skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the world of IoT, everything-is-an-app and disposable electronics, I'm increasingly appreciating "appliance" electronics. Things that do one thing well.

I recently got a baby monitor - there's plenty of IoT enabled wifi ones which use your phone as the display, but the one I chose was simple and standalone. It just works. No software, no app, no security implications. I can give it to someone else and it'll work for them too.

I wonder what other areas of our life we should be unbundling again into appliances?
Weird. When I visit HN I can see all posts from the front page without scrolling and read through the titles. On this page however I could barely see the first eight entries. Also there's a loading spinner for almost two seconds and multiple large image requests (some are really huge!) just to be displayed as a small circle. Ok? 11.7 MB for the front page. "Nice".
> Article by Glenn Greenwald

Grabbing my popcorn

In all seriousness though it's really disgusting the amount of things mainstream news companies are allowed to get away with. Not just 'left-wing' media but both sides push out a lot of propaganda.

Hopefully the US sees some sort of reform on news before they tear the nation in half. More than they already have.
Huge difference is that wealthy/landlords buy properties with debt and operate with cash-flow while for them liability creates wealth.

For working people properties on mortgage are just expense.

https://www.singsaver.com.sg/blog/robert-kiyosaki-advice-on-...
I actually suspect that private companies love minimalism because it's cheap. Consider icons, for example - it's faster to create a gray outline than a nice, colorful piece of pixel art.

And this has been a trend for a century or so, since Modernism. My apartment house in Prague, built 130 years ago, has a decorative (blacksmith-made) railings at the stairs. Today something like that would be ridiculously expensive, and it would never get made for an ordinary middle-class house.
Using a simple t-test calculation and assuming normal distribution and an equal split in both groups, the sample size per group needs to be 20 million to be in the 90% confidence interval. It's not even yet in the 95% interval at that point. You reach the "scientific default" 95% confidence at 40million per group (that's 80million total).

At a sample size of 20million that's 182.800 cases in the non-alcoholic group and 183.600 in the alcoholic once a day group. At that scale I wouldn't trust my data enough to believe the reporting of once-a-day and not-at-all is actually accurate and other completly unrelated unaccounted effects do not outweigh my testesd criteria.

If I haven't done any major errors calculating this (which might be, because it's back of the napkin math with a t-test calculator or my assumptions are wrong), I doubt the sample size and accuracy of the measure is high enough to make a statistical significant claim about these groups.

Even if it actually is a somewhat accurate result, it means having one drink per day increases health issues by as little as 0.5%. The risk of addicition and starting to drink much more probably heavily outweighs that.

Regarding OPs statement, I think it's fair to assume what is usually meant is "that has to be statistically insignificant for any sample size this sutdy probably had".
Couple observations:

1. The whole thing is done in 1000 lines of code after unobfuscation (including 808 and 303 emulation, sequencer, random generation, UI) - technically it's quite impressive.

2. Part of why it makes such good patterns seems to be reliance on octaves. The patterns usually contain at least 50% or more of the same note repeated, across one or more octaves, and coinciding with rhythmic beats. Even when the notegen set is just F2, F2, F3, F4, G#4 (mostly all the same note) it's quite listenable.
You can simply open youtube links with mpv.
Rockbox is the only reason I'd really want to get a new PMP. Still have my Sansa Fuze somewhere running Rockbox.
> Is this not the dream that is often touted on hacker news? Work at a FAANG and "retire" somewhere more affordable?

Practically, probably not. Few people talk about that, most dont.

Most will move for affordable, but wont necessary like abrupt change from FAANG and big city to small city and not much to do. They will need to adjust to different culture, new hobbies, find new friends, everything.

And that is not even speaking about those whose partners dont want to move, whose partners have jobs, friends and social networks they like/need. And that is not even speaking about the "what with kids does this makes sense to them" topic.
> Speculation tends to increase volatility.

