skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, new learnings, "ad" in the meaning of "about" is not used like this in english.

in german the latin "ad" is used as "about that point" and even part of the Duden (basically the official guide to the german language)

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/ad

did not know that its more a german thing.
I see the vinyl revival as another type of merchandise the artists can sell to the more devoted fans out there who wants to have a collection item about their favorite album.

Nothing wrong with that, they get to make a bit more money and the fans get what they want. It kind of explains the high price.
It is "email address OR phone number" which is a little better...at least not giving them a free correlation. Though I suspect they usually already have it.
"Let's wring every penny out of this tiny plot of land." It says that right on the tin. Yeah THAT'S the guy you want to buy quality housing from! /s

Nah, seriously, it's just more money laundering. Who cares if it works for housing, main mission accomplished.

https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/advisory/2017-08-...
I *strongly* encourage you to pick a budgeting program and stick with it. I say this as someone who comes from perhaps more meager means than most in this thread and I now am in a similar position as you.

I use YNAB but I'm sure any will do. Essentially, I give every dollar a "job", whether that is to be the next car insurance payment 6 months from now or for our vacation fund. I know what money I have and where it's going. I have tracked every single dollar I've spent for about the last 10 years, less some petty cash.

I still have financial insecurity worries that likely stem from my childhood and I doubt they'll ever fully go away (see: people who grew up during the Great Depression), but I can allow myself to spend now and do so confidently.
I love this novel so much. From the opening paragraph the tone is set!
A Correspondence Between Nietzsche and Strindberg
Google and Facebook are so big and so closely tied to the government, they might as well be another branch of government.

They might not even be financially viable without government deals like PRISM.
The model code gap (2022)
This is essentially the condo experience almost anywhere. You 'buy' a unit, and then it's a non-stop parade of rising fees and special assessments.
I resisted CD's for a long time, because I had great turntables collected up from yard sales.

What broke my reserve, back when, was the "cheap rack classical CD". They'd churn out cheap "collection" box sets that didn't sell, and then recycle them into $2 to $10 single CD issues for the cheap bin. Some of those were mastered off wire still, I'll swear it.
I'm one of those folks with a small vinyl collection (~75 albums? Like 25/yr since I got into it) and no turntable. I got into this during the pandemic when the quality mid-range tables were sold out everywhere for months on end so the available hardware option was either a trash-tier Crosley/Victrola player from Target/Walmart or some kind of hi-fi $1000+++ option which seemed like a lot for a newcomer to the hobby. I chose neither, for now, and I'm sure a lot of other folks without turntables are in that state for the same reason; there was no reasonable hardware to buy when the hype was at the peak.

The big album art was/is the biggest draw for me anyway. I'm not an audiophile and streaming sounds good enough for my ears but a 1x1 inch album cover on my iPhone can't hold a candle to the full-sized album art in all its glory.

Of course I wish they were more affordable, but in some ways the fact they're so expensive is almost a blessing because I don't have space to hoard albums like I would if they cost a lot less. If forces me to weigh the options more carefully and think about what I would really enjoy most having in my collection.

I agree the music industry fumbled the trend, that much is obvious. But calling people like me "t-shirt collectors" isn't helpful for the hobby either; music or not, it's a badass art collection and I don't see a problem with approaching it that way.
If not for social media, would their narcissism and sociopathy make the rest of us suffer in other ways?
The whole point of science is that you’re supposed to question things intelligently, which inherently means you’re allowed to question things. Censoring “disinformation” in the name of science is how you get Galileo and the rest to roll over in their graves, and it didn’t even work. 30% of America is still unvaccinated, and a huge portion of them were probably radicalized by people being censored for spreading disinformation, because deliberately making yourself out to be Big Brother doesn’t convince anyone that you’re right (even though they mostly were).

That being said, you should look at things intelligently, but you can’t force people to do that, or you get situations where you can’t question that the Sun revolves around the Earth because that’s not seen as intelligent. The “mRNA vaccines will kill you” crowd are idiots, but censoring them only makes their point seem stronger and goes against the principles of scientific inquiry. Proving them wrong, which is easy, is better
The thing with vinyl though, is it will remain playable for pretty much as long as it exists. I have some Beatles records from the 1960s that sound as good today as the day they were printed. Do your iTunes purchases from today will still function 60 years?
Stick with python and follow the course at www.fast.ai

It will quickly get you to a point where you can 'do' simple ML and tackle simpler Kaggle problems. Once you are there then you will have a much better idea about a) If ML is something you actually want to focus on and b) what aspect of ML you want to focus. You'll also have a much better understanding about where the holes in you math knowledge is and what you need to learn.
> There are a lot of nice things in life that work because most people aren’t assholes.

