skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never heard these myself, but I remember that Nautilus speakers were used in an MP3 listening test by the German c't magazine in 2000[1]. Conclusion:

> In plain language, this means that our musically trained test listeners could reliably distinguish the poorer quality MP3s at 128kbps quite accurately from either of the other higher-quality samples. But when deciding between 256 kbps encoded MP3s and the original CD, no difference could be determined, on average, for all the pieces. The testers took the 256 kbps samples for the CD just as often as they
took the original CD samples themselves.

This article made me (1) never worry about "lossy audio encoding" again and (2) ignore everyone starting about "better equipment" wrt compressed audio.

Granted, they used the cheaper Nautilus 803 rather than the 801 in the test. But they also had Sennheiser Orpheus available in the listening test.

[1] https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=27324.0
Any European alternative developed would end up banned in the US, the biggest corn market. The US doesn't let people muscle in on its flagship agritech industries.

Europe might be a big enough market to be worth the R&D though - although it doesn't grow anywhere as much corn as we do.
That timeline thing [0]. It puts all sorts of personal data on a timeline, producing a rich personal diary with photos, files, conversations, social media posts, geolocation, transactions etc. It's a way to back up and browse the data I generate.

It's kinda crazy that a few companies already hold this much data about you. Building this made me rethink of how I interact with those companies.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
Jumping "forward" is sort of built into Emacs with C-x C-SPC, pop-global-mark.

The objective and this command are fairly but not completely aligned, so it may require multiple presses of C-x C-SPC. To be clear, you only need to press C-SPC after the first invocation to repeat the command.
The short version is "It's complicated". Most ARM cores have a feature called TrustZone. Effectively, there's a set of system resources that are allocated to TrustZone and not accessible from the normal world. Various events can trigger the CPU to transition into executing code in this "Secure world", at which point the core stops running stuff from the normal world and instead starts running an entirely separate set of things. This can be used to do things like "hardware" key generation, DRM management, device state attestation and so on. Whether a specific platform makes use of TrustZone is largely up to the platform designers, but there's plenty of room to hide backdoors there if you were so inclined.
The logical fallacy would be “he’s clearly correct, because he’s an astrophysicist”. But that’s not OP’s claim; rather it’s that “he’s probably not an idiot, because he’s an astrophysicist” — that is, if he’s wrong, it’s probably not for reasons you’d attribute to a simpleton off the street.

It is not a logical fallacy to assume a relevantly credentialed person would give a stronger argument. It would be a fallacy to assume that he must give stronger arguments.
I was also slightly perplexed by the recent trouble "master". I'd not have thought of it in the context of slavery at all - the term that I'd understand would be a "slave owner".

For me, it's a somewhat archaic term for "teacher", especially for something like fencing (https://sirwilliamhope.org/Library/Hope/ScotsFencingMaster/) or dancing (https://playforddances.com/). At my school, if you had forgotten to bring your prep (homework) to a lesson then a trip to the masters' common room at break time to hand it in would be necessary (it was a very traditional school, and this was a few decades ago).

There's been controversy about the word in other communities with which I've been involved over the past couple of decades, though again not related to slavery. In this case it's considered rude and or arrogant to refer to yourself as a "master" if teaching certain skills, as the word has connotations of considerable expertise and is not so widely known any more as meaning that one teaches. So, a "fencing master" would be interpreted not as a teacher but as one of the world's greatest sword fighters.
C-x C-SPC (pop-global-mark) will work across buffers.
Yes, so I'm betting on these 14nm Atom boards because they are very performant per watt (I get twice the server juice out of these at 25W than I get out of my 6600 desktop at 65W!!!!!!!!!) and I think they will be more reliable at 42 celcius full blast than the still non existent 10 or smaller nm.

I even think like you that my 45nm D510MO probably will outlive these! But it's so underpowered (like 1/10 of the perf. at 15W) compared to these that I'm willing to take the risk!

The risk of new boards being so much better that I'll have to throw these away ever is zero at this point, memory being the bottleneck!
I know this wasn't intended as satire, but that's how I read it.

Very modern stack but totally overengineered.
Looks like a different approach. Intel's chip is based on digital circuits. They try an analog approach.
It is certainly a false dichotomy, because you paint it as a decision between GMO and conventional non-GMO farming. But as in all false dichotomies, there are more alternatives.

