skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please explain to me how Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Opus are still not supported, then. Please tell me why Apple has no answer for a patent-unencumbered format that replaces it. Better yet, please explain why Google’s “pet formats” are evil, bad, or even just not good. I’m tired of hearing this argument. So basically Google made WebM, so we can never have open formats in browsers? How is this really the answer that’s better for the web ecosystem?

Not supporting WebP had some merit, considering there were other answers, but WebM basically doesn’t have any better alternatives. Even iPhones have the necessary hardware to decode VP8 and VP9. Why does Firefox support WebM if it’s so bad for the web? Why is Apple even part of the AV1 alliance without releasing software that supports it?

I don’t like Apple getting a free pass on positive intent because it’s not Google. Whether its codecs (which Apple holds both MPEG-4 and HEVC patents,) or WebGPU shaders (nobody else wanted WSL, but Apple forced it on us, apparently because of SPIR-V IP conflicts,) people seemingly make up excuses for why it’s OK that they lag on standards that nobody else seems to have an issue with. It’s beyond frustrating. It’s infuriating. As a web developer, it’s a bigger problem to me than anything Google Chrome does, and trust me, that’s saying a lot.
The new URL is not available from Europe (http errorcode 451). This works though: https://archive.st/archive/2021/8/lmtribune.com/dxk9/lmtribu...
I live in LA and, in my opinion, there are plenty of attractive people around. The other reply didn’t say it well, but they might have been onto something when they suggested you might be (understandably) depressed. I have dealt with depression and some of the ideas in your comment remind me of certain bleak perspectives I have had at various moments. I also remember having plenty of clever intellectual rationalizations for these feelings.

It’s pretty crazy when your mood shifts and you are looking at the exact same situation and no longer feel the negative assessment of it. I’ve had lots of ups and downs as I learned to deal with difficult emotions and pain that apparently were hidden within me.

Edit: Of course, it is just an idea. I don’t know you or your situation. You might not be depressed at all :) It’s objectively true that there are more obese people nowadays, however I don’t think it is helpful to focus on that fact.
Yes. It goes to a known tor node.
I don’t know if this is a mental hack or not, but I found years ago that if I mentally sing the comments (that I know would upset me otherwise), it totally removes the emotional impact of other people’s negative writing.

When I was contemplating why this might be so effective, I was reminded that satire of old often involved singing to point out other peoples absurdity. When you think about how much the powerful fear humor and satire, there might be something there…
Honestly, I wouldn't discount the desktop or the OS. On a fresh reboot, htop shows my cpu usage across the four cores as 0, 0.7, 0, and 1.3%. That's not a lot of background activity.

I won't claim to have late-model-Ryzen performance; there is an SSD performance hit when the machine uses some of the 16gb of swap I gave it. The website data has to go somewhere. But I haven't found it to become unusable, except when I restore and load all my tabs simultaneously. After it's all downloaded though, pulling web pages out of swap is pretty fast.

Personally, I found the best things for performance were an SSD, i3+void, and a ton of swap space. Pretty much in that order.

Edit: I looked up the processors of the two machines. Ironically, all else being equal, that X201 is a full 20% faster than yours (2.2 vs 2.66).
I had the “misfortune” of having a friend in high school who was preternaturally gifted in being able to not only identify pitches, but be able to pick out individual pitches in a complex arrangement. One time, at band camp (no, that time), he was sitting at a table in the cafeteria with a pencil, pad of manuscript paper and portable cassette deck. He was transcribing the “Get Away” break from Chicago's “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” by playing a few seconds, writing down all the parts, and then repeating the process.

My take away from this was that this was something that either you could or couldn’t do and there was no in-between.

Fast forward 18 years and I found myself doing transcriptions of demos for a musical that a friend had written which was being produced locally. I was spending about 8 hours a day on this 7 days a week, trying to stay ahead of the need for sheet music for rehearsals.¹ By the end of the process, I was transcribing straight into Finale without first checking the notes with a piano or guitar at hand. In the wake of that, I discovered that I could correctly identify things like the chord sequence of a song that I was writing that I had only ever heard in my head.

So, it is a learnable experience.

But not necessarily for everyone. Now that I'm older, I'm slowly losing my hearing and will eventually have to have cochlear implants. One of the things I've learned from this is that my ability to hear pitches will be diminished with the CI. In researching this and learning it, I've also found that tone deafness as a real phenomenon exists in that for some people, the hair cells in their inner ear are deficient for being able to recognize pitches, although not as dramatically as is the case with a CI.

