skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's hope you abide by this standard if the same happens to a site you care about

Gladly. We need more competition in the space anyway [1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/985443/worldwide-ddos-bo...
How to present backend demos
Love this, thanks for sharing! Computational materials design combined with this will be profound. On the materials and machine learning side check out Taylor Sparks series on yt:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TaylorSparks
> "It seems like you want Samsung to not have digital rights."

Never thought I'd see the day people would be arguing vehemently for the rights of multi-billion dollar international conglomerates with an army of highly paid legal staff so that they can arbitrarily mistreat consumers. Has the world gone mad?
I wish apple supported FLAC. There’s an amazing free tool to convert to/from ALAC (https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html), but still: some players only support FLAC and some ALAC and sometimes you can’t transfer songs in either format because of the no overlap between source/target.
Early (00s) LCDs sucked, I can't even imagine how much a 70's LCD would suck compared to a CRT.
A pi 4b is more power than the basic 1 vcpu, 1gb or 2gb VPSes a lot of personal blogs on this site use. If it's a static site (and it appears to be, meta generator=Jekyll) then a pi 4b should be plenty for HN.
They're quite cheap and "trivial," honestly - iNav, ArduPilot, and PX4 are all strong in this space, and controllers start in the $50-$60 range (look at Matek hardware). Of course, for some definition of "trivial," but we do live in an age where a fairly accurate MEMS gyro/accelerometer, a barometer, and a fast STM32 microcontroller can all be had at a low price, and the control algorithms are mostly tried-and-true PID / feedforward PID attached to some form of input filtering.

One can definitely build a fully autonomous flying wing for under $200, especially if the foam is self-cut. There are also a wealth of cheap foam pre-molded models available these days. We're really in a golden age for DIY flying models right now, pending regulatory crackdowns in most countries.
> DPI is one of my pet peeves, together with points. Why not use mm for font size?

Easy halving, the same reason why A4 has been extolled.
A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ (2020)
> Getting the logs from a job is a pain, and needs multiple get/describe/logs commands

Last I checked, you could just do

kubectl logs job/<job-name>
I often wonder how many footguns could've been removed if projects like k8s/ansible used TOML instead of YAML.
Relevant I’d say because AWS can ban anyone, any time, for any reason
One reason I’ve developed such a dependency on mousing and not short cuts. Now it’s just windows and macos but before it was windows, macos, unity, and gnome 3. Using the mouse is sane. 2-4 sets of shortcuts is not.
I don't think we should target, harass and doxx people, therefore I do not do those things. That doesn't mean that I think we should censor entire websites because they are sometimes used as platforms to do those kinds of things.
True! Apologies for the mistake :)
OBS v28 is amazing. It's bundled with the obs-websocket v5 plugin now. I have updated OBS-web [1] to be compatible with this, so you can now control OBS remotely without any additional setup.

1. https://github.com/Niek/obs-web
I agree very much about the accidental complexity of containers. Ignoring the runtime concerns (cgroups, namespaces, networking, etc.), the main problem seems to have been "we can't figure out how to get Python code to production", and the solution was "just ship a disk image of some developer's workstation to production". To do this, they created a new file format ("OCI image format", though not called that at the time), a new protocol for exchanging files between computers ("OCI distribution spec"), a new way to run executables on Linux ("OCI runtime spec"), and various proprietary versions of Make, with a caching mechanism that isn't aware of the actual dependencies that go into your final product. The result is a staggering level of complexity, all to work around the fact that nobody even bothered trying to add a build system to Python.

