skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For audio, my all-time favorite format to work with is raw PCM.

One time, I had to split a bunch of WAV files at precise intervals. I first tried ffmpeg, but its seeking algorithm was nowhere near accurate enough. I finally wrote a bash script that did the splitting much more accurately. All I had to do to find the byte offset from a timestamp in an raw PCM audio file is multiply the timestamp (in seconds) by the sample rate (in Hz) by the bit depth (in bytes) by the number of channels. The offset was then rounded up to the nearest multiple of the bit depth (in bytes) times the number of channels (this avoids inversions of the stereo channels at cut points).

Once I had the byte offset, I could use the head and tail commands to manipulate the audio streams to get perfectly cut audio files. I had to admire the simplicity of dealing with raw data.
The co-author of the article linked has a very "fun" book on how to better draw on whiteboards, particularly for topology: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-68120-7 His main example in the book is showcasing the sphere eversion.
Stadia Bluetooth update is only available until December 31st 2023
I am against the US meddling in affairs on the other side of the world not because I believe in any liberal nonsense about human rights or any of the media lies devoid of hard evidence but because a lot of Americans will die in the process of our country’s defeat and it will speed along the collapse in standard of living which is already underway here.
> ByteDance might have financial backing and motivations that make it easier to throw more money at this problem than its American competitors.

American VC can provide almost unlimited money. What it can't do is focus its spending on things that actually work.

The original question frames this in terms of technical talent, but it's not that at all. There are all sorts of US firms and even HN posters who could, given the right spec, come up with as good a solution for the problem of low latency smooth delivery of various videos.

No, the problem is choosing to make the right product. TikTok is good for the same reason that original Whatsapp was good: it had to succeed on its merits, rather than being part of a giant tech company. Whereas how many products has Google launched and then canned in that time? Was Stadia great technologically? Doesn't matter, it's dead.

Conversely, the Reddit video player on web is bad for the same reason that all the rest of the web app is bad: it's supposed to be, because of the dark pattern monetization that's supposed to force you into using the app.
> but it does serve to weed out the folks that can't pick things up very fast.

I do not believe that is a desired goal or outcome. Why eliminate people who learn thoroughly but slowly?
> What the author is bemoaning is the loss of the eclectic, bespoke, personal-style of homepage that existed in the early web. These sites still exist of course, they're just a much smaller percentage of the content.

When I stumble upon a Web 1.0 living fossil, it's a delight every time. Someone felt an overpowering need to say something, they made a website about their favorite topic (be that shoelace knots, unsolved mysteries of Ancient Mediterranean literature, their train trip from Europe to North Korea or the CUBIC NATURE OF TIME), wrote everything they wanted to say and mostly stopped.

They didn't enter into a parasocial relationship with millions of people, they didn't try to get rich by producing content, they didn't become slaves to The Algorithm, they didn't ruin the brilliance of their first LPs by producing a dozen more.
Show HN: A year after we chose to go with PostGraphile over Hasura in production
The Tor tunnel will go through the VPN tunnel and terminate on your device, not at the VPN provider.
For posterity,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

DisableSearchBoxSuggestions DWORD

Set its value to 1.

Should work for Windows 11 and 10
And most healthcare expenses are for chronic diseases, not for pandemies...
It’s a great app. I mean, there can be challenges, but generally extremely effective.

I suppose openness will enhance security over time?
> I don’t think that would work as well [...] where there is a lot of space between keys.

A capacitive "touch sensor" is pretty much the same as a proximity sensor, just tuned to the touch surface, so I don't think that could be much of a problem. Just put the sensor plane behind the keys.
BTW, I've seen a keyboard prototype that used capacitive sensing of the user's fingertips as the key-actuation method. By doing that, the trackpad/keyboard might be even simpler.
Discovering the Capable Web
In a more short-hand summary: When money creeps into art or intellectual pursuits that originated from personal interest, they usually race to the bottom.

