skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You generate N channels worth of 1470 samples per frame, and mix (add) them together. Make N large enough, and make the computation processes associated with generating those samples complex enough, and the difference between audio and video is not so different.

Sure, but graphics pipelines don't only touch each pixel once either. :)

> Jacob Collier routinely uses 300-600 tracks in his mostly-vocal overdubs, and so for sections where there's something going on in all tracks (rare), it's more in the range of 400k-900k samples to be dealt with.

Sure, track counts in modern DAW productions are huge. But like you note in practice most tracks are empty most of the time and it's pretty easy to architect a mixer than can optimize for that. There's no reason to iterate over a list of 600 tracks and add 0.0 to the accumulated sample several hundred times.

> If you were actually synthesizing those samples rather than just reading them from disk, the workload could exceed the video workload.

Yes, but my point is that you aren't. Consumers do almost no real-time synthesis, just a little mixing. And producers are quite comfortable freezing tracks when the CPU load gets too high.

I guess the interesting point to focus on is that with music production, most of it is not real-time and interactive. At any point time, the producer's usually only tweaking, recording, or playing a single track or two and it's fairly natural to freeze the other things to lighten the CPU load.

This is somewhat analogous to how game engines bake lighting into static background geometry. They partition the world into things that can change and things that can't and use pipelines approach for each task.

> And then there's the result of missing the audio buffer deadline (CLICK! on every speaker ever made)

Agreed, the failure mode is catastrophic with audio. With video, renderers will simply use as much CPU and GPU as they can and players will max everything out. With audio, you set aside a certain amount of spare CPU as headroom so you never get too close to the wall.
>I remain a free speech maximalist.

What does this mean? Do you oppose laws against defamation, child pornography, fraud, violent threats, etc? No developed nation has truly free speech. The debate is where the line is drawn. Pretending it is a binary choice just ends up hiding all the smaller choices that we could make that could actually lead to a better society.

EDIT: There is irony in "free speech maximalists" downvoting questions like this rather than trying to answer them.
You are vastly understating the volume and type of data that Facebook is gathering. You casually mention photos but there is a mountain of information in each and every photo. People upload tens of thousands of photos.

You also just hand wave away the real psychological manipulation that is available when bad actors have enough information on you. “I won’t be convinced the moon landing was fake.” Sure, that’s likely true, but you aren’t special or immune from manipulation. With enough data ANYONE can be surgically targeted and manipulated.

And the worst part of all of it is that you can’t opt out. You can upload a photo that I am in. Facebook can scan and get a ton of demographic information about me. Then they can continue to trace and build out my “invisible” profile, all without me needing an account.

It’s absurd.
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Can you clarify about the overhead you're speaking of?

I assume it only comes into play at super massive scale like Amazon-level datasets.
Bad for the US as well.

A monoculture is bad. Any monoculture.
Difference between Author and Writer http://www.differencebetween.net/business/difference-between...
If anyone knows how, it's this guy. I've seen him on freenode's pound python for years offering friendly help. I won't list all his contributions to the community here but he has made many.

thanks ned.
The only question, how do you have the energy to browse the web without javascript, when every site uses it for something.
This strikes me as a rational comment, and I don't understand why its being downvoted. Perhaps I'm missing something?
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A neat hack would be to have it prefetch only pages already cached on the server (though those are the least in need of speeding up). Or maybe the prefetch requests go into a separate queue at a lower priority.
Please don't post like this. It just makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More information: Wei Li et al, High potency of a bivalent human VH domain in SARS-CoV-2 animal models, Cell (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.007
I was going to respond with a concern for performance when doing code analysis, large refactors, etc...but that could all be done server side, along with neat things like continuous recompilation, etc. Neat.
It’s weird watching Neal Stephenson novels come to life: miasma, apm, corporate-states, virtual worlds, mind viruses.
They say two loads per click, so it sounds like you'll have 100% increase rate in requests less hovers under 65ms that click.
> Film sound editors in movie post-production do not work the way you describe.

They don't generally lower fidelity. That is needed for video simply because the data sizes for video footage are so huge they are to work with.

But DAWs do let users "freeze", "consolidate" or otherwise pre-render effects so that everything does not need to be calculated in real-time on the fly.
really need to stop letting Zuckerberg create multiple accounts and downvote this
good to know thanks
If you want to disincentivize nonproductive investment in real estate (Such as buying up re and holding it unoccupied as a kind of safe deposit box) that could be done with taxes and financial regulation. Where the money goes after that is not really our problem.
I meant match, similarly to saying curtains and carpets match.
A lot of filler in the article, but the basic premise is something I've often done when wanting to accomplish something significant. View it on a 3 year time horizon from the outset.

