skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
320 kbps mp3 is already indistinguishable for most people with most workloads, let alone the much more performant 320 kbps Vorbis that Spotify uses.

A lot of people love to fret about this stuff and convince themselves they can tell for the exact same reasons uninformed people go out and buy $200 cables.

It's also the same as people who install Gentoo so they can tune their CFLAGS to be 0.0000001% faster under certain workloads at the cost of not running on any other machine and crashing inexplicably on occasion.

We all love optimizing things, regardless of the actual real-world benefits.
T&C for your developer program doesn't allow for running it in production; which is exactly what many CentOS users do.

No, they won't migrate to paid RHEL. This is massive goodwill burn for RH.
> They will be subject to “pro competitive interventions” to address the root of their market dominance, such as orders to share their data with third parties.

It would be nice if, in practice, this meant that the walled gardens had to interoperate with each other. Facebook should have to talk ActivityPub, and WhatsApp had to talk Matrix.
I had the same thought, I even assumed there would be some international wartime law against it. But turns out it's apparently ok according to this study I found from US Naval College

> Conventional IHL (international humanitarian law), then, indicates that at least one form of disguising a military object as a civilian object—camouflage—is a permissible ruse of war, not a prohibited act of perfidy.

Page 521
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42550238.pdf
>This has been a solved problem for like a decade.

Not to my experience...
I'm having a hard time understanding what you're trying to say.
Where do you live? I am in the Bay Area, and for me personally Amazon has been the only place which has had consistent delivery times in recent months.
> They have every incentive to have gotten this right

They had 346 incentives to have gotten it right from the beginning, but that didn't happen.
I can't edit the comment at this point, but out-of-warranty/AppleCare battery replacements are $80USD.
Thanks for your comprehensive answer. As I said I like Nomad and in fact I'd probably prefer to use Nomad if Kubernetes hadn't become kind of an industry standard. When people are free to choose they should by all means use Nomad :)

That said Kubernetes is also simple with stateless workloads or host local storage. It becomes complex when you are using some kind of cluster managed storage and I guess there will be demand for it on Nomad (when you are lucky) and there will be no way around that complexity.

Eventually there will also be things like Nomad Operators and such to handle the increasing complexity :)

Anyway keep up the good work!
>Do I understand this correctly that if...

You understand correctly. DoH mostly defeats pihole and the like. Presumably Google and other ad companies love this.
For the seriously interested, the book that this guy is promoting is available as an ebook here: https://www.e-vrit.co.il/Product/19584/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A7%D7...

I don't read Hebrew unfortunately.
That's a hilarious description of my meditation practice.
Hmm, maybe I suck at communication in the context of team discourse? I've never really had a great example or explanation of "ownership" outside of a bizarre corporate lingo form at Amazon. I guess I'm curious as to what "value" is in distinct terms, I still feel pretty lost here?
Abstraction has made Programming a hybrid of Tradition/Authority/Science/Art.

It's nearly impossible to have a scientific paper on anything with abstraction. At best you can create some "after the fact" optimizations using time studies and statistics.
As someone with the same issue (including multiple replacements).. I don't want a refund. I just want working ones. I really wish they'd fix whatever manufacturing defect is causing this.
Ubuntu is by far the most used Linux distro on server, the problem with CentOS / RHEL is they did not support recent kernel for a long time, so you see very few cloud servers with those distro, especially since Docker / Kubernetes took off. Also RHEL is not free so there is no way it's "popular" outside of very enterprise needs ( HPC ect ... ).

At previous work they moved away from CentOS to use Ubuntu because libc was just to old, actually everything was old.
@PoliticalMath on twitter has been running one hell of substack on the covid statistics. He finds fault with both the left and the right in the response to covid. One thing that has been clear from the beginning is that Rebekah Jones is not an honest broker and is only out for herself.

