skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree with you (and your prof) but I lose interest at about £25 but I will drop this:

A violin (1) can be played to produce two notes at once and a third note will be heard. Since around 1715 that extra, third note was noted and then thought to be an artifact of our ears or something. Recently someone got all scientific and studied the effect. It turns out all or most violins produce the third note but the oldest instruments produce a louder third note. More study needed.

There is a really dodgy analogy here but I can't help conflate a violin's "vintage" with a vin's (err ... wine's) vintage.

Sound and music is phenomenally complicated but quite well understood compared to taste although there is a lot of research and results coming up there. My point is that I don't think that the (say) £/$100 bottle of wine is quite in the same league as the mad cables, especially the digital ones that cost silly money. A £100,000 Strad is capable of making a different noise to your common or garden £10,000 violin.

For example, you note people capable of identifying a source and year for a wine because that's how we classify the stuff, along with some really awful attempts to put taste into words and of course you note the silly cable buyer equivalent. However, there are way more factors involved.

I also think the whole tasting thing needs a massive overhaul. Notes of peach and cut grass and all that bollocks is a bit unimaginative and frankly daft. I've never "drunk" grass, let alone cut grass - yes I understand that smell and taste are quite often synonymous but there is way more to it than that. I have eaten peaches but there is also a huge variety of flavours there that a wine buff overlooks - there is no such thing as a canonical "peach".

I'm not sure how it would work but perhaps we need a taste language that is not completely dependent on other tastes and smells. We might also need an analogy for volume too - mild and punchy are simply rubbish as a scale! I know that industry is churning out a vast number of clever flavours and smells but I think that the language is being left behind.

(1) https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344992-phantom-notes-p...
That's neat but how does one hedge a $800k loan with a max position of $25k? Idea seems spurious. The difference is substantially higher. Compare a pre-hike 2.8% with a present 6.8%. Your $25k hedge is going to be pointless.
how did you make this? is the repo public on Github?
Egine, noun

1. a machine that converts power into motion.

By definition of the word, they didn't print an engine. It's an art piece.
> I appreciate that many don’t care about visual quality, but the baseline of TVs continues to improve with time, and DVD supports literally nothing rolled out in the last 15 years.

Technically the physical DVD format supports 1080p content.

e.g. Terminator 2 was released on “Extreme DVD” in 2003 in 1080p. However AFAIK they’re bricks now as the licensing server for the required DRM has been taken offline.
> Text messages on phones should (optionally) do the same thing...

Fixed that.

Please, just make all things possible! Let me micro-manage the shit out of notifications!
Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high
It’s 2^122. Or 2^128 if you don’t care about stupid standards (why would you). Birthday paradox is about getting collisions, not guessing.
Looking at the docs for the library linked, it appears to be a Verhoeff algorithm check digit... so yeah, you're correct.

This is effectively a simplistic stand-in for a CRC type system -- useful to detect if the data has been corrupted, but not useful to avoid collisions.
On-demand Postgres instances via transparent proxy
Green Card recapture is the solution but they need to increase the number of EB visas. Canada awards PR to more immigrants annually than the US.
Wait til you hear about what those groups are doing with cash...
> The critics failed to spot that both wines were from the same bottle. The only difference was that one had been coloured red with a flavourless dye.

This baffles me. I struggle to believe so many people could fail to tell the difference between red wine and white wine.

Maybe it’s just because I don’t particularly like red wines, but they taste totally distinct and not remotely comparable.
For a few years now in the US I have found some TV shows _only_ released on DVD. Shows that aired in HD. The industry tries to understand the market, e.g. the valid examples shared here, and they simply ignore the now smaller blu ray market. Maybe a little of this is self fulfilling.
> the last bit of loyality

What is that you're talking about? I don't know anyone who stays at a company out of a sense of loyalty. Do you feel a sense of loyalty for the company you are working at? Would you stay there if you could get more money for the same work? If you would, congrats, you're loyal. Most people are not like you.
I don't want to sort by date. I want to sort by popularity, and have it include all my comments, not just the ones from 8 years ago.