200% this, the person you're replying to is more or less making the "if she didn't want to be assaulted why did she wear a short skirt" argument
Sounds like you had bad parents and now for some reason want to throw out the entire institution (as if it were possible) despite the fact that for the vast majority of humans it’s an overwhelmingly positive experience (not to mention just plain biological).

It’s not even imposing morals on you. The way you’re acting goes against the way humans have acted for thousands of years. To point out that you’re most likely wrong for making that decision shouldn’t be that controversial
It's really sad they returned all those books instead of donating them. On another note, if you ever need to stuff up a book shelf, at least in my area, every local Goodwill has books for $1 a pop roughly. Hard cover is $3 regardless of what the books actual value is. I'm sure other stores like Salvation Army and Thrift stores have similar stock for cheap. You're better off spending insanely low amounts and just donating the books if you really don't want them.

I have personally found some gems at Good Will though.
>> Vinyl is a gimmick.

> I disagree. Because most vinyl listeners (incl. me) doesn't listen it for the sound quality itself.

> The biggest draw in listening vinyl is the experience itself. Large album covers printed with intricate detail, the manual effort you give to cue in the vinyl and changing sides. Adding coffee, tea, a book or a couple of friends into the music itself. The atmosphere all it creates and the experience revolving around is driving the vinyl.

You said you disagreed, but then you described a gimmick.

The only part of what you described that wouldn't work just as well on a CD is changing sides. In fact, they're all things that people actually did with CDs, because CDs were superior to records in every conceivable way, but people still wanted to spend time with their friends. There's nothing about a record that makes you more likely to listen to it with your friends. There's nothing about a CD that says you can't fit it into a pocket in a much larger display envelope.

If you think the ritual of sitting quietly and listening to music is dead, that's because people stopped wanting to do it, not because they stopped buying their music on records.
Some of the typos and spurious spaces make me wonder if this was originally a printed/scanned/bitmap document (since it comes from court filings) and then was later OCR’d back again for publishing online.

But that said, it’s no more poorly written than some of my emails would be if I’m tapping them out in a state of frustration, as he seems to be!
> The biggest draw in listening vinyl is the experience itself. Large album covers printed with intricate detail, the manual effort you give to cue in the vinyl and changing sides. Adding coffee, tea, a book or a couple of friends into the music itself. The atmosphere all it creates and the experience revolving around is driving the vinyl.

I think that statement supports the grandparent post saying that vinyl is a gimmick.
Lean manufacturing is a lot about avoiding waste, but it doesn't necessarily mean removing all buffers and stocks, which is a type of waste, if this is causing a much worse type of waste, which is making the entire production line useless because it is missing input material. I really think "lean manufacturing" = 100% JIT is a misconception and an over-simplification.
In a similar vein, a couple of years ago someone tried to return A$10,000 of toilet paper and sanitiser, which they got stuck with when their profiteering venture was shutdown. The vendor refused to process the refund and the case lead to a change in refund policies for most Australian supermarkets.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-15/supermarket-shopper-t...
What was it, SACD? Or something - the advancements of audio after the CD never really took off. It was more about the convenience than the quality really.

Many people have a surround system at home for movies/TV but full multi-channel audio never really took off, not even in the entirely digital world of online music where it is relatively easy.
> Would really love kmail and the whole korganizer get a refresh

Korganizer is being rewritten as Kalendar: https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/kalendar/
War story: ca. 1980, before PC meant IBM, there were many teams rolling their own personal computers. In one of which I'm aware, the hardware people attempted to play a practical joke on the software people by swapping the leads on the CRT yokes every once in a while.

It didn't pay off though: the software people quickly had a flag in their driver, and just absent-mindedly flipped it whenever they came in and their screen was displaying upside down, then carried on working as if nothing untoward had happened.
Walking in Minimalist Shoes Is Effective for Strengthening Foot Muscles
Even the buying of vinyl is an experience. Going to a store dedicating time to purchase something like 12 tracks, while flipping through tens of not hundreds of large items with artwork ranging from Beautiful to meh to thought provoking.
I remember years ago having to port some C code I wrote to AIX.

Hit this really weird bug - on AIX, errno is not thread-safe by default!

Solution is simple: add -D_THREAD_SAFE or -D_THREAD_SAFE_ERRNO to CFLAGS. Took me a few hours of scratching my head before I worked it out though.
Quality vintage players are still widely available and affordable.
The difference is between "there's some humans living on mars, perhaps working towards self-sufficiency" and "we're moving everyone on earth to mars"
Funny how even that goofy shield has retained a dedicated and distinct title bar with window controls that looked almost like all the other title bars.
Show HN: Project Polyhedral an open and free, drop-in, D&D 5e replacement
Project Polyhedral is a work-in-progress, but I thought I would share its current draft here in case anyone was interested. The project is open source and licensed under CC-BY.

