skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most awful are cds having only 16 bits and 41kHz sample rate, by modern standards really poor."

44.1kHz is all that one needs for -perfect fidelity-, given that humans cannot hear higher than ~20kHz. See: Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem. [0] 16 bits of quantization gives a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of 96dB, and noise dithering increases that [1]. More bits are not necessary unless one is doing music production with that audio and warrants the extra headroom, before mixing back to 44.1kHz/16bit for distribution. [1]

The only thing that higher bits/sampling rates do for a listener is waste CD and drive space, so it is odd to lament 44.1kHz/16bit as being "really poor". Even if your speaker setup can actually output extremely high frequencies, only your dog will be able to hear it...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181109203430/https://people.xi...
One failure per 3.8M hours would be once per 433 CPU-years, so they probably actually do have somewhere between 10-100x that failure rate for their CPUs given that expected CPU lifetime is probably around 20-30 years. Even using a much more reasonable 2 hours per flight that is still ~45 CPU-years so still within the likely range of expected CPU errors. Also that is a comparison against a system so dangerous that it is unfit for use instead of the actual standard which is once per 50,000,000 flights or ~250x better.

Even ignoring that, I am discussing the uptime of a system using AWS which only guarantees 99.99% uptime for AWS service in any given AWS region and only a 10% refund (which is less than their profit margin) as long as they keep your system up more than 99% of the time. Downtime for a system due to AWS downtime in a region constitutes a critical failure of AWS to deliver expected service. That their lack of service does not result in deaths unlike an airplane is immaterial to a reliability analysis, it only tells us if their critical failures matter and what level of reliability we should require/demand when making reliability-cost tradeoffs. In other words, the probability and costs of failure are not actually related. It is just that costly failures result in more effort being spent on developing mitigations. In the case of airplanes, critical failure in the form of a crash is very costly, so they take great pains to minimize the whole-system risk of that failure mode.
https://dfpi.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/337/2021/04/CFP...
Plainly false. A PS4 is a much better media PC than a Roku given that it's so much faster.

The Chromecast UI, ie your phone, has a far better interface. I'm never required to hunt and peck a password or search term.

On top of that neither my PS4 nor Chromecast injects ads.

I have never used a worse piece of smart TV software than a Roku so I'd be keen to know what you're comparing it to when you call it industry leading.
or you could just use flexbox to do the exact same thing and have a superset of that extremely broad support, including ie11 without having to rely on any kind of magic.

https://caniuse.com/flexbox

I do use grid when I need it, but I don't see the point of using grid in places where flexbox will do. Granted this is on the verge of not mattering at all anymore, but I just don't see the point in using something less compatible when you don't have to.
I mostly draw data flows. Draw a bunch of boxes representing different services and sometimes different components, and labeled arrows describing where events/data flows.

When that's not sufficient, usually a sequence diagram adds a whole ton of clarity

For reviews with new people, a limited ERD is handy, mostly to show where the 1:n or n:n relationships are

I somewhat frequently write truth tables to get a good breakdown of different usecases

I use web sequence diagrams for my sequence diagrams, but mostly everything else I'm drawing by hand in paint 3d with the surface's nice pen drawing
> But as far as I know, isn't this less stringent than typical student loans, which can't be discharged in bankruptcy?

That's the point, I believe. Lambda School was pretending their loans were protected from bankruptcy proceedings so students wouldn't consider it.

It's somewhat common for corporations to pretend that laws don't exist. Even if only half of the customers believe them and don't sue, they'll save money.
> It's a contingency you were prepared to handle.

Which is a better way to phrase it:

A contingency you were prepared to handle is not a problem.

After all, a billionaire can still get lost at sea and die.
For the next 10 years
I don't agree with the authors use of masala as a cultural appropriation. Using 'masala diagrams' to derogatorily describe software modeling is totally unnecessary. Why not simply call them blended diagrams or milkshake diagrams or literally anything else that describes a combination of stuff. Picking masala is totally out of context and isn't productive in the year 2021, lets not associate race with opinion.
> This is correlation and not causation.

Is it correlation when studies show that women and minorities are likely to underestimate their worth? The linked section of this article [1] indicates that women and minority are actively asking for less. I don't buy that this is primarily due to women or minorities being inherently less naturally able to negotiate, but rather societal expectations that women should earn less.

By posting an average salary, this can hopefully decrease this gap by allowing employees to avoid voluntarily short-changing themselves by asking for less. Standardizing pay ranges can absolutely prevent disadvantaged groups, as it prevents them from asking for what amounts to somewhere around 8-10% less than their white male counterparts.

> Having been on both sides of the table many times in negotiating compensation, I have never felt that "this candidate is too aggressive or no longer likeable because they are negotiating" was a factor.

