skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Established players have no incentive to fund the research and every incentive to keep the difficulty of curing illnesses at scale high to keep new players out.

There is no need for a global conspiracy. Just a little lobbying.
Is there any earphone-style device that could plausibly come close to providing enough fidelity to tell the difference between lossless and high-end lossy? I thought that only in rare and controversial cases could anyone tell the difference, and even then only using extremely high-end equipment.
It is very typical of Western WA residents to blame the East side for voting red. King, Pierce, and Snohomish had more votes for Culp than the entire east side of the state combined. The Cascades are a mountain range, not some magical political wall
Funny that the company which aggressively removed wired audio connectors from all its devices is now pushing lossless music which requires wired connectors..
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"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Pessimism Appears to Be the Intellectually Serious Position
I thought the KBA was an amendment to US statutory law, not an 'agreement' between nations? What are the other laws and agreements to which you're alluding to, but weren't referenced in the article?
This is a render, not a prototype, and the article reads like a press release with the word "bonkers" thrown in a few times.

Until they have a real working prototype this isn't that interesting. It seems like they're trying to drum up interest to get funding.
This is the second time I've seen this design posted here, but as far as I can tell, SE Aeronautics is not a real aerospace company, and this jet is pure vaporware. The address on their website is a wedding venue at Mathews Manor. (Probably-not-coincidentally, Tyler Mathews is SE Aeronautics CEO.)

Anyone can throw together a 3D rendering of a jet with extra wings and make all sorts of claims about its performance.
Another pollution of the search space.

Now when I am looking for flavour profiles I will get SEO nonsense.

Also true the other way around.
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Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 peta-eV from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources
According to [1] only 19 countries have military satellites. It's really difficult to hide a satellite launch but even if you assume the real number is twice that due to secrecy, that is very few countries and chances are none of them are particularly friendly with Hamas or Fatah.

Their useful not just for targeting but for tactics, strategy, and logistics. Even having access to freely available satellite imagery is a huge benefit to under-equipped armies and militias. Without them, effective warfare against a modern style military like Israel's, that depends on an independent command structure and rapid movement, is practically impossible without devolving into an insurgency. Hamas/Fatah likely have the resources to pay for a few commercial satellite shots using middlemen from sympathetic countries for up to date data for major offensives, but those shots often cost in the hundreds or thousands of dollars per sq mile. For day to day planning, even civilian imagery that updates once a year or two would be invaluable.

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-by-number-of-m...
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But how many billions of transactions are these networks handling? BTC is using vastly more power per transaction. What would be the power usage of BTC if it were scaled up to support an actual useful number of transactions?
How do you benefit from the recorded signal in bands humans are unable to hear?
Founder here (1). Here's a backstory: We launched the MVP two years ago with this HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116

Market demand was there but the product wasn't ready for the load yet.

Fast forward two years and now it's all "perfect". The product is now useful — even for people using goaccess or similar. The main reasons include:

1. Understanding of traction and how visitors behave before they convert. You can start optimizing the causes.

2. Faster A/B testing: Volument is an order of magnitude faster than the traditional A/B testing tools.

3. Privacy-friendly. Volument is on the same line with Fathom, Plausible, or Simple Analytics when it comes to privacy.

We've built a custom stack from scratch so this is not just another pretty face to Google Analytics data. We have full control and the door is open for pretty much anything.

The parent post links to a founding story and here's a direct link to the front page:

https://volument.com

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1: Bit of myself: I'm a long-term frontend developer: the original author of semi-popular projects like jQuery Tools (2011), Head JS (2013), and Riot JS (2014). I'm also a co-founder of two other successful startups: Flowplayer (flowplayer.com) and Muut (muut.com).
And even with such a budget: geostationary satellites over the poles are not possible[1] and really hard anywhere but over the equator, really.

So that means most of the south and north part of the earth cannot be covered with such a constellation; they would need to be orbiting satellites, which makes "real time" even harder, because it would require an enormously complex choreography to ensure there's at least one satellite covering each square meter, at all times.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/71582/is-it-poss...
I once had an old iPod with 128kbps MP3 copies of my FLAC library. I reencoded everything as 256kbps AAC audio (double the bitrate) and noticed the battery life went way up. Turns out those devices had better hardware decoding for AAC.
Yeah, your body adjusts to stimulus very quickly to minimize it.
Which stations? I've been reading how the MTA tried to eliminate extra floating staff to cover agent's "lunch" breaks, and they got shut down by the state. Even in the middle of the night, someone has to be there for 30 minutes while the normal agent takes their lunch break.

