skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There have been tests showing we cannot hear the difference between minimally lossy audio (e.g. mp3 320kbps) and lossless. But Balvin can. And it sounds "bigger and stronger".

On the contrary, you can actually do these tests yourself (https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...). I and many others running good high end gear can repeatedly score well on these tests.

Of course, it's not only the compression that's at stake-- it's also the mastering quality. So a very well mastered track with plenty of dynamic range will still sound noticeably better on high performing speakers or headphones than a compressed version, even 320kbps MP3. A poorly mastered track will be much harder (if not outright impossible) to tell the difference on.
Having stems available would be super cool and open up a whole new world of remixing. But Apple would be the last company to embrace such a approach.
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I'm sure other music services like Spotify will match Apple Music's lossless quality in order to keep competing for the audiophile market.

Personally, lossless quality just sounds like a great way to blow through my data caps even faster. I'm sure some will love it, I question whether it's worth the extra bandwidth.
I love Fish, pairing it with Starship prompt (https://starship.rs) makes a truly powerful combo with almost no extra config necessary.
For one thing, Apple has a custom Dolby Atmos Implementation on their headphones that ties the accelerometers in the AirPods to detect head position and then adjust sound strength to places where you turn your head. Supposedly when watching movies with Atmos or 7.1 it's incredibly immersive. They just announced their new iMac with 'Atmos' (I want to see how this works) as well however. You probably could connect over HDMI as you state.
Okay, compiling is faster. But you compile once and run many times. What about running it?
1) Citing research from the University of Chicago and other reputable research institutions is not "saying blatant untruths". Disregarding all of the research that doesn't agree with your view point and declaring them "not science" and "blatant untruths" is just being an idealogue. The conclusion is not crystal clear at all. It is a mixed bag, as anyone can clearly see in Google Scholar.

2) Nonprofits ARE companies and many of them (including the College Board) make a lot of money. 1) The College Board's total revenue is about 1 Billion dollars per year. 2) The executives earn roughly $500k - $1 million annually in total compensation (salary + bonuses). Of course, they are going to say that their product is the best. Just like Harvard, Stanford, and any educational institution (all nonprofits) are going to advertise that their methods are the best. Even the NHL is a nonprofit. Do you think the NHL is going to be the best source for research on hockey player injuries? No. Because they have a financial interest in not doing so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/09/...
I guess this is a response to Amazon Music HD, and soon Spotify HiFi. I have been waiting for Spotify HiFi since the Feb announcement...
Yeah, I agree. It seems to clip between phonemes and it has weird diction because it doesn't get the stress patterns of the words right.
I was thinking hard about getting an m1 mini but the upgrade pricing for ssd/ram is offensive and you can't upgrade them later. I will likely end up getting a newer ryzen system but it will end up costing much more for the cpu+motherboard, but will have access to dedicated graphics and I can actually just move my current 32gb of ddr4, video card, and SSDs over.
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You said “To be clear, I'm talking applications which require subscriptions for basic functionality”

That’s exactly apps likes Spotify. They restrict downloading, skipping, and bitrate unless you pay for premium, which I would say is basic functionality. You get access to the music whether you pay or not. I’m not paying for the music, I’m paying to skip ads and download to play offline.
This should not harm benchmarks unless they mark their threads as background.

As for a particular strategy I presume Apple could, for example, use 6 high-performance cores instead of 4+4 hybrid. But then thermal management will be an issue. So the choice was about throughout/latency/energy efficiency. Using simple low-performance cores for tasks that can wait is very good strategy as one can put more of those cores as opposite to running the performance core under a low frequency.
Just try to do the same across more UNIX implementations for more POSIX joy.

