skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but for most codecs, bitrate is variable. For the parts where the higher frequencies are present the codec is free to bump up the bitrate and it can also scale it down for silent parts or parts with low frequencies only.
Double check the crank length. Many of the things you list have to do with bike fit, which I do agree can be wonderous when it comes to feeling comfortable on a bike. But testing various crank lengths I believe didn't have a huge effect on performance. It came down to "whatever you like". I ran a 165mm crank for the longest time, until I realized it was actually a 175mm. But in my head, I always thought the crank to be somehow weird and different. It wasn't! If you're short, maybe a shorter crank length, if you're talk, maybe a longer crank length. Maybe.
This was roughly the premise of David Brin's "Kiln People".
The challenge now with ditching the cell phone is that, in light of so many people having cell phones, the once-ubiquitous pay phones are mostly gone. Instead of carrying a cell phone, I once carried a few quarters.
Have you heard of people being able to get an Adhaar card on OCI?
Even on a site like HN, 90% of people who think about it are instinctively revolted by the idea. The future--unavoidably belonging to the type of person who is perfectly comfortable doing this--is going to be weird.
Are there any apps that you know of that use Servo as a rendering engine? I'm curious and would like to look at some examples; I thought Servo was intrinsically tied to Firefox.
This article doesn't mention linking at all, which is at the heart of REST. Without links, it isn't REST, and most of the suggestions don't have anything to do with REST per se. Most of it is just standard JSON-over-HTTP stuff that's implemented in a variety of frameworks and libraries.

EDIT: To be clear, I don't particularly care if an API is "RESTful" or not, as long as it's well-designed and documented, but I think there are interesting/useful ideas in REST that are lost when it's conflated with JSON-over-HTTP.
Preliminary results look good

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-israel-va...
We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction and global warming. I fear we may have already run out of time.
Yes, my mistake. I assumed they retained some code in header mode intended for inlining but that was not correct.
I don't have any Social Media apps installed on my phone. I access them only from a browser running on my laptop. Not having the apps always with me everywhere I go has improved my privacy and prevents mindless engagement. This has been working very well for me.
> This reduces the necessary computational load required in fast-forwarding the upload through a cooperation protocol

Thinking of what a “cooperation protocol” might entail is very chilling. Reminds me of an earlier black mirror episode.
The UK's policy of making sure everyone gets their first dose of the two dose vaccines before most everyone gets their second, setting the second dose at 3 months instead of 3-4 weeks.
Even for road riders, there is a huge difference between a stationary bike and a road bike. The changes aren't as pronounced xco, but your ability to hold a line, adjust cadence for wind and slope, and position your body to deal with turns, road conditions (never hit a pot hole with a stationary bike).
That is just boring...
I really want this. Any plans to address shellfish allergies?
It depends on the r value of the virus. A more transmissible virus requires a higher level of population immunity. Most common estimate I've seen for covid is 70-80%
Thanks - interesting perspective.

I do think that we (or me!) hold ourselves to too high a standard in terms of mastering all aspects of a language, especially given some languages have got too big. It's refreshing to hear an approach that focuses on knowing just enough to get the job done!
If you broke out of prison after your release date, are you breaking the law? Or refuse to go in your cell? This is some gross bureaucratic incompetence, so I couldn't really fault an inmate that wasn't willing to spend even 5 extra minutes in prison.
Carta is building a private exchange, and their CEO alluded to the possibility of using it to raise money in his blog post announcing the trial run.

https://henrysward.medium.com/finally-a-private-stock-exchan...

Once we have a liquid and active market for our shares, (in our case we have enough liquidity to support ~ $100M of volume per quarter), when we want to raise primary capital we simply sell common shares out of treasury.

This is powerful for a couple of reasons. First, we get better price discovery on CartaX than going door-to-door on Sand Hill Road. Second, all shares bought on CartaX are common stock. There is no preferred stock, board seat, or covenants to deal with in a primary.

But perhaps most importantly, CEOs and CFOs don’t have to spend months raising money, doing roadshows, meeting with investors, and negotiating termsheets.
Daft Punk Break ups
I'd love this as well. It doesn't necessarily have to be only high tech/science. There are many times I'd simply like to talk to an experience plumber, electrician, home builder, auto mechanic etc. in a context that doesn't incentivize them to do work for me.
Will do. It's always been odd to me that that is never listed prominently - as price is always the main competitive factor for anything, and even if it's 100x more expensive than similar solutions - at least people get a frame of reference to then see if the multiple is worth the value of storing in the Filecoin system; and with whatever risks may come with that.
At the very least it would be easy to measure the vaccines effect on severity by comparing the rate of hospitalisations to the rate of infection
Facial recognition is being banned for law enforcement use not because it doesn't work, or is ineffective, or is undesirable, but because it reveals politically uncomfortable truths about who commits crime that existing crime stats were already pointing out in a less visceral way.
>That’s not the case at Tesla. Not only does it not disclose the Scope 3 emissions (those dominated by emissions from the cars it sells), it doesn’t even lay out Scope 1 (from on-site power consumption) or Scope 2 (from purchased electricity). Nor does it disclose its electricity consumption, and its behavior indicates that, for all the rhetoric, this isn’t exactly a priority
Lego Mosaic Maker
A lot of the Ed Banger crew don't appear to be releasing music anymore as far as I'm aware.
Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG
I’ve been living in Europe for a couple of decades and I have never seen a on/off control separate from the speed.
Is it “your” experience though? Those never make their way back to the original brain.
> Your point 1 contradicts your monopoly theory.

