skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does Dolby actually do on a day to day basis?

Do they have researchers working on new audio and video formats?

Or is it now all just a self-perpetuating machine for generating licensing revenue, based on existing patents?

Sorry for the ignorant question but I'm clueless about their ongoing contributions to the industry.
Sadly the covid vaccines don't seem to slow the spread in any meaningful way.
Why 230 protections though? It's still user submitted data, the recommendations are controlling links to it.

Should companies be responsible for content on the other side of a link? What's to stop Facebook from splitting off the content host to be a different company, and then still having everything else be the same?
There is. Massively so. https://www.reddit.com/r/TinderData/

Basically this just tells me that people lie on personality tests, or they interpret questions differently. Behaviorism is the only science in psychology. Question answering should be considered a behavior, and not a reflection of internal characteristics. In that light, you essentially have, among men mostly, a behavior, direct presentation of mating intentions, which has been consistently punished, and the opposite behavior, reflection of female mating desires, which has been inconsistently rewarded. The result is either duplicity or avoidance. It seems that the reverse phenomenon may occur for expectations later in the relationship, as evidenced by females initiating 90% of divorces among college-educated women.
Who have you spoken to who is deranged?
This is very good stuff. It's actually inaccurate on some things. For example this one: https://youtu.be/i--mhQWTwMs

It summarizes it as the sniper dehumanising them when it's the gangster who did that. And that the murderer regretted his action, but in the video he actually had a little pride over taking out a monster. I'm not so sure how it gets these inaccurate but seemingly accurate; maybe it's just not suited to this format where it interviews 4 different people and switches between them.

But it's good enough. I need something to tell me whether a video is worth watching.
Well that's the "proper" version of the clinton email server in the basement.

But I meant the major services all must give access to virtually any federal government entity on request, warrantless. I think they even have portals, imagine how that is abused by anyone and everyone.

Not sure how it would be enforced but I would guess if the feds wanted access to your server, even without a warrant, you'd be forced to give it to them.

https://www.wired.com/2010/04/emailprivacy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...
Yes, if this article is correct Google will leverage HDR10+ as part of an umbrella brand (i.e. "Google Vision") for HDR and 3D audio. I'm not aware of an open/royalty-free standard for 3D audio, so Google might have to create that.
Cool site! I rarely use C++ now, but I still miss C++ from time to time!
The GPLv2 license is potentially problematic. Even if your product is open source, it can cause problems with libraries that use licenses that aren't compatible with the GPL, such as openssl prior to v3.

This discussed more at
https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/Licensing

To be clear, I don't hate the GPL license, although I think it is probably not the best choice for a library. But from a licensing perspective, xapian is pretty different from SQLite
I was wrong for Biden, I wouldn't expect a politican to make a absolute statement.

What about Fauci?
Also, an app is there, with an icon on the home screen to remind the user of its existence. I think this makes future use more likely than if the user just entered the address, and even more than with a bookmark that is visible only in the browser.

I know the users can create the icon themselves by saving a bookmark to the home screen, but for some reason they seem not to.
And there I was patting myself on the back for not calling it J2EE ;)
I think having a private jet solves the first three.
Great points, thanks so much for the feedback!

- Fixed the new-theme issue, not sure how I missed that.

- Undo is definitely a good idea!

- I was considering an embedded Monaco editor for more flexible previews, but didn't end up adding it for simplicity and security (since I'd have to send a mostly complete VS Code theme to the client). I think I'll just add more previews to mitigate it for now. Terminal preview is a good idea too.

- I'm expecting single-theme downloads to be the most common option for users, so I'm not sure how making them free would work out.
After an employee was caught being simultaneously employed at Google, my employer has started counting changes per engineer per week. It has been pretty controversial! Exactly the “gamification” you’re decrying here.
What if those photos then were shared? Someone might accuse the parents
It would have to be proven that the lawyers knew the documents were forged and weren't simply acting on the representations made by their clients.
We've just started using Atlassian Compass (https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass) for our software catalog, but it appears to be much less featured than Backstage. We're taking a look at replacing it with Backstage, and curious if anyone else has notes on the comparison.
I recently had the need to build an internal system that distributed workloads across many workers via a client/server model. I did the proof-of-concept using druby [1] and it turned out to be so simple and stable that we just ran with it. It'd been years since I had used that library and instinctively I assumed we'd get the prototype out and then rebuild it using some sort of web service and utilize a high concurrency web server but druby just worked!

[1] https://github.com/ruby/drb
Some people say it's because artists use it as a medium for communication. Personally, I don't care about that, I just want the beautiful images.
Completely agree, Reddit at this point seems detached from reality. It's hard to believe it's the same site I was on 10 years ago.