Obviously, it's relatively recent that we got 24/7 service back, but I'm not counting the COVID service reductions.
Ouch. There's a conflict between the scholarly impulse and the poetic one. T.S. Eliot famously observed that great poets were shameless about stealing. Probably they're equally shameless about omitting things.

I read the OP a year ago, as well as a Twitter thread that was sharply criticizing Barks for what the critic felt was dishonest distortion in the famous "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. / I will meet you there." The next morning, by coincidence, I was listening to an online talk by a Sufi teacher (not a newfangled sort - from one of the ancient orders predating Rumi). To illustrate the theme of his talk, what did he quote? "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. / I will meet you there." I figure if the Sufi masters themselves are quoting Barks, that's got to count for something.
I think the implication there is sort of operational, that flying in open water, when have an engine failure, flying with two engines likely presents more problems.

Not really my discipline. I don't know how long a twin engine plane is expected to be able to fly on one engine, or under what sort of envelope.
That test was amazing. You made me really excited and I even guessed the first one correctly by seemingly hearing the difference. So I spent minutes on each of the other questions, listening and listening, but I just couldn't hear it and sure enough I guessed wrong on every other question after that.

And I have a mid-range mini amp that fits in between my books, and two mid-range dali speakers hooked up with a regular 3.5mm outlet to my Ryzen MSI PC board, volume up to max on the computer but not on the amp.
Does the UN have any authority?
I think it may get popular for Java framework fans. Among themselves folks may bicker about J2EE, Spring or Quarkus, or Oracle Fusion, Microprofile and myriad others. But the core idea is that anyone using Java directly with some help of standard and third party libs is old fossil and should eliminated from project/company or even better from workforce entirely.

I think this language is another form of framework and unsurprisingly developed in Java for java users.
I do. These are obviously "prestige programs" (well really duplicating a pervious iteration of the US space program).

I'm curious why they wouldn't release data on day one, unless something went wrong and they are trying to save face.
Indeed. Probably Tesla made more cars last year than Ferrari in all its history.

Porsche is perhaps a better comparison.
I developed osTicket [0] - a popular ticketing system. I was an early Linux user so open source made sense. Accidentally turned into a real profitable business- with full time devs & support to maintain the project. We have a SaaS [1] offering and provide commercial support to enterprise users.

[0] https://osTicket.com

[1] https://SupportSystem.com
Up-to-date high resolution imagery is quite expensive. Most of Google maps imagery is generated from an older database of images. Businesses like Maxar (formerly Digital Globe) that provide Earth imagery will sell a database of old out-of-date imagery for much cheaper. But more recent imagery is much more expensive because it is much more valuable. These companies will often provide free images that are up to date to help with disaster and recovery efforts but that doesn't mean it has been put in to Google maps yet, a lot of it just still an old database of imagery.

In Summary:

- Old out-of-date imagery: $

- Newer up-to-date imagery that has been captured: $$$

- Tasking a spacecraft to request image of a specific area: $$$$
I thought the problem with multiple wings is that the first one pushes air downward (to induce lift), and then the proceeding wings get caught in the downdraft. Just looking up pictures of planes with multiple wings, it seems like it's common to put the first wing at the bottom of the fuselage and then the second wing at the top. The theory being that the second wing will be above the downdraft and able to provide lift.

Anyways it looks like this company is generally considered to be a scam so I don't think this is much more than a 3D render.
I zoomed into random areas like Chekka, Lebanon and Kumasi, Ghana. I hadn't heard of these places before today, but they looked big enough on Google Maps. Zooming in, the mosaics appeared as if they were shot years apart, with noticeably different resolutions. Could Gaza just be one such scan, rather than something sinister?