What is my "monopoly theory"? I clarified what I meant: "A platform so gigantic that it's impossible for humans to intelligently manage it". We don't really have a good term for a corporation that has undue, oversized market power. Pedants like to argue "so-and-so is not literally a monopoly!" but this is just wordplay and doesn't really address the serious social issues involved.

> Your point 2 says you really want to join the Amish.

Maybe!

> You mean smaller platforms like Parler or 4chan?

I mean smaller platforms. It would be ridiculous to suggest that your cherrypicked examples are representative. You can make anything look bad by cherrypicking.
Nitpick: it isn’t SQL that lets you define what you want your data to look like, but DDL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_definition_language)

SQL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL) as the name implies, is just for querying.

I don’t see huge benefits for GraphQL. It’s a query language without a good query planner, so APIs will be limited in the kind of queries they support. In that sense, it’s similar to restricting callers to a fixed set of stored procedures instead of full SQL.

That’s a viable idea, but it can also easily be implemented in REST or using a JDBC connection.

IMO, the main benefit of GraphQL is that it allows the caller to specify what fields it wants to see returned. That means the implementation doesn’t have to send information the caller doesn’t need, decreasing bandwidth, and also doesn’t have to provide a zillion endpoints (give me only the address of user ‘foo’, give me address and telephone number of user ‘foo!’, give me address and birthday of user ‘foo’, etc.) that have to be maintained at the caller’s whim (“we also need the user’s hair color”). That, however, doesn’t need a full query language. REST could easily be extended to support it.

Yes, you could also allow fairly free form GraphQL queries, but if you do, you need a query planner (and, with it, the statistics and metadata that help the query planner perform), or end up with a rat’s nest of special cases that has to be updated for every new type of query.
Nyquist is about sample rate and frequency, not bitrate and frequency.

Edit: Clearly there is generally a relationship between bitrate and quality, but for compressed audio it is far from "cut and dry".
100% agree: All of this talk about mindfulness, but sometimes just "being lazy" is peaceful and healing.
If you stump it, you get:

"Well, tickle my taint.
That one hasn’t come up yet. Not to worry. We’re on it."
Although I use clipless pedals on both my road and mountain bikes, most of the research I've seen recently suggests that clipless do not provide any efficiency gain. This video provides links to numerous peer reviewed articles on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEaN9FKGLE. Of course I'm sure there is research that would suggest otherwise, and I would be interested in seeing counter arguments.
Does Discord use the cloud for infrastructure or are they big enough that they are going their own way?
No it doesn't. I just clicked free download and it worked.
The Rise and Demise of RSS (2019)
I can't speak for the GP, but Facebook became much less fun about a year ago when anti-mask disinformation started flooding in and I realized it was going to kill a lot of people. I haven't been on FB since then.
> the entire inmate management software program, known as ACIS, has experienced more than 14,000 bugs since it was implemented in November of 2019.

It's been about 470 days since then. It means 29 bugs per day. At least they have in place an impressive process to report and manage bugs. Or is it 14,000 times the same bug?
The US has a specific exemption to the prohibition of slavery for incarcerated individuals in our constitution. I think there are many powerful people in our country with a vested interest in keeping the prison-slave-labor pipeline flowing.
I'm so excited for this to become built-in in more places! I think once non-lisp users can experience the Power of Structural Editing they'll say, "Hey, I understand now why you all feel so passionate about your parentheses!"

And I can stop feeling like my fingers have all lost a knuckle when I'm writing Typescript :)
> It reminds me of how people would pit GMO as a solution for world hunger

You lost me here. How is this not? Because Monsanto is a bad company? GMOs can be good and Monsanto can be bad at the same time.

Also I stressed a lot in my comment that you don't have to use nuclear, just don't take it off the table. My comment complaining about how people are saying "only nuclear" vs "only renewables" is being replied to as if I said "only nuclear". Sorry, this is exactly what I'm upset about.

Climate is complex. It is strange to me to hear a bunch of non-experts talk with so much confidence about one of the most complex topics we face in science.
Also The Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi. Excellent sci-fi, horrifying universe.
The backend is still quite a bit of elixir (I imagine, I don't know as I don't work there) - as of October 2020 blog post
>We are done when the answer is yes on all of those, and then the market will find out what technology works and what doesn't.