Its not an appropriate technique for everything you tackle, but for certain things it's great.
Isn't that how modern preloading works on browsers already?
Please don't post like this to HN. Maybe you don't owe billionaires better, but you definitely owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder if the heat and noise of even a tenth of the data centers in the world would be still so harmless.
I don't think the issue is technical, but cultural. If everybody else is available all the time, it's hard to do differently.
No, it's just DNS. It doesn't provide any additional routing.
Time and time again I see it suggested that these "lets be evil" giant companies like Google be split up. I'm coming around to this. They aren't able to be accountable because they are far too giant (not necessarily in the head-count sense) to be influenced by human conscience. They take on a life of their own, unconstrained by their externalities, adapting like DNA, optimizing for their survival at any cost. Force these tech giants to split up, because we agree as a society that they are evil (or at least problematic). The individual people that make up the mini-corps will then have more influence to steer these mini-hydras. What about shareholders?
Nikola unlike Apple has no track record of shipping anything.

But I do see your point about what they're doing (overhyping the future roadmap) being quite common. IMO the people comparing this to Theranos are wrong. Theranos sold a product to consumers that didn't have the capabilities it was advertised to have, whereas this is a transparently stupid company without a single product or customer except for the founder's self-dealing at his house. A lot of retail investors are gonna be hurt by this, but it's not clear to me that it's fraud
Any time someone says, "It's faster but it's missing important features," I just want someone to wake me up when the feature is there and the benchmarks are redone.

Lots of code is faster when it's feature-deficient, and gets slower once it has covered the special cases.
I had the same issue with Twilio, they couldn't send anything to my number because of the prefix. After many emails, they finally got it working - then two weeks later it was broken again and I simply gave up.
WWF report details 68 percent drop in wildlife numbers since 1970
What does liking something actually accomplish, though? And how do we compare it to pre-social media? How do we know those people didn't already have that preference, but had no medium to express it, and so no one knew it existed?
From one of the scientist's personal site: "I found that, if detected on a rocky planet, phosphine can only mean life."

For one, this assertion seems too certain to be scientific. That they attempted to create phosphine using a non-biological method and were unable to do so does not appear to be proof of anything except perhaps it does indicate likelihood. However, we shouldn't be fooled into believing that nature's creativity does not often exceed our own, even our brightest minds.

Jupiter and Saturn are able to produce this molecule and while they don't fit the assertion's limitation of "rocky planet"...Venus certainly has many unique characteristics that may produce this molecule. Professionals get things wrong, too. As Feynman said, "you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest one to fool."
1. AirPods are convenient to carry. 2. AirPods are convenient to charge. 3. AirPods are convenient to wear. 4. AirPods are convenient to share between people. 5. AirPods are convenient to switch between devices. 6. AirPods sound good. 7. AirPods Pro have good noise cancellation, transparency and spatial audio. 8. People buy them because they want them and know others who are happy with them.

Objectively, this is the worst list formatting on the internet in every way.
https://archive.is/55ZvG

> Microsoft earlier Sunday said it was notified earlier in the day of the decision by TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd.

> “We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests,” the company said in a statement. “To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for security, privacy, online safety, and combatting disinformation, and we made these principles clear in our August statement. We look forward to seeing how the service evolves in these important areas.”

Yeah, as a self-appointed member of the worldwide trade commission, enforcing the antitrust rules and regulations, I'm really happy that the Microsoft's bid has been declined!
> (But you can't get the domain there)

There's Amazon Domains now.

Additionally, https://github.com/crazy-max/ddns-route53 works well as a dynamic DNS configurator for Route 53.

For most home users, a Docker-supporting server is the best option.

Traefik has ACME and labels-based configuration for Docker hosts. It is a good choice for multiplexing HTTPS services by subdomain names.

In my opinion the biggest limitation is that there is no universal API for network routing appliances, whether it is your $30 home combo WiFi/router or your $20,000 Cisco device.

An access-key-authorized version of UPnP would be sufficient for the vast majority of users. Or even iptables commands over public key authenticated SSH.

But giant corporations - Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook - they are in the cloud business, Microsoft doesn't ship a home server technology really anymore.

The most popular home server software, like Plex, is really purposefully disruptive to giant software and media companies. By contrast you're going to have a bad time running your own Dropbox competitor from home, because that sort of technology is engineered around cloud computing.
If only Facebook chose to make less money...

Seriously though, their choices to run the platform the way they have were fundamentally shaped by profit and the stock market. The type of corporate moderation you’re suggesting doesn’t exist.
I'm wondering how the integrity part of HTTPS works.