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1. For the final batch of songs, someone picked up printouts from my apartment, took them to Office Depot to make copies and brought them to the singers and accompanist waiting for the music at rehearsal.
> Under that logic, shouldn't we replace <img> and <video> elements with WASM modules for ffmpeg/libjpeg/libpng rendering into a <canvas> too?

If we're going to town, we may as well go in a Lincoln. Maybe I've just been working in Rust too much recently, but this was my exact thought too upon reading this.
Relay and exit node IPs aren't private, so admins will often collect them and just block them en masse. This causes problems, because a lot of that same IP space will often be shared with things like pool.ntp.org nodes.
You can censor live events for nuisances like strong language or nudity, but you can't protect the privacy of victims? You would be absolutely astonished, how many women are intimidated/assaulted each year. The infection rates of covid pale against that.
short answer, yes. as long as there are "bad guys" willing to do anything to stay out of jail, witness intimidation will occur as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.
I was confused at first by a lot of diagrams I found online, but the wiki is pretty good. Basically think of a two way radiator. Hot air flows through air channel blades on the way out, cold air flows around the blades on the way in, with filtering optional at this point. Some systems indicate that they literally mix the air, which is obviously not going to be optimal, the air needs to be fully separated with the energy exchanging through a metal layer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation
I'm curious what you would make of something like Jonathan Manns NFTs (the song-a-day guy). There is a known difficulty to the production of assets, a known stable emission rate. He makes one song a day for the rest of his life, he has produced over 4000 days of songs now. Would you see this as something that could have value like bitcoin?

Where are the boundaries of scarcity, effort, and value? why is bitcoin on one side of this threshold and everything else on the other side? At what point did bitcoin cross that line into legitimacy for you, and what would everything else need to do to get there?
or is it only bitcoin for eternity? wouldnt that be a strangly dogmatic, arbitrary line to be drawn forever and ever?
You can also accurately identify a lot of sounds, given a specific context.

But if you had to identify colors with the same precision that you expect someone to identify pitches to be considered to have "perfect pitch", it would be very difficult for almost everyone. If you took random chips from the Farnsworth–Munsell 100 hue test, one at a time, and had to give the correct numerical code for each hue, you would not be able to do it. (Which is why the test itself only requires that people put the hues in order when comparing them side by side, not identify each one absolutely.)
> Good luck going to Mount Athos

OK, so here we once again have a situation where the price mechanism is not allowed to operate. For a moment, I thought this was a private gated community in San Fransisco.

> Mount Athos (/ˈæθɒs/; Greek: Άθως, [ˈa.θos]) is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Hellenic Republic. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Oh, another religious membership test.

How is this at all pertinent to the functioning of the price mechanism? Especially when it is government enforced?

> Although Mount Athos is legally part of the European Union like the rest of Greece, the Monastic State of the Holy Mountain and the Athonite institutions have a special jurisdiction which was reaffirmed during the admission of Greece to the European Community (precursor to the EU).[5] This empowers the Monastic State's authorities to regulate the free movement of people and goods in its territory; in particular, only males are allowed to enter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos
I think that in that case the US would just move manufacturing back on shore. It would result in a massive investment boom in the US and the us government would likely print money and provide very low interest loans to fund it. Would result in massive jobs program. I think China would fall in that case as they are massively reliant on the US manufacturing everything there.
Ha, good to see that someone has already done that.
You can mount SFTP with Mountain Duck [1], from the creators of Cyberduck. Costs around $40.

[1]: https://mountainduck.io
Classic Shell please come back!
What is known as timbre is technically the degree to which certain harmonics are present or not.

The most interesting case of this is the missing fundamental, which we apparently re-create in our heads to hear it even when it isn't really present!

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

This really threw my for a loop while building my mp3->midi convertor.
> reading a link
There’s nothing to read. Clicking the link immediately prompts the user to add the repository to their F-Droid installation.
I loved TOR when I was a broke student without enough money to have one or two always on machines with public IPs I could reverse proxy to.
The Amish do not simply reject all technology past a particular date. Instead, they collectively decide on whether their community will use any particular new technology, based on whether they believe it will best serve the needs of the community.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/09/02/21...
The arbitrary integer n = 100 is out of place, comparing your example with GP's comment. The commenter is totally right - the Mac App Store is just a gimmick in the same way that the iOS App Store is a total gimmick to accumulate fees from app developers. The fact that the review system is so broken is a pure indictment of the model itself.
Raytracing in Excel - Improved (via a C XLL) [video]
So many people have never thought what they used to iron before electricity became popular and accessible.

