skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often people want to treat the law as if it were computer code, but fortunately sometimes it's more like the grade-school teacher making sure that the kids play nicely together.
The legal classification in the EU should be interesting here. The directive 2018/843/EU defines "virtual currencies" and classifies them as "means of exchange" (in contrast to "fiat currencies" and "legal tender"):

“virtual currencies” means a digital representation of value that is not issued or guaranteed by a central bank or a public authority, is not necessarily attached to a legally established currency and does not possess a legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange and which can be transferred, stored and traded electronically;

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Helium is basically Herbalife marketed to crypto bros. There is no reason these hotspots cost $500 dollars or more. It's a simple Lora access point and should sell somewhere around a $100 (or less, considering how many are sold). Just like MLMs: People believe they are a partner and will profit along with Helium. In reality they are the end customer. Nova Labs makes money from onboarding people's hot spots and that's it. Every other revenue is a rounding error.
Even if we grant the accusations of enforcing a leftist orthodoxy, that's twitter's prerogative, you may not like left wing people but they are allowed to have a website that caters to a left wing audience.
>They repeatedly demonstrate that they are a company of bullies, with how they ban people from their service that don't conform to the left orthodoxy.

So the manner in which they conduct their private business, which is well within the rule of law, makes them ineligible for protection from those violating securities and contract law?
There is a market for DSD albums: https://www.nativedsd.com/

I can see why people would be angry about the deception, but DSD is probably the highest fidelity audio anyone has ever heard (with the right equipment).

Audiophiles should be celebrating a situation in which we today can listen to albums in higher fidelity than anyone except those who were around when they were being recorded... and that quality is accessible basically anywhere via the internet.
> It seems disingenuous to absolve them of all sins if their data is hugely incorrect to the point where it's fraudulent just because they added that loop hole.

If there's an actual industry standard then you could argue that Twitter is lying. However as everyone in the legal community knows there are two important concepts here: wilfulness and negligence. Did Twitter willfully do this or is this just because there isn't an actual standard methodology but tried to do their best-effort anyways? Is Twitter aware of problems in its methodology that can be solved but were left as-is? Conversely, did an external party intentionally misinterpreted those numbers so that that party can paint a different picture that what Twitter actually claims?
And were completely at the whims of nature around them. Yea, this is great when you live in a nice stable climate oasis, but most places on the planet are not like that (and that's even before we add in man made climate change).

It's all fun and games until you stub your toe and get an infection that could be treated with antibiotics, well except by choice you don't have any and you get to watch your body rot until you die.
A “virtual PBX” for personal use, based on Twilio or similar.

“Firecracker containers” for macOS, based on Apple’s Virtualization framework.
I bought about 16 refurbished asus gpus last year and 9 were DOA. Some had extreme damage but no packaging damage, making me think they were sent damaged.

Requiring a laptop for a dock issue is insane. That is not good service.
GNU Guix, much like Emacs, is a set of LISP (guile) scripts running on top of a small C runtime. Nix is mostly C++ in comparison.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix
How do you define "massive hit"? That article cited an estimate of 9M foldable smartphones being sold in 2021 - compared to 1.4B total smartphone sales last year (~1.12B just looking at Android).

That's less than 1%, no?
This does seem more like a religious issue, eg. its more about faith, dogma, orthodoxy, and heresy, than it about anything tangible.
I disagree. Dreamworks doesn't make their money because of their rendering engine, they make it because of their movies. The engine is a necessary and integral tool for making those movies, but the engine alone is not the beating heart of Dreamworks. Open sourcing MoonRay is a smart move because it means they can start hiring people who already have prior experience with it, as well as benefit from the free optimizations and improvements the OSS community will surely make!

Having a rendering engine that's really good is useless unless you have the talent to use it to make a movie, and Dreamworks is going to maintain their branding and reputation for a long time regardless of whether their tech is open source or not.

They aren't "giving away the key" because the render engine is not the key. It's a complement, and they're simply commoditizing their complement.

While I agree that high quality art is going to become completely commonplace over the next decade or two, I really don't think it's tied in any way to one company releasing their internal render engine to the public.
The exact same spherical cow issue applies, with worse effects, when you increase your sampling rate unnecessarily.

