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Can you notice the difference with SACDs for classical tracks on good speakers? I've never had the good fortune of seeing a SACD player.

> It's just special.

Agreed, the process and the album art definitely can't be replicated.

> Obviously, they could do this with CDs -- and in the late 90s, we did see some record labels/bands play around with different colors and designs for CD labels, but it still isn't quite the same.

I'm starting to see this with recent CDs - some have a lot of thought into the digipak (cardboard fold out) packaging and liner notes. There seems to be a recent trend from jewel cases to liner notes but I'm not sure if this is real or not!

> There's also something to be said about the statement piece you have by having a really beautiful record player in your house, that you don't get with a CD player.

This I've got to disagree with :D Vintage CD players from the 80s/90s in all black are stunning [1], especially when paired with a similarly designed amplifier and preamp.

I love the idea of a MiniDic comeback - another vintage tech I've never had the chance to see!

[1]: https://www.audio-high-store.com/the-best-vintage-cd-player-...
This question comes up again and again and the sad answer is still:

Buy the best TV for the money (which will be smart), then don’t connect it to the internet. It will be better and so much cheaper than trying to get a dumb TV that you could get a new one if - against all odds - its dormant smart features become an issue. And you’ll likely have money to spare.

Sure, if you are paranoid you can’t be sure it doesn’t connect to open Wi-Fi or even contains it’s own radio hardware - but let’s face it, so could a “dumb” screen. If you are extremely cautious you can likely disable radio hardware via hidden service menus or worst case physically.

Computer screens or commercial screens sadly don’t offer the processing you want for broadcast TV (Which these days is a lot a about upscaling and smoothing poor video). If you watch high quality streaming you’ll want the latest HDR standards.

So your best bet for a dumb tv is a smart one without internet and just ignore that it connects to the neighbors phone via BT, shows an ad (that it shipped with), or pesters you about letting it connect to the internet.
>If you don't like it then don't use YouTube.

Mmm, but I still have to live in a universe where YouTube exists and everyone else uses it, which impacts my life in a great many ways. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
I rode the Atari ST wave back then. Until I bailed and got a 486 and ran Linux in 93. Yes, Atari half-heartedly marketed the TT030 as a Unix workstation, but it never stuck. I still remember the headline of the little snippet in UnixWorld magazine about it "Up from toyland." Not taken seriously in the Unix market, really, and by the time they had a product, that wave (68k based Unix workstations) had crested anyways.

The real problem for both Commodore and Atari in that era (apart from moribund sales, small market, bad management, etc) was that Motorola was already working towards killing off the 68000 by the early 90s. I'm not sure what Atari or Commodore would have done if they could have held on another couple years. PowerPC ended up being a dead-end, too.

Yeah, I don't like programming the 816, either. But in that era it wasn't the worst. WDC made the 816 just for Apple, really. (And didn't do the greatest job imho, but whatever) If Apple had asked for it, they would have made an 832, added more registers, whatever. It would have been a hack... but so was x86.

Apple's problem was that until the LC (93? 94? 95? I forget. My mom bought one at my recommendation) they didn't have a reasonably priced low-end Mac to sell to people or schools who would have gotten something in the Apple II series in the past. They seemed to have lost a big part of the education market when they dropped/failed-to-advance the II line.
I don't get why they had to reinvent the wheel, just use libreboot or whatever.
They don't actually need your passphrase to unlock your phone - they just need somebody with the passphrase to unlock in for them. And if there's any doubt about who that is, then having that passphrase counts as testimonial; but if there's not - it might not count as testimonial.

Although there are apparently a whole bunch of legal details that matter here; courts have in some cases held that defendants can be forced to decrypt a device when the mere act of being able to decrypt it is itself a foregone conclusion.

(If you want to google a few of these cases, the all writs act is a decent keyword to include in the search).

