skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who are not willing to provide their credentials: I wrote

https://github.com/tehforsch/striputary

which also records the music (meaning you need to wait for the entire length of the playlist for it to finish) and cuts it into songs. It doesn't require you to provide any credentials (and it should in principle work with other streaming services as well, but I haven't tried).
It is probably not the smoothest user experience, given that nobody except me has ever used it, but I've successfully recorded thousands of albums with it so far.
Spotify does have a lot of tracks on there that i cannot find elsewhere (not on any trackers, not on deezer, not even on youtube for that crisp 128kbps).
The problem is that there can be many such "small" things, sometimes with complex solutions ( remapping cmd+tab) or no solution at all ( having different scroll direction between trackpad and mouse. After some time you just get tired and accept the OS isn't for you and you stop fighting it.
s/TextMate/Textadept
Can you provide sources or any meaningful numbers beyond handway 'most' regarding which of his shares are used as collateral?

His NW went from 20B to 270B in last 2 years.

If your house went from 200k to 2.7M, the bank will somehow find it in their heart to lend you a lot more dollas than before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Doing the actual maths 40B is chump change and he could probably borrow couple hundred B or more if the things he's buying also have market value banks will lend on.

Unless he's somehow borrowed hundreds of Bills in the last 2 years? Any sources for that, I looked because of what you said but didn't see any actual info on loans beyond .5B in 2020 which is a fifth of a percent of his NW. Literally < 1% of his NW ??
You didn't really specify how it's "utterly broken". As an anecdote, I've been listening to Spotify a lot whenever I drive or go jogging, all offline since I don't have data and it's been working well for me.
Sorry, misquoted. "Throw one laptop shame on you. Throw two laptops shame on me."
uMatrix really is the best dead extension. I still hope someone will revive or recreate it (or add the same interface to uBlock or one that is just as good).
Datalog.

> in the Prolog family

> Scallop is a full-fledged logic programming language based on Datalog [...] a logic rule-based query language for relational databases. [...] Scallop is a scalable Datalog solver equipped with support for discrete, probabilistic, and differentiable modes of reasoning
Didn't they lock lossless FLAC to premium users?
Just wanted to say that I love Figma. Not sure what part of the system you work on, but every time I open the canvas, it blows my mind that I’m on a website. It’s so smooth it feels like native most days.
Critical thinking isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation
I've accidentally discovered that adjusting the sound volume from the keyboard exposes the title of the video in the popup: https://imgur.com/gallery/K3oUFlb
Should be fine if you host your own tmate server.
And it sometimes gets it wrong too. The wrong song, or a live version or remix instead of the original.
Unsupported, yes but so far there is no adequate replacement and it remains the best we have.
If I recall correctly Fedora in the 2003 - 2006 era included an option to set up raid as part of the standard installer. Around the same time frame gnomes disk tool supported actually doing operations like replacing a disk in that array.

Even the incantation to do it manually isn't that magic. I'm guessing you could read the manual for the options to mdadm --create in minuted rather than days. If you want to be really fancy zpool create mirror foo mirror bar.
Thinking out loud; what I’m I going to use this for?

I guess I could implement some old 8 year old project from GitHub on my raspberry pi.

I I don’t think conda has support for python version 2.3. Unnmmm. I guess I could waste time today.

Yet again,this is a waste of time...
I don't really care about the quality though. I just want to play songs locally :)
He could move to Missouri and pay half as much.
I'm off Lenovo X-s due to poor keyboards and poor warranty support. I was told (around the Gen5 era) that they often have slightly less powerful CPUs than similar competition though I have no idea if this is still true. They were also slower to offer better displays.

Onto Linux-on-Dell XPS 13 for a few years, though admittedly I didn't pay for it so I didn't really have a choice. Still, I'm happy and would easily recommend the product. A lot of firmware upgrades happen over `fwupdmgr` too.

The recently posted StarBook 14-inch looks interesting, but the screen isn't hi-res.
Offline? Try listening to a podcast. It has to be one of the worst pieces of software I have to interact with regularly. The second last podcast would skip back to the same timestamp every time I switched audio or exited the app. If they are going to charge money and still push adds at least give me the option to use an alternate client.
There are countries which prohibit foreign ownership of real estate. However capital controls typically prevent money from leaving, rather than entering. It will be interesting to see how this trend plays out.
Powershell is a verbose OOP monstrosity typical of the Microsoft Way.
I thought the watermarks were UMG, and on all streaming services, not just Spotify?

