skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube only offer audio in either AAC (in a .m4a container) or Opus formats.

Since lossy to lossy transcodes always cause some degradation due to the way perceptual codecs discard data, it's always best to use them as-is without converting.

AAC is widely compatible these days and is the broadcast industry (ITU / EBU) standard for distribution of end-user audio, the default recording format for most consumer and pro-sumer equipment, and also what Youtube's upload giudelines suggest. Therefore it's better just to get the `-f140 -x` for maximum compatibility, unless you know you can play the Opus audio and have reason to believe the upload was higher quality.
Okay DropBox >.>
The other thing you can do for that issue is find some more trustworthy ISP somewhere (hopefully not too far away) that allows personal traffic (many do not) and always connect through them. This does not provide anonymity (likely requires ID to sign up) but does provide an encrypted channel through the extra shady ISPs that provide the actual network connection (even worse if you ever use free wifi).

I've been doing this with RamNode for a few years with their $15/year OpenVZ mostly via SOCKS with DNS passthrough (the main disadvantage of this is that it doesn't allow direct DNS resolution and some adblock techniques require being able to do that). This includes a fixed dedicated IP address. Presumably they will eventually support wireguard and then everything should work without fuss (you could setup OpenVPN if you are so inclined and I think would need to if you want to additionally use anonymity providing VPNs on top of that). There are still a few issues with various sites but it sounds like it is quite a bit less annoying than anonymous VPNs, at least once Google and Cloudflare figure out what you are doing. The 500GB bandwidth is per month and generously accounted so I've only once reached it (it would be $4/month for an additional TB). I'd guess there are a number of low priced ISPs that would work. Most software I've used seems to respect ALL_PROXY=socks5h://... these days although not all.
Greedy people never learn...
Whether or not a protocol can be achieved using a certain method is a valuable outcome. Write it up so your peers know what didn’t work.
I hate how if you do something like quit using Twitter after being a user or quit working for Facebook after working there and you get cred, but don't use it to begin with or never apply to places you think are sketch and people will just roll their eyes, even it you aren't the one bringing it up.
This is a really disappointing article. It's a kind of data porn.

Graph after graph of "See, nothing to see here." and I'm wondering what kind of point he's trying to make. Then out of nowhere, the author concludes that firearm ownership protects democratic freedoms.

Well, OK. That's a reasonable hypothesis, but none of the dozens of graphs even looked at the relationship between firearm ownership and how democratic or free a society is.
Flutter is more controlled by Ad Words team than Google as a whole, without it there wouldn't exist any Dart.
I recently had to transfer $300 abroad - it was the slowest and most expensive transfer of money I've ever made. Also, it was the most complicated! Never again!
I have a Tombow Zoom[0] and I liked it so much I bought another, so now I have two. It's 0.5mm but it's a very bold line, especially on smooth paper like a Rhodia pad. It appears you can get 0.7mm cartridges for it too.

They are super classy and IMO great value for money. However they do have one problem, which may or may not affect you. The cap doesn't like to stay put on the back of the pen during robust use, e.g. sketching. This happens more with the silver model than with the black model for some reason.

For me it wasn't a show stopper, it just means I use different pens for bar sketching or, if I really want/need to use the Tombow, I remember to pocket the cap before I get going.

I'm also a big fan of the Energel though, just today I was marveling at how thin and precise its 0.5mm line is.

If you're into the Uni-Ball look I recommend trying the Eye, which you can get in Fine or Micro or Needle. I guess in the US it's called the Vision?[1] Might be too thin for you and the aesthetics aren't for everyone but the Micro is my go-to sketching-and-writing pen for when I'm out and about and might lose it. Works much better than the Tombow on toothy papers, like proper artist's drawing paper. They fit very nicely into many spiral bindings too.

Good luck with your search!

[0]: https://www.jetpens.com/Tombow-Zoom-505-META-Liquid-Ink-Roll...

[1]: https://uniballco.com/vision-1/
In the 90s I remember critical media linking Sandagergård to the Echelon Project. There were also rumors about foreign contractors operating at the facility.

I've always thought about this when I was near Sandagergård (it's situated in a beautiful place off the beaten path not far from Copenhagen) but as far as I remember the stories where mostly based on speculation without any hard facts. With these recent disclosures it seems that there might have been some truth to those old stories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
But at some point you must be saving up profits right? Eventually you will have to hire people that do not have billable hours, you can’t rely on just cash flow from work to cover salary expenses.
I never really got involved with Twitter. I made an account and followed a few that I thought might be interesting but it just didn't really engage or entice me enough to make it a daily habit.

