skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I visited family in Chile, we mostly stayed in Santiago, but we took a side trip flying north to the Atacama Desert, which happens to be where the lithium mines are located. (Chile has the largest lithium reserves in the world, by far.) We were told most of the flights (737 sized aircraft) are usually full of miners on the flights. Most of the miners live in Santiago, fly up to Atacama to work for the week, then fly home at the end of the week. Even though we never saw the mines (we were sightseeing in other areas), after the trip, I got the impression that lithium mining in Chile is very big business, and if America wants a reliable source of lithium in the future, it should foster strong relations with Chile.
> Due to Twitter’s impact on society, not just the US but the world, they are de facto the public square.

I disagree, they are more like an automatically customized newspaper.

> Not unlike the Gutenberg Press

Agreed, not unlike the Gutenberg Press. Books and newspapers also are not “the public square”, and we don’t allow people to commandeer presses to get their message out against the will of the onwers of presses.

We did something loosely like that with the public airwaves, via the Fairness Doctrine, but its worth noting that the same ideological faction who not only objected to that as a totalitarian infringement of the First Amendment at the time, but who used the spector that kind of thing on the Internet (even though the actual rules they were opposing proposed nothing of the kind) as an argument against Open Internet regulations up through, well, the debate over the desirability of Net Neutrality that is still active, are exactly the faction—often the same individuals—complaining that private actors are choosing not to relay their speech today.
Reverse osmosis and carbon filtration: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis#Drinking_wat...
...and that if they wanted to I'm sure Apple could spin a server version with many more cores in pretty short order.
I've always wondered, what makes some DSP algorithms used in music better than others? The plate reverb on an early Zoom device is nowhere near as good as the plate reverb on an Eventide H7600. A Boss guitar pedal digital delay does not sound as good as the Roland SDE-3000 digital delay. How can a simple DSP implementation of an echo sound different between different devices? Is there more engineering to reduce aliasing? Is the gain staging better? Do more expensive implementations include some impulse response tonal and reverb shaping? Does the quality of the analog parts of the circuits make a big difference? There seems to be a gap in my understanding between how basic DSP is implemented and how musically superior DSP is implemented. This seems to be something of a trade secret but enough companies have now cracked the problem that there must be some public knowledge about where the differences in quality come from.

It also suggests that basic DSP theory is not complete, that there should be psychoacoustic or psychoperceptual extensions to it. This could have implications for machine learning which uses DSP to derive input features. In particular, to get ML algorithms that respond to environments the way people do, extracting features from signals using basic DSP may not be good enough. Psychoperceptual DSP may also be needed. For example, as people get older many experience hearing loss which can be partially modeled as bandwidth limiting. If you train your digital voice assistant ML algorithms using the full microphone bandwidth it will be reacting to signals that the people speaking can not even hear. Hence those people will never make any attempt to modulate their voice in those upper frequency ranges, sending false/noisy signals to the DSP and hence the ML. So the voice assistant may work better for young people and worse for older people. Maybe that's not considered part of DSP but is psychoperceptual modeling. However, DSP is often considered as presenting a kind of baseline truth, when reality can be subtly different.

Anyway I'd really like to know what turns basic DSP into great DSP in the musical realm. I suspect there are similar differences in other areas, such as digital camera image processing.
I am not certain why you are being downvoted. It is fairly common for voice stacks to include a high-pass filter to remove breathing noises and other low-frequency artifacts, and this could cause exactly the issues you describe.
I have a hunch that we have so many simple egg-based recipes because they've gone through so much testing - perhaps in a hundred years we'll say the same thing of aquafaba.
Good Data Engineering is what enables good Data Science. With a good infrastructure you can go 100 times faster. Getting rid of Data Engineers means killing Data Science.
Absolutely not. It is hard enough to get developers writing meaningful tests that exercise edge cases to make code hard to break. Far too often they do it because "you should" and "we have a policy". Coverage reports too easily get people focusing on numbers and policy over understanding how to identify and strengthen key functionality so it's hard to break as things evolve.

What you end up with is:

1. Tests that at least invoke code that may be overlooked, but due to mocks, invoke it in a way thats meaningless.

2. Twice as much code to update when doing any feature work, refactoring, ... or even bug fixing!

3. A false sense of security because "tests passed!"

4. A lot of wasted time writing tests for code you end up either throwing out or significantly refactoring before it ever becomes a remotely active part of the project.

I'm jaded.

I LOVE good tests, but far, far too often they get in the way of real progress that actually matters to an end user. Tests are supposed to be worth their weight in gold. Too often they're a self-congratulating pat-on-the-back and a detriment to success.

