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Same with democrat, republican, progressive. I value a lot of the libertarian ideas about freedom of choice, sexual freedom, against interventionism, privacy, constitutional rights (including the 2nd A), however I'm also moderate on social programs and regulations and I'm all for social egalitarianism. I don't think there is a good "group" I fit in but I don't think I'm alone when it comes to techies. One thing that I think people miss is that government should have a lot of self auditing which doesn't happen; like we have a social program, clearly it's failing, so we axe it and try something different. That doesn't seem to happen on nearly the scale we need it to.
The original sampling drum machine was created by Roger Nichols in 1978 for now-somewhat-forgotten 70s band Steely Dan. It was called "Wendel" and it received its own platinum record.

The Steely Dan people were notoriously obsessive about drum timing, which was a bad thing to be when all you had were human drummers.

So when they said "It's a shame we can't build a machine to move the drum parts back and forward by milliseconds" Nichols said "I can do that if you give me $150,000." It took him a few weeks.

It was an S100 system connected to a video-grade DAC/ADC sampling at 12-bits and 125kHz - which was incredible tech for the late 70s.

He also built a commercial Rubidium atomic clock for use as a digital timebase in recording studios. (Because why not?)
Which is a point made in the article - the technique is not meant to be hard to detect a la cryptography, it's meant to be non-obvious to spot. By exploiting the fact that nobody is going to look through (or edit) machine instructions for patterns in register bytes, you can include a message that is easy to overlook.
> The real problem though is not preserving the rich-text-ness of the quoted message when replying,

Given the near ubiquitous use of top-posting and quoting the entire message that's being replied to, it stands to reason that others are not really reading the quoted material and are just reading the response on top.

> and the inability to have inline images

I wonder when email clients like Outlook would start rendering images based on a URL included in the message, similar to what Slack does. That could allow one to effectively include an inline image, which would be seen as a URL in other clients.
That's completely unscientific content marketing "research".
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well XMPP kinda did die
Yeah I probably wrote that comment the first few times I did this but it's hard to write it the 50th time.

Maybe I should have my own tolower() function that I can call so I only have to write the comment once but it just feels ridiculous somehow.
> It's the equivalent of people who always used the phone, and didnt give a toss about the internet. I 'm not sure why it's alarming

People who used the phone weren't deluged by calls designed to make it impossible to distinguish bot-strewn propaganda from organic activity of real-life friends. (We did get plenty of junk calls, but they were easy to distinguish from the real thing, and people were motivated to avoid them, not to get deeper into their filter bubbles by seeking out more of them.)
For people that don’t have the cash, but do have an iPad, AKAI publish the iMPC: https://www.akaipro.com/impc
I think the most interesting visualization is the length distortion around here https://youtu.be/udqihUBGuZ8?t=521
To someone who doesn't know better this looks a bit like: "We really like funding you but we don't like this project of yours that looks like it will eventually produce a fast browser without memory bugs and into which we cannot seamlessly introduce data collection, etc. If you can... make that go away then we'll just sign this cheque."
Self-driving cars are bullshit
I was a bit confused by the landing page, I tried to click on the images. Also,for me the blog loads very slow, but could just be HN traffic.

I am currently using my own stupidly simple "blogging" platform, which is just a PHP function to render markdown files: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

If I were to switch to your platform, I am a bit confused about:

* How editing/publishing of a post works (what is the editor)?

* How much traffic it can handle?

* Can I use my own domain?

* Can I integrate it my existing site?

* Does it have good SEO (keywords, meta descriptions, og: images, rich snippet, etc.)?

* Can I export the data?

* Is the data backed up?

* Is there an uptime guarantee?

* Is there support provided?

* Can you customize the design?

* Is it the biggest feature the fact that it has micro-payments integrated? Why would I use this instead of WordPress and a plugin for micro-payments?
Fund Mozilla by mining crypto (with permission)
Arnold's quip is that mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.
I'm a European working primarily with Americans. My home country uses dd/mm/YYYY (or dd/mm for short) and the US uses mm/dd/YYYY for with mm/dd for short. I've switched to YYYY-mm-dd simply for my own sanity and if I omit the year I write the month in text format, such as "5 June".
Seems like it would be even better to put this in its own function with a descriptive name, ascii_tolower or roman_tolower or whatever, that has exactly the semantics you want.
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The real mystery is why nobody has ever been able to do better search than Google, or at least just as good.

