skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the reasons the author gave, especially the cassette tape, I agree it was the golden age of audio. Somehow 70's hi-fi gave way to boom-box, Walkman....

Still more of a fan of the hi-fi era that preceded the 70's when tube amps were king, reel-to-reel was spinning....

Solid-state begat a "watt wars" where amplifiers/receivers could boast numbers far in excess of what a typical tube amp could (the voltages would have to be crazy high, the transformers too heavy).

Then speaker efficiency fell (who needs efficient speakers with 80 Watt solid-state amps?). Woofer, mid-range, tweeter and the accompanying crossovers made for, arguably, crappy sound where all the "sound stage" was blown with out-of-phase audio signals washing over the listener.
If you're using `res`, then you aren't going to scope it to the `if` statement. That is maybe another problem, sometimes you have to do this:

res, err := actuallyImportantBits(...)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("actually important bits: %w", err)
}

And other times you have to do this:

if err := actuallyImportantBits(...); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("actually important bits: %w", err)
}

The problem here is that you really don't want "err" to leak to the outer scope, so the second case is preferable from an absolute reliability and least-surprise perspective... but you can only do that in certain arbitrary cases. I think it's a bit of a wart.

You can certainly handle "res" in an else block, or even write "err == nil" and handle it there, but that is surprsing. I would say it's simply not done, ever, but the Go codebase itself does it (src/go/parser/interface.go.ParseDir was the first example I found; but my search returned many screenfuls of candidates so there are probably more cases lurking in there).

The fact that you have a choice is not ideal, basically.

But, having actually important bits in if err := ...; err != nil {} blocks is not detrimental to readability. You will know how to read that after 5 minutes of reading any Go program.
Ah, here we see the car maker’s version of fizz buzz and whiteboard coding.
Sounds like a violation of 4a.
On 25mbps internet connection, not possible.

Maybe in 10-15 years I can meaningfully participate in the metaverse, providing local infrastructure catches up, or satellite internet like Starlink becomes available
Given the title I was expecting a lot more obscure entries. I’d be shocked if many people reading that kind of article hadn’t heard of at least half of those formats. Or maybe I’m just getting old…?
That's exactly why they're printing so much money. Deflation would cause a deflation spiral - i.e. a short squeeze on the dollar. They can keep doing it, but it's basically a mass-scale confiscation of assets from people. Not sure if that's the goal.
Sounds like it does everything by itself, in a single tool.
Toast hangover prevention gummies on sale for $14.99
I feel like my Lexus is300 has actually appreciated the least out of all the vehicles I’ve looked at. So there’s that :(
Could we rewrite German in Rust to make it faster?
And TV
This level of negligence merits custodial sentences, not just a financial settlement.
> Doesn't this conflict with internship for students.

That's an American thing. I wonder how many GsoC students are foreign.
A) you can click on the time / hours ago to link to the comment without lightening

B) text selection

C) I think HN is one of the least ignorant communities out there on the net. Occasionally downvoted comments are merely controversial or against the grain, but more often then not, they are flawed in some way. In fact their rarity makes them neat to read (high surprisal) if only to understand where they might be coming from.
That's a charitable interpretation. I posit these products are actually designed to further diminish the range of thought and serve to eliminate discontent, resistance and ultimately political opposition.
You're proposing nothing but hypotheticals based on what a utility SHOULD care about as opposed to what they ACTUALLY do. And it's an exhausting amount of mental gymnastics.

As for my father's invention, the reason it didn't catch on was for the same reason that piles of rocks don't actually scale -- it's incredibly inefficient, as is every other rock-based thermal storage. Just because it's a functional method of accomplishing a task, doesn't mean it's the best method, and what you've repeatedly asserted is that YOUR idea should be the best method simply because you say so.
At the minimum, they will have costs associated with bringing fresh water to their home.
But compression time were atrocious and decoder were not as fast as the jpeg one (at the time).