He goes into detail here: https://polimath.substack.com/p/the-rebekah-jones-raid

If you have dug into the data from the covid tracking project (as I have), Florida has been doing an awesome job releasing their data and the tracking project gives the florida covid data operation a much deserved A rating.
> there's open source alternatives to Play Services that Google neither litigates against nor seems to actively fight against

AFAIK these are reverse-engineered. Do you sincerely believe that developers' time is best spent reverse engineering and maintaining play services alts to undo a blockade that Google put in, just to be able to get full freedom over their android derivative? Wouldn't it be better spent in playing with cool new tech (as Google engineers seem to be doing)?
What do you want me to say? It's banned in China. It wasn't always banned in China, but as of April 2019 all versions of Wikipedia are verboten. Here's an article from a little over a month ago describing someone's arrest for going there: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/world/article-china-crac...
You're right, Mapbox does claim to search for businesses.

If you're sticking with Mapbox, you'd probably need to a two-step lookup to obtain some useful results.

1. If there's no street address, check the search string to see if there's a city, or city, state. Find the lng,lat of that to use as the proximity bias. If nothing exists, use the user's current location. (Maybe this is why the mobile SDK is better.)

2. Then add the proximity bias while searching for the POI

But just a heads up, even a simple city query can be problematic. From personal experience, "san jose" would return San Jose in Costa Rica, or San Jose City in the Philippines, and rarely San Jose, CA, US unless a user was to type all that.

Google definitely has better NLP to handle user search queries.
And Elon Musk is not much of a philanthropist that I am aware of but is a guy who claims to care about the future of humanity so he builds luxury cars & rockets instead of doing things for humans alive today with difficult lives. Gates wasn’t always the Gates of today but whats good about Musk outside of the people who fantasize about living his life? The degree to which he’s any better for humanity than literally any other rich businessman seems dependent on buying into his marketing uncritically.
Bathroom Reading
My own personal take is "only read something if you intend to teach it to someone else." Otherwise the stakes are too low.

There has to be a pretty even balance between consume and produce. I think the ratio is probably 30/70, but whatever your personal ratio is, make sure both sides are serving the other - consume to produce, take feedback from what you produce to consume more.
No oversight.

Police departments are not required to report how many citizens they kill nationally, and they’re shielded from legal liability in virtually every case. Even when charges are brought, judges parse the law to an insane degree, to the point where sending attack dogs against a surrendering suspect in the woods is illegal, but not if they’re in a “grassy ditch”.

I’m not being hyperbolic, that’s an actual case where cops got off because there was no clear and specific precedent that what they were doing was wrong. And since they got off, they didn’t make new precedent to stop it in the future. Of course.
> Because TikTok is a software asset of a foreign adversary known to engage in covert activities and which is diametrically opposed ideologically with nearly everything the U.S. (however flawed) stands for.

You can make the same argument to ban Facebook because of its use by the GRU, and it would be equally silly.
For now. As with all acquisitions it's only a matter of when.
Thanks for putting this list together! I took some cog sci courses in college and have been meaning to dive more into the research around it and these papers seem like a good place to start. I expect to run into lots of jargon and concepts I don't understand. Would it be possible for me to reach out to you for questions when I'm unable to make sense of the content after having researched the unknown concepts online?
The Pareto Principle, simple but important to know!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
>The connectivity has been one of the worst experiences i've had lol. Both in and out of Apple ecosystem. (...) I think it's primarily my laptop to be honest (2018 Macbook Pro)

Not sure why, I have AirPods and then AirPods Pro with a late-2017 Macbook Pro and never had a problem. Ditto with 2 iPhone models...
In many cases you'd want your program to blow up in some form when trying to send mail to someone without an email address, because that would be better than silently assuming they received a message you never ended up even trying to send.
As someone who has chronic back pain from an odd case of slipping rib syndrome, something like this has been a dream of mine for a very long time.
Blog posts can't be Show HNs. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
All browsers used to have the concept of a user stylesheet. That was before corporate greed and control took over.

The "modern web" and associated software is designed to take control away from users, so that authors can slowly give back an illusion of it.