There used to be coal irons. You open them, put some pieces of charcoal on them and use them.
Why do you think Banksy is not an individual anymore? Many top artists run workshops, in which other people physically fabricate their works. Take Jeff Koons, for example. But few would claim that Jeff Koons is no longer an individual.
It depends on the position of the chair, direction and hard surfaces you could hit. A shoulder strap is common on seats that don't face straight forward.
I think there is still value in the comparison, but you are absolutely correct. Any comparison must include this huge caveat - the Mac had a third party software ecosystem for over 20 years, well before OS X or a Mac App Store came along. There simply was far, far less historical incentive to adopt the macOS App Store than there was on iOS, which of course mandated the App Store from the beginning.

As a thought experiment: how many companies would leave the official iOS App Store if offered a choice tomorrow? Epic Im sure... but the experience on Android suggests to me not that many. As with Android, I think a lot will still want a presence on the default/"official" store regardless of the 30 percent take. Don't forget Apple have also done the hard part of getting a customer to enter their CC number to their iCloud account for their store, removing an enormous amount of friction in the sales process too.
Proper Linux everywhere it can be. VyOS on the router, for now.
Time can't be increased or decreased. You have 24 hours in a day, no more, no less. Adding something to the schedule is only more stringent than having a blocklist of activities where you'd at least have a choice.

I don't want to start an argument on the effect and difference of fiction books / tv to games. You point is effectively that those choices may be arbitrary, however games are much more addictive than those that you've mentioned. Realistically, I've seen kids play too much games whose grades dropped like hell, but few watching too much TV, much less reading too much novel. Games can be addictive and difficult to maintain, while the same can hardly be said to TV and novels.

I agree that government-mandated limit would be too much, and less preferrable than a government-mandated system that allows parent to set the limit. You would effectively be requiring game companies to acquire and collect information on the parents of the child playing the game.

I expect a government-mandated default unless with explicit written approval from parents which would seems still rather easy to circumvent for the lack of better ways.
I wonder what the priest would think if he knew his bones were discovered so far into the future…
Cloudflare is mitm, btw.
That's my point. I believe red vs blue is more like violin vs voice than A440 vs Exyz.
For what it's worth i don't even mind that Banksy is literally a corporation. I just wish we were all honest about that. If there's some aspiring artist out there that wants to be the next Banksy our advice should be

"Ok go and register a new company. You'll also need some inner city office space, a management team, marketing and PR. As for the art? Let the data analysts take a look at opportunities to get the most views."
Harpsichord parts played on piano...
As weird as it might seem, Microsoft would probably be the best company to acquire Docker at this point.

They could probably turn this around a bit into a free with Windows, pay for Linux (at the 250 employee level - possibly up the employee count to 500 though).
If you can grow it using the time you're currently spending on your day job, then yes, do it! Is there some reason that you're hesitating?
A shared understanding of what colors are what helps us communicate as well. Of course, some of that is reinforcing, but I would never tell people I'm at the house where the windchime rings about a middle C; but I would tell them I've got a white fence and a red door.
Amplitude has 1280 paying customers (22 with >1m ARR, 311 with >100k ARR).
I would have thought they have much more than this.
We do not identify colors well.

The eye is receptive to three colors, that's it.

We cannot tell the difference between a color which is a mixture of two (or more) frequencies of light, and a pure color, whereas we can tell chords from notes. (In spite of notes having harmonics).

We may be able to point at a red object and call it red. But there are are so many hues of red that this is about as accurate as being able to identify which octave a note is in. When you think that two objects are about the same hue of red, and the put them side by side, you generally find that they are totally different. Color also changes with lighting. A uniformly colored surface does not appear to be the same color if it is not uniformly illuminated, or does not uniformly scatter light in all directions.

When it comes to sound, we may be poor at identifying a pitch, but it seems we are fairly good at identifying EQ curves. Firstly, we can recognize people by their voices, which are the result of a tone's profile being shaped by the vocal tract. In relation to this, we can tell an AAAAH from an IIII, also, regardless of the speaker's pitch: whether the speaker is a man, woman or child. Or even whether the vowel is being whispered. Speakers of languages that have certain vowels that are very near to each other can distinguish those vowels, like some higher "a" versus a slightly lower "a".
I got a new Dell laptop that has End and Home overlaid on the function keys. Normally the F keys are doubled up with hardware specific features like brightness and volume. But I guess they had some empty ones and figured, "who even uses these?"

https://supportkb.dell.com/img/ka02R00000085brQAA/ka02R00000...

So I can either use F2 (and every other Fkey) or I can use Home and End.
There's a dedicated button to toggle between the two modes. It drives me nuts.
To the extreme, I sometimes wonder what would happen if we invent replicators. It would obviously be great for the average person, but it would undoubtedly wreck the economy :)
AWS Internet Connectivity issues in us-east-2 (Oregon)
https://archive.ph/ZYGNL
Doesn't work on M1 chips yet.
Building a zero-knowledge blockchain game
>the original motivation behind the journal which was to enable a platform for researchers being suppressed and cancelled by woke academia for daring to shine a light in areas they've declared off limit.