The meta-analysis I linked [2] indicates that aggressive behaviors negatively impact women from both a likeability and hireability standpoint, with the effect size on hireability showing a solid relationship. I fully believe that you haven't perceived a woman as being less hireable or likable, but the evidence indicates that as a whole this type of behavior is perceived more negatively in women.

I would agree that so far, my personal experiences wouldn't lead me to feel that women are disadvantaged by this process. But, based on personal experience, I also wouldn't have assumed that women are seen as less likable if they exhibit more dominant behaviors (as that isn't something that I personally feel). But there is evidence that some behaviors can be perceived differently by gender. I can't ignore this even if it's not something that I've personally experienced.

[1] https://hired.com/h/wage-inequality-report/#impact-expectati...

[2] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-56707-001
Two companies I've worked in/with used to fly folks from distributed teams to meet for a few days and brainstorm. They found the process of shared white boarding to be worth it.

Necessity inspired our team to create https://sharetheboard.com - since then we've found BOTH a drop in such cases (fly to whiteboard) AND an increase in shared (remote) white boarding. That said, I don't believe business travel will ever go away - it's built into the process, as long as humans are running the place.
State governments re-draw the lines. Sometimes they try to preserve existing districts and existing constituents for existing congresspeople, and sometimes they intentionally obliterate them (based on where the congressperson's house is). Precisely how they do so varies by state.
There are two solar installs going in my county just north of me. One is 5000 acres and one is 3500 acres. If I buy a 10kW system for my house I could increase the number of systems by 50%!
Hi, I've spent the past 3 years full time building an open source e-commerce framework (https://vendure.io)

From my experience, I can most certainly recommend against rolling your own unless you have a few hundred spare hours

Based on your expected volume I think something like Shopify makes sense and probably does most of what you need, if you can manage to get a frontend working to your requirenents. However, if you want to try out some new tech (graphql, some interesting FE framework of your choice) then you might want to take a look at Vendure. It can be set up in 5 minutes with a single command.
Therapists are in extremely short supply right now. I recently got a wait-list for four months where I live.

The intervening period of time reminds me that I'm supposed to be in therapy, that I might need therapy, but am instead unable to see anyone. That makes my day-to-day life feel wrong, moreso than if I had never considered it as an option.
The one I really don't like is "Always say less than necessary."

I've never seen any good come from withholding necessary information.
Do they sell chromecasts with dedicated remote controllers?
It's in the same price bucket. If in your opinion is not a premium sedan, it's all more impressive.
100m a year, 0 roi expense gone. Also no more shared rides due to COVID (which I expect will never come back to Uber or Lyft since they were gigantic money sinks). Assuming ridership is bouncing back from COVID I wouldn't be surprised if their first profitable quarter was this year.
> exists to only save a few keystrokes.

It does that, but it also makes your code read more like natural language. Perhaps I was careless in my wording, as I meant to point to manual, explicit configuration rather than fluent syntax per se.

As to your bullet points: I can see where you're coming from. I still think it's better than the invisible side effects and invisible method calls you get with annotations.

> What languages need is to bring back the "With" syntax that JavaScript and VB used to have

As far as I know, With... End With is a weird cross between "using" in C# and object initialisers. How does that help prevent mutations? One of the code examples (0) even explicitly mentions:

With theCustomer
.Name = "Coho Vineyard"
.URL = "http://www.cohovineyard.com/"
.City = "Redmond"
End With

I honestly don't see the big difference with either:

var customer = new Customer {
Name = "Coho Vineyard",
URL = "http://www.cohovineyard.com/",
City = "Redmond"
};

or:

var customer = Customer
.Name("Coho Vineyard")
.URL("http://www.cohovineyard.com/")
.City("Redmond")
.Build();

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...
> It's very odd to jump directly to writing detailed policy on a first judgment

It is not at all unusual for preliminary injunctions, when they are issued at all, to include specific mandated interim actions to prevent or interrupt ongoing harm. That’s, in fact, the whole reason preliminary injunctions exist.
From very brief observation a year ago, it seemed like Lombard Street [1] was 90% self-driving-car training. Definitely a very special case that just disproves the quote from Lyft's president.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/oXrvVYhDXWVxaoQC8
The next thing will be electron microscope scans of of the instruments the artists used.
I'm joking. I really want well digitized vinyl
That's one person rather than everyone who's working in the industry though, much cheaper
We're used to growth in orders of magnitude in the tech industry, but keep in mind that in the end, this is an automobile company, whose business has side benefits in battery tech. Automotive is a stagnating (and at times shrinking) industry with relatively low margins, again unlike tech. Opportunities for overall growth are rare, as market saturation is quite high. In that environment, a steady 20%+ growth is respectable, to put it very lightly.

