skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is obviously false. Try driving a 100W speaker with a 300W amp/signal and you’ll quickly discover that you actually can hear a blown speaker. You can also hear bad crossover between different speakers, bad placement, bad timing, bad sound insulation, echo, reverb, etc.

Sure if you are comparing a single speaker to another single more expensive speaker you might not feel the difference. But if you are comparing a poorly put together setup to a well done one, you will absolutely hear the difference. And I am not audiophile at all saying this.
You can’t do better than lossless audio transmission. The human ear can’t perceive higher than 20KHz. Uncompressed 32 bit audio sampled at 40Khz (double because of Nyquist frequency) is only about 160 kB/s. Even with 64 bit samples it would be about 320 kB/s. What am I missing here? Why can't a standard cheap ethernet cable be used for this?
These are the servers I am currently in:

- https://theprogrammershangout.com/about

- Discord Gophers: https://discord.gg/ecwK4WcM

- The Coding Den: https://discord.gg/code

- Programming Discussions: https://discord.gg/progdisc

- Denver Devs: https://discord.gg/denver-devs
> it makes it very difficult to tell what actually will improve your home hifi audio quality

It's really not. The answer when it comes to audiophile equipment is always 'no'.
It's not easy to launder money using cryptocurrency.

Untraceable transactions don't solve the money laundering problem. That's why drug lords end with warehouses full of $100 bills.
There are some relatively ancient graphics cards supported by fbdev with no KMS driver. They may need to use the simple framebuffer-only support (simpledrm). I believe almost no users will be affected by this.
It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem or revenue-stream significant enough that it takes on a life of it’s own. As management turns over, that lease on life is renewed…

https://killedbygoogle.com/

While this fosters new ideas and opportunities, that conversion into long-term direction and execution can be pretty rough.
Yes your ear degrade but no that doesn’t mean everything is equal if you are used to listen to music. As a proof for that, many successful sound engineers have been over 50 and still mixed legendary recordings. Most people won’t hear good audio gear but that’s not related to age ;)

Good equipment will often sound better, to what amount is the question. And yes some things are just fake and don’t deliver better sound, so listening yourself is very important.
Let my guess: the singer suddenly started to sing in time?
It actually shows how people are excited to buy new stuff even if it is purely decorative and they would be better off if they did not buy it.

These audiophile companies are creating an artificial need in the most obvious way possible. Insert an intrusive thought like "your audio equipment sucks because of X" and a rich person may consider the peace of mind more valuable than the money he is spending.
I think the crux of the current debate is the tension between cultural liberalism and cultural socialism.

The philosophy of the cultural liberals is to remove restrictions that inhibit people from living the social lives they want.

The cultural socialists want to use the power of institutions to distribute a culture across the population. They believe their culture is societally optimal so reducing liberties to propagate it is morally justified.

I’m sure most peoples beliefs lie somewhere in between the two. But the cultural socialism maximalists in the west have been getting louder and louder and it’s beginning to terrify me.

I predict in the next 5 years, womens’ voting rights will be an actual political topic. It will start with “ironic” jokes and “rational” thinking but will get increasingly normalized in discourse.
If you use these to power your equipment, it will still generate some RF if you power it using AC. Real audiophiles modify their systems so they work with DC power to get rid of any RF interference coming from AC.
Sometimes people just want to spend money on something they’re passionate about. How good the ROI is doesn’t matter to them, so you’re not really deceiving them
Not sure why you say that. Having read a great deal of both I can
confidently assure you they are deeply related. Nietzsche doesn't use
process notation or equations for calculating closed loop feedback
gain. Shannon, Wiener or Weaver don't directly address the question of
whether the cultural software of our society lies within its
institutions or individuals. Nonetheless they are both talking about
the same subject - one that is highly apropos the precarious situation
we find ourselves in today with respect to our failing social
cybernetics.
This is why I suggest the alternative of "get an instrument and learn to play it," because it bypasses those roadblocks. And if it gets you to the point where it provides you with some enjoyment, so much the better.

Now, you have to choose an instrument. There's a good reason why the guitar remains popular. The learning curve for tone production is extremely gentle, and there's a huge variety of styles that you can enjoy, plus online learning materials. It's portable, affordable, and alcohol powered. ;-) It looks like Fender is moving towards a new business model that revolves around learning to play.
I think it's easier to relate how deep you dig and the age of the sample with ice than with dirt.
I don't think one could say it was obvious, if that's what you mean by mundane.

