skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about that. The merits of the technology--the fact that even shitty 128kbps MP3 sound better than vinyl--is irrelevant. I don't care that vinyl sounds worse.

I digitized my entire CD collection in the late '90s. I had an argument with one of my high school teachers in the '90s who was operating under the delusion that vinyl sounds better than digital because digital 'steps' up/down and vinyl (being analog) perfectly smoothly--you know the BS argument. I upgraded my car's CD player to one that could play data CDs filled with MP3s in the early 2000s. I had an MP3 player before the iPod made it cool.

But I found that I drifted away from music. I got in my car and it would play random songs. I put my headset on at work and hit play and it would play random songs. I never really thought about the music and one day at work I just didn't put my headphones on. I was driving and traffic was being quite peculiar, so I turned the music off to concentrate on what the fuck was happening on the road. And I never turned it back on. I stopped listening to music for probably 5 years.

At some point my parents moved and something got fucked up in the shuffle. I ended up with a box full of my dad's old records. I bought a record player for shits and giggles and to appease my inner hipster. And you know what, I like it. I like the mandate that I choose what to listen to next. I like the ritual, the physical process of removing a record from its sleeve, putting it on the turntable, picking up the arm thing and putting it on the record. I like the fact that it makes me stand my fat ass up every 20 minutes and walk over and flip the record or pick a new one to listen to.

You talk about the convenience of digital, and you're right. Digital is a lot more convenient than vinyl. But that's a bug, not a feature. Music isn't just about audio. There's a whole lot of the human experience wrapped up in it, and for me personally, the ... cumbersomeness of vinyl keeps me connected to it in a way that I lost with digital music.
I feel there's a large disconnect at AMD between the CPU division and the RTG (Radeon Technologies Group) which feels more insular than the rest of the company. I feel Lisa Su had her hand deeper in propping up the wailing CPU division and kind of forgot about RTG that's been loosing market share to Nvidia for the last 10 years not just in gaming but in ML. Maybe she should take a break from Ryzen and look into leading the RTG.
Not parent, but I'm doing the same thing and I have had 5 leaks out of (currently) 387 accounts over the past 4 years (which is when I started doing this).

Oh and none of the involved entities ever acknowledged the leaks. I'd also be highly interested in the rates other people encounter.
The Future of Self-Generating Applications
They don't want us to be able to see which websites are creeps and collaborators building secret dossiers on us.
Sure. A good writer can remove any word from a sentence and make a new version with different words. Think about all the antonyms for sarcasm, like veracity, sincerity, and forthrightness. You could mention that those were lacking, or show that the response wasn't believed. To take the example in the OP:

"I'm glad to know that's what you think of my politics," Andrew said, somewhat insincerely.

... said, although no one seemed convinced.

... said. "You don't seem glad," Carol fired back.

etc.
In this case the purchaser clearly wanted their house to look snazzy over the summer. A load of 1960s paperback editions of things like "I'll Say She Does!" and "Trouble with Lichen" would probably not have done the job.
In other words, the elderly will seek the blood of the young. Finally, a scientific basis for vampirism.
"In other words, the record business became the only entertainment industry in the world with no plan for technological innovation."

Hasn't this been true since people started listening to the radio instead of buying sheet music? Who can be surprised at the cluelessness and intransigence of the music industry after 100+ years of the same? They were so busy fighting digital music, seemingly with the ridiculous pretense they could stop it altogether, they let spotify come in and take a big piece of the pie they could have kept for themselves.
The problem there isn't the tool ("one on one") but the surrounding process in your organization from what it sounds like.

In my experience, having a weekly 1:1 with your manager works really well. If that's a frequent and regular occurrence, there's nothing uncomfortable about it.

It's a weekly block of time where you can discuss the priorities, give feedback, talk about things outside of work or start salary negotiations or role changes. If there's a week where there's nothing new it'll just be 5 minutes long, but having a regular no-pressure event is a lot less stressful than having a scheduled 1:1 come out of nowhere or once or twice a year.
I’m already more rural than 99% of HNers, so I am the “local peoples” that city people come to see. ;)
> beside the obvious of relaxing, hobbies, etc, what would you do

If I didn’t have to work? That’s it! That’s all I’d do. Hobbies and relaxing.
You don't think all these owned, yet empty luxury apartments in cities isn't money laundering? Give me your occam's razor version then, because that's my take (and clearly many other people think the same).

What's the most likely explanation? In the UK there are loads of examples of this. Maybe the US is miles ahead of the UK on this, but somehow I doubt it.

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/property/anti-money-lau...

> Money laundering through property is a major problem

And the example you give of a van full of cash is naive. That isn't how it goes down, and if I'm honest, I think you know that.
I was interested in quickly seeing if you could just cut records at home, which led to an article here: https://thevinylfactory.com/features/a-beginners-guide-to-la...

The lathe they mention, Lathe Atom A-101, seems to go second-hand for around £2500. At least judging from the first few results. This feels a bit expensive for a home hobbyist.
I also wouldn't want to navigate the laws of trying to sell vinyl to people who wanted some pressed from songs they don't have rights to (in order to make some money back).
Are sure it wasn’t 36 or something? Also, not sure how they count floors in HK, but they count them oddly in Beijing, skipping 4, 13, 14, 24, and 34 (if any), which inflates the floor count a bit.
> c) In an increasing number of jurisdictions, the law falls on the side of the buyer. For example in the EU, your "exchange only" policy would be an absolute non-starter (with very few exceptions, e.g. food items, healthcare items etc).