Marginal support from tool/browser didn't help boost its popularity, and patent situation as pointed in parent comment just shut the coffin on this otherwise ok format.

At the time vanilla jpeg had compression artifact and had worst compression rate, but was good enough at the time, even now because of its ubiquity the "successors" are still having a hard time dethroning jpeg.
2021: 1TB SD cards available for portable audio at any quality level you could desire. Arbitary quality DACs available at almost any price point. Powered speakers with matched internal amplification. Subwoofers.

Anyone who thinks the 1970s is the golden age of audio isn't paying attention.

[ EDIT: also, huge shout out to Bandcamp, where I can sit at home in the comfort of whatever listening system I want (typically for me a set of Genelec studio monitors), peruse vast quantities of music for free (typically listening to whole albums several times before I buy), and then finally choosing anything from MP3 to FLAC as the download format. I mean, my 70s self would not have believed this if I had described it to them. ]
I remember being excited about MNG, but finding the open-source libmng a pain to use. It was all based around callbacks with the library driving the animation cycle. Not a great fit if you were interested in using MNG for things like sprite animation.
In 1998, Russia was propping up their currency by buying USD and Eurobonds at staggering rates.. The crisis wasn't due to anything to do what the US is facing but not being able to pay their foreign creditors, not being able to call the Soviet-era debt back from debtors, and owing the IMF billions of dollars they couldn't repay.

Russia wouldn't have had a currency collapse if they had a floating currency to begin with;

> After reviewing the three generations of currency crisis models, we conclude that four key ingredients can trigger a crisis: a fixed exchange rate, fiscal deficits and debt, the conduct of monetary policy, and expectations of impending default.

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/revie...
> doubly so if someone is not educated.

Not just doubly so. In most cases it's impossible.
What are you describing?

In Flint, the state took over the management of the city and failed to properly operate the municipal water system.

There's moving parts, Flint moving from Detroit for water supply to the regional authority, but they are government entities.

Is the idea that the switch away from Detroit water wasn't really motivated by cost and was instead motivated by graft or something like that?
I would be comfortable skipping the standard algo/DS leetcode style coding interview questions.

I'd probably want to see something more open ended, like a system arch/design if possible
The clapper had already been invented! I miss mine too.
It's happening in Benton Harbor. Will be interesting to see how it plays out

https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-environment-an...
Ask HN: Does Apple Pinch and Zoom use AI to enhance a video?
Yes, look like it is.

"It’s based on esbuild’s source, but written in Zig. Zig is an LLVM frontend (like Rust) with manual memory management."

From https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1390084461799170050
I don't think this criticism applies here. The thesis is clearly contrarian, as the market prices US assets lavishly and Chinese dirt cheap. The reader can be assumed to know that.
Later mobile network generations generally use higher frequencies. GSM goes up to 1.9 GHz [1], 5G up to 52.6 GHz [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR_frequency_bands
> It is not a new idea

I've never seen it mentioned in any articles about baseline and peak power needs, and all that talk about grid batteries.

> and it is no panacea.

Nobody said it was. If it would, say, reduce the need for grid batteries by 10%, that would be an enormous savings. All by changing a new thermostat.

I remember in the 70s energy crisis the appearance of programmable thermostats what would automatically lower the temp at night. My proposal just extends that.
Writing tiff files is faster than any of the compressed formats.

That's why I often use tiff to save images initially, and then compress in the background.
It seems they want to turn Youtube into a feels-good, positive-vibes platform like Instagram aims to be.
Whats the flagship application thats written in Go? Or the application that we're most likely to have used?
> A large number of humans speak less when they see their speech is unpopular.

This is a good thing. Some videos are bad.

People who make content in the public sphere should expect others to engage with it.
That's a great point. Hiding the number is a sensible default, but allowing the creators to show it sounds good too. Especially for the common use-case of "how to" videos where a creator may be proud of the ratio.
jpeg2000 has a number of positive traits:

* The industry doesn't want you to see compression artifacts, ever. Digital Cinema has no inter-frame compression, it's encoded as a series of individual jpeg2k images at a pretty reasonable quality.

