skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only argument I’ve heard that makes me go “OK, fine!” in favor of FLAC is that they forced a standardization of metadata.

FLAC is well-supported. But, PCM RIFF WAV files are triv-i-al. Any CS101 student can write a parser. They don’t need decoding.

2:1 lossless compression is nice. It’s quite a technical feat.

Meanwhile, as an old software engineer, I focus pretty hard on technical simplicity. And, the complexity ratio of PCM vs. pretty much else everything is a a very, very small number. Very small :p
I feel like odours should be treated like noise. Faint odours or odours which occur infrequently should be permitable, but odour which disrupts the reasonable enjoyment of someone’s home should be suppressed.

Generally I have pretty low sympathy for marijuana smokers given that there are many other ways to consume marijuana which all are better for your health than smoking.
Well when you are at rock bottom it can only get better you see
The amount of pegboard-related accessories on 3D printing marketplaces is really tempting. This is one of those side-quests I have chosen not to go down as I know it will eat up all of my time and effort.
Because it showcases a lifestyle that is almost too sweet for working parents to believe.
I thought the writer has to be a full tim mom for her to spend so much time on thi kid.

Turns out she is Maria from Warsaw that is also a producer at a website that "is the French salon of 21st century".

Source: https://madeincosmos.net/

It is quite amazing that she managed to look after her kid while writing daily on her Substack and managing a platform.

The profile picture does not smell diffusionsy to me so I hope this is something genuine.
Apple previews a trio of apps that will finally replace iTunes for Windows
You aren't actually testing real world use cases

You can mock them from actual data. The last system I worked with and tested in production processed 1..0.1 live requests per minute. Hot-testing it was a torture. There was a test site which could produce requests, but using it was a torture as well, also it worked only on even days of week and could only be set up on request (as in IM, phone call, not HTTP) due to administrative cf.

Before anyone asks, no, it couldn’t be tested off-production. I could spin up a “staging” server with all proper infra, but (1) after all the modifications it would just turn into production, (2) incoming data was live anyway, and was an obligation to the company (i.e. all my fails closer to a response went to support and ate limits). Peer services had no such thing as test mode.
1) hard to say
2) because it’s 9toMac, they are a low quality blog and their writers know absolutely nothing about business reporting.

Also, the take is plainly wrong.
The reason why Apple Card hasn’t expanded overseas is most likely that the rest of the Western world is not so deeply entrenched in a credit-debt system of personal financing like the US, so most of the other credit card markets are not really relevant enough for Apple to make an expensive move in internationalizing credit cards.
In Europe, for example, you can’t pay many big expenses like your rent with a credit card, it’s all bank transfer based (which is why we have SEPA and modern zero-fee instant banking transfer technology now).

Some eye-opening stats showing why Apple Card might never leave the US:

https://www.spendesk.com/en-eu/blog/credit-card-statistics/
I fully support the legalization of weed, but also heavy fines and penalties for people who cause a weed smell in public when they are told not to. It’s not hard to detect whose and where the smell is coming from, and moreover, it’s not hard to get all of the benefits and “high” of weed without creating the smell (e.g. edibles).

We let people drink and we let people drive, but no drinking and driving. Similarly people can use drugs like weed all they want because it’s their choice but when they make a bad smell and such it becomes other people’s problem. Get high but get high responsibly
They don't bother (yet). As long as they know only tech geeks are attempting this custom DNS config, and those tech geeks are unlikely to click on ads, they don't bother going the next step.

Now, if Pi-hole or similar suddenly becomes mainstream, that'd be a different story.
There was a bit of discussion over on Reddit of a game called "Cosmic Conquest", printed in an edition of Byte magazine, that is supposed to be the first space RTS. That was entirely written in Forth on the Apple II.

A few of us managed to resurrect the code, and I've managed to get it more-or-less working as intended. Once I get time I'll tidy up the bits I wrote so they're fit to show in public.

Here's a video of it:

https://gjcp.net/conquest.mp4
Let's now run BlenderDMX inside it :)

https://github.com/hugoaboud/blenderDMX
My take is that there's really nothing to say.

Anyone looking at having children (or any other relationship really) through the lens of cost/benefit will arrive at the logical conclusion that it's a huge investment with an uncertain reward, so likely not worth it from that perspective. There's no arguing with logical reasoning.

People in the developed world(or adjancent) have children anyway because they allow themselves to not apply such thinking for once.
US vaccination decline continues: 250k kindergarteners vulnerable to measles
These HN comments are pretty disappointing. So many people clearly did not read the article or have jumped to seemingly silly conclusions.
The sun will be 10% brighter in 1 billion years, which is enough to evaporate all the oceans. Life will be gone MUCH earlier than that, unless we can terraform the Earth to not contain all that heat.