And you can use oversampling to correct for the filtering issues. That's pretty standard in modern DACs and ADCs.
Might depend. If you have grandparents that help I would guess the kid would do better. If the grandparents have bad medical issues that place a large burden on the parents, then the kids would probably get less attention and be better off if the grandparents were figuratively placed in the garbage bin. But I would wager on average you're correct, and I'd be interested in seeing some of the data to confirm it.
What similar things?
IMO there is a greater, yet complex, romance in safeguarding actual innovation and national progress (even global given international agreements). On "rewarding the first person to write them down"... this isn't so simple, and rather costly especially when an idea only remains an idea... if it's real, then you should soon expect an invite to the PTAB where some large business has implemented your idea and/or built real legal arguments as to why your idea won't stand.

Like you mention, there are however proponents, who feel progress can be prohibited by regulation. Chemistry patents are notoriously nuanced.

Anyway... We're essentially spelling out the [1] Big Tech vs Big Pharma arguments.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6c5b2cca-ae8b-11e7-beba-5521c713a...
Yep, this is why in Vulnerability Research one of the main ways of finding bugs is concolic execution (Looking at logic for error cases). Memory safety is pretty easy to catch if you arn't a clown and use good coding patterns. Logic isn't, which is where the big money and big boy vulns come in. And honestly, most modern OS's have memory safety protections built in. This is 1992 anymore.
You sound like you're getting caught up on the prefix "trans" in conjunction with the current culture war zeitgeist. That's not what transhumanism is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
Heavy use of the passive voice -- the dead giveaway for BS.

It's interesting whether "digital is better than analog" but hardly relevant here. There are people who believe it's not true, and MoFi lied to them.
I'm using yEd, but that likely has the same issues as you mention, being very open-ended and requiring lots of micromanagement of styles and layouts. Perhaps you are seeking a tool such as plantuml in which you specify your diagrams textually and have them rendered by a compiler. It only supports a specific set of diagram types, primarily from the UML family, but I think it's also possible to install a third party C4 style.
I'm not saying there aren't completely valid reasons for a business to have certain policies limiting the software used by their employees (including OS choice), it's just not useful for me. Learning a new language or technology is useful for me because I can then use that language or technology. But switching OS or editor or whatnot well enough to be my daily driver? I don't really see how that's useful for me. I don't really learn anything new, and I won't be any more productive; it'll just be "a thing I have to do, grumble". That's it's useful for the business is a separate thing.

> tools are similar enough to allow people to collaborate.

I think this reason in particular isn't all that valuable though; especially not since people tend to customize their setups anyway. I once worked somewhere that mandated software choice (including IDE) for this reason and I never saw any value in it.
That's a great idea. Steam deck comes with a short game - Aperture desk job - that tests all of the controls. I didn't know it had a gyro until I played that game.
> “These people who claim they have golden ears and can hear the difference between analog and digital, well, it turns out you couldn’t.”

But was there an album without DSD to compare to and hear the difference? I guess most people heard just the album with DSD (that admittedly sounded great).

What would happen if there was also a One Press version without DSD? Would people with “golden ears” be able to recognize it in a blind test?
I've definitely written a bunch for friends asking similar questions. Feel free to reach out (contact info on the website, which is in my hn bio).
Individual creators are now building scenes in Blender and Unreal Engine. The floodgates are about to open for individual creators doing animation. An easy to use render farm is a good startup idea.
To be fair, mofongo is indeed delicious
This seems like the most appropriate description of transhumanism.

I think for a long time in human history, technology simply wasn't there to alter the physical nature of humanity. But in recent decades, we understand much more about human physiology enough to alter human body in a drastic and permanent way.

This is generating lots of contention between groups about what's acceptable to change and what's not acceptable to change. Also I think about how people think they are rational about their positions on these matters but they are more like strong cultural presumptions about what's right and wrong.

Let's consider situation we already have.

Consider sex change operation. There's one camp that's complete fine with people getting sex change operation, while there's another camp that condones and some, want to outlaw such operation. The liberal camp likes to say that a person should be able to do what they want to do with their body.

However, at the same time, the both of the camp tends to dislike male steroid usage to change one's physique (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/108-2004/h226). For some reason, same reason to let people decide what they want to do with their body, doesn't apply when it comes to male physique.

It's interesting to see how technology is challenging our preconceived notion of right and wrong and sheds lights to inconsistency in our rationale.
It would be nice to keep the technology/medicine that keeps mothers and babies alive through childbirth, though.
It's a bit like comparing monkeys and apes though. Yes they're all primates but the family tree does matter and you can't just mash them together.

