skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a Woody Guthrie recording (that I have not heard myself) on wire spools that was released in the 2000s. If I recall correctly, the audio restoration process was only possible by recording the audio with a 384kHz sampling rate, because the wire spools had picked up ambient EMI that could be used to correct for speed variations. If the only available samples were MP3s, then the audio restoration could not have been done.

Similarly, other historic audio recordings might contain forensic clues outside the ranges of human hearing that will be useful to future historians.

Finally, storing lossless formats makes sense for an archive, because raw bits are likely to be easier to recover if knowledge is lost, and localized damage to the data will result in only localized damage of the output.
I’m almost positive that this is what’s happening. With a pair of Sony XM3’s and various Apple devices I’ve never seen this behavior.
Unfortunately doing bad and good things is not mutually exclusive when talking about a single person, let alone when it's a group of people.

Whether the bad parts should be tolerated because of the good parts it's another matter (and given the things you're listed, I personally don't care about what good policies you do if that's the price to pay). that said we must be able to talk about policies and outcomes it their own right without tainting them with who has brought them.
There's NEVER any evidence posted, just "experts agree". In the past they at least trotted out that a "russian IP" or a "Chinese tool" was used ( e.g. the strings command showed Chinese strings in the binary). Evidence so flimsy a computer literate teenager would not be convinced. Now they can't even do that?

Sorry but a bunch of politicians agreeing isn't evidence. I have a higher standard.
The Standard Model: The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever [video]
The war on standards is creating a low trust society.
> I had no idea the game had middle eastern origins for instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess#Origin

Chess originated in India, not the Middle East.
I'm confused as to why Julia, a programming language is worth so much money. If the makers of Julia have already given away their source code here,
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
what are they selling that's worth a 24 million series A round?

Is the Julia business model similar to Redhat or Canonical where they sell consulting services?
I'm guessing that you're not in the US on 110v
I'd be happy if the OS had bare checksums to warn about unexpected file or permission changes. It might feel like running uMatrix, so maybe not a great idea though.
The fine grain control issue is very solvable. The induction hot plate I use has 100 steps, and is perfectly adept at gently reducing balsamic to a glaze, for example.

It’s a high end unit today but the technology will trickle down.
I feel like this post elides the functionally single-source nature of plenty of free and open-source software. "But you can fork it" means nothing when you, singularly or collectively, don't have the will or, far more frequently, the resources (time, money, knowledge, etc.) to do so in a sustainable and secure manner. It's the "the law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread--the rich as well as the poor" of tech.

There is an argument, and I sometimes wonder if it doesn't have legs, that a software developer who I just hand money to is more likely to be aligned with my interests than an advertiser's. (And yeah you can say "well bankroll free software!"--then you have to find somebody and be capable of evaluating the results and you've just hit the resource scarcity problem from the other side. A commercially-released application is a lot more concrete.)
Are you referring to the still ignored replication crisis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Experts say, scientists say x may, yet noone talks about the underlying shakiness of all their data.
I think half the comments in this thread are missing this point. The story at hand isn't mass surveillance like in the post-9/11 days. It's not the kind of dragnet that will scoop your grocery list and netflix habits while looking for Al Qaeda. It's very much targeted surveillance. The problem is who they are targeting and why. And they seemingly are targeting people serving public interests. Some of whom ended up dead. Jamal Khashoggi wasn't going to come to Thankgiving at my house or anything, but his reporting on the corruption in the Saudi government was making the world a better place by whatever little margin he could push the needle. And really, as much as the surveillance is crap, it does belie the point that he was also physically murdered. A point that didn't generate a lot of sympathy from the leader of the US despite him actually having a personal connection.
Assuming you can average over all requests imposes that latency does not matter, doesn't it?

If you're the interviewee, it's up to you to get that clarification
Many do, a university cluster is usually full since it runs 3 day-long jobs from hundreds of people. But in order to switch I’d need to replace 100+ direct and indirect dependencies.
>> In some cases amortized isn't good enough though, and games could certainly be one of them!

Real time systems including games have hard limits on how long something can take in the worst case, not the average. In games this manifests as: All the stuff has to be done in 16ms to render a frame on time, if we're late the user will perceive a glitch. The consequences can be worse in control systems in any number of real-world systems where a glitch can lead to stability problems.

So getting back to TFA, this is part of knowing what the "right" answer is for the context.
“ Look where your governance-by-middle-finger got us. “

Your??
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit (2012)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games
Google is fundamentally an advertising company. I don't understand why people are surprised that an operating system made by an advertising company shows ads. It's the same reason Chrome's address bar makes you search instead of bringing up your history. It's the same reason Gmail even exists. Everything Google does has the ultimate purpose of showing advertising to you.
> “We’re still in our early stages,” said Goteti. “Only recently in June, we opened up the platform to a few hundred early-interest users."