I scan Facebook once every few days for updates from family members and frankly I find the experience entirely pleasant.

Cutting out Twitter and Reddit is one of the best decisions I've ever made for my mental health.

For me it's Hackernews and the Wall St. Journal.
One example of this is Los Angeles-Delhi. Probably possible with existing planes but would require cargo or passenger limits, which would make the route not profitable. No American airline is interested, given the connections available elsewhere, and Air India's (they've expressed interest in this pair before) habit of running routes at big losses will probably start to reduce now that they're privately owned. Airlines are perfectly happy to add more hops to your trip.

If there was a supersonic LAX-Singapore (I doubt India would allow supersonic planes), at least the longest leg of the trip is mostly over ocean, supersonic, and the Singapore-DEL flight is just a normal one.
Why? The builder pattern is great.
There is probably some sensible time frame to adopt a new battery.
Do they?

Imagine android tv disabling atmos because of licensing or netflix, then using the new format which needs a new receiver.

I spent 2k on mine for atmos 4 ceiling speakers..
I agree, an INTP would usually be more analytical
For our company, all privacy requests are handled manually by a team I am on. We manually do name searches in about a dozen platforms to see if there are any matching records.

4/5 times there aren't any - people doing the requests often use services that submit blanket requests.
The first amendment only says congress shall make no law.
Your use of these citations is an example of exactly the fallacy which I am talking about.

[2] and [3] are about the impact of Christianity on the modern world. I have never argued that this is not significant. My point is that reading the Bible is a terrible way to learn about this.

Firstly, most of the Bible is not about Christianity at all, since it was written before the birth of Christ. Secondly, large parts of it are not about anything interesting at all. Thirdly, most of the parts that are about Christianity, are not particularly useful for someone seeking to understand Christian ideas or culture.

[1] is about the ideas of Luther. Again, these are certainly important. Do you think that it was necessary for Max Weber to read the Bible in order to write the key sociological text on European Protestantism? For that matter, do you think that Francis Fukuyama had to read it in order to write that book? What about Nietzsche? If they didn't need to read the Bible in order to reason about the ideas and the mythos of Christianity, why should we?

The logical step from "Christianity (and/or Judaism) have profoundly influenced us, and should be examined and understood", to "one should read the Bible" is completely flawed, and only made because of the lingering Christian superstition that doing so is 'good for one' or leads to some nebulous form of well-being.
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Or just copyrighted material. Try posting the new Disney movie or streaming the latest UFC fight for free and see what happens. The tools for censorship are there, they just don't count if it's to protect a corporation's assets, for some reason.
> What’s wrong with normal URLs?

I've seen some random blogging software break when you embed certain kinds of links into articles, for example, ones that have query strings (?key=value), where the question mark gets interpreted as something else by the software and thus the link gets cut off and no longer works.

In cases like that, it makes sense (because you literally don't have a choice, unless you want to migrate to something else).

Also some might enjoy the consistency of short links, instead of having a URL that's really long. That is also pretty nice for putting the URL on a poster, flier, or sending it to someone.

Some also just don't care about the implications of the link going down in the future.
This is exactly why we created https://roadie.io I'm the founder.
Facebook brought us in with the promise of keeping in touch with friends, but the incentives are to "engagement at all costs". I'm hoping that if we can offer an alternative that lets people keep up with their friends without the engagememt incentive then we could greatly improve societal mental health. Thats why I build Haven[1] as open source and self hosted, along with several 3rd party hosting providers. No central entity means no "engagement at all costs".

[1] https://havenweb.org
That's an interesting idea, it sounds a lot like nanotechnology that exploits various quantum effects.

My extremely layman understanding notices the currently known high temperature super conductors are crystalline, structure seems to matter, but whether a nanoscale structure above this could possibly have any significant effect? It would be nice to get the opinion of someone less vaguely educated on the subject :)
This post is the result of some hard-won lessons about where to focus efforts in an early-stage startups or projects. I’ll leave it up to others to decide whether the content is original, but hopefully it’s written in a way that can prevent at least one other person from sharing in my mistakes.
The website seems to be up for everyone else: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twist.com?proto=https
> I am truly astonished at this level of ineptitude by Amazon. I would imagine many HN users could create a tool that would flag duplicated books uploaded maliciously.

You should make it and sell it to Amazon and other online publishers.

> Am I entirely missing something?

Perhaps you're underestimating the difficulty of the tasks and the number of ways users can bypass / fool whatever mechanism you're using to fingerprint books.
True, I suppose it depends on why you're playing the game in the first place. I was thinking of someone just playing them to have fun.
That is false. Even when the Soviets started to supply Europe with gas the Washington elites became alarmed.

