skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 16-bit sounds really harsh to my ears, and 24-bits is the only widely used standard, better than 16-bit.

That really doesn't make any sense. The bit depth provides for a dynamic range, meaning the difference between the loudest and quietest sounds which can be encoded. 16 bits is enough to go from "mosquito in the room" to "jackhammer right in your ear". Congratulation, 24 bits let you go up to "head in the output nozzle of a rocket taking off" with room to spare, that's… not very useful?

Now what might make sense — aside from plain placebo — is a difference in mastering. For instance lots of SACD comparisons at the time were really comparing differences in mastering, with the SACD converted to regular CDDA turning out way superior to the CD version because the mastering of the CD was so much worse.

The "Loudness Wars" is an especially bad period of horrible mastering, and it went from the mid 90s to the early-mid 2010s (which doesn't mean that regular-CD has gone back to "super awesome", just that you're unlikely to have clipping throughout a piece these days).
Hyperscan is still dynamic, and C only.
Google or Mozilla could use perfect hashes and ship it. (Google won't).
You need a native extension for a fast low memory blocker.
I have never seen a “slave” branch in my life. “master” does not only refer to master/slave relations. I’m fine with changing this but it is ever so slightly silly.
Off topic but I just want to give a shoutout to the astrophysicists in UBC. As an UBC undergrad alumni the physics department professors/TAs were probably the most 'caring' profs I had.

Jaymie Matthews is a hilarious professor according to my sister, and I was scheduled to take his classes...until he tried to save a random woman from an attacker in LV, went into a coma for the better part of a year, and pretty much missed all my classes.
Oh sure, but I was talking about news even before their donation. The news cycle constantly has something negative to say about his net worth for some reason. A figure that is just paper value btw, it's not like he could actually cash in and have billions of dollars in the bank. Net worth numbers are worthless heuristics
The problems are societal in nature. I don't beleive either the parent commentor or original author fully appreciate this.

Adversarial teaching environments are a symptom, not the problem. And the fundamental issues don't have a clear solution, though it is clear that the situation is far from optimal.
I don't really care for that term either but I used it because "vegan" has become such a loaded term in these kind of online debates, probably due to it often coming from the animal welfare angle and all sorts of silly hypothetical questions being offered from both sides. As for the cheese, I'll pass, you can keep it.
The universe doesn't just have an incomprehensible size; it has also existed for so long that humanity's existence is a moment.
Isn't it conclusive already that gravity insn't a force? It works nothing like what we consider forces, and we already have models that show it's curvature in space-time, not force. A black hole doesn't exert infinite force on things, for example – one could say it doesn't exert any force at all, just curves all paths you could possibly take back in on itself.
It depends what you're doing, there are many different ways to cut a section out of a video. If you do it copying the streams (not reencoding anything) ffmpeg should do it at almost the speed that it can read and write to disk. However if you are reencoding the video, the speed will depend on every parameter controlling the encoder. If that's what ScreenFlow is doing, it's probably using hardware accelerated encoding too.
I think that NASA is doing that research for now... They'll most likely collaborate on the Mars base.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/nasa-mars-b...
Activists say Facebook accounts removed despite free-speech stance
Having to rerun the query and reload the page just to change the sort order on a small dataset is very 1997
> My understanding from the parent is that if the Android ecosystem becomes toxic to Syncthing, its functionality becomes restricted, and some of the base cases I use it for won't be available.

My best guess at this point is that this will hinge on whether syncthing is able to get "All files access" approval for the play store. Otherwise they'll need to basically re-write syncthing-android from scratch in Java/Kotlin, so it can integrate with the system. They've discussed doing that but frankly it's ridiculous that should even be required.

> To answer your question, yes you can access files from your Dropbox in other applications.

Based on your description, I'm pretty sure this works because you're specifically dealing with media files, as there is special support for sharing those. Does it also work if you try to share a PDF from Dropbox with a generic PDF reader app?
I think Software Engineers' role is to pick the right tool for the job - taking into account all the advantages and drawbacks of each one. Following the trends is a good way of knowing if any of the drawbacks of the previous tools were alleviated in the new ones. Of course the refactoring time must also be a deciding factor in a switch - most of the times it won't be worth it. I think what the author meant was don't follow the JS treds blindly.
Haha I just vouched it back from the grave... [EDIT:]... and now it's [flagged] again.

I suspect flaggers may not have actually read TFA. It was published in February, so it doesn't specifically refer to recent public demonstrations. It's pretty clear which side the author would take...
It’s easier to filter for better candidates by hiring for Rust over Java
Is it me or their mobile version of website has lot of issues
> Be that as it may, I said nothing about type systems.