And if I do sort by date, then in only includes my comments for the last six months, not my comments for all of time.

But there may be a clue there: In both cases, it stopped at 34 pages of comments.
What? You're the one with the "output is guaranteed to be correct" line. A smart contract is just code.
This happened to me during a Google Takeout export when I was degoogling in late 2019. I recall going through some photos from the earlier 2010's and some random pictures of other people were popping up. About a month or so later I received an email from Google letting me know that some of my files may have been accidentally in other people's exports. Since then, I stopped using apps like Google Photos and cloud storage in general. If I do, my files will be encrypted before I upload them.

Here's the original story: https://9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strang...
Just a heads up Pokémon Violet/Scarlet is one of the worst Gamefreak offerings ever.

Just do a search for Pokémon Violet issues for a huge list.

Some off the top of my head- performance (stuttering, pop-ins, etc), crashes, graphics are gamecube-like; the list is so long I've yet to see or hear anything positive about it.

I'd thought sword/shield were bad but this one is really bad.

Gamefreak chose to blame the Switch...for a game that is obviously unfinished.

Botw, metroid, xenoverse- there are some great games that run damn near flawlessly on the Switch that look lightyears ahead of Violet.

My kids didn't want it. Gave my copy to my girlfriend's 10 year old son, he gave it back and went back to playing Lego Batman I bought him the other day on sale for $5.

Anyways forewarned is fore-armed
pipe yt-dlp into ffmpeg, set encoding setting such that it produces an output file small enough to fit onto storage
or external storage
Depends on how you look at it.

As a consumer you get lots of benefits from them throwing around huge amounts of money and selling things below cost (or giving away for free) because they have the theory that a losing bet is better than economic fundamentals leading to a profitable venture. Just keep throwing money in the pot until it either goes big or goes broke — or, I suppose, gets bought and they can cash out where it becomes somebody else’s problem.

Of course this isn’t so good if you’re in one of the “disrupted” industries where this is clearly predatory behavior (intentionally losing money to drive all the competition out of the market) to corner the market.

But people don’t care because they get their subsidized goods/services and all these displaced workers can just “learn to code”.
Honestly I was surprised that it was removed. It wasn't even flagged, it just became dead. I think it's a huge story so I'm not sure why. My other post was about Twitter and was killed as well. No explanation offered by the mods here.
A really cool program for playing around with GoL type systems is Golly.

https://golly.sourceforge.net/
Elon Musk does not scale. This isn't practical.

This feels like management by random walk.
> I’ll make one more confession — sometimes I prefer pizza from the greasy pizza joint down the street to pizza with exotic cheeses from a fancy Italian restaurant that costs twice as much. Does this mean the fancy Italian restaurant is a fraud?

No, it means the original studies were right to have a sample large enough to account for one person who's taking a position they wouldn't normally take on that particular day! But what it doesn't do is invalidate the findings of the larger study.

PS: I got to the end of the article thinking the author hadn't made a very convincing case, then I saw that it was Scott Alexander, and my first reaction was "oh, he's smarter than me, I probably didn't read it carefully enough." So, I guess I'm like the lady at the Judgment of Paris who asked for her scorecard back.
Personally, I started during the days when things went on and off netflix rather often.

It turns out the few shows I really wanted to watch were available on ebay reasonably cheaply, and I didn't have to pay any attention to availability anymore. It snowballed from there, as I kept adding more shows.

As far as the quality goes, I don't really like wearing my glasses when I get home. I literally can't tell the difference from my couch. Unless it's a show that requires subtitles, then I need to put on my glasses, but I'm pretty used to everything being a little blurry anyways.
Yeah people forget a movie can be 4k pixels but not a lot of bits to encode them.