* If one frame has a glitch, the glitch doesn't propagate over a bunch of frames the way x264 style compression does.

* jpeg2k at too-low a quality doesn't have jpeg/mpeg style square artifacts—instead certain parts of the picture will look slightly blurrier.

* jpeg2k has an interesting property where a 4k image can be encoded (with the proper parameters) such that when decoding you can stop at some point midway through a single frames data and have the equivalent encoded 2k image. Which means you can encode for 4k and ship it to theaters that only have 2k projectors (and that 2k hardware isn't required to render to a 4k framebuffer and then downsample).

* Since it's more modern than jpeg was (and dcinema was standardized before something like webp came along), it has a lower bytes/quality ratio than jpeg. IE, to achieve equivalent quality image from jpeg you'd need a lot more data.

* Support for deeper color depths and a much wider gamut. This is of course limited by what a projector can recreate, but they didn't want to limit to rec 709 or something.

They didn't care about patent encumbrance because they didn't need push this out the consumers—the jpeg2k patent stuff only affects the decoders and encoders, both of which are owned by people who can afford to pay.
I'm not saying it's not useful, but I swiftly pressed the back button when I read "uses web technology."
For the work I do, I also conducted a mini-experiment where I checked the WhatsApp security in regards to the media transmitted.

In the cited documentation below ([0]), it claims that media will not be saved for either method 1 or 2 ("To stop media from all your individual chats and groups from being saved" and "To stop media from a particular individual chat or group from being saved").

I found out that the media is in fact written to storage, straight to the "Private" directory ("Internal Storage/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images/Private"). Said directory includes a ".nomedia" file which inhibits the Gallery app from your phone to see such media. So if you were to copy the "Media" directory into your PC, such "unsaved media" would come with it.

Also, when sending View Once media ([1]), it can be easily screenshot on your smartphone, or if you're using WhatsApp Web, use the DevTools while image is open, so you can grab it in their transmitted resolution.

Want to grab a status from a contact? Go to "Internal Storage/WhatsApp/Media/.Statuses" (enable view hidden directories in your Files Explorer application) and copy/move the file elsewhere, so it goes out of reach when WhatsApp tries to delete it.

Not to spill poisonous words around here, but I highly doubt they take security seriously.

[0]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/how-to-stop-saving-whatsapp...
[1]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/about-view-once/?lang...
Is there anything similar for iOS/Apple TV.

Still seeing downvotes in my country, but if they remove this imo important metric, I’ll have to cancel my subscription.
There are exceptions, like the TVA.

No one would have built hydroelectric and electrified Appalachia, because why would you?

But once that investment was made, the cheap power did attract new industries, as now those regions had something others did not.
This is a great summary of what I wanted to express but didn’t have the words for.
This reads a lot like "Invert a binary tree on a whiteboard" to me.
Tool support was also an issue, I don't remember using any software that supported it out of the box and even less generated one, only a couple of dedicated image viewer/converter.
Crypto is capitalist's wet dream come true.

Capitalist 1.0: Money --> idea --> build org --> employ people --> make products (shiny new plastic toy, ends in landfill after 3 months) --> deal with marketing, fake reviews, selling, shipping, returns, logistics, customer service, cash flow, loans, HR department, compliance, legal and liabilities, rules and regulations, competitors --> profit

Enlightened Capitalist: Money (spent on electricity) --> profit

Crypto short-circuits all of this. Soon, everyone will switch to making crypto. We'll all be billionaires, but nobody makes stuff anymore. Why waste electricity on making stuff (and dealing with the 100 dimensions of a real business) when you can just make profit!
I'd guess that if you need 25 years experience at the job first then you've heard of and practiced the origami cat test.
Which is bullshit - the reason they're removing it is _BRANDS_ that are sick of having their poorly thought out, poorly produced, cynical cash-grab trailers be disliked.