You need to check your history. The person who came up with the JCI had a different (though somewhat similar motivation): she received death threats from right wing Christians for an article she wrote that was published in an ethics journal.
Hi, we have requests for Docker Desktop Linux, please upvote https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/39 and we are looking at the details of what we need to do to implement this.
Not sure that history would prove that out. Highly structured, militaristic colonial powers (Inca and Aztec, Mandarin Chinese, Vedic Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Western European) all had pretty good runs. Have there been societies that "place a high value on all people and their many quirks instead of conformity to an arbitrary leader" who have been dominant for spans of centuries? I can't think of any.
> Distrusting electronic voting machines only marks you out as a Republican conspiracy theorist when a Democrat is president

I'd modify this.

Distrusting electronic voting machines only marks you out as a conspiracy theorist (of any political leaning) when you only care about the issue if an election doesn't go your way.

People who actually care about the issue continue rallying for changes to election security even if their party won.

If you stop caring once things go your way, you don't actually care about election security, you're just using conspiracy theories to comfort yourself when you lost.
came for this comment and was not disappointed - brilliant idea
Thanks for your reasonable comment. The “ brain works to fill in the rough edges and textures with detail” is exactly what I feel and I definitely do NOT enjoy it.

So maybe it does not hurt my eyes but hurts t my brains for the unnecessary cognitive load, or maybe both.

I do agree it’s a unique “style”, but it doesn’t make sense to me.
Super exciting project! Proud to work on the team!
What an amazing story, and what a terrible thing to be losing your hearing. I've heard some simulations of what the present day cochlear implants sound like and while they are lightyears ahead of what they used to be like (the original ones had only very few channels) it is still way too little for the enjoyment of music.
Okay bad link. Apparently the jessie support for sysvinit is mostly because the service files were still there. It seems they didn't have any intention of maintaining those services, and other software that requires the use of it would simply fail to work if you installed sysvinit because much of it required the usage of systemd and/or dbus.

https://lwn.net/Articles/585319/
https://www.itwire.com/open-source/debian-revisits-systemd-v...

So, I guess I assumed that since there was hysteria around systemd becoming the default and the non-systemd users needing to create a new fork (Devuan) to get SystemD out of their Debian installs, it might have been to be compatible with other software:

https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/

"As many of you might know already, the Init GR Debian vote promoted by Ian Jackson wasn't useful to protect Debian's legacy and its users from the systemd avalanche.

This situation prospects a lock in systemd dependencies which is de-facto threatening freedom of development and has serious consequences for Debian, its upstream and its downstream."

Choice 2:B is also the "new" decision to expand and allow exploring alternatives to SystemD in 2019, which is a change I was unaware of as well:

https://lwn.net/Articles/804254/
https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002#textb

I'm sure this won't satisfy you, but I'm done. I've followed this for far too long as it is, and I don't need to rehash more dumb mailing list arguments.
Interesting. I was basing this mostly on my most recent install of Gentoo, but it seems that even Gentoo's documentation is misleading on this subject.

Without systemd, you "need" elogind as a requirement which is a drop in replacement for systemd-logind. elogind relies on dbus, and in Gentoo needs to contact /run/dbus/system_bus_socket.

However, looking into it, it appears this is largely because of display manager compatibility. If you don't need a display manager, you very well might not need elogind, which means you might not need dbus. So OpenRC for embedded, deciding to manually control execution of your WM with Wayland or X11, or headless servers could still work, but you would need dbus to get display managers to work. I've been reading some blogs of people attempting to do exactly this and they seem to only get into issues with Gentoo and Debian without using elogind or systemd. That doesn't mean it's "required", though, they could just not know what they are doing.

When I was installing Gentoo I was using stage3 of hardened-selinux-openrc, I also had a huge issue enabling SELinux and it kept blocking OpenRC's access to DBus before finishing the boot sequence. I assume this was due to the elogind USE flag, but it seems it had compiled into it somehow, because I didn't initially have elogind turned on. I guess I just didn't know the relationship of elogind and OpenRC (not that this has made anything any clearer), I might actually try rebuilding that system's @world without the "elogind" USE flag just to see what happens (I don't really need a display manager anyway).
For all we know, there may be an equivalent light octave to the sound octave (mathematically it would make sense). The catch is that the frequency range of visible light falls entirely within a single “octave,” but then if you think about the color wheel which puts red next to violet which are at opposite ends of the color spectrum and it suddenly makes sense.