skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a good point. I wonder what kind of tolerances were needed to make the original records? It probably wasn’t terribly tight, but still necessary to make a playable record. Versus a simple microcontroller that can play any number of songs and very limited physical tolerances.

The electric version might actually be cheaper to produce.
But the initial investment required to watch a new video seems much higher: it feels like you'd have to watch it for a minute or so to really tell if it's any good and interesting to you, but I can make the same decision for text articles typically in much less than that. (And as a bonus, I don't have to sit through ads or hear "hey everyone", "don't forget to like and subscribe", "thanks to so and so for sponsoring this video".

But I agree with your comment, while also agreeing with part of the spirit of the parent comment. Of course videos can be high quality, and making a high quality video probably takes much more effort than making the same thing into an article.
Human beings are a very genetically homogenous species, far more so than most.

Suppose you take a member of an ethnic group and compare them to two other randomly selected individuals, one from their ethnic group and one from a different ethnic group. The chances their genetic differences will be greater with one rather than the other is very close to 50/50. Ethnicity makes only a very tiny difference, the vast, vast majority of the differences between individuals have nothing to do with it.
I don't think that's what shameless means in this context.

Shameless means being as unconscientious about all work as possible in a consciously cynical way.
I guess that's good for me. My last cutting ever was last Saturday. We are moving and all the equipment will be sold in the spring (or sold with the property.) Located in N. Illinois.
> Really can't wrap my mind around how everyone just goes along with FB.

It's the same way people have gone along with 100s of acquisitions from Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036073
Have you used a Quest 2?
I'm waiting for the day I can Ctrl-F on a Youtube video, say a key phrase, then the video jumps to the point where someone says the key phrase (or the video is about the key phrase).

Meanwhile, text is so much more easily consumable. (Youtube Premium junkie here, BTW.)
Either VRChat or RecRoom at this point.
Writing a Wayland compositor in Rust (2020)
> I was astounded when my father mentioned recently that when they bought the home I grew up in, the interest rate was 12%!

The prices of houses adjust very quickly to changes in interest rates because housing prices are based on what an "affordable" mortgage payment for the market is. Housing prices change to make that math work.

Interest rates and housing prices only matter to people who are buying a house that aren't selling one at the same time. Low interest rates are bad for first time home buyers and investors.

> The "don't buy a home mortgage for more than 2x-3x you annual salary" was advice formed at a time of much higher interest rates.

Also, when that adage was coined, the cost of the "essentials" required to live hasn't gone up as much so people have more of their income to spend on housing.
Followed a bunch of advise.

Ended up with a yard of mud for a month. Was the eye sore of the neighborhood.
Then it exploded. Lush beautiful grass that would not stop.

Had to mow it 2-3 times a week until winter.
No upvote needed :) but sure I'll post it here.

(I haven't done this so far because I find metacircularity to not be very interesting. It was interesting when JMC proved it could be done. Mu's whole reason for existence is linear rather than circular bootstrapping. We can disagree over whether I get to call it a Lisp or not, but if it has the full power of macros I'm happy.)
I agree scarcity is the issue but I think income scarcity is the greater macro driver but made worse by artificial housing scarcity. I think that’s why the divide between housing prices and income is growing. Without income scarcity I don’t believe housing prices would outpace income growth.
> Now combine this with Zink and boom! We get OpenGL 4.6 for free

For the RPi4 specifically:

That GPU has hardware limitations that make it unable of OpenGL 3.0. However, it supports GLES 3.2.

If you want GL desktop minus the unsupported features by the hardware, you can set MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3 for example. That will however never be compliant.

Vulkan has many extensions to allow it to work on hardware which doesn’t support the full feature set. (by not implementing them, instead of having only version numbers)
It's a true, there are couple of solid cohorts/communities which are supporting each other on the launch date.
You can easily store the blockchain (which is mostly historical data, ie. “empty accounts”) on an old (rotational) HDD because you access it in a sequential manner, which is fine for old HDDs. It’s only the set of “non-empty accounts” (unspent transaction outputs in technical terms) that you need random access to. But this data can be stored in RAM since it’s only about 3.5GiB.
Whatsapp is monetizable. They're tapping into the almost realtime conversations of a billion users, their images and videos. They can extract a ton of information from that to sell to advertisers. And unlike Facebook, Whatsapp is still used actively,
Facebook doing Second Life over again was predicted when they started VR, it just doesn't seem like that big of a change to me.

But I've already made up my mind on it, and I can assure you not everyone goes along with Facebook.
NMAP in the Movies
> Does this ever happen? I've never seen it.

It does. In this specific case, even. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/29/1022514854/sailor-charged-ars...