The defendant never needs to divulge the passphrase - they simply need to provide a decrypted laptop.
I want to achieve two things (besides work and fitness): study math fundamentals and get into (computational) neuroscience.
I just watched this Jeff Geerling video about setting up his M1 Macs using Ansible and his provided playbooks. That's probably the direction I'll end up going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VhPVu5EK5o
Before we were concerned with the climate, we were with the environment. The amount of plastic pollution, especially the potential impact of microplastics, is part of that, like global warming. At least in my view, I see them all as negative impact on our environment. At minimum, negative for ourselves.
The Mexican border right?

- A Canadian
I really don't think Creed qualifies as metal in 2021, but the metal influence is very clear imho. I vaguely recall that they walked a line with American Christendom, being a sort of "Christian crossover" band. I think it's kinda interesting how they made an aesthetic of "consistently singing out of tune" which I think helped them cement their status as more "metal" than "Christian" allowing them to attract from a wider variety of fan-base. Really it's kinda interesting the line they walked, in retrospect.

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Interestingly, I've started dropping bitrate a lot recently, because I like to keep my podcast content pre-loaded. Definitely feels like a throwback: "Gah, my audio content is up to 4gb, I need to either get my listen on, drop bitrate, or reduce my intake!" I wonder when I'll stop caring about how much space I have on my phone.
The Nitro SSDs are currently used as instance storage, directly attached to particular EC2 instances.
Well, for starters, what if I wanted to discredit any negative opinions, so I paid a team to work on that for me? Wouldn't that team want people to also post arguments like you are, where in principle it sounds reasonable (because your position is) but the source and scale were not?

Like, I could see some merit in convincing people that they aren't "allowed" to post anonymous criticism as a means of quieting bad press.
use it all day for all my development work, really cool to see it on the front page :)
That's a different threat model, no messaging app is trying to protect the sender from the receiver. Disappearing messages are meant to protect two parties communicating with each other against a 3rd party who would eventually gain access to the device and its data.
I remember many people being pissed off when these features were announced some months ago.

As far as I can tell, nothing really happened afterwards. I use Signal on a daily basis and haven't noticed any coin-related functionalities. Either they were canceled, haven't been released yet or they're just buried somewhere deep and not advertised.

Do you have a different experience?
Can you link a study for CO2? I read previously that it does affect cognition, but some notion of the size of the impact would be useful.
you mean, hedonic treadmill
Ah, yes, pulled from an article. 16% of all employees, 29% of those who voted...many did not vote. Seems I missed a clever Amazon spokesperson representation of the vote :)
Hi Simone, doing well and we are trying to add more info while still being frugal with words and with the time of our readers.
I don't see the point of starting an app without reactive OAUTH2, SQL, and HTTP support ready to use. It strains me to understand what tools people bring to hackathons in a usable form.
You are totally free to support your own wants and needs, make your own product. Yes, you are supposed to take it or leave it. Why do you think you're entitled to another company's support on your own terms?
There is also Customer Lifetime Value.

By raising prices, you may lose some of your customers, who unfairly penalizes the retail/manufacturer especially when politicians (and reddit and HN) happily side with sub-optimal fixed price solutions.

Pitchforking is real and very dangerous in the modern era.

So, retail / manufacturer have to let true marketplace like scalpers to provide the needed correction (albeit inefficiently).
> You have zero visibility or control over partitioning

snowflake give you visiblity into clustering [1] and in the query profile view you can see how pruning is working( or not working)

Can you give an example of what you visibility you would like to see in terms of partitioning?

1. https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions/system...
You can still make a serious dollar writing COBOL code. That was quite oldfashioned in 1991, and I'm honestly not certain we'll be rid of it by 2041.
The current transaction fee is about $2.19. Nobody can use Bitcoins for microtransactions because the fees are worse than credit card networks, PayPal, etc.
I agree with the method, even if not with the bands directly. The value for a user is in the number of followers. Anyone with a huge following is deriving a large value, and it's the most obvious point for Twitter to cut into.

