skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weirdly in the last couple of weeks we’ve been clearing out our house and I found three(!) Onkyo home cinema amp boxes in the attic. I don’t own a single Onkyo amplifier anymore. Every single one got returned due to a serious fault (from suddenly producing no sound, to literal smoke coming out of it) within a year or 18 months, and typically swapped for another, slightly newer model Onkyo amp - rinse & repeat yearly. Their hardware from my experience was utter garbage. It had great features and UI, but literally went up in a puff of smoke on an annual basis. After three or four cycles I got fed up and changed to Yamaha. Unplugging a load of HDMI cables, speaker cables, re-running audio calibration, etc. is not something you enjoy repeating on an annual basis. I was always glad Richer Sounds (in the UK) have an unbelievably good returns policy. Even loaning me another amp FOC for a couple of months while Onkyo tried to repair one of them for me, before they gave up and just sent me a whole new higher end amp, free of charge.

I’ve got two Yamaha amps, both at least 3+ years old which have never had a single fault. I’ve also got a Denon home cinema amp, just over two years old which has never had an issue. To be honest I’m surprised they were still in business, as it never seemed from home cinema forums that my story was that unique.
From the article I learned that there is "somatic gene editing, a therapeutic application of CRISPR administered by injection to consenting subjects",

as well as "germline editing, in which changes are made to the DNA of an embryo".

The author is concerned by the latter and I think you describe the former.
> bitcoin’s economics are fundamentally untethered from reality

are they thought? What's untethered from reality is the understanding of how bitcoin work. Everyone wants to throw in 100$ and wake up to millions in 5 years. That just does not work anymore.

One can model all costs involved when it comes to mining and can make a decision based on cost vs expected profit. Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies) are not vending machines. The math to model this is harder and there is a lot more uncertainty. Can it be done? Probably. Will we have winners and losers in the mining game? of course.
"Though once you do have a working setup ..."

Yeah, I kept telling myself
that, and it was true most of the time. But any time you need to add something (video game system brought by a friend, whatever), or some new tech comes along, it throws everything off. And sometimes you have to move, and it doesn't really work out as well in the new place.

"And [AV nerds] are becoming fewer and fewer."

Isn't that related to my point though? When convenient products get good enough to take the magic out of a hobby, where do the new recruits come from?

A big driver for a hobby is being able to say (to yourself at least) that what you're doing is somehow better than what a layperson with a big wallet can do. That you're "the guy/gal" when it comes to this topic, perhaps surpassed by others who've also invested time.

Thinking out loud... This is probably some kind of deep rooted social need for specialization/role in a tribe that gives a sense of importance. We have jobs, which are highly specialized, but nobody in our social circle really cares unless they have a very similar job.
I needed an excuse to try out OCaml...
> the actual “Onkyo” that consumers know will carry on

I’m not so sure. The mainstream market (by that I mean excluding expensive “high-end” brands like NAD) can’t support a lot of independently designed products. In the AVR mainstream market there’s currently Denon/Marantz, Onkyo/Pioneer, Sony, and Yamaha (did I miss any?). There’s bound to occur more consolidation if the market keeps shrinking. The brands may continue to exist, but sharing the internals with other brands.
And at what point does "problems that they were unfairly born with" stop?
This phenomenon is the only reason my house is clean.
Not trying to be argumentative (on the contrary), but a couple of points:

- W3schools is European

- The Indians sites mentioned are not "low quality" per se (as in the info being totally wrong or misleading), they are just simply very basic and/or not comprehensive enough. But probably you are not the target audience (beginning developers).

As a person developing a similar site and trying to avoid the stigma of being branded useless and low-quality, I ask to you and any other person who wants to chime in, what kind of content I can offer to beginning developers without being considered trash? When I see a site like CSSTricks , the information is very basic too but they dont have this stigma. I wonder what other factors are in place here and how to work so they can help me.
Maybe visicalc, but not excel.
Oh wow! I had an Onkyo AVR that did have Audyssey (TX-SR508), but I guess they stopped putting it into later models awhile ago. They replaced it with something called AccuEQ which some reviewers say works just fine.

I personally switched over to Denon AVRs when it became time to upgrade.
I don’t think it’s fair or reasonable to hire someone to help produce documentaries and then expect them to produce “ow my balls”.

I don’t think it’s fair or reasonable to hire someone to produce web sites in Flask/Vuex and then expect them to dedicate themselves to maintaining your PHP legacy systems.
Then how about proof of steak, based on holding beef call options?
A Modern Space Cadet
Onboarding is raw here. My advice for adoption:

1. Screenshots of product

2. Vidcast of set up experience

3. Vidcast of user experience to book a meeting on my meetsy

4. Demo instance (book a slot with Fakeman Bogus)

Hooking up Google Account without all this is not going to happen because I then have to go and de-authorize you after if I don't like it. At that point, I'm not going to do it.
Sound setup was one of those fiddly tasks that we came to expect whenever installing a new game.

