skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is assuming that it's documented...otherwise you're just hand evaluating javascript to figure out what it would call...and then you get to thinking that you should just embed a javascript interpreter and evaluate it...and at that point, you've gone down the path of implementing a headless browser.
Bill Gates, Vaccines are a miracle. It’s mind-blowing s/o could say the opposite
Detecting differences between decent gear blind has never been terribly relevant to the audiophile market :-)

That aside though, a stereo setup is something that a lot of people just had. I have a decent one and it’s wired to multiple rooms. If I were starting from scratch I almost certainly wouldn’t do that today—to say nothing of all the components to play four or five different types of media.
The brand may live on as a mark, but the brand is already gone as a product.

But actually I think that had already happened, and that we are just observing now the formal recognition of that fact.
I can agree the elden ring isn’t narrative driven but I do think it has lots of story and lore that you have the option to dig into. One player could play it and see no story at all while another reads everything and knows the history of the land.

I suppose I did forget about arcane, although I feel like that’s an exception and an outlier.

I disagree that the movies are arguably better and have a more fleshed out story. In the case of resident evil, the story of the games is leagues ahead of the movie franchise story. I think so much so that’s it’s not actually enjoyable for fans of the video game.

The Witcher is another good example. Amazing game, fantastic story that has rich lore. The show is decent, and does do a fairly good job. It just guts the story though, and I lost interest in season 2 as it got more off track.

The author would say that the Witcher TV series is better than the games, story wise, but anyone who’s played the games always says the same thing, the shows not nearly as good.

I honestly think they are two mediums you can’t really compare. One is a passive media consumption, whilst the other is a engaging media consumption. A game puts you in the drivers seat and makes you feel like you’re in control. You may have limited control, but you can still feel like you have an outcome on the story. I think that’s a powerful tool that can’t translate to movies or tv shows. When I watch the Witcher, I’m watching Gerald fight monsters and roughly follow the same lines as the books. When I play the Witcher I am Geralt and I have control in how my Geralt comes across. You just can’t replicate that in tradition media.
Sound Blaster was my first sound card and it was pure magic, coming from the PC beeper. I wrote a module player for it and since it only had two channels, you had to mix the audio in software. I later moved on to Gravis Ultrasound which had 16 hardware channels and while the audio was orders of magnitude better, it still felt like cheating to me.
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They aren’t - denon and marantz merged. Poster was just suggesting D&M could have acquired them. But given the overall stagnation in the receiver market I agree it think wouldn’t have benefited anyone.

The market segment for Onkyo just doesn’t exist anymore - those that want receivers and a HiFi/HT setup are already well served Denon/Marantz and Yamaha (and the “audiophile” world beyond that is a pretty well saturated market). Sony is still around but that’s clearly not their core business.

But the former Onkyo base has been eroded by soundbars and wireless multi speaker setups.
Aka Govt administered cartelism. Which we already have. The trick is changing the governance (incentives, transparency, accountability) to favor people over corporations (and finance).

Perhaps one step would be to stop thinking of corporations are superpersons, deserving of superrights. Instead, we could charter corporations and stipulate that they serve the public good.
They only want to compel platforms to host racist and crude conspiritainment trash because it tends right. If it were trash that tended to lean or assist the left they would support deplatforming. There is no principle here.
I think you are correct about the current state of the field. However having seen some of the HCA decisions from the funders perspective I'd say that the tech development is the main goal. However tech development in this sense also includes visualizing, annotating and interpreting the data.

In order to develop the tech you need the datasets to work with, in order to interpret the data you need the tech and enough data to control for noise.

I think building tools that scientists can use to understand and interpret their data (without requiring them to have a degree in computer science) will be extremely beneficial to the field in the long run, because it allows scientists to focus on their area of expertise.

I dont think the field is quite ready to make useful predictions about cell types, states or disease mechanisms but I think the groundwork is being laid and the field is progressing rapidly.
I haven't had to pay here in the US for hospital images distributed on CD but my previous dentist was giving me shitty printed images and I could not get digital copies. But they probably charge you for it whether you get them or not.
In real life you see a real human's body language and can see if you are upsetting them by being critical, which may make you uncomfortable and cause you to hold back.

On the Internet I can bash anyone on any topic without obvious indicators that there is a real human being on the other end of the conversation that I may be hurting.

Also this community tends to attract contrarians who believe they know better that the majority of people on many topics, for better or worse.
Sorry, forgot to add "actually robbing" people (of possession or freedom) to the list due to thinking over the last two decades.

