skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you buy Bluetooth headphones and complain they don’t buffer full songs then that’s your problem, not the headphones.

> What's the point in having headphones if you need to be in a Faraday cage to use them?

Surely it’s the opposite? They don’t work in a Faraday cage, because they’re streaming and need to be connected.
This is true and I bring this up as well BUT consider this: probably less than 23% of US citizens make 90% of the important decisions for this country (the power law still holds) and if all of those people are on Twitter then OP's point still stands. I deleted Twitter about 3 months ago and it's been great. I can just focus on life and talking to my friends still on the platform I realize just how much of a bubble it really is and how most of the issues everyone gets hysterical about is just irrelevant in my life. That being said it seems to hold an insane amount of influence in the minds of journalists, business leaders, and politicians and thus it is an incredibly powerful platform.
I hadn't seen SoundSync before. It looks neat.

Like a lot of other people doing (or trying to do) Whole Home Audio, I'm using the Home Assistant open source platform as the central automation controller. You may want to look at creating a Home Assistant integration for SoundSync as it will expose it to the massive HA community (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/development_index/).
Chromebox 3, i7

Yes, new they are very expensive, surplus $100 to $200. EBay, Marktplaats, large equipment recyclers.

edit: this one:

https://www.asus.com/Displays-Desktops/Mini-PCs/Chrome-OS-de...
You left out that the product "PayPal" came from Confinity which x.com merged with.

Also this interesting bit:

"In September 2000, when Musk was in Australia for a honeymoon trip, the X.com board voted for a change of CEO from Musk to Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Confinity. In June 2001, X.com was renamed PayPal."
> this gets distilled down to “the Saudi’s own Twitter”.

HaHaOnlySerious…
if it's a 3P Youtube Creator (aka a random person who started a channel and is creating these mixes by pasting music together), these artists might not even be getting paid for their music
Historically, "liberal" encompassed markets. I.e., historically, "liberalism" encompassed capitalism (in the sense of being mostly free to trade one's labor for others' goods and services). "Left-leaning" thinking is generally very suspicious of, if not outright opposed to, capitalism, and in that sense "left-leaning" is very illiberal. The meanings of these terms have shifted somewhat over time, so to equate "left-leaning" and "liberal" isn't wrong at all.

One distinction I find helps is between "capitalism" and "capitalist". To me "capitalism" == "freedom to trade property, labor, goods, and services" (which, due to human nature, does lead to wealth accumulation), while "capitalist" doesn't mean "someone who believes in capitalism" so much as "oligarch" / "robber baron".

A colleague once put it to me like so: trust in capitalism, not capitalists.

Capitalists all too often rent-seek, and because they have accumulated enough capital to have outsize political power, they are a threat to their societies.

Capitalism, in so far as it produces capitalists, is dangerous, but if the alternative is less freedom for individuals lest some of them become tomorrow's capitalists -especially if it is significantly less freedom- then I'd rather stick to capitalism. Of course, this is a result of my definition of "capitalism", and you might well disagree, but forget what word we should use to name a system with such freedoms. The important thing is the idea that those freedoms are a good thing, and that not having them is a bad thing, and that the price to pay for them is the risk of oligarchs arising, and that we need mechanisms to deal with that problem that don't throw the baby out with the bath water!
It would be incredibly stressful for him to prove it, nay as much as he would like to be vindicated, the risk of the fame and the pressure blah blah blah.

Sorry I can't be bothered to look up the actual quotes but they're similarly incoherent. He pretends to have them but not to want to use them, even to prove his claims.
Sir you are engaging with negative communities, out of your own free time

Twitter, is just how you construct your feed; if you gravitate towards toxic communities/follows, that's just a reflection of yourself

Twitter in my experience has some incredibly informative people from multiple industries and plenty of positive ribbing, but mainly used to collaborate and support each other
This will create Perverse incentive, SEO "ninjas" will just mass-block competitors.
It's not the same claim as being indispensible, but it's the same claim as being extremely vowen into everyday life. I think that claim reflects what is actually being discussed better. What I offer is not a defense of the claim, but a request to consider the claim seriously.

In the public utility metaphor, utilities were not defined until they became defined. There's no reason to discount a possible category of "utilithing" that shares some properties with the existing one but not others.

It might be that I missed your explanation (was it in a sibling thread?), but in this thread I don't see a consideration for that idea. "They are not so vital" is not an argument against it, but your personal value judgement.
I agree that the problem is materials science. My point is how much money is actually being allocated towards that vs sending stuff in space, to what end?

I don’t follow material science stuff super closely but as far as I’m aware the investment is orders of magnitude less than propulsion and other tech.

Then again these things just take time unfortunately
Interesting. Didn't know that. I'm more familiar with the UKP which only goes down in value :(
True, but... that's still a bug.
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I actually had the same thought and came up with a much simpler solution for this years ago, a giant box-shadow + border radius: https://codepen.io/wbobeirne/pen/WvyBQM.