Typescript is nothing more and nothing less than a language that adds static typing to Javascript. Any discussion about how Typescript changes the feel of Javascript is a discussion about type systems.

> Seeing as JS has no type system, I fail to see your argument.

Javascript absolutely has a type system. It's not static, and there are lots and lots and lots and frankly too many ways to automatically coerce types, but it definitely has a type system.
Have we learned nothing from the past 2-3 weeks? Puff pieces like this don't accomplish anything. Need to find the next Jimmy Hoffa to lead a unionization effort, while putting safeguards in place within the union structure to make sure power is decentralized.
CRISPRAAS
Uber Swipe to Delete – “Can It Be Done in React Native?”
I agree. I think it's definitely worth trying and maybe you can update the algorithm later to take advantage of the domain correlations you find.
Akili Interactive receives first-ever FDA clearance for video game
However, a very small child can ride it. :)
Depends what you mean by "work" and "large," I guess. We have repos in the 250 GB range that definitely push the limits of functionality, but everything still works (pull, push, merge, clone, etc., and queries return the right results, if slowly).
Google Translate today is absolutely spectacular.

A fun game used to be "translate this phrase English to French, then translate it back again and laugh at how meaningless it's made by the round-trip". That doesn't work any more.
I absolutely agree that with social power should come with social responsibility. I absolutely see that Bezos has insane amounts of social power. I absolutely see that he is taking on very little social responsibility... which is the normal amount (note: "normal" has been very many bad things before).

Overall, this article is lame. It's a weak stance and misses what I think should be the central point: with power comes responsibility. Including social power.
They could have set work that is difficult to lift word for word, or examine in any number of ways that do not allow googling
I saw that but I was interested to know if TFA had decided to go with it because it looks better on paper or if it's because they hit a roadblock using the std counterparts and migrated to using those.

That being said since they're drop-in replacements for the most part I suppose I could just try to rebuild my project with this crate and see if I notice a difference performance-wise.
My favorite memory of FFmpeg involved wowing a friend with the "magic of computer hacking" by slicing a subsection of a youtube video, cutting the source audio, and replacing it with audio from a song he had discovered "fit perfectly". Never mind that the entire process took about 20 minutes of googling and trial/error with the Linux Subsystem for Windows. It was better than the native windows alternative :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tr8JVZdHfc
For react hooks: the base results are decent, for that particular search phrase. You won't go wrong with the reactjs docs, prominently placed there.

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

For react hooks typescript: sorry, I can't. This is a pretty good example of the problem, because I just searched Google's first page of results for react hooks typescript tutuorial, and they were all bad.

3 of very top results seemed to be a derivative of each other, where they presented a list of concepts, which is not really relevant in teaching you to use them.

Some of the other ones were a very slight improvement, but still not good enough that I'd feel very comfortable recommending them.

On the 1st 2 pages of results, this was the best result I found for react and typescript (not hooks), which at least addresses the topic directly with relevant code.

https://www.educative.io/blog/react-and-typescript

Also I want to call out this example for being especially ridiculous, because it titles itself as "Using React Hooks with Typescript" and then doesn't actually use any Typescript!

https://blog.usejournal.com/using-react-hooks-with-typescrip...

Anyway, this nicely illustrates the problem. I may try to write a tutorial on this myself, after seeing how bad these are. But for now, this is what's out there.
wasn't that 4k requests per minute?
Frankly, given how GNOME has been developing itself I think it would be a detriment to FreeBSD to bend itself to support it.

You might disagree, but not every software deserves support, they're not playing nice to non-systemd enabled and non-linux operating systems.
Introduction to AWS VPC with Terraform
When somebody asks you about passion, they're asking you if you're willing to work unpaid overtime. Case closed.
You are right, my mistake. I am speaking about firmware, not drivers.
Because what you are describing is a simplistic picture, describing whole class of people as stupid simpletons who cannot tell low THD and low IMD audio from "soft clipping which sounds nice". If you are referring to vacuum tube amps, soft clipping is only partially the reason why they sound the way they do; in fact most of the time amps are not clipping and are outputting close to 1% of their their total power. Reasons why tube equipment sounds better/different from the solid state amps are a lot more complex than the "common wisdom" of soft clipping.
In principle, you remove the incentive for plagiarism by making the students' reward for their work be what they learn as a result, rather than some kind of certificate.
In my experience, the biggest gain is from separating the router from the wireless AP. It lets you choose among more affordable, purpose built and higher performance devices.

Specifically I would recommend the TP-Link EAP line as a wireless AP (the $50 EAP225v3 is very good). Extremely simple to configure. Routers that perform well require configuration unfortunately, especially economical ones like the Microtik ($50). It lacks out of the box settings for port forwarding and hairpin NAT, though it has the simplest secure VPN setup I have ever seen. The only router that competes with its performance (ie can route gigabit Internet at full speed) with easy config is the Cisco RV340, which costs $220 and is 3 years old.

