skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> your eardrums can't tell the difference between a binaural recording and actually being in an acoustic environment.

They can, primarily because ear shape varies, and you're going to hear the sounds from different positions based on the differences between the modeled and actual ear shapes. The infamous barber shop recording fails (for me) because it isn't clear what's in front of the user, and what is behind the user.

A great example of why ear shape matters is that ears can tell the location of objects in a vertical space based on the shape of the ear.

That said, I mostly agree with you in terms of the sound quality, especially in terms of price.
'Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.'

And from that linked SSC article,

> ...But rather than speculate, I prefer to take it as a brute fact. Studies are going to be confounded by the allegiance of the researcher. When researchers who don’t believe something discover it, that’s when it’s worth looking into.
996 would completely burn out almost everyone within, say, five years, but if you have teeming masses of desperate job applicants to replace the burnouts then that might not be as much of a problem for management as you might think. Companies like Amazon and Netflix in the US are certainly no stranger to the "chew em up and spit em out" strategy and it seems to work out pretty well for them. It's even basically the same situation, with prestige and money attracting an endless queue of applicants.
Wouldn't it be possible to reuse the 3G frequencies with an updated technology in order to obtain higher bandwidths?
The main problem with cucumber / GWD is that in most implementations it serves as an opaque abstraction layer which is an incomplete/incorrect model abstraction of the system itself.

Been doing a lot of API testing recently with karate dsl and writing cucumber tests that include json expressions with some syntactical sugar for validation. The tests serve as a specification for the system which is actually quite a bit more precise than even swagger since you can even go back in time and compare the deltas on request/response between test executions to troubleshoot regressions.

Agree that GWT can't help business understand the inherently complexity of a state machine, but individual tests can be used effectively to model state transitions, especially at the api level.
I was curious so I did some digging. Turns out there a few I was able to find that can be reasonably attributed to ancient humans. I found this site [1] that mentioned a name which turns out has a Wikipedia page [2] that talks about a stone chamber that was likely built in 2000-770 BC as an astronomical calendar.

[1] http://planetvermont.com/pvq/v9n1/megaliths.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gungywamp
Mastercard ruling: almost every UK adult could receive payout
Blogspam of https://openai.com/blog/how-to-train-your-openai-five/
Germany does not extradite its citizens to the US.

It used to not extradite its citizens at all, but that was loosened so extradition to EU countries and international courts is possible.

Furthermore there are limitations, I think these apply fairly generally:

- the alleged crime must be a crime in both jurisdictions

- no death penalty

- no torture

- a fair trial must be ensured

- unusually harsh punishments would also be a blocker
Long Now Foundation is thinking about the distant future, but as far as I understand the building phase of their current projects will be completed within a single generation.
If you were doing it today, you’d be better off putting your effort into improved propulsion. A time may come when you hit the limits and need to carry out a very long project to send a probe to another star, but we’re not there now.
If we want to be pedantic, this paper is the work of millions of humans throughout history, who have helped developed the math knowledge for such a project to even be feasible.
Exactly, I'm only talking about in the MCAS-scenario.
Thanks for answering burntsushi I didn't expect you to reply personally. It's true that there is some good value in having smart sane defaults, and skipping always looking for 2 or 3 advanced flags which are only used from time to time so I ended up giving it a chance (installing it via brew). The difference showed up immediately.

At the moment first impressions are good, seems to be killing it at the most common grep use case I am having, so I will continue using it and trying for some weeks until I can have a better formed opinion.

The only unknowns for me are are the edgy use cases such as piping to other processes where I might end up falling back to system's grep or maybe learn better the rg possibilities.
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It's mandatory with http/2.

Even http/1 (which is mostly used atm ) flags any page with inputs with a big red !! Insecure !!
Rephrase the question: "Why should mithril.js be popular?"
Is there any law/legal mechanism which could put automatic expiration on new laws? Is there anything I could suggest to my lawmakers for this to happen?

I mean, we seem to be following a pattern:

Big power wants something that directly and negatively impact the quality of life of the majority of the populace.

Populace rises up against this.

Big power 'loses'.

Big power makes the push again next year. People rise up, but a little less.

Big power 'loses'.

Repeat until popular power is worn out and big power gets what they want.

Once passed, popular outrage won't remove it, it's way harder to get support for repealing than for approving.

So...

I'd like to support something that changes that system from working that way.

I'd think an expiration date would due... but I'm open to supporting anything that would break this pattern.
Governance happens in a decentralized world: history and protocol of BIPs
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They'd have to upgrade the backhaul too though to take advantage of 5G capacity.
As always, my favorite article on this subject: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPm5LTwHrvBJCa9h5/planning-f...