I wonder if we should start quoting bit-rates for quality.
I don't see this happening, for three reasons:

1. Community oldtimers and loyalists really like Java.

2. Bedrock has no Linux port.

3. Java is the lead version - new features are added to it first and then backported to Bedrock.

While #1 and #2 could be written off as "costs of doing business", the latter is a significant problem. The current creative process that Microsoft and Mojang has adopted is that Mojang implements new features and versions in Java first, and then another team in Washington reimplements them in C++ for Bedrock. Deprecating Java means making everyone at Mojang switch development tools and languages and adopt an entirely different codebase. It would be just as disruptive for Mojang as it would be for modders.
Construx (80’s Toy)
Same.

I don’t miss my massive collections of books, dvds or cassettes.

I humped those fucking things across three continents and 6 countries.

iTunes Match obsoleted my cd collection (some of which had rusted and were unplayable on regular stereos), Calibre for my books and I don’t really care about movies enough to archive them, stream most things bought those shows I watch over and over again on iTunes.
Probably high frequency hedge funds because being first matters a lot. That 300mm is the difference between winning and losing, it’s pretty binary up there.
Sounds like they are trying to find out whom to shoot. There people were just paid for marketing. How can they be blamed?
Pretty GUI, feels awful to use. Maybe client side reactions with corrections would be better?
I think you’re conflating legal contracts and smart contracts. Legal contracts are instruments used by two or more parties that outlines their responsibilities to one another in a way that is protected by civil law. A smart contract is just a program that runs on the blockchain.
I pay for all the streaming services but purchase Blu-rays when it’s something I really love. (True detective season 1, Chernobyl). I especially like exploring certain eras of film - I just watched “Get Carter”, “Point Blank” (w/Lee Marvin), and “The Outfit” (all of these are late 60’s/early 70’s genre movies). I bought the last two on blu-ray. These kind of movies don’t usually stick around on streaming. “The Outfit” was absolutely terrific and I’m so glad I own it now.

We have a movie room with a 140 inch projected screen that really brings these films to life. And when I travel for work (I’m a photographer/producer) I have an RV with a wonderful blu-ray setup for when I’m off grid (which is frequent).

In my work I’m producing in 4K or 5k and edit in these resolutions. But for my home, I’ve never expanded beyond standard 1080p which looks terrific at 140 inches.

I do love physical media and have vinyl, cassette, reel to reel, minidisc players. The audio quality is not as good as CD (which I also collect) or streaming - but I find it remarkable and stimulating when interacting with these archaic machines.
http://cmuscm.blogspot.com/2014/09/inventory-is-evil-well-do...
What grease? The base is vegetable glycerin that hospitals use in their nebulizers, used in smoke generators at concerts and has been repeatedly proven to be absolutely safe for human inhalation.
Would you hire under the current circumstances? I wouldn't. How long am I going to have a job? A week? A month? How long am I going to want to have that job?
What? I think you have some fundamental misunderstandings here.

Buying a stake in a small biz is perfectly legal and people do it all the time.

That's entirely separate from the requirement to be an accredited investor to buy unregistered securities.
From what I understand, Kalshi clears on (or used to clear on) LedgerX/FTX Futures. What made you choose them over, say the CME's ErisX? Have you run into any issues given the recent FTX implosion? Where there any other options you considered and ultimately choose to not move forward with?
Some UUID alternatives:

- https://github.com/ai/nanoid

- https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid

- https://github.com/ulid/spec
Google fell short on privacy promises, employees say
I'm sorry but what ATS is supposed to mean?
It's not clear from the article and Google didn't help.
Oh wow what a flood of memories from a PlayStation announcement.

Strike the weak spot for MASSIVE DAMAGE
Yes, the output is guaranteed to be correct. Let’s say you give me a program and ask me to run it for you. Can you guarantee that I won’t tamper with the executable? No you can’t. You can’t trust the output of an arbitrary program you give me to run. The only way you could trust my result would be to run the program yourself and verify I provided you the correct output. If you run the program yourself, then what’s the point of paying me to run your code? With a smart contract, you can trust the output. That’s the difference.