The idea for Project Polyhedral began with all of the drama around Wizards of the Coast's move to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a and replace it with a non-open OGL 1.1.

I've written a few rule sources for TTRPGs over the years (none of them published, one of them is a campaign setting I'm trying to publish and that was targeting OGL 1.0a) and took this opportunity to revisit some of those and try to create an open interface to D&D 5th Edition.
I would like to add that PDM also supports having multiple dependencies groups, and the developer is superfast at fixing issues.
There are a few issues with this:

* paying people more won't make them better teachers (well it might help, but it won't change who the current employees are). So you need some other method of working out who is actually good. Be that who to retain or who to hire. What that method is is very hard to agree on since measuring how good someone is at "teaching" is impossible because no one really agrees what a teacher does.

* the reason pay is so low is because tax payers don't care. Everyone pays lip service to education. Then they refuse to actually fund it and instead treat it like babysitting (just look at any element of schooling from the start times to sports spending to bullying).

As always, simple, easy to implement answers to complex problems are simple, easy to implement and fundamentally flawed.
VSCode doesn't have a lot of whitespace though, it's still a function-over-form, high information density, getting things done application.
I think one problem is that people hear the word colony and they add the term self-sustaining.

on edit: fixed typo.
ArtificialArtist's OpenArt: Unleashing the Power of AI-Generated Art in Gaming
> The Stack Overflow graph doesn't seem to show what they say it does?

I'm guessing you're referring to this?

> PyTorch is still growing, while TensorFlow’s growth has stalled. Graph from StackOverflow trends (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=pytorch%2Cten...)

Graph seems to confirm what they are saying, in terms of questions asked on Stack Overflow. Number of PyTorch questions are growing, number of TensorFlow questions have plateaued and maybe even shrinking, but bit early to tell.

I wouldn't necessarily say that growing/shrinking number of questions on Stackoverflow means a project is less/more popular than another, can be because of number of factors (more experienced developers, better documentation, better support channels via some other platform, and so on), so I don't think the conclusion is 100% on spot. But at least the graph accurately describes what it's supposed to describe.
You don't need to replace it,just need to explore organic self of yours, you need not reject internet in general, find right balance.
> and there needs to be a good reason for that.

A year ago I already said all the good reasons. There are many reasons why things like Lombock exist. There are reasons why people loathe writing interminable chains of builder methods.

But sure. None of these are good reasons because something something Visual Basic.

What Java will inevitably end up with is a yet another half-assed approach that only exists for a small part of the language and is not applicable to the rest of it.

> BTW, C# didn't add properties as a "lesson."

That's not what I wrote. This is literally from your link: "Digression: learning from C#"

And look. Right below it, emphasis mine

--- start quote ---

The C# approach was sensible for them because they could build on features they already had (default parameters, properties)

--- end quote ---

And look. "Extrapolating from records" section basically says: Java has nothing, and will need to rebuild everything from scratch for this not to be a half-assed solution. Oh well.
Very cool, can imagine that on my Apple Watch
That's a "motte & bailey" [0] type of argument.

The billionaires talk about "saving humanity" or "making a lifeboat" but when they get questioned, they maneuver the discussion to the motte: "there is no planet B" (or the equivalent). Then, when the attention is elsewhere, back to fantasies of Mars.

[0] - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
Does IcePanel support the Structurizr DSL in any way?
There is a similar project https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn

A framework for Python, the core of which is written in Rust
24 bit is pointless if the entire piece has been skillfully sent through so many dynamics compressors that nothing meaningful ever happens below the ten most significant bits. The key quality of vinyl is that peaks beyond the "good" range gently decay in quality instead of clipping hard, which allows a trade-off between peaks beyond the baseline level of the mix and distortion. A good vinyl mix will therefore allow subtly higher peaks than a digital mix aiming for the same baseline level. Sure, the digital version could be even better (peaks high above baseline, without even the tiniest distortion), by sticking to a lower baseline levels, but they universally don't. Digital can buy loudness by paying in flatness, whereas analog can pay for loudness in either flatness or (gentle) distortion, and any good vinyl mix will opt for a careful blend of both. Digital will always opt for flat, unless it's completely broken.
Meanwhile 40+% of american are obese, with most of the western world following the same trend with a bit of delay.
lj3.me for sure, lylejantzi3rd.com is difficult to remember and type
I simply answered GP's question:

> As a swede I’m confused, how does it work where you are from?

I simply described it as how would an ordinary American would experience a potential emergency. Between the "designated doctor" versus "let's be cautious", I'm not sure which is the objectively superior one (although unlike your presumption, I actually like this cautious approach), however I cannot underestimate the fact that your insurance company can just declare your situation as not emergency, despite multiple administrations trying to close loopholes (and even some arguing that the liberalness of insurance companies are not enough). Except for the (rather bitter, I'll be honest) tirade about health insurance, I have tried to not evaluate which system is better, and I'm not sure where did you get the impression that I despise the Anglo-American procedure.
I'm curious about this.

