skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact: the tracker songs recorded from real amigas (or faithful emulations) have a certain nuance to the samples which you learn to recognize, due to that everybody disabled the D/A low-pass filter back in the day, which is normally really required after a D/A to reproduce the actual analog samples.

So you got a higher pass-through of some of the higher frequencies contained in the played samples (as the original filters were too wide and cut into the real data), but also you got higher aliasing harmonics, that shouldn't be there but kind of make it sound better in total. Actually, in music production you often add filters in the chain that artificially create harmonics to "excite" the audio and make it more interesting for the ear. This was kind of an unintentional exciter :)

On the Amiga 500, the D/A filter was switchable by software, by toggling the power LED. I'm pretty sure some engineer thought it was crippling to have the filter there permanently online, and sneaked in a toggle feature but couldn't find any free GPIO :)

More in depth description of the D/A reconstruction filter and mod-player emulation issues arising from it:

https://bel.fi/alankila/modguide/interpolate.txt
It's a valid concern but I think it can also be solved. Compress-decompress and compare to the original using a method not susceptible to xerox effect. If the sound has materially changed then use a fallback method, robust but less efficient, for that particular window.

But idk this may be too slow for real time.
Why not build your own? Get a M5Paper and build your own phone using micropython. The M5Paper has a touch screen and builtin Wifis.

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5paper-esp32-development-...
The usual reasons to not develop or even reimplement custom languages (like the language for a computer algebra system) was/is performance and memory. Plus the limited availability of compilers for certain computer types.

Even during the 80s memory was very expensive (workstations) and limited (PCs). Thus it could have made sense to implement a language such that it runs in smaller space to save a lot of money on the user side. Still, there were Lisp-based computer algebra systems on small (Derive, MuMath/MuSimp, ...) and large computers (REDUCE, Macsyma, Scratchpad)...

Also depending on the availability of a certain Lisp system was problematic, when a C or later a C++ compiler was usually provided... -> but then one was responsible for the maintenance of the implemented.
The same may also generalize for Capitalism.
I do think you have a point that the excerpt is pretty weak and boring, and overall the article isn’t particularly compelling.

I won’t comment on the deep-state stuff as that appears to be a dog whistle for some other political argument.

What I do find interesting: a lot has changed since the 80s. The idea proposed in this article that low level employees still have access to documents is far-fetched in the modern age of email, virtual ACLs, etc. I suspect that the agent was not instructed to steal documents but rather to execute binaries on computers in the secure network.

We know from other reporting that Russian tradecraft has the agent use shortwave communication to transmit and communicate with their handler. For example, the agent would sit in a cafe and await the arrival of the handler, who would never enter the cafe but be nearby in a car. That is modern tradecraft.

We also know from the Vault 7 leaks that the CIA focused most of their implant development on binaries that would be executed by someone knowingly infecting their computer. That is another example of modern tradecraft.
I don't use social media. If there's a downside for me, I'm blissfully unaware of whatever it is. I do not struggle to keep up with people I care about. I don't classify HN as social media, but neither do I excuse myself for spending so much time here. I'm addicted, and I think that's bad.
Sorry but this is just too anecdotal for me. There are so many factors that go into Google rankings and Google itself makes it pretty easy to discover any crawling or indexing issues on a website that it seems the root cause of the issue should have been discovered (if it was due to a crawl/index) and I doubt it was a properly working ipv6 setup (something broke somewhere on your company's end is what I'm getting at). Cloudflare uses ipv6 and I doubt all their customers websites were being penalized by Google
one tip is to use a floating life jacket. obviously you still need to constantly watch them, but using safety gear is a good idea
No, not first generation. That would indeed show up, as it did in "Oase 1": https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14558

> Are you saying the Denisovan genome doesn't have unique mutations?

It sure does, but we don't know them. Anything unique to a single archaic individual can always be a sequencing error. (But it's high coverage! Right, but they couldn't compute proper genotype likelihoods for ancient DNA, so systematic errors end up in the final sequence.) And anything found only in Denisovans, however you define them, may or may not be fixed in them, and may or may not exist in other hominins. With so few archaic genomes, it's impossible to tell.

The actual analysis is done on variants that exist in extant humans. Which is why you never read sentence about the number of mutations unique to whoever, you always get something like "is more similar to X than to Y".

> So if Denisovans are more different from Neanderthals than that, why do you think the Denisovan bone was from a Modern x Neanderthal instead?

Distance is calculated by walking along the genome, calling a genotype for every base, and counting difference. This works well for modern humans, but for Neanderthals, a good chunk of the called genotypes are erroneous. This increases their apparent distance from humans, but it increases their apparent distance from each other even more. I'm saying, the Denisovan and Neanderthals may not really be more different from each other than French and San.

