skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back the day, before streaming was a thing, the benfit of Austrian TV was to whatch the same movies like on German private channels. Without any adds. Was quite nice. For obvous reasons, Austrian publc broadcasters lost there liscense in ermany one day. With the exception of the border regions, they cited technical reasons. Not living in a border region, I do rememeber that the Austrian news was quite good to get different perspective. Movies, as I said, were nice as well.

I do have to agree, so, that the home-grown entertainment sucks. In Germany as well. It is funny, so, that german public TV is not allowed to create their own streaming service and a lot of content has to removed from their online offerings after a certain period of time. Which kind of sucks. Especially since the rights catalogue of the public German networks, ARD and ZDF, used to be quite impressive. They just decidded to never show any of it before midnight, if at all.
I'm not quite sure what specific problem is being solved. Part a sounds ok, but sounds more political than practical.

I don't like requiring proof that a person knowingly broke a regulation to criminally charge them. I can think of a few examples where that would have been good. But I think generally the US doesn't prosecute large scale violations enough. Deep Water Horizon, the Flint water crisis, the housing crisis, and the Volvo emissions scandal are all examples where almost no one went to jail. This seems like it would cripple environmental protection and make corporate legal defense much easier.

It might have some benefit for small businesses. But it doesn't protect against heavy fines. And my current assumption is agencies are already not likely to settle with criminal charges.
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I actually used the pirate bay last year for the first time in what feels like decades, because CBS wouldn’t give me any way to watch Lower Decks.

Netflix and Amazon carry Discovery and Picard, but when it came to LD nobody wanted my money because I live in 95% of the world.
Gladly, that is how many of my own Web projects also look like.
Why not just tax TV sales? That's much easier to enforce, and has ultimately almost the same effect.
I agree. I've had experience with pain lasting several years due to issues with my jaw. No matter how strong you are, it takes a heavy tool on your happiness.

I had a friend that was going through painful knee surgery, and he was very optimistic. "Im good at enduring hard times" he said. I warned him to prepare for the worst, to be ready to reach out to friends if depression hits. He shook it of. But just a few months later, there he was. For the first time in his life, he was depressed. He could endure terrible pain for several hours. But when the pain just never ever goes away, when you get zero time to recover, it grinds you down.

Never ever risk permanent pain. It is a worse hell than you can imagine, if you've never been there.
To each their own. I wouldn’t tell you you’re wrong - there are so many books (and films for that matter) over the years that people adored and just didn’t resonate with me at all.

Art is subjective, and in the same vein that the parent is saying your perception can be stained by your own negative memories of the time, I’d say it would also depend on how much of your own life you can relate to the story. I liked Gatsby, not as much as others, but I enjoyed the read.

As an anecdote - one of my favourite films is Contact. I can watch it and know it’s far from being objectively the greatest film ever made. It’s clearly not Oscar-worthy. Even so, the subject matter is something I’m so fascinated by that I watch that film at least once a year and I’m still enthralled by it.
> This technology claims 100 miles in 5 minutes.

...in 2025 (from the article).
I'm sure it's entirely feasible to build such a thing, but try to find a case prosecuted because of a detector van, or results used as evidence. It doesn't appear to have ever happened.

And where is the detector van union? Memorial service for the driver who crashed? Job postings?
Will check those out. Thanks again.

Edit: aha it has Professor Jim Al-Khalili in it... He is an excellent presenter
Good thing a journalist doesn't need to release a huge amount of the data then, only enough to be plausible.

Much of the works that makes up good journalism is the summarisation in a comprehensible manner of the full data they gathered.
But probably only when the battery is in the 10-20% capacity range, right?

It doesn't say in the article, but I wonder if these batteries can charge 100 miles per 5 minutes for a larger range than current vehicles. I'd happily charge at 150kw instead of 300kw, if that meant that I could do so from 10-80 instead of 10-20.
Depends. The Arbitron system works through the HD Radio codec, which is a wavelet codec. It is basically hybrid mp3 type coupled with high frequency reconstruction on the receiver side.

Interestingly, that literally means fake signals on the receiving end above 8 to 10Khz! Was as low, and may still be as low as 5khz when used for AM. I have not kept up.

I could tell early on. It has improved a lot since then.

The Arbitron system appears robust. Noise, low signal quality, etc... do not generally impact it much. The effective bitrate needed is very low.

Given a larger sample of audio, it is likely to work.
BBC world is far better than domestic output, and is available globally (just not in the U.K.)
This seems to be an old social network analysis of a primarily Chinese web phenomenon which entails doxing people for various reasons (including corruption in government).

The phenomenon is interesting as one example (among many others) of the democratization and 'cutting out the middle man' that the web offers: citizens taking legal and ethical matters into their own hands. It relates to things like the #metoo movement and Anonymous in the west.