The mix-blend-mode trick is cool for all of the variety of effects though!
Is that like a level below Godwin's Law?
> which thanks to sign in with google is attached to more places than I can even remember

I used to think refusing that option and creating new accounts was just me being obtuse, but I don't regret it now (and with a password manager it's mostly not a major drag).
Chibi Scheme, interesting. Also beautiful. Thank you.

Racket CS is also quite fast, comparable to Lua or faster (for numeric ops). It also uses rational numbers which makes it useful for exact numeric operations.
I haven't seen VBAN mentioned yet:

https://vb-audio.com/Services/support.htm#VBAN

https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/vban.htm

It's a free, open protocol that runs on UDP, transmits PCM audio and MIDI
Was a full song, now it’s a second?
Eh, the bodies were burned on purpose to prevent public desecration. Then officials apparently seeded the idea of his escape.

This will never be put to rest. It's a little like that scene in Terminator where the shrink says something like "It's brilliant. It doesn't require a shred of proof!"
Remembering Gagarin, remember Ukrainians who made his flight possible
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Right. It's probably the second worse place to put jokes, next to an employment contract.
Norm worked just down the hall and he consulted me about physics codes that scientists were running on TPUs. Next generation of TPUs will include higher precision accelerated operations. Note that many scientists tried the "DL will solve physics problems" approach only to find out that DL mostly just did slightly better interpolation than existing systems and happened to run faster mainly because there was a larger pool of experts tuning the engine.

I appreciate your passion but it's clear that outside the world of DL there is a lot of HPC that wants TPUs with higher precision. I don't particularly agree with Sara either, as I have always just moved to whatever resource was most available (IE, finding a better lottery).
> It's really hard to see how Ukraine will successfully fend off a country 10x its size

Every Ukrainian defender kills 10 Russian occupiers?

Obviously some will be less fortunate, and a select few will go down in history as extremely effective removers of Russian conscripts.
One thing to note is that LoopVectorization is much more general than traditional BLAS interfaces since it can automatically generate complicated efficient kernels eg tanh(A*v+y). The traditional model of calling out to hand optimized BLAS is severely lacking because that means that your code has to make use of existing hand designed kernels which ends up leading to extra passes over memory.
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Ask HN: Recent post containing beautiful single page notes?
Does anyone remember a recent post here with a description of a note taking method (with pictures). I don't think it was quite kettelkasten. What I think I recall from the post: each lecture got a single page, the pages were mostly visual with concepts drawn and text to explain. I find myself working on a tool to use ML to aggregate knowledge and that visual keeps floating to the surface. I think if I could see that image again it would inspire a cleaner and more intuitive way of displaying information.
The only thing that upsets be about this everyone should be paying 3.4%. The government wastes nearly everything that is handed to it. The old "oh but what about police and fire" compromises a micron of the what is sent to the government. All of it ends up in the pockets of Senator's friends.
* a very aggressive pihole
* Fastmail accounts for everyone
* just Apple devices or Chromebooks
Isn't that the definition of venture capital, though? Throwing only $5 million on an area like fusion power w/ _huge_ upside should be cheap.
>that doesn't mean Eth as a whole is broken

That's true in the sense that it's not why ETH is broken. ETH as a whole is broken because it's cryptocurrency. The whole idea of smart contracts is never going to work as advertised, it's impossible to make a more complex contract without running into any number of these flaws and spending an inordinate amount of your time and energy trying to mitigate and workaround them. But at the same time these are the types of contracts that drive developers to ETH. It's a lose-lose situation, at best it's equivalent to a payment API that's extremely unpredictable and insecure and will never have those issues fixed because they're part of the design. These flaws aren't inherent in making online transactions, they only pop up when you insist on using blockchains for everything, when there's no real reason to do that.

>Also, trading ought to be done in Layer 2s.

It's really baffling to me how L2 chains have become a serious thing. If you ask me those are just workarounds for flaws in the design of the L1 chains, nobody actually wants to use L2 chains but they're forced to because ETH (and other L1 chains) are so poorly designed that it can't accommodate most things people actually want to do.

>They're programs with a low ceiling on the number of steps and possible codepaths. They barely even have loops half the time. Estimating isn't that hard in practice.

Ok but why should anybody have to estimate in the first place? There's no reason for it with a trivial transaction, requiring this is just bad design.
You seem to suggest you think that Twitter is the right tool for some job. Using it had, manifestly, the observed effect, regardless of what other tool might or might not be deployed elsewhere. Using another tool simultaneously enabled quantifying that effect.
There are people suffering everywhere, no matter where you are in the world, you never need to travel far to find people who are way worse off than you.
Thanks for the feedback! To defend the logging: there's a very visible disclaimer on the first visit to let users know that what they write isn't private. Logging conversations is invaluable to improve the chatbot. I posted this on Reddit a week ago and I've been able to make countless improvements as a result of seeing what type of things people write & when the responses are bad.