Of course search is really hard, but how is it possible that huge companies with nearly infinite money and talent (MS / Apple / Amazon) were never able to do it? MS actually tried; it's unclear if the others even gave it a thought.

The rest of Google is different. I use Gmail but could easily switch. I've not used Chrome for over a year now and really don't miss it (either on desktop or mobile). Google maps are the best but others would be good enough if need be.

But search? Every time I try to use Duck Duck Go I'm extremely disappointed. Google search is something I don't think I could live without.
> Run your applications in Docker from day 1 (with docker-compose it’s as valuable for dev as it is for production) and think carefully before letting your applications store local state.

I think this is the key take away for many startups. Get it so you:

1. Have a single-command way to bring up your entire backend
2. That command can run on your dev machine
3. You document all of the settings for your containers and deps

Once you have that in a docker-compose.yml file migrating to something like kube when you need health checks, autoscaling, etc is easy.

The only thing you must be critical of is bashing people over the head to make everything you run in your company run in this environment you've created. No special deployments. Establish 1 method with 1 tool and go from there.

Every company I've worked at I've brought a single command `docker-compose up -d` workflow and people were amazed by the productivity gains. No more remembering ports (container_name.local.company.com), no more chasing down configuration files and examples, no more talking to shared DBs, etc.
Ah, your Q&A made it much clearer for me. Thanks.
What's the concentration of high-BMI-with-low-body fat in the general population ?

Armed with that, I'll choose a p value myself, as to whether it's rare. Anecdotally, I agree, but I can't be sure that I am in contact with a represeentative sample.
Is this evidence of the 996 culture?
> We don't talk about centralization of government because we figured it out ~250 years ago.

I know that your parent explicitly mentioned the US, but let's not pretend either that the US found the, or even a, right answer to structuring government, or that no other country has found their own answers.
Sure, and knowing that they're the oddball doesn't mean their physics is any different locally.

This is the core concept of special relativity from which the rest is derived, neither of us is special in how our environment behaves. Whether you're on the spaceship traveling at 0.99c relative to earth or "at rest" (both are actually at rest but hopefully you know what I mean) everything feels the same as long as you are not accelerating.
I built a simple chatbot that uses GPT-3, which can be very convincingly human at times, so I can understand the tendency.
He constantly aligns himself with racists and xenophobes and retweets their hateful posts and conspiracies, how is that not racist and xenophobic? He's just cunning enough to not say it all outright and I suspect his lawyers have taught him how to avoid those pitfalls.
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Explicitly funding defined-benefit pension obligations is more like the reckoning from fleecing that took place long ago. If you philosophically agree with the 2006 mandate that USPS prefund its pension, then you should accept that USPS needs increased funding to implement it.

With regards to fleecing in general, both parties are in on the game (see: all that newly printed money propping up the stock market, for a less partisan example). But at least one of these parties isn't trying to actively undermine the stability of the country by helping a pandemic spread unchecked or fueling race riots. Like it or not, the Democratic Party has become the conservative option.
How would one build fastCode on fastCode? In other words, how would you build your own platform on your own platform?
Both. The headlines link to websites filled with fake articles that relink to shopping sites or directly to those websites despite being unrelated to the ad.
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this narrative was being pushed when there was an effort to pull american soldiers out of the region recently, primarily by those behind the military industrial complex which wants endless war. Russian contracts, if they were real, were a failure as it had virtually no impact.

Separately, the US has been aggressive against Russia on sanctions and other moves, which the media does not cover. US moves against Russia does not advance the narrative which suggest US only does Russia's bidding. Media outlets are being very selective with coverage to push their agenda.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2020/08/10/germany-bris...
previous poster's claim is a common piece of folk wisdom that ultimately stems from this paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16298429/ 2005, n=187. the authors are blanchardites so the language they use is needlessly confusing, but they find 107.3 mean iq among the male-attracted trans women, 121.7 among the female-attracted

interestingly while pulling this up I also found this one from 1967(!) https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2... n=34, which found half in the 110-119 range and eight over 140
Rather Alibaba and Yahoo Japan are Softbank's dividend-payers. ARM has proven nothing more than a bargaining chip to kickstart the vision fund and now a crunch zone to keep the group liquid. ARM's valuation has barely moved despite the continued dominance of the platform.

Selling ARM lets Softbank keep WeWork living for a couple more years, enough time to bring the non-japan markets into cashflow positive status. Japan by some miricle was cash flow position from the start, he must think the model can work overseas.
This is a neat idea in the way it works with very well-supported open web standards. It feels like it could fit within the Dat/Hyperdrive ecosystem as a means for syndicating content held within decentralized content distribution networks.