And no, that is not how decisions are made. You don't stand stupidly and consider if you should drive your car to work this morning or not, without at the same time taking into account the alternatives and their consequences. How long would it take to walk, how is the path, the weather? Are public transport available, how much does it cost, how long would it take?

So there is no dichotomy for the decision maker either.
> Considering the vastly different regulations and practices in the EU ( e.g. grazing, crop rotation are very popular)

Source? From what I heard, crop rotation here isn't widely used yet.
Nobody asked, but for the record, this is how make real one-page PDF from two-page scans. (gm = GraphicsMagick)

mkdir kaksi
rm kaksi/*
j=102
scale=600
size=500x730
yla=27
for x in *.pnm ; do
echo $x
gm convert $x -rotate 90 -crop $size+20+$yla -resize $scale -normalize kaksi/k$j.jpg
j=$((j+2))
done
j=103
for x in *.pnm ; do
echo $x
gm convert $x -rotate 90 -crop $size+530+$yla -resize $scale -normalize kaksi/k$j.jpg
j=$((j+2))
done
cd kaksi
gm convert *.jpg -format pdf TheBook.pdf
You could possibly use ZFS with sha256 checksums for that purpose? You would have to somehow sign the merkle root each time you write it, not sure how easy that would be. Perhaps write it to another partition and hope it's atomic enough? Or ZFS encryption would probably do it already if you don't need the system in cleartext.

https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-end-to-end-data-integri...
Indeed. Instead of seeing it all the time and getting unhealthy due to this, i would only get it when I think about it.

I'm lost on why you don't like that? Do you stop buying sugar water if the stop advertising them?
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I'm not pro-piracy, I stopped pirating content when I got a job many years ago.

But this is 100% sad little guy got fucked over by corporate overlords.

His site wasn't the only place to get roms, people would have gotten them anyways. Their claim this was a number one destination would be awesome if torrents didn't exist.

He made peanuts, his portion of the damages ROMs do to Nintendo is probably peanuts, yet he's being fined a deleterious amount. How is that justice?

This is just high powered lawyers using the court system as a lap dog to make an example.
odd, because the literature is full of studies showing rather high correlations.

Here is a nice review article published in the Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

The WHO is pretty convinced of the connection
https://www.who.int/news/item/07-11-2017-stop-using-antibiot...
After a certain point, lossy compression doesn't create any perceptible loss in audio quality as long as the rip is done well (with a good encoder, etc.), and you don't know every part of the piece in question.

e.g. in classical music, you can tell subtle differences if you've listened the piece live or performed it inside an orchestra. However, that's a pretty edge case. There are always differences if you know where to look for, otherwise it's pretty insignificant.
Might it be the case after adjusting for a much lower proportion of the population that reaches 80 years old+?
Out of curiosity, what in the file format makes it particularly vulnerable to corruption?
i didn't say that we should eat bugs because insect populations are declining. i said we are going to have to start eating bugs anyway (e.g. there are no more wild fish), and also that insect populations are declining.
There are surely certificates with expiration dates on these systems, so when the internal clock goes beyond that date, some stuff will stop working. I guess then someone would write a date mapping tool (calendars repeat themselves every 28 years, with matching weekdays and leap years, although in 2100 this rule will break).
Incidentally, France is a pretty high population country. It's ranked 22 out of 195 in population.

If you chose Iceland and used this logic to conclude you're in a high pop country, you'd be wrong. But of course, most people don't live in Iceland. You probably don't live in Iceland. If you pick a random person on Earth, odds are very good that they live in a high pop country like France, the US, China, India, etc.

If you pick a random country, there's a 50% chance you'll pick a country with a lower population than the median country. But not if you pick a random human from Earth.
G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o
Relevant, HEADS firmware: https://github.com/osresearch/heads

Definitely worth reading the Wiki: https://osresearch.net/

Can be run on a variety of laptops, including a ThinkPad X230. Ships by default on Librem laptops. Uses the second-to-last approach described by the article (TOTP-based).
Kindly read and ponder about the first two sentences under "Use in science" on the wikipedia page I referenced.
Wasm may be web related, but it's just a reasonably mature technology with a developing ecosystem [1].