Like most design by committee standards there is plenty of write once debug everywhere.
Nano moves counter to BTC every time the general public suddenly cares about energy efficiency. If it wasn't for the Bitgrail meltdown of 2018, Nano would be a top 3 cryptocurrency contender. But alas, that fate is doubtful given that so much of the supply got stolen.
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Yeah, this was a hard kick to Spotify's gut.
But I’m not sure the hyper risk averseness actually helps normal people to have a more realistic perspective on statistical risk. When people see a drug or vaccine that’s put on pause out of an abundance of caution, they don’t think, “oh, look how careful they’re being! I think I’ll trust their process more.” They think, “Wow, look how inconsistent and unreliable this is! I don’t know if I can trust the FDA or vaccines at all!”

So I’m skeptical of folks using 2nd order arguments about why going beyond rational approaches to risk is a good idea. People see overly risk-averse behavior by the FDA as evidence that the risk is actually high (relative to other stuff in their lives).
Has there? I can't imagine investors/corporations dumping billions, annually, into an project which won't produce a return for 40-50 years.
This feels very dangerous. While able body adults could just jump it, anyone with a disability could be trapped. What if their was a fire ?

This is a good argument to just remove physical turnstiles and rely upon an honor system.
Show HN: One Keynote – custom podcast feeds for popular tech personalities
One Keynote is a collection of custom podcast feeds featuring popular tech personalities such as Chris Sacca, Harley Finkelstein, Justin Kan, Michael Saylor, Sahil Lavingia, Ev Williams and more.

The idea came while I was listening to Chamath Palihapitiya getting interviewed by Kara Swisher on her Re/Code podcast a few years ago. I really enjoyed listening to him and wanted to find more podcasts featuring Chamath. I searched the Podcast app and found a few but there was no way to 'subscribe' to a feed featuring Chamath. This put a bug in my mind about making something to accomplish this and skip forward a few years, I've finally built One Keynote (www.onekeynote.com).

It's a simple build, relying on Listen Notes to provide the RSS feed and podcast information. Each day I manually search for new podcast episodes and add them to the respective podcast feed. For those with their own podcast (ex. Jason Calacanis), I do not add those episode as I suspect you already subscribe if you like listening to Jason.

Some might say "Listen Notes already has a way to get notified of new podcasts - why reinvent the wheel?!" Well that's not actually true. There is a big difference between a podcast featuring a guest and a podcast talking about a guest. Search for Bill Gates and you'll see what I mean. Getting notified of new 'Bill Gates' podcasts means a heavy stream of conspiracy theories, while subscribing to his One Keynote feed (https://onekeynote.com/home/bill-gates/) means only podcasts where Bill is a guest.

Here is are just a few of the current feeds and the number of episodes in each.

-Anne Wojcicki (16)
-Ben Horowitz (29)
-Biz Stone (13)
-Brian Chesky (35)
-Chris Sacca (10)
-Elon Musk (9)
-Harley Finkelstein (50!)
-John Collison (21)
-Marc Benioff (30)
-Marc Cuban (68!)
-Michael Saylor (28)
-Noah Kagan (63!)
-Reid Hoffman (48)
-Sam Parr (62!)
-Steve Blank (30)

I'd love for you to check out onekeynote.com, feedback welcome!
I have plastic shiny disks that are DRM free. They’re actually pretty great, lossless, and no monthly fees.

They are called _Compact Discs_ and you can get them pretty cheap these days!
Very rare kind of ~boss, old timer mechanics who had a military style of management, which I don't mind as long as you don't lie, but he started accusing me of shit. And with his persona you'd quickly feel gutted every time he speaks to you. It was extremely petty stuff like not finding screwdrivers but he made it a humiliating session and insisted that you did a wrong job. In reality it was an open warehouse and people from other services come and go and take tools they need regularly. I knew that after the fact. Also colleagues ended up threatening me because I had the balls to complain about the lack of organization. A lesson in tribal dynamics.