I'm not at all fannish though and I think Twitter appeals most to those who are. It gives them a connection to celebrities and that's a very deep seated aspect of our cultures.

I'm more into learning and we can learn something from everyone so I spend my internet time more on long form media that dives deeper into subjects that interest me. Sometimes a tweet I've seen will lead me there so I don't think it's worthless, but most of those I see are referenced somewhere other than Twitter.
Have to agree. 280 characters is not that much better than 140, and what good ideas are compressed into that format. Sure you can link to a blog post, but then you might as well use rss.
I find myself posting on social media but not reading it.

Or for twitter I follow 3 people I aspire to be more like.

I had followed a fourth but too annoying so unfollowed.

The worst part was the feeling betrayal as I unfollowed personal friends and people I communicate with. Unfortunately even one like/retweet turns your profile into political garbage.
Sorry, I did read the complaint and it appeared what I said earlier was correct. It sounds like I misunderstood things; thanks for the correction!

My main point still stands, though: They need a lawyer.
At no point did say independent platforms are immune, but I can see why there might be the appearance of that subtext since I'm using substack. I'm using substack because I can use it without needing to buy into a social graph, and I enjoy writing longform.

I think the messages that are effective on Twitter are true of all media whose goal is to reach as many people as possible. The things that work on Twitter did not start on Twitter, which I mention. Word of mouth marketing was coined in the 70s, I believe. What I believe makes social platforms more vulnerable to it is the user's inability to protect themselves from the messages of its most effective extreme actors.
Oh, it is. It can get a little clump of ink on the ball from time to time but that is a small annoyance in relation to the excellent writing feel and quality. It lays down a lot of ink.
The Center for Open Science actually has a web framework built around this concept they call pre-registration. Check it out website: cos.io , site to preregister: osf.io
Long term given the lack of motivation to support modern Java on Android, Kotlin will be tied to Android anyway as it will need to choose how much Java/JVM it can support and still be the Google loved child for future Android development.
Foobar just makes the hidden playlists of other players all explicit. That doesn't preclude what you're asking for. The best way to do what you're talking about is probably with the Facets component or the search functionality of the columns_ui interface. You can do it with the default library search but it will switch out the playlist that's playing as soon as you search for something else.
This is the comment I was scrolling for. GStreamer is awesome.
If you are not trusting the people that are running these things, then Signal is just another siloed messenger where the servers are controlled by a single entity. There are certainly worse but Signal is not special.
The term "hacker" in "hacker news" is too misleading, especially those of us who use the more RMS-esque definition of it. Petition to change to something more appropos.
A four-day workweek would be a nice start.
Why Gossip Spreads on Twitter
I remember being taught how to hold a pencil correctly when I was 5. When I was about 8/9 we had to use fountain pens.

However, I don't think the advice was ever repeated.
I'd like to start with saying that I love such titles (both writing myself and reading others'). I also to check up such claims, so opened up that PDF.

First of all, it's not "book", but a short article (10 pages). Then another quote from it:

> In this paper I examine the synchronization features of Java to discover their origin and determine if they live up to the standards set by the invention of monitors and Concurrent Pascal a quarter of a century ago.

So, the claim being made that Java doesn't support Concurrent Pascal's "monitors". And Captain Obvious agrees, because Java support's Java's monitors, d'uh. Though author puts that as if he owned a trademark for the word "monitor". Maybe he did.

Then he complains that Java allows to write not just fully decoupled threads, but those which share state too. He argues that there should be synchro police hand-holding everyone and not letting them shoot themselves in the feet. He's also apparently oblivious of all of the lock-free paradigm, because well, his Concurrent Pascal's "monitor" is panacea for all the times and uses. So oops, Java adopted a free-will approach instead.

He concludes with the following:

> The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade in which programmers took a gigantic step backwards by switching from secure Pascal-like languages to insecure C-like languages.

I find that being almost one-to-one to what's being attributed to another late computing pioneer, Frances Allen (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24083564):

> "In our conversation she talks about what that transition was like as well as why it is important to increase the diversity in the field and how C has grievously wounded the study of computer science."

I very much feel for those gals and guys. I may imagine the outrage that generation felt about C could be compared to that which our generation, rurban, feels about JavaScript.