As one of the architects of Ara [0] I would be curious to know if proof of content ownership and/or intellectual property protections are offered by these protocols? This has always proven to be one of the more challenging aspects to decentralized content distribution, in my experience.

[0] https://ara.one
Stock trading is at an all-time high. Do you think more companies are being created or fewer?
> The argument GP was making is that what is obvious to one reader may not be obvious to another.

Regardless of the argument, it's not obvious to anyone unless they've taken the time to read the documentation and possibly read through some examples. While there are those who may feel that it's simple and/or obvious after they have gained that knowledge, it shouldn't relieve anyone of the responsibility to read documentation and figure these things out for any tool that they use.
You just described my experiences with motorcycle shops.

Man I wish there was less "MC culture" there and more customer service. Where I live it feels so bad that although I have a driving license since a month, I do not fancy the idea of buying one in a shop but rather steer clear from them and buy online.

Which, I am certain, will bite me in the youknowwhat when it will be due for service.
Tim Berners Lee himself has a project aimed at this. I like IPFS but it's still quite clunky to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
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>OK as long as they don't reveal who you voted for.

Yup, an "I voted" sticker is OK. An "I voted" sticker with your ballot's serial number isn't.
How does this compare to py-spy?
Valid for what reason? There is no evidence ARM would be anymore successful under UK control then nVidias, in fact the opposite maybe true. The history of government owned businesses, esp. in UK is desultory.
> went into a retail store with a faulty product and they were to try fob you off saying you need to go to their supplier/wholesaler/manufacturer

Far from unheard of, sadly.
I am not sure to understand how the program can make a distinction between 33 C0 (because it is written as 33 C0) and 33 C0 (because it was written as 31 C0 and was later changed by steg86 to 33 C0)?

Or, seen the other way, maybe steg86 can "extract" (from already existing untouched binaries) secret messages that were never intentionally written?
Agree or not, Trump's claim is that mail voting undermines integrity. And whether he's theoretically correct or not, honest or not, the first evidence from Paterson NJ showed that mail-in voting spoiled every vote for council. The number of ruined ballots was greater than the margin of victory. People are calling it a "win" because some of the fraudsters (or misguided people accidentally violating electionaw) were arrested, but that doesn't unspoil the vote.
Yes, I would for your safety with anything even remotely dangerous, like electronics (I watch out even with a strainer which is just steel, but can be covered in loads of carcinogenic chemicals from china etc).

I recently just got fooled again, I needed to buy a cooking butane torch for grilling cheese. The "best seller" was quite nice looking, had great reviews, great photos.

I actually got it in my hand and it essentially fell apart. I immediately threw it in the trash as there's no way I'm putting highly flammable gas into this junk. I went to a head shop and bought one for the exact same price with amazing quality... its funny how we started out with brick and mortar, migrated to online... and now I'm going to start migrating back to brick and mortar.
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Only the older chip series they could not sell to tablet makers. The newer chips are too power hungry for mobile and are targeted at automotive where Nvidia has gotten traction. Nintendo better hope Nvidia has something new coming up in time for a next generation.
This guy can't see past the end of the pandemic and on that basis alone is declaring NYC dead forever?? What a garbage article.
OneWeb cost $500M, SoftBank wants $32B+. Not gonna happen.
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The part that scares me most is the finances.

The New York City subway is a crumbling, ancient embarrassment for a world class city. The costs of doing anything with it are astronomical. With this financial crisis, who can say it will plausibly get any better than it is now in the next 15 years? It is more likely to get even worse!

For me, and probably millions of other people, the subway is the key to accessing the things I love in NYC. I used to take it every weekday to and from work and every weekend to and from entertainment and dining. It is something where changes in the quality will be felt immediately.
Iowa Democrats tried an app this year, and it was a colossal failure: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/04/802583844/what-we-know-about-...
Still no linux version? Wha?
If mutt is accessing email via IMAP, why would you need a dedicated machine for accessing email?
Here is my anecdotal experience:

* Moved to Manhattan in 2017 for work. When covid hit full steam in March, I decided to stick it out for a while, hoping things were turn or that the reaction to the virus was overkill. Turns out covid was legitimate, and started planning my move in April / May. Moved out at the end of June to live with family in one of the outer boroughs. Living in Manhattan was awful during that time. The city is a pain to live in when circumstances were good, but was pretty much unbearable with covid. It made no sense to stay - I was paying awfully high rent to live in the city and not enjoy it.