Did I remember the correct interrupt and port? Did I leave the card jumpered with alternate settings last time I played that one game that uses hard-coded values? Will this new game respect the BLASTER environment variable? Does silence when I launch the game mean that I made a mistake, or just that the game has no sound at the title screen?

Warcraft II addressed this with a sound setup tool that rewarded the effort with a delightful surprise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slTHHXWNG4Y
The current push for equity combined with the technical ability to genetically engineer humans is frightening. Society has decided we have "incorrect" levels of diversity...though nobody can answer what the correct levels are. Without any question of "how do you know what you're doing is correct" we're changing our environment as much as possible to achieve the "correct" level of diversity. It's pure luck we can only modify our environment because we lack the technical capability to modify our genetics - given our current low standards of evidence, the damage we could do is immense.

We really need to come to terms with equity, privilege (nobody earned their genetics), etc. before this is a reality.
After all it's the perception that counts.

From my experience the perception is usually rather negative. I think the reason for this is it's hard to impossible to have the full context which can include effort spent already on something as well as actual need and other information that is just not available to the other person.
Yes but that's a second thought. First it has to be more $-cheaper and then you have to cradle the thought that their time is valuable too. But that has to be their idea, if it's not, than you are only after their money
I can't tell if either I'm doing a terrible job making my point, or you're deliberately misunderstanding me.

Let me ask you this: The Model S outsold the Leaf and the Zoe, and helped launch a new car company that has now sold more BEVs than any other manufacturer. Why do you think that is?

One possibility is that they made EVs that many people wanted to buy, and people bought them. I'm proposing that this is the case, and the fact that the Model S sold well despite costing $100k is an extremely strong indicator of this.

New EVs, even those from established manufacturers, are emulating Tesla, not the Leaf or Zoe.

Without Tesla, we may have had many Leaf or Zoe-like vehicles, but given how uptake of those vehicles went, it seems unlikely that we'd be where we are today -- in California, in 2021, BEVs were ~10% of all new vehicles sold.

Personal opinions of the cost or style of Tesla's EVs aside, one can't deny that Tesla made EVs attractive in the eyes of Californian consumers, and as goes California, so goes the world (for better or worse).
I think there are two opposing differences.

For bravery and boldness:

Online, you can dip out of a conversation any time you want, so you can make bold claims and back out of defending them when you start losing. You can also sneak away, quickly look things up, refine your argument and return with everyone else having no idea that you started off talking complete bullshit. In real life, to do that you have to actually call an Uber. Whatever conversational mess you got unto, you have to sit in.

For aggression:

I think people are generally nicer online (although our perceptions of that are skewed by very stupid twitter replypersons), when they are posting in a community they want to continue to post on (and are reasonably bright.) In real life they are also nice when speaking to strangers or mild acquaintances. In both cases it is because all people know of you is what you're saying, so you don't want to scare them off. For friends and loved ones, however, you can argue abstractions much more aggressively because they know that you love them and that the subject is irrelevant to that.

So online people are bolder because they have escape hatches, but less aggressive because they want to impress. Offline people are more timid because they have to stand by what they say, but more aggressive with people they have real relationships with because they can rely on those to put that aggression into context.

At parties with people who aren't close, you get the worst of both worlds. People afraid to be bold and people afraid to offend. [edit: that's what alcohol is for, though.]
I'm not sure what you meant by "stock in distros", but I hope you don't mean it comes installed and configured out of the box on all distros, as that is emphatically not the case:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1399464/cant-install-pipewir...

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-pipewire-on-ubuntu-li...

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/pipewire-replac...
> storage is cheaper on AlloyDB

AlloyDB is 0.30$/GB/month
Aurora is 0.10$/GB/month

Where does Aurora gain 0.20$/GB/month in storage costs?
You're arguing syntax, I'm arguing semantics. When the intent is to have the program loop unconditionally, omitting a condition seems more appropriate than providing a tautological condition.

Syntax wise, it doesn't really matter. "for" just happens to be the keyword that allows omitting the condition. "While" effectively means "during which". "For" on the other hand has a significantly more flexible meaning; it seems reasonable to me that the for keyword would be more flexible. Syntax wise, the most explicit thing to have in a language would be a "forever" keyword of some sort.
Other peoples' intent is fundamentally unknowable. Labeling someone's speech as "bad-faith" is repackaging an individual's subjective dislike of certain arguments into a justification for denying everyone else the ability to evaluate that argument and make their own individual judgement.
What are good models to search for? I think my rpi or SD card just bit the dust, so looking for a new mini home server.
Even if all you care about is whether you keep getting paid, being one of the owners of a business (even if it's one of many) suggests to me that you would have much more influence about whether you keep getting paid than you would in any business where you are not an owner.
Same. Bought a Pioneer Elite to replace it.
Yeah, not a good article at all - I bailed half way through and went to the comments here in hope of a tldr/abstract…
> Does anyone else remember having to configure I/O, IRQ, DMA etc?