> A clue to the underlying problem with the planning algorithm was uncovered by Newby-Clark et al., who found that

Asking subjects for their predictions based on realistic “best guess” scenarios; and

Asking subjects for their hoped-for “best case” scenarios . . .
. . . produced indistinguishable results.

> So there is a fairly reliable way to fix the planning fallacy, if you’re doing something broadly similar to a reference class of previous projects. Just ask how long similar projects have taken in the past, without considering any of the special properties of this project. Better yet, ask an experienced outsider how long similar projects have taken.
Many medieval buildings have developed in the same way, though. I don't know if it's true for the Notre Dame, but plenty of cathedrals and castles started out much smaller than they are today, and saw regular expansions over the course of centuries. And that iconic spire of the Notre Dame was added in the 19th century.
To anyone else that doesn't know what WAG is, it's apparently "Wild Ass Guess".
If apple can design a new super-thin futuristic tower that would optically dissapear at some moments when you walk around it I would consider their savoir-faire at least.
* high-speed rail with similar scale to the US interstate system.

* subway system in Los Angeles on par with NYC

* any-speed rail link between US and Russia

* (saw this from a poster below: interstellar probe )
A common anti-pattern with Given-When-Then has the Three Amigoes collaborating on scenarios that are stored as acceptance criteria in user stories.

I agree with this. Writing Cucumber/Gherkin scenarios is extra effort if the Cucumber files themselves aren't used/read elsewhere. -- It'd be simpler to embed "Given/When/Then" statements within test code (like RSpec).

I'd emphasise that Gojko Adzic's "Specification By Example" suggests discussing examples before refining to a specification; that may get around the author's complaint that non-table formats don't allow for important cases.

That said, "Given/When/Then" is hardly magical, so doesn't deserve much praise/criticism itself.
Any test involves "do an action, check the result" (with "setup the system" and "cleanup" being implied). Sometimes called "Assemble, Act, Assert".
"G/W/T" is just a neat, consistent format for describing behaviour in English.
A table of values specifies some computation; the column titles help to describe that behaviour.
It does help. what I find interesting here is that the prover was able to find a potential bug that the test cases were not able to find. That's powerful.
And more equally distributed ones: there are not many easy solutions anymore that are pareto improvements, ie do not have downsides elsewhere.

For example, the door to the cockpit is locked now to keep terrorists out - which allows a suicidal co-pilot to fly the machine into a mountain undisturbed. (Having said that, a suicidal pilot can take down the machine one way or the other, so maybe locking the doors was a pareto improvement.)
> We don't really have projects like that anymore.

I think we still have those projects but they are more utilitarian rather than religious. Chernobyl and Yucca Mountain will be our generation's cathedral to nuclear power. Outside of the weirdly curious I don't imagine it as a major tourist destination.
Thanks - missed that - I guess I must have skimmed the article too fast. In that case, this is a great example of a very full featured supplemental program versus the replacement program.
An alternative approach is to rebuild a replica while keeping the original sealed (non visitable)

It has been done for prehistoric caves for instance. For a whole building it's more tricky, but it could be fine to have it on a remote part of the city, and let people experience it as it was before.

That would also allow to do representation or over more risky uses that could damage the historical monument but would be fine in a replica.
And part of the joy of reading through the source code is that I can see text prompts for eventualities that I never once stumbled into while playing the game.
"At the high end of the electromagnetic spectrum, signals travel over a band of 10 million trillion Hz (that is, 10^22Hz). This end of the spectrum has phenomenal bandwidth, but it has its own set of problems. The wave forms are so miniscule that they're highly distorted by any type of interference, particularly environmental interference such as precipitation. Furthermore, higher-frequency wave forms such as x-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays are not very good to human physiology and therefore aren't available for us to use for communication at this point."

Not the best analysis but I'm working. Basically like any other metric, as the frequency increases the space between peaks and valleys decreases and it becomes harder to determine/separate from others 30hz to 230hz is much easier to tell the difference than 15khz to 15.2khz if you want to listen to audio tones. Once you get to microwaves this becomes of course much more difficult.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24687&seqNum...
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The source for the ~20 years estimate is based on estimation of the shortest amount of time it could have been done in based on the amount of work required. We don't have sufficiently detailed documentation to know how long it actually took, unlike for more modern Gothic cathedrals.

It's also worth pointing out the labor pool is probably much larger in Egypt: the pyramids were probably built with corvee labor during the time when essentially the entire country was underwater. Cathedrals were built with substantially smaller labor pools, mobilizing only the resources of the local city rather than an entire (albeit pre-Classical) kingdom.

