skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no disdain for audiophiles.

There is a lot of disdain for audio-fools: people who go beyond the entirely defensible "This is what I like" and enter into counter-factual explanations of why their preferences constitute truth.

It's always fashionable to crap on people who waste their money on things which are at best immaterial and at worst actively harmful to sound quality. Drawing with a green marker on the edge of your CDs will not improve the sound. Shun Mook Mpingo disks do not and cannot do anything for audible resonance control of your room. Replacing your volume knob with mahogany might look nice, but will not change the sound quality. Unless you live in a particularly bad region of the world, a line conditioner will not improve your sound; if you do, a UPS does a better job. Under no circumstances will replacing a working, up-to-code electrical outlet with an audio-rated outlet improve anything about the sound. In general, an amplifier does an excellent job of removing noise from the power supply before adding it to the signal, and there's a nice objective measurement you can perform to see how good a job each one does.

Ethernet cables are not directional. Speaker cables are not directional. Interconnects are not directional. Anyone selling you one of the above cables and claiming that it is directional is at best a fool and at worst a liar who is selling you a product that is defective.

Raising your cables off the floor with expensive blocks may look good to you, but it doesn't change the sound.

Paying for gold connectors improves the corrosion resistance, but the going rate varies from quite reasonable to extortionate. Silver cables and connectors are a bad idea; copper is excellent. Lamp cord works well. For short runs, an unbent wire clothes hanger will work in a way indistinguishable from a properly constructed cable.

Claims of audibility need to be subjected to measurement, both of the systems and of the people claiming distinguishability. Tests must be double-blind: that is, the experimenter and the subject should both not know what the tested article is during the test.

In conclusion: people like to fool themselves. That's fine, as long as they don't fool other people, too.
Did they not emphasize both sides of the uncertainty?

> the data is statistically consistent with myocarditis being 0.45 times as likely in people with COVID infection, or 2.56 times more likely.
I have not seen such a definition in the wild myself.
Asahi Linux is working on it.
Please explain to me what they mean then. And then explain how embracing one’s optimism is a “cognitive mistake almost by definition”.
Hundreds of Seattle Twitter workers among those laid off
Jan. 4 will be the final day of employment for the Washington state-based Twitter workers cut from the company Friday, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification service records. Nearly 3,700 workers have been laid off companywide.
Yes, but that's not a faraday cage.
Right, the parent post was making the same point: the article claims to have shown a lack of statistical correlation, but all they did was show that their study lacked the ability to detect correlation. It is a subtle movement of a few words, but they are important

It can be interpreted in statistical terms. They could use the confidence interval instead to state that the study suggests infection reduces these adverse events by no more than half, nor increases their frequency by no more than triple.
If you're worried about something like what happens to your FDE volumes after you die, and you don't want to write down a passphrase somewhere, you could do something like pick three extremely trustworthy family members, swear them to secrecy, and give each of them one third of the passphrase.
Yeah PSP go...
Wow, article mentions ads in WordPad. Time to bring back Clippy! "It looks like you're writing a cover letter, click here to create a LinkedIn profile using data from your Microsoft account! (You know, the one that is mandatory to log into Windows 11!) LinkedIn improves job search success by 67%!"
Thank you for your concern. I do daily exercise. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I know a lot about fitness. I sit for a living. I live a high stress lifestyle (working on that too). I'm not the healthiest person in the world. I have several mental/physical/environmental factors that contribute to that to that. Yes exercise is crucial and very helpful in the short and the long term not just with this but all the other issues I had before and compounding because of this, yes doing more of it would be very helpful, yes I'm working on it. Do you even lift bro?
Ironically, this is the only article about musk/twitter on the front-page for me.
They mention a PDP 8e also in the basement.

I used to program one! Then a PDP 11-34. In school.

Some years after graduate school, in Los Alamos, visiting the Black Hole a very strange govt surplus store in a very strange town, I saw a bunch of old PDP 11-34 stuff along with printing terminals (DECWriters?) etc. Standing out in the rain. Because there wasn't room in that old warehouse for one more thing.
Why base it off C?
This is why Microsoft Windows is so adamant about having you create an online account as your means of sign-in on modern Windows versions. FDE requires it on some versions.

Telling users that forgot their password that not only do they need to reinstall Windows, but that every single document, photo, video of their grandkids, etc. is now lost forever is untenable. At the same time, FDE is important for security, so what is a reasonable compromise? Allow some form of online recovery options (secured by the full expertise of MS security folks) by linking an account to serve as your 'IT-guy managed AD in the cloud'
Fair point, but I've run *buntu on various laptops (old and new) and desktop(s) my son and I constructed from stuff chosen from pcpartpicker.com not 3 months ago.