That said, it's also hilarious to see the kind of stuff people write to it.
Apparently Russians have his skull. Can't they just do DNA analysis?
One other detail I've learned is that the G load increase is incremental, not all at once. Which apparently is very significant according to the company.
> Would it help if I said that the hardest part is creating a way to get the weather data on chain that the buyer and seller can agree on ahead of time?

> My point is that the infrastructure needed to get clean and honest weather data on to the chain (which requires human inputs) is much smaller than the entire infrastructure needed to administer weather insurance

Is "much smaller" infrastructure on a different dimension than the "hardest part" of the problem? If so, what dimensions are those?

If not, how can the trust/agreement part be both "much smaller" and also the "hardest", especially given that it requires human inputs, especially human driven systems for routinely validating the process (AKA audits), and adjudicating inevitable claims of breaches of the agreement (AKA the courts).
How many Starship launches does it take to get SpinLaunch to the moon, belt, etc.?
>None of this has to do with the "good old days before progress for the sake of progress".

It wasn't for the sake of progress, it was for the sake of profits. Making something almost as good that costs half the price is what the US has been doing for the last 30 years. After 30 years of "almost as good," turned in to absolute shit when compared to the older stuff.

Technology of course isn't bad for the sake of being bad. Electric tools is what allowed the old furniture to be so good at a reasonable price. Wood glue and sawdust being pressed into something that looks like wood but falls apart fairly easily, is an example of when technology makes things much worse and is used strictly for maximizing profit at the expense of quality. There's a lot of that today.
Mountain Bike needed I assume? Or is it more like a dirt single track?
>That said, what does this have to do with the article, which is talking about generational sympathies with either Russia or Ukraine.

The relevance is as an example of the broken trust people that grew up during Iraq and Afghanistan have in the narrative that we are the good guys in foreign policy. After being repeatedly sold a bag of Lies, many look for how we could be tricked into thinking we are the the good guys yet again.

This skepticism and openness to alternative narratives is at the center of the generational divide

The skeptics are primed to ask in what ways the US is complicit in brining about this war, and it what ways it stands to benefit. The dangerous part is that a long track record of lies and self interested foreign wars adds a lot of weight to otherwise less credible narratives regarding Ukraine.
LCDs are actually infamous for making people dizzy, with the whole PWM thing. That's why many screens are advertised as "flicker-free". I am not an expert on the technical side of things but google "LCD displays PWM dizzy" and you'll get plenty of links. Commonly PWM is used for brightness management, so the screen might be flicker-free at high brightness (the blinding one like they use in computer stores), and suddenly it starts to flicker when you turn it down.
but twitter is already all of those things.
He can keep the circus going long enough to significantly sell into it, if he hasn't already started. He's really good at that.
> The statement so listed is blatantly false, at least for Intel, AMD, and NVidia GPUs. Maybe Apple iGPUs are built different, but I find that unlikely.

The statement is for Apple GPUs only, that’s the whole point. Software can be easily ported to Metal (in a weekend according to Roblox devs) but until it’s optimised for TBDR it will underperform.
- Your personality, lifestyle, and communication habits become a blend of your 5-10 closest friends mannerisms. You won't notice this happening, but it happens. Choose wisely.

- Pick friends that will challenge you to be the best human you can be, but also people you're comfortable with so you can just hang and relax. Don't pick people that hold you back, exert control over you, or drag you down.

- Friendships don't always have to be geographically/locally convenient. It's totally acceptable to make friendships based on shared interests over the internet. And travel to meet and hang out with them. My friends in this category are far stronger than my "local" friends.

- Drugs aren't bad, but overuse of any drug absolutely is—this includes both one time binging (like at a party) or daily use.

- Ask for feedback from people you trust, in both life and work. This feels weird, but if you're asking the right people you can get great honest insight for how to be a better friend/coworker.

- In a relationship, work toward being 100% honest with your partner(s). Secrets always corrupt.

- Carve your own path through life, have insatiable curiosity toward everything, and fight the status quo to improve things for yourself and others. You don't need to go down the "default route", but make sure your chosen route fits your long term plan with a reasonable expectation for success (adjusted for your risk tolerance).
"Donations are also something that anyone can use to lower their own taxes"

This is false. It used to be less false, but now is mostly false.

In order to get any tax advantage from donations, you must itemize as all hyper rich do. Full stop. If you take the standard deduction as almost everyone else does (more than 90
%) then you get nothing for your charitable giving.