All of the large accounts will pay a reasonable fee.
> Also see a lot of new releases of 'trendy' music on CD and digitally, but no tape or vinyl.

Interesting - which releases are these? I'm having the opposite problem - recordings like Flight Facilities releasing on vinyl but not CD [1].

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/master/1105473-Flight-Facilities-Wit...
Dangerous biological research – is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)
The world isn't so absolute. To be clear here we are talking about pixels on a screen from a website that's sole purpose is to show you as many ads as possible, and not weapons of mass destruction.

The like/dislike ratio only shows how many people (maybe) clicked a button. Nothing more. It has nothing to do with how trustworthy content is.

Infact I would argue that the moral thing to do would be to remove both the like and dislike count altogether. The like should just tell the system "Yes, I would like to see more content like this" and "No, don't show me content like this".

As far as why not have the dislike count. It isn't up to me or you. We don't own or control YouTube. But what we do control is our own actions and what we choose to use or don't use.
AMD/Intel/Via/IBM/ARM are in horizontal competition on chip design, Amazon/Google/Microsoft/Apple are in vertical competition on chip design. Vertical competition typically results in far less ability for the market to optimize.

Compare for instance the Zen 3 upset vs the M1 upset. Zen 3 allowed the market to pick what they thought was the best CPU, the M1 allowed the market to pick if they wanted to buy an entire computer, OS, and software set because the CPU was good. Similarly with Graviton and Amazon, you can't just say Amazon is competing the same as Via, their interest is in selling the AWS ecosystem not in providing the best individual components. Same with Google and their custom chips and Microsoft with theirs now. Yes many are "just ARM" but due to custom extensions/chips and (in some cases) lack of standard ARM features that doesn't mean they are the same ARM.

Of course that's not to argue it's wrong because it's vertical integration, many will think that's the better way to make complicated products, but that's not the point - the way big companies are competing on chip design is very different than if one acted like an AMD/Intel/Via competitor to actually compete in the chip space instead of a larger space.
For what it's worth, the threat of jail / imprisonment has no effect on determined murders whatsoever. In fact it has no effect violent crimes in general. From https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/for-the-record-p... :

> The weak association between higher incarceration rates and lower crime rates applies almost entirely to property crime.16 Research consistently shows that higher incarceration rates are not associated with lower violent crime rates.

It does make sense. If a person is committing a crime in the hopes of material gain, reducing that material gain by imposing a negative gain if they get caught should deter them.

It doesn't seem like a person committing a crime of passion would be using that sort calculus. And it turns out in this case intuition is right: the figures say they don't. Ergo the threat of jail has no effect on the number of murders committed.
> [Changes] in dietary behaviors and certain medications could potentially reduce blood concentration of these toxic fat-protein complexes, [subsequently] reducing the risk for Alzheimer’s

What would be some recommended changes in dietary behaviors if this link were also verified in humans?
This happened in 2004 or 2005. My memory isn't good enough to land on the exact year.
I found this very distracting as well. "Chocolate ad for squids" is a hilarious description — it totally cracked me up and made my day!
He does. He just likes the printer more. He also surfs the web on a Texas Instruments TI-85 graphing calculator, so go figure.

I'm not referring to the page as an ad, but fair enough. I see him applying a pop-up advertisement using the wrong UX element to a grid of information that doesn't benefit from it.

Wrong is the wrong word, as apparently a dotted link is and isn't a link. Indicates multiuse? That's clear as mud.
Thanks for the response. To clarify, does this mean that only some EC2 instances will be eligible (i.e. if I have an older EC2 instance I will have to re-create it)?
Isn't that just about the same, in aggregate? 60 years from now, 7 people die at age 60 instead of 70, "caused" by air pollution. Smoothing it out, that's one death per year from now until then.
Evaluation of Single User Systems (1986)
Scroll speed is noticeable (it's not as smooth) when you're used to Mobile Chrome, but you get used to it. I don't feel it anymore.

