skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting metadata right is honestly an issue that has been there for a long time. ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4 are basically what you have to work with. Many programs also use custom TXXX or DIV tags to embed whatever into. So even if you get it right in on prog it is a disaster in another.

ID3v2.4 fixes many of the issues. But very few progs use it or default to 2.3. Plus the way an album can be sliced and diced for metadata is truly breathtaking.

Then add into that some of these programs try to use some form of acoustic id to try to find where it belongs. Which does what you are talking about. So you resort to setting the file read only so the program will not mess with the tags.

Then on top of that many of the online sources can be in bad shape for bands or releases. AC/DC is most certainly not alternative. But it is tagged that way in some databases. So data quality goes all the way from 'someone spent a lot of time getting this right' to 'someone uploaded whatever was in their mp3 library and called it a day'. Also even the data printed on the pages that came with it may have spelling errors and differences in spelling for individual tracks and artists. Some artists have 3-4 different aliases which one do you put it under without messing everything up or leave it stand alone and you forget you even had it.

Also differing releases is a pain too. Some albums have 40+ releases. Which one do you actually have. Does it really matter?
Self-regulation without any compliance verification is called a polite request.

If people would like to see this sort of thing actually work, that requires real regulation. The kind you see when important people actually care about outcomes, not the PR management you see for, e.g., the food supply.
Apple fined for obstruction, case referred to prosecution in Korea
Heat pumps are certainly a good option in some cases, but other times they are not practical.

For dense urban areas, there may not be enough open ground available to bury the heat pump coils. Also, in colder climates, many houses and buildings use hot water or steam radiators, and heat pumps can't efficiently heat water hot enough for this type of system. Retrofitting ducts to replace radiators and switching to forced air heating can be prohibitively complex and expensive.

Methane leaks are certainly a valid concern, but if we mandate better monitoring systems and do a better job of repairing leaks when they occur, it seems plausible we could get leaks down to acceptable levels. Methane is indeed a potent greenhouse gas, but it doesn't last nearly as long as CO2 before it breaks down, so if leaks are kept to a minimum I don't know whether they would ultimately be a huge deal in the long term.
Besides that they also lack the amount of control over the software side. Google is the entity that controls the stack, not Samsung - their responsibility ends at the kernel / HAL interface.

So why should Samsung invest more than the bare minimum when they can't get anything measurable in return?
Yeah, interestingly I've been buying vinyl from independent artists when I can, and usually they'll include codes to download the digital format. I finally bought a record player a few months ago and have been enjoying the experience of just focusing on playing one album at a time.
The talk will be live, but we will record it and send it our to anyone who signs up.
I believe that many malevolent people, or at least their followers, would be much less malevolent or active if they had their basic needs met plus a little bit of cushion to enjoy life.

To be more specific, many of the worst people have lived through some truly horrible childhoods (often experiencing war and poverty as a child). Stop the cycle of war and poverty, and then see how naturally malevolent people are.

We have the productivity to afford that; we just have chosen to consolidate it to a relative few.
> It allows creating plugins across multiple editors that all use a single language server project

Ahhhh. Lightbulb moment. I can see now why this feature in particular should perhaps be baked in.

I thought it was just about adding additional language support, but I see now that it's about developing once for many editors.

If I could still edit my previous comments about language server, I'd update them all to say "I'm an idiot, don't know what I'm talking about."
typical nocoiner FUD
Google has also had several high profile cases of abandoning pursuit of extremely lucrative military/government contracts due to backlash from employees.
for anyone else who was confused and about to google it: Night Vision Goggles[1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-vision_device
Commission some basic art about it?
No. It’s worth $10 because you saved your (non-inflationary) money. And you spent the last 10 years making a bread robot instead of working in the financial sector.

And how is ‘investing’ a productive use of capital? In deflationary regime, business is about cash flow. Inflationary regime investments are all speculation, and everybody has to play the game.

This Keynesian argument comes from a nihilistic disregard for social structures, the environment, and future generations. Look him up. “In the long run, we’ll all be dead” - Keynes
I really wish Apple would release iMessage for Android. I know they never will, and I know I can just use SMS / MMS / RCS or WhatsApp or Signal or whatever. I'm just really tired of the default app for iOS not being able to interop with Android. Every time someone from my wife's family sends (iMessage) her a video and its low quality on her phone (pixel) and she asks them to email it and they say "What is wrong with your phone" a little piece of me dies inside.
It is a pretty amusing feature, and it's fun watching people discover it.
Nested markup language for complex rhythyms
At least they don't ban nudity in album cover art (it's very common in cover art). Including in third-party apps like Spotify.
He has nothing to do with bitcoin cash
Depends on the "thing." We do use negative values for, say, degrees of temperature.
The internet itself is a military project and its pioneers were all either military-employed or had contracts early on, for actual military applications or surveillance. Read Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley. Unfortunately it seems tech is forever tied with the military industrial complex.
I guess that's the decision to make. Do you pay extra to keep your U.S. citizenship active, or do you renounce citizenship to pay less?