There's nothing wrong with blogs. There is a lot wrong with the internet as an advertising machine. Heck, the comments here frequently are first-hand blog entries on a subject and I enjoy it very much. Now if it was monetized, I'm not sure if the signal to noise would be as equivalent.
They explicitly say it's not intended for reuse, and various stuff has been redacted (though I've not identified any that would stop the code from working). Interestingly you are allowed to reuse the code under the EUPL license.
GPT3 Generated Meeting Summaries and Action Items
This "well it is old document" falls on deaf ears with me. The solution on if parts of the constitution are out-dated is to pass amendments to the consititon, which has been done 27 times in our history.

It seems today however we have allowed the federal government to simply ignore it because it is "too hard" to pass an amendment. Sorry if it important enough to expand the power of the federal government is should be important enough to put in the work to amend the constitution, and if you can not pass it then clearly the nation agree's it is not in scope of the federal government.

And by "nation" I do not mean a "democratic vote where by 51% of the population tells the 49% what do to" which seems to be common in the "Protect our democracy" crowd.
I still run a 2017 MacBook Pro with the 2.9 GHz i7 (admittedly with a recent keyboard replacement.) I only do office productivity stuff on it. The heavy lifting is done on my Dell Xeon desktop workstation. Anyway I'm looking at the M2 mini. That would be cool to poke around with. I'll keep the MacBook Pro as it still runs stellar and with the new battery, I can run all day with careful use.
Imagine if OpenAI made GPT3's final hidden states available via an API ("GPT3 deep sequence embeddings v1.0"), next to each generated text token: [(text_token, deep_emb), (text_token, deep_emb), ...]. You and anyone else could build apps on top. Those hidden states would incorporate much more, and much richer, information than the text. Higher-level models could be trained to act on such information!
I have a sister project to Datasette called Django SQL Dashboard which works against PostgreSQL databases: https://django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io

It used Django for the authentication layer but can otherwise work against any PostgreSQL database.

I partly built it to help explore what Datasette could look like if it expanded to work with more databases than SQLite. That's still something I'm considering doing in the future, via a plugin hook, but it's not on my short-term roadmap.
no paywall: https://newatlas.com/aircraft/jetoptera-bladeless-hsvtol/
I have a couple embedded devices with TLS1.0, JRE 1.5 applets and no modern ciphers.

I really want you to show me how this is "not rocket science". Till then kindly "fuck off".
As I said, I am well aware of the perils of MITM.
There are mitigations for all your concerns, and in each case, the question should be: is this better or worse than plan HTTP.

As I mentioned below, mitigations include: restricting this scheme to IP Addresses only, non-routable netblocks only, certain TLDs like .local, .lan .personal etc...

In regards to oppressive regimes, the state can also block all traffic unless you relent and install their CA cert in your browser bundle.

Mitigations here would be certificate transparency, pinning etc...
I would also suggest that CA certs should be restricted to certain TLDs.
Important websites can use all these mitigations, while still allowing my scheme for connecting to my Raspberry PI, kitten blog, or wifi router.
YouTube Shorts don't seem to operate on the same level as TikTok. Maybe I have a unique experience but every time I look at YouTube Shorts, it's literally the same batch of videos in the same order, day-to-day.
They should just pay a licence fee to Getty Images to use their images.

Just like OpenAI did for Shutterstock before they released DALL-E.

https://www.shutterstock.com/press/20435

As for individuals, once the licence fee is paid I expect Stability AI to remove infringing training material (with artists requesting to opt out), update their model significantly and publish a new an improved model that (perhaps not completely guaranteed) convinces individuals to switch.

This may be in the form of an updated hosted model on Dreamstudio. Although for the open source model, well this is in muddy waters.

Maybe this isn't going to happen with all individuals but with the mess that Stability AI created for themselves that is the consequence of prematurely releasing the model trained on copyrighted material and getting caught for it.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/12/a-startup-wants-to-democra...
Spray-On Keyboard Is as Light as It Gets
One of the author's Twitter [thread](https://twitter.com/ianwalker/status/1615248156186247169) explanation about what the paper is about

>> "Car Brain" - the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving - is real, measurable and pervasive."
Brave blocked the ads and trackers. And I'm not seeing a prompt to pay.
My fridge doesn't send recordings back to a server in China. Nor was it produced there.
The fact that they kept the keyboard shortcuts working is something like a miracle in tech
Or they didn't add filters for misandry because they were only concerned about misogyny.