The US is a hegemonic superpower, it most definitely has a say on who Europe gets its gas from. NATO is the USA. Let's not kid ourselves. That's GeoPolitics, that's RealPolitik.
USA would most definitely like to supply it's surplus oil and gas to Europe.

Criminal state? What about the shelling of the Donbass for 8 years?
Ukraine is one of the most, if not the most, corrupt countries in Europe.
https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-mixers-are-illegal-and-anonymit...
I must have missed that press conference.
On Windows, deallocated blocks get filled with 0xFEFEFEFE. For 32-bit programs that aren't large-address-aware, this would basically have the same effect. Trying to dereference a pointer of that value will be an access violation.
Do some elephant artists make art?

https://www.cmzoo.org/support/animal-art/elephant-art/
That includes our own government in US. If you have not noticed, there has been a constant pestering from Congress to censor big tech and “severe consequences” otherwise. And not to say the clear as daylight funding they provide to people in power as part of the lobbying effort. Oh and the same people in media and big tech then decide what is misinformation and not.
AFAIK this is a bunch of the most common reasons, somewhat ordered from most-important to least-important.

1. It puts an icon on your phone's home screen which reminds you it is there and encourages reuse.

2. They can put notification counters on said home-screen icon.

3. It is generally easier to convince people to enable notifications on the app than on the website.

4. User perception. Some users expect an app and look down on a website. (Even if functionally identical)

5. Blocking ads on websites is much easier than blocking them on mobile.

6. It can provide better tracking and analytics.

7. The app can provide a better experience.

7a. The ability to pre-download the application makes it less costly to provide more features and code. The just-in-time downloading of web applications means that the size of code, data and resources generally needs to be more carefully considered. Of course you can do careful code loading for webapps but it requires custom code instead of being managed by the store.

7b. Native apps generally have access to more APIs especially without needing to request special permission (contacts, device sensors, large amounts of storage, etc)

7c. Access to native UI toolkits can make the application fit into the expected UX better.
IC, thank you.
These kind of things bring tears to my eyes, not sure why. So little we know..
> however it appears that there is some lag on Firefox (on the desktop)

I also had noticeable lag using Chrome (on desktop)
This was was pretty interesting with nice animations "History's Most Powerful Plants" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pLQwa6SyZc), but it's more presenting conclusions and theories of mechanisms than how those conclusions were arrived at. I recall hearing similar things without such nice imagery or focusing on a particular plant as a kid but where's the adult explanation that has all the caveats and messy parts of the story that don't line up and all that. I've never seen or heard that part.

They mention certain bacteria not being present to breakdown the plant matter of that special tree, but what about fungus, I would think fungus has been around a pretty long time. There's something very hand-wavy and too tidy about it all. I guess one thing is known is that these are carbon based materials and where does carbon primarily come from and how did it get way down in the bottom layers of the earth is a big question. I think today we'd identify the atmosphere, but it would be surprising if it was the other way around, if carbon mostly came from the earth and got released up as CO2 somehow. But CO2 is very stable, I think we'd expect the dominant source of an element to be all bound up in its most stable forms.

I'm curious too how deep down do oil wells go. This hit has some fascinating real world depths apparently.
Hydraulic fracturing reaches depths ranging from 5,000 feet to 20,000 feet.
https://www.petro-online.com/news/fuel-for-thought/13/breaki....

I'm curious next how much oil can be extracted from a well and how we could back track to that being some percentage of some originating mass and if the two things match up to some realistic numbers with our experience for how much mass one finds in a forest today, etc.
I would reject that assertion, because it seems to tie a bunch of disparate issues in order to summarily "other" them. It probably makes for reassuring business metrics that are ultimately detached from reality. I'm sure my own browsing patterns are often miscatergorized into a bin of "look at how many bad guys we stopped", ultimately misleading businesses.

Please describe one specific trend/activity you're referencing, where an automated user agent specifically facilitates fraud, beyond merely facilitating users that just so happen to have fraudulent intent. Situations where augmented user agents are claimed to be prohibited via bullshit terms of service do not count.
I'm extremely fortunate to have a partner that valued what we had enough to stick around for a long time but, this past year, it was starting to reach a breaking point. That lead to big talks, some scary but polite, some loud and angry. A lifetimes worth of under-the-surface stuff all came out over just a few months.