I'm sure different people will have different ideas of what that's worth, but it's available as a choice. People that opt not to renounce citizenship have obviously decided it's worth it to not do so, whether that be keeping future options open, or because they know they plan to return. $100k is a lot of money, even if in many locations its less than a mid-career tech worker salary, so I'm not sure I have any objections to this.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- commonly attributed to Orwell
well, Android was always a bit of a special snowflake compared to the rest of the company. Separate codebase, separate build system, separate SCCM, etc. You can't really compare an Android team to a google3 team.

Culturally, it was worse when Andy was in charge, but it was still true when I left in 2018.
The book is extremely well written but also extremely boring. There is one who is a real opposition to Monte Christo.
All you do is watch him ruin the life's of his opponents in return.

In the end Monte Christo profited from being locked up. This doesn't justify the act of his opponents but what he does is basically the same and no one notices him or is a serious threat to him. Well as far as I read.
Lots of non-military projects/programs are funded at similar or greater levels than military ones. Look at education, wealth-transfer programs (social security), and healthcare (medicare and medicaid); each of these gets more money than the DoD.

Very expensive science projects (such as JWST @ $10BB) also get funded, though they're often pillaged for either pork or increased welfare spending.
More fairly popular pop culture that this might mirror is the Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire where the AR implants are being used to trick their soldiers into thinking regular humans are some mutant creature to make it easier to pull the trigger and kill them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Against_Fire
Excellent point, though net present value is well established in finance.
Never ran on it Windows, only on Mac. Copy and pasting [1] my comment on VSCode from the Sublime thread.

When VSCode launched, people were hyping it like mad ( On HN anyway ). It drives me crazy because they keep claiming it was very fast. Which isn't a fair assessment since most of them were using Atom ( from Github ) or any other editor / apps based on Electrons. Compared to best Editor in the category, Sublime, VIM or BBedit, TextMate, fast should not be a word you used to describe VSCode.

But then over the years Chromium, v8 and VSCode keep making performance improvements VSCode suddenly tick the box of good enough. And after years of CPU performance stagnation, VSCode on M1 is surprisingly fast. Still not Native App speed with many extension, but then I hope CPU performance will continue to improve along with more optimisation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644446
Steve Jobs would also have been a relatively old man, whose favourite artists are still recording music the same way the were in the '60s and '70s. His design choices are unlikely to resemble that of the average consumer today.
The complex numbers enjoy a widespread use in physics (and electrical engineering).
Yes the little book that came with Lateralus was amazing. It's one of the few rare instances where the CD release is far superior to any subsequent vinyl releases. The Lateralus picture vinyl is neat, but it doesn't present the series of images the way it was intended to be seen.
"And unlike the 1970s, when the ACLU was run by stubbornly principled people who refused to buckle under the weight of fashionable opinion or donor pressure, the new generation of leaders prioritized conformism over intellectual consistency."

That's a problem. The huge pressure for conformity. Both Left and Right are way too insistent on this. The Left now insists on gender concepts that were considered totally wacko twenty years ago. The Right is stuck with fear of and attraction to Trump. Rejecting those positions can get people fired. This is not good.
I interviewed someone with crazy RSI and debilitating hand issues (they had to use voice control software). They cured their RSI and you can listen to the interview here and also read their success story.

"I had 10 years of 24 hour a day, 7 days a week chronic pain in my fingers, wrists, forearms, arms, elbows from typing, mousing, and using a computer up until 12/12/2008 as a computer science student and as a software engineer."

source: http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5301 (interview is at bottom, soundcloud)

================================

Also see the "Seattle Repetitive Injury Support Team" site > http://www.satori.org/rist/, who claim:

"After many years of meeting to discuss treatment and coping approaches, share stories and ideas, listen to invited speakers and discuss good ergonomics, we are excited to announce that we think we have finally found a cure for most RSI cases! We know that sounds too good to be true, but please read on."

================================

Lastly, read these RSI success stories on the same technique: https://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Repetitive_Strain_Injuries_-_RSI

This is a crazy journey, and it is worth knowing about.

Lastly, if you end up going this route, a podcast called "Tell Me About Your Pain" by pain psychologist Alan Gordon and neuroscientist Alon Ziv is a solid entry point on what to do next. It is an educational mini-series that explain what is going on in a build-up kinda way.
On classic vinyl releases you got a single record with roughly 20 minutes of music on each side. They recorded the album so it fit nicely on two sides.

