skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=59154 First dos sound blaster game.

>Looking through Mobygames, the total number of retail Dos games released from 1989,1990 and 1991 was a massive 1902 games (this is excluding educational software, shareware games, PD freeware and compilations). The real number is even bigger than this as Mobygames' disclaimer says a large number of retail Dos games are still missing and not catalogued.
It's interesting that all other systems, the only computer/console that comes anywhere close from 1989-1991 is the C64 with 1421 retail games.

out of those 1900 PC games released between 89-91 only a small fraction (<10%) supported Sound Blaster digitized wave output. It took over two years for true adoption as the de facto standard.
Again, just one engineer's opinion, but that's because most use cases for engineers are CRUD. If you don't have a CRUD problem, which is probably less than 10% of modern software engineering, Go falls on it's face.
Sounds like you pushed the wrong button. If you can't even keep your 3.5mm audio running there's little chance you can work Bluetooth with all its foibles.
How long ago was this? The rate of improvement on ASICS as well as new entrants to mining hasn't been this intense in a long time.
Denon is already the downmarket brand for D&M though (Marantz being the high end), there wasn't much difference in cost between Denon and Onkyo.
Like many I got a sound blaster as part of a multimedia kit that included a cdrom, SB card, and some games.

Unlike many, I suspect, I also used it as a poor-man's digital oscilloscope at work, simply by sampling the microphone input (or line input? I don't remember.) it worked well enough (although all flat signals reverted to the middle.)

But it was enough to show the value of a digital scope over an analogue one, and we made a big of money, and so bought a real digital oscilloscope (for what was then, to us, quite a lot of loot.)

Those were the days of miracle and wonder.
Probably better power use than a bunch of PIs, but no, not than one or two, and not quieter. The one I bought is basically silent, though, with the stock cooler. Just hard to compete with fanless.
Sleep helps process emotions
not really. for whatever reason, ryzen cpus have very little headroom for overclocking. no matter how much you increase the voltage, you're not gonna get much more performance. intel has increasingly pushed the limits of their designs over the last few generations, but you can usually get more performance with aggressive voltage settings and beefy cooling.
Bill Gates gave the world Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc, so the humanity could become creative, educated and thriving. Zuckerberg gave the world social media and the world became ...
Sonos still has severe limitations and I regret buying two 5.1 setups from them.

As a simple example: there is no 7.1 support at all and the Atmos support is a sort of faked 5.1.2 support where the upward firing speakers try to bounce some sounds off the ceiling.

Sonos only supports 2.4GHz (no 5GHz support at all) so in a congested area network degradation is a big issue.

Codec support is limited as well. For example if your source outputs in DTS, you may need to throw away the whole system and buy a different sonos system just to get audio working. The same thing applies to dolby atmos or vision - you need to buy new speakers just to listen to those type of sources.
The people in my real life are not like you describe and they're much more intelligent than most HN goers. I use HN and other sources for volume on-demand, not quality. i.e. I get a higher quality of discussion out of my friends, but I can't drop-in to one of those 3 minutes before my next meeting (or, like now, while I'm waiting for my parents in the Whole Foods parking lot).

This is actually my biggest reason why I like cities: friends like these are all close by.
I don't see how any of this undermines the post. What “uncapped fork” could these big miners switch to that would give them anywhere near the revenue they have today?
It isn't about the threat of physical violence, I think it has to do with replying to a broader sense that exists out there while in person you first have to build up that sense with the person you're talking to and this takes more effort and time and so necessitates different behaviours. Text is imo the main factor, if we switch to audio people behave more like in real life.
The US has a healthy immigration system that brings in a consistent stream of workers and tax payers to support all the old people about to clog social assistance channels for decades. That's the strong trap that Japan has been stuck in for decades, and the one that'll start befalling China in a decade or so. It'll be interesting to see if Japan can escape the population deflation or if this is a constant shrinking population from here on out until it's untenable to continue as-is.
I don’t know what you mean by except? That’s.. exactly what I’m saying.

I didn’t say it would stop climate change, i just said it would stop us from adding more carbon to the atmosphere. I don’t think it’s a good thing.
I think dang is already doing an inhuman amount of work. He's easily the most active and most thoughtful moderator I've ever seen. He's a machine. Hard to imagine how things can be better than it's now unless we overhaul then entire moderation model and make it more distributed, like Slashdot (not saying that Slashdot specifically is better; it isn't) .
> Direct democratic voting by the employees?

I would guess but do not know that ESOP corps generally have much lower executive comp for this exact reason? Attempted some limited googling but the (seemingly) best source for this is a lil expensive for me: https://www.nceo.org/data/esop-executive-compensation-survey...