I've always been writing my own CSS for sites whose style but not content irritated me. Mostly when they change to some idiotic fad, so I can put it back.
>not end users.

Pff, the have not more freedom with a GPL, unless they are developers. What freedom do you have when you use Linux but never read or change the source-code?
If you only need heat, it's a lot less complicated.

But even chilled water systems start to get complicated because of humidity and condensation.

And if you're already installing a forced air HVAC system for the 'AC' part, then installing radiators for heat is usually superfluous.
Okay. I'm not wrong at all but I'll wait for your explanation as to why you think I'm wrong and also what the correct answer is in your opinion.

Without either of those, your comment is just noise.

Oh I see, you're the one asking the question - Pfft so, since you don't know the answer yourself I'd love to hear how you know that my answer is incorrect. I've only been around computer culture since the 70s when Apple was born... what could I possibly know?
FWIW Microsoft has broken, twisted and sheared off the look and feel of Windows so severely in the releases since Windows 7 that it's less visually (and interactional-y) consistent than a Linux desktop in 2013 running a mix of Qt 4/5 and Gtk 2/3 apps, which truly is an achievement. Whatever era of Windows widget styling you're using, no one can argue it looks wrong, since nothing looks right any more. Half of the dialogs in Windows nowadays look like they were made by a confused 12 year old who just discovered BS_FLAT and uses it on everything.
I love the concept of Latex, but usability it pretty terrible. We really need a modernized approach. Something akin to HTML but specifically for printed documents.
Quoting you: “Because without Apple you only have Android.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25350315
To intimidate. That’s why.
What We Know of Sappho
> I'm not sure I understand your arguments about MPL2 being better protected against forks with stronger copyleft licenses.

IANAL. MPLv2 has two modes of protection:

1. By default, the immediate fork of a MPLv2 project under xGPLv3 is auto dual-licensed (for existing files, at least). Usually, the project stays dual-licensed (even for the larger work) unless the contributors make an explicit decision to remove the top-level MPLv2 license file.

2. Initial Contributor (original developer) can choose to make the "Covered Software" incompatibile with secondary licenses (like xGPLv3) for posterity.

> An evil corporation that wants to leech without giving anything back can practically as easily do that with an MPL2 licensed project as with a permissive licensed project.

Evil corp at least (if nothing) is required to open source their changes to MPLv2 files (part of the original work), if any. Whereas Apache / MIT / BSD don't require any form of reciprocation except an attribution.

> That being said, I'm not actually sure that MPL2 is worth it, considering it's very much an uncommon license compared to the big permissive ones.

From what I know, MPLv2 is well understood and it isn't ambiguous as WTFPL or confusing as AGPL. Hashicorp and Mozilla are two of the biggest corporate users of the license I know.

Of course there can be no argument that xGPLv3 protects the interests of the consumers better, though, MPLv2 (and EPLv2), I feel is a good compromise.
Is there any comparison between Fuchsia and the Genode OS, which is also capability-based? I'm wondering what one has/does that the other doesn't?
AWS announces AWS Audit Manager
It's a little bit of configuring, but it sounds like OwnTracks can do exactly that. You can deploy the recorder container wherever you like and then post / share locations to it from iOS/Android apps, as well as see the last location posted by others on the same instance. Enabling / disabling sharing on the app is a single button press.

(I help maintain the OT Android app)
A very large majority of finance-savvy people I've been talking to over the course of the past few months have been willfully ignoring that: The markets are doing great now because there's barely a reason to not put your cash in equity! Dollar's devalued, stocks are pumping. Totally right with the blank-check IPOs.
I came here to post the same observation as OP. Used to be, you’d set default colors in your browser, and those would be used to render all web sites. No need to use a plug-in, override CSS per-site. If you wanted to, you could have the web site render into your own “brick wall” background.

