skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most speaker setups have a microphone that you place where the listener is to calibrate. Don't know if that involves delay measurements.
> Here’s how I would frame it: would you rather take a chance on a vaccine or getting Covid?

I refuse to get any virus that has not passed rigorous Stage 3 and Stage 4 safety trials. Worse yet, this so-called Delta variant has been rushed into production without even the most basic studies, even though it's clearly not the same thing as the original virus!
FUSE is also great for slower media. Copying files over USB sticks without being restrained by FAT-32 limitations is great. There have been times that I've used NTFS-3g for this because its FUSE implementation meant I could read it on any OS.
>> A fallen redwood sprouted into a whole row of trees

I had no idea they could do that. Amazing!
If host A and B are both vaccinated, then either the virus has achieved vaccine escape (it is spreading amongst the vaccinated population effectively), or if it hasn't then it still dies out.

If 1 vaccinated person infects another say 3, but then those people fail to infect anyone else - then it doesn't actually matter what selective advantages that viral strain had - 100% of the virus has died out.

But if the same chain terminates in the vaccinated people then infecting an unvaccinated person...then the new mutation escapes and potentially becomes dominant within the reservoir (unvaccinated people) and a failure to spread through the vaccinated population doesn't lead to the destruction of the mutant strain.
What the hell kind of bullshit is this? Everyone knows they did not let it explode and had things under control until the last few weeks. Compared to most of the world China has seen almost no covid. That's what the official numbers say and it's been borne out by independent western journalists over and over again.
80K is for married, for single filers its 40K.
"Trust but verify" is such an empty phrase.

Two people getting ready to leave the house.

A: "Did you turn off the stove?"
B: "Yes"
A: "Are you sure?"
B: "Yes"

If you trust them, then you leave the house. If you go verify it yourself, then you don't trust them.
Ask yourself if you would be ok submitting your photo ID, proof of citizenship, and phone's unique ID in any of the settings that the mandate will cover.

Do you honestly think they will dismantle it one day? Especially if Apple is making it so easy for them.

For the record, no I don't think I should have to present my ID to get a Metrocard or ride a train. I do think that is oppressive. Because by that point they will have intruded into our lives way too much.

NY state has been encroaching for years. They have been fantasizing about a "no ride" list for Amtrak.

And many officials have invited the TSA and ICE to set up surprise mobile checkpoints for commuters at bus terminals.

All under the justification of protecting us from terrorism.

This is just the thin edge of a wedge to expand their control over us. And yes, most of them do want more power and money, and our civil liberties stand in the way of that.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/train-security-is-a-no-ride-lis...
[2]: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/tsa-swarms-8000...
I think you may have a poor idea of how people die in car accidents then.

Car accidents are less instantly fatal, instead you tend to suffer for some while you bleed out, or the car slowly begins to burn as you're trapped.
Google “should I get the vaccine if I already had COVID?”
No, he will be impeached if he does no resign - that's the consensus amongst legislators in Albany from what I've read.
Possible avenue: parent requests access through the app, son grants it, parent then makes stupid move, son assumes it went through the car, only belatedly realizes it may have been the app (or after having this pointed out to him by netizens).
Oops, it wasn't intended! I think maybe the "but" in my comment makes it sound that way?
And yet, quarantine of infected people/places has a long, long history in the US. Weird.
AFAIK this is only true if you pass the power you generate back to the grid - which most people did as it used to be heavily subsidized. If you run your solar without powering the grid, you won‘t be taxed on the used power.
Nothing is ever perfectly secure. It's a question of whom you should trust for a lesser damage.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not?

> Perhaps the Giant Redwood is an ideal tree to re-introduce as we are told that our climate is beginning to return to these types of conditions.

One of the justifications for reintroduction of Redwoods is a real gem.
The Stanford Open Graph Benchmark shows the current best performers on some different tasks: https://ogb.stanford.edu/docs/leader_graphprop/
> weigh the probability of that against the certainty of you and / or your loved ones getting the virus if you're not vaccinated

Why do you say that's a certainty? I think it's still very uncertain how many people the virus will infect going forward.
Well, there is the Dengvaxia controvery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy
just search their name you'd see they were monks.

Tibetan/Mongoila monks were a grand scheme invented by the Chinese to sterialize tribes with their no-marriable policy, for a local family only 1 or 2 boys are allowed to breed and labor, rest of siblings were all destined to be Lamas in remote places. Tibetan and Mongolia's working & total population dropped dramatically after the school of Gelug took power and no longer pose a threat to east & central asia.

The title of Dalai & Panchen were invented and installed directly by the Qing rulers (Jampalyang) to manipulate the Gelug hierarchy. 14th DL is a guy gone rogue and sold Tibet to East India Company.
Hope you got that reversed.
> suggests the country is getting worse in absolute terms.