The court house is way sadder than this, people go there because it's public guaranteed job so paycheck motivation only, people some times would sigh at the simplest movement (grabbing a pen). It also has social implications.. this delays lawsuits by years. It's stockholm syndrom institutionalized.
Anyone know if it is possible to use airtags without an iPhone? I am interested in getting general location information of a tag, say within a few hundred meters.
You can make spatial audio work with headphones, as those various fun YouTube demos show. Furthermore Apple's headphones have support for it including directional audio support. If you haven't tried it it's pretty spectacular, with the only downside being the sound so convincingly seems to be coming from my iPad I need to verify that I am in fact sending the audio to my airpods.
This is included/no additional cost which is fantastic.

I do wonder if in the longer term if Apple's Spatial Audio with "dynamic head tracking" isn't the next 3D TVs/3D Content i.e. a gimmick.

Taking traditional multi-source audio (Dolby/Atmos/etc) and jamming it into stereo is old tech, it doesn't work particularly well but is cheap to make/consume, thus mostly harmless. The new Spatial Audio is using gyroscopes to measure head movements in order to adjust the audio accordingly, and new audio formats to make it work.

This may sound interesting if you haven't tried it, but it results in: Either you keep your head stationary and get the non-Spatial Audio sound (i.e. what they optimized for 90%+ of their audience) or whipping your head around to "enjoy" the effect (which is largely a movement accurate degradation).

It feels like cart-before-the-horse tech wherein they figured out they can do this thing, and now want to work backwards into what it may be useful for.
This is not true!!! Demand for cars is at all time highs and car prices are also at all time highs...
Not necessarily, but I am arguing that most people are tab illiterate. Things that are worth learning are rarely easy/obvious.
Spotify have it in the works, for release later this year.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-...
Perhaps a weaker way of putting it is that it is colloquial, but not proper form.
I am a software developer, and I feel software developers expect a lot more than is reasonable if they consider themselves part of the same society as everyone else. It's just a job like any other, and it's only in certain bubbles that developers are treated like rockstar prodigies.

For the rest of the world, or even just the rest of the US, to expect exceptionally high compensation in order to feel respected is unreasonable in my opinion. Software is an incredible tool and I'm glad to still find ways to love it, but as a profession, it's just like any other.

I have felt this way for a while, because I feel we can do a lot more meaningful work within our communities with software than we currently do. But all the developers are instead busy building Nudity in Kettle Reflection algorithms for market place image uploaders while getting rained on by VC money.
the question here is: how to convert the current songs to the atmos format. For now we have few artists with the standard, but it’s almost mandatory to have the whole catalog if they want to make it popular
Yeah I believe the M1 GPU(2.6 TFLOPS) falls between a PS4 (1.8 TFLOPS) and PS4Pro (4.2 TFLOPS). Yes the original PS4 came out in 2013, but still I find it impressive that a mobile integrated GPU has that much computational
Power with no fan and that power budget.

I do wonder what they are going to do with the higher end MBP, iMacs, and Mac Pro (if they make one). Will they have an “M1X” with more GPU cores or will they offer a discrete option with AMD GPUs. I do think we could potentially see an answer at WWDC. I wouldn’t be surprised if eGPU support was announced for ARM Macs at WWDC.
Spacial Audio is the name of an Apple feature avaiable when using their headphones with an iPhone/iPad. It using "head tracking" so when you move or turn your head it changes the sound to make it seem like you are moving around a room with surround sound.
Not sure who "we" are but many in the community do expect Apple to run all of their services as loss-leaders as currently they have a very small market share compared to Spotify et al, so not surprising to everyone at least that this was free.
Interesting. I hadn’t realized that the quiet payoffs were so high.
My water-cooled 3900XT is locked to 4.4ghz all cores with relatively fast double banked 2x16GB c15 3600mhz memory. (It never drops under 4.4 on any of the 12/24 cores.)

Also has a Samsung 980 1TB drive, and a 3070 GPU; the system truly is extremely quick. (Win10+WSL2).

