter.

It’s also not uncommon for a hedge fund to buy a bespoke put on a company Colton an investment bank, I mean writing this type of instrument is a part of their trading desks business.

Also this fails a simple occam’s razor test once MS denied this.
I remember hearing about a sugar powered fuel cell battery that was being developed a few years ago. Supposedly would be able to bring energy density up close to hydrocarbon fuels. I guess it didn't go anywhere, though, as there doesn't seem to be any news around it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_battery
My comment was tongue in cheek:)

Wish you the best of luck!
Awesome!

Any chance you, or anyone else has documentation on x86_64 Windows calling conventions? That's where I've been getting stuck.
Could you elaborate on the state of the prototypes and the remaining challenges to scaling to production units? Curious as a material scientist what type of issues arise with rechargeable zinc/manganese!
I usually solve the Principal/Agent problem, by finding people in their homes and murdering them in their sleep.

A lesson to the rest. Don't exploit someone with asymetric information, if you want to wake up tomorrow.

Surpisingly, though, my methodology has proven less successful than expected, since more people are suicidal than you might initially guess.
I think it is worse than that. I was actually actively involved in the process of looking through those photos on /r/Boston at the time and the whole "red herring" story was not organic to that process and just seemed to be something that an outside group of trolls (maybe outside of Reddit or outside of r/Boston) decided to bandwagon and got it picked up by the media. Nobody really involved in the process really bought into it. I always feel like the "internet detectives" got a bad rap.

Maybe the lesson to be learned is that the media needs to know what they are dealing with before going with the "Reddit says" storyline.
Good point. I agree the word "productivity" is bundled up with many meanings, and it could be a whole study in-itself to unpack it. Preliminarily, I'd say productivity is pragmatic towards-which one identifies oneself (a hunter hunts, a writer writes, etc).

I've been reading Being and Time recently, and Heidegger makes an interesting distinction between what is "ontic" (a writer writing, for example) and "ontological" (a writer investigating the state of being behind writing). In this context, productivity interestingly can be in both the following ideas:

Ontically, productivity writing a book.
Ontologically, productivity is understanding of the way of being a writer comports oneself to be a writer.

I think both ideas are equally important. I'm not sure why I'm writing this; maybe to address the difficulty with pinning down a consensus of what productivity means. but happy saturday!
Mercedes has a consistent pattern, going back at least to the 1960s, of excellent design sabotaged by inferior parts here and there. (I've repaired many of them.)

Fords, on the other hand, have a consistent quality.

I'll never own a Mercedes.
I’ve been using Pusher as a websocket provider for several years now and have never experienced any breaking changes. I’m sure it’s cheaper to host my own, but meh, yet another stack to maintain.
‘Change My View’ Reddit Community Launches Its Own Website
I wonder how many men are worried that this sort of matching is going to turn up children they didn't know they had fathered. That situation is a lot more common than cold case serial killers.
What's the sub?
Buy Darn Tough socks! If they get holes, you mail them back to Vermont and they mail you back new socks.
Nope, dark mode+RES remains my one true love. If your redesign reduces info density, increases load times and breaks compatibility with the most popular user mod to your site... Perhaps you should rethink things.
I considered this and even tried them. In my particular case they weren't good options.

Local libraries and universities over here are not quiet places, unfortunately.

And I saw some advantage in having an office with a fixed position, so that I can take there my monitor, keyboard and stuff, avoiding working from home and forcing me to follow a stricter routine.
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I don't, sorry.

I'm sure someone else on HN will know people who can do complex lighting setups with things like DMX and PWM, especially if there's reasonable money involved.
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And 100% of Spotify customers use Spotify. Should artists therefore be able to dictate their own terms to Spotify?
Why are there so many cybersecurity ads in airports?
From the article

> tortious interference with the lock-up agreements
"Please censor science because somebody may do something bad."
Add the term "Win32" to your search results and you'll probably get something more relevant.
You can pretty easily run your own forum!
In theory every country rich in natural resources should follow Norway's example but in practice the presence of natural resources tends to exert a strong corrupting influence on both the economy and the political system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
If that is how you define pair programming, how is pair programming different than just working with someone on a problem? Legit question.
Can you explain how and why a subreddit gets taken away?
I think this is a common problem.

It's easy to start a project to satisfy a creative itch, however, once committed full-time, passion may not be enough to keep you going. Then it becomes difficult to maintain productivity and focus.

Many folks don't realize that growing a business is a continuous cycle of iteration, and that they themselves must be included in this process. For me, motivation has shifted from satisfying a creative itch, to the joy of getting a new customer.

I also think that school (especially grad level studies) may be in some ways detrimental to an entrepreneur, in the same way that an athlete struggles to correct a flawed technique burned into their muscle memory from their youth.

If school has trained you to satisfy an external stimulus (e.g. your thesis advisor), then you may be looking for the same thing in someone telling you what to do. At the end of the day, a business is about customers. I'd heartily recommend you tie that into your own iteration cycle of how you work.
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