It seems it's an authenticated encryption mode that does it, for example AES-GCM or a MAC as in ChaCha20 + Poly1305
Thank you for this comment. I learned quite a bit! As an investor it makes sense to go with a company that takes the profit for a renovation for a while.
I feel like this almost always comes back to a reinvention of I-P-B Frames.

I am curious if there is a solid data structure that could be used to collect updates together in such a way that updates could be coalesced into a collection of other updates efficiently.
Verb all the nouns! I gotta coffee then bookshelf the cup for later while keyboarding my thoughts as a part of internetting for the morning. You can brain this gifting from me to you! Thanks, I hate it too.
Am over 40. I have no trouble getting hired.

Now every few years I make a massive time investment in an some new tech. I get hired for one thing. When chance comes up I take tech lead position on some something I’m not familiar with.

Keeps me up to date in a very practical manor.

Now I’ve seen lots of older people who learned something 20 years ago, and have barely changed since.
Don't do that. Have a personal phone and a work phone if you must, but don't cross the streams.

You like owning your output, right? Don't risk it.
The thesis being considered here neither implies or is dependent on all bad outcomes being attributable to social media.
This has been active in Stockholm for years, at least:

https://www.opendistrictheating.com/
I've always had an interest in Forth. It's a very powerful tool that I just never got the hang of.
When OS/2 was still young, and Microsoft hadn't killed it off yet... I was told that you couldn't write assembler programs in OS/2.... which I took as a challenge.
Forth/2 was the result. Under OS/2 V2 it generated native code, and actually got quite a few users once Brian Matthewson wrote a manual for it.

These days, I wonder if it's possible to run Forth inside a VM as the operating system. How hard would it be to stand up a networking stack?
>This, exactly this. People adverse to self discipline are the ones that most want to go into the office, because its "the easy way". But people with discipline should have always, and should continue to be given the choice to work in the way that suits them the best, if you will, that is "easiest" for them. Don't try and make me come into the office too when the things that happen at the office

So basically "people who prefer what you don't prefer are lesser in some way" but with some extra words for obfuscation because you can't just come out sand say that in polite conversation?

People have preferences. If you're gonna try and pretend that one is universally better or superior then I hope that attitude causes big problems for you.
This is the biggest issue, and hopefully will gain more eyeballs.

This isn't a fair fight of the rational vs irrational in open discourse.

Facebook has intentionally stacked the deck in favor of the irrational and amplified them artificially because it's correlative with "engagement".

This isn't an organic outcome that just happens to be mediated by Facebook because it's the agora of our times. This is an unintended (I hope) side effect of a business model that intentionally skirts the line between inflammatory and violent because it also happens to be where maximum profit resides. And it was intentional, strategic, and extremely powerful.
Oh I'm talking about existing populations. If you're talking about for instance, "what will eat all of this plastic?" then I agree with you. There is nothing, never has been, and we don't know when there will be something we can happily coexist with.
Even I feel the narrative is played quite disproportionately (democracies are falling, dystopian world).

Doesn't any engaging TV show (Game of Thrones) does something similar, keep you engaged by twist and turns, experimenting/testing with new characters?
A/B testing on users is perceived as experiments on lab rats in the docudrama.

And why is the ad-based business model a bad thing? If the platform target specific customers without any misleading information, it can really help both the customers and the advertisers. Seems like a win-win.

I feel absolutely necessary for these platforms to understand us better, by capturing various data points and then manipulate/filter our feeds. There is so much content published every second, a genuine AI can really come handy. If I feel that my feed is getting polarised and I am in an echo chamber, I can consciously subscribe to alternate and diverse opinions and people.
In reality, "You are average of the 5 people you surround yourself with"

On a side note, Netflix itself is a competitor to Facebook (content), Google (Youtube) and also engineering resources. Netflix is too "competing for user's attention" with these tech giants. Netflix too in a way was getting you hooked to the documentary by playing around with tempo and music frequency, that triggers some engaging chemical reaction.
> Facebook/unchecked mass communication increases the rate and chance that resentment turns into a mob or violent action.

Is there any evidence of this? Do you have any research showing the correlation of the rise in Facebook to increased mob violence in the world. The world has actually enjoyed a few decades of low violence compared to the historic mean.
Hopefully, your comment will incent headliners to avoid humbugging you.

I like the word "author" (~ authority) as the verb to describe the process of exerting control over, and taking credit for, the writing of something they didn't actually write.