The market can only really work when it's allowed to. Between the subsidies, perverse incentives and outright FUD being spread around I doubt there is a market that will solve this automatically.

It's going to have to be fought for.

Perfect example - I was in San Diego in the mid 90's. There was a project to recycle wastewater to use for irrigation and eventually work back into the water supply. Some news organization sensationalized it - dubbed it "Toilet to tap", got everyone riled up and the community voted it down. All my co-workers were congratulating themselves on not drinking toilet water until I pointed out the majority of water they were using to make the coffee they were drinking came out of the Colorado River. Towards the end of the Colorado River. They were already drinking "toilet water".

Bah. I also predicted since we were in a desert, the project would happen anyway within 20 years. I was wrong, it ended up being within 7 and about four times the cost to boot.

So yeah, I see much of the consternation around nuclear in the same light. It's going to happen sooner or later, and later always costs more. Speaking of higher costs - in the meantime we continue to burn fossil fuels which means we are still emitting significant amounts of CO2. If you are really concerned about CO2 being existence threatening, we should be doing nuclear, solar, wind and whatever else we can throw at the problem - not sitting around arguing what the "best" is while the house is still on fire.
What's with the GraphQL luddism on HN? I'm as much opposed to adding more incidental complexity to the frontend as the next guy, but GraphQL has objective purpose and makes a lot of things much simpler than they would be without it.

Learning new things and doing things better than they were done a year before is an essential part of being a professional software engineer, it's what makes this field hard and that's why we're paid so much. It's what makes us able to tackle so much added complexity of the world, new use cases, new platforms and paradigm shifts over the years. To me, it's also what makes it so challenging and rewarding.
Concurring with you, and here's some entertaining food for thought. It seems to me that every virus must have a minimum host population that it needs to persist.

The way I think about it is like a tabletop game. You, the player, are a virus. You draw a strain card and roll a stat sheet. Then you pick a human to infect. They draw an immunity card. After that you roll a set of dice that determine if you get to "evolve". If you evolve you get to draw a new strain card, replacing your old strain card, roll new stats, and all players discard their immunity cards. Whether you evolve or not, you start a new round by picking a new human to infect and repeat. The big caveat: you can't pick a human with an immunity card.

Now, if the number of players in this game is low enough and the likelihood of you rolling an evolve action is low enough, then it's easy to see that in all probability you'll lose the game. Every human will get an immunity card before you roll an evolve.

So there are two variables: host population and likelihood of evolution.

Our goal with vaccination is to decrease the former as much as possible. If we get it low enough, the virus will lose the "game". Every other non-vaccinated human will gain herd immunity naturally before it has the chance to evolve. It will die out, and never be given a chance again.

Now, I'm not addressing herd immunity. That's about whether a virus can spread in a given population. This tabletop game doesn't incorporate a virulence mechanic. This is about whether a virus can mutate before the _globe_ achieves herd immunity. The point I'm addressing is this idea lurking in the back of people's minds: third world countries. Won't the virus just "fester" in countries with low vaccination rates until it mutants enough that it can become a new pandemic?

My suggestion is that it's not a given that that's the case, as long as whatever remaining non-immune population is small enough.

What is low enough? An actual virologist could probably guesstimate for some given probability threshold.

But the good news is that SARS-CoV-2 has really bad evolution stats. Many viruses have a "checksum" protein in their genome, just like most other organisms do, that actually work to prevent mutations. Some viruses have this protein "tuned" lower so that they mutate faster, but it's a trade off because that often results in more production of impotent viral particles. SARS-CoV-2, from what I've read in studies, has its "checksum" protein tweaked higher, so it just doesn't evolve as quickly as something like the common cold strains.

In other words, I completely agree with your point. Get vaccinated as quickly as possible and keep up masks and social distance for now. That will give us the highest possibility of winning this "game".
At least in the languages I work primarily in (JS and Java), I find my IDE to be pretty good at analyzing a lot of it.

Refactoring is kind of subjective, because there is rarely One Right Way to solve a problem, and you need context, so I could see why it’s not something that languages themselves take strong opinions on.
To be dull: "above the fold" means visible on the initial page view, without any scrolling.
the media wants you to fear, and even hate, those who's information source is not the same as yours. In other words, anyone getting information from a competitor.
The issue isn’t the useful product of light or a functional crypto system, the issue is the amount of waste heat produced by the light bulb or data center.

This should be obvious when you consider proof of work systems that generate less waste heat by using a memory bound rather than a computationally bound algorithm. They both operate on the principle of wealth destruction as all proof of work algorithms do, but you get different externalities.

Interestingly, if you found something really useful to do with the waste heat of crypto then the systems would become roughly equivalent.