Speculators make money off of prices deviating from the norm (i.e. volatility) and every time they make money off of a price difference, it pushes that price back to the norm. I.e. it decreases volatility.

The fact that speculators are attracted to volatility is an effect of volatility, not a cause.
Google app engine was released in 2008...
You don't have to visit RMS' personal website if you don't want to be "subjected" to his opinions. As for the Minsky defence, Stallmans position is an entirely rational one and the world would be a much better place if more people would stand up to defend those being attacked by the mob.
> It reminds me of a project done some years ago

This comment here sums up how bonkers the pandemic is and what effect it's having on people: that was reported in February of last year!

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
> You mean going for a drink after work, right?

Yes, or at least these are the effects I see. Showing up drunk for work is a no-go, but when going out with colleagues after work or on company parties, having a drink together is very common. Unfortunately, that is where a lot of networking happens; being part of the in-group by sharing a drink will often go a long way. That being said, if you're open enough to join anyway, you can probably get away with not drinking (at least that's my experience in Germany).
Could you justify that claim a bit more? I downloaded the report and the phrase New York Times doesn't seem to appear in it.

The whole report is actually a bit odd. It talks about the "five core values of journalism" and claims only super-liberal people support all of them, but the list of values appears to be basically a list of left wing priorities and worldviews, e.g. the last two values are "giving voice to the less powerful" and "social criticism". Factualism is defined not as an absolute value but merely a tradeoff, given that "the truth is more than just the matter of adding facts and this emphasis on factualism can mask bias". So that would appear to be tautological - all they've done is ask a bunch of journalists what they feel is important, got a bunch of left wing priorities, discovered that only left wing people agree with the full list, and the only thing people across the spectrum agree in is that facts are important. Surely these findings are true, but so what? It's just a dozen different ways of telling people things that are already obvious, rephrased in terms of Haidt's moral foundations theory. US journalists are much more left wing than the population as a whole, that's a widely published result for many years already. The fact that the AP felt a need to do a research study to prove it is sort of indicative of why the media has such deep problems.

The final section is quite telling. They do an experiment where they take a test story and rewrite it to be less left-biased and contain more facts. They find the resulting story appeals more to everyone, not just conservatives. It's a sad indictment of the AP that this is actually presented as a novel finding.
Huh, blast from the past! It's been just a bit over 10 years since I donated to PSPad. My first editor when I got into programming as a kid.

Directly edit on FTP hosts was one of my favourite features. I would edit php websites directly... Until I lost absolutely everything one day and soon after switched the editor.
Evol's mixtape is such an amazing work!

303 different tracks in 13:47

Link to full mixtape https://soundcloud.com/ideal-recordings/ideal-mixtape-eleven...
Some refer to it as an effect of muscle memory. Something you can do effortlessly, but can't actually describe how to another person.
Some research by none other than Claude Shannon :)
Are you a parent?

I really don't think humans evolved to have a nuclear family with no external support from grandparents, uncles, aunts, neighbours, etc. We also have a scenario where children have been robbed of their independence (suburban design patterns, dangerous drivers, fearmongering on the news about child molesters, etc.) - so you can't just shove your 5 year old out the front door at 9 AM and tell them to come back for lunch.

I would _much_ rather watch my kids and my nieces and nephews for half a day, then trade, than watch my kids all day long. It's utterly grueling.
Depending on the headphone the biggest problem is the amp not the DAC. E.g. something like a hifiman Sundara or a Sennheiser HD 600 Series requires a bit more power then a cell phone typically requires. Looking at the specs for the M3k it looks to me that it is not really suitable for these kind of headphones. I like using slightly bigger mobile amps with the Sundara. Used to have a Topping NX4, which worked well, but died after 6 months, now switched to an ifi hip-dac.
Email the mods using the footer contact link and ask them to return the title to the original, uneditorialized one.
Sublime is what I moved from Notepad++ from.
It has good extensions and is very fast.