(I'll have to try that compile in the next day or so; will reply to myself here).
Overwork has not only an impact on the worker, but society has a whole. You could have two people doing that job with decent hours, and the health and stress-relief associated costs would probably compensate for much of the salary impact. We need to rethink the way work is distributed.
I think the OP was referencing the trolley problem because autonomous driving AI is often regarded as a utilitarian problem. In other words, "intent" does not matter, only consequences. In that regard, any ML cost function is purely focused on consequences. In the context of minimizing deaths it wouldn't matter if the software deliberately chose to kill one person, if the cost (presumably total deaths) was minimized. Where I think it gets sticky is that our society does factor in intent (see the various degrees of homicide) and if we're thinking in terms of pure utilitarianism, I'm not sure how this plays into the liability of autonomous software.
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For a less antiquated example, imagine that the text introduces the girl (das Mädchen) Fiona, and then persists in referring to her as "es", because the word Mädchen has a neutral gender.
That is a depressing perspective. Your self-worth should not be dependent on someone else's image of you. It should be based on the facts of your own performance. You can't fix or improve other people. You can only improve your own performance. Focus on improving yourself and be satisfied with that. Anything else is a path to disappointment.
I think we can strongly assume that airpods with spacial audio support are coming very soon. It's already a feature on the pro and max.
How algorithmic systems are eroding good work
I can’t see the benefit of this outweighing the potential future catastrophes it will create, not to mention the future inherent distrust of audio we will develop.

We’re going to start missing real things.
Some of the happiest people I've met are working girls. Usually they do one shift every few days and they are happy as hell.
I can't answer for Silicon Valley, but outside of it:

> * "Senior contractors and developers often have six to eight-page resumes"

It depends on how many jobs you've had. If you worked 6 years at one company, I don't need to see 4 pages of text on that one job. The point is that you list out your engagements with enough detail to have a conversation, not hitting a certain length.

> * "The first thing to remember is that almost none of the eyes that see your resume will be human." and "...humans aren't the one reading it."

This is both true and false. I definitely read resumes, and make decisions partially based on it, but machines will also be scanning it. So, write for both. Use clear, grammatically correct English with plenty of searchable keywords.

One idea is to write a paragraph in English about each job (or a list of bullet points), followed by a list of technologies used. I've used this myself when looking for a job and got compliments from the tech lead on my resume format (they then hired me).

* "Only graphic designers need to worry about how their resume looks"

True.

* "A good fallback email address is Gmail, but the truth is that any software developer who doesn't use name@fullname.com... is starting with a black mark."

Eh? Interesting, but doubtful.

* "Do not include months when you add dates for jobs."

Include months, but not days.
I'd say they're "for" whatever we want. Nowadays they're far more widely used for semantic indent than for tabular alignment.
Have you tried watching an Atmos/7.1 channels movie with the AirPods that support this?
I clicked expecting to read about signals and was not disappointed. Dark corners of POSIX is putting it lightly. There just seems to be no correct way to deal with them.

The best solution I know is signalfd, a Linux feature. Block all the traditional signal handlers then epoll a signal file descriptor in a perfectly normal event loop. When a signal is received, it's possible to read instances of signalfd_siginfo from it. Even this has limitations such as being unable to handle SIGSEGV or SIGFPE.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/signalfd.2.html
> There is thus an intimate relationship between the current system and fossil fuels and the military

Even granting this premise, the argument still makes no sense. Governments, banks, and militaries existed for centuries prior to the existence of even the U.S. itself, so the suggestion that these institutions are somehow a product of U.S. monetary policy in the 70s is absurd on its face. I also think it's important not to "forget history" and the history of these institutions far exceeds what that argument grants.

> Compared to total global money, the transaction volume of fiat is also very small.

This is also beside the point. Bitcoin's value is highly dependent on the utility of government issued currency so that people can obtain staple goods and services that have inherent value, bitcoin is simply not able to fill this role.