“The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch's worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory.”
Right, a fully mechanical version would have far higher DPPM, and as a result likely not be profitable.
In WW2 sailors fought horrific battles with fire and damage while under fire and trying to keep from dying. Yet today it appears no one gives a shit about training. We dump massive money into building new ships (with tech that often is pathetically bad, see the new aircraft carrier). Maybe our military has been reduced to a money sink for big defense contractors, but that doesn't absolve them from basic training and disciplined planning for disaster which really costs very little to do right.
I’m not sure about records, but it is well established that vinyl flooring emits various toxic compounds. Apparently it’s mostly other ingredients besides the PVC.

https://floortechie.com/is-vinyl-flooring-toxic/

Just search “vinyl off gassing”.

Here’s an EPA pdf purely about vinyl chloride: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files...
The Fish and the Cat
If the case is engineering-heavy, I’d expect [at least] one side to bias the jury away from containing engineers/scientists. If it’s heavily reliant on medical testimony, at least one side will try to exclude doctors, etc.

I think that’s inherent in the adversarial system (where each lawyer is advocating for their client’s interests), but I also think it sucks.
Collaborative Editing Using CRDT WOOT
Hi, I would like to share this collaborative editor I have created using the CRDT WOOT algorithm as described in the paper Data Consistency for P2P Collaborative Editing. You can try it here. (I added some visualisation of what happens in the algorithm, which is the array of value above.

https://crdt-woot.herokuapp.com/

It's more of a proof of concept, which would need some more improvements in order to be production ready.
This virus would not have had to be created from the ground up. It's based on a comment model viral system about which we know an amazing amount. Particularly, it's a viral system that's apt to recombine, and whose organization and components thus by design support recombinant exploitation of the evolutionary space. It is very easy to build a novel organization of such parts. You build as many as you can manage (trillions+) and then screen for viable viruses. Then with a little selection pressure in different environments, you can optimize them and see how the novel variants evolve. Doing this at scale helps us understand the way viruses evolve.

And if you think that genome synthesis is not possible, look up "DNA printer". But i don't think that's what you mean.
The number one thing that got me to senior engineer, and will get me to staff as I improve (though staff has more of a relationship management component) is emotional management.

Staying in a long debugging session without ragequitting and getting to the fix.

Pushing through when I feel really dumb for not knowing how a react hook works or how to test a particular feature.

Not getting bored (or recognising it and pushing through) when fixing a bug that is "trivial" but complicated.

Not getting angry when the codebase is not architected well or is hard to understand.

In every one of these situations, better emotional management has made me more productive, calmer, and I had a better outlook of the situation in the end, so my suggestions to external stakeholders about what to do next were more accurate.

And I'm still learning! I get bored and take 3x too long all the time.

This is maybe an exaggeration, but after you learn about for loops and functions, the rest of the job is emotional management.

Ok, maybe EQ becomes important a little bit after for loops, but way earlier than you think. Maybe after 1 year of experience.
> One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that successful projects like the internet [...] were not created by huge companies with huge budgets

The US defense establishment is to huge companies with huge budgets what those companies are to garage projects with 5 people.

I mean, that's an exaggeration, but the direction of the relationship is correct.
Mao was right.
I will guess your average human emits more hazardous VOCs than a vinyl record.

I'd put this down to "someone thinks something is cool and fun! we have to show them how wrong they are!"
Maybe not any new villages, but there's plenty of low population rural areas that are less expensive to buy land and build a house.
Right. Just like we're currently living in a world where IBM controls all computers.
I do. They still store some files for free. I sync daily using rclone. Not broken.
Are you a lost time traveler?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981
8.7% of unvaccinated adults with a prior infection at least 3 months before tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 again,

as compared to 5.1% of the fully vaccinated patients without a prior history of infection,

for an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 5.49 (95% CI 2.75-10.99)

==========================================================

there is a 3.6% greater rate of hospitalization with positive test results among the prior infection cohort

this was then adjusted for skewing due to data collection parameters, then expressed as odds ratio, thus the statement prior infections > 5 times as likely to be hospitalized.

this article then goes to say that prior infection wont protect you.

we are all intelligent people here, the numbers and the methods used to generate those numbers are an indicator of the quality of this study.
The Facebook Papers: 6 Big Takeaways
The problem is not the encryption. The problem is adoption and ease of use.

There are very many ways to encrypt messaging data by sharing public keys. There are also several decentralized, federated encrypted messenger apps. They are great options for folks, but frankly aren’t as easy to use or feature rich and thus not as widely used.
x2 and KFlex were both pre-standard single like 56k modulations; v.90 was the resulting standard and most x2 or KFlex modems could be upgraded to that.