This is a classic pattern. For example, people have complained numerous times about Google's search suggestions and results for certain topics, e.g. "my boyfriend hits me" yielding sponsored information about domestic violence but "my girlfriend hits me" not yielding anything.
This really seems to boil down to "right place, right time", which I suppose you have some control over. However, I assume there's also a potential downside. I've seen, for example, people who are overtly hustling...and the deliberate nature does turn some potential contacts away.
Took an art class for fun. Been a programmer for 20 years.

Final exam the instructor put a bunch of glass vases up for us draw.

We had never covered glass or anything transparent. Teacher was quite surprised when this was pointed out after everyone struggled for 3 hours.

She was generous on grade.
Another relatively simple format, that is apparently additionally superior to PNG in terms of compression and speed, is the Quite OK Image format (QOI):

https://qoiformat.org/

(And OT, but interesting, regarding their acronyms:

P -> Q

N -> O

G->->I ...so close!)
I switched from magnet to moom. It feels like a native OS feature, which is the highest compliment I can give such a tool.
It just depends on what you're after. rofi is faster as an application launcher and I'm sure I could script my way into doing other things with it as well, but I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of speed for the convenience of extensions being easy to install and configure. In most cases it's a matter of browsing them (https://ext.ulauncher.io/), copy-pasting a GitHub link, and configuring a trigger. Sometimes there's also some system-level package I need to install and/or an API key I need to enter.

In any case, alternative launchers always beat the hell out of default ones. Once you get into them you're going to be reaching for a mouse/touchpad far less frequently and do a whole lot more with them than just launching apps.
For general house projects, I’d say a Visegrip. I’m not saying it can do everything well, but it could be used as a hammer, pliers, adjustable wrench, and I’ve even used it as a screwdriver in a couple of situations. It’s not the best at any of those things, but it can do all of them if necessary.
They aren't painted, but Copenhagen has custom manhole covers too: https://cphpost.dk/2018-10-20/history/drain-spotting-for-man...
But ChatGPT might exhibit wrongthink tendencies, that would be plus-ungood.
I watched the video, and only (maybe) saw STOL, not VTOL.

Looks like they use two Dyson style fans for propulsion, which means the fan blades are on the inside of the fuselage, could be very interesting for an urban environment, as there is less risk of hitting something with your blades.

That being said, they mention a gas turbine is necessary for propulsion, so it probably won't be quiet enough for urban envirnoments
Even so, I can easily imagine opinions that would upset both liberals and conservatives. If an AI had such opinions then it would be possible to make it both more liberal and more conservative.
Oh nice! That seems to be using the tool 'figlet' (or maybe toilet, from libcaca), and the font is banner3-D, that's available here: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts

If you install the figlet (or toilet) tool and clone that font repo you can do a :

figlet -d ./figlet-fonts -f Banner3-D My text
'##::::'##:'##:::'##::::'########:'########:'##::::'##:'########:
###::'###:. ##:'##:::::... ##..:: ##.....::. ##::'##::... ##..::
####'####::. ####::::::::: ##:::: ##::::::::. ##'##:::::: ##::::
## ### ##:::. ##:::::::::: ##:::: ######:::::. ###::::::: ##::::
##. #: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ##...:::::: ## ##:::::: ##::::
##:.:: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ##:::::::: ##:. ##::::: ##::::
##:::: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ########: ##:::. ##:::: ##::::
..:::::..:::::..:::::::::::..:::::........::..:::::..:::::..:::::

Toilet also has colour effects and can output in different formats:

toilet -E list
Available export formats:
"caca": native libcaca format
"ansi": ANSI
"utf8": UTF-8 with ANSI escape codes
"utf8cr": UTF-8 with ANSI escape codes and MS-DOS \r
"html": HTML
"html3": backwards-compatible HTML
"bbfr": BBCode (French)
"irc": IRC with mIRC colours
"ps": PostScript document
"svg": SVG vector image
"tga": TGA image
"troff": troff source

Cool!