With new releases the vinyl is usually an afterthought, so it usually doesn't fit nicely on two sides, so they just throw an extra disc in the sleeve and spread the songs evenly and you end up with 3 or 4 sides with 12-15 min music on them.
The short answer is that they deliver solutions and support. What they sell, primarily, is the ability for someone at your company to call them and say "we have problem X" and they will respond "no problem, we can solve problem X for you", and they will take care of the rest. This usually costs millions of dollars.

Let's say you are a large Fortune 500 company. A bank perhaps, a large retailer or an oil company. Your net worth rivals Amazon. You do not use AWS or GCP, you host your own data centers, and you have for decades. Now let's say you need another few petabytes of storage with global replication, durability, availability, you need hardware delivered, fibre cables routed, software to tie it all together and someone to call when you run into problems or someone on your backend application team can't figure it out. Or maybe you need Oracle and SAP integrated with Active Directory for your 100,000 employees.

Well, these companies will make that happen. Or many other problems you might have, such as building custom applications, implementing tooling, designing systems, whatever. It's kind of like asking "who employs all these personal chefs?! I've been eating for years and I've never needed a personal chef. I just go to the store, buy some groceries, and make food from the recipes I find online!" The thing is that some people just don't want to deal with all that, and they have enough money to make it someone else's problem who has done it before.
So, what happens to people who actually had nothing and got to being rich? That scenario doesn’t exist in your head?
I read "Darwin's Black Box" over 20 years ago so I can't give a lot of details. His fundamental idea was "irreducible complexity", a system that won't work if you take away any piece, such as a mousetrap. He claimed that a lot of biological mechanisms were like this. The fundamental argument was that something irreducibly complex can't be formed by evolution because it won't work if is anything missing, so you can't evolve part way. E.g. a mousetrap that lacks the spring doesn't work at all. Therefore, evolution couldn't create the irreducibly complex mechanisms found in biology. QED.

The big flaw that I see is that he looks at the problem of creating irreducibly complex mechanisms by addition, but they can easily be produced by subtraction. As an analogy, an arch is irreducibly complex because if you take out any stone, it collapses, so you can't build it one stone at a time. But you don't build an arch this way. Instead, a support is built and the stones are put on top of the support, one at a time. When you take the support away, now you have an irreducibly complex structure. Similarly with biology, something can evolve step by step with redundancy, and then pieces are removed by evolution, ending up with an irreducibly complex mechanism that Behe views as impossible.

I should reiterate that I read the book decades ago so I'm probably wrong on the details of Behe's argument. I figured I should answer your question but I'm not particularly interested in having a debate on evolution.
I am getting empty list of search results when looking for remote campaigns with D&D 5e, D&D 4e, D&D 3.5e, Pathfinder, Pathfinder 2e.

Is this expected behavior (because there aren't any campaigns listed yet)?
You can't handle the truth!!!
Scientists Implanted and Then Reversed False Memories in Trippy Study
It really is. Although as long as it's not bad but paints me in a good light, I do it.
Why do you think not financing an army prevents war or brings love and peace? There is no evidence to that, probably the contrary. We do spend a lot of money on a lot of other things, at the end of the day we need to spend some part of the budget on security. So the question is how much and if there is some objection to this specific spending it should be explained specifically.
Host a React Website on S3
This brings back memories. I used xlispstat for my engineering thesis on pruning of neural networks in 1992. I enjoyed it very much. I still have Luke Tierney's book LISP-STAT. I also used Splus, the ancestor to R, which was also very good, but not open source.
The M1 laptops are pretty clearly their highest-quality laptops ever.
Well, if the implementations of the standard are such a garbage fire what's the point chasing them? Just to check the box "standards compliant" and likely providing an abysmal UX and poor interoperability?

I fixated on Apple because they're often picked on for taking the highway, but on the other hand what's the point doing otherwise? What's a common ground if it's just a pipe dream?
Actually, Microsoft's involvement came about when leadership decided that the investment in Clippy needed to be recouped. After some creative brainstorming, it was determined that soldiers needed a heads-up display to track their ammo reserves. Ammo is stored in clips, which is a natural fit for Clippy to keep track of.
Oh, I would say many researchers have that goal, but probably not many would consider it a realistic goal to be achieved in their lifetime ..

(all assumed, biology is not my area)
Because physics is part of mathematics.
Historically already ancient Greeks knew pure mathematics (e.g. Euclid's Elements), and differentiated it from its applications as far as I'm concerned. That made them pretty distinct from earlier Egyptian mathematicians who indeed were only concerned with solving practical problems without much attention to logical rigor.
US air superiority fighters already include AR in their helmets.
On a quick scour of the source code at https://github.com/Lisp-Stat/lisp-stat, I can see that there's a `Copyright (c) 1991 by Luke Tierney` on `base/variables.lisp` in the initial commit. Interestingly, this code is released under the Microsoft Public License, which includes the text: "Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create" which would imply that the answer to the GP's question needs to be "yes".