Some UX shortcuts or improvements could have been used as well (e.g. the "Sync" button for the tabs in other devices instead of syncing without asking, or... the weird zoom it does into a form field when I'm about to type in it).
Are there any democratic 'socialist republics' not social democratic (or social market economy) ones but actually socialist? Scandinavian countries are definitely not socialist they have strong social safety nets and high taxes which results in a relatively high government spending to GDP ratio (44% in the US vs 58%, 54%, 53% in Norway, Denmark and Sweden) but that's about it. And if we're talking about "neo-feudalism" Sweden for instance has one the highest wealth inequality coefficients in Europe, it's even slightly higher than in the US, so from a purely cynical perspective they are just giving their 'peasants' enough to keep them quiet while a huge proportion of all private wealth in the country is held by a few families.
Apple should allow for 2 PWs, one the real PW, the other triggers a "self-destruct" mode.

Knowing that is possible law enforcement would then hesitate to ask.
Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project
I've negotiated salaries that are 2 or 3 times what my peers have made in the same position.

I've also negotiated in non-standard vacation packages, like a fixed 2 months off every year.

That simply doesn't happen in collective bargaining.

I've hardly ever been a throwaway widget in any job and even when I was working shitty jobs I was the type to get promoted quickly. The only places this never happened were my 3 union jobs. And in each case I was forced to work for the union -- I wasn't seeking it.
> all people

All people. That's the point. All the people have two arms[0], legs, and eyes. Half the people are wearing big dresses, the other half are wearing funny-shaped hats and tight white trousers. The alien anthropologist would assume, rightly, that the first sentence is just how people look, and the second is marking some important social distinction.

Since wars are fought over social distinctions, and their conduct is largely guided by social distinctions (who fights, etc), the most obvious distinctions would seem to be relevant.

[0]: except Nelson.
> In the example of game consoles, Sony and Microsoft aren't trying to sell you a PS5 or Xbox Series X because it makes them money. In fact, they take a loss on them even in "normal" market conditions. The point of the console is to lock you into a software ecosystem that they can charge developers a 30% tax in order to access.

This is a good argument for producing more consoles, but if there isn't enough supply to clear demand then getting more of the limited stock of consoles into the hands of consumers with less money to spend on gaming is not likely to increase overall spending on the related software.
Moonshot: Ambitious Technology Development – A Book of Methods from the Trenches
If the following book were written, would you care? Would you share? Save me from a herculean thankless task with your indifference, or hurl me into the abyss with your prospective interest.

Title

Moonshots: Ambitious Technology Development - A Book of Methods Developed in the Trenches.

Sample Contents:
Introduction: The case for Ambitions Technology Development & Productive vs Creative Work.
Part I: Methods for Individuals - How to organize your work, your day and your mind to maximize the chance of breakthrough.
Part II: Methods for Teams and Managers - How to organize a team, and a team's work to maximize the chance of breakthrough.
Part III: Methods for Portfolio Managers and Heads of R&D - How to Assess Investment, resource allocation and progress in the absence of predictable progress and traditional KPI's.
Thank you for all y'all hardwork. Neovim has become my workhorse since 0.5 and I am loving it.

I am excited about the virtual lines. Quite a few possibilities there.
Around that time DOS programs were still being written to fit within 640KB of memory. However PC's were starting to be shipped with 2, 4 or even 8MB of RAM - memory really was a solution in search of a problem at that point. Windows 3.1 was the primary application for all that memory. But what if you didn't want, or need, to run Windows 3.1? Well that's where DESQview fit in. You could task switch between DOS programs instead using all that sweet memory (but not really, because DOS doesn't multitask, so 4 switchable ttys of DOS programs is a better description)
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YC has pretty strong ethical guidelines for founders and people have been removed from YC for violating them, so I'm not sure where you're coming from with that, unless it's just a cheap shot.
What seems to be hinted at through this and other research out in the past 12 month:

Reduce fat intake.