PS: The idea of a memory bound algorithm is 1 million dollars of RAM consumes less energy than 1 million dollars of ASIC’s.
Show HN: A simple drop-in utility to attach a CLI and UI to scripts(bash/Python)
idempotent -> one-and-done ?

It's kinda hard to summarize
In other words, they solved the problem they wouldn't have if they had stuck to C in the first place.
I agree with what you are proposing in principle. However, the notion that it is up to each individual to combat the system when it has wronged them while they languish in some kind of bureaucratic limbo is one of the core sicknesses of our system. Apart from having direct access to the source code and the ability to make pull requests, that is exactly what is happening here. The bureaucrats involved know there is a problem but are leaving it up to individual inmates and their advocates, both inside and outside the system, to sort it out.
Interesting that you object because I am pretty certain that it was you who was eager to use rat brains to run software on them. What's so different about this? In both cases a sentient being is robbed of their existence from my point of view.
tl;dr: if you like taking walks, don't feel obligated to make them intellectually productive.

Have to say I really don't like the writing style where every paragraph consists of a single sentence. There seems to be more and more of this style going around, but it hinders readability. It's not as bad as a wall-of-text article that uses too few paragraph breaks, but it's still poor style.
I thought backend was elixir.
Where are we at in mapping genotypes of the most affected and the superspreaders?

Perhaps exposure has reached saturation among certain populations.
i'm curious if allocating a memory ballast would have helped discord in this case?

a one line patch in main() with something like

ballast := make([]byte, 10<<30)

might help their GC spikes, since garbage collection would only trigger when the heap size reaches 20GB, at which point the heap will be reduced back down to 10GB or so.

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i...
My read is that it's specific to the case of being a programmer/sysadmin. Even if you're not on call, it's usually pretty unimaginable to be completely uncontactable if something breaks.

So privileged might literally mean "not having the most common job held by the people reading this."
That's irrelevant because human ears aren't spectrum analyzers. Audio compression codecs exploit weakness in human perception[1] to discard data with minimal loss of subjective audio quality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics
It's been over 50 years since the thalidomide tragedy. Do you still let plane crashes of last century direct your choice of transportation?
This is an argument that first appeared in July 2020.[1][2] That led to comments such as, in October 2020, "If we add t-cell immunity (greater than 50%) to antibody immunity (around 20%) we have over 60% immunity in the general population which qualifies as population immunity (herd immunity). This is why we have not seen exponential growth of the disease anywhere in the world and why we will not see a second wave…".

That was not a successful prediction.

There's an experimental skin test being developed for COVID-19 T-cell immunity.[3] It's from a startup which announced the test, three new vaccines, and a share offering at the same time, which raises some questions. But at least people are working on this.

[1] https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/07/28/immune-t-cells-may-...

[2] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/ne...

[3] https://www.bioworld.com/articles/503586-tonix-looks-to-the-...
One thing people havent mentioned as well is the importance of mutations. Querying is only one side of the story.

Your API should match semantic actions on your client like the UI and it needs to do this in such a way that it happens in one database transaction.

With REST, new UI requirement that needs to save 2 objects together across multiple entity types...? GG.
So the headline (and the article itself) buries the lede a little bit.

"The model revealed that when the size of the solar farm reaches 20% of the total area of the Sahara, it triggers a feedback loop."

Twenty percent. Not "covered." That strikes this uninformed internet commenter as a much more realistically problematic threshold.
What a beautiful story. Bowie's invisible mask reminds me of the 'glamour' that fey creatures were imagined to have in the old stories. Puts the term 'glam rock' into new perspective for sure...
Not exactly what Talyn Air is doing, but along the same lines- separating out the "lift/climb" vehicle from the "cruise" vehicle. It can actually be a very compelling design!
If the specs are bad, QA will find low quality spots of undefined behaviour (anything goes, ergo it's fine), or even actual logic issues in the specs.

However the software is coded to specs, not to QA's own desires, so the bugs stay.
I was 35 and didn't go. I have no excuse.
Implementing the law, especially in a common law country like the US is really difficult. The case law that is of primary importance here is often contradictory and fuzzy, as well as changing constantly. In addition the written law doesn't capture the whole situation.

In a civil law system it's more likely achievable, but I'm quite sure the requirements aren't that clear cut judging from the text.
To generate electricity, they need to absorb light (hence dark) not reflect it (white), and there are inefficiencies, which end up as heat.

Technically no, we could produce solar cells that release no more heat than sand, but it would either substantially reduce output per area, and/or call for more complicated, different types of solar cells than we currently produce, possibly with more toxic materials.

There are semi-transparent solar cells in production today, but their output per area is about 1/10 of traditional ones.

I like the checkerboard idea.
Isn't this moot given that with many BIOS interfaces you can choose your own root authority and not use theirs?
Discussion from a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204756