The art world also needs such a verb for the artist who supervises his assistants as they do all the actual painting/sculpting/glassblowing in the master's style.
My guess would be that if someone doesn't love you even if you wish very much they would, then thinking about that person is just prolonging your suffering. Just stop. There are seven billion other people on this planet, pretty sure many of them are nice.

But why would any of those many strangers love specifically you? One possible reason is that people reciprocate love. So your best strategy is to become a loving person yourself. And then, one of the people you meet, will return your feelings.

And in the meanwhile, being a loving person already feels better than being focused on your own misery, so this is a bonus. Actually, it would probably be better to simply focus on being a loving person and not worry too much about when people start to return your love. Just make sure you meet many people; and if the strategy doesn't work for a while, change your environment.

With so many good people out there, don't waste your time trying to squeeze some love out of the bad ones. The worst thing you can do to yourself is to remain in a bubble with the bad people, because then it seems like the entire universe is bad. (Oh, and if someone says "I may seem like a bad person to you, but trust me that the others are even worse", they are lying; don't argue with them, but go outside and try for yourself.)
For it to count as respectfully providing correct info, you have to omit the personal swipes. Fortunately that's not hard, though it sometimes requires an editing pass or two (that's how I do it).
> Is that also a lie?

How is that a lie? On release day, when you got your iPhone, you got exactly what was demoed, not one feature was missing. As an Apple investor I would have no way to know what did and didn't work during that demo, and I wouldn't care because I got exactly what I was promised. I also would not expect everything to work, otherwise why would the release date be 9 months after the demo?
And when making that demo, Steve Jobs was convinced (and he made sure he was right) that everything he was demoing would be ready by launch. He did not pretend that the iPhone could do something he very well knew wasn't possible.

Trevor Milton promised things that he knew he would not deliver. He promised things that his company did not do, was not planning to do and did not have the capability to deliver.
Where is the Nikola One today? Where is that revolutionary battery that he promised even once he cancelled the deal to buy that (non-existent) tech? Where is that hydrogen he said he was already producing years ago?

Those two things are not remotely comparable.
This seems worth taking with a grain of salt. I've never heard of this source before today, and the top story on the homepage opens with "MOST MAINSTREAM MEDIA MAVENS ARE BRAZEN PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENTS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY." At the very least, "The National Pulse" has an agenda that they're pushing.
Doing so would destroy the ability of non-establishment candidates representing salient issues, e.g. police violence in particular communities, from effectively running grassroots campaigns.
t2.micro are on the forever free tier, but yeah.
Get off my lawn
Hmm, my Pi-Hole blocks this. I wonder why.

Exact matches for instant.page found in:
- https://block.energized.pro/blu/formats/hosts.txt
- https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
In a proportional system there is no reason for a presidential candidate to do anything but rack up numbers in the largest states where they've support. Everywhere else would be ignored.
Have you thought about relocating from SF?

Most of my friends, including myself, have taken advantage of the current WFH situation to find much better accommodations for themselves outside of SF.

Obviously not an option for everyone, but for those that have it I would definitely pursue it.
A few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203658. (Once a submission has had significant attention, we mark reposts as dupes for a year or so. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)

Also a big discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122727
you write: this isn't the NSA or anything

They sort of ARE the NSA

NSA CIA are part of the fabric of Silicon Valley and especially companies like

Amazon, Google, Facebook

CONTRAST with Apple where as long as Steve Jobs was CEO Apple flat out refused to join any of the 'Patriot surveillance and stop terrorim by spying on American citizens and the entire world' coalition
Shadows don't need a compositor though, do they? At the least, affordances don't need a compositor. So, make the "active" border less soft and this is easily doable. (I feel like this is how things used to be?)
A lightweight Lisp on top of Python.

Personally I'd prefer Fennel, which is on Lua and thus a whole lot faster, especially in regard to the startup time—but as I noted in a thread on Fennel, Lua's omission of a proper ‘null’ makes it awkward to handle exchange and transformations of data from third parties. And, since I'm likely to fiddle with the queries for some time, startup delay is less important here.
serious question how much do devs like you make? what is "you" ? 5 YOE staff engg at FAANMAG?
> Is it correct to say that two separate entangled particles are now one-and-the-same?

It's not. If they were literally the same then swapping them should have no effect, and you shouldn't be able to distinguish whether you applied effects to one qubit or the other. But often this is not the case. For example, the state |00> + |01> - |10> + |11> is a maximally entangled state but applying the swap operation to it produces a different state. And if I give that state to you, and you secretly apply a bit flip to one of the qubits before giving it back to me, I can do measurements that determine which one you flipped over.

There are some entangled states where the swap operation has no effect, but there are no states where all possible operations on both qubits become identical. They're never literally the same.