I'm aware that the Giza pyramids are far more complex than they appear on the outside, but my point is that pyramids (even the Giza ones!) are far simpler than cathedrals.
> microplastics can leach hazardous chemicals, both those added to polymers during production and environmental pollutants like pesticides that are attracted to the surface of plastic

It's not that they absorb pesticides, but that pesticides are attracted to the surface. Smaller microplastics have greater surface area to volume ratio than the equivalent volume of larger pieces.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-huma...
Bureaucratic gimmicks.

Whistleblowers, just like everyone else, already have full natural rights. There's nothing they need from Brussels except to stop violating their rights (try to whistleblow on the EU and see where that gets you)
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The Washington National Cathedral in DC was started in 1907 and took 83 years to build.
Almost all video game consoles are sold at a loss -- sometimes a huge loss in the first few years. Making money on console hardware has never been the name of the game. Every game sold for a Playstation comes with a licensing fee. It's in Sony's best interest to sell as many games as possible, which often means selling consoles at a loss.

Sony and other hardware makers also sell a lot of accessories, which often have huge margins too. The online services they sell also have big margins.

Selling hardware at a loss is one reason that consoles have always punched much higher graphically relative to price.

If the PS5 comes out for $500, it probably cost Sony around $700 to make it, and this is with getting massive volume discounts (guaranteed CPU and GPU contracts over several years with huge volumes of orders coming in) that your PC can't get.

And then because consoles only have one CPU and GPU combo to program to, you can get a lot more out of the hardware than you can with a PC.

This is why when the PS5 and the new Xbox launch, it'll probably give you better fidelity than a much more expense gaming PC -- and it will only get better visual fidelity for years to come as developers learn to exploit the architecture better.
If the charges are deemed to be bogus then the extradition request won't be granted.
Victor Hugo did a great job at reviving interest for the cathedral with his book. If it hadn’t been for him, it is entirely possible it would have been destroyed instead of restored in the mid 1800s, and you wouldn’t care much about it :)
Here's a study:http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7677e.pdf

The cause for concern?

"Adverse effects of microplastics ingestion have only been observed in aquatic organisms under laboratory conditions, usually at very high exposure concentrations that exceed present environmental concentrations by several orders of magnitude"
not to mention vendors typically sell the hardware at a loss (or at least they used to), and make up those losses via higher margins on content and service sales. I'd be curious to know if that's still the case.
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Wow, good to know. I won't be going anywhere near a 787.
It should definitely be looked at relative to the base frequency.
Indeed. Rather than try to cling to historical accuracy at all cost, we can simultaneously honor and remember the past while putting our own distinct mark on things. After all, one day we'll all be history too, and it would be a shame to deprive students of the past of material. :)

[Greetings to the early-internet archaeologists of the 29th century, btw.]
I want to see DOOM running on just the network stack, but with raytracing because.
This was interesting

> When I showed up at my first day of work, the first words out of my supervisor's mouth were, "I don't know why you are here, we have no need for programmers." (The Boeing interview process is done so that at no point, do you ever have contact or communication with the team you will be working with.)

My first job out of college in 1984 was with Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage Long Island. I was hired by a college recruiter and didn't speak to anyone on the team I would be on 'til my first day of work.

They had no work for us to do. I left after exactly one year. I wrote some utility programs to format compiler errors just for fun.

They had these "cost plus" contracts with the Navy and they could make a few extra dollars by making a small profit charging for some junior workers on a project. The F-14D project was canceled a few years after I left.
If your business case is running a website, it really isn't. Yeah, you need contracts with Google for Analytics etc, but that's done with a few clicks.

If you're running an ad network, or an Analytics service etc, that's something very different. Do they do that?
>> I highly recommend the guided tour if you're ever in Barcelona. The history of it's engineering and construction is fascinating even if you're not that into Gaudi, or cathedrals.

I can absolutely agree on this. As a staunch atheist I have no relationship to religion or the catholic church, but the creativity and dedication of this man is really fascinating -- even his death had a relation to the building. The architecture is truly awe inspiring and so rich in detail, you could surely spend several days there and discover something new every day.

From an engineering POV what has inspired me the most was the method with which the stresses/strains of the structure was modelled (without numerical methods or finite element analysis).