Probably told Susan that they'd stop advertising and start suing unless they did this.
> you can always make a font that distinguishes every code point

Even ones like zero-width joiners and right-to-left marks?
I think the "science" is dubious. Do the authors realize that there are parts of the world (e.g. West Africa) where Palm oil is the only type of oil that has been used in cooking for ever??
Ruby is arguably more OOP than Python, but I'd claim that doesn't help much in the scientific programming / machine learning use case. It might even hurt a little.

This kind of code is naturally expressed in "functions and data" rather than "objects" (data being vectors, matrices, etc.).

And I say this as someone who uses objects in most of my code! (which is not scientific code)
The C Programming Language, 2nd edition.

Introduction To Operating System Abstractions Using Plan9 From Bell Labs.

https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/9.intro.pdf

Today you can just use 9front.
> enforcement agencies responsible for preventing wage theft - including "the taxman"

The taxman isn't formally concerned with wage theft, they are concerned with (tax) fraud. I'm not sure what other enforcement agencies there would be - the Department of Labour?

> When talking about correlations between race and being a "victim", why should we only (or primarily) consider criminal statistics?

We shouldn't, but that's a generalisation of the original question: why is wage theft not treated like a criminal offence.

Also, correlations with race doesn't imply causation: If race correlates with X then anything that correlates with X will also correlate with race. Race correlates with wealth, so anything that correlates with wealth can be spuriously correlated to race. If you normalise for wealth and the racial correlation disappears (I do not know if this is the case) then you have a stronger case for a (primary) cause.

> which covers wage theft, workplace harassment

presumably court cases and lawsuit in non-criminal cases. and other non-legal things such as polls and complaints. But I'm not sure why you expand this to workplace harassment etc - legal resources should be better provided at the lower end, but the courts are the proper place for these civil issues, not criminalising (recategorising) everything for the sake of fixing a funding problem.
Something like this can happen anywhere, not just lead. Highly suggest you invest in filtration systems in your home. They generally fairly easy to install and aren't that expensive.
All you have to do is send a request letter of no more than three hundred words to [address] by December 1, 2021. Envelopes must be #11 and the requestor's address must be centered on the back over the seam of the flap in a typeface no larger than 14pt. The front of the envelope should have [address] and a stamp. Any other markings or creases on the envelope will void the request.
What I'm referring to here is converting markdown files to individual tiddlers. You get tags, backlinks, filters, etc. for free. I have an automated process that lets me put files created multiple ways in multiple directories in a single wiki. That gives me a dashboard of everything. I'm not a fan of entering notes in TW, but I really like querying and reading my notes that way.
yeah it really is. Your time would be well spent investigating it, maybe on a long walk. Be honest to yourself that you don't really want to do it (or you'd be doing it). Then ask yourself: okay, if you don't want to do it, why not change something up, or quit? is there anything you want to be doing? if not, then be honest about it and just do nothing for a while -- eventually you will want to do something again and it'll be an honest desire that you can act on. Years are ticking by of your life where you barely do what you're 'supposed to' but spend most of your mental energy distracting yourself; there's got to be a better way to live.

[obviously I am also talking to myself here...]
For me it's the touchscreen tablet-like control consoles. The Tesla controls are essentially a laptop in the middle of the car. Given what we know about texting while driving, it is absolutely ludicrous to me that those things are even legal, let alone common.
Very true indeed
> I wouldn't include "rent-seeking" as a characteristic of "capitalism"

According to what theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking fits squarely into capitalism.
I've been a fan of combining the use of Obsidian and Dendron, too. I use Obsidian on my phone, with MGit (Android) for the git management, and Dendron on the desktop. The combination of Obsidian (for mobile) + Dendron (for desktop) pops up in the Dendron community discord from time to time, and the common response tends positive when it comes to that workflow
> Why would people bother with crappy MP3s when they could have no-loss storage instead? SMH.