Look, I don't say that the current financial system isn't in trouble - especially in the US. Most of the EU countries (where I live) are quite a bit more financially stringent - not that it helps us much when the US economy blows up....

But that has happened a lot of times before, and even though I expect the twenties to be a very unpleasant decade (covid made sure of it start out suitable unpleasantly), life will for most people go on as our real production is okay (as long as we are not getting WW3 triggered).

Famines due to the Ukrainian war is going to be a much, much bigger problem the next 18-24 months, especially in the poor areas. And in contrast to "money" the thing we call "food" is a hard asset, that is we cannot simply multiply it...

Some people (me included) have invested as much as they reasonably can in hard assets - for me since slightly before covid (the trouble already started pre 2020, how much before depends on what you think is the threshold for trouble).

But IMHO the cryptos are a totally unworkable system and it is going to cost people who try to secure their money there their last money...

But there are certain hard realities in economics also (like gravity, thermodynamics etc in physics). One of them is, that we can by definition not all be wealthy (when compared to each other), even a very large percentage of people are richer today than kings where two centuries ago (if you measure health, food quality etc).

Most people would have a much, much better life if they dampened their FOMO and consumed less instead of more...
The charts don't suggest to me that Teams stole Slack's growth. Slack's trajectory looks about the same before and after Teams was introduced. I'm sure there was some negative impact but it's impossible to read off what it was from the graph.

As for the rest, yes, this is an old story, but doesn't apply to all companies. Slack will always have its niche. I know of a much larger multinational that didn't ditch Slack, it just added Teams.
That makes assumptions about the language, for the languages I know: German has three definite articles, Latin doesn't have any, so it is not obvious what looking for "the" would result in either.
I don't care if your brain is hardwired into a TikTok video and you watch it 10,000 times. It's maximum 3 minutes. You're not learning anything in 3 minutes. You might learn something that is entirely self contained in 3 minutes, but you probably already learned that stuff in the 3rd grade. Taking something large and complex and narrowing it into a short clip doesn't do anything for anyone. I guess you get some information, but you're not getting knowledge, and there is no incentive to study. At best you are trying to arm-wrestle a lion and it's an uphill battle. I'd rather take a book and spend a weekend, then I might have a chance of grasping something.

>Why exactly would I retain information less from TikTok than from a Khan Academy video?

Unless you are watching some sort of structured course type thing that is broken down into... 100's of 3 minute videos? I don't see the point.
> things so long desired and so long available in other languages

That's a feature, not a bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31380032

When you say, "so long desired," the question is, by whom? Java (the language) isn't aimed at PL enthusiasts, but the majority of programmers, and believe it or not, most programmers are quite averse to new language features, so great care is needed in adopting them if a lanugage wants to be very popular, as Java aims to be.

I can tell you that even when there's a feature we strongly believe is "right", we are wary of adding it to Java until it has been "so long available in other languages." An example I personally worked on — and it's not even a language feature, but a simple API in a single class — is structured concurrency. We love the concept, but because it hasn't yet been "so long available in other languages", we've only proposed it as an "incubator module" to let it mature, and even then we're only adding it because we believe it is too essential to be left out.

It appears that you can be extremely popular or you can be an adventurous innovator/early adopter on the language-feature front, but you can't be both. The Java platform offers multiple language for those who like more adventurous and/or feature-rich languages — and we're happy to accommodate such languages — but they are definitely in the minority (my rough estimate is that only about 10% of programmers prefer such languages).
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Lighting, focus, posing, etc. matters too for school portraits -- my actual point is that, from a photographer's perspective, medical imaging seems like it would fall under copyright, too.

There is direction and configuration that goes into arranging the patient, correctly operating the imaging system,
and interpreting the results to verify that the medical-imaging needs are met. I'm surprised to hear that medical imaging is handled differently by the Copyright Office.

Instagram's most popular images are frequently formulaic -- is that not a mechanical process, too?
It's a bit of a balancing act. If you're too ban-happy you'll get an echo chamber (some would say that HN already is one) and if anything goes the trolls drive out serious participants. I think it's remarkable that the discussion here is as good as it is, compared to e.g. reddit or other forums.

There has to be a little room for jokes and sarcasm and "devil's advocacy," as that's part of how real people talk about things.
One problematic thing that pops out immediately for a Python-centric approach is that they don't mention that this is all best done in some kind of Python virtual environment, like miniconda or virtualenv. They just suggest 'pip install package', which is not a good approach for anyone (and particularly not beginners) - unless you want to end up with this:

https://xkcd.com/1987/

Looking around a bit with the requirement that the online tutorial mention this rather important fact, I found this alternative option, which helpfully notes:

We want to run all our scraping projects in a virtual environment, so we will set that up first.

https://python-adv-web-apps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scrapin...