Apple discontinued its wireless routers because they were bad. Apple routers run an ancient and naturally no longer patched version of NetBSD. They have terrible wireless performance on the worst Broadcom chipset with awful quirks. They mix with non Broadcom wireless devices extremely poorly (typically Atheros is the high performance pick). They are extremely slow, not at all suitable for gigabit Internet. If you update the port forwarding they must restart, and take down your internet. However, they are basically purpose built for correct macOS and iPhone multi-AP WiFi hand-off. There are things they do that not even enterprise hardware does right or may ever do right, simply because Apple does not document the magic that makes it possible. Or because Apple uses such bad chipsets with so many quirks, that only those quirks all working together do things go right. If I were you, I’d eBay away your 7 year old Airport Express to some greater fool, and use that surprisingly large amount of money to buy good stuff.

Anyway, most people shove their wireless AP into a bookshelf, taking at least 30% of their internet bill worth of performance and lighting it on fire. People use mesh networking wireless, like the Eero, something so abjectly bad it boggles the mind, because they’d rather spend $300 once to only use 50% of their internet’s monthly value than $10 once on Ethernet cable to get 100% of it. Sometimes they buy Ubiquiti hardware, which is ancient and overpriced at this point, and wind up paying for some internet configuration license that makes no sense. I really pity the people paying a monthly fee for mesh wireless configuration. This stuff is extremely marketing driven, it is in reality just the same exact commodities (two possible wireless chipsets and Linux) remixed into whatever crap Google thinks will convince people to let them gather home networking telemetry.

But configuring a Microtik is not easy. So there you go.
> I guess we will have to wait for a decent Linux on phones.

That's basically my conclusion as well. Though if we can come up with enough killer apps that aren't supported by Android/iOS, it might also open up an opportunity for someone like Microsoft to fork Android and open it back up for developers (feels weird even saying that).
The last three parts are probably a date in yy.m.d format.

Package names only get longer as you add more layers of maintainers. (For example, package-XubuntuY or package+YYYYmmdd-n was common on Ubuntu, who needed their versions to fit "between" given Debian versions.)
> There's no real way to translate the classic theme "as designed" to hi-DPI systems, AFAIK;

This claim is entirely baseless. The "classic theme" is just a gray background plus some light/dark borders. There's absolutely zero difficulty doing that in hi-DPI, or any other environment for that matter.

Stop making excuses for Microsoft. Windows XP was a panicked and half baked response to the shinny Mac OS X Aqua interface, because that's what Microsoft had always done: following Apple's lead. I can't really blame them either, as following Apple's lead had led to great success for Microsoft.

Actually I lied, I do blame Microsoft for blindly chasing Apple's new shinny. Having established themselves as a pioneer and authority in UI design/usability with the revolutionary Windows 95 GUI, they should've had the confidence to stick to their guns and iterate their GUI without too much influence from the competition.
Well yes, but the fact that it was already patched in the next Tails release, and that was the reason they pulled the trigger when they did, makes even that concern less of a practical problem. It was basically going to get fixed in short order no matter what they did.
In one class, in order to submit an assignment, we had to accept an agreement that gave the plagiarism detection company the copyright to the essays we had written. I’m sure there is an okay way to do plagiarism detection but I think many companies do it in ways that don’t respect the rights of students.
Sorry to be "that guy", but how about not giving an advertisement company access to all your network traffic (while paying them for the privilege)...

Almost every router supports some form of remote management (or just put TeamViewer on their machine). Most also support dynamic DNS so you can set up a ping check for the "its down" notification.
This search on Springer also yields good results https://link.springer.com/search/page/3?facet-content-type=%...
It's possible there are more than 300,000 cases, since not everyone with the virus gets tested, so you can't assume 40,000/300,000 is the true death rate. There are likely many with milder symptoms who do not get tested and recover without going to the hospital, so the true death rate is lower than the confirmed deaths/confirmed cases figure.
Insane foot PEELING that works
Try not to vomit
"Spot is not certified safe for in-home use or intended for use near children or others who may not appreciate the hazards associated with its operation."
On my side, I frequently forget my own age, people's name, things my girlfriend remembers from 5 summers ago.

However, I'll never forget things like "tar -zxvf", "ffmpeg -i vid.mp4 image-%04d.png" and "convert image-*.png +dither anim.gif".
I thought that was Mad Rush for a second.
Coding has always been humbling for me. I'm reminded daily that I'm very low on the totem pole. But I don't really procrastinate with what I think will be difficult for me, or beat myself up over stuff that I really cannot even grasp (higher math).