My ears are almost fifty years old and were never that great to begin with.
Yeah, that's the point of the legal system. Even though the non-callous thing would be to treat life/health as priceless, you can't really be giving the victims infinity dollars for their suffering.
Me and family were poisoned a few years ago, severe negligence by a rental company.
Probably half a million in medical bills so far and counting. Insurance covered most of it.

One thing we leaned is doctors have zero interest in helping you to show injuries or claims. Something like posion is outside their domain.

They treat symptoms and want nothing to do with you as person. Claim forms send them running.

Was functionally blind and stuck in bed for a year. No doctor would fill out paperwork.

Disability literally just laughed at me.

By the time we got lawyers involved we started hitting deadlines for suing. So now layers have zero interest.

Unless it’s a very clear thing like “piano fell on head” your going to have a rough time getting justice.
What do you like about K&R so much? I was excited to dive into it during the C systems programming class I took in school, and it was fine, but I didn’t understand the hype. And I loved learning C / usually care about things like this.
They will have costs from going to the doctor to get diagnosed with "proof."
Would love some insight into training data (what? How many tokens? GB?) and training hardware/time.
Not just that. Those times thanks to Napster one could easily find some amazing hidden gems that were simply not available on market. Those were mostly mp3 only. Take it or leave.

I appreciate good audio quality but if music itself is good I would listen to it even at low quality MP3. The quality of some really old stuff is low anyways.
Flac is older than most folks realize however it didn’t save enough space circa 2k.
Hey now, let's not give anyone any ideas.

Lest we all now have to do that in ninety seconds, with our non-dominant hand.
> That sounds way too high for mask costs. You're definitely looking at 7 figures, but I don't think they've yet hit 8.

7nm logic mask set costs are estimated at $10.5M. Of course you could always use a slightly less leading-edge node and save a lot of money.

Slide 13:

https://semiwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Lithovision-...
I don't want video game recommendations from someone that wants to sell me a video game, because they have a financial incentive to sell me a $60 game that I'll like instead of a $10 game that I'll love. No, I would much rather trust the opinions of people who have bought and played the game. I want to know if 99%, or 90%, or 65% of players gave it a good recommendation.

Long-time Netflix subscribers might be having déjà vu right now. Old Netflix had a ratings system, and users could filter content by average rating and see the top-rated movies and shows. Netflix later replaced that system with a recommendation engine. Not only does the recommendation engine not get my taste right, but it sure seems to recommend to me a lot of Netflix Originals.
I get where they are coming from but it is daft in my opinion. I own a small UK based company.

I also can fold paper and have done so for roughly 40 years now. I'm getting quite good at it but have a way to go. Eric K was my original guide.

I prefer my employees to be fairly good at what I employ them for: IT. Paper worrying is a secondary skill that I never ask for. I tend to push for engineering skills like problem solving.

I can fold a three masted ship from a square metre of ali foil or a jack in the box jobbie (box folding) - I do know what I'm on about here.

The thing is that I don't judge my employees on their paper folding skills. I want technicians.
Yeah, a PCX image reader was one of my first programming accomplishments. I wish I still had the code somewhere (same with the Mandlebrot fractal generator I had back then).
From your profile--do you mean hacking in the software development sense or the security sense?
Too bad it doesn't include 1 year of free credit monitoring.
Half of American kids have lead in their blood[1] and I don't think this is only happening in the US. I don't think governments are inclined to fixing this either.

[1] https://futurism.com/neoscope/half-american-kids-lead-blood-...
That this audit was published helps build faith that WhatsApp is trying to do the right thing but it sounds like they still have some kinks to work out.

This is not a trivial problem and I don't want to downplay their effort and transparency. Seeing their struggle and audits is a good sign - they are doing the right things.
The way this is set up if the first happens the second was likely the cause.
Programmers and technical people should store this data hoarding fetisj.

“Just in case” or “will be very valuable in the future” are bad reasons
CIA is infamous for using espionage and other tactics to overthrow socialist governments.