Ultimately these 'courts' tend to devolve into witch-hunts and mob rule without possibility to appeal, but it doesn't mean that they don't play some positive role - in nudging law enforcement to step up their game if nothing else.

This document doesn't explore those aspects however.
Teletubbies were made on drugs. There is no other explanation
That's cool but still limiting, the infrastructure is going to be expensive and not easily available in remote places.

Batteries that could be charged by "refueling" [1], or fuel cells that require hydrogen are a much more feasible solution and environmentally safe for the long term

[1]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/battery-recharges-...
If every household has to pay then it makes sense to abolish the tax and to fund it through the general budget instead, not least if the argument is that this is something that benefits society as a whole.

Taxes are not free to manage and collect so this also provides cost savings.

We have this debate periodically in the UK. The argument against abolishing the TV licence is usually that a dedicated tax ensures a larger independence of the BBC, which is not "at the mercy" of the government for funding, but I think this is a rather weak argument because the government already ultimately decides the amount of the TV licence fee, which is a tax.

Edit following the "reactions": By the way, in the UK it is not allowed to criticise anything related to the BBC (and the NHS) as you can see. Is it the same in Germany? :(
> The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a licence for the privilege.

This is actually pretty common and almost everywhere in Europe.
I will never stop being surprised by how little my fellow British people know about other countries.
> I think this is dangerous thinking, lies are bad but censorship is worse because someone has to decide what is a lie and what isn't, and that quickly becomes politicised.

Thing is first step would be to teach people again critical thinking and what the difference is between objective facts and opinions. Furthermore, something I am missing in this discussion and in general is that the concept of responsibility is lost. Sure you are allowed to say anything you like, but that does not mean there are no consequences.

In the analog world we have libel laws and some limitations on speech ( incite violence, endanger others ). For example in Germany it is straight up illegal to deny the holocaust. We as a society have decided that this is the correct decision for that instance to ensure that it won't repeat itself in some form or another in the future.

Other 'speech' laws in germany make verbally insulting others fineable, because human dignity is the fundamental principle of the German constitution. Article 1, paragraph 1 reads: "Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority." Human dignity is thus mentioned even before the right to life.

Anyways what I am trying to say is that just as in chemistry actions will have reactions. Therefore, speech should have consequences. Ironically, republicans have preached over the years that everybody should be responsible for themselves and their actions, and not rely on others but when it is about consequences of speech they are silent.
I don’t have any trouble reconciling the two. It’s fine to write about advanced topics while also writing about how people should focus on getting the beginner stuff right before worrying about the advanced stuff.
Which might be measured as the proportion of wealth owned by the wealthiest few, and the rest of the peoples. It's like a majority attack, on one side of wealth, on another of votes.

While the combined wealth of all voters exceeds that of the few lobbyists, in theory votes should win.

It's good to recall that democracy didn't come about in a vaccuum; It came about to displace monarchy. Because democracy is "fair", the aristocrats are among us with at least as much power as any of the rest of us.

The greater the wealth disparity, however, the more power they can purchase by bribing the poor politicians. Which in turn begs the masses to pay politicians well enough that corruption becomes at best unnecessary. The only remaining cure for greed is transparency, accountability, and journalism.

Therefore it is in the wealthy elite's interest to lobby for laws that erode any established amounts of the aforementioned qualities, steadily inching the power structures towards secrecy, carte blanche, and censorship.

Can you think of any government agency that has such powers? I'm thinking of several, and most of them are in the US. Capitalism is allergic to wealth redistribution, which is the true name for the action that begins to solve the issue. The only question is: How much?

One practical example is speeding tickets. AFAIK in the US speeding tickets are flat fees. So a wealthy person barely cares about speeding in traffic. In Finland, a more socialist republic, speeding tickets are proportional to income. So a wealthy person speeding will feel the hurt. Every so often some asshole with a Ferrari gets a million dollar speeding ticket. (possibly exaggerated, don't recall exact amounts)
The consequences of unfettered freedom to propagate lies on mass communication platforms under the banner of "freedom of speech" has directly endangered the democratic proces in the US, less than a week ago.

So to throw your own phrase back at you - it seems pretty obvious to me that democracy is threatened by what we currently think of as freedom of speech on mass media platforms, just as much as you think it would be threatened by any challenge to free speech.

It annoys me that you can look around at the world and decide I'm talking about limits on "acceptable opinion" when we're seeing phenomena like Q, which is based on abject fantasy. This is not a difference of opinion, this is a wannabe coup based on motivated lies.

