skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really great writeup -- it's concise and to the point, the demos are good.

It's not just audio; timing in general is kind of terrible in Javascript. Spectre/Meltdown made it worse, because now some browsers introduce arbitrary jitter for security purposes. The advice I've always seen is to try and avoid ever doing your own timing in Javascript -- use `requestAnimationFrame` instead of `setTimeout`, use web audio scheduling instead of `setTimeout`. Basically, avoid `setTimeout` for most high-precision things if possible.

I don't know what the status is with shared array buffers and WASM. At one point I was very excited about the potential of WASM to get around some of the problems above, but last I checked, this was being partially held back by the same security concerns.
have you considered that this had nothing to do with the USA?
I appreciate nofollow and ugc. I run a site with user-generated content, and worry about spammers over writing the site with junk content. Having a way to indicate that the link is from someone else is useful for eliminating the incentives for spammers.
How many Uber drivers are there? Also, don’t forget that slack has an API so write loads can be very different regardless of user count.
This is straight out of The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet.

The only reason we know that Socrates was against writing is because Plato (et al.) wrote those thoughts down.
As a Texas resident who lives in the ERCOT region, I am going to have to vehemently disagree regarding the "consistent base load" that should allegedly be supplied by our wind farms. We had a day no fewer than 4 weeks ago that broke every record in terms of energy cost - for over 90 minutes our electricity cost 9 entire American dollars per KWh. We were <500MW of capacity away from rolling blackouts. The cause is the fact that we had bet a certain % of the base load would have been supplied by all the new wind farms, but in reality we had to fire up every peaker plant in the state, and even request assistance from other grids in order to meet demand. The wind simply wasn't blowing. If more of our mix had been natural gas, even just 5-8%, that event would have been completely mitigated.
The constitution protects against warrantless search and seizure specifically against "their persons, houses, papers, and effects". Courts in overwhelming number interpreted that to mean cops can take paper money from you without a warrant.

You trust them to do the right thing for HIPAA in regards to a multi billion dollar enterprise?
A lost century in economics: Three theories of banking
I got used to sleeping much less after having a kid. It varies by parent and kid but, for me:

It was really bad early on with the overnight feeding --- this was a two person endeavor for several months until we gave up on milk coming in and just did formula. As the kid got older, the cycle lengthened. Initially we got about 2 hours of sleep after feeding before he woke us up, this was actually better than when it got to three hours, and we'd wake up in the middle of a rem cycle every time. Once it got to 4 hours sleep every time, it was fine enough. I have a much harder time remembering things from this period of my life than before or after; I suspect as a consequence of persistent sleep deprivation. I also accidentally found out what happens when I stay up for 24 hours straight, I don't care for that.

I still don't get as much sleep as pre-kid, 8 years later, but I've adapted. One nice thing is I would say I may have trouble falling asleep once or twice a year now, instead of once or twice a month. I'm looking forward to 5th grade when his school district pushes back the start time, so I can wake up later.
This was far more detailed than I expected. You seem very passionate for PowerShell. The rest method exploration looks very cool, I knew I might learn something cool by asking. Thanks!
Just like in every generation, we are skeptical about the latest technology destroying the old ways, and haven’t yet come to appreciate the new possibilities.

“Don’t quote from Wikipedia”

“The telephone is going to destroy face to face communication”

And now, in my generation, kids hardly know how to read cursive, write and spell (by hand). The art of 19th and 20th century rhetoric and wordplay is dead. But, maybe we didn’t really need it? Many people are typing more than ever and debating economics and stuff, with SMH and TLDR and their emoji game is strong.
To throw caution to the winds means to be careless (you're throwing caution away). Is "caution in the wind" an actual phrase?
That's a very bad name for a top line product
i don’t use Facebook
I think gold bugs are this decade's version of gold bugs, and heavily overlap with "unsophisticated retail investors" but not necessarily bitcoin enthusiasts.

I note that my emails from seekingalpha recently have ads saying "Vote <you-know-who> in 2020! Free Gold Victory Coin For Supporters - Claim Yours Now".
Isn't True Detective noir? Or perhaps it's more Southern Gothic. How about John Wick?
So I am so disinterested that I cannot even be troubled to go and look at the specs. There is nothing in any of the headlines, etc. that even drives me to look. No reason to upgrade from my 2017 iPhoneX. I used to enjoy this stuff.

All I want is an iPhone 5 form-factor with all screen and FaceID. Smaller is better.
> If you had a car accident, you would just add hot water to fix it.

This is pretty much the pitch for shape memory alloys for making frames for glasses. Bent frames? Just heat them with a blow drier to get them back to shape again. Or use that bath of heated glass beads as they seem to like doing at Lens Crafters.