IPFS resembles many previous attempts at distributed file storage, which did not use blockchain. They had other ways to encourage fairness, which appears to be the primary use of blockchain in IPFS. The existence of the concept of Merkle trees, named or unnamed, lead to blockchain, not the other way around. And it has other children, like some digital signature specs.
> Contrast this with if I had alpha-gal syndrome and someone me offered me a steak. In that case, I could truthfully say "I can't eat that".

If the person said: "eat this steak and I'll give you a billion dollars or don't, and I'll kill everyone on this planet in the most painful way imaginable, including you", I doubt your response would be "I can't eat that".
What's the other half? Magic in the amp-circuit?
And it's insane that this hasn't changed for at least a decade! Apple's own PowerBeats Pro sound like garbage without bumping up the low frequencies, but with an equalizer they sound great. Or maybe this is just subjective and you can file it under "accessibility".

I was jailbroken on iOS 14 for the longest time solely for a system-wide equalizer for Apple Music. With a new phone it's a major step back, and I've switched to Spotify for their (worse) equalizer and somewhat worse overall experience (Spotify doesn't even have an equalizer on desktop!)

It's really unfortunate that such a straightforward feature is so limited on Apple platforms, and for no discernible reason.
That depends on the laws we're talking about. There is such a thing as a conscientious objector which you seem to not be familiar with, see Aaron Schwartz for a prime example.
Flashing it is also not trivial.

... but I do still think it's a good option compared to the WTF-that's-a-lot-for-a-router price of the CM4 one, especially with the current prices.
Yeah, what is up with that? It is unquestionably trash, and they simply aren't doing anything about it. The fact that they have an opt out means they acknowledge that a substantial number of users hate it.
He can be popular due to Twitter and people can also not be deranged morons.

Twitter is very popular with a few niche groups: Journalists and people in tech for example. The former is influenced by Elon's antics on Twitter and end up writing news stories or making documentaries [1] about him. People learn about Musk through these respectable publications. The latter group spreads the gospel of Elon's TED talks and press conferences to their friends and family. Being subject matter experts, they're more likely to be believed.

Previously the coverage was mostly positive, but Musk's antics on Twitter have caused both the former and some of the latter to turn slightly negative from what I can tell. For example, it's now a common joke that Elon's wealth is partially due to being born wealthy. His family owned emerald mines. I didn't notice that in the popular consciousness until very recently. Phoney Starks is also making it's way into popular usage.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/video/NYT-Presents/100000008464087/t...
There's a whole assumption that bots are a net negative to the platforms value besides any arguments over how many of them there are.

As a human, it's annoying to get get a reply notification only to discover it was bot spam, but from the platform perspective that bot just created user activity and content for you for free.

I have a theory that the most embarrassing thing to come out of this might be that Twitter doesn't really care about bots much more than issuing platitudes that they care about bots to assuage the user base.
I don't know how to break it to you but many if not most pre-technology hunter-gatherers lived horrible lives, full of pain and misery and died much younger, usually as babies.
Something which my parents have a hard time grasping: we're at one of the first times in American history where children are doing less off financially then there parents. My parents met in the 70's where my dad was making a killing as a professional. He easily purchased a large house and got married and had two kids. Even with a FAANG job, I struggle to find any reasonable place to continue my career in a place where basements aren't $1M and I can continue my career. I know there are more affordable places to live but with by some estimates of 20% inflation I fear moving to somewhere in the midwest and never being able to return to my home state of California. Finding a wife has also proven to be very difficult, perhaps mildly attributable to not having a good starting place to begin a family, where they have good schools etc. My parents lived through the booming 70's and 80's and just won't get it.
It’s not a violation of contract law to sue the other party. That lawsuit may find that the complainant did violate contract law, but the act of bringing the lawsuit is not in itself a violation.

So at this point, pending adjudication, Twitter has not been “denied protection.” The court is the protection. The two parties are suing each other, and the court will decide the appropriate remedies for whatever each of the parties has been “denied” due to any willful breach of contract by the other.
> We need new positive social roles, especially for men

Changing a culture's norms is pretty hard. When it's something "easy", like "give all people respect/human rights", that only takes around 120 years to take effect (or about 60 in the case of gay rights, a crazy fast timeline). But changing gender roles? That's so ingrained that it's foundational in many languages.