Overall, was nice read, thanks for sharing.
write on paper first using pen, then type out the notes to computer. efficient and reinforces learning
If you’re willing to share, who are the three? Or 4.
What a masturbatory SEO blog spam article.
Flutter has been a Ad Words team all along, go watch Android Fireside sessions at past Google IO to watch the teams political correct answers when asked about their opinion related to Flutter.
Hooks are not functional. The most elementary rule of functional programming is no state and no side effects. If you break these rules and justify your rule-breaking by pointing to esoteric concepts then you're violating the spirit of functional programming.

Thanks to React Hooks a whole generation of JavaScript programmers are being misled into believing they are doing functional programming when they're really not. More on that here: https://medium.com/weekly-webtips/dysfunctional-programming-...
This was like maybe true 8 months ago, before Sweden had multiple waves. It’s been false for a while now and I don’t know why everyone keeps saying it. Another comment has the right data. Also if you’re insinuating that other maladies are getting reclassified as covid, you can look at excess deaths and see most countries had more people die in the past six months than usual, and seems to indicate we actually undercount covid deaths (this latter part is for the US)
Apart from bandwidth being used quicker as the HLS/DASH segments are requested from the server at shorter intervals.
Scientists Discover Coral Reef Taller Than the Empire State Building
If using a debugger with Visual Studio-type keyboard shortcuts, F11 = step in, Shift+F11 = step out.

If running under the Visual Studio debugger, you can also press F12 with the debuggee in focus to break into the process.
Yes I forgot to mention that in my comment! He's a really nice, kind guy. And he puts a lot of love into WACUP.
If only grants were big enough (and permissive enough) to hire professional SWEs.

It's as if we sent a bunch of theoretical physics PhD's out to Geneva, gave them garden trowels, and let them break ground on a particle accelerator themselves.
I never stopped using it. Still the best music player I've seen. The version I have is a little crashy on windows 10 though.. Sometimes it wont play music and I have to stop any instances of it in task manager, and the restart it before it works.. Its fairly common. I wonder if this new update has fixed that?
Everyone still in their right mind should quit Twitter.

Actual, now is a very good moment to do so. Quit before the election. You're not going to miss anything healthy.
Did you read the parent comment ?

> Nah, Flutter Web clearly grew out of Flutter for smartphones. If the dream is write-once run-anywhere, extending to web is just the obvious next step.

Ok.

> Sorry if I wasn't clear ... I do think the overall approach of Google is let's make the internet more of a controlled experience, and Flutter fits perfectly in that approach.
And these tech firms don't really ask tricky interviewing questions? I'm aware that FAANG companies ask Leetcode style questions which I'm not willing to drill myself over. That wouldn't be very low maintenance if the interviews are also cutthroat competitive.

I am considering probably Infosys or Accenture, though. I hear their interviews don't go deep and they give some in-house training.
> I say that languages divide us and silo us.

So should we just have one programming language? Should we have just one OS? Should we have one computer game? One social media? Should we have one political party? One school? One store? One book?

> I look forward to the day when everyone on earth will be able to speak and communicate in a single language.

We already do. It's called math.
Yep. I do follow Reddit via daily emails but rarely go there and comment or post.
speaks into wrist: Target identified.
Winamp at its core IS a simple media player. If you install it and don't include all the addon modules, you end up with a small, light player and not much else.
Is there a way to prototype the idea on a smaller set of postings? Perhaps have a setting by user name. When making a downvote, you would be presented with an option for reason if the poster has that setting for their account.

I think of this forum as a well-moderated “put a penny in the pot” sort of place. You say your piece and move on. You put your penny in because you’ve gotten pennies in the past. Nice to know you’re generally making a positive rather than a negative contribution, but ultimately it’s just pixels on a screen.

But others quite reasonably want more feedback. Perhaps to refine their ideas, or to improve on their presentation or persuasion skills. Be nice for them to have the option to get that feedback.

Perhaps the setting would also be enforced on the first five postings from new accounts, or if the user is an obvious troll or shill. For the new account, the feedback should be softened as they ease into the culture. Perhaps with helpful tips.

In-groups are everywhere, sadly. Easier to address if you have a solid sense of self-esteem and a proven track record in life to support you if you are swimming against the stream. Perhaps the movie “Twelve Angry Men” might be of service. Outsider status can be quite powerful in its own way...
It bothers me a lot that the community I'm in is almost entirely centralized on Twitter and Telegram. There are independent sites that would become contact points in the event both went away, but it's friction, and people would lose touch. There was a much less online community that mostly met up at conventions, but those are shut down for the foreseeable future because of the mismanaged pandemic.
Are you familiar with the story of the prodigal son from the Bible?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11-32...