Edit: added image formats
Which part of the Twitter files show this?
I'm loathe to say this, because every couple of decades or centuries someone does the impossible, but until that happens:

It's impossible. There's too much legacy stuff, it would be like boiling the oceans, and there's both no real glory to be had and no money to be made.

Oh, and for the legacy stuff. Since there is no real API, everyone did as they pleased, for the new protocol/standard/tools to take off they would either have to be amazing and almost completely supersede existing stuff (ultra hard) or to offer backwards compatibility, which the lack of the API would make it a humongous software undertaking. I've been watching what the Oil shell is doing to just extend Bash in a smart way, and the amount of work going into just that is mindboggling.

You'd need a madman (more likely, several) like Lennart Poettering and look at what did, it got him death threats for writing software and getting it adopted.
Probably intentional :-)
I'm a seasoned developer, so this is not for me, but I am impressed. Especially the distinction between "ValueID" and "Value" that's a good way of explaining it to beginners, and a common source of error for junior software developers. My only two bits of constructive feedback would be:

1. F5 is unnatural on a Mac. Should be something like ^r (and ^R) or similar.

2. The interface looks very, um, VisualBasic or Microsoft Excel. That is fine. There is certainly a market for that. But it will turn off a huge segment of your market, namely those that aspire to be the lead in the TV show Mr. Robot. You may get some traction reskinning this whole thing to make it more slick like a machine gun you hide under your trench coat like in the Matrix and putting up a separate website or webpage and seeing which version gets more downloads.

Either way, I love this!
Color Photos from the World War I Era
I was really curious about this as well. Mach 0.8 is less impressive to me than VTOL, but the article didn't provide any details on how VTOL would work.
> There is a school of thought that you should use the right tool for the job

But there are often real world constraints that influence the choice of the tool. For example if you have a Rails app already, going with more Ruby code might fit better than branching out to Python or Julia.

> and some languages are better tools for certain tasks.

Yes, although in the case of Python, it's not the language that is better but the eco system support.
Where are you getting that number ? Just going on M2 MB Air battery lifetime I'd say you're an order of magnitude off.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201897

Mac mini (M1, 2020)
Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 2TB SSD
Power Consumption
Idle Max
6.8 W 39 W

This is 16GB/2TB model, entry level spec should be even lower.
Access to a smartphone with NFC can indeed be an issue for some people, but it is still better than having to record videos of yourself holding your ID next to your face, then a couple of years later finding out that your personal data is freely circulating on the web because one of those sleezy identity verification services has been hacked.
What’s your concern here?
Two things I love about this post:

1. It's by a data journalist. Datasette was originally designed for data journalism (though it's useful for all sorts of other things) so it's really great to see it being enthusiastically used in this way

2. Jeremia talks at length about Datastte's URLs! This is a key design principle of Datasette: anything you see (a filtered table, SQL query results, a configure chart visualization) should be reflected in the URL of the page, such that you can bookmark it and share it with others. And any time you can see data you should be able to add .json to that URL (or .csv or, via plugins, other extensions like .atom or .geojson) to get that data back in a useful format.
Siiiiidddeeeee eefffffeeeeeeecccccttttts.

Would like to have a word with you.
"2.8.0.1. Fixes file permissions in 2.8.0 release. No code changes."

https://github.com/mikel/mail/tags
This article seems like the author's personal memories asserted to sound like a comprehensive history. However, as someone online since 1993, with my own domain since 1995, I have different memories.

By 1996, we had AOL Hometown, Tripod, GeoCities, Angelfire, and more. All offering various forms of build tools and early CMS features.

The old weird web is still out there if you take the time to look. I would argue there are actually more quirky personal pages now than ever before.
Isn't that what py_installer does?
The shown prototype indeed isn't VTOL, but this one is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_AVsscuBk
Sorry to be that guy, but this is why XFCE is so good!