It's not the cause, but the carrier of toxins across the blood-brain carrier. Reducing fat would reduce the rate of toxin build up. It's not a cure, nor does it tackle the genetic component, but way to prolong lifestyle.
ISPs 1 Router – Ensuring connectivity in the home office
Here's a much better party/bar trick:

1. Point to the drink glass in front of you
2. Ask friend if they think the circumference or height of the glass is larger
3. Friend will invariably think that height is larger
4. Wager for a drink that that's not the case
5. Use a straw to measure the circumference and then height
6. Enjoy your free drink

Unless you've picked an a Champaigne flute you'll always win. To make it even more fun, for (4) wager that the circumference will be two times the height to make it sound more incredulous. For typical glasses you may go up to three!

I learned this trick from Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (https://www.amazon.com/Things-Make-Fourth-Dimension-Mathemat...), overall good book.
Does it though? And is it such a problem that your life is measurely worse than before?
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There are many dietary changes that can be implemented to decrease the odds of the disease occurring in those who are genetically predisposed. Look into a nutrition program that specializes in Alzheimer’s prevention.

For example:
https://amosinstitute.com/cognitive-health-program/
Note that "Microsoft is not involved in providing the loan and does not collect a fee for connecting users to loan providers" DOES NOT mean that Microsoft does not collect a fee from Zip.

In fact, it's certain that some incentive (monetary or otherwise) is provided to Microsoft.

It might just be a flat fee per Edge installation, or an ongoing payment per year from Zip. Just because the conditions don't exactly match "a fee for connecting users to loan providers" doesn't make it OK to imply there's no money changing hands.

What scummy, evasive language. Sadly, it's the industry norm.
You think Ungoogled Chromium is more split than Brave is? Or are you not replying to what the parent said?
Yes, and you can delete old backups on iCloud - and then switch to local, automatic, fully encrypted backups to a Mac or PC running iTunes.

HN tends to get very frothy-at-the-mouth over Apple and privacy but the reality is that iPhones can be easily set up to offer security and privacy that best in class, they play well with self-hosted sync services like Nextcloud....and unlike the Android-based "privacy" distros you're not running an OS made by a bunch of random nameless people, you can use banking apps, etc.

The only feature I miss is being able to control background data usage like Android does.
Pressing it five times starts the emergency SOS countdown (and requires the passcode next time) on my iPhone XS. Maybe you have the auto-calling disabled?
In an ideal world, Elon's tweets would be sent to Elon's lawyers 24 hours before Twitter shows them.
The reality is that many times the only barrier to sensitive information is a shared login which many people know and a statement that users represent that they have legal authority to access that info.
Thank you for it being so well said!

The beauty of it is that everyone is likely to face or notice problems in their own life which offer the chance to be solved. And usually one is not the only one facing it :)

Hopefully this inspires someone to solve a problem which nags them and which they can get passionate about.

We are excited about the opportunity to work on this problem. And are grateful for the constructive feedback we are receiving from the HN community.
>Blockchains are essentially nested application/data layer federation protocols.

They are trustless, that's the biggest advantage.
Nitro SSDs appear to only be available on specific new instances types, like the just announced Im4gn and Is4gen.
I've heard similar arguments before, but the details really matter. The amount of heat and CO2 is going to rely on things like albedo on the ground and from cloud cover, as well as plant mass and more. I think it's a mistake to ignore feedback on any of that, and it doesn't take too many moving parts with feedback to create a chaotic system.

If nothing interacted with each other, I think you could make reasonable energy-in / energy-out models. However even looking at big low-pass averages, plants/algae use CO2, and heat creates clouds, and clouds block sunlight, and so on. Unlike a double pendulum that bleeds a small amount of energy to friction, the climate bleeds a lot of energy into space, and the amount of energy it loses is a function of clouds, plant life, etc.
Omicron in Europe before South African scientists flagged it to the world