This brings me back to my main point. You clearly have not implemented a smart contact and have misconceptions about what it does. I suggest you implement one first. You can still think the idea is stupid afterwards. That’s fine. But right now, it seems like you are arguing about how you think the blockchain works, which doesn’t necessarily match how it actually works.
I'm surprised someone hasn't threatened to sue them for allowing people to skip unskippable items.
Apple never tweets!
Point taken and indeed it is obligatory and relevant. That ‘n’ didn’t sit well with me at all.
The festive season might've made for a bit of a bookend. Have to do it now otherwise the "fired two weeks before xmas!" stories get more aggressive. Though I imagine he was just trying to act fast and not necessarily thinking about this at all!
I’ve got a projector with a 100” screen, still using a 1080p projector. My 1080p projector of choice was under $1k, while good 4K projectors are in the $5k range. I’d be willing to pay like 20% more for a 4K projector, not 400% more.
Cause there were never any tweets to delete
Apple doesn’t post tweets using @apple

It’s not new.
It's sort of the other way around. The process changed changed but the name stuck. The history is quite more complicated, if you're interested you can look at a summary here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason.com/volokh/2022/05/10/a-...
I work at AT&T Labs. We often drive over to Bell Works for our lunch break; it's a lovely mixed used space, and also a chance to keep in touch with a part of AT&T history.
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Storing UUID's in their binary format quickly becomes a PITA for debugging or doing manual queries. Some DB's have functions that can convert to human-readable strings which make this less painful, but it's never going to be as simple as using integer id's.

As with all things, there are tradeoffs that must be considered before building the system.
UUIDs are 128 bits by definition. So there is no such thing as a “longer UUID”, but if you use that concept then you are indeed “moving away from UUIDs.”
+1 for stunts, every time i hear of it - puts a smile on my face :)
I submitted it 7 hours ago, but it didn't get any traction with the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33695800.
The cabin crew is there to keep control of the passengers. Keep people from smoking, make there aren't fights over masks, make sure nobody downs a whole bottle of whisky they bought in the duty free store and proceeds to do God knows what.

Even the cheap airlines have cabin crew; they're not there for the hell of it.
looks like much of the "excitement" was old media (and new) trying to stir things up and make it look like things were "bad" over at TWTTR because of the new CEO.
Did you plan that phenomenal "p" alliteration?
I never understood the appeal of those things. Everybody who own one of those already own a smartphone whith the exact same voice assisted functions.
Thank you! I wracked my brains to recall a RINO equivalent, and I didn't remember that.
Wine quality = 12.145 + 0.00117 winter rainfall + 0.0614 average growing season temperature - 0.00386 harvest rainfall

This is the formula developed by Orley Ashenfelter to predict the quality of wine, as described in the book Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres. It is the Moneyball of wine and he claims it does just as well as experts.
Why is this a Show HN? Seems like a regular old article to me.
I forget the exact algorithm, but you can factor in your x with y. For right-facing sides, anything at the same y with a greater x is in front of a lesser x, and vice versa for left-facing sides.
When I was looking into that I remember having read (or watched a youtube video, I was deep in a rabbit hole) something good about these companies [1][2]. Take it for what it's worth.

[1] https://www.pcbway.com/

[2] https://jlcpcb.com/
https://github.com/jwhited/wgsd does NAT traversal with Wireguard, but you need to operate a CoreDNS server to do it.

More info on how it works: https://www.jordanwhited.com/posts/wireguard-endpoint-discov...
Many of the developers that work in the city live near this area. A lot of software developers live in Monmouth and Middlesex counties in NJ.
> chosen by the higher ranking executives to be conveniently close to their large homes in some leafy suburbs out in that particular part of NJ

Edison, NJ is not far away and was definitely a hotbed of tech in the late 1800s and early 1900s (Thomas Edison).
I'm pretty sure there's already a C compiler for it. :) Anyway, I've got the dysfunction, I just added an email address to my profile if you want to contact me.