Bonding two modems (or a modem with internal bonding) should have a different name to avoid confusion. But maybe didn't.
> I still have not agreed to the terms of use since I continue to be able to opt out and am amused by FB basically chickening out requiring their users to actually agree. The normal course of action would be to eventually block access to the app. That hasn't happened.

Me too. Every couple of weeks they show me a popup asking me to accept the new terms and I just click the x and continue about my day. At first they were threatening me that I'd lose access to the app by some date but that date passed months ago and I still have access. I'm amused because I feel like I called their bluff and it turns out they're not as confident as they make themselves out to be. One day they'll probably block me but until then...shrug.
Mhm, I would write books and toy software, mainly for myself and my kids - and definitely I would stop scrambling to provide value to someone else if I'm not rewarded in some way
> The sailor was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel, Robertson said.

Charged with arson, so without more details it’s hard to say if they’re just a patsy.
I have to think this is mostly due to modern toy factories and their standard tooling. You'd probably have a hard time finding a factory that could mass produce the old toy because that's just not how toys are made today.
We celebrate "science", but we skip the scientific method. Observational studies, unreprodcible experiments, and non-falsifiable models have taken over.

Not just taken over in pop science, but actual scientific fields.

So can we really blame judges and juries for taking a few intellectual short cuts? Yes, I suppose we can, because an individual is at risk and we should expect better.

But the scientific community should take some blame for compromising on the core of science while continuing to fly the banner of science.
with you all the way...
Nah it's much more similar than you're implying. Fido is doing stochastic descent to get his treat. Humans are determine the loss function for both AI training and dog training.
they use they, not he, but they have a lot of followers on ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
All known viruses were originally produced by nature. Engineered viruses are natural viruses that were modified artificially, but they still had a natural origin. We don't have the technology to create a virus entirely from scratch, we can only modify existing viruses in fairly limited ways. Surely you know this, right?

If we can find that original natural source strain of virus, we should be able to compare it to Cov-19 and determine the likely path of development. This has been done many times before for other viruses, such as SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, etc.
> the finale of Games of thrones had 19 million viewers [1], while the books sold 90 million copies [2]

Isn't this viewers in one country (USA), versus books sold worldwide?

> Looking at something similar, the Lord of the Rings had around 80-90 million viewers (very rough estimation from the global box office [3]) while the book sold 150 million copies [4], so the books seem to have fared better.

Viewerships in Box-Office are limited to a specific timeframe and location. They do not include television, private viewing on streaming-services/DVD/etc., later screenings in cinemas around the world. And the movies only exist for 20 years, while the booksales are from 3x that timeframe.

And finally, those are exceptional successful books and franchises. What about an average book? How many people have seen Forest Gump and how many actually read the book even decades later after the initial hype?
I'm surprised they still make this. Usually kids toys are modeled after what they see adults doing. Some people still have turntables, but it's rare enough that I wasn't expecting there to be much demand for this.
"any number of songs" = 10, in this case, and up to 16 but the extra 6 can't be delivered since there's no update mechanism. Versus the original which could play a much larger variety of songs based on the records themselves. Presumably using a music box like mechanism, not a vinyl record style mechanism, which greatly loosens the quality constraints on the records (based on listening to a recording of the original).
Exactly right. That’s why I bought an “antique” one on eBay for my young son a few years ago. I had zero desire for the new garbage version. It was maybe twice as expensive, but 100% worth it to me.
The vagueness is intentional and it's surely supposed to strengthen their ownership claim on the idea of the "metaverse"[0].

But unless the company radically changes their internal KPIs, it's probably just a matter of time until Meta will taint that name too and evoke the same association as the word "metastasis" does.

The concept is called the "euphemism treadmill"[1], you can try to outrun the negative association but it will catch up eventually, famously evidenced by the company originally known as Blackwater[2].

As much as I hate the subscription model in software, I'd prefer it for social networks and messenger services to stop the omnipresent and insidious peeping model for advertising purposes which we see today and ideally before it starts to infect a nascent "metaverse" of AR and VR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)
This would be securities fraud if you applied it to any other asset. You’d be jailed if you did this.
Yet when we look at ultra dense cities around the world where parking or traffic aren’t concerns (because of good public transit), the housing prices become even more crazy.
I think many saw it already. He is great a programmer, his analysis on the initial problem and on his situation with Microsoft is on point.
Nostalgia. Parents and grandparents who remember it will buy new toys based on their toys from childhood, regardless of the modern sensibilities.
I think programming appeals to people who don't natively do a lot of emotional display or read emotions well.

Emotional responses and awareness have very little relevance for the acts of writing and testing instructions for computers. Machines don't know or care how you feel.