> Bitcoin has payment solutions in the works, it is likely that transaction volume and unit of exchange utility will increase over time

There is always a myriad number of solutions in the works, but they don't actually mean anything until they solve the problem.
Was it though? Don't think a lot of people go to Spotify for the quality but rather a lot of their other features, widespread support and discovery. Will take Apple a long time to catch up on that. The people caring about quality already have a ton of options outside of Spotify.
How long is the battery life on both if compiling non-stop? Assuming both keep similar compile from start of battery to end it would be interesting to see if the ryzen is truly guzzling batteries.
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From touring with George Clinton to developing music production apps
I use Go for small things like CLI tools, simple web services or instead of scripting things with nodejs.

I don't really miss generics as many seems to do. My main critique is the error handling and the lack of control flow handling. It is very easy in Go to accidentally let the code continue to execute after something went wrong. Exceptions don't have this problem cause you only catch them were you now the problem can be handled.
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It looks like the runtime has networking support. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/libc/sock
> The speculation is a separate thing from the coins themselves. People also speculate with fiat currencies, stocks, real estate.

No, speculation is the primary use case for all of these coins right now.

And crypto currency has some advantages over the other speculation options you mentioned:

- more people can participate because of them being unregulated (compare: forex trading, which has much higher barriers of entry)

- it is rather easy to not pay taxes on crypto gains in many countries, especially if you're staying below certain limits

And the most important of them all: the crypto cake is still expanding and has been expanding for over ten years now. That is the crucial difference between classic forex trading and crypto - in forex, the comparative value of different currencies usually stays within a certain range. It goes up and it goes down. In crypto, the crypto just has been getting more and more valuable over the long term. It goes up, and up, and down, and further up than before again, and then some more up.

As long as this continues, any gambler betting on crypto has an edge and will win more than he loses. Of course it can't continue like this forever, but that's easy to ignore when looking at a ten year history of unbelievable gains.
The US just had its lowest number of new cases reported since the pandemic began
I've done a side by side with my Ryzen 3700x compiling a Go project.

6 seconds on the Ryzen, vs 9 seconds on the M1 air.

`time go build -a`, so not very scientific. Could be attributed to the multicore performance of the Ryzen.

Starting applications on the M1 seems to have significant delays too, but I'm not sure if that's a Mac OSX thing. Overall it's very impressive, I just don't see the same lunch eating performance as everyone else.

The battery life and lack of fans is wonderful.

edit: Updated with the arm build on OSX. 16s -> 9 seconds.
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There's a very real difference in that Apple's Find My is using Bluetooth LE and pinging a location/identifier string back to iCloud. Sidewalk literally takes over a slice of your Wifi and shares it with devices that aren't even in your home. Your neighbor's Ring cam could be permanently on your WiFi connection without your knowledge or consent. They should at least ask.
On second review, you’re right.

They have allowed you to rip your own music to lossless for more than 15 years, but I only just found out that when using iTunes Match, they cheat and only store a high-resolution but lossy version on their service.

Thanks!
If your software business relies on last minute availability all the time, no engineer worth their salt will work there.

https://sahillavingia.com/work
Last year, I built a CLI tool, called blockr[0] to easily block/unblock websites so that I can focus more on work. I had a few specific requirements:

- I use more than one browser and wanted changes to reflect across browsers
- While on my daughter's computer, I wanted to permanently block a few websites, however, for my own computer, I wanted an easy way to activate and deactivate deep-work mode.

Technically, I don't do anything smart and utilitze /etc/hosts file, but this tool has really helped me overcome my Twitter addiction.

[0] https://github.com/abhinavs/blockr ; brief write-up on my blog - https://www.abhinav.co/blockr
Sure they do, try to use motorways across several European countries, some with payment areas every couple of kilometres.
Where can I buy CDs of popular music?
Likely they are releasing a set of airpods soon with a kind of head-tracked positional audio. The pro and max can already do positional audio where the sound seems to be coming from a paired iPad no matter how you twist your head.