These days I use Visual Studio Code.
It's separate to Visual Studio. Code is open source and runs on Linux and OSX as well.

There's a ton of extensions and it's super flexible.
Since they only do that on the mobile website, I'd assume this is just another way of wanting to track users and push them to the mobile app.
I work on my own project mostly, at the expense of not earning almost anything. (I freelance to earn money and spend minimum time, to have most time for the project).

Some of the work is exciting, some of it is boring, but I like it on average. Though it's much different when there's a goal in mind (to finish your own project). It's still good in a way, because I think, ok, I will work 2 weeks on that boring stuff and can't wait until it gets more interesting, then it gets interesting and I have my reward, back to the boring stuff. I find that this chase of seeing completion creates the passion even for the boring stuff.

Of course I don't want to keep it up endlessly. I will either try to turn this project into a product and see how it goes, or I will open source it and get a full time job (freelancing is a bad strategy for building a business by the way. If I could go back in time I would never start freelancing, but get a full time job and make savings if I wanted to start my own business).

I will second what others have said, start something yourself in your free time. Get a boring job that doesn't require much time if you don't care about the pay. I think there was a popular thread about that recently.

Or maybe change your industry, i.e. game dev. From what I have heard, the pay is low, precisely because there are a lot of people who want to do it just because they are passionate.
This and the Brian Armstrong story seem to be intentional or ignorant mischaracterizations of what is happening.
> I'm increasingly appreciating "appliance" electronics. Things that do one thing well.

Plus dedicated physical buttons! FiiO provides a rotary volume control on their flagship $1000 player, https://audiosolace.com/2020/09/04/fiio-m15-review/
Unrelated, but hope someone here knows: what was the name for Microsoft's design language around 2002? Example for Frontpage https://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/website/appdb/b7...

Looking for any info on its principles, or anything really.
Similarly in Ireland, it's crazy that people here wonder why homes are so expensive when we have an asset class free of CGT where ownership gives you a right to object to the creation of any more supply of said asset. What a deal!
I'm not a medical researcher, so what exactly I would call it isn't too important. But you could describe the fibrosis which leads to cirrhosis as a direct "injury" from alcohol use.
I'm exploring something along these lines in my (now mostly dormant) project called MarkRight: https://github.com/tomashubelbauer/markright

The idea is that for didactic resources (be it documents, tutorials or even small pieces of software), your prose and code are both included in a MarkDown file and fenced code blocks are used to designate creation, altering and deletion of files. Other files that get created when "running" the MarkRight document are artifacts (the source code, the compiled executables, graphics etc.), but the document is a single source of truth.

Examples: https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/markright/edit/master/exa...

I recommend still keeping those in version control for online viewing in GitHub. I have not built anything cool with MarkRight yet, but I think the idea has potential. Curious what others think.
> if that someone does not want to sell them or make profit on the rent, why would he constrain the supply?

Why wouldn't that someone want to make a profit?

> The state, the city, not-for-profit entities owning them, for example.

That'd just make each individual eternally indebted to the state, at the whims of bureaucrats and vulnerable to political punishments while the costs wouldn't come down by much, because the state generally sucks at doing these things.
In a frontal collision unrestrained backseat passengers get thrown to the front of the car. Basic physics!
https://www.amazon.com/Y-Shield-Shielding-Paint-liter-size/d...
Your frustrating experience was before you disabled javascript or after?
There are detached homes in Singapore - their price and taxes just reflect the fact that about a hundred people would normally be living on the same ground, and those people have to be compensated.

