skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like Tidal is good either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc
> Either you keep your head stationary and get the non-Spatial Audio sound (i.e. what they optimized for 90%+ of their audience)

I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

Using Spatial Audio on my AirPods Pro is insanely better, and still very much spatial, even without actively moving my head.

First, the sound appears to be coming from outside of my head, rather than between my ears -- no "headphone fatigue". It's vastly more comfortable and realistic.

Second, while dialog comes from straight ahead, sound effects like doors opening, cars honking etc. clearly come from angles, and things like wind come from all around, like an actual surround sound experience.

Third, because the dialog tracks are separated from other sounds spatially, the dialog is easier to understand as well. I used to sometimes put on subtitles for certain material to understand fully in normal stereo -- I never have to anymore with spatial audio.

> Taking traditional multi-source audio (Dolby/Atmos/etc) and jamming it into stereo is old tech

I've used all that old tech too, and for whatever reason Apple's spatial audio is leagues better. I'm not sure if it's something about being optimized for known headphone characteristics, or the head tracking, or something clever with the inward-facing microphones, or all of the above, but it's nothing like that old tech.

> now want to work backwards into what it may be useful for.

It's useful for listening, end of story. I'm honestly mystified why you think it's a gimmick. I can't even imagine going back to listening to movies and TV without it. (I project from my iPad onto a screen, connect my AirPods Pro, and it's basically like being in an actual cinema, but without waking anyone else up at night from booming surround sound.)
Spot on about the orchestra. A chap used to know used to work for Midas and said that visuals affect perception of quality significantly. They had a problem with a digital desk where the UI was running at very slow framerates and the customer complained that it sounded terrible. If they turned around and listened without looking at the screen they thought it sounded absolutely fine - merely seeing the flickery slow framerates made them believe it SOUNDED terrible.

And you're right about the inability to improve. Try reading up above where people are arguing that they can't hear the difference between a WAV and a 128 kbps MP3....!! Either their hearing is absolutely shot or they are listening to silence.
Create your dev portfolio – Part 1: First things first
I'm totally with you, although if I'm being honest I think the fairer amount would be 90-95% of salary for 4 days.

The only reason I'm pushing for 4 days (80% salary) or 5 days (100% salary) is to try and get companies on board. Working a 4 day week is still a taboo topic to most c-suites - I think a small reduction in salary would be a good "first step" towards normalising the 4 day week @ ~100% salary.
WhatsApp tried to dunk on Telegram but failed miserably
> Those monopolies you mention in the abstract are largely possible because laws make it much more difficult than it could be for competitors to arise.

This is just more libertarian apologetics. There have been more than enough examples (cough intel *cough) of monopolistic practices caused by unfair market practices. Using dominance to force suppliers to exclusive use of your products is not a practice enabled by the state.

> Private ownership of all land might help

Rivers too? And then what? I can sue you for polluting my downstream, but it's OK if a company just buys up the whole river, then they can ruin it to their heart's content?

This is just nonsense.
I guess that will give them an incentive to fix those devices quickly.
The New Executive Order on Cybersecurity
> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” the DarkSide criminals wrote last week

> In a message posted to its victim shaming blog, DarkSide tried to say it was “apolitical” and that it didn’t wish to participate in geopolitics.

Yes but if destabilizing and disrupting a country's computer infra happens as a side-effect, you are still in the game of politics. Being 'apolitical' is paradoxically still being political, since if you are involved with large groups of people, you can't help but be political.
Google Proposes Scalable Parallelism for ML Computation on All Devices
If you want to make dealing with the cans and bottles someone else's problem but also avoid encouraging the curbside "entrepreneurs" check to see if any local youth organizations do can drives in your area.

My kid's marching band program (in Oregon) collects over $10,000 a year from beverage deposits. It provides about 15% of their total funding for the year. They collect them once a month and will even pick them up from you if driving them to the school is inconvenient. There are dozens of organizations in our area doing the same thing.
Problematic. Means you are relying on the DE for all UI development. With Windows and X11 the DE is reconfigurable to some extent by applications.

There is also more to this, showing the Wayland security model is incoherent. If debugging is enabled on your system I can simply debug your root terminal and start injecting commands into memory.
One reason not to use Kotlin: its syntactic sugar makes it harder to read for someone who doesn't know the language.