Compare and contrast that discussion with the one presented in this post - the above is far superior. Also, I don't understand why one would suggest PostGreSQL to a beginner when sqlite3 is included already in Python, and is going to be easier to use for small databases. Towardsdatascience seems to have a nice intro-to-sqlite3 tutorial.
No. It depends. You weigh it up. And a little (cheap) nous can often beat a truckload of hardware.
Perhaps the only issue I would have with this blogpost is using Postgres. By all means, SQLite can do the exact same thing, just easier for a beginner, since they don't have to wade through a mess of networking. Just add the binary to the PATH and one is good to go.
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> My last office had dogs and kegs.

To be fair, if my office had this, I'd be a lot more inclined to go in every day.
You should check https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir
I was going to recommend the Sony WH-1000XM4 (which are more expensive). But I wanted to Google Linux support first and I ran into this discussion on Reddit [0], it sounds like the issue is not with the headphones (any BT headphones you choose) but with Pulse Audio.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sony/comments/jght5s/sony_wh1000xm4...
That's only scalable if the material & labor costs to build and maintain the tanks is within a certain margin.

How many m^2 of algae is required to equal a m^2 of solar? From there you could calculate relative costs, given reasonable assumptions of lowered tank/algae costs as the tech matured.
If you're using an iPhone, you already are trusting Apple to not do scummy things. If they wanted to, they could snoop all your traffic with or without Private Relay.

What Private Relay does appear to do is guarantee that no one besides Apple can do scummy things. That's a definite improvement.
> but I wonder why move away from the concept of metrics extracted from logs to discarding logs and storing just the metrics?

This is a _very_ good question.

Getting from log to meaningful dashboard full of metrics is very hard to do well. Its also very hard for a normal person(ie non programmer) to ask the right question of a log stream.

For example if you give me a log stream of a web server, and want me to raise an alert when an instance's health check takes longer than n milliseconds, it would require regex to get the host name, regex to get the health check, and more regex to get the response time. All of those steps are hard and require testing. Moreover its fragile, any kind of format change is really easy to slip in and cause your monitoring to break.

So your next question might be, why replace splunk with a metric based solution?

Thats the thing, you don't! logs are really really useful for what specifically went wrong. But they are not very good at telling you what is _currently_ going on over n number of services.

when implementing a service/program/things, I ask the developers to think about the information that is useful to log. Be that response time, number of peers connected, cache size, etc etc. Then instead of just dumping them to logs, you'd push them to a metric library and get that to look after it.

this means that you are consciously thinking about an number that best sums up the thing you care about. This then frees up logging to explain _why_ something has happened, rather than being rigidly defined because you'll break a dashboard.

Think of is as this:

dashboard: shows you if a service is happy, which is an aggregate of many smaller programmes.

Something goes wrong, response time of a microservice is above limits, you then track down when exactly the metric went wrong, and fire up splunk to look at the logs.
Thank you for giving it a try!
this is a"feature" added to the OS in Monterey that applies to bluetooth headsets - it will auto-mute you when input volume drops to zero, and, AFAIK, many video conferencing clients (zoom, google meets, etc) use this feature to help deal with background noise.

- Zoom instructions to disable dynamic input volume - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/432445/bluetooth-h...

- google meet instructions (when run via Chrome) - there's a flag you can add when starting Chrome, --force-fieldtrials='WebRTC-Audio-AgcMinMicLevelExperiment/Enabled-20' , that will fix the issue. For ease of use, create an AppleScript file, convert it to a shortcut, and launch Chrome from it.

edit - formatting
What are some examples of CPG unregulated less expensive products?
Could this fall under «suis generis» law in EU because it’s a byproduct of the normal work?
If that is the case there is no copyright.

Your teeth could identify you so I would say that it is personal informasjon (under GDPR), so you get to decide if they can keep it and you have to explicitly except any other use of your data.
> This process involves taking many photographs and computing them into a single work using a complex algorithm, with minimal human involvement.

Well, the human involvement took place earlier. If you're building a system like this it's a mix of off-the-shelf software and plenty of creativity from the folks involved in each step. I can't imagine trying to pick a point where your involvement in the process wouldn't matter.