Share price is a whole other discussion, of course.
They also have a partnership with Waymo to provide autonomous rides. Ultimately, I think Lyft, Uber and the likes will just become a provider/maintainer of robotaxi rides, while the actual tech will be done by Waymo et al.
That’s great. I’d prefer to use watch unlocking.

Also, these are not “extreme” or “dire” or even uncommon conditions - most of Northern Europe, Canada, and the north-eastern USA experience several months of such conditions every year.
However, he did not managed to endanger KKK power one bit.

And way more people who socialize in KKK circles end up naturally moving toward racism and extremes of it. They change toward racism, because that is what choose to hear most of time.

It so happens that these are quite aggressive when voice disagreements with them, so socialising with the requires you to pretend you agree, at least on the edges. It works like any other bubble overtime, the anti-racists become crazy ennemies.
“Deceptive practices” is a commonly used legal term in consumer protection. It’s often used in conjunction with “unfair business practices” or “unfair and deceptive practices” depending on the state and what has been alleged.
This headline feels overly clickbait:

> The settlement is the result of a DFPI investigation that found that Lambda was engaged in conduct that violated the new law.

So a new law was created, that Lambda was in violation of, and agreed to update their materials to comply with the new law?

This is kind of implying that Lambda was previously breaking the law, which doesn't really seem to be the case?

As well, Lambda stating that ISA's are not dischargable in bankrupcy when they actually are is probably the least shady "deceptive" marketing practice I've heard of from bootcamps and code-schools.
If you agree that it's an important detail, how is misrepresenting their status in the contract, and thus misleading people about their rights, not deceptive?
Commits don’t have to be in date order. The date (technically dates, plural) is an attribute of the commit.

Try it yourself by committing and then rebasing the commits into a different order. Or directly edit the metadata by specifying explicit values for the commit and author time stamps.
any source for your claim ?
Yes, this would impact the next election cycle, occurring in 2022, and the effects would first be seen in the congress sworn in in January of 2023.

The states with changes in seats are responsible for the redistricting. What this means in practice is that in a state losing one seat, one district will disappear and the map gets redrawn. Then you'll typically have a primary or a general election where both candidates are incumbents. If both incumbents are in the same party, they'll face off in the primary for that party, if they're in different parties they'll face off in the general election. Alternatively, one incumbent may choose to retire.
And I get miserable at dinner parties.

What I want is a platform where I can randomly chat with people who have common interests. Think Omegle, but without 95% of the userbase being teenage boys who, for some reason, think it's a good way to meet women and get laid.

Think of hallways conversations at conferences. I like conferences -- including well-run virtual ones -- and I'd like to be able to drop in on them anytime.

I like my coworkers, including former ones. Think of the watercooler at work.

When I want to chill, I sign on, and I get connected to a random someone, but a random someone who has something interesting to talk about.

I wouldn't even mind being able to designate a few people I want to hook up with, in the intellectual sense. If we happen to sign on around the same time, we'll chat.

I'd build it, but I'm busy.
This [1] is not something I use but something that's been on my radar for a while and I would like to investigate:

"IFML provides ... tools for the definition of Interaction Flow Models that describe the principal dimensions of an application front-end."

Just a few days ago there was a thread about the death of UML... like anything from omg.org, I suspect there's a useful subset to carve out that could be useful to model applications.

1: https://www.omg.org/spec/IFML/1.0/PDF
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The pandemic was and is horrible, but it didn't take enough lives above the expected death rate to really have an appreciable impact on census data. (I am not a COVID denialist, we had more deaths than expected rates, it is worse than the flu etc. etc.)

Unless you are talking about out-migration from big cities to small cities, but then again I think it could be just as illogical to say "lets base it off of immediate post-pandemic numbers" as I would best a good many people will move _back_ to the big cities.

That is the risk of a point-in-time count. So many external factors. But generally they all cancel one another out, and each point-in-time count has similar but unique circumstances that in the aggregate could have an impact. Just the way these counts are.
So this just creates an incentive to push as many kids through school as possible and to take out the biggest loans, right?

Shouldn't there be a metric built in that says something like "the quality of education didn't meet the expectations of the loan, so the loan can be discharged"?

Where's the warranty for the lender?
Yeah basically the S20 used their new ultrasonic sensor for the first time and it was meant to be the greatest thing ever, except that it was pretty small and slow so it wasn't great. S21 uses the same technology for recognition accuracy, but makes it bigger and faster.
Asking rents in San Francisco continue to slip, but…
For the car and battery engineering experience and factories I guess. But I guess Apple can outsource to a car assembler like Magna or Foxconn instead.
It seems inconceivable that they wouldn’t have made a PR announcement about a large investment in the US, regardless.
The new chromecast is pretty good and $50, and until very recently the ATV was pretty out of date and overpriced. The chromecast stutters sometimes in the main screen, but actually playing videos is just fine.