No, it doesn't. What makes you think that?
> And sure, `snowflake >> 22` would be shorter, clearer, and far more efficient, but it wouldn't let you show off all the cool language features you have at your disposal, and isn't that what's really important?

I don't think the over-complicated code was motivated by a desire to show off — it was written by someone who doesn't understand how bit shifts work, which is still potentially troubling but very different
Your neighbourhood didn't get a cat. You did. I don't enjoy your cat shitting in my bushes, scratching my car climbing up it, killing birds in my yard, or any of the other million annoying things cats do. You don't have an automatic right to make the entire neighborhood a playground for the pet you decided to have. If I find one in my yard I catch it and turn it into the humane society.
Creepy Monster Realistified
Yup - right out of engineering college. Westinghouse. They hired me because I said that I knew my way around a TCP/IP stack. They had no way of verifying that -but I did in fact have such skill, having written a networked multiplayer game (standard course project for CMU's "Operating Systems" course).

As for "experience", these were different times (1989) where a) people were rational about such things, b)I was more experienced than any of the mid-career engineers on some critical tech, c) Westinghouse was the place one got nuclear experience.
Finally, I'll say that it was the best job experience of my career. I worked with an amazing team of dedicated engineers. And unlike today, they were all engineers.
This is the fix. Deprecate alerts gracefully in favor of the native dialogue element!
I also built a crystal radio as a kid. For something so low-tech and "simple", it was an amazing eye-opener into the nature of radio waves. As a form of energy and how information require energy.
That’s a bit cruel. One compromise is to put a small bell on their collar.
So what does that mean for a large symphony where musicians are spread out much farther than sound travels in a millisecond? Let's say it's 10m, that would be about 29ms. I've heard really good musicians and conductors compensate for that but I'm doubtful.

So we must be talking about more subtle effects, like phase shifts, and not about how the waveform envelopes line up.
All the links have zero hits for the word "opinion" on the site. Try Ctrl + F, you won't find it.

EDIT: 6 out of 7 don't have the opinion badge.
Not going to search that on Google :/
Selling data is not part of mine. In fact, once the page loads you should be able to turn off your internet connection and have all the planning/simulation features still work. Everything stays client-side by default, the only way plan data is ever transmitted anywhere is if you upgrade to Premium and then choose to enable cloud synchronization (which is one of 3 different data persistence methods).
Human action is the key. The US was very well prepared, but when the federal government and many state governments weren't interested in stopping the virus of course being prepared doesn't help.

Same with the UK: the response from their scientific community has been absolutely fantastic. But when Boris Johnson simply didn't want to lock down and couldn't make up his mind until too late that didn't count for much. Also he fucked up the test-trace-isolate system for ideological reasons.

Sweden + Denmark were rated as more prepared than Norway, which could well be true, but Sweden chose the UK approach (for no sane reason) and has paid the price.

In all of these cases the problem is not lack of ability to handle the pandemic, but a political lack of will to do it.
This is also how the original BSD UFS/FFS was developed some three decades ago.
This open source app allowes you to visualize the data of a distributed system. Please share your feedback and questions in the comments.
The market they're targeting is Chrome users.

The market that actually uses Firefox is people who rejected Chrome.
Can you give some examples for those advantages?

Also, note they because FreeBSD is orders of magnitude less bloated and organizationally convoluted, it’s easier to implement functionality you need.
Well, monarch are not just who they are, they are also what they represent. However, I agree the current DL likely never had the chance, but I don't support that he should be granted the chance. I suspect he will reform even as an adult, had he remained a monarch. All in all, he carries the lineage then he bears and sins and glories associated with it alike.
Or that simply has never had reason to use them so didn’t think to look for them.
> you can temporarily "retire" for a few years and do what you want without pressure

Not everyone strives to min max their time to the extent that they _can't_ be working while doing what they want. Assuming you're a white collar worker in tech, there are plenty of opportunities for you to make oodles of money, while having a balance between a job and life. Given the choice between being mortgage free in my 30s with an apartment in a cheaper part of town, and being able to quit work to travel/work on my carpentry for 3-5 years, or having a balanced life over the next decade, spending time and having experiences with family & friends, I'll pick the balanced lifestyle every single time.
But that's the things.. There's always a reason to compromise correctness over something else.
Minor spelling thing; I think it's capitalized SwiftUI, not SWIFTUI.
Mozilla is the one to blame for all of this (and the possible reason why Chrome exists in the first place) as they did this to themselves and created Google from once a 'search partner' to a direct competitor; far worse outcome in this.
Don’t worry, I went through and vouched for your dead comments.
>> Dani Lever — who had worked in Cuomo’s press operation since 2014 but left in August 2020 to join Facebook as a communications manager

This is the sort of hire that drives me nuts. I'm sure this person is a fully capable communications manager, but what Facebook really purchased was political access. Is it no surprise then that long after beginning work she was doing favors for her former employer? Maintaining a connection to powerful politicians might well have been in her job description.