I think a fairer comparison in terms of relationships is like polygamy: forbidding people to live above or below you is a bit like taking away extra potential spouses. I believe polygamy is illegal in most societies due to the inequalities it causes.
Until you discover that prod has an edgecase string that has the blood mother of cthulu's last name written in swahili-hebrew, (you know it as swabrew, or SHE for short) which due to a lack of goat blood on migration day is one of the ~3% of edge cases that aren't replicated and now youve got an entirly new underground civilization born that is expecting you to serve them traffic with 5 9's and you can only do 4 because of the flakiness.
I'm currently an undergraduate math student, and had similar frustration, but I reached a different solution. I built a cheap chalkboard in my room (hardboard panel that I painted with chalkboard paint – $15 total since I used a trash-picked board). For scanning, I mounted a Raspberry Pi with a camera, and did some basic OpenCV image processing to extract the image. All told, it took a weekend to build and set up, and I have used it every day since.

This same setup could easily be mounted at a different angle for scanning papers laid flat on a desk, and would work with nearly no modification.

The image processing pipeline for me was:

- Gaussian blur
- Brightness/color thresholding
- Finding and simplifying the contours
- Computing the convex hull for each contour (in case the board is partially occluded)
- Using a heuristic to pick the contour most likely to be the chalkboard
- Extracting corners from the contour and doing a "getPerspectiveTransform" followed by "warpPerspective"
- Sharpen the image (subtract Gaussian blurred version)
- Return the image via Flask server so I can pull scans onto my phone or computer over LAN

The same pipeline is reused for a live feed (MJPEG) that I can split-screen with my webcam (via OBS) for collaboratively working on homework problems via video call. The live stream is accessed via a different Flask route that calls many of the same helper functions.

The code is not yet publicly released, but was very straightforward to write; each of the steps mentioned above is pretty much one OpenCV function call. Here is a sample scan and a demo video:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h21ke7cnlwjs9wi/2021-03-24_01-37-1...

https://youtu.be/l66G8d-CrnU

My email can be found on my website (linked via my HN profile) if you want to discuss!
That's not quite true with CSMA-CA. The minimum medium aquisition time is effectively a constant, no matter the bandwidth. Wider channels mean you've got the same duration of deadtime across more channel bandwidth for each transmission. In fact it's worse than that - wider channels mean more senders compete during each medium aquisition, so collisions are more likely, further reducing capacity. The use of AMPDUs in 802.11n (and later) goes some way to mitigating this, but our measurements show it doesn't do a great job in practice with many workloads. In the end, if things are really congested, you'll get more total capacity with narrow channels, at the expense of not being able to burst at high bitrates when things are quiet.
There’s an emerging pattern of this relative to Coinbase. I just can’t tell if it’s schadenfreude or scaremongering.
I for one am happy that PSPad takes less than half a second to launch and has a memory footprint of less than 10MB. If I wanted a fancy IDE with perfect syntax highlighting, I wouldn't be using PSPad. I have other tools for that. There's a space for editors that are more complex than Notepad and less complex than your average IDE, and PSPad fits right into that space.
This is how to build a scaling DoS issue that bombs prod iirc
This is great! I love the music that's coming out even though I usually don't listen to a lot of electronic music.

Is there a way to find out a bit more about the UI and what the different options are? It looks very foreign and I'm just randomly clicking on things.
The talk "How NOT to Measure Latency" [0] taught me all I needed to know in order to start worrying about tail latency in a very well presented way.

[0] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/latency-response-time/
FIIO has some nice build products. I have got a FIIO BTR1K which works well as a bluetooth mic as well as making my IEMs wireless.
The measurement results for their products are not always that good. Check audiosciencereview.com . This might not matter that much because these days DACs are so accurate anyway that most of the differences are not audible anyway.
Azure Naming Conventions
Shouldn't it be the NTSB investigating the black box logs? Tesla has a vested interest in presenting any analysis that mitigates or even eliminates their culpability
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan Stalin Did (2013)
I feel like this every time I use my cameras. They do one thing and do it exceedingly well. They feel like _tools_ rather than gadgets or devices.
This grammatical structure in English is make + object + bare infinitive, e.g. “make it happen”.

https://www.englishgrammar.org/bare-infinitive-2/
Nvidia gets more revenue from China+HK than they get from the US. China is huge market for both ARM and Nvidia.