You can also side load unofficial youtube apps, which are much better than the actual youtube app on the chromecast.

The LG OLED tv os was missing some services, like HBO, but it stutters less.

The only thing missing from all of these devices is a backlit remote. I don't know why they're against the concept.
I'd be willing to defend Apple's 30% cut if any of it was justified. Instead, my experience working in the walled garden has been gruelling. Xcode is a pathetic disaster at this point, but Apple seems to be unwilling to extend any functionality to the editors I actually use. Getting an app through the guidelines is an exercise in arbitrary debasement. Their phone support is useless too, with most of them directing me to forum posts that basically say "don't do whatever you're doing". I think Epic has every right to offer their lower commission, because their service downright sucks. I still plan to buy games from Steam for the foreseeable future, because their work on Proton is worth it to me.
Probably, I just happen to have owned the 16GB model that is now impractical for me, since iOS itself takes half of it. Replaced it for my daily carrying, but kept it around since it's so nice.
>a dude wearing a t-shirt with an upside down pentagram would be protected by the tree speech amendment, while a dude with a t-shirt saying that there are only two genders would be fired on the spot and blacklisted in all major organizations.

Probably because one of those two is a religious statement, while another one is a political statement. Which makes sense, given that religious affiliation is a protected group when it comes to employment, while political affiliation/speech typically isn't.
You're just reiterating the premise that higher-paid CEOs are more talented.

I'm saying I doubt that that's actually true. I think higher-paid CEOs bring something to the table, but it isn't talent. It's something more connected to an entrenched, corrupt system that has--incredibly--achieved buy-in from global capital markets. I suspect it has more to do with access, background, friends, networks, gumption, dedication, and luck. But not talent.

My point is that anyone could have those things. To the extent there is a true supply and demand aspect to this, it is mostly just simple luck.
The percentage is based on hardware invested or capital staked.

I don't think it should be. That is just lazily giving a pass to whales to dominate what is supposed to be decentralized. Totally counter to the spirit of cryptocurrency.
Does anyone here happen to know what happens if I get a movie from store X (Apple, Amazon Prime Video, etc) that works with Movies Anywhere, and so that movie shows up in my library at all other Movies Anywhere supported stores that I have accounts on, and then I do something that gets my account with store X banned?

I know I lose access on X, but how about on the other stores?

Also, how the heck does Movies Anywhere actually work? Say I buy a movie on iTunes, but then via Movies Anywhere watch it using the Fandango app on my TV.

Who pays for the bandwidth for that stream? Does Fandango just eat it, or behind the scenes does each company keep track of how much of their bandwidth was used for movies bought at each other company, and they periodically settle up for any imbalances?
One issue with increasing the number of representatives is that you make each individual member less powerful, and consequently centralize power in the parties (and the executive).
> Even more heartwrenching when you find out that the governor of California got to keep his own personal family winery open.

I realize the rampant hypocrisy of politicians and other elites isn't new or even surprising anymore but when the governor's non-essential business gets to stay open and the school his kids go to magically stays open for in-classroom learning, it's clear the "rules" were crafted with arbitrary loopholes for the convenience of elites while retail, food service and other lower-wage jobs were decimated and the vast majority of California's kids are still only receiving a couple hours a day of remote "Video Daycare" via Zoom that now passes for 'education' here.

California now has the lowest percentage of kids in-classrooms of any state in the country.
Has that ever happened?

It's worth noting that it's legal in all states but Montana to fire someone for absolutely no reason at all, meaning that in 49 states + DC all firing discrimination is effectively legal so long as it's obfuscated enough to stay out of court.

I see people asking for legal advice online re: being fired as soon as they come out as gay or refuse to attend the church suggested by their boss like once or twice a month. Often times the company has less than 15 employees so there's no violation even if it's spelled out.
I like how cancellation apologists excuse cancel culture by saying "oh its just people choosing not to associate with rude jerks."

If it were just that then who cares. No, the problem is that a small group of agitators whip a mob into a frenzy of targeted harassment at friends, family, and employers of the person being cancelled, a process that naturally gives no way for the target to defend themself or for the true facts of the situation to even be known. This is literal mob justice.
The states will draw new district maps based on the new census data for each state, as well as accounting for any seat gains or loses. The rules for drawing those maps differ from state to state.

In the states that lose a seat, it depends. Sometimes two current members will face off for the new district that most closely resembles their two prior districts. Sometimes one of the members will just decide to retire.
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>problems that wouldn't exist if education "professionals" would grow up
To be clear, one does not need an amendment to increase the size of the House.

Changing the size of the House can be done through normal legislation after a Census.