I don't feel any pressure to bullshit about my skills or depth of knowledge so I have no problem admitting I don't know squat about something, and I'm fearless about diving in to learn what I need to know because it's really not that hard to admit when something is over my head. In my experience everyone I've worked with appreciated it when I told them "I can't do that". The tangible upside to that is when I say I can do it they have complete confidence it will get done.
I've looked and it seems that our actual core competency (the thing we do better than others) is raise soybeans, beef, and chicken. https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports... for example.
> While I was getting my hair cut yesterday, my stylist told me about her daughter’s math teacher, who is currently punishing her daughter for falling behind on work due to a broken arm by assigning her upwards of fifteen pages of homework a night. The child is seven

This seems insane to me - how could an educator think this is a good thing to do to a 7 year old? There is more risk of putting them off studying and academics for life than solving their maths problem. I think as a parent I would flat out refuse to let my child do that, and if the teacher had an issue they'd have to take it up with me.
They did mention Go that also has a modern GC, and does not need to run your app under a software VM. But ultimately, even Go is just another GC language. They had no real need for GC and the like so why use Go, let alone Java?
I think what he means by spaghetti code is that it's not readable or easy to understand or maintain by humans.

Every protein has multiple functions, so we can't make changes easily without side effects. Bottlenecking human intervention specifically.
KDE releases numbers can be 4 part. The first 3 are for scheduled releases and the 4th one is for unscheduled one. E.h. 5.18.4 was released without having the version number in the source code updated, so 5.18.4.1 was released right after with that fixed. Otherwise FreeBSD has both the Plasma and the Application version number in their meta package. 5.18.4.1 is Plasma and 19.12.3 are applications.
> What they are doing is changing a known transparent standard

Unfortunately, the standard is a bad standard and I'm fully in support of abolishing the SAT as a requirement.

For engineers, the SAT math section basically amounts to measuring how many mistakes you make doing stupid easy math under 90 minutes of stress. The SAT verbal section basically measures how well you memorize word lists. Let's not BS ourselves -- I memorized word lists in high school and I almost never use any of those words.

For liberal arts, vocabulary knowledge is rarely the bottleneck in their ability to succeed, and the math is largely unimportant.

Neither part of the test is a good indicator of one's preparedness to receive a high quality university education, and much less an indicator of the type of
education most people look for at Harvard.

Someone who wants to major in East Asian studies, for example, really doesn't need to know what "obstreperous" means, let alone an engineer or scientist.

Harvard doesn't need standards. They need a bunch of unique, bright people that are prepared to make change in the world in their own unique ways.

I went to "the other school" down the street from Harvard and from what I remember the application was heavily focused on extracurricular activities. I think that's a much better qualitative indicator of one's motivation and ability to go beyond courses and exams in their desire to learn and make impact.
This is the kind of stuff you can believe in if you haven't been a student at a bad public school. There are students who for the sake of their classmates (to say nothing of the teachers' sanity) absolutely have to be handled with "cop shit" because they won't respond to anything else and will disrupt not only their own class, but every nearby class too.
For darker stuff pretty much any https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiaki_Kawajiri film will be good. Ninja Scroll is very violent but worth a watch for the animation at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Tokyo_(film) is a good 80s compilation.

Otomo has another nice anthology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_(1995_film)

From Oshii related work - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin-Roh:_The_Wolf_Brigade is fantastic (but slow moving except for a few places)
“journalist” https://www.zdnet.com/article/unsecured-mongodb-databases-ex...
Spend a week in the lab to save a day in the library?
Dogs can detect Covid-19 from sweat samples
Wasn't David Brin the author who wrote about Switzerlad getting nuked in Earth because they helped rich pigs avoid taxes?

#HelvetiaDelendaEst
Bad teachers may punish students for false positives. It's a tool, not a blackbox of academic integrity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00893-5
Regardless of when the first Turk appeared in Anatolia, it does not change the fact that the native populations were completely wiped out mostly in recent history. Is the state organized extermination of Armenians taught to Turkish schools like the crimes of colonialism are in major western former colonial powers? How about the current treatment of Kurds in Turkey and even in neighboring countries?

It is you oversimplifying and throwing around numbers to over-justify.

I stand by my main claim the revisiting past crimes of nationhood, is mainly a western thing.
I used MED in the old OS/2 days. It has been ported to Windows since, sadly not to Linux.
Not free, both as in beer and speech, but reasonably priced and imo worth taking a look.

http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html
Also in the US the AAA heavily invests in lobbying for higher speed limits every year. The AAA isn't quite the villains in American politics that the NRA are (ETA: or at least, have become), but they are historically close. It's easy to forget that AAA was founded to fight speed limits in the first place.