I would think that employee ownership would generally do a good (or at least better, probably depends on the specific structure?) job of balancing employee comp/executive pay/company success/value

?:shrug:?
It’s not just DRM; It’s about being homogeneous. If a process is on an E core and checks CPUID to see that AVX-512 isn’t available, it won’t execute those instructions even if AVX-512 was supported on a P core. As Agner said:

> It is completely unrealistic that an application program can handle this situation in a reasonable manner and optimally allocate different threads to the different cores.

A suggestion I saw here a lot was “pretend to support it, but detect attempts to use the instructions and pin the task to the P cores.” This would have issues with libraries like libc that would attempt to vectorize themselves and end up forcing an E core appropriate process onto a P core.
Any company that could build hardware capable of turning a profit would use it themselves, instead of selling it to the public. Don't try to buy a money printer. Life isn't that easy.
A lot of years ago, I watched a total eclipse of the moon from the parking lot of my husband's place of employment. My husband, our kids and some of his coworkers attended as well.

The moon turned red at some point. It was a pretty eerie experience.

If you can do so at least once in your life, I recommend it.

Total eclipses aren't all that common. Eclipses occur every six months, usually in pairs (one solar, one lunar, two weeks apart), but most are partial eclipses.
To be clear, I'm not saying that everything the brain does can be modelled by a known computation model. All I'm saying is that the interesting part of what the brain does is computation, in that it takes in data, operates on it, and returns data. It does this in an irreversible manner because you cannot determine the input from the output (nor a significant part of it).

If there is any model of how the brain works it will be a computational model. Perhaps a new one, and perhaps a radically different one, but it's still going to find the definition of a computational model.
This is the correct answer. ALWAYS start with the content first. The content will lead the way with the design.
> free electricity (like at work or school)

Solar too. Solar powered miners let you literally monetize the sun.
I haven't used it, but cranelift is also my first thought for this.

If you want a stable interface though, I might use wasm on top of it via wasmtime. I'm not sure how stable the API for wasmtime is, but at least the IR (wasm) is, and there's an ecosystem of tools around it.

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I have to go into the office occasionally to get my work done. The energy required for commuting is non trivial. I’m not sure why nobody is talking about that.

I can parlay that energy into the product I’m building on the days I don’t commute and I feel like I achieve more.

Certainly the remote first culture will require more from managers so I get where the push to return is coming from, but that’s something we can deal with together as teams.
Belarus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunarka_(confectionery_plan...
> SD cards fail

I came here to say the same thing. I'm in the process of migrating to an SSD because I've had two SD failures. I picked up a Samsung 850 250GB for $25 on eBay and need to buy a USB cable for ~$25. So it's a little more expensive than just buying an SD card, but comparable to buying a few SD cards!
Multicopters are mechanically simpler and capable of hovering. Kind of a win-win. The drawback is that the fixed wing plane may have longer endurance with a battery of a given size than a multicopter would, but if your communication range is limited for some reason, then this may not be relevant.
I'm on the same page with you, but everybody's journey on a subject carries them to different points about a given idea.

I'm glad that some person has a more hardcore view on something than me, so I can see how it looks without exploring it.

As a person who's interested in minimalism and applying to its life in an increasing manner, I can see how one might want to explore a concept this deep. I also respect the website owner a lot for trying something different.
I suspect it’s more that the features you would use haven’t changed much.
Do you get paper copies or PDFs?
Can we create a moral metaverse?
That doesn't mean humans can't hate them for shitting everywhere, however. These solutions discussed here aren't fatal or invasive. The birds don't die and they're free to leave.
For one, consolidation into just Apple is better than both websites and ISPs getting the surveillance data. People can also voluntarily choose to use Private Relay, whereas they can't generally make that choice for their last mile ISP (oligopoly) nor for the common surveillance systems that are used across websites (eg CAPTCHAs).

For two, by hopefully making usage of VPNs more palatable to sites that are currently harassing what they perceive as the small segment of VPN users with blocks and CAPTCHAs.

I admit that #2 is hopeful, and that we might just end up with those sites whitelisting Apple while continuing to hassle everyone else that wants to hide their IP. But I'd prefer to hope for now.

Obviously the real long term answer is the development and adoption of secure protocols instead of centrally-named and centrally-served HTTPS/DNS, but that's orthogonal.
Most people think so. Audio nerds don't.
Correct, the fees would decrease, but when when you can only process 200k transactions every ten minutes, there’s an upper limit of how much people are willing to pay before it becomes absurdly expensive. This reached almost $100 in the 2017 rush. It’s unsustainable and renders the network unusable for most of the planet.

When you on the other hand can process millions of transactions every block (and scalable as needed), you’ll charge far less per transaction while still allowing miners to generate a huge (and ever growing) revenue, while also enabling most of the planet to transact next to free.