Further, I specifically mentioned free speech idealism as something that was failing, in the context of people running internet services promising to carry absolutely everything (as the OP was talking about). "Freedom of speech" and "freedom to use other people's infrastructure to bullhorn your hate to millions" are not the same thing. You're still allowed to speak your mind in your local park, or email your weird-ass opinions to your family, even if I decide I don't want to carry your bile on my service.

Why is it that you think any limit imposed on such mass communications is a democracy destroying limit on ideas? This appears to be an absolutist way of looking at things, in a world where we don't currently have absolutes anyway. It's not like we have unfettered free speech, even in the US. Is Germany no longer a democracy because it outlaws holocaust denial? Are you going to throw accusations at them of being purveyors of 'acceptable opinion' ?
Not a Chinese speaker, but I know like 10 words.

They already have some romanizations like Pinyin that are largely phonetic.

But take something like "mao". Without any accents to indicate the tone, that could be:

* 毛 - like a dozen distinct meanings
* 猫 - a few meanings, but mostly "cat"
* 冒 - half a dozen meanings
* 昴 - one meaning
* 懋 - a few meanings
* 帽 - a few meanings
* 貌 - a few meanings
* 牦 - one meaning
* 矛 - one meaning
* 铆 - a couple meanings
* 锚 - one meaning
* 贸 - one meaning
* 茂 - two meanings

To be honest, I got tired of compiling the list at this point. There's lots more.

When someone uses a romanized keyboard to type "m", "a", "o" you've got like two dozen possible characters that becomes. If you're trying to figure out from context which one the person might be intending, you need to look at like 60 different possible meanings in context and figure out which characters are most appropriate. And that's given the previous several things they've entered have been narrowed down to one character, but likely still have several meanings.

A lot of (I'd dare say most?) Chinese people do use romanized input (the alternative I've seen is very slowly drawing out each individual character on the screen), but whether the keyboard sees you type "I have a cute... mao" and decides you want 'anchor' or 'cat' has a huge impact on day-to-day usability for people actually using it.

The written language is vastly more complicated than the spoken one as far as I can tell. A syllable that can have 60 meanings is relatively easy to figure out in context, but when written the meaning has to be made explicit. As a really basic example, "ta" is both he and she. So they just don't have masculine and feminine pronouns, right? Wrong. 他 is he, 她 is she. These are said exactly the same so even given accents to indicate tone they're romanized identically. But when written, the distinction is made.

And if you make a mistake somewhere in all of this?

Well, baba (爸爸) is dad. baba is also poop (㞎㞎).

Wo ai ni, baba. I love you, poop.
This is the article (from a decade ago) that sticks in my mind:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/07/22/rough-justice

> America imprisons people for technical violations of immigration laws, environmental standards and arcane business rules. So many federal rules carry criminal penalties that experts struggle to count them. Many are incomprehensible. Few are ever repealed, though the Supreme Court recently pared back a law against depriving the public of “the intangible right of honest services”, which prosecutors loved because they could use it against almost anyone.
In my personal experience public funded TV stations are just a propaganda machine for the current ruling party.
At that point, why don’t they just have the government fund the television networks from tax revenue rather than effectively levying a poll tax earmarked for broadcasters?
Fake news, then. Pipe bombs and RNC/DNC headquarters, not the Capitol.

Typical motte and bailey. “They bombed the Capitol building” except they actually didn’t.
How much ΔV do the sats get?
IIRC blogs with fresher dates are ranked higher, or maybe people just click them more. Just the author practicing low-level SEO spamming, I guess.
My advice here would be to do some analysis on known watermarked audio, and or go patent, software, firmware hacking.

The first step is to ID marks successfully.

Only then can means and methods to evade the mark be trusted.

I would look really hard at what the radio industry has done. They faced very significant challenges as internet advertising rose up to dominate.

The incentives to get this right and be super robust are all there and are time tested, production proven today.
Your takeaway is much deeper than mine was; it might have been informed by more world knowledge than I had when in highschool. That might explain why others say they got more out of the book later in life, after having been exposed to the concepts that weren't something I'd even known to look for at that point in my life (and thus were also not stored in my impression of slogging through the book).
TFX/TensorFlow Serving doesn't have a PyTorch equivalent. TF has better mobile mobile support. Jax also works on TPUs and is closer (with other libraries on top like Haiku) to PyTorch.

But framework wars are like language wars :) There's probably not too much productive arguments that haven't been made
First standard was released in 1983, later updated in 1995, 2012, 2014, with an update revision coming up.

Has the ability to specificy formal proofs in the type system (SPARK).

Which basically beats the point of Rust being the only modern language happening post 1980.

Ada was just one possible example, SIGPLAN archive has a couple more to pull from.
I struggle to see the type of regulation regime that could work effectively to prevent such profiles from being created (the data collection would move overseas and then later be re-sold as contact lists, or as audiences, etc.).
Here in Finland they just moved the payment into taxes in 2013.