Like the author, I tend to write software in a language that produces a single statically linked binary, so I don't need any of this distribution stuff. I don't need layers, I don't need a Make-alike, I don't need a build cache, but I still have to go out of my way to wrap the generated binary and push it to a super special server. Imagine a world where we just skipped all of this, and your k8s manifest looks like:

containers:
- name: foo-app
image:
- architecture: amd64
os: linux
binary: https://github.com/whatever/download/foo-app/foo-app-1.0.0-linux-amd64
checksum: sha256@1234567890abcdef
- architecture: arm64
os: linux
binary: https://github.com/whatever/download/foo-app/foo-app-1.0.0-linux-arm64
checksum: sha256@abdcef1234567890

Meanwhile, if you don't want to orchestrate your deployment and just want to run your app:

wget https://github.com/whatever/download/foo-app/foo-app-1.0.0-linux-amd64
chmod a+x foo-app-1.0.0-linux-amd64
./foo-app-1.0.0-linux-amd64

I dunno. I feel like, as an industry, we spent billions of dollars, founded brand new companies, created a new job title ("Devops", don't get me started), all so that we could avoid making Python output a single binary. I'm not sure that random chaos did the right thing, and you're right to be bitter about it.
Bad decision is *your/author's opinion*

There is absolutely no vote that took place where citizens were provided with both sides of the argument with factual and counterfactual data (and not scary propaganda)
When you listen to music there's a lot of "fine detail" that you can't really hear that gets buried by louder sounds.

CD audio is perfectly lossless - it encodes the signal that you put in by measuring a voltage 44100 times per second and recording that exactly. When you play it back you get exactly the same signal back out. The only problem is, this takes up a lot of space, roughly 10MB per minute for stereo audio.

MP3 audio is lossy in that rather than storing the exact values of a waveform, it stores a description of how short segments of the waveform change. The higher the bitrate, the better the description, and the more detailed the reproduction. A low bitrate MP3 is like trying to redraw the original waveform from a vague description with a paint roller, a high bitrate MP3 is like trying to draw it with a mapping pen from a really detailed description.

FLAC audio is lossless because it takes the precise values of the audio, and uses a technique similar to zip files to find similar-looking blocks of data. Think in terms of having a one-second silence recorded as "Zero, then 44099 more of 'em" rather than "zero zero zero zero zero..." and so on 44100 times.
Notice as soon as you bring this up, they stop replying.

Those comments are really awful and wtf upvoted....
> What is preserved when it is "LOSSLESS"

Just like any general purpose compression: everything - flac could be used just like zip/zlib/gzip as a general purpose compressor it just wouldn’t compress as well on most data that isn’t audio.

> dropped when "LOSS" occurs?

Lossy compression generally employs some type of perceptual coding where data is reorganized such that the signal data is sorted or localized according to its perceptual importance. This does partly involve removing or reducing the density of signal in the higher frequencies but it also exploits things such as masking both in time - inability to perceive signals occurring close in time of similar frequency. And frequency masking - our inability to hear quieter signals that are close in frequency to a louder one.
Thanks for this. I have a library that uses 1Password files and have not updated for v8.
sadly?
While from my original post it's assumed it was intentional malice creating the dangerous situation, but there plenty of real world situations where service is disconnected for safety reasons.

We act like utilities are some inalienable right, but this is by far the worst argument ever. Licensed installers setup the utilities and have the work inspected. At any point where your environment presents a hazard, the utilities will be disconnected until it passes another inspection.
Oh my god I didn't know that was a thing. I feel like I missed an amazing chance for shitposting. I'll be sure to get it next time!
The reason things were becoming tight for EDF in the first place was mainly that the French government made them sell electricity at below-market prices for political reasons though.
The painful part is, if you're doing this for privacy reasons, you frequently have to give them more personal information (and accurate ones too! not bogus ones you might've used to sign up for an account) just to opt out. And you often don't get any acknowledgment of the opt-out either, which I imagine means you'll have to do this with e.g. certified mail and keep around evidence that you opted out. And if you gave them bogus info and now want to opt out... I imagine that might be a ToS violation which I expect would give them an excuse to toss your claim away. Not sure how any of these would fly in court, but as a layman it sure looks like a purposefully self-defeating uphill battle.
So your issue with California deregulation was that the generation market wasn't deregulated enough? Interesting idea I guess. Doesn't do much to support your claim of brownouts or grid collapse under publicly-owned monopolies though.
Why? Negotiation and letting Russia keep some of its influence seems to have been one of the few paths which actually haven't been seriously tried.