Over time, browsers have ceded more and more control over layout and colors to web developers, and got busy burying/deprecating the browser-side defaults... to the point where user preference is an afterthought now, and almost universally ignored by sites. Now you have to use big hammers like disabling CSS and JavaScript in order to have any say as a user. Nobody likes when your native desktop application's UI ignores your system default colors and forces their own color scheme, yet this is acceptable on the web.
I don’t understand why people like the spatial audio feature. How often do you move your head relative to your iDevice while watching a movie? The field of view is too narrow for it to make any sense.

If you ignore the above then the only trick that’s left is the fake 3D effect; which isn’t novel or even desirable for someone who cares about authentic sound.
I never use Microsoft Word / Open Office to produce documents. If it has to be quick and dirty I just go to overleaf and maybe look up a template. The documents always look nicer this way.
While this is true, this kind of flexibility makes the other layers harder.

On the database side, if you use a relational store, it forces you to normal form 5 which few people are used to.

On the front end, allowing everywhere an arbitrary number elements instead of mandatory one, means you need custom widgets everywhere. You need a way of marking the default one. Validation also gets exponentially more complicated.

On the UX side, people are simply not used to this level of flexibility. It will get labeled as impenetrable.

As much as I like the idea, and believe it is elegant, most probably YAGNI.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog...
Yet, all of Apples devices are equipped with screens that have best in class color accuracy.
Elon Musk says he has moved to Texas, calls California overly ‘complacent’
Huh - I didn’t notice that, but that’s something for me to now look for. “Pedantic” is not the word I’d use to describe your observation here re: Steve Reich, master of phasing and polyrhythms and rounds.
IMO, there's really no good first listen for Reich's work.

You might love or hate "Come Out" or "It's Gonna Rain", and hate or love "Different Trains". You might be entranced or utterly bored by "Six Marimbas" but be disinterested or engaged by "Music For Ensemble and Orchestra". etc. etc.

Best to plan on diving in about once a decade and see if you like what he was doing then. My suggestions would be:

60s: Come out
70s: Music for 18 Musicians
80s: Tehillim
90s: Different Trains
00s: Double Sextet
10s: Reich/Richter

Personally, I'm a huge fan of his phase-shifting work, so for me the keys works would be:

Six Pianos / Six Marimbas
Clapping Music
Music For 18 Musicians
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
Drumming

There are also some very "pretty" ensemble orchestral works:

Sextet
Desert Music

and then ... so much more!

For the adventurous, also check out the album "Shift" by Chris Hughes: renderings of various early Reich works (or ideas) using totally different timbres.
meh. The outer SNI and the IP address still tell a lot about what you are doing online.
> Pay a one time fee and get unlimited minutes forever, that would likely be binding.

Would or wouldn't you'll never know, looking at you HP, ink for life =?> ya right

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/12/hp_free_printing/
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Has Relocated to Texas
That's not my app. Zood Location has zero analytics or telemtry [1]. The app id in the link you provided is some banking app with an id of 'hr.erstebank.george'.

Zood Location's app id is 'xyz.zood.george'. The only thing they have in common is the word 'george' in their app identifier string.

Zood Location also has a privacy policy. [2]

[1] https://github.com/zood/george

[2] https://www.zood.xyz/privacy/mobile-apps
Totally agree, and had the thought this somehow is what happened to Sun Microsystems : what was special about their unixes was so successful, and reincarnated largely with updates in Linux, that it's the current norm. Similarly for NeXT.
Tactical Periodization is a training program credited for the success of at least one star. This paper says, in short, there are no scientific studies proving it works. We'd give it the benefit of the doubt and wait for proof, but it's been 20 years and still nothing.
I run my own recursive resolver (DNS server) in a datacenter.

This DNS server gets its upstream resolution from nextdns.io which is configured with several blocklists - including one that is roughly analogous to ublock origin.

On my local network, my DHCP server hands out my DNS server to all clients.

This means that all clients on my network get fairly robust ad-blocking even if they do not have an adblocker installed. It also means that non-browser clients (Sonos, AppleTV, etc.) get ad/tracker blocking as well.

