skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to refute this reply since it's up at the very top to say... even with moderate hearing damage your ears are still very capable and amazing.

Equipment and room acoustics play a great deal in how much information you perceive from an audio wave. It's shocking when you step into a treated room from high-end speakers. I've done a lot of damage to my ears over the years as a sound engineer, tour manager, musician. I have mild tinnitus. I can still walk into a treated room and listen to audio from a high-end sound system and have a bunch of "OH SHIT" moments where I perceive so much more information than I do through headphones, car stereos, high-end home systems.

The last 1-2 decades of computer audio have been a race toward the bottom of punchy bass and air'y high end. It's the equivalent of motion smoothing on TVs. Except nobody talks about it, you can't turn it off, and 'good sound' is just stuff that has a tight thump. This is true of every range of products from Airpod Max's, to high-end Bang & Olufsen to Sonos systems.

Anyway, my point with that is...Sure this stuff may not get preference in a blind test. That's missing the point tho. The audiophile's pursuit is to limit points in the signal path that create distortion and cause loss of fidelity.

Do these cables do much? Probably not compared to another pair of cables with gold plated connectors and high-quality copper. That said, the real test in high-end gear is not a blind test of one song, it's doing something like listening to the snare drum ring in 10 different songs, something with a lot of resonance and overtones, and see if you can actually perceive more information across a set of songs.

If all these cables offer is high-quality materials, construction, and quality control and the cost to produce them is 60-80% of that. Then great, I am glad they exist and I hope they make a buck making them.
My favorite arrangement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layo...
If something uses electron, I'll look for a native alternative.

Ripcord doesn't have the best UI and I can't open Teams calls or even links that are too long (Slack broke their API at some point) but at least it's not wasting my ram and it's responds quickly.
The rare times I have to open Slack on the web I sigh and wait 2 minutes for the app to load.

I automated Prituln VPN via bash just not to have to deal with another Electron client for a damn popup on my tray bar.
i can certainly think of cases where the children and one parent are really much better off without the second
"Who is this General Protection Fault and why is he reading from my hard disk?"
College-educated women are more likely to marry. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08...
This is really cool, but how does a project like this attract VCs? Aren’t dev tools a hard sell?
There have been lots of submissions of specific books, of course, but this is a nice general thread:

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971971 - Sept 2011 (32 comments)
Doug's Dharma
I see you're talking about orchestal music that seems to be a world apart from pop music instrumentation, both because there's less use of electronic sound generation and because chords are played yuxtaposing several instruments.

About guitars, I can believe the bridge, or even finger pressure provide adjustement for individual notes. But if you're playing a chord, you just trust the frets, that are uniformly spaced, following the logarithmic scale.
In addition to the sibling poster’s comment, publications had data on what parts of town and stores sold their publications at newsstands and the names and addresses of subscribers.

Before you could get free publications like MacWeek, you had to fill out demographic data to qualify.
> In Asia there is an expectation that relationships will lead to marriage, that you will marry well before thirty, that women will exit the workforce following marriage

I don't know about the rest of Asia, but the parts that were explicitly named (Japan, Korea) absolutely do not have this expectation.
The blog post mentions:

> This update meant we needed to re-engineer the way cookies work on Google sites, and to make deep, coordinated changes to critical Google infrastructure.
Union elections in the bay area rake in about 140k/year after 5 years on the job. Highly competitive, but no college required.
> The problem here is not including people in your “system”.

Absolutely. All too common. And once you do include them each is not
merely a new variable capable of assuming wildly different values, but
a whole system in itself capable of interacting with every other such
system within your system. That's why reductionists like to try
factoring them out as interchangeable cogs. Pretty much the entire
edifice of modern industrial economics since Adam Smith and Henry Ford
is built on that model simplification/efficiency.
There are enough people over the $10M line that I am not sure these things need any explanation. If you were at Costco and saw one product being sold for $0.01, another being sold for $0.001 and another for $0.003, would you spend any time thinking about the price at all?
This just isn't true. My father (who is well over 30) would have no trouble telling the difference between a $100 Walmart stereo, my $700 speakers, and the $4000 speakers at the local hi-fi shop in a scientifically controlled blind test. And I'd bet that over 95% of the population can do the same.
It’s pretty interesting to see so many people here suggesting that there’s no value to deleting your account.

Like the added friction of creating a new account doesn’t make it less likely for you to relapse, or increase the time it takes for it to happen.

Like social media applications won’t send you notifications however they can to keep you engaged.

Like it doesn’t affect the companies perceived value to lose real users.

Like it doesn’t diminish network effects to see fewer of the people you like on the platform.