It would have saved my parents boatloads of money if that existed back when I was a schoolboy.
I realise this isn't the point of your post, but it's exceedingly unlikely that they all take vacations on different weeks... like 4.73 * 10^-22 unlikely if vacation choice was random, which it isn't.
It's not books, but I think both Veronica Mars and Bosch have done are good modern noir. Veronica Mars is particularly notable for having the protagonist starts as a high schooler, and it ends up as something like noir meets 90210, but much better than 90210.
Besides just incremental changes, what could people possibly expect from the next version of a smartphone, especially with the technology that we currently have?

I get that 5-10 years ago it was a totally different field, when technology wasn't matured, and everything they announced was something groundbreaking.

But now, besides from the yearly camera and chip improvements, I honestly can't think of anything I would want in a smartphone.
In an environment with stable inflation, the yield curve should be inverted
You can read the technical safeguards. They are pretty reasonable and not nearly that intense. There is definitely a cottage industry of security/compliance consultants giving maximalist interpretations to bill more hours, but there are also shops doing pretty average modern IT best practices (individual user accounts, TLS, screensaver passwords, etc) that do fine.

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/ad...
Was this chat app for external contractors as well? Highly doubt it.
Electron gets a lot of hate on HN. I get it. But IMHO the existence of VSC (Visual Studio Code) -- as an extraordinarily useful, powerful, compelling cross-platform application -- serves
as the only counterexample needed to puncture the "it sucks bc it's Electron" trope.
Yes. This is a case the supreme court refused to hear in 2017 of a woman who claims to have been fired for being a lesbian. https://www.newsweek.com/jameka-evans-lgbt-workplace-discrim...

Here is a case in 2014 of a man who was fired because his new manager went through his phone and found male gymnast photos. https://www.npr.org/2014/11/10/363049315/for-people-fired-fo...

Here are 5 more examples: https://www.mic.com/articles/11738/5-people-who-were-fired-f...

That links to a study citing that american LGBTQ people experience much higher rates of workplace discrimination: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbt/news/2011/06/02...
I sort of feel like this, but chalk it up to me getting old and curmudgeonly. You kids with your fancy three cameras and gamey movie thingy, get off my lawn. Back in my day we had a phone with a browser and email and Netflix and were happy about it.
I feel like it's the end of a very long era.

Maybe that era is one where we could expect major, groundbreaking changes every few years in hardware?

I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing that today’s hardware is not changing as fast as it was 10 years ago (or even 5 years ago).

Looking at the quality and size of devices now, I can’t imagine much will be different in 15 years until we get to a major re-invention of things; I.e. holographic devices or implanted smartphones, things that you dream about. The screen quality is just so great already that I can’t imagine it being 1000x better - like you might compare an iPhone to a mid-90s gameboy screen or early Nokia candy-bar phone displays & UI.

What can we possibly expect from new devices besides more storage, slightly more pixels, and slightly more powerful processing?
> Did you change anything about your behavior immediately when you found that out?

Yes. I removed any involvement with LGBTQ organizations off my resume.
I stayed away from most social media sites and use mostly chat/email to stay in contact with friends. So I can relate to the point of having fewer and better relationships, but I found that you have to be more active for that to work. If you don't feel comfortable reaching out to people you will get lonely as well.
It is all shit. Everywhere you go it will be shit, just a different flavor. That is what I have taken away from life.

Social media is simply white-washing shit experiences and pretending they are gold. Life is not always positive, otherwise you are fooling yourself.

I am not cynical. I am just a realist. We need to drop this total farce of a behavior and stop conning each other if we hope to rise above it.

Life is hard. Social media pretends like life is not hard, mind-fucking everyone. Social media is garbage.
Naturally, there were a couple of loose ends I had yet to
take care of, including:

* Taxes

So he still owes taxes...
I don’t understand why the above user is getting downvoted to oblivion by people who don’t understand legalities. Trade dress[1] is a form of intellectual property. This is what prevents a company from copying a competitor down to the pixel. Apple and Samsung fought an infamous and long legal battle over this. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

[2] https://revisionlegal.com/trademarks/lessons-trademarking-tr...
Maybe this is dumb/naive, but I've wondered for quite a while - what if you take the latest deep learning/AI techniques and try to train a system to predict the approximate size of the hash from the input number? Has anyone seriously tried and failed?
Yeah, I mean Socrates literally never wrote anything, everything we know about his beliefs is hearsay.
Out of curiosity, why would ANYONE think anarcho-syndicalism is something to stay into?
Cultural replacement is a bullshit concept. Not everyone is as selfish as you, some people just want to eat. The lie that people are inherently self-interested in a system that doesn’t directly incentivize self-interest is exactly the sort of thing you would want to spread if you were one of the people on top in such a system.
Former Naval Officer Retired at 41, After 2 Recessions His Portfolio Triples
Meanwhile, an equally motivated quantity of community members find the very premise of the renaming action itself to be intrinsically offensive, brittle and intolerant.
This guy volunteers time to help military vets at Bogleheads.org, too.
This is doubly true for social media:

"I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed."