And that's without any human-created CO2.
It says in the description:

>Written in Rust, btw xD
The Japanese wikipedia article mentions there are records of him being born in Portuguese Mozambique. That would make him black-as-African.
If people find it interesting, then the answer is yes.
> implies that unhappiness pushes one to become a philosopher because they start thinking about how they became unhappy.

I see, thank you for the explanation.

That's definitely not how I view philosophy or the motivations of those who think deeply about such things, hence my confusion.
What a wonderful list. Thank you!

A couple of thoughts:
I think grandparents love grandkids because they finally realize how precious and limited life is. So, they love now more than they've ever loved, and in return they receive love back. It's a shame more parents don't realize it until their kids are fully grown.

One lesson missing: negotiate like your life depends on it. Kids, especially toddlers, are the most ruthless, sociopathic negotiators. They're infinitely attentive. They will adjust their demands in real time if they don't think they think that they're losing out. They will use every tool at their disposal.
BNPL suggests that it's better to take the 0 percent and pay off the 800 bucks, say, 2 years later and park the money somewhere accrueing interest.

All I'm saying is if you're getting a 0 percent loan for the mixer, interest rates on your savings are not going to be great either and returns on index funds are not going to consistently go up either. It's not unlikely that you end up with your 800 bucks turning to 750 after 2 years but you still have to spend 800 for the mixer after 2 years. 800 you put in at the beginning, 50 you have to chip in at the end, you just paid 850 for that mixer.

> What in such simple concept is so hard for you to understand?

Be better than that!
And people are playing bass thumping party music at midnight because they enjoy partying. Why the heck should that be unlawful but outdoor grilling shouldn't be?
What makes Paul Graham's blog so good?
In what way has IBM done anything world-defining in the last twenty years? Even Watson was not much more than marketing hype.
That's not the app. The app simply configures where to send positive reports to and where to download positive IDs from. The app has no access to Bluetooth. Separately, the user can turn on whether they want to send and receive IDs to nearby devices.

The app itself can't even ask the phone to directly start communicating with other devices. It can ask the phone to show a consent screen for the user to agree to in order for the phone to start communicating those IDs with nearby devices, after which the phone will start doing so. https://developers.google.com/android/exposure-notifications...

The actual complaint is that Google and Massachusetts used storage on the phone. Apple also used storage on the phone for the same purpose.
Yeah, and foam at several hundred kph was also enough the damage the wing of a space shuttle. Not sure the paper thing is terribly relevant. The shells were fired after all.
Tangentially related: if you're fascinated about how all of this vintage equipment used to work, and if you find yourself near downtown Seattle on a sunday with an hour or two to spare, I strongly encourage a visit to: https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/

It's an incredibly rare opportunity to see geek geezer volunteers keep this central office telephone switching equipment up and running, and they'll proudly show you how it all works. A combination of aging techs and students constantly maintain equipment ranging from crossbar switches to an ESS.

It's a labor of love, and you'll want to leave something in the tip jar just to say thanks.
This is all outdated thinking now that we have PESPA frameworks
soundtrack produced by flying lotus!
It is for many new buyers…
I understood it less as transforming the images and more of deriving math formulas from the patterns in the image, closer to creating a bar graph to understand data than making a copy.
Huh, by Eric Schlaepfer & Windell Oskay!

Eric previously designed the MOnSter 6502, built with Windell's help: a 6502 CPU with fully discrete components! https://monster6502.com/

Windell is one half of Evil Mad Scientist Labs: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/
This is surely never going to be used by people acting in bad faith.

Setting a precedent that you can sue someone to make someone seal up their house/apt (or stop all together if that’s not possible) for anything that makes a smell based on the their self-reported subjective experience is gonna be a goldmine for the very worst kinds of neighbors.

Even if you attach a reasonableness test it’ll just be a reflection of the norms of white people so BBQ will be fine and never reported but “whenever they cook it makes my apartment smell … ethnic” will. Because sure, you want to say that they should fuck off for being racist but if they genuinely can’t stand the smell they have as much standing as for pot. And since it’s self-reported you can’t tell the difference anyway.

I think they have the spirit of “don’t be a dick to your
neighbors” right. But an execution like this is just going to be another burden on the already othered.
Other deflection methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
Elon Musk deliberately turned off access of outside apps to Twitter
In my particular neighborhood in DC, I’m not even sure ANY restaurants have been reviewed. And when I travel, your approach is certainly not a reliable way to get a sense of what’s near me.
Our unit was too small. And with the shared wall smells and smoke would pump out the attic vent on the opposite side of the unit where the other window was. This was especially bad when they had parties at their place and the smoke from cigarettes and vapes literally surrounded our entire unit.