EDIT: Apparently fixed for most tracks: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/an-update-on-umg-watermarks
Of course not, because the M1 Mac Mini is not a low end desktop. That's the whole point multiple people have missed here, and I'm glad you're not one of them.
To my point of view, sharing this is irresponsible, modifying librespot to download song on your computer is fairly easy and is a good learning exercise to learn Rust. But by sharing this work publicly, you increase chances that librespot will be blacklisted by Spotify and that accounts using it will be terminated. It's a shame, because there is many alternatives to the bad Spotify UI that rely on librespot that will also become blacklisted. There are legitimate uses of librespot and its use should be restricted to those, for the best of users and developers that spent a lot of time making librespot great.
Have you tried Slimbook? Neat design and full Linux compatibility.
Netflix does this too but at least warns you. It's because of the licensing with the record labels.
I have a problem with Israel and its politics, not with Jews or any other religion.

Does that make me an antisemit? Because then the term has been redefined and I'll gladly wear it
Lowering sodium intake doesn’t help heart patients
Exactly. Thanks for reading along.
This "5x more likely" sounds horrific ... until you look at how it was reached:

"""
According to Labour statistics, by March 2021 there had been 1,450 "actioned complaints" against Labour party members in relation to allegations of antisemitism - equivalent to 0.29 percent of Labour’s membership, which averaged 500,000 between 2015 and 2020, when Corbyn was leader.

By contrast, says JVL, there were at least 35 actioned complaints against Jewish members. This is equivalent to 1.4 percent of Jewish members, who the group estimate to have numbered around 2,500 during the same period.
"""

Having 35 "actioned complaints" against Jewish members does not sound like a purge from the Labour Party, and portraying it as such is pretty misleading. I'm also wondering if there's some careful wording here, since they're comparing a total number of actioned complaints against Jewish members, vs number of actioned complaints specifically relating to allegations of antisemitism. Interesting that one of the two authors of the article is a Conservative (ie, the party Labour is in opposition to)
You're obviously abusing your flagging privileges (flagging reposts which are explicitly allowed on HN — read the rules!), and I hope people will join me in flagging your link spam.

You're right, people like you will never reform, so there's nothing more to discuss.
The US government is very far from "the most corrupt" legislature in the world.

I agree it's quite corrupt, though.
Did you just call "the left" "antisemitic" and then immediately complained about people who "blame identity groups for the world's problems" in two consecutive statements?
The Radeon module works on non-accelerated mode with the modesetting driver instead of the xorg Radeon one.

At /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-radeon.conf:

Section "Device"
identifier "Radeon"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

Bugs may arise, maybe it could be a good idea to disable the Composite
extension too.
BSD Unix predates Linux.
what about everything else? high sodium diet =

- higher chance to develop kidney stones

- increase in blood pressure

- hurt the liver
And this is why divide et impera always works
They're mostly noname brands, the "top" brands aren't available here probably because they're expensive.
Can we be pedantic about the simplistic title? Japan did not invent the chopsticks, but some researchers at a university that were sponsored by a beverage manufacturer did.

If these researchers were anywhere else, what would the title read?
What's the power draw on your fifteen year old Dell? What's the thermal displacement? What generation of NVMe drives does it support?
I think you might have missed his point. The gist of it is that almost all modern software is at least 100x slower than it needs to be, for no good reason.

Conventional software practises result in unnecessarily complex code that takes much longer to write and to execute than needed. The problem is so endemic that there isn't really even a good programming language available that makes it easy to use the capabilities of computers.

Fortunately there are a few pioneers trying to improve things, constructively creating solutions such as JAI. Casey is fighting against the fact that not only are industry participants unaware of the problem, buy they actually fight to write bad code to ship bad software to customers because they believe that is the pinnacle.
The disappearing tracks is really the main problem with Spotify. I think at some point licensing to streaming services needs to be compulsory, like licensing to radio is, so that there aren't "exclusives."
Then you're an edge case, which is absolutely fine but you're not Spotify's core audience.
Yes, I read the comment I replied to. You turn it off with the power button. By holding it.
> It's not written in stone that Debian has to be the purest distro of them all.

Perhaps not purest, and perhaps not in stone, but in the closest thing to a digital equivalent it's at least written that Debian has to be pure.

The very first bullet of Debian's Social contract is: "Debian will remain 100% free". You could argue that when that changes, it stops being Debian.

https://www.debian.org/social_contract
Arch obviously.
> That dilution might take place before bottling, after bottling, or a combination of both

The paper states "Before bottling, the whisky is diluted to around 40 vol-% by the addition of water", which is clearly not always true, certainly not in nerdy circles.

> Whiskey is distilled and casked at a high % abv (e.g. 60-70) and then diluted before drinking to something less than that, e.g. 45%, 40% or lower. That dilution might take place before bottling, after bottling, or a combination of both. But (hopefully) very few people make the mistake of drinking 70% alcohol without diluting it first. That the dilution was left to the consumer rather than happens in the factory is just a detail. It doesn't really change how whisky is distilled (70%) and later consumed (~40% or something higher but still hopefully not 70...).