>> Prior to joining Cuomo’s office in 2014, Lever worked as a press assistant for President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign and worked in press relations at the Clinton Foundation, among other roles, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Which is more valuable to Facebook: her skills as a "communication manager" or the fact that she probably has the personal numbers for half of Washington?

After some quickly googling: she appears to be the daughter of a prominent NYC attorney, which might have something to do with her previous work, as a student, for NY's attorney general. And for NYC's comptroller general. I would have killed for such jobs during law school. She seems to have bounced between them while an undergrad.

"Lever, who grew up in Quaker Ridge, graduated from [redacted] and the University of Wisconsin-Madison also worked for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, President Obama's 2012 campaign, and Clinton Foundation. She is the daughter of Joel and Debbie Lever of Bradford Road."

https://scarsdale10583.com/about-joomla/the-project/5776-sca...

I love that "Bradford Road" reference. That is New England code for an old and well connected family. (The implications of her highschool are just inappropriate and so I redact it.)
Author of this blog post here, thank you for mentioning The Victorian Internet. I’d read that years back, deeply enjoyed it, but didn’t think to reference it in this piece.

I’d read Empire of the Air and Hello, everybody! along with a number of older radio-focused journals (thanks, Internet Archive) for this piece, while researching the history of radio generally and broadcasting more broadly. And it struck me how many things were similar to more recent hype cycles in technologies, with lofty ideas, eccentric inventors, early military usage of tech that later would be seen as something to level the playing field, a focus on “speed and feeds” that then faded away as everything became good enough, and so on.

You’ve got a great point now at how much radio permeates daily life—the words in the article themselves were sent over bluetooth and wifi. I was focusing on radio broadcasting and the equipment and inventions that enabled that. But in a broader sense, it could almost be that this time period was the peak of expectations in the hype cycle, and then now we’re in the plateau of productivity. That may have been the better point to make.
First - he was being hyperbolic. But I did look around for the nearest exit;)

There was nothing wrong with our software. It was just that they had never had such a fine-granular view into the status of the plant before.
Yes but what I meant is that even though you place a midi note directly on a beat, many instruments still have a pretty considerably delay, in the order of 10-100ms.
Safety arguments about manned Starship have some salience. It seems to repeat some of the flaws of the STS in that there is no realistic plan to get away from a failing rocket.
Majority of fatal car crashes cause death by blunt trauma, so not much different from a plane crash.
I agree, but HN isn't really a "website", it's closer to an application: you don't really have documents. The ideal interface to have HN functionality is Usenet, or maybe mailing lists: you have many people exchanging messages about a specific subjects, quoting and replying to each other, all in very hierarchichal threads. It's only because HTTP is so widespread that HN uses that, but if it weren't I would bet we wouldn't even be talking about javascript.
I scanned the comments to find out who this person is and how they would have any inside info and found nothing. Why is this person’s claim being taken at face value? Before debating the merits of Apple scanning photos / hashes, why does anyone believe this is true?
Your attitude reminds me of when I briefly used that Nextdoor social network until someone in my neighborhood started bitching at me for running past their house every morning, somehow ruining their day.
Author here, great point—I was seeing early radio as the peak of expectations in the Hype Cycle, and today’s ever-present use of radio in bluetooth, wifi, cellular connectivity, and so on is fulfilling the original radio hopes and dreams while leaving radio broadcasting itself behind.
What is baffling about it? There's huge numbers of reports in western media about the extremely severe lockdown in Wuhan. In addition they did testing and tracing to a quite frankly unbelievable extent.

They had both the will and the ability. The west only had the ability unless you want to count Australia and NZ.

They weren't honest about the death toll, and came close to fucking things up because of that, but once Beijing decided to be serious about stopping it they did stop it.

We know from outside reporting that they handled it, so there's nothing to guess about there.
Cuomo also sent thousands of elderly people to their deaths by forcing them back into nursing homes.

And yes, I mean forcing.

Do you remember the hospital ship? The field hospitals? Javits center?

Did you know the hospital ship went home after being almost completely unused? Did you know it treated IN TOTAL 182 people? With a crew of 1200 and 1000 available beds?

Did you know that javits center never even got remotely close to full? In TOTAL in treated about 1000 patients and had 4000 beds.

And yet he’s forcing these elderly back into nursing homes because it makes him look in charge, and fuels his idiotic feud he had going with the federal government over who was more leadery. He won an Emmy for it!

Cuomo should be facing prison. The people who have been helping him cover up killing thousands of elderly people as a political play should as well.