"It's just worked". Every time.
Do you think hackers don't take an interest in tech that shapes our society?

What is it you think we do, then?
Graduate students question career options
I'm doing this with HomeKit, Homebridge and Nanoleaf A19 bulbs.

It's cool having my basement office lighting switch to evening mode (they dim slightly), have the color temp adjust, all at the same time my Mac switches from light mode to dark mode.

HomeKit is pretty powerful if you're willing to bolster it with Homebridge and use an alternate app for configuring it (I use Controller for HomeKit).

For example: I have an automation that opens/closes my garage door as I arrive/depart as long as my phone is in CarPlay mode. Yes, I could push the button on my rear view mirror, but it's one less thing to do. Glueing this together required a Personal Automation that updates a Homebridge dummy switch which tracks my phone's CarPlay status. Then I could make a HomeKit automation which triggers on my phone's location but only when the switch that track its CarPlay status is on.

That said, as a developer, I do sometimes wonder why I'm not just using Home Assistant.
Hmm I see. So the value is in creating a kind of blocking promise. I can see how that might be useful in certain circumstances, but using blocking functionality isn't something you'd want to rely on in general.
" the focus on the customer.... is uncannily similar."

what is he smoking? Musk literally banned the head of a major advertising organization concerned about where Musk was taking the site in terms of it being friendly to advertising (https://www.axios.com/2022/11/06/musk-twitter-marketers-adve...). Read Josh Marshall's thread at https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1588679838306799617. Musk is absolutely doing everything the customer does not want (the customer being: advertisers), and they have already ran for the exits.
I'm just some random person on HN so please take this with giant heap of salt, but you've described problems in 2 of the 3 major organs in your arterial system (the third is your kidneys). FWIW, I'd encourage a Hematologist to look there.
What are "stories"? What is the use case? If it's a low effort way to spam one's acquaintances, seems like a website/blog would be better for sharing images/text and also has the advantage of not being tied to some platform's walled garden.

Also, why does a secure messaging app need stories? Is this part of a trend to make signal more like social media, or to balkanize the web?

I think Telegram has something like this because often on the desktop browser I'll want to follow a link to something and it wants to open it in telegram. No thanks!
> "The SEC vs LBRY case establishes a precedent that threatens the entire US cryptocurrency industry. Under the SEC vs LBRY standard, almost every cryptocurrency, including Ethereum and Doge, are securities. The future of cryptocurrency in the US now rests in with an organization even worse than the SEC: the United States Congress," he [LBRY founder Jeremy Kauffman] said.

I thought this case was just one more of many, that had all gone this same way. What exactly is supposed to make this case different?
I grant you that this is a seemingly extreme opinion. It is however my conclusion form thinking about this problem for a long time. I work inside this field, and see people suffering terribly from cancer every day, both physically and psychologically. I think we are overly focused on treating established disease, and not focused enough on preventing cancer. The end game, in my opinion, is making ourselves more resistant to cancer.

The most difficult version of this is modifying the germline. There could be other less extreme versions, for example giving young adults a long lived population of genetically modified immune cells that persist and eliminate pre-neoplastic or neoplastic disease. A more advanced version of this would be introducing a new type of cell lineage that exceeds the limitations of immune cells (for example specific modes of recognition, and restriction to certain anatomical compartments), and delivering it as a therapeutic. But modifying the germline is the only way to really get the incidence approaching zero, I think.

I hope however there is some easier, quicker way... for example if we discover unknown viruses actually cause a lot more cancer than we thought.
Where does this argument end? Are we banned from using analogies containing animals because someone out there has a relative who died from a bear/shark/bee sting? Are we banned from talking about cows in a debate with vegans because someone lost a loved one when they were out hiking and got caught up in a cattle stampede? Are we banned from mentioning cars because everyone knows someone who had a traumatic car injury? By this logic you either end up molly coddling the entire world into silence because everything is a possible traumatic trigger to somebody or you declare yourself the king of acceptable debate and only the topics you approve of are acceptable because you are the chosen one anointed by the heavens.
> "…except for the problem of too many levels of indirection,"

Isn't this what neural nets are solving, right now? ;)
I always use actix-web. warp comes pretty highly recommended as well, although I haven't personally tried it.
You are very welcome! I hope it helps you figure it out.
I have both of these characteristics. Where did you learn it was a subtype of ADD?
The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
I'm sure they did, but I don't think it's a very strong point.
> which are indeed more likely on average to break

Maybe; it's not happened to me in 15 or so years, but people have different experiences. That said, "more likely on average to break" is a far, FAR cry from "it works, if you're lucky".
The downside is that projecting a row requires random I/O across a larger number of pages, which also means more evictions from the in-memory buffer and worse cache efficiency. Apache Arrow, Parquet, Redshift, Bigtable/Spanner, Snowflake are all hybrid columnar, for example. You get good row data locality while still being able to exploit SIMD/vectorized ops.
True. I am wondering whether this trend would make Fields Medal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal), the most prestigious award in mathematics, to change its requirement of that recipients must be of age 40 or less.
This was my first comment.