I'd say that most enthusiast do not dilute most of their cask strength whisky down to anywhere near 40% ABV if they can help it. My argument is that the paper
's generalization is _very_ broad.
Sorry to do an "actually" here but funnily enough history is not historically written records. History as a branch of knowledge was specifically operated upon the context that the likelihood of something happening historically is based on the individual's effort to ascertain the word of mouth of the people to find certainty and consistency. That is because what is written can easily be done by anyone but convincing many people over generations would be much harder. So the fact that history has shifted to what is written as the authority is actually a successful implementation of an attack vector to manipulate truth.

tl;dr Historically oral history was the only form of discovering what is true and specifically regarded as more rigorous than written accounts.

At least, when taking history into account.

Etymology is also interesting:

> From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.

Fascinating that history is based on "seeing and knowing."
Technically, the video covers this at the very end. You'd need a lens between the eye and led to focus the light.
I don't see the point in deliberately misinterpreting. That is in itself a downgrade.
Yep. He is a genius who does not care about money and stands up for a cause. So cool
Or just go old school, and use something like Icecast from your home server.

Years ago, I used to have a MPD + Icecast setup that streamed audio to my phone over OpenVPN, and it worked flawlessly.
'They believe intrinsically that what they do is necessary for security.'

That's thr rub isn't it - if you startva security agency thst does terrible things, it will hire people that can somehow justify and rationalise those terrible things

Very few people in KGB or whatever thought that they did anything wrong
In addition, DJ pools often contain music and extended club mix friendly edits of songs.

Radio tracks that might start off with just vocals might have a "extended club mix" which has a clean 16/32/48 bars of instrumentals before the vocal kicks in. The same for the outro.
I'm a massive fan of an uncodified constitution. It allows parliament to have a great deal of flexibility and modernisation.

New laws can be iteratively created rather than relying on extremely old documents and lawyers/historians who attempt to decipher what was intended and how that relates to modern times.

If the US constitution was converted into a set of laws and then deleted, what do you think would happen? Attempts to be made to change the laws, some would pass, some would fail, but the passing of those laws would still be democratic if those making them were democratically elected.
If you simply dislike how Israel is treating Palestinians (and maybe support BDS) then no it does not, so you should not accept that label.
> user unfriendly product design like the mouse that has as charging port on the bottom rendering it unusable.

That was a feature according to Apple not a bug.
Webassembly as a desirable server side technology... I suppose I need to recontextualize what I understand webassembly to be. Hmm.
A slightly-relevant project: https://github.com/CyberShadow/ripfs

Also, could this be the same pisto of RubberWorm fame?
For what it's worth, my Huion tablet (non-screen) had what seemed to be a standard USB-C cable on both ends. Good to know if you ever wanted to try a different Chinese brand.
Yup, so does the US and the UK.
> The bulk of Scotch whisky production, both single malt and blended, is aimed at filling supermarket shelves because that's where the highest volumes of sales and profit come from. These products are not aimed at enthusiasts.

Yes. The paper, however, implies that even enthusiasts dilute their whisky further below 40% ABV. For a nerdy article, that's missing most of the "enthusiast" market segment.
If I may offer a suggestion:

Focus on what information you're trying to convey and try to say it in the minimum amount of words. Prefer sentences that convey information ("V is has a 10MB compiler" - we learned the size of V compiler) to sentences that don't ("V-lang is an extraordinarily powerful language that can help you create a variety of applications" - we learned nothing, since "powerful" is subjective, and all languages can be used to write applications). That will help you focus on communicating your ideas clearly and tersely, which will make your articles much more attractive to technical readers.

Good luck with your research and writing!
Scottish person who lived in Scotland for 20+ years here :)

Drinking water alongside whisky, or adding a few drops to whisky was very commonly seen, both in bars, and at home. As you'd expect there are often wee taps on the bar for that purpose, or small jugs of water served alongside.

My comment was really relating to adding ice in particular, and I have to say I've only ever seen that done extremely rarely. Of course anecdotes aren't data, and people have their own specific preferences - I'd certainly not suggest it is "wrong" to have ice, but I would say it is unusual (and more a thing I associate with Americans).
Amazing how political these things don’t have to be.

When I was at university someone logged into the Sun workstation I was on to run a remote X session. Whatever they were doing kept puking all over the framebuffer console in the middle of my Cadence session. I send an actual polite email asking them to stop as it was making it difficult for me to draw gates. Got no reply.

Two days later I got hauled in front of my tutor, accused of hacking and being rude to the guy. I suspect I was just logged into the X session on the box and the person I complained about was doing what was supposed to have gone on. I defended this religiously but had to deal with a written warning from the university anyway and the tutor actively tried to compromise my course afterwards.