Thus, people to whom those things seem less relevant often drift towards software development, IMO.
> kids could see and feel how it worked. That made it a fascinating toy

I assume all of us here on HN are the type-of-person who as a child would have been fascinated about how mechanical and electromechanical toys and gizmos worked - and probably disassembled the thing to our parents' chagrin and figured out how it works (and hopefully put it back together correctly!) and ended the day with a sense of satisfaction from learning something new.

...and then I'm remind myself that we are not like everyone else: I'm still able to vividly remember the things I did with my mechanical/electro toys to see and try to understand how they worked, but that most of the other kids my age didn't: their objective was simply to use the toy as entertainment or make-believe-play or the like - not as an object of curiosity - and they weren't particularly interested in any explanation I'd have for them (it didn't help that I wouldn't have asked them if they wanted to hear my explanation in the first place though... heh)

So for us, this digital-fake of a classic toy is an insult to our imagined younger-selves of the 21st century, but when I think about this ultra-modern toy from the perspective of someone just after something of solely nostalgia value - and a modern-day kid uninterested now (and shall most-likely forever-be uninterested) in how things work then indeed none of what we're griping about here matters - in fact it's the opposite: this 2010 remake is demonstrably tougher and more resilient to damage and wear than the mechanical original despite being superficially the same - given we're in the minority overall (...I think?) then this new design is objectively better as far as moral-utilitarianism is concerned.

...and it's not like Fischer-Price is selling this remake as a toy of interest to kids with a curiosity for things mechanical. They're not being totally dishonest.
This is patently false, you get your information from movies and not real life. Sniff dogs sit when they detect what they're looking for, they do not bark.
Are you saying everything brought up during a code review is relevant, i.e. that nitpicks just don't exist at all? Because I feel that's a rather extremist point of view.

Note that a bug isn't a nitpick. A nitpick would be something like "that variable name is a bit long" - it may be, but is it really relevant in a business sense? Should either reviewer or programmer be spending time on something like this? Should it hold up an important commit?

Protesting that isn't 'immature', it indicates he understands there is a trade-off between differing priorities. It's something that is surprisingly uncommon among programmers, unfortunately.
What do you think a diversity quota is, if not discrimination? Maybe you're suggesting that it's time for the supreme court to step in, given that these hiring and promotion practices are, as your link clearly states, illegal?

This is pretty cut and dry. You may be supportive of D&I but by definition it is an exclusionary, discriminatory, a-meritocratic, and illegal policy. The fact that these quotas tend to be implicit does not change the legality (or morality) of the widespread practices.
Possible maxim: Financial innovation typically is seeded in criminal activity.
Not just in the U.S.

A house around the corner from me was listed for $350,000 CAD.

It was an absolute dump. Looked like your typical crack house. Completely falling apart and abandoned.

The area is half decent though, and a friend of mine was looking to move here recently, with a budget of $400k. So I suggested this house to him.

Apparently the house sold for $640,000 CAD. Almost double the asking price. For a teardown that's going to cost another $300,000 to turn into a decent house.

I could not believe it.

That same house would have sold for $50,000 in this area 10 years ago.
I had read and loved The Expanse. I also loved it on tv. Lord of the Ring. Hmmm.
Lots of great 70s and 80s toys that are still around are terrible. Super soaker? A joke, premium prices and way worse than squirt guns 1/4 the price, which are themselves not as good as early Super Soakers. Tank's not even removable which means it's basically not even the same sort of product at all—I'm sure the gaskets added too much to the production cost. Loopin' Louie? Motor's too weak, and it's lighter, so it doesn't work as well. They even managed to make Hungry Hungry Hippos suck. Rock 'em Sock 'em? Really bad compared to the original (you can find the original at flea markets sometimes—it's so much better, this isn't just nostalgia). The usual approach seems to be to cut vital features, shrink everything 10-30% (it's sometimes hard to tell if you don't have the original to compare it to, but it's really obvious when you do), and make all the plastic paper thin.

I think it's part of most things that aren't computers getting worse over the last few decades. Shit would be double the price if they still "made it like they used to". Even fast-food pizza—Pizza Hut's in fact way worse than it was even in the mid 90s (they've had at least two major reformulations of the sauce, for one thing, getting worse each time), but if you find a different pizza place that makes pizza around 90s PH quality it'll be 50+% more expensive.

But yeah, inflation's only low-single-digits percent a year. LOL sure.
Federated servers are still servers. It’s nothing for the FBI to subpoena any server you’ve connected to and then any server that server connected to, etc.

The important thing is minimizing the data that is collected, period. Otherwise you’re just obscuring the data storage.