Nvidia don't want to buy a company if they can't sell to Chinese market.
What would you replace the "social lubricant" effect of alcohol with?
That’s not subsistence farming. Subsistence farming is where you are only growing what you need, plus maybe a little extra. What you’re describing is something else entirely.
What are good guidelines to tackle this?
Harsh reality is that once a city reaches certain size option for semi/detached housing becomes unrealistic to house majority of population. Just numbers game.
This exists in New Zealand. https://www.moneyhub.co.nz/rent-to-own-homes.html
There is no such thing is bug-free, un-hackable software! Any claims to the contrary are modern day snake oil.
In general, large public housing projects may seem very nice at first, but once the maintenance costs start going up (20-30 years later) it will become increasingly difficult for a publicly owned business to avoid increasing rent. Old buildings are simply quite expensive to maintain, especially when regulations require that buildings are occasionally renovated and brought in line with recent changes in regulations.

If you want to get around that then you need to subsidize some of those expenses using tax money, or simply use tax money to fund the renovations, and in most cases where such measures would be applicable it's simply not possible to divert resources that way, or there simply is no way to get a political consensus around such measures.

I lived in such a neighbourhood when I worked in Sweden about a decade ago. Publicly owned, low rents, great public transport, within walking/biking distance to the city centre, decent mix of people from various cultures, and a crime rate that was somewhat tolerable despite the relatively low average income.

Problem was, while the apartments were nice, the buildings' basements (incl. 1950's cold war fallout shelters), foundations, exteriors and the outdoor areas were in a pretty rough shape after 60 years, and the publicly owned business that owned the entire neighbourhood was desperate to sell it off to private developers, as they simply couldn't afford to maintain it any more. It was razed a few years after I moved out, and it's been replaced with privately owned luxury apartments.
Are Autopilot and FSD not the same thing?
My god you've given me hope again
Base 8 is ideal. Easy to count: multiplication table is almost half that of decimal, numbers have just a bit more digits than devimal, very easy to convert to binary.

And we can count using fingers! Just discard thumbs! They are not standard anyway.
You know their kids can just move to a big city again right?
Or you could just ignore social norms? Nowadays, every pub/bar has alcohol-free beers or cocktails.
Speculator, investor ... I don't want to pass judgement

QED
Your comment is indicative that you don't understand how healthy democratic societies should work. What you're describing is a third world paradigm. Where you're "lucky enough" to be born into a "good" family or go to a "good" college or live in a "desirable" neighborhood and on and on and on.
That's why I added the "in theory" caveat : )

I still think a shift would matter. There is some evidence for this in the UK because homeowners generally vote Conservative, but people are becoming homeowners later in life and less often. So the Conservatives are running around terrified that they're going to lose voters in the long term.

They have introduced quite a few inflationary policies subsidising the first purchases young fairly wealthy people.

I think also the way they have pivoted more recently to focus on the "culture wars" and (English) nationalism is a way to encourage older renters to vote for them.
I think there is quite a difference between minimalism and simplicity which is often confused (also by designers themselves).

Simplicity done right is really about focusing on the core idea and removing anything not related to that. This can feel like a “minimalist aesthetic” which others attempt to copy but is actually something completely different.
I'm always wary of claims like this as there's so much snake oil targeted at audiophiles that I can never tell if the product offers a genuine improvement or if it's an expensive placebo. Would you be able to tell the difference between this and e.g. an iPhone DAC in a blind test?
M3 Pro, the successor to M3K, has 3X power but no Rockbox support: https://fiio.com/m3_pro
Accusations of high level corruption will see you bankrupted by libel lawsuits.

It's entirely possible that the ruling elite have nothing to hide but they hardly act like it.
No no no... if you own a home you have a pension/rent for the time before your death... this is your stored money for those, who will take care for you before you die... before pension plans and insurance companies and financial markets existed, your home ownership was your "pension plan"...