Happy to help!
> Russia has been invaded by land countless times over the centuries as it has few natural barriers.

Russia has nuclear weapons. They can say that they are worried about being invaded but I certainly reject that as an argument worth consideration.

> The Baltic states are likely future targets. Thankfully they've been doing so badly in Ukraine they are being forced to withdraw forces from other areas and debasing their ability to achieve those future aims.

Agreed and I think initially (I certainly posted) he intended to break NATO by testing the resolve of the alliance in the Baltics, where had he actually had success in Ukraine would have invaded the Baltics and likely took them quickly as well which would have left the US and NATO allies in the position of continuing a war and reconquering land. I think what he miscalculated was that the US was quite serious about protecting the Baltic states and would have for sure gone to war with Russia directly over them.

> The idea that Russia wants a secure border geography and that Ukraine is a barrier to that is not new nor controversial.

It is in the sense that there was ever any desire to "be secure" as that is a new talking point designed to cause uncertainty in what is desired. It's mostly just about claiming territory perceived to be historically lost and other elements such as this are part of an ongoing propaganda campaign. Putin himself tells you this over and over again in his speeches. Ideas like NATO on the doorstep are recent propaganda tools because NATO has "been on the doorstep" for awhile. It also seeks to remove agency from nations in forming their own security partnerships.
It's a fantastic piece. New Yorker has some really in depth writing.
US mid-term elections: 3 ways science is on the line
Esperanto was always another language to learn. The idea was never that you people would be able to read Esperanto without learning it; that's pretty much impossible, considering the diversity between languages (even looking just at Europe). The idea was to have a language that would be easy to learn and speak, owing to a simple, regular grammar, and using internationally recognisable words where possible.

Interlingua may be readily intelligible to speakers of Romance languages, but is its grammar any simpler than Esperanto's? Or is comparatively more complex and difficult to learn? Because that's what ultimately matters for the rest of the world's population who do not speak a Romance language.
I have 0 context here. Could you explain the guys knocking the white hats off of older men?
That does make sense, I don't think I understood what you were getting at before!

Again, I'm not an expert here. But my first guess is that the most boring explanation applies: someone wanted to make a female dummy. women are lighter then men right? so let's use our existing design but make it smaller. And at that point, we might as well make it the smallest reasonable thing, so that we get as much range as possible to interpolate & extrapolate with.

No idea if I'm right or on the right track, but I can easily see this conversation happening.
Guaranteed one of them will lose a piece
I think Einstein's definition assumes people give a shit about the results. LOL
AdTech (in it's current state at least) is morally indefensible
perhaps consider chesterton's fence here. the topic at hand is pretty boring accounting 101, not some exotic double-dutch irish sandwich with a macau cherry on top. in most cases, you don't (and typically can't) attribute the costs of a given server to a single customer, and the licensing cost discussed here is not what you're charging, but what you're paying to provide the service (e.g., your database licensing costs are not 1:1 mappable to each customer).
While not common, I know of other Chinese diaspora in North America with similar stories.

Many graduates from post Cultural Revolution China left the country in 90's and found the language barrier (and accompanying discrimination) too high to overcome. The man delivering your fried rice might have a PhD.
> Covid may cause a rise in heart disease in unvaxed individuals relative to vaxed, but this study does nothing to support, and especially doesn't prove, that contention.

The issue that comes to mind for me is there no explanation given on why the unvaccinated were unvaccinated. From what I remember, the jab was not recommended for those with compromised immune system or other similar less-than-healthy conditions.

Without such transparency, it feels like possible apple to orangers comparisons.

Or maybe I'm misreading?
iPhone SE is an extremely powerful phone. AFAIR it uses iPhone 6S CPU. iPhone 7 CPU beat Intel Core i7700K in some benchmarks, just to put a comparison.

Not sure how much degraded battery affects it. I recently got my iPhone 8 degraded because of battery and honestly I didn't notice anything.

Even my old iPhone 4S is a little beast. I remember playing Asphalt racing game. It pushed it to 60 FPS and its graphics was stunning, better than need for speed. If phone can render AAA game at 60 FPS but struggles with some chat app, this chat app does not respect is users. I mean it's just a bunch of grey squares with some text and lame shadows. DOS on i386 could render it fast enough.