> "Considering the importance of current events, I see no reason why commercial imagery of this area should continue to be deliberately degraded,"

Yeah, no. That does not answer the question right before it. What's with these sinister edits?
Interesting hn link from those days: A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346175>
That seems like it'd probably decrease your quality of sleep, though. Sleep is somewhat of an active process; I don't think it's analogous to an idle CPU. (If it were, it seems unlikely evolution would've conserved that trait so widely.)
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Wow, that article about aerosol transmission gave me scary flashbacks to academia. :)

The reason there isn't more acknowledgment by the community comes down to a variant of survivorship bias. The people who have remained in academia are largely oblivious to the existence of this kind of treatment mainly because it is so effective.

Anyone on the receiving end of this kind of political assassination (or even just willful ignorance) doesn't survive in the academic community with a high probability.

Even if they do (as we can see from this article and the one it is about), there is no strong incentive to stand up for people who didn't survive it. Those people are no longer in academia and so are not immediately important to anyone still in the academic community.
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/neknjg/evolving_...

Just in case you are also asked to install the app as a content gate.
http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com/2012/05/485-volume-knob.ht...

"Dynamics are better and overall naturalness is improved. Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature knobs will have an even greater effect…really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear…way better sound!!"
I've never sailed in blue water, but I thought that modern weather and navigation infrastructure mean bad weather can be largely avoided. Either way fire on board is still something to be avoided.
> Postgres largely avoids this problem by using utf8 as the default pretty much everywhere

That's… not actually really relevant to the issue. And you can configure postgres to use a non-utf8 encoding as its default.

Postgres avoids the issue by automatically moving large value outside of the row itself ("TOAST" storage). That's also why you can have an unbounded vachar in postgres, and there's no real difference between varchar, varchar(n) and text. And char(n) is slower than the others: char(n) will always pad to (n), while varchar and text will only use whatever they need (+ some overhead).

TOAST works in terms of bytes, so your UTF8 might move to the next storage location earlier than if you'd use a fixed-size single-byte encoding. It just doesn't matter that much (it'll just be a bit slower) unless you actually reach the limit of TOAST storage itself (1GB per value).

And Postgres has its own issue with fixed-size storage e.g. identifiers (names of tables, columns, indexes, constraints, etc…) can't be more than 63 bytes, they'll be silently and implicitly truncated to that.
Miyazaki came up with this design first...(Howl's Moving Castle)
Andrew Gray. I've not spoken to him for a long time; I'm guessing his plans got put on hold by the pandemic.
It's a problem of perspective. The third wing starts right above the engine inlet.
This is pretty disconnected from reality.

> BSD-styled memory management causes frequent page faults and thrashes memory/swap

You're basically pulling this out of nowhere. Not once in six years of using MacOS has this ever happened to me.

> Quartz and other necessary kernel processes consume inordinate amounts of compute

Yes, because Windows is so much better. This is sarcasm. Just pull `services.msc` and take a look at everything that's running.

> MacPorts and Brew are both pretty miserable package managers compared to the industry standard options.

In your opinion, what is industry standard? `apt-get` and `yum`? I have yet to come across a better package manager than Brew. Brew just works. Additionally, most binaries that are installed in Brew don't require elevation. Which is fantastic because almost every program installation requires elevation in Windows.

> Macs have notoriously terrible hardware compatability

Hardware compatibility in what sense? As in, plug-and-play devices on a MacOS powered machine?

I'd argue the inverse; I often just plug in devices to my MacBook without having to install a single driver. Imagine my shock years ago when I plugged in a printer to my MacBook and I was able to immediately start printing without installing a single driver. Same with webcams, mice, etc.

Do you mean hardware compatibility in terms of build targets? I think here you might be correct, but even then you can compile for different operating systems from within MacOS... so again, I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.

I guess if you're talking about legacy devices where the hardware manufacturer hasn't bothered to create drivers for anything other than Windows, then your point might be valid, but how often does this happen...?

> Abstracting execution makes it harder to package software, harder to run it, and harder to debug it when something goes wrong

...more disingenuous statements. What do you mean by this? Under the hood, MacOS is Unix. Everything that runs on a MacOS machine is a process. You can attach to processes just as you would on a Windows machine. Similarly, if you have the debugging information for a binary you can inspect the running code as well.