You can implement Wasm without anything web related. You can even implement ECMAScript without implementing anything web related (like the document model).

[1]: https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-decompile
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> some networks are excluded from it (including freenode).

Uh... no it's not? The graphs at https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php explicitly mention Freenode.
Doctors? Research studies? Not from some 16th century English religious movement. I don't know why so many people on this site try to harp on this.
Deep learning is fundamentally linear algebra. Spiking networks are fundamentally event-based processors. The two concepts don’t play well together.

Many researchers have been trying hard to shoe-horn deep ANNs into spiking networks for the last 10 years. But this doesn’t change the fact that linear algebra is best accelerated by linear algebra accelerators (i.e. GPUs/TPUs).

Generally, spiking networks will likely have an edge when the signals they are processing are events in time. For example, when processing signal streams from event based sensors, like silicon retinas. There’s also evidence that event-based control has advantages over their periodically-sampling equivalents.
I may would have ended my life few months later if I hadn't done ayahuasca at a familiar person

I do think there is definitly inherent risk to taking psychedelics, but in my experience of offering help/harm reduction advice for 4 years to drug users it
Seems to be easier tolerable than lsd /mushroom experiences, my guess it's cause it's way more sedating for most people and more difficult to wander off in personal ways to Bad places during the experience.

I wouldn't legalize them either. , I would license them to anyone above 25 Years with a 3 +month education and exam instead.

Note, ayahuasca may be lethal for people on medicine or drugs, ayahuasca has/is a powerful maoi which should not be combined with a lot of kinds medicine (takes
4+weeks to do it safely after many of. The ssri /antipsychotics, there many more kinds which are dangerous, or can cause a overdose of that drug easily )
I'm going to not use raid and instead mount the drives "manually" (via fstab) because I heard som nasty things about raid.

Instead I made my own async. distributed database: http://root.rupy.se

That way I can just fix the drives as they fail.

As for OS/languages I'm 100% sure linux + Java is the final server platform for eternity.

Nothing has improved for 5+ years since NIO got epoll!

The io_uring and potentially user network/disk stuff to work around the kernel waste (in my case ~30% of the CPU) might happen but also might not...
It's not really standalone. The privacy implications are case in point. Facebook is a vehemently anti-privacy company, and it's not going to allow WhatsApp to undermine on this point. If WhatsApp (or indeed Instagram) were truly independent then we may well see competition on this front.
> Well, you're comparing hashes to ones online, can't you put the password hash online? (sorry, I am very ignorant of the situation here and am asking stupid simple questions)

If the system is compromised then it can just report the expected password hash. You can't trust a compromised machine to tell the truth.

> I mean, surely the same problem exists for any data stored on the device (keys, hashes, whatever)? If there's a way of storing a key chain securely on the device so it can't be modified by an attacker, can't a password be stored there instead?

Various bits of TPM functionality can be tied to requiring a password, but it's hard to actually turn that into something that's more freedom preserving while still preserving the verifiability. What you want is the ability to re-seal a secret to new values only as long as you have the password available, and I don't /think/ you can construct a system that does that with the features the spec gives you.

> Is that because the manufacturers don't give the option, or because technically there isn't a way of giving the option?

Unclear. There's little commercial incentive for people to come up with elegant solutions to this, and I can't immediately think of a model that would be significantly better than the status quo.
De ce nu trebuie sa comparam vaccinurile anti covid19
A string of bad luck is entirely possible. I hated my first three jobs, then the next one was okay up to a point and my current one is alright (although boring).
I agree that if you have a setup that works for you, it might not make sense to migrate. I wrote this specifically to move from neovim though, because:

- I had to maintain a large config just to get basic features like code commenting shortcuts
- My config would often break, this week all my LSPs died after a neovim update
- Vim wasn't designed to support multiple cursors

Secondly, I've tried adding a snippet mode in lua:

- Neovim would lose any marks on lines that got modified. This got better with nvim_buf_set_text (instead of _set_lines), but it'll still lose marks inside the content area.
- Vim is based around macros, so any sort of scripting requires you to inject an incantation of keys. Try programmatically setting a selection? No such luck.