I think it will be a lot easier to tackle this economically than via social norms. Give women more money for work, child care, maternity, etc and give men a small stipend if they don't work. Give both a bonus if they work in a non-gender-traditional field. It won't flip the whole thing on its head, but the change will start immediately.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31684910
There's good reason: Huawei is entirely owned by the Communist Chinese government, a government which has shown itself to be committed against American interests and democratic interests around the world, and a government which has itself ordered Huawei to use its technology to spy on its political enemies.[1][2]

1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/30/huawei-china-business-r...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei#Espionage_...
I'd love to use this as a webpage interaction/scraping component in chains of webhooks (building on e.g. low-code step pipelines built with Pipedream, could imagine fitting with something like Zapier, too).

Would require the ability to:

(1) make a web request to start a run

(2) collect the scraped info and return it as part of (a) a webhook call or (b) in the response of a synchronous "start run" blocked long http request

It sounds like #1 is already possible. 2a might be possible if there was a call webhook step or notification option? But 2b would be the simplest (if I could make a single GET or POST request, and the response gives me some outputs from an automation session).

Zapier/Pipedream integrations could be nice platform integration marketing for the tool as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WShMzwT-nM

For best experience, read it with the Benny Hill theme in a background tab.
This is why things like Google Pathways are so important. (Note: the following is based only on my understanding of what Pathways is and how it works, which may be incomplete or inaccurate.) As far as I understand, Pathways allows exceptionally parallelizable training of neural networks. That, in turns, means the networks can be bigger and bigger, with more and more training data, and still stay within reasonable training times. If scale truly is one of the most important factors in generalizability and performance of AI (which it seems to be), optimizing the training of larger and larger models will bring us to that AGI future sooner.
Well I can't speak specifically to your town without knowing where it is, but it sounds like you live somewhere similar to where I currently live, and both areas are pretty hostile to anything but driving to participate in society. One of the red flags to spot is walking for recreation and only seeing people ride bikes for exercise versus day-to-day activities.

Even if you disagreed with some or all of the things I've said, dismissing them as an "invented problem" is pretty unfair.
> writing […] SwiftUI in 2006

Huh? How?
Complete List of IATA Airports
Finally found a free repo that contains all IATA airports and seems up to date.
> Overflowing the stack gives you a segfault.

Maybe. If the architecture supports protected memory and the compiler has placed an appropriately sized guard page below the stack. If it doesn't then overflowing the stack via a VLA gives you easy read and write access to any byte in program memory.
So, roughly speaking, many of these problems arise because Linux is a weak end system in an RFC1122 sense (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122.html). This is by design, not a bug, etc -- the "meaning" is roughly that to Linux, IP addresses belong to the kernel, not the interfaces themselves. This is the right way to think about the problem.

There are a number of features available to Make It Work The Way You Want but they're often nonobvious. As a sibling comment notes, you can set the arp_announce and arp_ignore (and arp_filter) sysctls to instruct the kernel to answer or not answer for arp requests based on interface specifics (the other arp_ sysctls are related to gratuitous arp sending and receipt).

As in this post, you can use the rp_filter sysctl to change the reverse path filtering (as in RFC3704).

Additionally, you can use iproute2 rules and route tables to enforce outbound paths if you want a node to have multiple interfaces on the same subnet without arp confusion.
[ EDIT: contents of this post were factually incorrect. What Kazinator wrote in response is correct, and I don't want to leave incorrect ideas floating around. ]
Fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work
I love SoundSource so much. I bought it so I could use the volume keys on my keyboard to adjust the system volume on my HDMI monitor. I was blown away when I found out I could plug my collection of VSTs into the output pipeline.
How did you guys get into so much jeopardy over the Microsoft partnership in the first place? How did Startpage figure all this out, apparently with even better privacy protections, for longer, and with Google's Index - the best one? What is going on?
> with a 96 kHz sampling rate, you don't need such a brick wall filter.

This is incorrect. See my comment above/below.
Can you reliably hear a difference between a lossless file and a modern high bit rate MP3 (or other lossy format)?

I can't, but then I have tinnitus...
The python ecosystem is not a giant mess, its just dependency hell. You need to work with what you get from upstream.

> Nix actually integrates all package updates into one channel which nobody else anywhere does

If you are using the python system packages then Arch, Debian and probably more are doing the same.

> it's even worse because a lot of projects use python as a build dependency (?!) which then cascades these issues even farther.

In practice this is not a problem at all. Build systems that use python underneath have usually very little dependencies. The bigger problems we are facing are big python (web) applications and anything that moves (very) slowly upstream like (sadly) many AI/ML projects.

FYI: I am very active NixOS maintainer and one of my foci is the python packages in NixOS.