This is a well-argued classic explaining why this war was predictable and avoidable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

And while that happened, some old well-known american peace-mongers, were running around in Ukraine spreading the peace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaakY-PIAc
> larger technology community) used to care a lot about free speech, but they've completely abandoned that principle

I agree and I'm very worried for it.
https://groceries.asda.com/aisle/chilled-food/milk-butter-cr...

The normal milk is all in pints.
> We can have both if we're thoughtful about what indulgences we allow.

Which we don't because we fear losing comfort/commodity and can't agree on modalities.
"Flite Test" have been designing ridiculously cheap, low-skill DIY flying things for many years now - at the same level of "turning trash to an RC plane." Definitely worth checking out if you're interested in the space.
The lossless encoded signal is bandwidth limited already - lossy compression has to exploit more sophisticated perceptual phenomena such as masking.

Cutting down the bandwidth (lowering the sample rate) wont sound as good as an actual lossy codec - otherwise we could just resample.
I love how that site has become the de facto main introduction resource to audio compression - makes sense though!
> A better developer experience. Emacs + Slime is way better development and debugging experience than either Emacs + Geiser, or Emacs + Racket-Mode or Drracket.

I've thought about learning a Lisp in the past, but the Lisp community's insistence on using Emacs has completely put me off of it. I will not use Emacs under any circumstances, and you couldn't pay me enough money to change. And this had lead me to conclude that Lisp is simply not for me.
Tell HN: Microsoft's captcha is pretty hard
I've just bought a game on steam and had to create MS account in order to play it

but holy shit, it's the first time I couldn't complete the captcha and I tried like 10 times

You gotta select square which contains to identical objects something like 5 to 15(!!!) times - the more you fail, the more challenges you have to do

Just take a look at those graphics

https://i.imgur.com/zOYqWGI.png

Some of them are easier and some waaaay harder
> macOS implements NFSv4.0, while SEQUENCE is part of NFSv4.1 and later.

Whoa. That's a real mistake. v4.0 is widely considered a "oops, we shouldn't have released this". TIL!
It's a real problem that corporations can afford to spend much more time writing these agreements than customers can spend comparing them.

I'd certainly prefer to choose a competitor that didn't have abusive terms, but I don't think the market would really reward a company that offers such. Most customers just wouldn't even realize they care about it, until it bites them.
Wattage would be more helpful than cost:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/5/23337587/game-console-ener...

11-13 watts on standby (instant game resume)

0.5 watts on energy saver (boot before resume)

Standby is roughly equivalent to leaving one LED light bulb on.

The Verge claims that Energy Saver mode is the default, not standby.

It does seem like the PS4/PS5 can do more with less power. Rest Mode is under 5W and has network connectivity, automatic downloads/updates.
Is there anything stopping 1 lawyer from representing 1000 clients with more or less the same copy-pasted arguments?
Most people don't want to install and uninstall software at the system-level like that. They'd rather have nicely isolated disposable containers for individual projects.
Isn't social order ultimately just a proxy for access to energy?

In pre-industrial times, and even modern times, those who were able to compel (or force) people to work for them – i.e. provide them energy – were those considered to have a higher social standing. Those who provided the energy were of lower social standing.
I hope we will use the A* family of paper sizes in the USA more widely. Many excellent notebooks, notepads, &c are available from Germany, Japan, France and England in the A* family of sizes, and they all work with the corresponding envelopes. There is so much paper correspondence -- in the form of utility bills, government notices, packing lists, and many other things -- that could fit on A5, which is a handy size for many things; and now manufactured in great quantities all over the world.
I was recently derided on hacker news for suggesting that we are quickly coming to a time when people will react to police brutality by crowd sourcing drone strikes on the offending officers.