Please, prove me wrong. I know you can, because this does NOT apply to everyone.
That’s much better than the alternative. Where their ideas are crap, and their contribution is a direct detriment.
Thanks, this saved me some time. I was just debugging why the project I work on (LibHunt) hadn't logged the mention of https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp on this post... the reason being - you've updated the URL after it was submitted.
You could use the nodejs api for max if you're not already. Seems to perform better. Write some interface code for a native app.
Using Wi-Fi in my office adds up to 150ms of latency. (20m cat5 Ethernet cable has < 1ms)
I assume that's less geologically stable and more prone to water dispersing undesirable chemicals. I think "chunk of desert" is reasonably understood as something remote and stable. When they've researched locations in Australia for long-term nuclear dumps, the favoured locations have been underground in remote desert.
> These massive websites/broadcast SMS cannot have it both ways. They cannot seek the protections of being "critical infrastructure" of any sort, common carrier, public forum, etc. and then, at the same time, disable user accounts for any reason just like any other private website.

It's never been proposed that platforms like Twitter become common carriers. That designation was intended for the layer beneath them, ISPs.

I agree that allowing that layer, ISPs, to effectively monopolize content via regional monopolies and ever-growing media conglomerates is problematic. Now they're implementing zero rating in broadband and that means there's a high bar for starting the next Netflix, Twitter etc. If you're not already part of that club you'll have to be super wealthy or take on huge debt from existing tech/wealth dominance just to get your foot in the door.

We really need to encourage competition at the ISP level in order to allow for competition among services like Twitter.
.NET has made tremendous strides in performance, kudos to the team.

That being said, some of the results of those benchmarks do not hold on modern CPUs. Try to run the binarytrees benchmark for example (especially in a loop) and you'll see that the JVM is quicker than .NET, especially after JIT kicks in.
Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics
It was quite nice the last time I visited, but that was pre-covid and pre-george floyd.
Northside and southside Dublin are radically different accents. Less so now, with mass media and increased mobility gradually reducing the extremes, but exemplars of each are almost chalk and cheese - like Queen's English vs Cockney.

Northside drops trailing Ts, replacing them with a gentle glottal stop ("give me my coat" -> "gimme me coa'"), "book" may be pronounced "buke", etc.

Southside, at the sterotypical maximum, pushes trailing Ts towards SH and broadens vowels ("are you all right" -> "ore you awl roish" - it's not quite sh, but in that direction).

(I was born in Dublin, my father and his siblings grew up in North Strand in the shade of Croke Park, but I grew up in Galway, so I observed the accent as an outsider when staying in Dublin.)
Maybe leftwing protesters are more violent?
This cute physics based puzzle game you can play right in your browser: https://yilmazkiymaz.com/webgl/OfficeCat/
This is probably the answer right here. Fighting now means you'll have video fight evidence gathered from multiple angles, backed up to the cloud, and then potentially used as a societal-attack on you and your family, potentially for years or into perpetuity.
A tool for storing, versioning, and reproducing large files alongside source code. It's called Dud[1].

Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django

Open-sourced last October, targeting a more polished release in Q1.

[1]: https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/
Based on Teddy Roosevelt I’m guessing about 10x what it is now
Was it generals.io?
BSL doesn't let you use software "in production" at all. So you wouldn't be able to offer search on your website with Elasticsearch at all, whether you could be construed to be reselling it or not, and whether your whole stack is opensource or not.

Also the SPDX identifier for it is BUSL since BSL was already taken by the Boost Software License.
Cool research （⊙ｏ⊙）
Working on a creative coding environment for parametric generative design using javascript - showcase of some animations made with the tool:

https://dialectic.design/project/genuary-2021

The tool itself is already online but not really ready yet for public use...
Interesting! Do you upload the reports somewhere and do you track the coverage over time?
I think it's a good approach, but it's fundamentally not that different from existing models in that the people who judge a post as "thoughtful" or otherwise have no incentive to think carefully about their judgement.

There's some cryptocurrency communities that use some interesting incentive mechanism in that upvotes have real-world value[0], but the problem is that the content is incredibly cryptocurrency biased rather than anything of general interest

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit
A complete platform to trade-in devices from estimation to diagnostic to market
99.9%

even the defi community will admit that 85%? of the "lending" that's taking place is to make crypto people more money lol
To say what I think causes a country to go to war would take a book, and NOT a short one. Causing a war seems depressingly easy. In fact the relative peace we have been living in the past half century is exceedingly unusual.

In this instance, I'm talking about preventing war. A major factor is ensuring that those most responsible for paying for the war in taxes and blood (Lower and middle classes) have the wealth and the power to say no. (Convincing them that NO is the right answer is another thing!)

The wealth of the countries themselves is not necessarily the wealth of the people who live within them. Take a look at the so called "Banana republics."

I don't know exactly what you disagree with in my reasoning or what exactly is ad-hoc but I always love to talk about it.

Now, to address a few of the facts above:

Japan and Germany were both desperately poor following World War I. It was only after significant military expansion that they reached the prosperity you mention above. Japan gained most of their wealth through their expansion during the Showa era and consecutive wars.