I totally do. It wasn't fun but in the end, somehow, we always ended up configuring everything correctly!
So how do I transfer VINs between owners, that’s somehow different to any other (artificially) scarce asset? Whats the risk of counterfeiting with VINs? What if I don’t want a whole VIN but a fraction of one?

Bitcoin having any value is absolutely a shared delusion. But it at least has other properties that differentiate it from other shared delusions.
>This makes it seem like it was some sort of 50/50 split, but in reality it was more like 99/1

In reality most bitcoin owners/users were the silent majority, and the "default" option was to do nothing, so they did nothing.

>speculating about how things could be different is just the crypto version of "world peace is easy if we all could just get along".

bitcoin's current blocksize/transaction fees are basicially an artificial problem that could be fixed with a minor storage/bandwidth tradeoff. It's more like "world hunger could be solved if we produce more food and stop limiting ourselves with insane protectionist trade policies".
> If they were conversations, then he must have been contributing to the emotion and nonsense, otherwise he could have just ignored it.

This is the precisely the kind of crap I'm talking about that brings HN down, where commenters just assert facts with no information whatsoever.
The Motorola Aura[1] had a round screen. There was also going to be a round wooden FirefoxOS phone[2] but it never launched in the end.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_aura-2562.php

[2] https://liliputing.com/2015/03/runcible-is-a-circular-firefo...
The post is nearly a month old.
I assume you will get a lot of helpful tips here, and I too have successfully managed to cope for almost 30 years, but I have to honestly admit that getting on medication was the best thing that has ever happened to me. There is only so much you can do to alleviate a chemical imbalance.

My life has never been the same since I got on it. The first few days I had to cry a lot, it was so incredibly beautiful and liberating. It was.. quiet. No more dozens of thought streams at once. Thoughts suddenly had structure. Everything had structure. I could tap into the potential that had always been there, but had been inaccessible. I felt normal. I fixed up my whole life within a few months, organized it (which now even helps when I dont take the medication), took care of things that have been unfinished for years.

And that's only work and organization. My social skills went through the roof too. I started to be able to hold normal conversations, I could listen properly, I could reply properly, and any conversations I have have become just so much more deep and meaningful. My depression and anxiety have vanished completely, for they were only a symptom of the ADD too. I eat better, I sleep better, my apartment is clean. I'm happier and healthier than I've ever been.

There is no real alternative. You can decide to keep on coping, but at some point you really have to ask yourself if you want to make everything harder on yourself than it has to be.
While I doubt this will be used for main-line power generation, it might be useful for low cost, battery free monitoring for algae farms.
I love this answer so much. I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted yet like many of my other favorites.
I think this is increasingly true of us as a society. We have been consistently elevating "ease of use" over every other objective and/or subjective quality.

We've reached the point where easier is better, even if it is objectively worse.

We are all settling for local maximum that are significantly lower than several other maxima because apparently making the effort to move further along the x-axis is now almost considered the worst thing one can do.
People who 'danced themselves to death'
An online environment can tolerate a bit more conflict than in person. There's actually more time and opportunity to really talk, you can go find a group of people with X interest readily in a way you can't do in person and it's somewhat safer to be opinionated and yadda.

In person, it's hard to arrange, say, a local amateur astronomer group and have meetings once a week or once a month with telescopes someplace dark. Online, you can talk about astronomy with others who are interested and share links, tips, trade anecdotes, etc. any time of the day or night.

It's a completely different social environment and this significantly impacts how people interact, thus it impacts individual behavior either in real terms or perceived terms.
Very interesting. I’m assuming there is no persistence in the referenced live squashfs ?
I’ve been a headphone mid-fi buyer for at least 15 years now (think Denon AH-D2000, B&W P5 etc.) and it’s just also the case that lower-fi audio has greatly improved.

The sound quality AirPods or the Samsung buds deliver are simply very very competent for the price. They’re good sounding, convenient, dependable.

Contrast to the crap you used to get included with your iPod or the entry level IEM’s that were 99% bass and 100% ear pain and snapped cables.

It’s not that people enjoy crap these days. It’s just that previously you needed to spend Onkyo levels of money to get decent sound, and these days a lot less.
We need a UL/Consumer Reports for Internet-connected devices that documents and certifies their use of personal data and bandwidth. The regulators are not going to be able to keep up with the changes.
> a CEO doesn't do 100x the work of their workers

No but the work from a CEO may have way more than 100x the economic impact of the work from a worker.