It will be fascinating to see how law enforcement deals with this.
duct tape, but now we need to take into account the environmental impact of that.

though the biggest problem with reusable plastic bags is the weakness of the handles. i'd rarely get more than a dozen uses out of a plastic bag before the handle rips. and that is not as easily to fix because of the stresses involved.

also, i feel the math is off, because cloth bags are a lot stronger and they get uses that no plastic bag is even designed for. so the reality is that even if i use plastic bags for shopping, i'd have a cloth bag anyways for other needs. and if i have it already, then using it more comes with zero additional impact.

plastic bags only have less impact on the environment than the cloth bags that i don't already own.
I’m no spring chicken either and I don’t have a million dollar setup, but with a pair of $100 Shure SE215, I can just barely make out which are lossy (usually). But it’s not a big enough difference to concern me. I’m still plenty happy with a 320kps mp3.
Nobody is saying the DDoS is free speech. That is a criminal act. The free speech is the people sharing their displeasure with CloudFlare that are using it.
If he's willing to go through 1000 individual proceedings, probably not? I'm not sure how long proceedings take, but I imagine that would take a good chunk of the lawyer's life (1000 one-week proceedings = 20 years).
Well, given the consensus on hating Snap, this is gonna be controversial but: I think snaps are a great idea that simply needs to be refined.

Positive things I see:

- It gives much more flexibility to Canonical in terms of introducing changes in the system. It might mean that they can also simplify the maintenance of the distro and focus in other much more important areas.

- It gives the developer much more control over the release and distribution process.

- It allows to use newer versions of the software were before you had to stick in some cases with very old ones provided from the repo or go and spend a couple of hours reading and compiling the new version yourself

- It integrates well with command line apps, thing that Flatpak doesn't do natively.

- The process of creating a Snap is fairly trivial. A simple easy to grasp yaml file pretty much that you can place in your repo.

- It provides better security by sandboxing the app and allows granular permisology via plugs.

Things to refine/improve:

- Speed. It is something I haven't noticed myself, but I heard people complaining about this many times.

- Allow users to pick an specific version from a history of releases for a given app. In an ideal world, newer version would mean always "better" and therefore, upgrading automatically to the most recent one would be desirable, but we all here know that this is not the case and sometimes you just need to use a few releases back one.

- The Snap store. There are two things I don't like:

1. The backend is not open source.

2. It is a central place controlled by Canonical.
In my opinion, Canonical should make the backend available for others for allowing them to make their own stores if they want and Canonical should focus in the added value of their own (e.g providing malware scaning, payment processors, CI/CD, stats etc)

Overall, I am not a Ubuntu user myself but I can understand, from a technical point of view why Canonical is trying to push for this. Unfountunatly, they are not Apple and they operating in a comunity of users that do not deal very well with impositions and pretensions from a company (and cheers to that).

Having said that, I would recomend to the comunity in general to try not to be that toxic, negative and argumentative. At this point, I seriously think the worst enemy of the GNU/Linux is the comunity itself. IMHO, we should be more constructive, less arrogant and less ideological. The amount of hate I've seen towards Canonical, Snap, Systemd, Gnome and what not is simply bonkers.
I walked into a nightclub and asked for sex. I did not get sex, so therefore nightclubs are not places people go for sex. All those people claiming nightclubbers hook up for one night stands seems like scurrilous slander to me. It’s terrible to see people believing the journalists who attended night clubs for years and reported on their supposed sexual exploits over my story which is clearly a sign of leftist bias. Why do these people believe a journalist over my reliable reporting?
I don't have a crazy large music collection, and mine is 85 GB of 192 kbps MP3s. With FLAC that'd be 250-ish GB of music. That's a significant chunk of most modern SSDs.

Why would you use 3x the storage space if you can't hear the difference for a non-trivial percentage of your available storage? Literally, by definition, according to your own terms, it serves no purpose.