Note that when the hyper rich do give and get credit it is very often not to organizations that are very "charitable" at all. If you don't believe this to be true simply look up what a how "private foundations" and particularly "donor advised funds" work.
Seems rather tame compared to Palo Alto's response to BART/Caltrain changes ... :)
> But I think the top game of the 2030s will be something like AI Minecraft or AI Steam, where everything, including the very rules of the game, is generated from a structured data set optimized for the player.

Steam and Minecraft are both social by nature. People very often want to play with other people. It's like the joke I do all the time about AI feeds on Netflix: they recommand the same thing to everyone because the AI realized that everyone want to talk about the thing they saw more than they want to enjoy seeing the thing. Humans are socials creatures.
All of the abandoned subway stations and tunnels in downtown Los Angeles are pretty damn cool too!
>To some extent, the Ethereum project has just given up on scaling the main blockchain. “For Ethereum to scale and keep up with demand, it has required rollups” — do the work somewhere else and send back the result. The blockchain is only usable if you work around actually using it.

Zk-rollups are fundamentally superior to direct scaling because they move execution and proof generation cost to only one node (entity, could be a server farm) that only has to do it once, while ensuring correctness is verifiable by anyone cheaply forever.
No more scalable solution exists from a purely theoretical level. This in theory allows even running complicated multiplayer games on a blockchain (turn based directly, realtime by dropping state snapshots).

In principle, this should be implemented directly - but it's so early that a solution that can last for decades simply doesn't exist. In addition, decentralizing zkrollup implementations to third party teams allows for much faster innovation.

Optimistic rollups are more questionable.
> do people really vote with sales tax in mind?

I certainly do.
>Twitter is a mob launch pad.

True, but you don't have to participate and you can try to stop it, if you want.

>It's ran by outrage addicted, sadistic, cruel bullies.

Not sure, but I think this is false. It seems to be run professionally, for profit, and with a great deal of thought.

> It's as if all of the world's village idiots joined forces and became the ruling class in culture and speech.

False, but with a seed of truth: Twitter has undue influence over decision makers because it satisfies their constant need for feedback. Powerful people take Twitter feedback far more seriously then they should. The worst example being businesses that fire people because of a cancel mob to "protect their reputation". (IMO such cancellations do far more harm to the business reputation demonstrating terrible judgement)

>No normal person engages with another person like this.

False. Or rather, you characterize Twitter engagement in one way, and ignore all the other ways. I, for example, enjoy engaging with smart, good people from around the world. The key is to a) be careful about who you follow, and b) give 0 care about likes, retweets, etc. Twitter is not really one place, it's a huge network of places, a bit like Reddit, and so behavior and content varies significantly.
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> Personally, I support high inheritance taxes to balance things out a bit. I think it's healthier for everyone.

The difference it will make is so small you probably couldn't measure it. All that would happen is that it would apply to a handful of people each year who die very suddenly. The rich who grow old would simply transfer everything to their children before they die.

Even worse, this opens up a ton of loopholes that would only be exploitable by the very rich[1], leaving the middle-class paying the largest amount of taxes (again). Nailing down all the special exceptions in the inheritance tax code will probably cost more than you'd receive in inheritance taxes.

Taxing people simply because "they didn't work for it" is just another puritanical way of trying to punish people who were luckier than others. Doing it via inheritance taxes is especially puritanical, because it makes a mockery of fundamental property laws as well.

You may as well just proclaim "to each according to his need". At least that's an honest statement about the intentions behind the tax.

[1] Trust funds are already one of the ways to dodge inheritance taxes, as the "fund" doesn't necessarily hold cash. For example it could be holding shares in a private company that pays dividends. While tax authorities can liquidate any shares held in a public exchange to settle the taxes, they can't do the same with shares held in private companies[2].

[2] This is because there may be no willing seller at the price being asked. If high inheritance taxes becomes the norm, you can bet that every shareholder in a private company is going to regard a tax authorities need to sell the shares as a jackpot day, and buy accordingly for pennies on the dollar, at which point the taxes on the proceeds are going to be close to nothing anyway, and may not even be owed anymore.
And the Zortech editor.
just adding to this historic post
So the upload speed per song is real-time? Come-on - this conversation has turned silly.
How about a work environment with... BOSS HELICOPTER?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tHBOcN_2Fp8/maxresdefault.jpg
They do and you can install extensions to see the dislike count though sadly they slow down my experience every time Ive tried them (at least on Windows Chrome).
Why wait? Let’s just build.
The referenced paper is dated 29 March 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15930
It was no surprise when easel fizzled out. At the time i was really wondering where the income was going to be. But thanks for the nice file manager. Hopefully you got to work with hertzfeld. That alone would have been worth the price of admission.
> Twitter is also a collective mind in a way that has only previously existed in science fiction.

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

You might not have been around for it, but we did this before. The same lesson was learned then too... this is why we can't have nice things.
Oh thanks, I really like this variant. It needs a name: click-to-hover, perhaps?