Basically 2.5% starting from income after 14000€ and maxes out at 163€ collected.

https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/newsroom/visual_aids_for_pre...
In Germany, the GEZ (Gebühreneinzugszentrale, which roughly translates as "subscription fee collection agency") also had some of these infamous vans with parabolic dishes on them that allegedly could detect TVs in homes or offices. I never believed this but found it funny to which lengths they would go to get people to pay the public subscription fees for their TVs.

Until the mid 2000's they also hired free agents that were paid a commission for every "black sheep" they got to register. Of course these people regularly overstepped their mandate and found creative ways to intrude people's homes, some would e.g. pose as TV technicians and ask if they could have a look at the cable as the neighbors reported some problems, only to reveal themselves as the GEZ guy once they were inside and saw the unregistered TV set. Of course all of that was illegal, and in 2007 (I think) the system was finally changed so that a given household would pay a fixed fee instead of a fee that depended on the number of receiving devices they had, which made using the "collection mafia" unnecessary. Still, the GEZ is by far the most hated agency in Germany and the subscription fees (around 18.5 € / month) are among the most hated taxes people pay. Some people go as far as voting for an ultra right-wing party (AfD) only because they promise to do away with this fee should they come into power. Personally I don't mind paying for it, though I'd prefer to be able to pay more selectively for services I use. Then again, less than 20 € / month in additional tax for a single household isn't anything to really get worked up over.
Yes that's a good point. Although I have met people who have listened to the same podcasts as me, so it does happen.
Does not always work like that. Did people „want“ cars when there were only horses. Or Facebook when there was just email.
Sometimes you build something and only after people realise that they want built thing.
The macOS binary of 3.0.12 I was just able to download seems to be compiled for x86-64 only.
> You're engaging in weak whataboutism.

One of the major threads of the political discourse is that right wing businesses, representatives and protestors are being treated differently than left wing ones. How would you - even theoretically - make that case without drawing comparisons?

There is little room to argue that if any figure associated with the right was waving a mock severed head around that would be cause for extreme social, business or potentially legal consequences and/or people losing faith in basic civil liberties. There would be panic.

The standards are too visibly different for the gap to be dismissed.
Perhaps it is different where you are from, but I would usually understand furlough to mean unpaid time off at the company’s request.
Shouldn't any watermark become publicly know over the time by white hat hackers or court documents? Then it will be easily defeated.
Thank you for the details! That's super neat to know about. Going to keep this in the back of my mind for the future. I just moved into a place with a garage :)

I'll have to search for a way to run 3 phase power out of residential. Not sure if that's even possible. I'm curious though!
Doesn't M1 exclude bank reserves?

Edit: Indeed. M1's definition:
"M1 includes funds that are readily accessible for spending. M1 consists of: (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) traveler's checks of nonbank issuers; (3) demand deposits; and (4) other checkable deposits (OCDs), which consist primarily of negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts at depository institutions and credit union share draft accounts. Seasonally adjusted M1 is calculated by summing currency, traveler's checks, demand deposits, and OCDs, each seasonally adjusted separately.

I agree with this line of argument for the 2008 era quantitative easing! But my read is that M1 explicitly excludes bank reserves, so the M1 created can't be locked-up reserves, right?
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I think the original is quite a lot more pleasant than what is shown there.
I am talking about the fact that the ARD itself is the collective group of all regional broadcasters (look up the name) and any programme is produced either by one of the regional broadcasters or by the shared production company Degeto. And of course is also shown in the "thirds". Take "Rote Rosen" (with questionable quality) and you will see it is also shown on rbb, hr, NDR and MDR.
>you can just bang out straight forward easy to read code and everything you'd ever need to write a web API is there in the standard library.

The prevalence of swagger disagrees.
If a state wants to fund public radio and TV stations, it doesn't need to do it through a mandatory, regardless of use flat fee. I would argue that that is the worse possible way to do it:

* Increased bureaucracy (why not add a 0.1% to an existing tax?)

* Regressive taxation (you pay the same amount regardless of your income; if you used the income tax, you would distribute it more fairly)

* No market shaping (you could instead fund it with a tax on, say, TV ads for high-calories sodas, or whatever as a society you decide should not be forbidden but discouraged)
> I wonder if there is a music notation woftware which allows you to just enter all the notes first, then you can go back and edit the duration

MuseScore supports the reverse of that workflow - you can enter the durations of notes and rests initially, then go back and "repitch" the notes in a second pass.

I remember many years ago using a Windows scorewriter (possibly this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteWorthy_Composer) which placed notes into bars itself, based on their duration. If you went back and deleted, inserted or modified a note, the whole score would then reflow accordingly, much like wordwrap in a word processor.