Background: a man has two sons. He gives half of his wealth to each. The older son is a regular hardworking fellow who stuck around and helped and obeyed his father. The younger one squandered all of it away and after falling upon hard times, realized the folly of his ways and came back to his father, full of repentance. The father threw a large feast for him.

“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

“‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
> where's the line between a totally honest and transparent workplace and a toxic workplace?

As a heuristic, honest people don't keep talking about how honest they are. So if a company reminds you regularly "this is a totally honest and transparent workplace", more likely it is the latter.
There was one of these in a shoe store when I was about 7 or 8. (Early-mid 1950s) We all wanted see what the bones in our feet looked like. We kept going in and asking to use it.

I thought they were just being spoil-sports when they said we couldn't use it too often or it would 'bad for us'.
It can be lots of work to present the data and describe it, graduate students may give priority to incentived 'high-impact' publication instead.
Yes. The details of the used protocols are supposed to be included (and usually are) in the primary publication of the research.
Did you know some people that write these big dramatic goodbye posts to a social network sometimes never even used that network in the first place? They’re just farming for clicks and clout.

It’s easy to get away with because a deleted account is indistinguishable from one that never existed in the first place.

Always be skeptical.
Is it too late for the US to execute a pandemic plan?
How to Shape Your Future
Here are 4 ways you can begin shaping your 2021 – you might even start today instead of waiting for the traditional January 1 timeline.
Is OCaml functional?
If we are defining whether someone is a writer or not by the amount of published content they create, then very very few people are actually writers. If you have to have the published output of a Stephen King to be considered a "true writer" then I imagine there would only be a handful around the world. That's surely what your argument is implying, right? That it's whether someone is publishing a lot that defines "writer-ness"?

Basically my point is, just because someone is not adding titles to their bibliography every year or so doesn't mean they're not doing the act of writing every day. In fact, there are many references online to the importance Martin places on writing every day. And in fact, he has published things since his last ASOIAF book.

To try to say "This man is not a writer because he hasn't released the books I want to read" feels kind of silly to me.
Pratice.

strace and gdb are your friends in catching evasive bugs. Personally I would go exactly same route, though I won't modify the binary but coined an environment for it to work instead.
Your IF experience sounds hard, is IF worth it for you?

Would you mind sharing your BMI from before IF? Also curious if you feel IF is better than the alternatives (e.g., Keto, which for me has been the "easiest" of the effective diets)
"Real socialists" is definitely not a community with a homogeneous opinion on who to vote for, or even on whether a "real socialist" should vote. The argument on whether socialists should participate in liberal democracy has been one that has been ongoing since essentially the dawn of leftist politics. The theory of two revolutions, the idea that a revolution constructing a liberal democracy was a necessary step towards socialism, was probably the prevailing idea in many of the 19th and early 20th century revolutions (like the revolutions of 1848 and the Russian Revolution of 1905). There were obviously people who did not take this line, but it is not new or conciliatory that some leftists take a similar stance today.
I always considered Twitter's standard of holding even private conversations in public and always publicly disclosing your follower/following graph extremely dangerous for privacy, and I wouldn't be surprised if the "public-by-default" also contributed to the toxic "Twitter mob" culture because when every communication is public, everyone on the platform is much more encouraged to virtue signal (or attack those who say something you don't like).

Unfortunately, even if you don't want to use Twitter, you're still affected by it. Aside from the risk of becoming the target of said mob, unfortunately, a large amount of public discourse and sometimes even official company or government announcements are only available through Twitter.

I've started using nitter.net for the unavoidable Twitter usage. It proides an alternative UI for reading Twitter which at least does away with some of the pressure to sign up to see tweets with replies/search, offers RSS, and doesn't require you to reload the page each time you click on a link because "something went wrong".

I'm not 100% sure their Tweet list is complete, and they're only as good as Twitter (i.e. if Twitter censors something, they still can't show it, the search for the banned hashtag is just as useless), but at least as a reader you're subject to a lot less of their dark patterns and hostile UX.
I only really became aware of how bad Twitter's censorship was when I became 'gender critical', as in, I believe in biological reality and don't think that male-bodied people should be in women's prisons, rape shelters, women's sports, with young girls in changing rooms, etc. Then I saw how Twitter (and other social media sites) blocked and banned women (and to a lesser extent, men) from talking about it.

It has been an extremely shocking revelation. It is now 'wrongthink' on big sites like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc, to talk about the differences in men and women.

Terrifying stuff, when you can't even discuss or debate that.