I also can't imagine having this conversation with someone who doesn't appreciate beauty in code.
Very true -- though the expectations we have for audio equipment has changed in ways that make what Onkyo was really good at less important.
I have a eerily similar problem with my Galaxy Buds+ on my macbook. 15-20 minutes into a Zoom call and suddenly my audio doesn't work and neither does the mic, I have to ditch the headphones and use the laptop mic + speakers.

Going to guess it's a macOS bug given that other headphones are showing the same behavior
> Not only that, if this where true, how come every time Hollywood tries to take a video game IP and make a movie it comes out terrible?

mayeb because the video game doesn't offer a good enough story to adapt.
In real life you have to work with what you've got and act friendly with everyone. On the internet, I can let my real self go and find people I actually like and see a future with.
You turned this thread into a hellish flamewar in multiple places—like, at least 6 different places if I counted right. That's basically arson. We ban that sort of account. If you don't want to be banned, please review the guidelines and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note these two, among others:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31379889.

Edit: you've been using HN for ideological battle in other places too—e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31378481. It's not ok to abuse the site this way, regardless of what your views are or how right you feel they are. No more of this, please.
Not supporting is one thing, false advertising and failing to provide a refund is another.
Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins.

That's last-century thinking, from when manufacturing cost dominated. Today, it's all about building a monopoly and crushing any new entrants. Comcast. Apple. Google. Facebook. CVS. The US is down to four big banks.
Sorry, I didn't mean this to be insulting. The reason I was suggesting tolerating some of the pain to give your body time to adjust is that I've actually seen some people (obviously not everyone, just some subset) who don't do that, responding that they fear letting themselves feel hunger for a few days is to much of a health risk (because otherwise why would their body feel hunger/pain, etc.). You might believe everyone tries this but it's simply not the case. Of course lots of people really do try everything and still gain weight, but for every stage in the process there are some who don't give it a chance (and not all unreasonably either), and I've seen that for this one in particular, hence why I brought this one up.
Pacifism has no easy way out in this conflict. Of course one could (reasonably) argue more weapons kill more people in the long run — however people tend to have other values than just pacifism. Would one accept a peace when it is an injustice in the way it is executed? If yes, at which level of injustice does this stop to be the case? Any peace for any price as fast as possible is an easy stance to take in theory, but one that does fails to deal with the underlying currents that lead to the war in the first place. Not to speak of the signal this could send ("If you are stronger than your neighbor country just invade it, you will definitly get something out of it and in the end people will accept everything if there is some kind of peace in the end").

Same goes for weapons. One could easily imagine a situation in which no weapons deliveries will stretch a conflict out and lead to far, far more civilian casualties than if the conflict quickly moves into an phase where negotiations are something all sides of an conflict actually want. So a dogmatic "no weapons" stance can easily cost more lives than a more balanced stance that looks at things in a more nuanced way.

Ethically it depends. Are one's ethics about the strict enforcement of fundamental rules regardless of the outcome? Or are one's ethics about minimizing the harm that is created regardless of the rules that have to be broken to get there?

In reality everybody will fall somewhere between those poles.
In real life you fear offending people you already know. For example I personally hate [insert company here] for multiple reasons, but I'm not going to express that in person in front of a friend or acquaintance I know who works there because it's likely irrelevant to the context under which I made a connection with that person.

There are routinely two groups of people I can speak total truth to, and those are (a) total strangers, and (b) very close friends. Online forums fall in the former category, as do random people who chat me up on trains that I know I will never see again.

Anything in-between requires some tiptoeing here and there.
I had a dream that some super-algae leaked out of a lab and colonized the oceans killing nearly all marine life.
How do you enter braces or square brackets with that keyboard?
But what if the snitch fails? Maybe write a cron job for that
Not really. The API these days tends to be JSON so you can just figure out how to it works and what represents what.

For example I've been able to reimplement xmltv scrapers for several sources in less than a 100 lines with Scrapy. It's not hard, just requires a little discretion.
> It's impossible to convince most people of even the most obvious truths.

You should maybe ask yourself why you need to convince them.

> The wisest path is to fake agreement, keep your thoughts for yourself and move away ASAP.

That's not wise, that's dishonest to the other person and to yourself. The last part (avoiding the other person) is obviously a completely valid option, but only one of several.
For some more nostalgia you can build your own Sound Blaster, or: Snark Barker

https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker
It's my take on how the author comes off as. You're free to disagree, even if the crux of your argument is as silly as chanting "RTFA". It's good that you're passionate about your defense of the author but unfortunately you haven't convinced me.
With Open Source everyone can benefit, including a company. In this case here only Google benefits.
We have a word for people who live life read-only, consuming their surroundings - NPCs. Not sure who's really mentally ill in this situation.