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business"
I have a Series 0, and if I use it to track a bike ride, it won’t make it to bedtime. Maybe something about number of charge cycles and heaviness of use?
If you don't mind me asking, is there a reason why it's 7 minutes and not, say, 5 or 10?
I'm also still waiting for this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/421191/a-touch-screen-wit...
I think that Marx's observations about the exploitative power structures and inherent problems with naked capitalism weren't wrong and they haven't been solved either.

It's fairly easy to sense problems. Harder to identify and analyze the nature of a problem. Yet harder to come up with practical solutions that aren't worse.
What is it that is so special about dialog? I understand its interactive value, in that you can ask enough clarifying questions to fully understand someone else's point of view or argument. And that having questions asked of you can lead you to further challenge and refine your own point of view and argument. But that can all also be done with other communication modalities. Is there something else about dialog that is uniquely valuable with respect to developing knowledge and wisdom?
You might be interested in Andrew Stone's CocoaCon mailing list, whose members have regular in-person gatherings to get help, show off projects, or talk shop.

http://lists.cocoaconspiracy.com/mailman/listinfo/updates
Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'
"Not restricted to the left though"

Actually it's definitely restricted to the left. The trick is declare some leftist/statist movements as "right-wing", despite worshiping the state and/or implementing socialism.
The people ruining the planet will be dead before they have to live through the consequences of what they’ve done. Good ‘ol self-interest.
Private Key “Tron” Leaked via Travis CI Log
A dozen web sockets are not the reason for high resource usage. Web sockets take very little to maintain.
Plato was bemoaning the loss of skills needed for preservation of oral tradition because of the newfangled practice of writing. Kind of like the director of Naqoykatsi using heavy special effects technology to bemoan the effects of technology on society... just, less memorably than Plato.
The killer feature of Mi Bands is battery life. 25 days easily. And price. Quite amazing value for the price.
Excellent post.

One nit: The American Revolution was led by elites, if by "elite" you mean "wealthy and influential". But it was not led by elites, if by "elite" you mean "nobility". In that sense, it was quite anti-elite.
Do you think your peers were able to purchase homes through means not accessible to you? Not to speculate on your circumstances, but it's truly something how many people I know making six figures that choose to rent these days (in competitive, expensive housing markets). One possibility might be, we become so accustomed to renting. I can't imagine developing my career further, and then all of a sudden in 5 years, having to care for a lawn, home maintenance, etc. on top of the demands of work.

I also wouldn't discount the number of people who might be house poor: banks will give you loans for far more than a financially savvy person would suggest taking (e.g, only borrow up to 2/3rd's of the maximum amount a bank will give), to keep flexibility in your budget.

To tie this to social media: what we see isn't reality. You're "competing" with their curated self versus your own. You may see the purchases, but certainly not the debt coming with it. The people with the best-looking lives on social media probably don't have the healthiest of finances, unless you're following truly wealthy people.
why 5 or 10 rather than 7, hm?
I think at a certain point you can only really act on <10 ideas and see them through in your entire lifetime. I would probably only give credence to ones that you think you'll realistically spend 10 years on. Even if you don't end up doing so, it's a pretty strong filter to get rid of junk.
Find a job that pays you an acceptable wage and then you can work on your ideas exactly as you see fit.

I was doomed to a similar fate. I simply do not have the focus and tenacity required to be a businessman, so I took the easier route of selling my labor and my free time is reserved for my hobbies and passion projects.

Good luck!
If you're looking for a word to describe this frame of mind, you seem to be describing hyperfocus. People with ADHD deal with it pretty much constantly, but there are many other conditions with this exact symptom. OCD, which only superficially looks like the polar opposite of ADHD, is a major one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus

Yes, the wiki says OCD is not hyperfocus. But down to the grit, ADHD and OCD are differing responses to focusing on the order of far too many things, at the expense of everything else. Just wanted to add that in here because although they sound exclusive when worded a certain way, they aren't.
There are rumors of an SE refresh next spring, and I would love if they did what you suggest. But I’m fairly certain that they won’t kill the notch on the SE before they do so on their flagship phones. Perhaps it would be a 2020 SE refresh feature? Until then, there’s be a big ugly notch on a fairly small face.
It can charge on many, but not all, standard qi pads. I’d swear that launched years ago. I use one when car-camping.
As a developer who've dealt with those issues briefly in the past, hopefully, this really kicks off this time!
Have to laugh at the list.

