skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are some diminishing returns and you need multiple components to line up. I have decent (€250 or so) headphones, the M3K and high quality MP3s and then I definitely hear a world of difference compared to e.g. stock iPhone buds on an old iPhone with 128k MP3s. But I doubt that I would notice a difference with still more expensive headphones, FLACs and a more expensive device.

On the setup I have 128k/transcoded MP3 also definitely has less interesting detail than higher quality files.
This is so hard to define. On the one hand, hacker news is covered in small-font text, dense with information. On the other hand, there's nothing else on the page.

Is that minimal, or info-abundant?
Thank you. This is exactly the sort of information I'm looking for right now. Trying to educate myself about how the process works from a big picture perspective.
Original sellers are makers. They create and sell at reasonable price. Speculators only buy to sell at higher price, thus their only reason to exist is to be the one between people who value something more than it's previous price and those selling at previous price. And they want to buy at lower price before other people can buy at that lower price. They don't contribute anything. They just insert themselves and sell not at reasonable price, but at max price than can be paid.
I’m not quite certain if I’m spreading incorrect information as it’s been a long time since I’ve looked at the subject. I thought for a given bitrate AAC produced measurably better results than MP3. I wonder does the iOS Bluetooth audio stack transcode existing AAC audio to a lower bitrate or does it pass it through?

You are right though, iOS devices don’t support anything other than AAC or SBC over Bluetooth. MacOS devices do seem to additionally support AptX, but none of the low latency or lossless variants.

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Apple planned to roll their own AAC lossless codec given the movement of Spotify to lossless streaming, leaving Apple with no high tier offering.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should run something that old. I would not want to run a 21 year old native application written in C or C++ from a different era of security consciousness on any modern machine. Certainly not anything connected to the internet--remember that was the hey-day of massive worms that crippled entire networks of machines. If the source hasn't been touched in decades, treat it like an antique and keep it in a museum of a virtual machine.
Not the world, the U.S. And it's a fairly accurate assesment.
Richard Rhodes "the making of the atomic bomb"
I wish there were apps like PSPad and Notepad++ on MacOS. I really did not like any editor I used on this OS. Same with MS paint and the windows calculator.
> Everyone here loves crypto (and have some) and loves startups

I rest my case:

> I won't mince my words. People hate cryptocurrencies here because they are shit, the technology is shit. The only reason anyone buys Bitcoin is as you said, because they want to become part of the pyramid scheme.

With that said, show me another payment rail-system that can do what LN does and I can settle and pay for things in real time instantly and for no cost at any time, on any day and I'll be open to agreeing with your point.

Except I already know you can't, and what many of you think is 'vaporware' actually works; just check out a DJ set in front of the San Francisco Mint that used Bitcoin to pay the DJ and the music producers in real time in with a 10%-90% split. And amyriad of other services mentioned in that substack.

Just because YOU don't use it, and have no use for it doesn't mean it's 'shit' it just means you can't or don't have any usecases for it and nothing more.

[0]: https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/streaming-sats-why-bitc...
No chance. All trends are pointing the opposite direction.
I will give this a try.

Can someone please tell me why does the reddit search engine default to searching globally? 99 out of 100 searches I make I am on a subreddit, want to search the subreddit, enter my search term and the first thing it does is search globally. I have to click the link r/subreddit to make it search locally.

Most times the API doesn't even have time to return the results before I click the link and make it do another request to search locally. Isn't that wasteful?

I am of course talking about the new UI.
You can move out whenever you like and own the house: just rent it to someone and move.
I don't time myself when I run because I just enjoy running.
Amazing! I love it! So clean
What's astonishing is how drastically different cities in different countries look like.

Take Paris or Berlin with their 5-8 floor buildings as far as the eye can see. That's a moderate density for a modern city, leaves space for green spaces, infrastructure and is so dense that everybody can sort-of affort it while not so dense that everybody is just anonomous. You can still know all neighbors in your building by name. (That there is a problem with exploding rents is a separate issue.)

As contrast, take the average north american city with a million residents. most either live in a detached house or in a 30+ floor skyscraper. Of course the detached houses rather close to a city center won't have much space around them, so you hav 1.5 bushes and then there is the fence and next house. The lots are worth millions and out of reach for most unless the go super deep into debt and have a lot of luck. Or you live in an anonymous skyscraper silo. There is an alternative to all this, but all that's happening is that excuses are ruminated back and forth.
LibreJS is probably what you're looking for.
Please change title to reflect that this is not about "specifications" in the more common usage and is about formal methods.
"The general rule – IP ownership

The general position under English law is that IP rights created by an employee within the course of employment automatically belong to the employer; where there is any doubt as to whether an employee or their employer owns IP rights, the relevant legislation largely favours employers."