What I think we figured out is that we have "compatible" (co-enabling) anxieties that keep our relationship mostly functional. That feels like a drastic over-simplification but accurate, I think. All I know is it feels like the most emotionally productive year of my life and our relationship is way better now. However, I still haven't figured out how to tone down the anxiety much :)
I mean, at our company, GDPR requests have to cost at least $50 a pop. It goes to a human team to review and process with a dedicated legal representative.
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Ask HN: Have you bought I bonds yet? Why not?
The U.S. Treasury sells I bonds (inflation-linked bonds different from TIPS) which currently yield 9.62% and reset semi-annually with little (but not zero) cost of early sale. You can learn more about them here: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds_ibuy.htm

If you have not bought I bonds yet, why not?
AV1 wasn't created by Google. Neither was VP8, although they did release it to the public after acquiring the company that created it.
Competition is always good for a consumer, especially here where right now you simply don't have a choice but to pay the rent to Dolby on every TV audio device.

C'mon, this is market capitalism 101
> Rich/"important" enough to pay for business-class transcontinental flights

Business class from east to west (via emirates and qatar for example) can sometimes (more often pre-covid) be grabbed for $1000 above an economy ticket. The departing US business class ticket costs often seem very specific to our market. A lot of people on HN can bump up their tickets while flying outside the country even just for vacations.
I find it is very rare that I actually complete a free trial, particularly for something I use for software development at work.

(1) It takes a lot of effort, maybe one day to one week, to really evaluate a product and know if it is worth it.

(2) That evaluation will feel like wasted time if, at the end, I find the product isn't worthwhile

(3) It will also feel like wasted time if I decide I like it but my employer decides not to pay for it.

If somebody gets paid $100,000 a year and spends a week evaluating something, the "free" trial costs $2000.

Thus I am not a believer in free trials.
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Don't use this. Marshal has too many issues. If you really need persistence and can't use something like Postgres, use the Ox gem instead. It's more reliable between versions of Ruby and easier to parse from other languages if you ever have to.
If someone notices. There's no guarantee that anyone will, even the person doing it. I've certainly done my fair share of verbatim copying -- something I only realised weeks later, if ever.
> That said, we've been discussing how we might want to keep them in a separate "random exploratory shit just in case it's relevant again someday" repo.

You definitely should. If they're useful, not just to you but also to others, then you want them backed up and accessible. Just remove those credentials.
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The Jennifer Connelly and Henry Cavill demo on that page makes me think of the Scramble Suit from A Scanner Darkly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aS4xhTaIPc
Probably not as interesting now that you can play with the actual tool, but we also wrote several blog posts describing our thinking and goals for solving this problem:

https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/keep-the-...

https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/schedule-...

https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/many-hand...

https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/where-tas...

https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown/you-can-o...

This is just v0.1 of the tool, so we haven't solved/built all the above yet, but maybe it shows some of our thinking process.
Sue everyone violating their patents probably :P
The irony of GCemetary being dead is kind of amazing. Maybe keeping things going is a little harder than they thought ;)
That bill has nothing to do with mandated moderation and only modifies the rights of content creators (for collective bargaining), not content aggregators. Full text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/673....

If there are multiple state level bills mandating moderation, please point to at least one. I know of several that restrict moderation. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/01/social-media-sweeps...
I hate that Facebook has to abuse the freedom of injecting Javascript into WebViews. This is why we can't have nice things.

I fear that this will lead to an overreaction from Apple that results in blocking or severely limiting this feature, which will be a huge issue for apps that depend on it for legitimate reasons.
> Effectiveness of lockdowns and mask mandates is still hotly contested, for instance

The fact their effectiveness is still being questioned suggests that we never should have done them in the first place. You don't get to make broad, highly disruptive mandates with almost zero evidence they would even work.

For the mandates to actually be worth it, you should be able to show the data to any reasonable person and they'd immediately see an order of magnitude difference between test & control. The fact you can barely tell florida apart from california is pretty damning. If you need fancy math to see a difference, it wasn't worth it.
You need something colder than brine to freeze brine. Fahrenheit didn't have that so the theory/story is still plausible.
Fiber pile, for example from Buffalo Systems (https://www.buffalosystems.co.uk/) insulates when wet.

They even produce clothing for situations where one must remain stationary in Arctic conditions!
>They're just a variant of human.

I would go as far as to say that anyone who is a member of genus Homo is a human.
I seem to remember it messing around with libraries in /usr/lib (overwriting symlinks from other packages IIRC). Whatever problem they were trying to solve, hacking around in the postinst script with files that you don't own is not the right solution!
Mine still works ok. Though I never got my head around RPN though.. I just don't use maths enough to get accustomed to it.

If it would have supported normal notation as well it would still have been a useful tool to me.
Agreed but you have to negotiate for peace from a position of strength.