The geologic carbon and kerogen cycle looks to be be:

plankton + plants -> sedimentary rocks -> kerogen -> "liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons [via] catagenesis"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel

However, relatively recently there has also been the discoveries of extraterrestrial sources of kerogen, including in meteorites, Martian samples and planetary nebulae:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerogen#Extra-terrestrial

It's not clear to me how much to attribute to how much terrestrial kerogen could be present during our planetary formation vs that which is continuously replenished during the carbon cycle.

Anyone know of studies of the relative contributions?
It seems more like a move to make things work in a more effective way rather than a move in order to subtle ignore your will. The former can be a side effect, not so terrible if there is transparency and the ability to opt-out the tracking. I should be able to defend my privacy with some switches in a sort of "Manage cookie preferences" page/banner way and to going nuts adding some special chars in my email address.
Hey, the open source release will coincide with the FOSDEM presentation, so in a little under three weeks it will be under my Github account github.com/orlp.
> trying to learn how to keep your system healthy by only studying its failure is like trying to learn how to keep your marriage healthy by only studying divorces

Of course, you need to study both: not an XOR situation. When married, you collect data points, ask around (i.e. friends and family), ask others why their marriage fell apart; at the same time, you ask them what helps their relationships thrive. Understanding _both_ failures and successes are equally important.
I own a lot of vinyl, most of which I purchased in Europe in 2002 or so, right before music went fully digital.

I'm not saying the quality is better, or that I honestly listen to them that often.

There is still a thrill in pulling out a dance record that was underground in London at the time I bought it. I've got quite a few Dr Rockit, which is Herbert before he became Herbert.

And, I'm hopeful that somehow, someday the experience of playing records will be better than letting my kids drive YouTube music and play the same song over and over. If vinyl saved me from that, it would be worth any price.
Depends on how much better the speed of competitors is for a given query, and thus the relative severity.
because tax payers don't care.

And many that actually do care have ways of working around the system and getting a good education for their kids anyway. So they don't want their tax money going to a system they don't even need.
What a strange comment. Somehow being about half a mile from the most sophisticated collection of medical facilities on the planet, plus an unusually long elevator ride, is more of a death sentence then like being on a farm in Connecticut or something?
That funny, I looked into the whole neural net stuff the other day and thought:
"Wow you basically don't need any math".

I guess it depends a lot on perspective, to me the whole field looks like alchemy more than science. The results cannot be denied, but we understand so little.
Hey Grishka, are there any instances of smithereen out there outside your test one?
No, that's not the whole point of science though. That's where science starts, and where most "disinformation" ends. The next point of science is to evaluate each claim on its own merits, but most people prefer not to do that, because it takes effort. Blindly believing the claims that are most convenient to you is also a good way to get Galileo and the rest to roll over in their graves.
Glad to see nothing has changed, how pathetic
> The biggest draw in listening vinyl is the experience itself.

That's kind of the thing, and why record companies have no need to please the author of this article -- developing better tech would be pointless. People are into it for the experience/nostalgia, not for the sound quality.

> Yes, and it's not pointless. The higher resolution music shows itself as soundstage, not details. It's as pointless as saying, eyes can see 60FPS at most anyway, so higher frame rates are useless.

Bit depth manifests as dynamic range. Unless you need to reproduce accurately a recording that both contains the faintest buzzing mosquito, and a jackhammer right next to your ear, it's got plenty dynamic range for anyone's listening needs. Having more is useful for audio editing, not because it sounds better.

Low bit depth audio just sounds noisy, otherwise it's understandable just fine. I think the early Game Boy Pokemon games had 1 bit audio for the cries.

High frequencies are IMO mostly pointless for anyone with the money to spend on audio hardware. We have the best hearing as children, so unless you're a wealthy 12 year old you probably won't benefit from anything above 20 KHz. I've had my hearing tested and they don't even bother going much higher than somewhere around 12 KHz which I already perceive very, very faintly.

Sure, Bluetooth audio can be noticeably bad, but that's because Bluetooth just wasn't made for that and it was shoehorned in later.
From working in and around EDs, I highly doubt any ED is purposefully taking up beds with low acuity cases for revenue. Most EDs are swamped constantly and will tell you to go to Urgent Care because their halls are already filled with boarders waiting for inpatient beds.
Personally would like to see this developed deeper instead of branching into gaming goals. Then maybe it can one day be optimized to fit into an existing game's framework? Imagine Civilization 7 or 8, years down the line, having tech like this? Reshaping continents to spread your influence would be so amazing.