Them random delays when doing simple things in windows is so frustrating.

A desktop should get out of your way, and be so quick you don't notice it. Window switches, minimizing, maximising, launching, closing etc. Or my personal favourite, type and the letters take their time to appear.

Only after you have worked with a system that never ever lags on these everyday actions do you see how frustrating it is to work every day with these laggy things.

I saw some Mac users comment on the lack of lag on their laptops! I'm sure they can identify with how nice it is.
Sure, in a perfect world we shouldn't need debuggers, seatbelts, emergency services, insurances and many other things, but that's not how reality works.
How this is used in practice is when you log in to a government site, you provide your DigiD account name and password, and then (often but not always) verify that it's really you with either SMS or (apparently) by scanning a document with NFC. Since it's just a single-use authentication I don't see a particular problem with doing it on another device. The actual government interaction after you're logged in happens on the website anyway, not your friend's phone.

btw I see that attaching an nfc reader to your computer is also supported.
I'm not sure that's weird.

I worked temporarily in several factories in England one summer, and in general everyone used the safety equipment. When you can hear how loud it is through the ear defenders, why would you remove them?
Oh, this was the mid-80's and the Vaxen were still around, being replaced by stuff from WANG and Tandem .. but that line printer was sacred for some reason, it stayed in operation (after repair) until the late 90's ..
All relationships are parasocial.
So this is one of probably tens of thousands of websites (and I mean just with this overpriced provider-tool, many more people roll with more customized stuff) that are librarian-like but generated with an user-friendly tool:

https://publish.obsidian.md/zero-chroma-infinity/

We’re here, man.
> strategies you know well enough that you can ask yourself if X data structure or Y pattern is appropriate for the task. IME this is often not suggested for people studying Algorithms but it should be. Even if you don’t fully get a problem, you can probably get most of the way by identifying the general approach you should use.

My experience exactly when taking such a course. This type of knowledge would have improved the QoL quite a bit.
Realistically much of the success of Netflix is thanks to a partnership with Microsoft and the Xbox 360.

They didn't have to worry about a set-top box + I believe MS helped them serve content from XBL servers.
It was the first step. I was there. I first transitioned from totally customized, handmade websites to blogs. And then, from there to social media. The reason was always the same: convenience, as the author explains. Social media were a continuation of what the likes of Movable Type started.

BTW, I wouldn't blame Movable Type per se (I still have fond memories of that tool!) but rather the lack of tools to make the publishing of non-chronological content similarly easy. There was one attempt around 10 years ago: Opera Unite. It was a great idea (IMHO), but didn't last long.
Roger Linn on Swing, Groove and the Magic of the MPC's Timing (2013)
sounds pretty much like Spain :)
Go to ublock origin's settings and enable everything in the "annoyances" section. I haven't seen a paywall or a cookie banner in years.
You know it is completely normal to not know things?

According to you we should just let old people do everything because they got to spend more time on this planet and never let inexperienced young people do anything even if that means they never gain experience.
A bit off topic but, the power of GPT (and DL in general) is in the data. Yet, we’ve allowed private enterprises to control what should be distinctly public goods. I don’t know where we took the wrong turn within the past decade but we desperately need to correct this mistake.
Nah, I don’t buy this at all.

I’ve never been a fast knowledge absorber, but that just meant I required a bit more time on my own, struggling with the content. Still managed to get max grades at undergrad university (didn’t go further because, well money). Also never stopped me from excelling in all work positions so far in life. If anything, a bit of struggle helps you go deep, and deep is much more valuable than fast but shallow (in my opinion).

Not professional advice, YMMV etc.
Because his productivity, drive and ideas, are symptomatized manifestations of a disease instead of the dreams and character of a remarkable person.
It sounds like something that could be automated. I know that they proactively archive certain interesting content regularly. Maybe another source of that could be feeds. They could track feeds for submitrf pages and considering subscribing to and archiving feeds that hit a certain popularity threshold.