Einstein for many years went back and forth on the issue of whether gravitational plane waves could be observed even in principle (sometimes accepting his initial findings, sometimes accepting Eddington's point that gravitational plane waves were unphysical artifacts of the approximation to the full theory Einstein had to use for calculational tractability, sometimes arguing that plane waves were physical but unstable, and several variations on all of these).

It wasn't until shortly after his death that it became widely accepted that gravitational radiation from a binary could couple to mass at a distance (notably Pirani 1956, reprinted <https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007...>, the two paragraphs after eq (2.17) on the 9th page of the linked pdf, p. 1223[1], and the three paragraphs after eq (3.7) on the 12th&13th pdf page, pp 1226-1227 being particularly interesting), which in turn provoked Feynman's sticky bead argument and the work by Bondi, Synge and others.

I don't understand the point your comment's parent's user has been trying to make in this conversation, but the entire enterprise of Einstein's theory of gravitation did not in its early days depend sensitively on the details (or even physicality) of gravitational radiation. Indeed, it was not widely accepted during his lifetime that gravitational waves could be measured even in principle. And even then it was almost twenty years before the first relativistic binary (Hulse-Taylor) was discovered and a further six or seven before it became clear that gravitational radiation is a useful test of various theories of gravitation. <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982ApJ...253..908T/abstra...> (PDF freely available via link in top left): "With the exception of general relativity and the Brans-Dicke theory, none of [these alternative gravitational] theories predicts even the proper sign of orbital period change due to emission of gravitational radiation, let alone the proper magnitude".

I would insert the words "local, minimal" before your "coupling between the metric and the stress-energy tensor". c, whatever its value, is relevant, and there are plenty of gravity theories with non-minimal couplings (NMDC) and spooky action at a distance (https://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/Topics/ft/nonlocal.html is a "zoo"), which tend to have different post-Newtonian effects. I would almost add "unique" as a qualifier too, but e.g. Brans-Dicke is still technically viable.

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[1] Of particular (pardon the pun) interest to anyone who has read Synge's five point curvature detector.
You're describing the cultural correlates of social marginalization and fraying social capital, not "poverty" per se. In many poor countries, casual anti-social behavior does not grant community status; in fact, the opposite is the case and punishments can be quite harsh indeed (though not nearly as harsh or socially damaging as the long-term imprisonment that's all-too-common in the US.) Widespread poverty in those failing communities is the consequence of such dynamics, not the cause.
Half the issue is that people have been indoctrinated to expect home ownership and long for some golden age seen on TV that never existed.

Home ownership was never universal in the US. It has been within a few percent of 65% since the 1960s[1]. It was always out of reach for the lowest earners, like those that make minimum wage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
My whole point is that you don't, because there aren't always just two options. That's the false dilemma logical fallacy.

I'm saying you can fix problems without dropping everything and redoing work. You're allowed to problem solve and work with people to create a third option. And you can prevent new ones by learning and strategizing.
I just got served this "patriotic" wonder on YouTube kids.

https://youtu.be/NUklrt_4Mio

Check out the translation, if you're into that.
3 years is roughly the average time it takes to get promoted at Google.
If there was one, people wouldn't use it. It's so well supported by open source software like rclone and insync, I feel like it actually works better than it does on my windows machine.
I had the 11” Air and it was a delightful little laptop at the time. Very similar to the 12” MacBook. The screen was small and the screen height was limited but it worked well with an external monitor when at my desk. I may go try to fire that up today.

I would not be surprised if Apple eventually brings out a new laptop that addresses the ultra-portable market. With new screens it might be a 13” screen in a tight & light case.
Over ten years ago it was already obvious that Google wasn't a reliable or useful company. You're gonna be waiting a LOOOONG time.
Ongoing related thread:

Everyone should learn the slide rule (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143274 - April 2022 (23 comments)

Also related:

Illustrated Self-Guided Course on How to Use the Slide Rule - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30524542 - March 2022 (2 comments)

Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24028351 - Aug 2020 (98 comments)

Illustrated Self-Guided Course on How to Use the Slide Rule (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480755 - June 2017 (14 comments)
Who is going to do the jobs that need doing but are not so pleasant - like washing dishes?