How did the team raise $9M on such early traction? Few hundred users?
First question:

> 1. Masha was seven kopecks short to buy a first reading book, and Misha lacked one kopeck. They combined their money to buy one book to share, but even then they did not have enough. How much did the book cost?

My goodness, that's an impressive 5 year old.
so... your suggestion is to "let it slip" instead of using wikileaks as it was meant to be? I'd say theres a reason a guy like Julien runs Wikileaks instead of a guy like you.
Heroin is the (former) Bayer trade name for diamorphine.

Edit: it was available over the counter and was pitched as a less addictive alternative to morphine
Very helpful.

I'm a Apple TV+ subscriber, so I think I already seem to have access to most of the content. But I also have Prime / Netflix up there, and I can preview that stuff too (neither may wife or I mind this).

I did notice once I could turn things off, but we use the Apple TV App (confusing naming) for Up Next pretty frequently (new remote has a quick button for that) and up next nicely seems to pull most of our content in (not sure how) so when we are trying to decide what to watch (we watch about 1 hr every other week) it's handy to remind ourselves of what we were watching from before. Apple obviously does something so that netflix / prime / etc all flow into Up Next. My only annoyance is it feels like there are two "Home" screens, the app icon grid and the apple TV App.
What area are you in that has nothing deadly? That is pretty surprising to me that anywhere meets that criteria. Cool if true.
> Additional tests performed on June 23 and 24 included turning on the backup computer for the first time in space. The tests showed that numerous combinations of these hardware pieces from both the primary and backup payload computer all experienced the same error - commands to write into or read from memory were not successful.

The engineering and circumstances around this are incredible to me. Imagine planning for this possibility decades in advance, experiencing issues and still working through it without sending a single human in to physically investigate.
Can you share links to some others of these?
> Vasya has 2 sisters more than he has brothers. How many daughters more than sons do Vasya’s parents have?

In a world of gender and pronouns fluidity, does this even have an answer ?
I had the exact same problems. Especially when you're trying to get Netflix out PrimeVideo in 4K, you're pretty much out of open source options.
Sort of like what I want, but relies of developers to decide what is passive/active/time-sensitive/critical, and instead of being able to fix it the only recourse is to say "no notifications."

I do see what Apple is going for, in that these predefined categories let you automate notification handling with Focus modes, but I have a feeling a lot of apps will have an inflated opinion of how important "new episodes of ____ are available" is to me.
Yeah, it turned out to be ISIS.
Wouldn't this be the default scientific position? Or to take some of the hyperbole out of the statement, rephrase as: "is it time to assume that health research hypotheses are incorrect until a preponderance of data and reproducible studies prove otherwise?"
Please note the entire absence of the dollar bill from that document.
How do you know if any individual person is "in the know"?
> But then I saw him frowning, and so knew this was not the answer the was expecting.

This is why, as a blind person, I'm fundamentally screwed when looking for a job. I suspect situations like this contribute greatly to the 70% unemployment rate in the blind community.
It wasn't all free — e.g. for many people, mail was provided by their ISP or a paid service — but I was also thinking that the mentality expanded rapidly. Search is a natural spot for advertising (and doesn't need to be privacy-invading) but over time that moved to include lots of other things, increasingly run by advertising companies like Google or Facebook who were content to run the service at a loss because they could resell user activity data.

The main thing I was thinking in regard to that last point was that while early community sites weren't perfect, there was at least some pressure to maintain community health. If I ran a site like photo.net I had to keep photographers interested — too many scam ads or bad behaviour and the most valuable people will stop visiting. Since you're running your own infrastructure, you have more options for differentiating your site and it was harder for spammers to make sleazy ripoff clones as is now common.

These days a lot of that stuff happens on places like Facebook or Twitter, where they will optimize for “engagement” with little interest in the health of a particular community and things are encouraged to leak across communities unless they reach the level where users stop using the entire service and/or advertisers stop buying ads. As long as people have a boredom behaviour of opening your app it's seen as working well.
Hi. Good question.

This is addressed in several places in the comment thread by Keno and Chris.
Extra heat wilts some food(that was previously not refigerated) in transit - now there is a shortage of cooler trucks as well as more failures in cooler trucks over loaded.
True but again only if we're talking about parsing the web. This is about HTML files the author is producing themselves.
You are probably right that they played with saturation here but I don't think by that much. I've seen boletes that look pretty close to that in person in the 5-10 seconds after you tear them.
Any application using content addressing can make use of at least some IPFS technologies. Sharing the contents of /nix/store on a local network or VPN is something I've been thinking about recently.
Vaccine passport compulsory for nightclubs and large events from September
From an radio interview with NSO spokesman ( an ex spokesman for the IDF ), all sales require the Israeli MoD approval.
There's no incentive to run a freenode. The network is extremely censorable/traceable.
Also, with T1D we have ways to actually knowing your 'score'. A1C and time in range are good? Urine tests are good? Nice.