It's been that way for decades, while the UK was in EU.

I had to get it written into an employment contract that Open Source activity outside of work was my own.
He's "selling" a certain attitude and world view where hard work and sacrifice ultimately bring happiness. It sells well, because people love to listen to success stories and love to get temporarily enthusiastic, imagining them doing the hard work and sacrifice as well.
Fair enough. I didn't realise China were such a big market for them. Thanks!
In the info tsunami conditions we live in, what news orgs think or push constantly get diluted by literally thousand other sources every second. They have great faith in their ability to capture the attention of the herd, but since everyone else is great at it too, there is no great value to it.

Therefore it doesn't matter what the NYT does in terms of critique, what they think or what they want people to think. Or who they take cash from. Be it Facebook or anyone or anything else.

Thats what the AP study reinforces for me. The NYT and its critics and fan clubs overestimate greatly the value of the NYT or any other mainstream news org in the current info tsunami environment.

The only contribution or "value" left for news orgs in an info tsunami, is surfacing new data through their networks and that the AP study calls facts. This is what google search bots do when they scour the network. Beyond that news orgs play no role, but they haven't realized that yet. And that wastes everyones time.

They would be much more useful to society if they acted more like search engines or gathering points for info exchange on the network and shed all the other baggage.
so I'm guessing that syncthing (with you running your own repeater/server node), doesn't meet your requirement. why not?

(for me it's the lack of one way sync, ignoring deletes, and no partial directory sync)
Yes exactly. Hence the quotes around the infinitely.

Your chances of starting out with more entropy in a 800 char passphrase is likely to be larger than what you are likely to have when starting with a 36 char passphrase.

If you hash a 36 char passphrase then you retain most of the entropy of that 36 chars. No more no less. If you hash a 800 char passphrase then you maintain most of the entropy of that in the resulting 36 chars. Which is likely to be more.
They don't want you to use their mobile website, I don't remember any site being more hostile and anti user friendly even after saying 100 times I'm OK using browser, not an app.
> 150k% ... would only be 47k%

So in other words, they only got a 3x return on their bitcoin investment.
But that’s not what Sammi described as “support” upthread: “support "infinitely" long passwords without any significant loss of entropy.”¹. That description – i.e. “without loss of entropy” – is what I took issue with, due to the pigeonhole principle.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866624
I was average in a lot of things at school, well until I was mid- late teens when I finally got into a more focused school (focused as in relevant to my interests), but even then it wasn't anything super grand.

But I have a knack for software development and during college managed to outdo anyone else I've went to school with. I mean in the grand scheme of things I'm still middling at best, I won't get into a FAANG because one I don't want to relocate, and two I don't have the leetcode skills or go-getter extrovert personality required, but I know I am better at what I do than the vast masses of mediocre developers that only sorta get by.

Anyway, I'm 35 now, pretty comfortable all things considered. Might make a jump and go back to consultancy or go self-employed, might get lucky and grow into more of a managerial role (although full on management is not my ambition, that takes personal skills and at best I can fake / approximate those, lol).
I grew up DJing records by Dave Clarke, Josh Wink, Green Velvet and such like, so this is right up my street.
You can go to the museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - they tell the story in painful detail.
In the UK at least, the process to increase the housing supply is horribly broken. Given a choice between a) a brownfield site near to an existing town, or b) hundreds of acres of fields in a lovely piece of countryside, planners seem to choose option B every time.

It's no wonder their plans get objected to all the time.
> Your kids all else equal will be outsprinted by kids who live in more competitive cities

That’s absolute horse shit.

And whilst I don’t have any evidence to sprout, I think that those from more diverse and unusual backgrounds are better adapted for modern life. Growing up in a ‘competitive’ city is a licence for blandness (opinions mine)
It looks like 0 or 1 drink a day is basically the same from a health perspective. Our bodies are designed to filter out unwanted foreign substances and will work well if we don't overload it.
This doesn’t stream though does it? It just records locally then uploads later from what I can tell. Ideally you’d do both. A high quality recording that gets uploaded, and a stream (of whatever quality can be managed) that will survive the phone being switched off or destroyed part way through.
>The article lays out that Germany - a market where property isn't speculated on

Excuse me?! Has the author actually done any research into the real estate markets of the big German cities or is he just making this stuff up?

Germany is not safe from real-estate speculation, I can guarantee you that, otherwise 80sqm flats in Munich wouldn't have reached 1.1 Million Euros[1].

[1]https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/immobilien-wohnen/immobilie...
ISA² [0] (Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens) uses various ontologies, like Core Vocabularies [1].