Sometimes I can't decide who's more crazy - me who demands adequate performance from simplistic apps or people who accept this state of things.
I have no affiliation with them other than having bought two of their laptops. It's not been a utopia, but overall I am quite pleased with it. I would guess that they've just similarly made other people really happy too.
I'm pretty technically inclined and I lose my Signal history every time I get a new phone because I just can't remember to transfer it. (I don't use it a ton.) I really wish this was more seamless. (I understand the complexity of the security issues around it.)
Because it gives you a longer period of time to learn the keys without consequences if you forget.

If you encrypt your HD, you’re suddenly in a position where forgetting your key will lose all your data. It’s like walking off a cliff and hoping you can fly.

If you start by making backups and doing test restores, there’s a period of time where you are still forced to remember the key (to do the restore), but the consequences for losing it are low.
Thank you. You might be able to tell the frustration and anxiety this stuff brings me going through it. I appreciate you talking with me about it and you're right. I should ask for a hematologist. Weird that no GP has suggested that, but seriously, you suggestion here might be the key to me living and extra 30 years. Might not, but it's one of the best key/pair value suggestions for treatment path I've heard in a discussion in some time.
Recently I find Amazon Alexa constantly asking "Did you know..." or "By the way..." at the end of most exchanges to introduce or sell me new features, and it drives me completely nuts. Just f- off and do the thing I told you to!

Imagine if your hammer had a little LCD running ads for new nails (and other less relevant crap).
Mailing lists are usually attached to a particular project or department, so are very narrow in focus. To find a good list, search out the people you want to be conversing with and see where they interact.

Some examples:

Unix Heritage Society mailing list (https://www.tuhs.org/)

PHILOSOP Mailing List (https://lists.louisiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/philosop)

Listing of linguistics lists: (https://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo)
This is embarrassing. Why not just come out against democracy? At least that would be honest
So if your motherboard needs to be replaced you can't recover your data? Nice!
> It's a contentious issue in AppSec where most vendors want you to upload source code to their cloud for anything other than the most basic of scans.

Write the source code in some Assembler language (or even binary code ;-) ). Or use some obscure programming language that the vendor cannot scan, thus having a reason not to upload it.
> To give an example, the city of Indianapolis is 'commited' to maintain a road that could go from Indianapolis to Alaska.

Can you say a little more about this example? I tried about a dozen Google searches (unfortunately on mobile) but could not find anything related.
Well, with my sample size of one, I've splashed boiling water on the floor when trying to drain pasta or potatoes, but never while pouring out a kettle. Perhaps related, a kettle has a cold base in addition to a cold handle oriented more appropriately for pouring.
"The biologization of industry" seems to be complementary to the industrialization of biotech rather than an alternative to it.

The pitch for biologization is:

"Living in the industrialized world, we have giant retail stores that are packed with chemicals and detergents, medicines, and clothing and materials that have been shipped from all around the world in a complex supply chain. What if we didn’t need that? What if we could grow what we wanted locally? What if our supply chain was just biology?"

That's only going to work for some materials. Bacteria are versatile but they can't produce materials like carbon fiber or copper alloys. They can help to produce inputs to making those materials, like acrylonitrile [1] or copper ore concentrates [2], but the fiber and alloys are going to be made in factories that still consume industrial quantities of material and need industrial scale supplies.

[1] https://www.solvay.com/en/press-release/solvay-collaborate-t...

[2] https://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/...
AFAIK you only get those update notifications when you install Signal by hand via the apk provided on signal.org.
Cage the Mastodon (2018)
Imagine thinking it was YOUR recording. Now you know better - if you want to record something you need to actually record it onto a medium YOU control.
I just got my first iphone. A 3rd gen(?) SE. I love the device.
I'm not a big computers guy, but have used two different mac book pros and most recently a household imac for personal since 2008.
On mobile, after BlackBerry, I went samsung / android in large part to intentionally fragment my device / os ecosystem, not put all my eggs in one cart. Samsung devices are very clever. They do not have the same cozy feel as apple, but they are smart.
Now my work buddy texts me a twitter link, and it shows on my desktop when i open up safari to check my mail. I don't like that, I don't want that. Maybe I am not ready for ambient computing?
I love apple devices, but the os increasingly seems openly confrontational if not hostile. In part I finally switched to apple on mobile because i was tired of android bloat, but it has followed me, just in a different form.
A lot of the angst in this thread seems to be borne of the competing incentives of hardware, software, and services. Apple used to be more of a walled garden than they are today. And that, before they were a trillion dollar concern, maybe gave them latitude to execute purely on creative vision.
Oddo–Harkins Rule: Elements with Even Atomic Numbers Are More Abundant
Limiting competition is the result of actions. Your perception of a lack of competition isn’t evidence of any collusion to cause that.
If you want to see a real world attempt at an overton window shift look no further than the actions of useful idiot [1] Kathy Griffin and her severed head controversy. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/kath...