The previous tenants at the neighboring place had considerately placed their grill in the lawn area. And never had parties.
TypeScript itself is good but typescript errors are bad and annoying
I had, but only in front of the computer, where the cold air hit the room air. The air from that AC unit was very dry - to the point of similar ones being replaced due to complains.
Where there is progress there are yuppity losers sueing it into oblivion
Yup. That's the big time sink for me. Even after I blocked it, I was typing that string reflexively for weeks.
My plan for peaceful slumber was thwarted just last week when the old sash window above my bed rattled intermittently throughout the night. Too knackered to get up and fix it, too conscious to sleep soundly. I woke up early and exhausted, and jammed a wedge in the window gap as soon as I had the energy. The next night I slept like a baby.
Nice work.
You might wanna add a simple explainer text in the tool page, it would help understand some of them by the uninitiated (chaldean numerology?) and would probably help indexing too :)
Right.

Personally, barring nuclear or bio warfare, I'm quite confident we can figure out how to geoengineer the Earth AND settle into Mars within 500 million years, considering we've come from cavemen to today's technology in only 10000-50000 years.

What worries me is actually after about 3 or 4 billion, where no level of geoengineering can make any of the inner planets of the solar system habitable, and with the red giant sun spewing out chunks of burning crap all over, Jupiter's and Saturn's moons aren't particularly safe either.
You don't really have that many spare cycles per line (unless you have double height pixels), and since there's not many registers either, you really can't get much done with the spare cycles, either.

You really do need to get almost all your game loop to fit into vblank, and spend most of the screen on time driving the graphics. NES and other systems with fancier graphics systems kind of inverted the script; on those you run the game loop during screen on, and mostly transfer data to the graphics unit during vblank.
You write a blog post praising someone and then post a link to it on a site owned by them. Why?
Me and AI
An aviation expert explains how the FAA’s critical NOTAM safety system works
That seems unlikely to explode and more likely to push the dowel and hammer back while creating a fountain. But I guess it might explode.
TI-Basic interpreter written in JavaScript
It's hard to say for sure without seeing more technical detail, but I would expect that a modem connection would "just work" without any further changes.

The point of a modem is to translate data into an analog signal that can be decoded after going through a lossy transmission line, subject to bandwidth constraints and noise. The ADC introduces quantization noise, which affects the signal-to-noise ratio, but the same thing happens in a "real" phone line that goes over a digital trunk, and modems are designed to tolerate it.

Also, even if the connection quality is especially poor, modems are designed to perform a "line probing" algorithm, in which both ends of the connection will fall back to the slowest connection speed that can be reliably established.
We were still doing that stuff in my generation (80's)

It was not until the 00's that the schools went crazy
Audiophool class-D amplifier. Now I've seen EVERYTHING :P
Hmm, nice thing from an experimental point of view, but I very much doubt there will be any practical use of this tech anytime soon unless one happens to have supply of free energy.

They say>grow food with 95% less water and 97% less land

What about energy, and other inputs(like fertiliser)? I bet just hauling food from wherever it grows well will be much cheaper than growing it indoors for a long time.

Unless... Someone finds a way to harness sun's energy in a much more efficient way than plants do it. I read somewhere direct efficiency of most grain crops in sun energy conversion into calories is 1%. If we could capture this light with 25% efficiency (doable), then we illuminate plant with efficiency of 80% in some way by giving them only the right wavelengths so their conversion of said light into calories is (a lot)higher than 5% we may be onto something there. Until then... Not really.
Asteroid collisions actually happen all the time. Those collisions are usually the way objects leave the asteroid belt to go hit a planet. The system overall is not as stable as you might think.

Gravitational forces of asteroids on each other are negligible, other than the real biggies like Ceres, or binary systems right next to each other.

That article is a bit odd. For example, the claim that we only do asteroid discovery and not follow-up for orbital changes is absurd on its face. If an orbit changes then detection systems will perceive it as a new asteroid, and it will stop appearing in predicted locations. The broader point - that this is a technology with perhaps too much power, like what if nations shoot asteroids at each other, is a bit more valid but still far-fetched.
That catchphrase has been stuck in my head for 35 years
Cellebrite's phone forensics software and documentation leaked
1/5 of the way toward theoretical perfection seems pretty good.
What isn't used by people acting in bad faith?

There are devices that regulatory agencies can use to quantitatively determine odor thresholds. And there are things people can do to remediate odors without sealing up their place or stopping altogether.
any kind of central planning creates a large bottleneck and creates a brittle system with a single point of potentially catastrophic failure. It's why dictatorships tend to be fragile compared to a more decentralized system.
What was her email again?
Thank-you. That beats `HdG :wq` to delete everything and abort the commit.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense. Surely Winklevoi can afford good lawyers to advise them. Likely they knew their product was illegal but hoped to push it anyway in the mob rule mentality that is in the zeitgeist.
It is genuine and I can tell you how she did it, because I also have a toddler roughly this age and my SO went through multiple blogs of such, for lack of a better term, turbomamas, getting increasingly frustrated with each subsequent entry.