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/solutions_en

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/solutions/core-vocabularies_en

(but maybe you meant this question in a more general sense, not specific examples)
Technically this is a rather new concept, since in feudalism peasants would not own the land they worked and lived in.
When dealing with relatively low probabilities (<0.5%), I prefer the percentage points as they give better context. That context being the overall risk to my life or health on an intuitive human level. For example, one medication I take “doubles my risk of some cancer” (over some ill defined period). That sounds terrible until you take the percentage points and realize it’s still less than a rounding error (or risk from driving in the USA) and therefore its easier to decide if the benefits outweigh the “doubled risk of xyz cancer”. From a policy decision perspective or for larger risks (>0.5%) the normal risk may be better.
So true. I'm with a Tier 1 for many years, and exotic cars are meh.

I would prefer to see items like advancement in tyre technology, or improvements in passenger safety, or reduction in energy consumption.
The third half doesn't feel beauty in knots and just buy shoes that don't rely on that.

I think it's the same process as button shirts. This is a whole culture and social marker, but ultimately you can live your life without wearing them more than once a year.
A question: I tried poking around with `tc` (qdisc) a while back to limit speed and emulate latency, and I found the implementation seemed to simulate delay by waiting a bunch of time then dumping all the data at once, for example if I asked for 5s of latency I'd be sitting at 0 bytes/sec for 5 seconds then it'd be like INCOMING and I'd get a giant pile of data all at once.

I do absolutely have horrendously little networking experience :) so I was probably fiddling with the knobs wrong (and fiddling with wrong expectations from the mechanics), but I didn't see any tunables for ramp-up et al.

For a while I've been idly curious how to iterate on applications that need to respond favorably to everything from 10Gbps and "what latency?" to flaky 3.5G with "give up" latency and worse jitter. At the end of the day I know I need real networks to play with, but I've been curious what software will get me the closest approximation in terms of microsecond-to-microsecond network behavior.

TBH this question is me being somewhat lazy :) - I'm not yet ready to start working on the above ideas, so I'm yet to actually sit down and do some basic prerequisite research... but I thought I'd jump on the opportunity to ask while I could.
Yep, pushshift indexes all reddit comments as they come in. Unless you delete your comment fairly quickly, it'll be stored forever.
For me, ST is still the only editor in the world that works with really, really large files.
And amazon, and google, and huawei
min(max_time, const_reasonable_max) is also a good graph if your software supports it. It stops the outliers from polluting the view. After all, your user will leave/refresh after a few seconds, so only matters your response took longer than a minute - it's irrelevant it was 20minutes.
It depends by what you mean. Do you mean Command line accessible version? If so, there are several that work in terminals. Do you mean text only? If so, there are several browsers that can do this for you :-)
Related read: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/06/09/what-journalists-s...

(from other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867366)

As always, it's quite more a complex factor of several events than a simple story line.
Grew up in a village. It's nice if you are a 10 year old boy. When you're a grown man you want to be surrounded by degenerates and atheists.
Depending on what systems do, it adds up fast.

A few phones, a computer or two, TV, a few wifi speakers and a miscellaneous light or temperature monitor. It’s not hard to exceed 10.
In Australia we have "stamp duty" as part of the cost of sell-buy, when you add on agents commission etc it can easily cost over 10% in fees and charges to move next door. Or more to the point, closer to work or aging parents etc.

With capital city houses easy running into 1-2 mill, that's a lot of money and is very retrograde and an impact to productivity due to longer commutes etc.

This is one of the key limiting factors to mobility caused by ownership.

Add in the family home is exempt capital gains taxes, the whole market is out of whack.
Not the person you asked but for me, the discussion of Edge computing often misses if there are actually enough benefits. Slow response times are nearly always because the application is slow, not because the server is 100ms away instead of 5ms. Saving 100ms (or less for most probably) by deploying logic at the edge introduces much more complexity than shaving that time off through optimization would. Take this page as an example. I get response times of ~270ms (Europe to US-West I presume) and it still loads instantly. On the other hand I have enough systems at my office where I'm <1ms away from the application server and still wait forever for stuff to load.

I don't say that you don't need edge computing. But it'll always be more complex to run compared to a centralized system (plus vendor lock-in) and performance isn't a valid reason.
> Ironically, people hated ____ and now we're ____.

All that's changed is your own vague impression of what the current most popular opinion is.
Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, XP, etc. There wasn't a cohesive design language it was just referred by the OS name. You had garish colorschemes (remember hot dog stand?... yeah) and lots of silly things. Win32 programming back then was barely one step above pushing pixels on a canvas and it showed. VB and OLE, then COM started to standardize prebuilt components like dialogs and such that could be shared and used between apps but it was still a wild west of design. Into the 90s it got worse as Windows 98 gave more control over rendering to apps and we had things like Winamp skins that looked like a modern stereo, or a (thankfully) brief period where non-square windows with ovals, curves, and all kinds of junk were in vogue (track down an old copy of Bryce 3D if you want to see something really wild). It's an era of computing that's probably best left forgotten. :)
My trick is this: Learn the classical Unix tools such as grep, sed, GNU Coreutils, etc. And also newer ones like csvkit.
And I still wish there was a text editor like BBEdit on Windows...
> My solution to this would be, at 501 karma, a user gets 5 downvotes per 24-hour period, use them or lose them.