I'm a musician and audio developer, and it's only really in my own music, that I've listened to over and over again while creating it, that I notice the degradation in a 192 kbps MP3 – and occasionally in the high-hats of CDs that I listened to hundreds of times in high school.

FLAC's great, and definitely serves a purpose, but I use it mainly for archives, not for casual listening.
Sadly the majority of people don't have the mental capacity to understand, they just go along with and accept whatever the media tells them
When I lived in Japan and worked with ISO paper, it made me realize what we in North America are missing out on. I wish it were more widely available because I'd buy it.
Cause you need to eat specific plants to NOT get anemia over time. If your choice of plants is pepper, carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, salad, potatoes, you get no iron.

You can eat plants and get enough iron (eat beans, also easy with meat), but it happens to be one condition I know about that most random dietary advice easily leads to.
Because my music collection would otherwise take up more space than the 128 GB of internal storage my phone has? FLACs are nice, but they're also a few MB per track.

Maybe in another decade.
The videos Xiph did a while back are excellent for understanding some digital audio concepts (though it’s somewhat dense with jargon).

https://www.xiph.org/video/
It might not necessarily even be a direct integration. WeChat is often used as a primary means of communication within China -- it's comparable to the status of email in the US.
Wonder if one day we can do realtime video conversion with this tool on a phone using the camera. We be mind blowing to see it live in action and changing your backyard in any style you like to see. Maybe even with VR. Ultra tripping experience. I guess we have to wait 5 to 10 years
History has told that lesson a thousand times.
Still, there are ever new people that seemingly lack the capacity to recognize the lesson (my guess is, the minority), or, for arguments sake, chose to ignore it (my guess, the majority).
> The Washington Post is not encouraging their readers to harass or doxx individuals or groups

Publishing libsoftiktok's information was definitely intended to harass them, and implicit support for doxxing.

> Would you support Cloudflare banning said forum?

No.
Even better than making sense of it, but just give the AI all of the parameters that you want to build or remodel a house and have it give you a 90% complete model that an architect/designer can finish off, reducing overall cost and time.
Wow, somehow I missed this. Pretty wild accusations from Magnus and Hikaru on this. Hans just had a horrific tournament in his last attempt, which makes this whole thing pretty interesting.

Hans didn't play engine perfect lines when beating Magnus in the Sinquefield Cup, though he obviously played extremely accurately.
Yeah, the other sizes are great -- I have small assortment of A* paper at home, now, sourced from various countries.
Except it has little to do with the metre other than being an earlier attempt at an objective measurement.
You can always use a commercial Lisp vendor's solution or vim + slimv for CL or Dr. Racket for Racket. There are other comments in this thread about the vim + slimv alternative to emacs + slime (I don't use it myself since I learned emacs as a freshman in college and stuck with it, so check out their comments to get an idea of how its done).
It looks like you’d be trading off plugin compatibility for better native performance with Apple Silicon support.

Since the old Intel version can also still be run if needed does any one have any figures for what that trade off is?

(Sorry couldn’t see any linked on the main site.)
Yes. In addition to Nvidia and Google it will also have to compete with Intel, Cerebras, SambaNova, Graphcore, and maybe even AMD.
I suspect linking is against site guidelines, but if you search for 'degenerate' you will find at least one example of a trans person being called such in an unflagged comment.
I wrote lots of scripts into my ti-89 titanium.

I made some matrix helper functions, and loops through some of the standard stress/strain/failure criteria and so on, with some fully set up problem solvers etc

For tests, I did the hard part, figuring out what matters and what to check, then delegated the math to my calculator. Saved like an hour on a variety of open-textbook tests

If I was better with my calculator in jr high, I could have done a ton with it there too
So let's see, if I don't like this comment of yours and I find out where you live and go and shoot you in the face so you can't make such comments again, that's also competition in the marketplace of ideas, right? It's my idea to shoot you in the face against your idea of making comments I don't like.