The fact that he was transferring state employees around so he could kiss them on the cheek and touch their face should get him disgraced and fired. It is absolutely a distraction from the horror he has inflicted upon thousands of people. Imagine him sending your grandmother to her death so that he could look good on television. Absolutely evil.
> the left is trying to force everyone to vaccinate

If you believe that the left is pretty much every public health organisation in every country in the world, then yes.

Otherwise, your statement is false.

If Trump had won, and he had encouraged vaccination, would you be blaming the right?
The headline is odd. There are populations of neurons in the auditory system—the medial superior olive—that receive input from both ears. Even in humans these MSO neurons are exquisitely sensitive to binaural differences. This is how the owl catches the mouse at night. In some species delays of 10-20 microseconds can be detected and encoded by MSO neurons even tracking up to frequencies well above 40 kHz. This is amazing when you realize that neurons cannot fire at a rate above 1 kHz. Phase locking and ensemble encoding is used.

For example, adult mice have small heads, and ear separation is merely 5-7 mm; yet this is sufficient to locate the position of an ultrasonic squeak generated by a mouse pup at 40 kHz. This is a computational feat that requires extreme temporal precision in binaural auditory processing across comparatively noisy wetware (transduction noise, phase locking error, synaptic release noise, conduction velocity smear, dendritic integration in MSO).

And doubly impressive given that the brain has no “given” time base or oscillator to define a compute cycle. We must all build and refine our own internal set of pseudo-clocks for sensory and motor systems, in order to define the cumulative temporal context in which we are embedded.

This is crucial for the mouse to quickly avoid the talons of the owl.

More on timing in brain:
@robwilliamsiii (see pinned tweet).
Regulatory capture, innit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Which is why the solution is not to rely on the hope that news sources minimize their bias.

Instead, it seems the best way to get actionable news without the addition of bias from the source, is to get it from the primary source itself.

I've been thinking about building something to accomplish this for a while, a news aggregator that pulls news exclusively from primary sources.

If you think about it, the primary/original source for news in these major categories usually falls in these buckets:

- Business/Financial News: primary sources are company press releases, government regulatory bodies, etc
- Political/Local News: generally originates from the websites of government agencies, or that of a particular politician's.

There are of course several other categories of news, but I'd argue these two make up the bulk of what can be considered "actionable news"
By "such a location" I mean a reasonably safe and drone accessible spot to drop packets. Not only my specific roof situation.
"security" was provided by those guys with machine guns at the entrance. This was effectively before the internet, so there was no cybersecurity threat.
Thanks so much @saagarjha am very grateful. Please if you created a team on Kwayet I will be glad to give your team a blue check.
Not sure actually, I realised I have never bought a book from Apple. The books I have in Apple Books are all epubs though. So, the program can deal with that format, but not sure what format purchased books have.
The Tom Hanks one has its title literally starting with opinion, and a blue opinion badge on top.
I got 2 used SFP+ cards and a DAC cable for $60 total on eBay. 10G between my file server and primary desktop is great. 1G for everything is fine.
Complex problems often do not admit simple solutions. What I think you are trying to get at is that the best programmers (and writers, etc.) are able to decompose the complexity into digestible chunks, so that each module (or chapter, etc.) can be understood with relative ease.
>Alert is an archaic mechanism with tons of useful alternatives that don't involve blocking the DOM.

event loop, but the _whole point_ of Alert is being MODAL and BLOCKING. If I didnt care about that I would just pop fixed position div. Its meant to pause whole page, thats its designed role.

I seem to remember browsers (Netscape or Opera?) around 1999 having "Never show this dialog again" checkboxes meant to prevent alert() spam.
I never found C style operators for bit twiddling to be intuitive (compared to assembly) even if you use the left angle brace to shift left.
The worst part is, bits of this were known from the beginning of the pandemic, but that didn't stop him from becoming a national hero on the left, despite a pandemic performance that ranged from unlucky at best to inept/corrupt at worst. It's only once Trump was out of office that a big chunk of the population (partially) woke up from this weird delirium in which literally everything bad is Trump's fault and literally everyone who isn't him is a saint.

In light of deep stupidity like this, it baffles me that people bother using models of electorate behavior more sophisticated than emotionally-incontinent monkeys banging on typewriters. There's more consistency and intelligence evident in the way six year olds pick their favorite power rangers.
Syscalls are mostly the same, but indeed, the interface between the kernel and the file systems is very different. However, code which implements that interface on the file system is a relatively small part of the whole thing; most of the code should be reusable.

Historical note: FreeBSD used to support XFS; I believe it was ported from Linux.
Unfortunately not all Android apps can be supported due to GoogleApps dependencies and due to verification of "no root" by some apps. Also, virtualization is slow.
I recently bought an M1 (my first and only Apple product so far). Anecdotally, I only bought it knowing that it can execute arbitrary code without restrictions, unlike iOS. If they decide to change that then you can be sure I won't be purchasing any future models.