DoH sort of breaks all of this, unfortunately.

Individual devices or clients or browsers can now connect to trackers and ad-servers over HTTPS, bypassing my adblocking resolver.

I thought that perhaps there was a solution wherein you would pre-query every single new IP you connected to over HTTPS and send it a test DNS query .. and if it answered DNS, you would just refuse to talk to it. I think this falls apart, however, if (for instance) google just queries "google.com" ... now you're denying google.com because it answers DNS queries over HTTPS...

Look, back when 8.8.8.8 came online I could just smell it ... I knew there was a user-hostile arms race somewhere in there I just didn't know where. Now we know.
When I got started in business in the late 2000s, I was constantly fighting for Debian vs. CentOS, and eventually was forced to concede -- 95% of my customers wanted to run CentOS, all the more so given the exceptional conservatism of the telecom industry. They were attracted to its promise of long-term support and longevity, and, perhaps more vitally, it's what all the other organisations who sought an "enterprise-friendly" distribution were running.

Over time, much of my tooling and deployment processes has come to presume CentOS. If the customer base overwhelmingly runs CentOS, you build process for CentOS.

Thankfully, though, Systemd--for all its faults--has narrowed the painful deltas between Linux distributions enough that a switch back to a Debian target won't be too painful.

Where's your God now, "CentOS is something we can depend on, it's not just a rag-tag band of open-source hippies"?
Might be a very symbolic shift when it comes to the changing global political landscape, accelerated by covid, and immediately reminded me of something Zizek said, quoting Sloterdijk

"Could we in fact be seeing the conditions for the further radicalization of capitalism? German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk once told me that, if there is a person alive to whom they will build monuments 100 years from now, it is Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean leader who did more than anyone else to promote and implement the marriage of capitalism and authoritarianism -- an arrangement he euphemistically referred to as "Asian values." The virus of this authoritarian capitalism is slowly but surely spreading around the globe, nowhere more so than China."
You missed out the most interesting one, which is 'reduce':

extension NullableIteratorExtensions<T> on Iterator<T?> {
T? reduce<T>(T? Function(T,T) f, T? x0)
=> this.moveNext()
? (this.reduce(f, (x0 == null || this.current == null) ? null : f(x0,current)))
: x0;
}

Not sure if this is the best notation but then I've never written Dart before.

Of course this is all a bit easier to read if we use some syntax specially built for Monads such as Haskell's do syntax:

reduce f (head:tail) x0 = do { x <- x0
; y <- head
; reduce f tail (f x y) }
reduce f [] x0 = x0

which has the advantage that it works for all Monads.
I'm on mobile and can't double check this right now, but couldn't you resize the frame until it no longer scrolls?
> I give you the $539 leather watch band: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MTQG2AM/A/apple-watch-her.... The $699 wheels: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...

The wheels are wild, but the watch band is Hermès. Their watches start at 3k. What would you have expected?
Do you have largish complex applications running there or personal stuff? I've never looked at any IBM cloud offerings.
You have to apply for that and you should!

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program...
I had the AirPods and AT MX50 but wanted NC for the office, so I bought the Sony WH1000MX3 (the highest rated, $400, wireless nc headphones with the best NC) before I got the AirPods Pro. Those were praised on reviews as beating the Bose NC (which was considered king until then).

They required me to manually disconnect from one device in order to connect to another (e.g. from laptop to phone or tablet). As far as first world problems go, it was a huge pain in the arse. And nobody cared to mention it in their reviews (found out later in forums it was just not supported).

I ended up preferring the AirPods Pro (and the slightly worse nc, but much lighter and automatically connecting) over them, and now I hardly ever use them. So those were $400 down the drain.

If those AirPods Max work like I want (which, judging from the AirPods Pro, they will), that would be a solid $500 spent without the remorse and dissapointment, which is much better than my Sony purchase...
It appears the default is light mode, rather than system preference. For those of us who use websites logged out most of the time, this is a bit annoying. Hopefully the default is changed to system preference in future.