Most Java syntax and semantics are pretty much self explanatory for anyone who has worked with any object oriented language before. (Java programs are often rather difficult to understand though, but that's due to overengineering, not the language itself.)
It doesn't connect to a smartphone, but I have a device about the size of a TV remote I use for measuring interference that would pick this up. It cost me about $9 in parts minus the arduino and 3D printer resin to make.
Not SQS, but Google PubSub: everything was working allright, until one day messages started arriving with horrible latency and vital parts of our service went down. We spent close to two weeks debugging our infrastructure, because _sure it could not be PubSub_. Well, _it was_. I guess nothing too big, a small bit or tweak that changed in their service that didn't propagate to the client library we were using, or god knows what. Now we run RabbitMQ for everything; at least we control our versions and we can confidently blame ourselves when something happens. But RabbitMQ, standalone and clustered, has served us well across different systems for about fifteen years.
Not only that, biology is also against them. Somewhere between 25-30 years of age, your hearing already dips <17KHz. Where does lossy do the vast amount of its information discarding? >17KHz.
So does Spanner. The point is that Spanner has so little downtime that it's not really an issue.
Can people who claimed that they can distinguish 320Kbps MP3 and lossless start posting their ABX log already?
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It's just a matter of whether it's 40/60, 50/50 or eventually 80/20. The point I think is still valid: some fixed cost gets you half the way from where you are, towards 100. You will never get to 100, and the place where you might stop and think "This will be more expensive than a private driver for the coming decade" is probably lower than we think (say 90/10 or even 80/20).

Making a car that can do 99% of my highway driving or 90% of my driving time will be easy, possibly even in my lifetime. But neither of those makes for truly autonomous taxis, and they won't drive me home from the pub when I sleep in my back seat, so I really don't see the point.
There is a GC specifically for this use case: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318
If they are delivering a compressed file and an uncompressed file, that already disqualifies the test. The only way to do ABX comparisons is to round-trip one version through the encoder and back to the original format. Anything else introduces uncontrolled dependencies (e.g. on a particular device's decoder implementation) and side channels that unblind the experiment (like loading time).

This is a common mistake people make, e.g. comparing 48k vs 96k files. What you need to do is take a 96k original, downsample it to 48k, upsample it again to 96k (both using very high quality algorithms), then compare it to the original 96k file again. Otherwise you're relying on your playback software or hardware's resampling algorithm, and I guarantee that's a compromise between quality and performance, and not valid for a scientific test.
Work sets goals, while pooled decision making sets decisions. Decisions are how you achieve goals.
> longer term brings new people into the field

To me, that raises the question of how to find out if someone from another field, will be able to get good at software.

This CEO mentioned they have training programs -- how do they know if someone from, say, biology and with some basic programming skills, is the right person to hire and maybe join a training program
Ansible emphasizes inclusive language in new release
Checked exceptions sound good in theory but to make it works it requires the whole community to buy into that level of paranoia right from the beginning. It's a much better concept for a language like Ada or Eiffel more design-by-contract style. Java already plays fast and lose with safety, checked exceptions are closing the barn door after the horses bolted. In reality checked exceptions in Java just means everybody swallows exceptions by doing nothing and moves on.
Blockchain Apps on Bare Metal Part 2: Stability, Resiliency, High Availability
Maybe it’ll be like trademarks or patents. First to file or something like that. So people like Nissan.com can win over someone like Nissan Motors.
> Why would you ever let a non-focused application subscribe to any key combinations?

* Media playback controls

* Hotkeys to take screnshots, or record videos

* Quake style terminals

* Ingame chat and game invites

* Color pickers

* Screen controls like F.lux

* Window management hotkeys

* Push-to-Talk in group voice calls

And that's just what I personally use on my own machine.

It's a massive security issue that any installed software can listen to any input activity or view/affect other windows, and that does need to be reigned in. But to claim that there's no legitimate utility to global hotkeys is absurd. We need robust permissions, not a completely crippled experience.
>Definitely, and it's noticeable.

I've heard people say the same about zsh vs bash but when macOS updated I never even noticed.
Or Linux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux.Encoder

Or MacOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_malware#Ransomware

The reality is that this problem is 90% systemic/organizational and 10% technological. You can definitely run only Linux, make the same mistakes as these Windows shops made, and get destroyed by ransomware.

A lot of this problem is getting the fundamentals wrong (flat network layout/design, no/bad backup strategy, shared credentials across different classes of equipment, and too liberal inter-access). Much of which is wrong for organizational convenience and sometimes cost savings.

I can look at an org without even knowing what OS they run and tell them if they're vulnerable or not, because the assumption you must make is that entry will occur at some point, and then evaluate how or to what extent it can propagate and what the costs/consequences will be.