Like retaining the data you’ve contributed doesn’t increase the performance of their machine learning models, broaden their understanding of consumers, or directly provide content for consumption. (okay this point is a bit shaky because it depends on their data deletion policy, or if you can take advantage of CCPA/GDPR, but you get the idea)

I agree that leaving or maintaining healthy use of these platforms ultimately requires developing some amount of self-control, but saying that there’s no value to deleting an account doesn’t seem grounded in truth.

I found it way easier to just delete the majority of my social media accounts than try to curate or moderate their use. Most social media platforms aren’t built with your best interests at heart, why risk it for some momentarily satisfying content/interactions that you could probably find elsewhere?
When I hear 'nuanced' it usually shuts off my brain.
Interesting. Where did you move the J key? Was it hard to relearn typing prose with Js?
Those Core M chips were slow. That is part of why Apple eventually dropped that 12” MacBook.

Now Apple’s M-series chips combine power with low power usage and they are able to build fast and fanless devices like the M1 MacBook Air.

Intel and AMD have been focused on building for power and have been, mostly, ignoring efficiency for too long. Hopefully, Apple’s newfound success in this area has waken them to the need to address power consumption.
I wonder what they'd be A/B testing for... which 'Decline' button gets the least clicks?
Your comment may be true of many things that Microsoft does, but not LINQ.

The creator of LINQ was Erik Meijer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientis...), who was a leading researcher in programming languages and functional programming before shifting into industry. He's well known in the Haskell world for e.g. his work on bananas and lenses, and many other things.

LINQ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query) is basically an embedding of a general monadic framework, augmented with a set of query-specific operators. It can process arbitrary data sources - quoting from the link: "arrays, enumerable classes, XML documents, relational databases, and third-party data sources."

In addition, because it's fundamentally monadic, it can be used to express all sorts of computations, by: "utilizing query expressions as a general framework for readably composing arbitrary computations, include the construction of event handlers or monadic parsers."

LINQ has been ported to PHP, JS & TS, and even Actionscript (although the ports aren't necessarily as capable as the version on .NET, which has language-level support for the features.)

If you're interested in this general subject, I guarantee you you have a lot to learn from LINQ and the research work behind it.
When you read the articles and papers, did they answer your questions?
This was the first thing on the web that really excited me.
They basically said stable relationships are more stable than unstable relationships and you want evidence?
> Who is going to do the jobs that need doing but are not so pleasant - like washing dishes?

Generally this work can either be done by machines, it can be done by the people who are eating the food, it can be done in rotation by all people who participate in the system, or it can be done by people who feel like washing dishes is their way to contribute back to society. I am definitely a big fan of the idea that to make this work, we need to intentionally automate more stuff. Right now minimum wage is so low that capitalist organizations are happy to just throw bodies at the problem, but you could easily use durable dishes that feed in to a little mechanized washer. Such a system would also benefit from centralization, so there are lower numbers of larger facilities. Or you could have a spoke and hub model where the main processing equipment is in the center and different restaurants share that infrastructure.

Finally I will say that there is already an existence proof of a culture that does this every day. The Sikhs in India operate facilities all over India that offer free food on a large scale (the largest facilities offer 50k-100k free meals a day). They have zero robots and it all works out for them. I'm sure if we work in robots and also change our attitudes, we can do it here. Take a look at this video, it is beautiful and deeply thought provoking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdoJroKUwu0

> I also expect that making money is a prime motivator for artists, and also drives the quality of their work.

I think you would find few people in the art community who agree with this. I am not an artist but that is my speculation. Also if you look at historical art, I don't think money was a prime motivator. You could also look at basketball. Probably most basketball players play because they enjoy it. I suspect very few only do it because they plan to get rich. Oh, and I did not say we should eliminate money. Artists could make money if they want to. It would just not be required for survival.
In my opinion the whole 'cookie banner industry' sucks. From a customer perspective I'm completely annoyed with different types of banners wasting my time with searching the right button, waiting because of artificial delays, clicking through layers of fake settings to find the reject option and other dark patterns.
However, from a provider perspective things a not better. Unnecessary waste of time and money to look for plugins and services to deal with cookie walls to avoid GDPR problems.
Best thing would be a EU enforcing the use of a standard browser API to ask for tracking. Just as simple as asking me if I want to share my location or webcam with an option to remember for this domain.
> they're horrified to discover that even the fundamentals are arbitrary and approximate

How so?
For reference, I graduate from a middle of the road state school in May with a degree in software engineering. Here were the required major courses:

- Introduction to Software Engineering

- Web Design and Development for Small Business

- Graphical Interface Programming

- Intermediate Web Development

- Networking and Data Communications Systems

- Designing User Experiences

- Fundamentals of Project Management

- Object Oriented Systems Development

- Database Management Systems

- Systems Analysis and Design

- Introduction to Programming

- Structured Programming

- Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming

- Algorithms and Data Structures

- Software Engineering I

- Operating Systems

- Networking

- Calculus I

- Calculus II

- Discrete Mathematics

- Elementary Probability Theory

- Introduction to Statistical Analysis

- College Research Paper

- Physics I

- Biology: Atoms to Cells

- Senior Project

- + two major electives (mine were an independent study building a SCARA robot that is remote controlled and a second independent study on the use of drones in wildfire mitigation)
Music is a social convention about the same as language. It may be interesting where words or grammar originate, but it’s ultimately not important to communication.
> Somehow, when the real examples of this stuff are clever engineering around build / docker / polyrepo / release / feature flags / third party bugs, the cleverness makes people think the existence of the workaround should be tolerated. It’s infuriating to join a new team held hostage by years and years of band aids because they never suffer the bigger picture consequences.

The only logical reason to do this is because it has no impact on the business. Or at least, smaller impact than a total rewrite/refactor would have.

If an engineer presented a case where fixing an underlying issue resulted in better business outcomes vs. a short term band-aid, then I don’t know anyone that would tell them no. Businesses want to succeed. They want to make money. If you can help me make more money I’ll let you do whatever you want (within the confines of the law and civil society).
Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs with no hierarchical organization and an overreliance on search to find things. I have literally hundreds of thousands to millions of files on my local machines and have no trouble remembering where I put things. Drive can't seem to scale past a few dozen before it's confusing, useless, and apparently lossy. Remember when web servers would serve up the contents of a directory as a list with hyperlinks on the file names? That actually worked ffs. I cannot understand how we could be moving backwards so quickly.
My guess is they just A/B test everything by default, even stuff that's court ordered.
No, its really not. It is literally just a puzzle which solves the "problem" as to who gets to write the next block.

Instead if you define the rules for the next block as strict as possible so it essentially eliminates a huge variety of possible blocks, participants can instead easily agree on one (the best) block (one that follows all rules and is objectionably better than all other possible blocks). There is no need to "fight" over who can add that block, agreeing is way more efficient. And Consequentially the puzzle is no longer needed.

PoS is not what I'm talking about at all. PoS just replaces the PoW puzzle with a "virtual puzzle" that acts as if higher stakes are higher hash power thus more chance to win the puzzle. Other than that its still the same "fight" over who gets to write the next block.

PoW and PoS at scale leads to more centralization over time because of the economy of scale principle. While FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement) leads to more decentralization because its in everyones interest to increase the number of participants, they are helping the system not competing.
> I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud.

This bit sounds interesting, could you explain it a little more, how you managed it?
Ok, we've put some teeth in the title above.
Isn't umatrix deprecated?
Brave makes money from advertising. Not the same as how other browsers do it, but it requires trust to use Brave too.

Referral link controversy is easy to find and relevant to the conversation:

“Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
TOS clause that claims the right to transfer legal ownership of your NFT to the service provider?

The legal system that includes cops and jail time is still very separate from the crypto operating world. “Code is law” has had too many flaws to be accepted by the standard legal world. In a way, I’m surprised we haven’t seen court cases around odd corners of the crypto world, but I expect it’s not that long now.
> My advice for any engineer wanting to get into music is, get an instrument and learn to play it.

Strong agreement there. And make sure at least some of your learning is by ear, getting the feel for the music.

For me, music theory was only helpful (or even interesting) after I had already been playing for a while.
Fans also kill battery life. If you have a phone with a fan, you would need frequent recharges.
I think you’re calling it “irrational” to give yourself an excuse to engage in bad faith — such as using demeaning language towards a large group of people.

That gives you an “out” from having to understand something that might conflict with a belief you hold or make you uncomfortable.
KMS only means Kernel Mode Setting, it's a way for the kernel to handle display resolutions so it can set the proper resolution for a display during bootup and enables instant TTY switching.

DRM is the direct rendering manager, it's mainly an interface for applications like X11 to talk to the GPU directly (ie 3D Acceleration and Video Decoding).

If KMS is causing things to be slow, it might be because the video driver is not working and the software framebuffer is being used. At higher resolutions that'll be slow.

If Chrome doesn't have the option to enable DRDC then the driver used likely doesn't support DRM or the window manager is not passing it properly.
It is great, it's turned on and it's running in the background. I don't even notice it.
I do think people are a little silly about knife steel, but in this case I'd love to see the company's test results backing up their strong statement.