With privacy, how do I know my 'privacy score'? It's way more difficulty to do any 'health checkup', compare to how you were 6 months before and plan around known risks for the future
I've noticed mental rigidity on HN - some people are looking for objective truth compatible with first-order logic. Hints of nuance or relative perspective get them riled up.
Couldn't make it (well ratbagd actually) work with my Hero 403 back in a day. Mouse works fine, but no matter how I tried to edit the config ratbagd does not see it when plugged via bt dongle
The only way to solve this is to break up Google (or rather Alphabet) but I don't see this happening. Anti-trust got way too soft.
> "Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."
Only stackless co-routines require state machine transformation. Stackfull co-routines based user mode threading generally just change out the IO primitives to issue an asynchronous version of the operation, and immediately calls into the the user mode scheduler to pick some ready-to-resume co-routine to switch the stack to and resume. They might include a preemption facility (beyond just the OS's preemption of the underlying kernel threads), but that is not required and is largely a language/runtime design decision.

The big headaches with stackfull co-routine based user mode threading come from two sources. One is allocating the stack. If your language requires a contiguous stack then you either need to make the stacks small, and risk running out, or make them big which can be a problem on 32-bit platforms (you can run out of address space), or can be a problem on some platforms (those with strict commit-charge based memory accounting). Both can be mitigated by allowing non-contiguous stacks or re-locatable contiguous stacks (to allow small stacks to grown later without headaches), although obviously that can have performance considerations.

The other stackfull co-routine headache is in calling into code from another language (i.e. FFI) which could be making direct blocking system calls, and end up starving you of your OS threads.

I do agree that in purely CPU or memory bound applications a classical thread pool makes better sense. The main advantages of either type of co-routine based user mode threading primarily apply to IO-heavy or mixed workloads.
The logical conclusion of this attitude: "Therefore, all conversation of any form, especially any crossing generational boundaries, must cease immediately."
Let's Encrypt Is Down
My “Up Next”, which is Apple’s integration to show shows you’ve been watching when the Apple TV app is selected in the top bar, is polluted constantly with MLB games that I’ve not figured out how to disable. Sometimes I have to skip 3 or 4 games in the bar to find a show I watched yesterday.

And I never watch MLB games nor do I have the app installed (clicking the games brings me to install the MLB app).
Yes and no. They can have lot's of metadata about me but they can't get any first hand biometric information from me from a web purchase.
Some people in this thread did complain about the fact that they find the formula somewhat predictable and that they are growing tired of it.

I am strongly in the other camp. I really like those Launch HN and the backstory is what I like the most. Many times the description of the product is underwhelming (because we never ran into that specific problem ourselves), and then when one understands where the founders are coming from it's enlightening. We walk in their shoes. It makes the problem ours.

Don't take away the backstory! ;-)
I've never heard it put that way before, but I love it. Rings 100% true.
It is also nuclear-presumptive: it presumes that Vasya's parents have only daughters and sons with each other.
I suppose it's the price of convenience? For my part, I pay a lot less for just Internet, borrow DVDs from the public library, and occasionally pay a la carte to stream specific shows I particularly want to watch. It's definitely less expensive in the long run, but my real motivation is that I really hate ads, enough so that I'm willing to put up with lower definition (the library doesn't do as much in the way of blu-ray), waitlists for popular shows, and having to actually plan ahead when deciding what to watch. I'm very, very aware, though, that choosing to do it this way makes me an unusual case. And I'm pretty sure it's not because I've discovered some lifehack that nobody else is clever enough to know about. No, it's because I'm grumpy and easy to irritate, and because, as someone with objectively poor taste in entertainment, I genuinely don't give a damn about keeping up with Star Wars or Game of Thrones or whatever. I'm perfectly satisfied with ancient crusty stuff like Murder, She Wrote.

Ads seem to do a good job of riding a very fine line. There's no need to care about what people will gripe about; people who gripe on the Internet are just a vocal minority, and realistically, as paying customers, they aren't even a problem, in and of themselves. All they've really got to do is be ever so slightly less annoying, to the majority of people, than any of the alternatives.
It wasn't about sending message. The theory is that Kelly could have revealed he was told to fake evidence, and could have provided confirmation of who knew what, and importantly, when.