I'm not saying anything about the Denisovan in particular. I'm saying the gene flow was probably into Neanderthals, and we stumbled upon one affected individual. Interbreeding is a local event. It is easy to believe that we stumbled upon an individual that had some human ancestry. It is much harder to believe that such an individual ended up in a human population and ended up affecting the whole population uniformly.
And America has "just" the biggest invested army world wide. I guess you need more than money to win the fight sometimes.
Where is a line between end-to-end audio compression and end-to-end audio encryption ?
Somehow the idea of digital minimalism spans a spectrum from

> don't waste too much time and attention on things you don't really enjoy

all the way to

> delete every social media account, never listen to a podcast or an audiobook, don't watch any videos, throw out your phone, and if you ever even glance at a screen for reasons other than work, your precious brain will be damaged

The first position seems reasonable to me. The second one is only mildly exaggerated from an opinion a lot of people actually seem to have, it's pseudoscientific at best and it's just a reason for people to feel smug about themselves while achieving absolutely nothing (or to feel bad about themselves when they fall short).

In some ways it's similar to the "nofap" community where a very small group of people with porn addictions or sexual health problems snowballed into a large cult full of people who all think that any form of masturbation is always wrong. The similarities are in all the talk about your brain "resetting", the fact that they take some reasonable idea and distort it to an extreme, and of course the lack of evidence and all the broscience that's used to justify all of this.
I used to follow Joshua and Ryan but eventually they became "too much" for me.

Minimalism could also mean the lack of stuff, and their style of "turning it into a religion", the high excitement, the EVERYTHING IS SO SUPER AMAZING style American interpretation is quite the opposite of what minimalism eventually became to me.
>> Approaching the NoPhone [0] in capabilities

Maybe they can offer that as an upgrade.
The thing is, it’s not that this problem can be fixed by running pacman -Syu, it is that, in half a dozen years of running Arch on several machines, the only way I could get into this particular failure state was when I ignored every bit of documentation in the name of laziness and did pacman -S thing instead of pacman -Su thing. (Or when I built things from outside the official repos and failed to keep them up to date, but I’m going to guess you’re not running a custom build of Clang, because that is the kind of pain you don’t forget.) Theoretically you might have caught a short window of inconsistent state on a package mirror, but again, from my experience, it’s always just a partial upgrade I did with my own hands. (Compared to apt, pacman is awesome, but its willingness to let you do stupid things could use some adjustment.)

On to more constructive advice—if your latest update was in the last couple of weeks, just

pacman -Su

may work to pull your machine forward to a consistent state corresponding to the most recent installed package. If not, you can use the <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive>: get the last update date by an incantation such as

pacman -Qi | sed -n 's/Install Date *: //p' | xargs -d '\n' -n 1 date -I -d | sort -nu | tail -1

(which I just cooked up, so there are surely better ones, or just look at the tail of /var/log/pacman.log), temporarily replace your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with

Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/YYYY/MM/DD/$repo/os/$arch

and run

pacman -Syu # sic!

Either way, you may see a little bit of breakage (though, in my experience, it’s unlikely), but nothing you wouldn’t have had to deal with when you properly installed your current set of packages in the first place.
That’s actually a sign of a dying industry. Capacity factor increases as you lower the percentage of the grid from inflexible base load Nuclear and Coal.

In 2018 there where 449 nuclear reactors world wide, in 2019 there where 442, in 2020 441. Sure that’s up from 438 in 1996, but this isn’t a growing industry. At best the output has been improving slightly per reactor over time, except again most of that is moving away from base load power plants.
You cannot tell how good is your lawyer untill its too late, or your bank, or the AI. It is also prone to sudden and unexpected failures, like tesla that was driving fine on the same road for 400 days and one day decided turns ito a barrier and kills the driver
Would anyone compress their music library using a deep learning codec, given the possibility of awkward artifacts?
For one thing, the js VM, V8, is extremely good these days. I’ve been very curious about these questions, and in single thread contexts, V8 seems to beat JVM, with compute performance roughly equivalent to Rust in debug mode.

Since the bindings to the rest of the “essential” browser model are all geared towards js, the appropriate mental model might be that js is the “assembly” of the browser, even though it is not assembly in any meaningful compute/memory model sense.
I chose “ideology” because it captured religious fundamentalism (in all flavours), specific state ideologies, critical theory, “communism” (as implemented by various countries)…

Many bright things have dark sides to them.
Yes, but most of the time C is considered to be low-level (and usually is lower level than the language that compiles to it). So “transpiling” is not correct.
petro-dollar support from the gulf if actually exists was peanuts compared to 100s of billions from the US, Nato and India.
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A common refrain in the intelligence world is that the public sees what goes wrong and doesn’t see what goes right. It looks like a long list of failures because we never see the terrorist attacks that didn’t happen or the double agents who were stopped before they did any damage. Of course, that’s an easy answer that helps intelligence services to minimise their failures, but there’s probably some truth in it.
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>Good abstractions are not invented; they reveal yourself to you in due time.