Nazi Germany started from the poverty of 1933 with the suspension of civil liberties after the burning of the Reichstag. Their economic success was mostly spurred by efforts to gear up their military. By that point it was too late for any middle class to object and they hardly had the power to avoid being sent to concentration camps.

China makes us all look like pikers when it comes to war. Mao Zedong and the Chinese Nationalist party before him engaged in mass killings to make your blood turn cold. The modern PRC is the result of almost constant wars consolidating the region we now refer to as "China." Before the 20th century, the countries that make up modern China were engaged in almost constant warfare.

As for Mexico, they barely have anyone to go to war with anymore. In fact, part of the reason there is a wall between the US and Mexico in Nogales is because of a war between the two about 100 years ago after World War I.

Mexico seems to mostly be wrapped up in insurrections and criminal organizations lately though. I wouldn't be surprised if some intelligence agency cooked up most of Mexico's problems during the 1960s to keep them weak and it's just been burning since then. Sort of a Cold War toxic waste spill... But that's pure speculation of the quality used in light fiction.
I'm not a ham, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue? I was under the impression that channel widths in the amateur bands were pretty narrow (<10kHz). Though I don't know if that applies to all bands, or just HF.
They have an entire hardware division that regularly churns out quite high quality consumer hardware: nest. They also have a pretty big hardware group that makes high performance servers and specialty hardware (TPU servers among other things). They have a few other hardware divisions as well.

Google would have absolutely no issue creating quality fitbit devices. Whether or not the market would be there for them to stay in long term, I don't know.
It's starch water, and it's great for thickening pasta sauces
I'd say the average misses the point here. That's quite a lot people! All addicted to sugar and fast food. This is a huge market. Same as the market for fighting the results of this unhealthy life style.
Same thing in many US cities where walking is the norm.

The other major factor is wealth. Richer people can afford higher quality food. Poor people generally consume more calories from junk foods and sugary drinks, which are staples of drive-throughs and fast food chains.
That link doesn't suggest he was battling addiction in April 2019. Got a source that tells us he was in one of this episodes in April 2019? Or are you just another Twitterer who throws "facts" into the dumpster fire?

From Snopes: The Post reported that the saga started in April 2019, when a man identifying himself as Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off at a computer repair shop in the Biden family’s home state of Delaware. The laptop had been damaged by water.
> This is as much about advertising the "zero tolerance" part

Yup. All the pigeons of the world will now know not to migrate to Australia.
I agree with this at least to some degree.

I think you'll find a lot of smart tech people do, but don't post on HN because it disagrees with the prevalent view so you just get downvoted, or called an astroturfer.
Maybe the majority of the users wanted to read memes and blogspam. Who are we to say what good content is?
Working on a system to automatically get your data using the GDPR law - which usually is a pain. And then trying to make it usable. I have a good use case of n=1 and growing. Last week I got a few people using it.
This stuff makes a pretty good mayonnaise/aioli when you blend it with some lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and garlic or spice of your choice. Thinner than mayo and definitely has a slight chickpea taste to it, but it's quite good with fries or on a sandwich.
I was going to call BS on your claim that a litre of petrol produces 2.3kg of CO2, but the Internets confirm it. It's a surprising amount, even knowing that the O2 comes from the atmosphere and weighs a lot more.
Food is definitely a big factor. Here in Brasil it's not like we're super healthy eating, we are much more into real food than America, it was the impression I was left with. Some things just seem arbitrarily made junkier for no reason. My colleague who lived in Italy through masters and doctors and recently came back comments on how in Brazil we eat way more meat than europeans, as an additional point of comparison.
Similarly, the largest land owner in Scotland (and UK) is... the Danish clothing magnate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Holch_Povlsen ( the richest Dane, #254 on Bloomberg's list ahead of e.g. LEGO family whose wealth is split).
Reworking an old Angular JS login system. It makes me feel like an absolute idiot.
H.264 Is Magic (2016)
This is a great way to go about it. Awesome.
Yeah I can relate so much to that.

Most lessons we cover concepts that don’t immediately click until I next sit down on my own and just focus on playing. After getting past the familiarity building, and into the flow state, all the things my teacher said start to make more sense haha. Some of the time at least, but that’s what weekly checkins are for :)

It’s a slow process learning to read music in my thirties, but it’s just as possible as learning anything else, don’t listen to people who say you can’t learn music as an adult :)
It's similar to the expression I hear frequently at my company--"I don't have all the answers, but I have all the questions".
I'm on mobile so I cant link it, but carykh on YouTube made a bunch of tools like this that remove silence or edit clips on the fly based on you putting a thumbs up or down along with other things. Definitely worth checking out if you want to see something that already exists.