From an environmental perspective, if you divide the hash rate environmental impact on a mere 200k transactions every ten minute, the carbon foot print per transaction would seem absurdly high. Do the same calculating for millions of transactions every ten minutes, and you’ll arrive at a far better environmentally friendly figure.
> Would one accept a peace when it is an injustice in the way it is executed?

Yes, I would. If another country came to occupy my country I would bow down and hope I'll retain my life and my property.
I don't particularly care whether my government is the current thieves I have or thieves from another country.

The balance between me and society is unchanged (assuming it's a pacific takeover and they just won't steal all my stuff or rape / kill me).

If the odds are stacked against my country, I think there is a higher chance of me surviving if I don't fight.

If we have a chance to win, then I'd fight to avoid having to suffer the potential looting.
I don't think in modern days countries with similar firepower are likely to fight though.

I imagine future conflicts will stay on very uneven grounds with a large army attacking a small one - like USA vs Middle East, Russia vs Ukraine, China vs Taiwan.
Not always. In my country, they incentivize solar energy generation but don't actually pay us any money for it. They give us "kWH credits" that expire within one year if not consumed. So it's much better to dump all that surplus energy into a miner so it can be converted into actual money. If the power company doesn't like it, they can pay me real cash instead of bullshit credits.
Interesting. I've been a subscriber since 2003 when it was called Rhapsody.

I miss the desktop client, though I certainly understand the modern software landscape. Napster/Rhapsody actually did a really cool thing when they moved from the desktop client model to the web/app model: In the client, you could rate songs with 1 - 5 stars. Their newer interface only has "heart" or no heart. Instead of just deleting all the users' rating data (which I think is the tech world default,) they automatically created playlists for each user, reflecting the songs they'd rated: "1 stars", "2 stars", and so on.

In truth, Rhapsody just acquired the name "Napster." If the acquisition were different, then maybe that data would have been destroyed.
Decades later, and I can still remember all the words on the Isrealites and Skids ads and can't listen to either song without singing along with those words.
Maybe real coke?
with inflation???
I'm not saying that's the logic here, but this is a common pattern because SEO. It's a useful way to end up on potential customers' radar.
Ouch. I'm not sure if this fixes your problem, but on Android I like to enable developer options and disable absolute volume to decouple the phone and speaker/headphone volumes, so I can use the device itself to turn down the peak volume (and hopefully noise floor) no matter how loud of a sound the phone tries to output. This might help ringtones, but probably not sounds generated by the headphones. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be exposed by Apple for iPhones.
>I refuse to accept they are somehow so much smarter than the people actually do the work.

Is a sales person who can close a deal on client worth a $10M contract "smarter" than a principal software engineer at the same company? The capacity to bring in revenue isn't necessarily based on the "smarter" metric.
It eats their margin, marginally (typically 5% kickback if a dealership meets sales figures, per car) as they're almost entirely franchises.

But that dealer network means when you need your car serviced, or repaired, you're never more than a short(ish) drive away from one.
Other than those yahoos who recommissioned some coal-fired power plants not too long ago most mining operations are located in areas with surplus renewable energy methinks.
Hi kdtop. I really appreciate your input, and I believe that both “right to access”, “ownership to data” and “copyright” are 3 different concepts that are fairly interesting.

Speaking from a health tech product manager perspective, then it has been interesting to see how must patient data was stored on local servers that the doctor purchased, and had stored at their clinic.

One could argue, that since the doctor owns the server, wrote the data, then the doctor might also be the “owner” of the data.

That does not mean the patients shouldnt have _access_ to the data, but traditionally then it was much harder, to get access to that data.

With more services going online, the data is no longer stored on servers the doctor purchased, and even though the doctors (or the clinic) created the data, ownership might not be as easy to pin point.

If journal notes (aka patient data) is copyrighted by the clinic, then the patient has no “right” to create copies of their medical data, nor do they have any right to share their medical data with others.

In part, i agree with you that “access” is a important consideration, but it is ideally important for patients to understand if their medical data is copyright protected, as that limits the patients ability to legally share information about their medical history.
I won’t point you to any, but you should dig deeper into the 2017 block size wars and understand why the community forked then and how, avoid the commercially appealing answers and the laser eyes.
I don't get them for free that often. And some are too small, too big, don't fit. My size also changed over years which made some of them bad fit. The remaining make it so that I barely ever need to buy one, but don't have that much excess.
Hmm. I think it was flagged after I commented.
Because a lot of their mac users have android phones.

Same argument for windows...a lot of iOS users run windows.
Sometimes it's not about power efficiency, but repurposing hardware you already have instead of buying new.
what about using sqlite diff stored in dynamodb that gets synced when lambda is called? thought i saw a repo for that.

i think that has merit too reading this im reminded.
What if it's not your house, there is a criminal living with you which takes money from you under the threat of locking you in the basement and another criminal comes to replace him?
If you’re reliant on their email services you’re less likely to cancel iCloud or switch mobile platforms.
Well, not everyone agrees with the conclusions made by the article. For example, here it is argued that the graph used by the article is suspect:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...