Love that quote, that’s usually how it goes for me.
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Yep, it's kinda happening with the music example on the page: the Lyra (3kbps) sample have some human sounding part when the original reference is just music without any speech. Probably because Lyra was trained on speech.
^ The summarization of this entire discussion in one line is poetic.
> Challenge: Come up with a list of websites that scores above 95 on Google page Speed insights. HN is one. The article linked here is another. Generally, programming-language home pages do well. What about the startup sites under `Show HN`?

My open-source project's home page[1] is currently scoring (for me) 98% on the Google Page Speed insights desktop tab[2]. Given that my project is a canvas library and that page is running 4 large/complex canvas demos, I think the Page Speed result says more about Google's test suite than it does about my page. For instance I know that Lighthouse does not include canvas elements when calculating the Largest Contentful Paint metric which my page should, by rights, score poorly on.

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - The page consistently scores < 50% on the mobile tab
A chain always fails by a weak link. It’s not possible for it to fail in any other way. Cutting it creates a weaker link, for example. Identifying the weak link and understanding why it isn’t failing would be the root cause of success. Identifying what stress on the weak link causes it to fail, would be the root cause of failure.
I don't think this is quite the correct place to ask technical questions like that. You're more likely to get answers on stackexchange, but you'd have first to give a bit more details about your problem, it's quite vague.
They have 300,000 troops that are either poorly trained, lead by incompetent officers and/or corrupt to the bone. It is expected to lose badly. This was known, that makes the speech a big lie as many speeches of most leaders of most countries.
Base load isn’t an advantage it’s simply the term for inflexible power delivery. “4h” batteries are being built at a lot of solar power plants which sounds minimal except they are only producing the equivalent of about 8h of power per day at maximum output and daytime demand is much higher.

So those 4h batteries + solar actually covers grid demand much better than a similar nuclear reactor producing similar MWh per year at vastly lower prices.
Calling him a kid, saying that he deserved better friends, and saying "full of testosterone and even shorter on wisdom than I am", now it makes perfect sense why Mattijsen is "fresh out of ideas with regards to handling the toxicity in the Perl community".
the motte
I remember having seen a similar scene in a couple of times by now.

I guess we will be getting an Hollywood version of the facts in 10 years timeframe.

My heart goes to those that died for nothing, and those that will now face the revenge of Talibans.
Nah, it's not. Buy a MacBook.
I've been teaching a compiler class for 5 years. My experience has been that writing and teaching to write compiler is more efficient using horizontal step rather than vertical steps.

What I call vertical steps are lexing, parsing, typing, compiling, emitting output code.

What I call horizontal steps are language features going through all the vertical steps.

For example it is far better to start with a compiler for the "int language" (valid programs consist in a single integer and that's it), and then progressively add horizontal layers (features) to the language, being able to tests these new features each time. For example adding additions, then other binary operation, then multiple instructions, then variables and affectation, etc.

Next fall I will try the backward approach in my course (still using horizontal steps for building the project, but teaching the vertical steps backward). I'm quite convinced it will work better since I read this article: https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/02/23/teaching-compilers-backw...
This passage struck me as so sad. Was IE worth that? Would I break up my marriage for a product, for a company? For something 5 or 6 people remember and everyone just takes for granted later (best outcome if your product is highly successful)

Never. And it's told like something to be proud of. The american work memes are insane.
YOLO https://twitter.com/this_is_bud/status/735410748239794176
What makes you think they don’t get the same amount from the Gulf?

Only US and NATO provided military assistance. Others like India invested billions in constructive projects like Salma dam.
It's almost as though the American leadership doesn't really understand Afghanistan.
Now, who's equipped?
History repeats itself...
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
We understand human failure and how to guard against it - we dont let drunk people drive, we require multiple authorisations to move a billion dollar or launch nukes, etc.