For example, the CEO of a car company may decide whether or not to build a new assembly line, on that decision, the company may lose or earn billions. A single assembly line worker can make the company lose or earn thousands depending on whether he messes things up or is particularly productive. The impact is many orders of magnitude different.

As a result, companies will make sure that their CEOs are the best, because what it a few million in pay when a good CEO can make billions. The rest is just supply and demand.

Personally I have absolutely no problem with my CEO being paid 100x, 1000x or more than what I make, if it is worth it. I want the company that hires me to succeed, that's how it can afford to pay me. Sure, that a company is successful doesn't mean their employees are treated well, but it is simply impossible for an unsuccessful company to treat their employees well.
Modern gpus + drover stack usually had more than one frame in flight. You have to output a frame every 4ms, but you do not need the latency from the start of the application rendering code to the frame being on screen to be 4ms - pipelining is allowed. But keeping that pipelining down to a minimum is also important, as it contributes to input lag which gamers care about.
Austin isn't important; everything I said is true for every square inch of Texas.
here is the thing. there are good investments and bad investments. good execution strategies and bad execution strategies. i have no doubt that a lot of these companies will go belly up. happens in every new domain where there is a lot of uncertainty and FUD.

So the question is not: how does a company ... work out in the long run? the question is: which company actually does things in a sane manner and will survive to be a dominant player in the space once the dust settles?
Greedy. That's it. If you want to be right, Work hard, Start a a business. Don't chase ROI because that won't make you rich.
The Covid Capitulation
I believe Onkyo never had Audyssey XT32 (which is the Audyssey version you really want), only an older Audyssey version (2Eq). Onky never even had MultiEq? (not sure)
Is it considered petty theft by all the victims of the latest racist mass shooting in NYand their friends and families?

King literally dehumanized Black women thus making it sound like its okay to kill them in cold bloaod and livestream it. There would be no deterrence for that if people didn't find it unacceptable.
Uncapped is a pseudo name for “capped just in time”. It’s never really uncapped.

If you’re interested in some work being done on such larger blocks, you’ll enjoy this presentation:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SJm2ep3X_M&feature=youtu.be
Moonrise isn't until 8:04pm YC time. But the eclipse itself will have already begun at 6:32 pm. The eclipse is today YC time but tomorrow GMT.
Just to clarify your number, an average Bitcoin block (currently) has about 2000 transactions, each of which, be it a transaction for half a cent, or a billion dollars, cost around $3 each. What you described is what happened when Bitcoin was actually being adopted by people, the mempool, that is, transactions not added to the latest block, started to fill up, and the market took hold and people who offered more to transact were included in the block. You don't have to offer more for the transaction and your transaction will sit in the mempool forever. Offering more is simply a way to expedite your transaction.
At the https://www.raspberrypi.com/raspberry-pi-store/ in Cambridge UK :)
That was an interesting talk, thanks. Looks like with some optimisations they could support blocks of around 100 MB, yielding around 500 transactions per second. Would mean though that the blockchain grows by a few hundred GB every month.
Such quips aren’t well received on HN (for good reason unfortunately, look at Reddit), so let me instead entirely seriously state that I was not able to read that title without having that Bonnie Tyler song stuck in me head. That happened multiple times today.
There’s also Trinnov, but it’s outrageously expensive.
As someone who is more familiar with BCH rhetoric, I can tell you that what the parent comment is referring to is not mining companies but rather LN relay node operators and other "services"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g
Is this actually associated with the GNU project? The GNU folks aren't fond of GitHub. [0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
The Rich Are Not Who We Think. and Happiness Is Not What We Think, Either
Goes to show you that energy is the real base metal of the world. Whether you are mining bitcoin or gold, or drilling oil - the power rests in the hands whoever controls the energy to pull it out of the ground/air.
Just watching undercover boss, the CEOs always do a terrible job at the 'no-to-low-skill work'. I'd guess employees, given a chance to evaluate the CEO using their own job as a metric, would probably chose quite a low figure for the CEO's salary.
For that to work you first have to scale up production and distribution significantly enough to be on their radar. That requires some investment and then the question is whether is an investment, with higher probability of returns.
Yeah, but maybe we could do something more spectacular with the electricity - maybe run giant Tesla coils and reward who can create the longest / most durable / most spectacular / etc. sparking events . . .
Are You Happy While You Work? [pdf]
4:11 UTC should be 12:11am ET.
Guys, I have the best (but also the worst) idea: an application where you can rent toilets !
That is literally what I wrote...
I understand and agree with you, but it's pretty difficult to avoid early adopters holding large swaths of value when something goes from not popular to extremely popular.
Exactly!

“Why I prefer making useless stuff” https://austinhenley.com/blog/makinguselessstuff.html
Online you may also be communicating with GPT3