I would dispute 2 and 21.

38 and 55 are impolite.

12 is actually a tine can (about 2 litres in size) with a wire handle tyo boil water - for tea or coffeee (in a pinch)

36 and 51 not used much.

Never heard of 41, 49, 62, 68, 78 and 98.

A couple of them like nuddy and u-ie are pronounced differently from written. nuddy has two pronunciations that I know of - the first is like nuhddy and the second is like nouddy (as in could). u-ie is pronounced like you-ee.

The funny thing about the Australian language is that we can still be speaking slang when we are speaking formally.

Have fun
iOS 13.1 beta 3 and iOS 13.0 GM include StarBoard shell, to run stereo AR apps
And literally the first thing they tell you about Socrates in Philosophy 101 is that he’s ironic. (Or at least in my class because we used Allan Bloom’s Republic which I now have mixed feelings about.)
I'm talking about with no insurance. You know the debtors prisons were closed a century ago right? It will screw up your credit score for a couple of years and that's about it.
There are definitely trade-offs to save $400
I have got a 7.

I don't want the screen going to the edge.
I want the fingerprint thing, not FaceID.

The rest are nice I guess, but those two things are the sticking points.
> Nobody is telling you that you specifically are the problem.

They very much are. I'm guessing you don't live in a coastal city or read the newspaper of record?
We’re bad at managing because none of us want to be doing what we’re doing and all of us are thinking about how we can maximize our own benefit. But the truth is we don’t even have to do an amazing job of managing, we have to just want to route enough resources to everyone that they can survive. Technology will continue to increase with or without capitalism. In fact, the claim that capitalism is responsible for scientific or technological advancement is mostly false. It’s responsible for wide-scale mass industry, but scientists would exist and push forward the boundaries of knowledge with or without it.
I don't have any experience with billion dollar transactions, but I am confident that people who do them as a matter of course don't incur 400,000 $20 fees each time.
There are three really important things about the Fourier transform in my mind. Two are math and one is engineering.

- the Fourier Transform preserves energy (Parceval's theorem, the norm of the transformed function is the same as the norm of the original)

- there exists an inverse transform to get the original function back

- once you grasp that magnitude/phase describe patterns in the function you can gain powerful intuition about the transform and how to use it as an analytical and design tool.

Those first two properties tell us that the transform preserves information, basically it's another way of looking at the same thing to gain more insight without loss. The third is something not harped on enough in engineering courses, and failure to teach it in my mind is one reason so many people thing controls/signal processing is black magic.

A big followup question here is, are there other transforms for which energy is preserved, and there exists an inverse? The answer is yes, there are infinitely many. The third property is more useful, which begs the question, which of those other transforms are useful?

An example of this is a cousin of the Fourier Transform called the Discrete Cosine Transform which is critical in compression, classification, and machine learning (especially contemporary speech recognition). It's not as straightforward as Fourier, since the result isn't as obvious as breaking down the energy into patterns, but rather what it does is break the energy into correlated parts, in other words it preserves the energy while representing it in decorrelated bins. The strongest of those bins is the most important part, which is why compression technology works by taking the DCT and tossing out low magnitude components (it preserves the most important energy) while also showing how it can work for machine learning, where it decomposes the input information into an equivalent but decorrelated representation where inputs aren't shared for different parts of something like a neural net.

There are other equally cool orthogonal transforms, I like the Hilbert transform myself because it can extract really useful info like signal envelopes and be used to make wacky noises, like a frequency shifter.
I had to replace my Xperia X Compact (2016) recently. The latest Compacts weight much more and cost like flagship phones, which they are. However I'm not interested into something weighting so much and costing some 600 Euro. I compromised on a Samsung A40 which is the smallest modern Android phone I was able to find. It costs 200 Euros and weights 140 g. Compared to the Compact is a much better phone. Bezel less OLED screen and still the 3.5 audio jack. It's as wide as the Compact and thinner. Unfortunately the A40 is too long and I can feel the difference when I put it in the pockets on the legs of hiking trousers: it starts hindering movements. The shorter and thicker Compact didn't. And the extra 2 cm of length aren't really worth much. I would cut them off and still have a better phone than the Compact.
Seriously though, dont quote from wikipedia.
Curious what your thoughts are about living in Mexico.
DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization
That's what I figured. Weird to call it a coin. There are no coins in bitcoin.
I bought an iPhone SE earlier this year because I couldn't find an Android phone in that size (I'm an Android developer). I generally prefer Android as an OS but the size and form factor is excellent.

I'm hoping there's a decent Android phone in an SE size by the time my SE dies.
Clipping first, then it just needs NPC trolls that follow you everywhere spewing the actual comments from each thing you're in close proximity too - then you'll have a pretty neat game