The answer to that is alluded to in the last point - grandpa (and probably grandmas on both sides) are there to step in when she needs "me time".
It is up in the air if edibles are “healthier” than smoking. Definitely better for your lungs, but there are plenty of other reasons to prefer smoking/vaping over edibles.

It is better to not judge people on their drug use.
Thank you for sharing. This is a perspective I’ve never had, it’s going to give me a lot to think about tonight :-)
Because presumably the grilling is not happening at midnight and even if it is occuring at odd hours, it's not interfering with a household's ability to sleep.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intent...
a) I wasn’t asking you, I was asking OP

b) That page is condescending af; I am a hacker too, and even if I wasn’t, it would still be condescending af. Rather idiotic, too, as it assumes that asking about the motive for building something is a bad question, when in fact many hackers may have perfectly good reasons (learning, self-promotion, profit, etc) to build something other than just for the fun of it.
I don’t understand why you’d reply in such a pedantic way and yet not say anything that expands, refutes or seems associated with what the comment you’re replying to said. OP said it’s a beast, not “what a great road truck to take the family on a trip”.

People buy Humvees to drive around by the way.
In the case of Google their strive for world domination will fail at the very latest when an HR drone inevitably decides to ban the term "world" for some stupid reason.
What interests me here is that both your version and the else if version perpetuate the error in the original code which is the case where a is greater than b, which is handled once by a "greater than" comparison, and then again by a "greater than or equal to" comparison, which is clearly redundant. Neither CoPilot, nor you, nor the article author I presume caught this error in the flow control. Catching errors like these adds more value then making it more readable, although making it more readable certainly did expose the error more clearly to me.
When looking at an individual asteroid meaningful orbital interactions with another asteroid are extremely rare but it has more to do with the inverse square law and the vastness of space than a perfect set of orbital parameters. When looking at the nearly million we know about rare becomes common but still hasn't become runaway. After all if things not being perfectly aligned led to a quick chain reaction then we'd expect all of the asteroids on a near collision course with Earth should cause chain reactions after passing and leaving with very random orbits. We don't observe that though, or a resulting chain reaction from those orbits being changed, or any chain reaction from asteroid orbits chain reacting from other interactions. We just observe the occasional random interaction and then a long period of nothing for the individual asteroid. While it's not a perfect map to the exact perturbation that'd happen in reality you can get an idea how rare asteroid-asteroid interactions are with an n-body simulator.

The other concerns of the article have more to do with different kinds of deflection (planetary, mining, intentional). While they're interesting topics with varying levels of risk (perceived or real) they don't really interact with the avoidance case.
While we need to add energy to Earth to take it further from the sun's gravitational well, this actually results in us slowing down (while increasing the radius of orbit). In order to orbit farther away the year _must_ get longer.

I have no idea what distance would be necessary relative to Mars/Jupiter/asteroid belt.
My YouTube addiction is scrolling the home screen looking for the viral garbage they promote to pollute my recommendations with things I would never want to see. I frequently don't watch any videos - I just play Whac-A-Mole on the recommendations.
+ it is generally possible to set up autopay for credit cards in the US, but it is not the default and I have never seen it not be very obvious on how to turn off. There's regulations about this in the US.

+ US debit cards and credit cards virtually all have chip and pin, but you can use only the number as a fallback for things like over-the-phone or Internet transactions, so it doesn't do much good. Terminals do usually require the chip, which presumably hinders skimming. AFAIK the old stamp machines are even still supported, though I haven't seen one in a while.

+ disputing charges on US cards generally consists of 1. login to the website 2. select the charge / hit the hamburger menu next to the charge 3. click dispute transaction.
Why is the Department of Education still with us, constantly growing in scope and budget? It hasn't accomplished anything.
It is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems (2016)
Occasionally I use ApplePay during checkout and I thought wouldn't it be neat if the transaction also included a transfer of the receipt to my phone. It seems like a reasonable addition of capability but the level of effort in order to uplift of the Point of Sale systems may not be worth it.
In Tokyo: The World’s Largest (and Smallest) Bookstores
An 80186 core was reasonably popular in LCD controllers (for OSD etc.) and miscellaneous stuff a while ago:

https://www.cpushack.com/2013/01/12/the-intel-80186-gets-tur...

These days, I think 8051 has taken over due to their smaller die area, and the increased clock frequencies due to smaller process sizes have made their performance sufficient.
Get into books. No, not computer related books. Narrative. Sherlock Holmes' books are now under Public Domain. Get all of them, and try reading them in chronologcal in order.

A Study in Scarlet

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of Four

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

The Valley of Fear

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

His Last Bow

The Hound of the Baskervilles

If you are a sysadmin, network engineer with vulnscanning experience, IT forensics expert or a reverse engineer, you might feel at home, because deductive reasoning it's right here.