skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recovering audiophile here. I used to continually chase gains until I got more into the professional side of things (I’ve been making music myself for a couple of decades). I ended up getting a few TOTL setups and I regret not doing that sooner. I went through entirely too many mediocre headphones and speakers before just spending the money on high-end studio monitors. I’d recommend people check out the pro offerings from ATC, Focal, Barefoot, PSI, DynAudio, Adam, etc. My living room setup now is literally just a MiniDSP SHD to handle Spotify/ AirPlay streaming and preamp duties into the active monitors. Vinyl setup runs through a Muffsy phono preamp kit I built. Headphones are mainly a high-end set of custom IEMs, Shure electrostatics, and Senn HD800S with a nice RME interface as DAC + amp. All that solved my GAS on the listening side, now I take all the money I’ve been saving there and put it into interesting synths and eurorack ;)

The pro side has some weird beliefs and desires too though, like an obsession with vintage gear including stuff like early digital reverbs. Plenty of pros believe that Mogami Gold cables are actually better in terms of sound quality, but my studio is wired up with Canare star quad for the extra noise rejection and a lot of GLS plus some Hosa patch cables as I’ve found their connectors to be good-enough quality and the cables are generally easy enough to work with / durable without being overly expensive. Megabuck old-school gear like LA-2As, 1176es, Neve 1073s, Neumann U67 and more-recent Sony C800-G mics, Manley compressors, etc all have crazy followings and people are always GASing for them, but they won’t make a crap song magically sound good, only take an already-good song and take it up another 10% (and even then only in skilled hands). So much more can be achieved by most folks with just more practice and education around mixing, yet everyone wants to spend their way to better sound.

Instruments and their amps are arguably even worse, with guitar and synth players as large contributors (I’m guilty as heck here too). We always want that perfect axe that we somehow believe will take us to the next level, or that vintage CS-80 or Rhodes. We know we’d be better off practicing and learning our instruments better, but instead we endlessly tweak Kemper profiles, swap strings / pickups / picks, rewire pedal boards, rearrange modular synths, and most importantly, read, talk about, and pine for the next gear purchase. It’s madness. There’s even a joke in the modular community that making music is the least important part of modular synths. “Music? Never heard of it. My $8000 electronic mission center only does microtonal bleeps and bloops in Euclidean cycles.”

But anyway, hobbies are fun. Sad to see Onkyo go, but not that sad as I never actually owned any of their gear. They seemed like a cheaper Denon. I was always more into the DIY side of home audio before I switched to pro gear, with folks like Nelson Pass and Siegfried Linkwitz as personal heroes. Don’t forget Roger Linn and Daphne Oram on the creation side!
Let me tell you the story of my country who shot dead a president and his wife. It was a democracy before and it is after. I am not endorsing the comment that started this discussion, just telling you are not necessarily right: there are cases when violence and crime are not only acceptable, but even necessary.
That looks a million times better than the horrible hack I wrote. Do you want credit for it when I fix the doc?
That looks like an extremely underwhelming bit of research.

Some thoughts:

1. Figure 2 is titled "Evolutionary Tree of ancient scripts reconstructed using Neighbor Joining algorithm in ClustalW2 (Daggumati et al., 2019)", however checking the references (a) that figure does not appear in the cited paper (b) the cited paper does not use ClustalW2 (c) the scripts in the cited paper do not match those in the figure.

2. Speaking of references, they include Classen, M., & Safrany, L. (1975). Endoscopic papillotomy and removal of gall stones. This seems like an odd choice. Why did they include this? I have no idea, I can't find any cite to it in the text.

3. Immediately after "When text is rendered by a computer, the characters in the text can not all be displayed, because no font that supports them is available to the computer" they write: "The Python package Matplotlib also does not render the font as of the current version 3.3.4." I would have thought that rendering with matplotlib would have counted as "render[ing] by a computer". Please also note Figure 5, which has a screenshot of a python script and a matplotlib plot; the former displays 5 (presumed) Linear A characters correctly while the latter has only boxes. Perhaps they meant 'there is no font in which all Linear A characters are present'. (And I should point out that in less than sixty seconds of searching I discovered that--as you might expect--matplotlib can use user-specified .ttf fonts)

(Sorry I know this point is long but another thing bothering me: why bother sticking with unicode codepoints when they could have instead just assigned integers to each character?)

4. For reasons that escape me, they chose to use a word cloud in Figure 15 ("Word cloud of locations the Linear A tablets were found by the number of symbols gathered from each") instead of, for example, a table. Why is 'HT' in there at least twice? Why is 'KH' in there at least six times?