> This wasn’t a matter of productivity, either: workers were more productive every year, we just stopped being rewarded for it.

In particular, this point is being disputed.

Besides, I object to the use of the word "worker" here; some workers are surely more productive, but I can think of many classes of work that are fundamentally the same as they have been in the 70s; indeed, this kind of thing has been talked about under the heading of "cost disease" already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

Note that the article still points out inequality as a problem.
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development: Online Edition
Surviving Automation In The 21st Century – Part 1
Ask HN: What should one learn in 2022?
Yes - the Sonos Arc + sub + 2 rear channels sounds amazing after using the built in sound tuning, and got a pretty damn good review in What HiFi.
Well, every platform has its idiosyncrasies that you have to learn. No less with Qt, QML, and Flutter. You just take them for granted.

Cocoa/UIKit are my wheelhouse and have their own share of entry level StackOverflow questions. Though personally I think they make even less sense than the web toolkit. But if you just go by StackOverflow questions, you'd wonder if it was possible to learn anything.

Just search something like "auto layout" on StackOverflow. Turns out that client dev just isn't that easy no matter which abstraction you want to use.
first SB didnt support autoinit https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=52806 "DMA Sound Blaster 1.x 'seamless' playback investigation".

Of course Creative screwed again with numerous bugs in SB16 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=50071

* MPU-401 Hanging Note Bug.

* MPU-401 Stuttering with high sampling rates.

* Single-Cycle DMA Clicking (Non Vibra).

Not to mention poor engineering practices like leaving floating opamps resulting in noisy cards.
MIT, Harvard scientists find AI recognizes race from X-rays and nobody knows how
I think this has been asked on HN before, but uBlacklist (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/) works well (though the author is unrelated to gorhill of uBlock0 fame).
Worthless? Did you use ASICs?
When were Popeye's or BK "quality" brands? I don't remember them getting any worse since RBI bought them.
Quality and cost are two opposite ends if the scale. One end optimises for lowest cost, the other for maximum quality.

In truth quality is always getting better for less money - my 70's car required me to be a part-time mechanic, whereas my current car runs forever between services.

Minimum wage generates minimum quality, and you can call both macdonalds and Peter luger "restaurants".

The progression is a curve, not a line, the best value for money is about half way along the curve.
I've had some success with running a meta-scraper that will search for known value on a page, then back out the page structure from there. It won't help with randomly generated class names, but 95% of tasks I've written aren't this complex.

For sites that are hard to scrape (usually bigger sites that get scraped a lot), I pivot towards buying a data feed. Economies of scale incentivize these data companies towards putting someone on maintaining the feed full-time.
This has not been my experience. I routinely sell stuff on Craigslist and FB Marketplace. My experience is that "free" generates a flood of demanding crazies, but asking a nominal fee (even if you don't really care about the money) attracts much more reasonable people. People who respond to "free" listings are much more likely to be rude, to no-show, to ask dozens of time-consuming questions, to complain, and so on.
MEMS: The Second Silicon Revolution?
Ha! This is awesome, thank you
> they’re the reason the whole community split in 2017

This makes it seem like it was some sort of 50/50 split, but in reality it was more like 99/1. A tiny group split off to do their own thing while "normal" bitcoin is just chugging along with unchanged block size. It's all fine and well that Satoshi may have wanted something different for block sizes, but he hasn't been involved in bitcoin development for over a decade now so his wishes are pretty irrelevant. Right now, the vast majority of "bitcoin" value is in the original one and speculating about how things could be different is just the crypto version of "world peace is easy if we all could just get along".
This brought back memories. I remember having to do that to get certain games to work.
Install Greasemonkey / Violentmonkey / Tampermonkey / <whatevermonkey> and use this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...

One of those things that, like adblockers, once you start using it you'll wonder how you could stand to use the intarwebs without it.
They sent me an email with a link to an encrypted archive with everything in it.
The Snark Barker: a 100% compatible replica of the famed SoundBlaster 1.0
The creedo has a more specific and probably incorrect message: " we are broken, we need to be fixed. (Implied) I'll fix things". It's easy to attract conservative minded people as a rally cry to your cause when you reach for a nostalgic rhetoric about "the good ol' days" fallacy. Much divergent from the often left leaning "we can build a better future" which should probably also be considered a fallacy.

Back on topic, I don't think the electioneering slogan had any actual policy significance.
As far as I can tell, class components are not deprecated and still featured prominently in the official React docs. Did you mean something else?