Ransomware will continue until organizations and their management are held accountable for their own incompetence/apathy/cost-cutting, that let the ransomware cripple the company. If I was on a company board I'd ask for the CEOs job if backups didn't exist or company operations shut down for multiple days/weeks, but that isn't happening.
To increase interoperability with existing libraries for example. The user group that has some kind of Apple device, and thus potentialy ALAC encoded audio is quite large.
I stand corrected. Just turned off “Find My iPad” and the switch for “Find My network” disappears. So I guess it’s “opt-out of this if you’ve opted in to that”? Regardless you are right, thanks.
Perhaps this will help auto-manufacturers in the U.S. by freeing up some supply that was previously committed to AMD?
It's mostly a cost thing, in reality. Closing the Southern border -- "building a wall" if you will -- is an absolutely gargantuan task. The border is huge, many parts it extremely harsh and remote terrain unfriendly to construction projects. Trump made it a huge part of his platform, had a majority, and in four years got a pitiful amount of wall actually built.
IIRC it involves qemu on aarch64
"Academia" is so broad it's difficult to generalize, caffeine addictions are ubiquitous like everywhere else but quantities consumed seem high

Chronic amphetamine/etc (ab)use is probably linked more to the intensity of competition in some particular field or institution, tends to be stress-induced in my experience and seems orthogonal to intrinsic motivation or competence
Apple can add feature after feature, but if Music continues to split albums without warning, it's close to useless. I can't curate a music library when I can't rely on my music not being jumbled around. Dropping music for licensing issues is one thing, but messing with metadata is beyond frustrating.

For arbitrary reasons, Apple Music will: remove songs from albums and re-add them to your library as the "single" or "deluxe" versions; split albums and intersperse tracks between both; and duplicate songs in albums.

The albums usually still exist in Apple Music—I just have to go out of my way to remove the mangled music and re-add the album. Problem is, there is no warning or notification it happened.

Examples:

[1] https://pasteboard.co/K2kdUN3.png
This album is totally messed up. Multiple track 3 with different titles, one unavailable, missing tracks that were re-added to my library as singles.

[2] https://pasteboard.co/K2keFBV.png
One song pulled out into a greatest hits compilation and duplicated

[3] https://pasteboard.co/K2kfc0b.png
All tracks, except 1, removed. The album still exists in Apple Music.

[4] https://pasteboard.co/K2kfBTR.png
Originally added the original version of Camp by Childish Gambino to my library—here it's split between deluxe and basic, with tracks arbitrarily mixed between both.

[...and many more]
> or pull off to the side

The car did pull off to the side. Those cones mark the side of the road. What you're demanding it do is to cross the cones to pull off the closed-off shoulder of the road. Which is (1) illegal and (2) only safe because of assumptions you're making about why that road was closed.

I mean, consider that they had a giant automated Waymo-branded repaving machine coming down in that lane. Would pulling off the the side have been the right choice?

Again, it's true that an AI isn't going to have the same context that you do as a functioning human driver. And so it's going to make different decisions in pursuit of safety than you would. That's not evidence that it's unsafe. This behavior simply wasn't unsafe.
The workaround for this you can find in SDL2 and some other libraries with event loops is having a default, library-provided setup routine and event loop.

Know what you're doing? Set up signals yourself. Don't? Library sets it up for you.
There are a very small % of people that can. You can check HydrogenAudio's double blind test for explanation on how to do a proper test.

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Blind_test
Yes, this is the big elephant in the room

> But doing so increases the risk to their personal safety and fortunes by some non-trivial amount, said Allison Nixon, chief research officer at New York City-based cyber investigations firm Unit221B.

Oh really? So do you mean those people are very careful to not toe some governments in extreme fear of them?

No wonder the western countries are taken as fools. They know no one is going to wake up in an "uncomfortable position" by messing with western companies and governments.

Maybe what we need is to take out those checks from the malwares and just resent them where they came from.
My biggest drawback for fish is that there is no way to concatenate several commands inside a block that I know of.

In bash, I can run the following do the following, and the only ways I found to do this in fish are using several commands or calling `bash -c` with a subcommand.

```

(cat file_1; cat file_2 | grep something) | sort

```
Non-Apple has been perfectly fine. I mean, AMD was putting higher-performing APUs in laptops half the price of the M1 Macbook Air, and they did that 18 months before the M1 even hit the market. If you wanted an 8 core, 4ghz CPU with the GPU power of a 1050ti, the R74800u was prevalent in notebooks as cheap as $400, and was even lauded for a short period as one of the best budget gaming options on the laptop market.

If you're exclusively referring to the handheld market though, then you're mostly right. Apple's big lead in this generation is mostly because of how fast they were able to buy out the world's 5nm node. The only real "Android" manufacturer doing the same thing is Samsung, which is only because they have the means to fab their own chips.
Yes, that's true, thanks -- I was just simplifying. (In fact, it's why spatial audio works when I watch content from my iPad on my projector.)

So let me rephrase: I'm often listening to music while constantly turning, like prepping in the kitchen, vacuuming the house, etc.