I could go on but I'll stop here and say that if I were reviewing this for a journal it would be an immediate rejection.
I agree the original commenter is ignorant but I don't believe that he is American.
If you have some diy desire and skill, you can get a lot of bang-for-your buck from the speaker kits from Parts Express (https://www.parts-express.com/speaker-components/speaker-sub...). The sound quality of their kits is surprisingly high! In addition, there can be a lot of satisfaction when you're listening to them, knowing that you built them yourself.
The relevant law in question is explicitly country of birth. Nationality doesn’t apply.
> How do people find these gigs as shills, and how can it possibly pay high enough to spend your Saturday mornings on it?

Guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also had that issue. The 3.5 would work if it was plugged in just the right amount. If it was bumped it would disconnect. In a similar issue, my Nintendo switch controllers often disconnect while in the plugged in mode because the connectors just lose contact sometimes. I wish I could tell it to use them in bluetooth mode and charge only over the connector because bluetooth is pretty much flawless.
Server-side analytics and live updating page views with Supabase and Next.js
But then what do you do, return to your home country when you parents need help? Abandon your new life and job, which you built over 20 years?
CentOS 8 was released (and itself frozen, except security patches) years ago. Current CentOS has been broken loose from RHEL, so if you need bitwise compatibility with RHEL 9, you will need to switch over to building for Rocky or Alma when you move off targeting 7 or 8.

You can build for CentOS 7 in a docker image on your Amazon host, and also run Gdb on your Amazon host, using "target remote" to attach it to a gdbserver on your CentOS 7 target execution environment.

I use sshfs on my host to map a directory on the target, so my builds put binaries over there automatically.
https://www.wolfram.com/customer-stories/academy-award-visua...

This has better background on it.
Bitcoin will not change to PoS because it doesn't work and is only promoted by charlatans trying to sell tokens
I don't use any other service by Google except Gmail and Maps (anonymously), and all my message base is already backed up online at Fastmail plus locally. The day they don't accept anymore POP mail clients or do anything nasty, is the day I send all my contacts my new mail address and forget about Google. They pushed and killed a lot of services, and the way they deal with user support makes them highly unreliable for pretty much everything except tracking users and advertising.

Google unprofessionalism aside, the most reliable cloud storage in the world can't beat a solid local backup. Never ever keep your files in single copy, no matter who is the cloud storage provider; always keep a local backup, or to be more precise, the cloud storage should be one of the two backups, not the original.
Bluetooth on my desktop works flawlessly while 3.5mm seems to have a dodgy connector and doesn't work well at all.
Render has persistent disks! https://render.com/docs/disks. We need to expose them for cron jobs though.
signals.
When communicating in real life i'm inundated by other signals... body language, perceived status, intelligents, gender etc.

Online, I'm arguing/conversing/telling jokes with text. there is very little other signal getting in the way. also a large degree of online conversation happens with the voice in my head. My output comes from essentially arguing with myself.

My witt it's mostly sarcy, with heavy play on words. Because thats whats its like inside my head.

My arguing a point will be transactional and I try to be logical but my love of Monty Python influences my out put fairly heavily.

etc etc. its about signal to noise, but not just for the amount of signal, but how the noise changes the pitch and perceived value of the signal.
How dare they call Sbaitso bad AI... ;)
There’s also the matter of familiarity — if you’ve already heard a song on good gear many times, your brain will fill in the gaps even on bad playback equipment, but finding new stuff might not be as enjoyable because much will be left out, like bass textures, interesting things happening with sound staging, and even entire bits of melody or background that aren’t easy to pick out with smartphone / laptop / normal car speakers.

Edit: the car case is particularly funny as many luxury brands offer $$$$-$$$$$ options for better sound systems when they can’t solve the fundamental flaws of compromised placement and background noise inherent to cars. That McIntosh system in your new $120k Jeep Grand Wagoneer might impress the neighbor but it still won’t do much to quiet the roar of real all-terrain tires on the highway.
The most obvious example is that time free speech was used to elect a certain someone who was politically hated by the big tech capitalist class.
Gregorian calendar? Julian calendar? French Revolution calendar? Which calendar are those dates in?
Even if it was contamination of the packaging, it would be the same strain.

What we appear to have instead is an unfortunate tragedy. While the facility may need some better procedures and a cleanup, it apparently is not a contamination issue starting at the facility, and being linked through the identical strain to the deaths.
Why would it remain affordable to them only? Economies of scale apply even if just the productivity learning curve. Doing the cost/benefit analysis it may make sense for a government to subsidize or outright provide it for free.