Cheers!
You and your parents have all described wine in terms of $. I've tasted a dollar and it tastes like a pound but I would not try to drink it.

Why not describe your experience with the good stuff. We lack decent language to describe taste but we have loads of language for experience and feelings.

Lots of people here are pontificating (me too) about wine but so often the discussion ends up with bottle price and not what is actually important.
If you had the need, then hiring now means you have more/better candidates than usual. For job-seekers, now might be a good time to get in and have influence and opportunities for advancement, plus scope to work without excess bureaucracy, for the sort of candidate that would appeal to him?
Compilers have moved away from parser generators in favor of hand-written recursive descent parsers in many cases, and the main reason has been to produce high-quality error messages. In the special case of C++, another problem has been that the language is not LR(n) for any n; unbounded lookahead can be required in some cases.
Adding on to what you wrote: The monitors my wife and I use are both >15 years old, and still working fine. But they require VGA-to-HDMI adapters to plug into our more modern computers, which renders Blu-rays unplayable on them thanks to DRM. The one Blu-ray we rented to test out the Blu-ray player required using a small laptop screen to display, which kind of defeats the purpose of the higher resolution.

On our desk setups wide-screens would be problematic, and it's difficult to get modern 4:3 or 5:4 screens anymore.

Probably not an issue for most folks, but likely still applicable to a few. Especially the smaller screen issue for those who don't own a separate TV, or even a separate monitor from their laptop screen.
Also UUID v3 and v5 produce IDs from identifiers such as URLs which can be quite useful if you want two different systems to generate the same exact UUID given knowledge of the same URL.

For example, in a REST system that needs UUIDs I'd use the REST URL of the object as the UUID.
Most professional network cards have PTP support and a grandmaster is cheap enough or your colo provider will provide PTP as a service.
An account created 5 hours ago, that has a single post (this one) that was created 4 hours ago, that links to a site that explicitly speaks of nothing but the virtues of all things Tesla. I would wager a guess that there is little in the way of impartiality in this, especially because the link that it references to back up its claim is...a link to its own website, which itself does not actually provide any sort of reputable source for its claims.
Hmm, okay. I wonder why they have 8.7M followers then.

Not calling you a liar, it just seemed like there must be more to it.
I love that story about TCG. When in university discovering computer science I remember thinking “how was the first compiler made?” and I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of compilers out there have a lineage originating from McIlroy’s hand compiled TCG sheet.
I take Everett Rd to work every day. The revamp and surrounding developments have pushed the whole population of deer curbside.

I have had 3 near collisions in the past year. My friends, about the same.

Be warned
This is true. It's been proven to have happened in multiple court cases.

They can basically insert another "end" for the end to end encryption without any of the parties knowing.

You basically should never trust Apple / Google / Microsoft / Amazon / etc to handle your private information... ever. Use audited open-source messaging apps.
Ben Eater on Hacking a weird TV censoring device
Flashback to when I encoded 56 kbps mono mp3s to save on limited hard disk space. :D
Session works pretty well on desktop, as well. It doesn't tie to your phone like signal does.
Pretty sure a GoPro underwater housing would be perfectly capable of maintaining 1ATM in space. They are designed to handle many times that in external pressure.
Binance will not invest in crypto lender Genesis: WSJ
The never-ending parade of software "updates", and the constant chaos of web-based services, has killed much of the joy I used to feel when working with computers. There's no real point actually learning the system deeply anymore, because they just keep changing it out from under you, and you can't really stop them.

I will never buy a Tesla, with that big screen controlling everything, which the true owners of the vehicle keep on reprogramming from afar! At least you can count on an older car to keep on functioning in the same way you're used to, from one day to the next.
Woohoo. right?
Those other forms of entertainment don't have nearly the destructive potential on a person's life and finances that gambling can have. A movie is a $5 one-time purchase, gambling is an endless recurring purchase that may not stop until the person is bankrupt, if they have addictive tendencies.