I also expect that making money is a prime motivator for artists, and also drives the quality of their work.
Negative. I’m a classically trained guitarist with degrees in music and physics. You are correct about the frets, but not the strings themselves. Sometimes, you really need the two E strings to be perfectly in tune, sometimes, some piece has an octave on two adjacent strings as a drone, and that needs to be aligned, or in the key of D (with a drop D), you’d probably want the two Ds to be in tune. Whatever you choose, something will be out of tune because of physics . Half steps don’t perfectly align with their equivalents - thirds in particular drive me nuts. It’s just a matter of picking what you hate the least. It’s not uncommon to see professional classical guitarists give a string a micro adjustment during a whole note/rest while they are playing, or tweak tuning between each piece.
I am okay letting wealthy people spend too much money, but my big issue is that it doesn't feel like a good contribution to society, just a money grab. And if I am going to put my time and energy in to something, I want it to actually offer real value. Which is why I am actually spinning up a non profit that offers all of our work as open source. But it was always interesting to me that very wealthy people will drop huge sums without much thought. You're right tho that a few people trying to "spend their way to the top" will get caught spending more than they can afford and drawing those people in feels particularly immoral.
So because of the government, I now have to deal with a clearer obtrusive cookie banner all over the internet…

Thanks????

Where would we be without big government? It definitely made the internet a much better experience.

Next law they are probably going to try to pass is force all app makers to use cross platform frameworks like Electron to prevent monopoles.
Not just many octaves: many harmonics. With an ideal string, these are all multiples of the fundamental frequency, because they each represent a different way of dividing the whole string into equal parts.
Looks like it's per-app:

https://www.macworld.com/article/227757/how-to-access-advanc...
One difference is that as the experiments were run on psychology students, they know the population, those are their peers with whom they interact on a daily level and they should have an idea of how they compare with them.

> how would they know that how their classmates perform on an IQ test???

Are you serious? If you're interacting with your classmates, you definitely should have some idea on how their intellectual capabilities differ between each other and also with respect to you. In a small class doing lots of things together, someone might even literally count their "ranking" at some metric that highly correlates with IQ, estimating that Bob, Jane and Mary are above me and Dan and Juliet are below me, so I'm at 40th percentile.

It's not appropriate to treat these aspects as unknown things or unknowable things.
Well the TVs are for ants. At that distance my phone provides more view per distance. And Netflix.
I get what you're saying, but ultimately it is an issue of priority. Google has the money, they just don't choose to spend it on supporting Google Drive on Linux, even after saying they would. So, supporting Linux is by definition a lower priority than anything that did pass the bar for resource allocation in the last ten years.

You're right about the motivations: they must not view it as creating real business value, since that's how these decisions get made.

My only point here is that it IS a choice someone in an office is making: it's not worth it to support Drive on Linux. They do know about it, because it was on their radar 10 years ago. Somebody took it off their radar.
Imo r/childfree to normal people who just don't want to have kids is like r/atheism to normal people who just happen to not be religious. Both subs are absolutely insufferable, even to many of those who align with them on the core premise.

It feels like a lot of users there, instead of replacing all that time/effort/money spending (that comes with having kids) with a bunch of fun/useful/exciting things to do in life, they end up replacing it with "not having kids is my personality and the ultimate activity".

I agree with the core premise of both (not religious, don't want to ever have kids), but i ended up completely filtering out both subreddits. Even opening a random post from those subs on r/all is like stepping into some children- and parent-hating alternate reality cesspool, where their choice is the only "obvious" choice, and everyone else is "brainwashed" or an idiot.
> This is intended to be useful feedback for the Textualize people, I'm long over Python

That sounds like a you problem
Another practical aspect of 4/17 is that a person printing them out can tell if they've got them all (pages go astray).
My priorities while building a webapp from scratch
Point taken. This argument is what I expected to read in the article and I agree, it seems like a valid aspect.
I see, thanks for clarifying. My reply was in reference to the "benefits of using a session over the raw password" and HTTP basic authentication more generally, so if Lenovo are using sessions it doesn't apply in this particular case.
I connected my Linux systems to my Nextcloud server, and then I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud. When I turned on server side encryption in Nextcloud it also encrypted my connected storage of Gdrive. So I accomplished both Gdrive integration as well as file encryption at the same time.
> Reliably identifying a (unique) visitor is pretty difficult using ip logs, though.

> Cookies generally make this much easier, at the very least identifying a visit.

You don't actually need cookies to reliably identify unique users. Browser fingerprinting is very identifiable and difficult to obscure.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Those are great examples of security done well (assuming it's actually doing something). Security implementations have such a history of getting in the way or being annoying that the end result is worse security because users turn it off or find ways around it. If the security controls are easy to use or mostly transparent to the user, it's a win-win.
The fact that people long for fun and interesting jobs that don't exist, is indeed a sperate problem.