At 60HRC, S30V should have (according to the data sheet) similar toughness and impact resistance to 1095 at 57HRC. So for the price you're getting a little extra hardness, a lot of extra edge retention, and much better corrosion resistance.

Now, you sure could say that isn't worth it in this application. But this stuff is very real and measurable (unlike the HiFi nonsense). The crazy stuff in knife steel is often the other way: folks picking stuff like White #2, and caring only about hardness, and ending up with something they think is high end but performs quite badly on objective tests.
TUIs are much older than browsers (even older than GUIs), and while GUIs, including browsers, have taken over much of the niche, it's nice to have tools for TUIs in <preferred language>.
Another anecdote, writing this on a mid 2014 MBP that gets regular use. No issues.
This kind of hacking shouldn’t be necessary.

I think WhatsApp should be fined heavily for not providing the portability that the GDPR requires them to provide.

Yes, (on iOS) you can export your settings and each individual chat, but IMO they should have a one-click solution.

(I think their argument for not having to provide it is that WhatsApp messages are stored on each user’s phone, not on their servers, but IMO, they still are inside WhatsApp’s realm. Certainly, on iOS you cannot open them in any other way than to the WhatsApp app)
If any cable might be approved by audiophiles, it has to be just the thickest. How thick it can be if invest 5939 dollars in two copper cylinders 1 meter each?
Your teenagers work fulltime? The BLS numbers for that 2% was looking at fulltime hourly workers. I'm sure there are plenty of part time people that would increase that 2%.
Shout out to Hex Fiend! My favorite feature is the template system[0]. It makes it much easier to figure out file formats for which you have no documentation. You write a little tcl code to describe the parts of the format you understand as you go.

[0] https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/tree/master/templates
Darwin believed that each successive generation of a species had increasing mutations leading to a gradual divergence. Another school of thought believes that a species remains at equilibrium until some environmental stressor activates a rapid divergence. If this "punctuated equilibrium" is true, climate change will give rise to many new species, as would all mass extinctions.
If by win, you mean paid SEO of propaganda with brigading by fake accounts.

But wait, you used the word free?
How is paid propaganda free?
The way astroturf is grass?

Are corporations canceling me by not sufficiently promoting my political agenda on their ad supported site, because my content makes people not want to buy anything associated with it?

Just asking questions.
At least in the past, I remember to see the same youtube recommendations even after deleting all cookies etc from the browser. So google was fingerprinting you in one way or the other. I doubt this changed. So what is the point of not using cookies? They are tracking you anyway.
I think pressing J is unchanged, only when holding does it behave as ctrl. That's probably unnoticeable (as an emacs user and not a vim user :) ).
what about the innumerable businesses built on cheap labor?
It’s a mistake to ban Holocaust denial
Retrocomputing is horrid because every idiot things their worthless crap is worth something.

I can’t tell you how many “unknown soviet terminal keyboard” I’ve seen people ask hundreds of dollars for.
That's acknowledgment of the fact that trampling people's privacy is Google's business model.
especially with the dystopian "brave new world" reference
It used to be normal in the news paper industry to have a hard dividing line between the "news" and "advertising" departments for this very reason. There was always a conflict of interest possible when newspapers reported on the companies placing ads with them. I'm not sure how true this is any more.
Learning any new syntax, feature, etc takes time. IME learning type annotations can pay major dividends. For example, I wrote some type-annotated code the other day and mypy pointed out a couple places where I was passing the wrong type, which saved me from having to fix those bugs later, thus saving time for "actual work."
This sounds a really need idea, I can't really imagine how this would look/work in reality though, especially when you are cooking together
This primarily I think applies to ACADEMIC science.

The funding game in academic science is kind of miserable. Researchers eager to maintain positions for their post docs and grad students etc pay high levels of attention to which way the funding story is going -> ie, telling funders what they want to hear is the key skill. This is not always focused on new ideas. That's because it is pretty horrible not to get funded, so getting funding is a top priority?

Adding to this there is a major push now on DEI and other types of policy work which are not always directly scientific idea focused. Then there are compliance costs (you need to train your researches on project costing / job codes for payroll, procurement processes with federal funds etc) and ideally get them the NIH training (see below for a reading list).

me and white supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F. Saad

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

United States and Racism Systemic: Explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism, Steven Turam

How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance, Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

https://www.training.nih.gov/2020_inclusion_anti-racism_and_...

So you have a lot on your plate - not that this is a bad thing, but just to be aware of it.