That’s the day I learned about politics. And unix. Digging into the forensics and causality of this led to a long career as a sysadmin and programmer and not designing chips. And not a decade of poor pay or unemployment like my course peers. So no regrets.
Ask HN: Advice on Writing Papers
I'm a PhD student in robotics currently writing down my first paper. Any tips or advice on how I can structure and write a clear, understandable and concise paper? What HN researchers do when writing their papers?
I do want to see those emails. Which is why I run my own mail server where I control what does and does not get rejected. BTW Google and Microsoft do reject or worse, silently drop tons of legitimate mail for such great reasons as the sending server having a bad actor living on the block some time in the past. Mail filtering is a really bad argument why you wouldn't want to see what is hidden from you by the incumbent providers.

Running my own crawler is unfortunately not as realistic.
Citrine Test-O-Mat
Beavers were arguably greater engineers than humans when modern humans first emerged several hundred thousand years ago.
So why don't they build more homes?
That is true, maybe I should delete the HN listing.

I actually would like to know how to modify librespot to do so, since I am not a developer or know any Rust at all. Thus this project seems useful to me.
One frame per 24-48 hours is unacceptable.
I said I want world-wide 24/7 120hz video, not “in the footprint sometimes by chance” 10km^2 at-a-time imagery.
Because the prevailing engineering culture is of maximum savings, and they even see it as a virtue ("Anyone can overengineer, it takes true master to design precisely to spec etc..").
The problem for me is that, as a computer scientist, I'm focused on the numerical representation of things. Geometric algebra is presented by omitting that until the last second and instead focusing on abstract concepts and how they fit together. For example, they say "A vector is an oriented scalar value" and that already confuses me. Obviously I know what a scalar is, a scalar is one number, but what is "oriented"? Is it N numbers for the e0,...,en-1 axes? Is it N^2 numbers forming a rotation matrix? Is it just N numbers for the vector and we only call it "oriented"?

I would like to see geometric algebra explained from the bottom-up - starting from the numerical representation of the objects they talk about and explaining how it gives rise to the properties they're looking for.
It's a good idea to read up on the history of the efficient market hypothesis, and how Fama came to it. There's also different tiers with different layers of credibility.

Base tier (and the one pretty much everybody can agree on): The expected value of the error of the market is zero. This means that the market does not always fundamentally overvalue or undervalue assets, and that, over time, it will overvalue things as often as undervalue.

(... many intermediate forms ...)

Strong efficient market hypothesis: The market price always reflects all accessible information, and every market movement is driven by new information.

The strong efficient market hypothesis is pretty evidently wrong (the existence of all the various quant funds that are generating outsize returns is strong evidence; it would also mean there are no stock bubbles. Having lived through 2 bubbles in my life, I can tell you: Bubbles exist, and there are many forces outside of new information that lead to them inflating and popping).
How Walmart and Alphabet jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery
Probably "French researchers invent electric chopsticks".

The fact we can identify "Japan" as an entity says a lot about the cultural weight it holds. Not a bad thing.
Let me answer with a question: do you really need a laptop? In the past and not for a little timeslice I've always favored laptops because well docked are essentially equivalent and can be easily moved if/when needed. Few years ago seen the involution of them I go for a desktop.

Essentially modern laptops, mobile workstation included, to my eyes are more and more craptops more and more similar to mobile "smart-crap". Some still need them, students for instance, hybrid workers, people who work out of an office etc. But others can accept the loss in portability to gain in quality, upgradability and comfort. A classic, self assembled, desktop with eventually caddy and 2.5" classic ssds to being able to move data, if not the entire OS, around as needed. Not as free as a laptop, but doable under certain circumstances.
Well, regarding the story of creation in the Bible, it's not clear that humans come "first" even in Genesis 2, if we follow the story. Here's how it goes: God creates Adam, then Eve, then they have two children, Cain and Abel. Then Cain kills Abel.

And then Cain says to God: "I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." And God responds: "Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over." And God "put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him." (Genesis 4, 14-15)

But who are they? (whoever, anyone, no one) At this point in the story there should only be three people on earth: Adam, Eve and Cain. And in the following verse it says that "Cain made love to his wife".

Where does she come from?

One possible explanation is that the story of creation talks about one specific tribe, among other tribes that would pre-exist to the family of Adam, or at least co-exist.

Which is kind of relevant to the debate of different species of humans.
Log4Shell and Spring4Shell
Try simple interfaces and customized driving policy and casezoo set on DI-drive！
They can’t build them fast enough.
Not enough land. ;-)
This hypothetical court-order situation is quite far-fetched. If crates.io was ordered to take down some or all versions of a package, an alternative mirror could easily be created elsewhere and you could configure cargo to use it.

But I think the kernel would vendor crate dependencies, partly so that people can build without accessing the network, simply because that's policy in many places.