It does not negate the fact that there are high paying jobs available without college degrees.
According to hacker news, rich people don't have any money. They only have stocks.
Scammers snatch up expired domains, vexing Google
My comment didn't feature an interpretation, it was directly quoting the BLM site... but now I will offer an interpretation based on your comment:

I'm not in favor of requiring hiking or certain family structures either. Serious question, is there a requirement for the nuclear family?

Let us not conflate norms and legal requirements. Where I live, there is most certainly a norm around hiking being a really positive thing that you should do, and it's associated with being higher status (local fashion trends even favor looking like you are a hiker). Not everyone is a hiker, and some people don't like hiking. But I'm okay with the norm existing, but would never support a requirement for it.
Like I said, your comments upthread were better. Then you started trolling. I don't know what you were hoping for. I should have just downvoted, I normally would. HN sucks when this kind of thing breaks out. But I guess comments intended to provoke anger and division, hoping for an emotional reaction, some kind of engagement, sometimes get it. Shame to ruin Sundays that way.
It is in fashion among certain people to reject assimilation. But if you look around it is definitely not fashionable among recent immigrants.

They pretty much all want their kids to speak English and be American. They know it would be handicapping them if they didn't.
I increasingly distrust nytimes after Ryan Breslow outed them.

https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1514664887045091328

How can you trust a media outlet with conflict of interests? This naturally makes me question it's journalists now too.

One might associate NY Times with the city New York, the bastion of a free speech and democractic superpower. But after the facts, how can you not read NY times article without raising questions?
You are right but it could be true on the other side as well. These people earning money they don't need to.
“ with the M1 in the air and in the pro: fan=more power and heat available”

That statement can be interpreted to say that the Air and Pro do have fans. It’s ambiguous.
Yes, in this case that is correct. It is common to play the same note on two different guitar strings in order to tune them together.
That's actually the crux of the issue: if you fret the note to tune the next string, then you achieve equal temperament at the expense of any inaccuracy that comes from all sorts of things like imperfect action height, imperfect bridge tuners, excessive pressure beyond just contacting the fret, sideways motion, etc. which is all avoided by using open strings instead. But then doing open strings by ear doesn't get you equal temperament, it gets you integer ratios instead. Open strings with an electronic tuner gets you the best of both worlds (assuming you want equal temperament).
On the other side of the coin then you would have African STEM working on trying to find enough recycled soap. That would probably be problematic because the ratio of supply from hospitality can't touch the backlog of demand caused by poverty. So you provide them the soap and that's one less obstacle standing in their way as they tackle more actionable problems.
Here's the thing about those hobbies...

People start by spending, say, $500 total on some expensive hobby. But soon they increase their frequency on internet forums and see way more Youtube videos of comparisons, which lead them to buying more stuff. The "thrill of the chase" is so fantastic that they spend more and more until they get a lot of junk. Soon they amass 2000, 3000 worth of semi-cheap stuff. They have 4 pairs of speakers, 10 guitars, whatever.

But this is not really fulfilling in the long term, so they sell most of their stuff to fund the next purchase, the purchase to end all purchases. They get a $5000 kit. But of course forum dwelling and Youtube watching continues and they gotta buy more $5000 gizmos or update what they have. They have the money... why not?

So, for example, 10 years ago you had 10 different ~$500 gizmos, and now you have 10 different ~$5000 gizmos. Where do you go next?

All those hobby things have their periphery of accessories. So of course there's gonna be a $5000 cable for someone who started with a $5 one, graduated to a $50 one, then to a $500... ad nauseum...

Why? It's fun, and you get to be part of a community of sorts.

I kinda got tired of it with Guitars myself, but it was fun while it lasted. And with the pandemic I was able to sell almost everything I had for significantly more than I paid for. It's not really a true investment, but it's not throwing it away.
Also, note that the bullet pool is A LOT stronger than the rapid pool and so you will be ranked at a higher percentile (better rank) for the same rating in bullet.

And if you are 2000 in rapid your inability to do well in bullet likely has little correlation with your raw thinking speed and very likely just pattern recognition and/or lowering your standards and/or mouse speed
The expectations are coming from our exposure to apps, articles, videos, education and opinions. It's not all in the author's head.

I'm not at all sexually frustrated like most men and yet I still feel all of the same things.