Movies can rely on you looking at the screen and figuring out your orientation. If you're actively moving about, what will the music's orientation be?
What is the correct architecture or design to make TUI on a terminal then ? Honest question
I meant to say that if you device supports Dolby Atmos then it should work. This spatial audio from Apple is just Dolby Atmos, not some special apple thing (besides being streamed via the Apple Music service).
I don't think the CoffeeScript comparison is fair. Kotlin fixes some major Java problems (NPEs and checked exceptions), CoffeeScript was almost purely sugar over JS semantics.
What is the incidence of these symptoms in government employees vs the general population? Is there even enough evidence to establish that this isn't some unknown neurological disorder (or multiple disorders given the range of symptoms)? The way our medical system is set up, if it's not obvious or catastrophic, you're symptoms will not be investigated in detail. So I tend to think it's a more likely explanation that some directed energy weapon from the Russians. That sounds like a cold war moral panic.
> "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.

I see what you did there.
So if I'm in my text editor and decide I want to change the currently playing song, I need to switch windows/contexts, press a hotkey or GUI button, and switch back?

The current model where everything running can listen to everything you do is not acceptable, but that doesn't mean there's no usecases that strongly benefit from global hotkeys.
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Unrelated but the logo reminded me of some Internet culture. Way back in the AOL days where phishing was coined, hackers referred to phished accounts as <><. The little programs that spammed "I'm from AOL what is your password?" messages were called phishers or baiters and the programs that held hacked accounts and their password, or <><, were called phish tanks.
The problem is the huge difference in dynamics between "old" and "new" recordings (that is, not just their maximum level) which makes really hard if not impossible to have more tracks sounding near the same level.

This Wikipedia article about loudness wars explains the problem in details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
What you said is totally true but it's not relevant here.

Apple already have all the lossless files on their server. Just that before they converted them to lossy format before sending to the user, and now they serve the original.

There is no new master / new re-release involved in all these.
Automate it and invest your time in more valuable things than human repetition
Things to watch out for are slogans like "Fair and balanced"
I've been storing my FLAC files as ALAC for iTunes compatibility for the past decade. Max.app on macOS, while old and creaky looking, does a fine job of transcoding them and maintaining tags.
Depends on an application. Plenty of applications have a legitimate reason to hook into global keyboard handlers, or otherwise instrument other applications or the system itself. Removing that capability would be crippling to the utility of a computer.

It sort of works in the mobile space (+/- accessibility services, which are the way to get that functionality if you need it), but that's only because mobile devices are consumption-oriented; there's only so much you can do with them, and they eschew utility in order to streamline you into being monetized by third-party services.
Plus Pfizer is one of about a dozen vaccine makers at or near approval. Pfizer, Moderna, AZ, Sputnik, Sinovac, Sinopharm, J&J, Novavax, and many more. If we have 10 Pfizers, we have a billion doses every few months.
Job or not, humans spend all of their waken hours doing something.

It may be that the name we give to those things is enough to make them harmful, but I do find that very unlikely. If it's not calling it a "job" that makes it stressful, then it must be some properties, and it's pretty much possible that some jobs lack those properties.
That's still likely to be somewhat true, but it isn't really about programming languages, it's about new/niche technologies vs. established technologies.

By the same logic, Python would now also be in the 'uncool' group, since everyone and their mother uses it.
> There have been tests showing we cannot hear the difference between minimally lossy audio (e.g. mp3 320kbps) and lossless.

Indeed, here is such a test: https://gxip23wuyntw2qbzp2f7yfke6y-ac5fdsxevxq4s5y-www-heise...

Even trained listeners using high-end equipment weren’t able to distinguish between CD and 256 kbps MP3 in double-blind tests.
Detecting keyup only in a window env seems like a perfectly good place to be. The problem there might be that there is no such thing as a "desktop linux" so writing a nice cross platform desktop app for any Linux regardless of window manager and desktop env I assume is a bit of a black art.
The year is 2040: The USA now has exactly 69 states and the official currency is doge coin. Elon Musk is the Supreme Overlord for life and was the first leader of the United States to have a Department of Memes.
The point is that with mid-2010s apple laptops, >5 year lifespans are the norm. With the majority of other, even comparably priced laptops, that is the exception.

There are other laptops that are similar or superior build quality to those from Apple (N.B. - older MacBooks, not the newer ones) but those are also easy to spot. They’ll usually be ThinkPads or some XPS models from dell.
> For starters make it code for construction sites to place beacons that relay information to these vehicles

FWIW: it really doesn't seem like it has to be that complicated. The car could see the cones just find and knew not to cross them. They just needed 4-5x more cones than they used to make it clear to the car[1] where the lane was actually going.

[1] And human drivers! Again, this conework was just plain awful, period. I'm 100% convinced that the poor Waymo device wasn't the only driver making bad decisions in that intersection that day.
Marketing suffers from that people's attention is a commons. People don't sell their attention, so marketers are free to grab it. And then the inevitable happens: because attention is limited and because it's free, the commons get destroyed. (look up tragedy of the commons!)

Destruction has many facets here: ad blindness, hate against marketing, ad blockers, stopping watching TV and movies, and so on.