We don't understand AI failure, so it can cause collosal damage at the worst possible time
Yep, I just moved to Pop from macOS after many years, and while I would rephrase it "just... 'kinda works'" (but I would say that about macOS also) it is a pretty great distro from the perspective of the "I do not wish to spend more than 5 minutes tweaking my operating system" user.
US pulled out only because the general American public was bored of being in Afghanistan. Americans would had stayed there forever if they wanted to, and kept the Taliban at bay.
Typo in the title. Was curious what kind of simulation a minimalsim is
Hello, I was just reading that Denisovan DNA isn't prevalent in all ethnic groups referred as "negrito"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan#Modern_humans

> A 2011 study found that Denisovan DNA is prevalent in Australian Aborigines, Near Oceanians, Polynesians, Fijians, Eastern Indonesians and Mamanwans (from the Philippines); but not in East Asians, western Indonesians, Jahai people (from Malaysia) or Onge (from the Andaman Islands). This means that Denisovan introgression occurred within the Pacific region rather than on the Asian mainland, and that ancestors of the latter groups were not present in Southeast Asia at the time, which in turn means that eastern Asia was settled by modern humans in two distinct migrations.[34] In the Melanesian genome, about 4–6%[19] or 1.9–3.4% derives from Denisovan introgression.[54] It was reported that New Guineans and Australian Aborigines have the most introgressed DNA,[16] but Australians have less than New Guineans,[55] until a 2021 study discovered 30 to 40% more Denisovan ancestry in Filipino Negritos than in Papuans, by their estimates roughly 5% of the genome. They recorded the highest levels in the Aeta genome.[37] In Papuans, less Denisovan ancestry is seen in the X chromosome than autosomes, and some autosomes (such as chromosome 11) also have less Denisovan ancestry, which could indicate hybrid incompatibility. The former observation could also be explained by less female Denisovan introgression into modern humans, or more female modern human immigrants who diluted Denisovan X chromosome ancestry.[42]
More like Fall of Phnom Penh v3
it's part of the major drug transportation route from Colombia to Mexico though isn't it?
Reminds me of the era of Software Metrics, where indeed these kind of computations were a thing.
I've already shared early version that wasn't launched yet. Now I fixed some things and it's ready to be used.
I have recreated a few posts from HN just to show how it would look like.
In short it is:

Web chat

Anonymous, no registration

Channels and threads, each thread is a real time web chat

Enter name and if channel is not taken it's yours

Easy upload (mp4 only and 8mb limit for now)

Old content periodically deleted, but since few users for now it's on hold

No upvote/downvote system

4chan style reply system.

It was implemented with meteor.js
No true Scotsman would create another abstract class.
I'm disturbed by this awful loop, every time I see `setq' gives me the heretic though, that most of the eslip code is just Perl with parentheses.

(cl-loop
for sum = 0 then (+ sum (* total 0.1))
for total = 100 then (* total 0.9)
repeat 10
finally (return (list sum total)))
You could even then go one step further back: the root cause is that animals developed in a way that they need vitamin C. (ok, now it is getting silly)
Realistically better camouflage vs the associated crop, these robots aren’t doing DNA testing or anything.
Not really. Most Gulf states are petrified of militant Islam, and the Taliban subscribe to a creed (Deobandi) that's not particularly popular among Arabs.
The locals keeping their heads down in the face of an insurgency the Afghan state is clearly unable to defeat probably shouldn’t be presented as “strong popular support” (the true level of which is supposed to be about 10%).
...assuming you're referring to indiscriminate shelling of civilians and then mass reprisal killings... what was v2?
I have a t420 as my daily driver. Nothing to miss, it's still a good device by any standards
I have a version with working linux compilation and some other fixes here: https://github.com/arbruijn/d2x-xl/
I have the X1 9th gen.running Ubuntu 21.04. As of now, my Microphone doesn't work, and the get the speakers to be adequate was a challenge (some Dolby Atmos thing). They specify "Linux" as the OS but not which distribution. I'd love to see how the setup is in "Linux" so that the audio system works well.

Other than that, it's a stellar machine. 32GB ram in that form factor and keyboard goes a long way.
I think it's relatively safe compared to it's neighbouring countries. Though, of course, it's neighbouring countries are what could be called failed states with some of the worst safety records of all countries in the world.
I was forced to use Dell by my previous employer for many years. After a couple of kernel upgrades in the beginning everything was smooth and rock-solid. I bought several unused ones for a symbolic price from that employer and they still serve well as family machines (running Linux), despite being over 10 years
old now.

Because I don't fiddle with my machine a lot I liked the way you just enter the service tag into their support site and even years later you got all relevent information about the machine including the full configuration when it was built.

Recently I had to do support for a new a Dell, some XPS 15 really high end machine. I was disappointed to see that they seem to have closed their Finnish internet store altogether, the links to the resellers are broken, the support page only tells me that the machine has run out of warranty 3 months ago (lasted obviously only 1 year). So no more Dell for me in the future.
Nevertheless, the funding they receive is more than enough to keep them going, as such point where US pulls out and they could fight the fledgling Afghan army.