It is downright bizzare that people worry about the non-trivial and highly useful applications. What happened to bitching about the spending on baldness cures and penis pill research?
It also doesn't help that their design pipeline and their process pipeline were tightly linked. When Intel's "10 nm" process pipeline stalled, their design pipeline did as well. Alder Lake/Golden Cove is (or seems) to be the first really new design since Skylake, and it uses a lot of watts to compete. We'll see if they get their grove back with the next couple releases, I guess.
Your methodology is flawed. You have no idea how extensive the backlog is, nor how reflective it is of a general willingness (and ability) to migrate to the USA. For all you know 90% of all migrants willing and able to migrate to the USA have (or will) filed the paperwork to do so.

The backlog could also be abnormally large at the moment and cases are piling up. 10M could very well be the accumulation of the past 3-10 years of immigration applicants.

So the actual range here—if migration was set free—could very well be as low 1M or as high as 10M.

Regardless. Even assuming the high end here, and in a 10 year period, 100M people would migrate to the USA. My honest question was, is there any reason to be concerned about that figure?
Why would it wear out? I'm not an expert on material science, but this metal piece is not permanently bending, its just springing back which should just last forever.
That's orecisely how we run our thread 3D printer. It even has a serial (UART) to USB chip on board and it's connected to a RPi3 boc running Linux and Octoprint.
What do you mean by "keeping up with this"? Macro trends are what matter. For example, the US (a very not green country) has cut its coal use by over 50% in the last 20 years[1]. A lot of that is being replaced with natural gas generation, but that's partially because the coal-to-natgas transition is much quicker and cheaper due to the US's established power plants. That wouldn't apply to a developing nation, especially not ones where coal is historically imported (e.g. Pakistan).

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
Seems like the answer is that there is no answer. Everything is done on a case by case basis. The outcome of the *.hk TLD is probably the least of the Hong Kong people's concerns right now and if China have control over Hong Kong then it'll probably have control over the TLD as well.

Also, there's this:

> Based on my (admittedly cursory) scan of the Taiwan one, there’s a lot of mention about “the territory of the Governmental Authority,” which implies that if the Governmental Authority no longer has territory, things might become somewhat hairy.
Yes, "wall breaching charge"
It's not malicious compliance. It's for power-users who already own or don't want to own a copy of Windows. It's a good thing that we (where I live) fought hard for - fortunately here it wasn't about laws but only about available options, so lobbying the vendors and sellers was enough.
yeah I probably missed the mark there. Seems to have a history of badly intended comments though
How does this square up with owners of private property having the ability to determine what they do with that private property? I mean, do these plaintiffs have ownership in whatever social network?

Can spammers sue for being censored? What about bot herders?

I acknowledge that there's some tension in the various rights here, but the USA has rarely mandated that non-common-carriers and non-broadcast media carry particular speech. The old "fairness doctrine" is a notable exception, but we all cheered and waved the flag when that got disposed of.

This looks like a particular political faction having a tantrum about some media not going 100% their way. Back in the Reagan Years, when we all agreed to get rid of things like the fairness doctrine, restrictions on cross-ownership of forms of media and number of markets, one political faction cheered this and everyone else was told cry more, that market forces would take care of things.

Now that markets have shifted, we're seeing the faction that cheered removing barriers crying. I'm having a hard time mustering sympathy, but maybe that's because I'm old.
This is pretty much what I believe. This isn't HN frontpage worthy, but one of the things I'm most excited about is people running production CockroachDB clusters on Fly.io. It is still a little more difficult to use the underlying infrastructure than it should be, but we're getting close.
Nothing compared to what lack of competition can do.
USB3 is USB3, usb-c is only a connector. If a device advertised being compatible with USB3 you'd expect all of USB3 to work and it always has in my experience. Alt modes and thunderbolt are something else which is usually advertised. If a laptop advertised thunderbolt and didn't have that, you'd be right to complain.
Here is a nice page for mapping "what first came to mind" to "what's actually fastest in 2021": https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/

TL;DR, lz4 is 10x faster than gzip (though does not produce as small as a file), zstd is twice as fast and better.
Yup, its ridiculous what goes on with immigration. Really common for all immigrant orgs in big tech to just prefer hiring their own.
This is great! Thanks for making and sharing it :)
What's offensive about it?
Lot of discussion of crossovers and phase here:

https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/how-does-a-crosso...

It appears it is possible to create a crossover that preserves phase but it is difficult. Most designs instead try to minimize the phase difference. (And the worse crossovers don't bother at all.)

Regardless, as soon as I listened to full range drivers (with no mid-range, crossovers, etc.) it was clear nothing I had listened to before could compare.
I would love to hear the answer to this as well.

My guess is that they either don't profit from bandwidth or they have peering agreements from back when the internet was young.
> Why would you not for the normal form of the tautological statement

Because normalising is an optimization, and these compilers didn't have any optimisations. That was normal back then. You had a whole separate product that was specifically an 'optimising compiler'. These days that's implicit and we just say 'compiler'.