[0]: https://memetician.livejournal.com/201202.html
Can somebody explain what are the advantages of glfw over freeglut? (other than the non-issue of "being" old)

I am using freeglut for casual opengl code, and I see no problem with it. Is there anything that I am missing?
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"Just as" wrong? I don't know what to point to to resolve disagreement here since it's just anecdotal, but if you're just using the same feature you've used hundreds of times before, there is nowhere near the potential for yak-shaving snags.
Very nice work. Clojure's REPL support is orders of magnitude better than Python's. Hopefully Clojure will be able to compete with Python in the near future for data science/ML work.
"the total effect on revenues is estimated to be more than seven times the retailer’s expenditure on advertising during the study."

How is this not positive ROI?
He was originally hired as the sole developer 10 years ago, but the project grew too big, and instead of hiring a manager to oversee the project and hire more devs, they moved him into a management position, and put him in charge of hiring new developers.
You can't calibrate away the RF noise introduced by transmitters that change frequently in time and space.

That's not to suggest that you cannot find a way to discriminate between the water vapor and the 5G transmissions, but you can't just take a sample on a low-humidity day and subtract that from new samples. If the metrics are below the new noise floor, merely throwing machine learning at the problem will not solve it.
Failed crowdfunded gadgets are forcing Kickstarter and Indiegogo to change
There are loud, obnoxious tourists from just about EVERY country.
My guess is that they'll use technology like Apple uses that allows the base game to be downloaded and upcoming assets to be streamed in as needed (and no longer needed assets to be gotten rid of).

The Apple TV does some really interesting stuff with how it manages large games and files. Too bad it doesn't ship with a controller.
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Please have a look at [1] and [2] now
> I don't want to wake up everyday thinking about work

Wait... you don't already?
They are putting up "DAS" nodes all over my city. Nearly every block. Wonder if these will be hooked up with UHF 5G and what the ramifications may be.
Though religion has certainly been in decline, people still build great things for religious reasons. The Sagrada Familia is the most obvious example.

But there have also been great things achieved for other reasons, like the moon landings or the ISS. Is that survival? Wealth? Or does it count as something we believe in?
The French state actually owns the cathedral
Interesting that while Microsoft and now Google are building platforms that are de-emphasizing local hardware, Sony recognizes this as an opportunity to differentiate by focusing on how great their box is. Their was a passing reference to a "cloud strategy", but there hasn't been as much evidence as their competitors.

This will wind up making for the most interesting console generation since the 32/64 bit era, since the platform differences go beyond hardware specs and release date. M/G's platform/subscription approach seems to be more in line with where the world is going, but remains to be seen if the timing's right.
I’m sure they would. For all the faults of telecoms companies, they generally don’t like spending a massive amount of money on upgrades that do nothing.
I think it was interesting since, as inferred from the article, it look like the same failure as the one from the 737Max
Above anything else, I would love to see F# get more love. From my experience, it's in a weird place where .NET devs would love to use it, but either don't see the benefit of switching, or don't see how to switch.

If Microsoft were to tackle a new language, I'd love to see a systems language, especially as many industries still use Windows to build software in C++. A language that can be used alongside Rust for things like gaming would be fantastic.
My theory on why software estimates suck is tied to Rosenberg’s Law:

> Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. The corollary is, The only software that’s worth making is software that does something new.

It's hard to estimate the difficulty of something you've never done. And the nature of software development is to always do new things.
ZILF works just fine. There's even a competition for games written in ZIL using it:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZILcom/permalink/76701623374...
It's more complicated than that in coastal California. During the housing bubble, real prices were the same and new home permits were double to triple where they are now.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CASTHPI

http://1mcvsz24yrri2dwocy3w3fsm-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...

In that situation, relaxed lending standards and easy money from the Fed allowed a ton of money to flow into residential real estate.

Even though there's still easy money from the Fed, lending standards have tightened since then, and builders and private equity seem to be effectively limiting supply to keep home prices high.
Not every big company is bad at this.

I used to work for a large company in the aerospace sector (not an aircraft maker) where software was a big part of what they did. I was in the safety assurance part of the company, and on a couple of occasions I had to tell management that the software wasn't up to scratch. One of them was The Big Project On Which Everything Depends.

Management didn't even blink. They went straight back to the supplier and spent the next several weeks in tough negotiations about timescale and how the additional costs were going to be split. The project was delayed, and I got zero blowback. They didn't even argue with me. The nearest I got to argument was some careful review of my report, which was perfectly reasonable given the amount of money at stake.

I'm posting anonymously here and not naming names because I stand by my duty of confidentiality. But I am proud to have worked there.
>> The best “feature” of 5G is that it’s a great opportunity institute
>> rate-hikes.

I can see it now. "$100 additional per month"
But you can cancel your cable/DSL now!