MacOS is not a perfect operating system; for one, I do wish that it was better for game development. But I'm really struggling to understand your points here. Every single one is either not applicable or just straight up wrong.
If humanity sticks around, I think we (well, not us, but you know what I mean) will eventually see change toward more advanced, more efficient designs. But when you have an effective duopoly of massive incumbents selling aircraft with decades of R&D behind each individual product (and that's on top of the broader academic foundation of aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering they rely on) to an industry with razor-thin margins and zero appetite for risk, that change is going to be slow.

That said, making a habit of flying people and things across long distances seems kind of wasteful and inefficient, and if we do stick around I'd expect us to be making the kinds of decisions that would lead to us doing less of it. But I think we will have aircraft as long as we have industrialized society.
How do we the people fight these drug dog abuses? Politicians generally aren't interested in touching something like this. I'd love to put some money to work on the issue. Is there a foundation dedicated to suing police departments? Is that even a viable avenue to make a change?
We're up to five blades on a razor now. We can at least do three set of wings on planes. Maybe four. Let's think outside of the box.
Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc.

Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
This is an amazing start… that goes nowhere. The author says we can analyze the Plimsoll line and then doesn’t except for one case in Google based on personal experience. It would be very interesting to see an analysis of boards of directors, executive boards, etc. But I also see people’s points that it’s not much of a “line” in reality. Take Craig Federighi, Apple’s SW VP. It’s obviously a mix between “appointee” (knowing the right people) and “technocrat” (demonstrated skill working in software engineering). Same with government. Saying the “political class” is appointed based on “political affiliation” is not quite right. How do you distinguish Nancy Pelosi from the average California democrat? Political expertise and experience, which is technocratic acc. to the article. Even someone like Trump, there is a certain “skill” there in public manipulation and sheep-herding. I’d gladly read a more in-depth second take.
I wouldn't mind other countries paying us bribes (lobbying) if that money went to the taxpayer, but instead it goes to the politician that can brainwash us with that same money.

Side note, does anyone have any great works of political theory that talks about how to deal with bribery?
TV broadcasts are often still interlaced in some places
and he was nearly too early in "the big short" as well.

and buying puts integrates the timing directly into whether or not you're right. so if he's too early again, he'll be wrong.
It seems like the answer is actually yes, then? Seems like it would be expensive but that is no issue with this thought experiment. OP didn't require High-res or directly-overhead, some caveats you added which constrain the problem more. But either way, it totally seems possible.

Heck, put up 100,000 satellites and use the same kind of tech Apple/Google/MS use in their 3D views of cities (it, they do take airplane and satellite photos at various angles, and use software to stitch together the separate pieces).

Seems totally possible to meet OP's request given money not being an issue.
BT does allow you to get around a low-quality DAC on a phone though. If you have decent headphones and listen to music where fidelity really matters (classical, jazz), you can quite readily tell the difference between the wired headphone output on a low-end Android device and e.g. the same headphones plugged into a FiiO Bluetooth amp connected to the phone.
No because this feature is nothing more a feed that distributes a numeric value, it's not a financial instrument that you can trade. There are products that track the VIX that can be traded, but the price of those products deviated from the value published by the S&P.

Part of the complaint is that some people relied too much on this feed and got crushed thinking there was some arbitrage opportunity when there wasn't. Any remotely competent financial firm that trades off of the VIX calculates their own value for it.
Appears Jack Dorsey made another brilliantly timed bet on Tidal.
I don't follow this very closely, but hasn't Volkswagen already shown they're not that far behind, and aren't they already outselling Tesla in Europe? I've watched a lot of the ID4 reviews (since I'm in the US and we don't get the ID3), and the issues with the car seem very minor, and potentially fixable with OTA updates. If they end up selling a lot of them, that should take a lot of the wind out of Tesla's sails IMO.
> [encourage night-shift workers to] take other modes of transportation, including public transit or ride-share services

It's not obvious to me that ride-share services would be materially safer here. It seems like many of the same concerns for night-shift workers in other jobs would also apply to ride-share drivers, added to the propensity for the flexibility of those jobs to increase the number of people driving ride-shares in addition to other full-time employment.
Do you have any evidence to back up the claim that “a significant portion of the DC population constantly thinks someone is out to get them”? Admittedly anecdotal but I live in DC and I wouldn’t characterize myself or anyone I know in the area that way