These days, even -O0 will canonicalise the condition! That's how normalised it is! But I guess this is done during translation to IR, rather than as an 'optimisation'.

https://godbolt.org/z/Eoqs7hxqs
Musk says a lot of things.
Thank you for the accurate and concise summary of what I wanted to know, but I think that this has larger implications that has nothing to do with computers or algae. As you observed, that is really not a lot of power. And off I go... it is incredible that that is not a lot of power, iow, what can be achieved optimizing for low-power is nothing short of miraculous, and we as a global society... we should suck it up, optimize for low power, and immediately ban everything contributing to Global Warming, and stop it by force if necessary, you know, optimized for zero casualties using psyops and harmless hallucinogenic bombs. We should get with our allies, get China on board, and take over the world, and stop Global Warming with a quickness. Power hogs can read books and sleep at night instead of insisting on more and more power.
OK. So CoW snapshotting and other techniques that could take the files at a given point in time would not be subject to this issue? Just to be completely clear. Or, are there other issues?
And, to be clear, not for the (almost certainly apocryphal) statement, but for passing military secrets to a hostile foreign power.
You never had to use their IDE, and in fact the IDE didn't exist for the first 20 years or so. Being an interpretive language, no toolchain involved. You just write code in any editor and run the IDL interpreter, just as you do with perl or python. Code libraries were discovered via your IDL_PATH environment, similar to how perl and python work.
Great to hear. Have used Dead Man's Snitch in the past and plan to do so again in the future.
I wonder what the opposite of this would be. A piano keyboard with seven keys that you use to type ASCII? Two telegraph keys which represent high and low?
Typo: "They haven't said they...". I noticed too late to edit!
I think that there's something to be said about how a successful business that grows outside of the Bay Area hegemony can be an important source of community growth, and an acquisition can dramatically undercut that. It's great there is a one-time cashout but something important is lost in the process.
Considering how it acknowledges Taiwan I think we can safely attribute that to oversight rather than malice.
I don’t know Go, but I think less in that concepts are syntax guarantees, not semantic guarantees. I suspect interfaces (assuming they are opt-in) are semantic guarantees. That said, I’ve never run into this distinction being a problem, and you could provide opt-in mechanisms in C++. Of course, the C++ interface has zero runtime cost.
If you're bullish on BTC you will still get more BTC by buying them than mining them at a loss.
I actually bought a couple pairs of these Dayton bookshelf speakers with AMTs for surrounds with my Totem mains and center a few years ago. They sound fucking GOOD for $60. Far better than all this satellite and soundbar crap. If I was on an absolute budget, I'd get these as my mains, and the acoustech subs that I use for my computer($240) at the time. SOLID.

https://www.parts-express.com/Dayton-Audio-B652-AIR-6-1-2-Bo...
To avoid having to carry Texas spammers, Texas bot herders and Texas neo-nazis that will alienate everyone, Texans and non-Texans alike. There are many, many more non-Texans in the USA, much less the whole world.

That's a real problem with national or international corporations that have a lot of monopoly power. They don't have to service everyone, and if you don't fit their idea of maximum profit, you don't get serviced.

I guess Texans who feel cut-out of modern discourse could use VPNs to appear to be from Connecticut or New York City.
This is embarrassingly non obvious in the docs, but you can run workers/web just like you would on Heroku: https://community.fly.io/t/preview-multi-process-apps-get-yo...

Most people run workers in their primary region with the writable DB, then distribute their web/DB read replicas.
Not everyone has a thin skin. People who wear nationalism on their sleeves get offended by such comments.
Yes, because you can still buy it if you want to:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/excel/cfq7tt...
https://independentbanker.org/2022/02/now-is-the-time-to-pre...

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....

Indeed, this is the last hurrah for PayPal. US instant payments go live early next year. They’re trying to squeeze what’s left before they’re obsolete.
Annapurna Labs
Australia has its .au TLD plus .cc and .cx.

It’s pretty hard to see what benefit these TLDs have to these Australian external territories and if ICANN should even allow them to exist.
A video container (file) is essentially a collection of video, audio and subtitle tracks and a register where to find what in the container, so that one can extract any of them.

You can download a youtube video with youtube-dl and one of the GUI projects that use it, once it's on your drive then you can use Audacity with the ffmpeg plugin to open that video and automatically get only the audio track(s) from it.

In Audacity you can label gaps and after that multi export each song as a batch from that track. In audacity one can resample, edit, export as many different audio containers (mp2, mp3, flac, ogg, etc...)
BIND out of the box supports split horizon DNS as many ways as you want, I do 3 way split horizon with BIND.

I've never tried pairing it with Tailscale(I don't use it), but I pair it with Consul.

The config and docs aren't the prettiest, but it works fine. Most DNS software can't handle this use-case well.