That's straying too close to the Slashdot voting system for my liking.
> They also generally took a fraction of the resources of an entire city for 2-8 centuries to build.

I think this is an interesting point. The cathedrals were built to last, which lessened the cost of all the art. Today things are built not to last, but to be consumed, and therefore it makes sense to omit expensive (and opinionated) design.

I wish open source would lead this way. Instead of emulating the commercial companies and trying to change graphics every couple years into minimalism, cumulatively build up more intricate (and visually interesting) design. It looked like this will happen by late 90s (with all the different graphic themes and such) but then it took a turn.
If you know that the surfaces in your data should be flat and the corners sharp, it may be possible to filter out the fly pixels pretty well in a post-processing step. Of course, if you can't make these assumptions, then the problem is ill-posed at post-processing time.

Presumably my cursory experience with this from half a decade ago is not news to you if you have professional interest in the topic, but maybe you can elaborate how this is not a feasible solution in your case?
https://archive.is/iyTVR
1. Prepare agenda - write in points what topics are going to be at the meeting.

2. Set time frame - meeting longer than hour is counterproductive.

3. Invite proper people - include those who are actually needed (don't invite anyone "just in case").

4. Moderate!!! - have someone who will moderate meeting, will be in charge of presenting queued topics (asking questions and asking for answers) and will cut extending off-topics.

5. Write summary - sum up everything was said during meeting and send to everyone who was participating.
These are pretty vague and generic statements. None of those firms just arrived on the scenes. They all have long track records of delivering real value for their investors. By and large, the big pension funds aren't silly. They understand incentives aren't perfectly aligned. It doesn't mean people can't behave well and manage them.
Really interesting...and big list...quite ambitious. You should get to work! :)

If you are interested in the cooperation vs confrontation tradeoff maybe check out Robert Axelrods games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
Real British Passport
Create Float labels with few lines of CSS only
What is the “more common usage” of the word “specifications”, for example?
It seems more of a reddit but with the "new layout".
>Truly serverless

>The beauty of this is that a lot of the configuration stuff goes away magically. The competitive advantage of most startups is to deliver business value through business logic, not capacity planning and capacity management!

Is this exactly what cloudflare's workers is doing? [0]

I love the fact that I only need to think of the business logic.

Development without the need for VMs and obscure configuration scripts feels — and is in fact very productive. I don't think I will want to use anything else for hosting my back ends.

[0]:https://workers.cloudflare.com/
Icons are an interesting use case; I think they are made to be scalable and recognizable from a 16x16px favicon, regular sized website logo, various sized app icons, and massive billboard sized.

I mean I've got a DHL track&trace tab open and its icon looks like a red line in a yellow square, so they haven't designed a recognizable new logo yet for that use case. HN / YC's icon is much better in that regard. Github is also open and that too is quite recognizable.
It feels weird reading "from the WipeOut 3 soundtrack" in your post, as if Sasha is some largely unknown artist or that Xpander is a hidden B-side.

I'd be surprised if there is a single person from the 90s/00s era who listened to electronic music who didn't know of Sasha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations...
Oh ok, that makes much more sense.
The averages are weighted equally even though your traffic pattern may not be.
But... the comment isn't about where the food comes from or who would suffer from a supply chain collapse, it's about efficiency. I think the point was that cities are efficient because gestures vaguely towards economies of scale. It's easier to distribute goods (or services) to a highly-concentrated mass of people than to multiple disjoint locations.
I read this as the "specifications" in "requirements and specifications" for e.g. software projects. For example, "there should be a button that pulls in new data when clicked". That's generally pretty different from formal/mathematical specifications.
Even non iot kitchen tech is ridiculous. I tried to buy an oven with as few features as possible. I foolishly assumed that two knobs meant “mode” and “temp”. Nope. It has loads of features which you access by clicking and holding and twiddling one while opposite twiddling the other. Smeg.
This is an interesting question.

I've seen 1:1 copy of prod databases running in test environments. Very convenient from a dev perspective but a no-go for many customers.

I've also seen test envs using fixtures only. More privacy-compliant, but it makes it harder for in-depth testing or to uncover weird edge cases.
Nothing that the parent comment said implied that acid is a new genre. They were saying it's very popular now, which is true.