If you do see their animated videos you'll find out that actually most of the animations are automatically created via a script that works with phonetics and emotions they hint it to show. Pretty cool stuff.
My wife made meringues (technically macarons) with it, the result was fine in texture but maybe there was a bit of a deeper nuttier flavour than usual as you said, but it worked for me. She did use chickpea water too. It would probably go better with a rich filling like chocolate ganache.
> the ability to run a destructor when a variable falls out of scope or is deleted

This has been present for many years (for how long I do not know). Look up the "trace add variable ..." command.

> nested variable scopes within a proc,

This is possible (if a bit clunky) with Tcl of at least V8.5 vintage by using the "apply" command. According to this page (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1478510/when-was-tcl-v8-...) 8.5 was first released Dec. 20, 2007, so this one has been possible for 13 years.
> The same reason they kill off mosquitoes, snakes and spiders that come in on boats.

Conveyed there by humans ... Or, do you have a system for tracking any mosquitos which the wind may have carried from other places?
Whisper, An audio only school for lifelong learning. With open Source curriculum passed from teacher to student. In private beta.
I use Jam Kazam weekly and with a non Wi-Fi connection I get really good results
Are you saying skiing is particularly irresponsible if you're a competent skiier sticking to cross country, or courses which don't pose danger to you (not sure about the terminology as I don't ski). My understanding is it can be done fairly safely, and is a good form of exercise which doesn't require contact with others.
Mumble is in fact one of those audio-only options which can do 20-50ms latency, which is why the parent suggested it.
+1 I'm interested in automatic video editing too. Both automatic jumpcutting, and also using audio cues like "cut!" to control the auto-editor during recording.

Take a look here https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-02-21-jump-cut-program... and at some of the follow-up snippets for what I'm thinking about. Feel free to get in touch.
You mean the shading language? You should check out Metal the language is nice. The WebGPU shading language is close to it.
#2 is fantastic. I would love for it to be even slower. Something like a brief overview of last week, or last month. I can't news I've read yesterday, which means most it was pointless.
> Abstract
This paper takes stock of megaproject management, an emerging and hugely costly field of study. First, it answers the question of how large megaprojects are by measuring them in the units mega, giga, and tera, concluding we are presently entering a new "tera era" of trillion-dollar projects. Second, total global megaproject spending is assessed, at USD 6-9 trillion annually, or 8 percent of total global GDP, which denotes the biggest investment boom in human history. Third, four "sublimes" – political, technological, economic, and aesthetic – are identified to explain the increased size and frequency of megaprojects. Fourth, the "iron law of megaprojects" is laid out and documented: Over budget, over time, over and over again. Moreover, the "break-fix model" of megaproject management is introduced as an explanation of the iron law. Fifth, Albert O. Hirschman's theory of the Hiding Hand is revisited and critiqued as unfounded and corrupting for megaproject thinking in both the academy and policy. Sixth, it is shown how megaprojects are systematically subject to "survival of the unfittest," explaining why the worst projects get built instead of the best. Finally, it is argued that the conventional way of managing megaprojects has reached a "tension point," where tradition is challenged and reform is emerging.
If you have $100 of stock you can’t borrow $100 in cash against that.
Millimeter Wave Radar Overview
Israel sells itself as a strong well militarized country with strong self sufficient militarized citizens.

I think it's true.

Denmark only has compulsory conscription for men, and at a shorter period.

A self sufficient population I think helps. I think being militarized also helps.
Some context to the context:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/useful-i...

> Greenwald rebuts Ben Smith’s recent New York Times piece on The Intercept publishing the Reality Winner leak. “It wasn’t like The Intercept was free from mistakes, there were mistakes made, and they acknowledged those mistakes. The parent company paid for the source’s, Reality Winner’s, legal defense,” says Greenwald. “I just don’t know what this New York Times article added other than to try and just take shots at people incoherently.”

I don't think Greenwald and Poitras see eye to eye on this one.
Ask HN: What if you were Parler CTO
I wanted to ask an interesting question on HN, wanted to know the thoughts of fellow techies. I do not have any intention to discuss about politics behind Parler app ban.

Parler was banned by AWS and major cloud hosting companies.
It was kicked out of App store.

What would you have done if you were CTO of Parler ?
Whisper, an audio only school for lifelong learning. With open sources curriculum passed from teacher to student.
No clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2020)
https://categorybooks.com

A way to find books by different categories (by prizes their authors have won).

I gave up on the site after a month or two (and a lot of work), but I'm putting some more effort into it again. It's the first website I've ever built, so any feedback is appreciated!

For example, browsing through the books by "people" and by "books", the format is inconsistent and I'm not sure which is considered better design (hovering over the card vs the name to activate). Also apologies ahead for it loading all of the images and having no pagination.. Like I said, first website!
Memes and blogspam are like junk food. They aren't good for you but they are easy to consume and everyone likes them.