Rather than dealing with the bugs I decided to work on my own thing because I can iterate on it faster than dealing with C / C's vimscript interface.
They also had very low costs before the facebook acquisition. They had a very small development team and very low server costs.

Sure, things like adding group video calling massively increased their costs, and they probably couldn't have done it without facebooks help, but without that they probably could have survived on 1 ad message per year, or on $0.50 per year (which they actually charged for a while).
> “If that board dies we’ll have to go onto eBay”

from this article, whereas

> "I have a prospective customer supporting a U.S. missile defense system that is buying parts on eBay,"

from

https://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if-it-aint-broke-dont...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Not in my case.
What game is it?
> where a team of security researchers in Russia can access them conveniently from home

...or a team of your employees, who for one reason or another couldn't make it to the office every day since March of last year.

In other words, VPNs. These are the smaller intranets you are talking about. Of course they still need to be capable and privileged enough to allow your employees to do their jobs, and this same requirement is the reason why ransomware can strike so effectively.
You should absolutely have a unique advantage!
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I can tell you it was quite popular in Portugal, keeping kids busy during the afternoon.
That's interesting.

Just so I understand it correctly:
* The iframe loads resources, e.g. /static/bundle.js and /public/index.css (does this include user-defined resources?).
* But due to the iframe being embedded on sub**.framercanvas.com, the cache key includes the subdomain. So all resources are fetched again for all projects?
Thanks for the check! Much appreciated, it did put my mind at ease.

I realized I was looking at several custom-made TR Pro workstations and they of course have a hefty markup on top -- custom cases, custom cooling, pre-added several PCIe NVMe riser cards, plus style price tag I suppose, etc. Should have looked in PC Part Picker indeed.

And yeah, last-gen tech very rarely gets discounted even by normal people who just post ads in local Craigslist-like websites (like OLX). Stuff that's 2 or more generations ago is discounted, but not last gen. Puzzling indeed, especially having in mind that this last gen tech is very soon going to be "two gens ago". Oh well.

As for ECC RAM, I hear you. I was unable to find such anywhere officially but lucked out that one guy in the local OLX was having loads of it but just didn't post the ads due to being very busy (we communicated because of other ads) and then I just bought 64GB ECC DDR3 RAM from him for a home NAS that I am gradually expanding.

I'm definitely very interested in having a TR Pro workstation; started getting sick of Macs and their artificial slowness. I got the iMac Pro and granted, I have it connected to my TV where it plays Twitch streams all day but hell, a lot of stuff on the terminal (that's not Python) just works slower than it does on a meager i3 Linux machine that I have lying around.

So I do want a TR Pro machine but I am very curious about TR 5000. A release is expected in August which isn't that far away. On the other hand, the TR Pro 5000 might take several more months on top. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions. :)
Me neither! Here's a link to the movie: https://archive.org/details/MicroMen720p2009
Making CPython Faster
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The point he’s making is that if you don’t know what the factors are, then your best bet is to pick from the larger group — you’ll be more likely to be correct.

If aliens are sufficiently common, then we are much more likely than not to be a “normal” species. It is possible we are not normal, but that’s what a confidence interval is for.
If mind states can be streamed and integrated continuously while traversing those light years, that would make reintegration less of shock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue can come in handy if the situation is bad.
Thanks, that makes sense. Do you know if there is any "mathematical trick" to quantify the likelihood of me being wrong (without knowing the population numbers of the other countries)?
I watched the talk you linked to, but I couldn't understand most of it. Currently reading through Real-time Rendering book to make sense of it.

I thought once they create splats as quads, the rest of pipeline is standard? Each quad should be 2 triangles that get clip view coordinates, then pixel shader paints the brush texture, and then ROP assembles them on screen. Could you point out where I'm wrong? And in what way can a pixel end up on the screen without going through ROPs?
Console and phone manufacturers have chased this dream for decades and each and every one has been hacked to run arbitrary code and applications that are supposed to ‘only run on trusted hardware’.

You can make it difficult but defeating an attacker who can touch the hardware is for all intents and purposes impossible.
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UK pint is 568ml, a US pint is less than 500ml (because their fl oz are different, and I think even a different number to a 'pint').

Rest of Europe (and Québec) uses 500ml or a litre metric in my experience, yes.