Note: I have no idea who Luke Tierney is or what his contributions to this area might be, which is a failing on my part.
Most hand sanitizers contain a bitter substance to prevent exactly this.
His take is a little cyclical, but it's not wrong necessarily. For every set of PVS-14s there were 3 or 4 little pieces of "tech" that were utterly useless.
There are about 300 million US citizens. 21.9 billion split evenly is $73 per person.

And this is a multi year contract.

It’s a lot of money, but not a huge amount divided across the population. This money likely also generates ancillary US jobs so the cost to tax payers might not be as bad as it sounds.
Plenty of people saying “who?” because they only know the sex toy I suspect.
Here's a fun story you can tell a friend next time you order calamari:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/484/doppelgangers

It just might be "Hog rectum".
> To be fair, the first edition of the book is from 1986. It looks like the 2nd edition (2006) adds 3 chapters on data flow analysis, parallelization.

So this criticism seems to say "well, it was written too early."
I'm not necessarily supportive of the contract or the spending or whatever, but I just want to present a reframing of the costs: imagine it's just 1000 headsets, but they're so useful they cut $1B/year+ in costs (or allow for $1B/year+ in extra operational capacity) annually for the next 50+ years. This is, allegedly, foundational work on a transformative technology, so maybe that's "the dream".

Now ... is that realistic? haha
Statistical knowledge doesn’t remove that risk. The extent to which it even lowers the risk is a question that could be answered empirically.
Are you offering to purchase this product for the parent commentor?

Unless you are offering to pay for it because the cost is so little I'm not sure your rebuttal holds water.

$80.00 US is a lot for an editor that doesn't provide updates.
Big shops will be sending their cheapest (aka youngest) consultants to all their small clients, or at least until they complain enough about the quality of work that they send someone more senior along to right things. That's what allows other smaller consultancy shops to compete, because such clients would be considered our "big" clients that we send our best people to. You're just waiting for that moment where they get fed up with a big shop and open it up for a new contract, and you can swoop in and pick up a new client.
60 years isn't the best sample size for "forever".
Does anyone actually say "zero point ___ times less"? I would say not to do that, and only use "times less" with numbers above 1.

That's much easier than dealing with people who calculate percentages wrong or say ambiguous things about large increases.
It’s actually pretty easy to get, every pharmacy has it (extremely expensive), almost every ecig store that caters to DIY (expensive), and many stores for horse supplies (cheap). The quality (at least here in Germany) is exactly the same for all of them.
Deflation can be devastating to those in debt. If you take out a loan for a house or a tractor, then subsequently discovering that you have to pay back substantially more than you borrowed (before even factoring in interest!) could be quite a shock.

To give a simplified example, if a farmer takes out a $50k loan, then at current prices they might be thinking that can be repaid by selling 10,000 bushels of produce at $5/bushel. However, if there is subsequently 20% deflation, then the price would fall to $4/bushel and the farmer would all of a sudden find they have to sell an additional 2500 bushels to get out of debt. If they can't, they risk losing everything to foreclosure.
The rebuttal to this view is "provide a principled definition of intelligence". Doesn't seem like the article does this.

If someone could do that, it would be a significant stride towards producing an intelligent entity.

As far as "AI research" we're somewhat stuck in the position that humans "can't define intelligence but know it when they see it". But if we abandon this intuition based approach, it seems like we wind-up with the argument, "this toaster is intelligent 'cause you can't prove it's not".
if you want peace, prepare for war.
NASA Art Program
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I think the only reason you have all your needs met is due to war, and now you sit on a pile of blood-stained surplus with clean gloves and make faces as though better.

It’s all pointless moralizing. Sure, prosperity may reduce war. I tend to think MAD and global trade have done most of the reducing. But just dismissing war as if you have some superior moral compass to anyone with absolutely no sign of any insight to reduce it, or understanding of why it happens, just reeks of privilege and cheap moralizing that I’d prefer stay on Twitter and Reddit.
Not at all. I read that story as the suggested apps being on the AppStore and having gone through the normal vetting by Apple. If so, then the government doesn’t have access to any more backdoors than already potentially exists in for example WeChat or Alipay.
I might do this for the $1 vinyl/CD rack, but never in general. CDs were crazy expensive. We're talking $17.99 in the year 2000 and maybe $9.99 for the cassette.

I don't many kids that had money to drop on something based on the art alone. We needed money for magazines and concerts too y'know.
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Yes! https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128