It was about timing too - it was a critical point for Blair and Bush getting the war they so desired. Keeping in mind there was already huge opposition to the war, proper 1st hand evidence being revealed at that point could well have resulted in Blair having to stand down, and potentially even the British not joining the war. Which of course the US services would not have liked.
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Many say the future of blockchain is 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 and not 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸.

Do you agree?

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There are quite a few rulesets for the board. It's hard to say how exactly the inventors has played it. In this video the basic ruleset is shown. More advanced sets make use of more tile types, of pieces being two-sided - so that pieces have to return where they have started from, after being flipped at the opposite side of the board.
I think that experts design what the user needs, not what the user says that they want. Real experts have enough experience, wisdom, and listening skills to get this right; non-expert-but-wanna-bees have enough arrogance to think that they think they get it right, but they don't.
Understandable if you can't answer this question, but how much work have you guys done with SDRs and arrays?
> Julia's DF library is generic and allows user defined ops and types. You can put in GPU vectors, distributed vectors, custom number types etc. Julia optimizes all this stuff.

These features aren't of interest to practicing statisticians, which the parent comment was talking about.

> data.frame is just a giant chunk of c (c++) code that one must interact with in very specific ways

I don't understand this criticism: yes, data.table has an API.
Clearly you have not seen primary school math questions in Singapore's curriculum.
Dealing with PDFs (as in, coding a system that can import/export/display them) is more obnoxious than dealing with excel spreadsheets.

Unless your system is a PDF library (as in, you make the black-box dependency that other systems use to handle PDF exports), everything you do with PDFs will be through some annoying black-box dependency that is a pain to use.

Even relatively complex HTML is much more fun to work with than PDF.
YOU DON'T OWN "YOUR" DEVICE. go ahead and buy more close source crap
Thank you. I'll do a search for that.
The problem #13, mentioned in the introduction, is said to be really tough for academicians, but I'm not! Probably I'm just plain stupid.
These floods affect village centers first, which are often built surrounding a river or in flood-prone area (ie. beneath a dike or dam). So these centers may be boliterated or severely damaged when it rains as much as in one month during the night. However, most of the houses on the hillsides may be totally OK in this case. These are extremes that climate scientists attribute partly to climate change, as such events will become more impactful and numerous.

Climate change doesn't mean hotter weather everywhere, but more chaotic weather pattern disruptions, changed jetstreams, even changes to oceanic streams may at some point be triggered. Large changes happening so fast will always be catastrophic, especially to species on the top of the food pyramid while dependent on infrastructure.

However, just because these events become more probable, doesn't mean we can expect them every year, just that we will keep experiencing them faster and meaner as time goes by.

Looking at past 10K years, both CO2 and temperature have been remarkably stable, allowing civilization to rise. We have now moved away from that goldilocks zone, which will have planet-wide consequences. It seems a remarkable bet some are willing to take, with no facts to back up their assertions with, but who knows, right?
I do think that all of us have a different take on how we should learn stuff quickly. Some of us learn through visualization; some of us learn by doing the stuff itself. It's just a matter of finding the best method for you to learn different things.
Well, dont eat paint chips.
In the meantime, Google and Amazon simply ignore all complaints about spam originating from their networks.

In the olden days of the internet, ISPs that ignored abuse complaints would be blocked by their peers. Now that Gmail and AWS are too big to block, they act with impunity.
When child labour is illegal,
Why shouldn't be child education.

We are born with natural skills, mainstream education ruins originality.
I'd recommend to go on facebook or just on the web and look for a local group related to foraging. Everyone there will know what the best books are for your region because 10 people probably join that group everyday and ask the same question and they will probably have a stock answer.
> Last week it was rumored that Intel was seeking to acquire GF for $30 billion, however today GF announced a complete logo change and rebranding of the business, which doesn’t tend to occur if a company is in the process of acquisition talks. Alongside this, GF is expected to bring forward its Initial Public Offering (IPO) from 2022 to late 2021. The company is currently owned wholly by the Emerati state holding company Mubadala, and the IPO is on the back of some growth of GF in light of the high semiconductor demand environment. GlobalFoundries expects 2021 revenue to be around $6.2 billion, a +9% growth over 2020.

Intel is talking to Mubadala, not GF. I am not even sure GF could say no if Intel has a decent price offering.

And media suggest Mubadala are targeting an $20B to $30B valuation IPO. GF has been unloading their non-foundry business since 2019, from photomask to ASIC division. So from a pure foundry perspective it is a very decent prospect for acquisition. I wonder if TSMC will also make an offer given they are looking at both Singapore and US for expansion.
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FWIW: I am using it as a general purpose language at the intersection of large data sets, analytics, and related bits. At a prop shop.

YMMV, but I find it is fantastic in this use case. And I don't have to worry about semantic space.