* My landlord was a baby boomer business owner who recently brought a 2nd retirement home out of state and was planning on retiring. Covid accelerated her plans, and not in a good way. She is trying to sell her Manhattan home and use the proceeds to pay the mortgage for her new place. She originally listed her home for $1.5M, and now its listed at $1.1M and is still struggling. Her story is likely not unique.

* I work with a team of 7 people at work, 4 of whom (including me) lived in the NY - 2 in BK, 1 in Queens, 1 in Manhattan (me). All are millennials - 3 moved in with family, 1 moved out of state.

* I would say 9/10 millennials I know who could move out of NY has already either moved in with family or out of state.

To emphasize - this is my anecdotal experience. Mine could be exceptional, but I doubt it.

I love Manhattan - moving to the city was the best decision I ever made and I was certain I was going to die there. However, recent events are the most depressing I have seen in my life. I hope NYC bounces back, but I don't see that happening for a long time, and I don't think I'll be around for when it does, because I am at the point in my life where I am looking to start a family.
They do in the UK: you can bring a pen if you want, but you should probably make sure it's something which quick drying ink so it's not likely to mark other parts of the ballot when its folded. In terms of tampering with the ballots it really doesn't make much difference: there are ways which are far easier to pull off and harder to detect to tamper with them than erasing pencil marks, and the way the election system is designed to protect against those ways also effectively prevents any issue with what was used to mark the ballots.
>And yet 20+ years later no single Codec can produce MP3 128Kbps quality at 64Kbps

I don't have any hard data on this, but I'm pretty sure that Opus produces better quality audio at 64 kbps than a 2000 MP3 encoder does at 128 kbps. A current version of LAME will probably be as much better than some old Fraunhofer encoder as Libopus is better than LAME.
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He is asking "what is the line between too sparse and not too sparse" and attempting to characterize the example you gave of each in terms of approximate relative sparsity.
No one is going to pay $32B for a business, then cut off its key customers and revenues.
> To make a cluster useful for the average workload a menagerie of add-ons will be required. Some of them almost everyone uses, others are somewhat niche.

This is the concern I have with k8s. All this complexity introduces operational and security concerns, while adding more work to do before you can just deploy business value (compared to launching on standard auto-scaling cloud instances)
I haven't read the code but it sounded like they encode in frequency space so if they're already putting all the bits into encoding below 20kHz it seems like it would not change the size (as 44.1kHz to 48kHz already have no bits allocated to it).
This is a really good question!

steg86 currently embeds a 32-bit header for itself. You can see the relevant constants here[1]. If the header doesn't validate during extraction, steg86 fails instead of extracting potential garbage.

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/steg86/blob/master/src/steg86/b...
Is it cause you think China or some hacker gives a shit about you?
Newsflash you are no one to most people. Your actions matter to no one but yourself and the people close to you.
> it would be best if all nations signed and followed UNCLOS [0] guidelines

China has signed the UNCLOS, but that hasn't stopped them going forward with their "9-dashed lines" claims to the entirety of the South China Sea.

Further there are matters of interpretation: Canada’s position on the Northwest Passage is that the Passage is part of its internal waters as per Article 8 of UNCLOS. The US (and others) is going for the argument that the Northwest Passage does fall within the definition of a strait as used by UNCLOS in the context of transit passage (Article 34, AFAICT).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_passage

The US is going this route because (AFAICT) there's a part of Russian waters that they could make the same argument for, and that'd be good for USN access there.
Wendel was neat, but I think the best-named drum machine was the one put to use by Sisters of Mercy:

"Doktor Avalanche"

https://www.discogs.com/artist/463064-Doktor-Avalanche

"The good Doktor is renowned as the only member of the Sisters of Mercy to have remained with Andrew Eldritch through the many incidents of in-fighting, splits and new line-ups. "
JSTOR has to at least make a show of respecting the licensing agreements that they have with publishers. It can't be seen to wink at an attempt to make its entire archive available for free.

JSTOR actually does a ton of useful work scanning old journal articles. Someone has to pay for this.
Creating the same molecules would be considerably more complex than harvesting them heck we might not even be able to make them at all there is a plethora of compounds we use on a daily basis we can’t synthesize.

Your example isn’t a particularly good one solar panels and photosynthesis don’t operate in the same manner, if we needed to produce chlorophyll at scale we probably wouldn’t be able too.
What about sorting users by name?