With the exception of online purchases, that's only true for the return of non-faulty items. In Ireland, for example, you have no right to change your mind after the purchase and return the item just because you didn't like it (except for online purchases, which must allow 14 days for return).

Now, many shops will still allow you to return items within a certain time frame for your money back, but they would be well within their rights to operate an exchange-only or store-credit policy (and some do!).

However, if the item is faulty or not fit for purpose then the seller must offer you a replacement, repair, refund, or reduction in price. Whether or not you are entitled to choose which of these you get is dependent on how long since you bought the item, and whether or not the suggested repairs/replacement are reasonable.
As an ex-orchestra player I won't call it hogwash.

Soundstage means the size of the stage you can envision and the distance between instruments you can place them in your mind while you're listening the sound source your eyes closed. It's best envisioned with nicely mastered albums, and good recordings of symphony orchestras.

Considering you mic a 100-person orchestra from above with 8-10 mics, via a nice digital and lossless path, you can create the same vision of size in your mind just with two, reasonably priced, high resolution bookshelf speakers (Heco Celan GT302, or even Creative GigaWorks T20/T40 works well), run via a half-decent full resolution AB amplifier.

As you introduce lossy algorithms and increase compression, the high-frequency hints start to get clipped, and the sense of atmosphere transforms to a smaller, flatter room. It doesn't sound bad per se, but if you know how the original sounds, you can say something is amiss.

You don't need $10K systems to experience this. Just a good amp, a pair of good speakers, and a well mastered album. That's all.
Half of green claims used to sell products in EU are misleading, Brussels finds
A really important point:

> The group commissioned SBI Consultants, an engineering firm, to study mechanical and structural issues. Initial findings showed that 73 percent of mechanical, electrical and plumbing components observed failed to conform with the developers’ drawings, and that almost a quarter “presented actual life safety issues,” Mr. Slinin wrote.

Corruption exists at every level. The builder (as suggested by the above quote) skimped to increase their profit margins. These ultra-luxury NYC supertalls do not pay their fair share of property tax (as a percentage of price). Cities allow substandard buildings to be built (eg [1][2] not being drilled into bedrock). The city is allowing buildings to be built that are really too skinny (eg [3]). Real estate in major cities is driven by money laundering [4]. Real estate is exempt from a lot of foreign asset reporting like FATCA.

All this while we're having a housing and affordability crisis pretty much everywhere.

These supertall and skinny buildings just shouldn't be built. If you can't secure enough land to a decent base to go that high well that's your problem.

Housing for the ultra-wealthy really needs to be taxed at probably 10x the current rate too.

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2022/12/30/not-to-be-outdone-manhatta...

[2]: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/16/12945600/why-millennium-towe...

[3]: https://hyperallergic.com/724360/nyc-skyscraper-is-being-com...

[4]: https://gfintegrity.org/press-release/new-report-finds-u-s-r...
Let’s say you use a “plus” formatted email, I.e foo+github@gmail.com

Then when you receive spam/unsolicited marketing emails, you can see to which email the spam was sent, and therefore which company sold your data.

This suggests the only way to keep this behaviour is to have your own email hosted and use a truly different email per service.
I am an old guy.

I am nostalgic. I want vinyl. The old guy music I used to listen to isn’t available.

Therefore the record labels are lazy and greedy. Here are some cherry-picked market statistics from other self-interested parties presented with no context.

See? I am right.
> Setting up a new line would not make business sense since a new equipment would cost in the realm of $250 Million for a line, and take a year or more to set up. Not to mention, lead times for new equipment was also extending.

Here's where this could get ironic: what if they wouldn't be able to set up that line anyway, since the equipment they'd need itself requires the very chip they just stopped producing?

I wonder if such circular dependencies are already a consideration in the semiconductor business.
> ## Patch

> Since the vulnerable operation in nft_payload_copy_vlan should account for the encapsulated VLAN tag, I suspect that the last plus sign should have been a minus since it prevents any wrapping.

> ## Mitigating the bug

> If you are unable to patch this bug, disabling unprivileged user namespaces will prevent exploitation:

sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 0
It also not infrequently spits out falsehoods and complete gibberish.
I’ve worked on AIX (Mohegan Sun Casino in the late 90s). Switching between AIX and Linux as a developer is not difficult. They are are both just different flavors of Unix.
These stories remind me of a story from Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/evolving-a-consc...
A researcher was using a process to "evolve" a FPGA and the result was a circuit that was super efficient but worked in ways that were unexpected: part of the circuit seemed unconnected to the rest but if removed the whole thing stopped working and it would only work at a specific temperature.
both can coexist, observable is multiple-push while promise is single-push. they have their place.
Hah, a bit like the roof of an oast house. I like it.
If they're real and they're visiting us like this. I wonder why they don't make any kind of contact, it's a little scary and disheartening to think of? Are we not worthy or what are they waiting for?
>> What justifies "But it hates users tracking them."?

Users can tell which site gave away their email address by using the variants discussed. It's not tracking in the same sense, but it does allow tracking who respects privacy. It also allows throwing away junk mail where someone required an email address just to (for example) make a sale or use their wifi.
I lost motivation Now what? How do I get it back?
for any who wish to go deeper: https://archive.ph/gsVX7
George Hotz is a great hacker and problem solver, but I greatly doubt he has the patience to actually build a product.

This is a fantastic skill set to solo-hack a complicated piece of software and produce a proof-of-concept, but not for building a tool that people actually use. See his track record of never building any successful product after his PS3 & iOS jailbreaks, his latest resignation memo from Comma.ai, and his resignation from Twitter after just 4 weeks.

So I think it's kind of hilarious that you're citing him and his newest tinygrad project in one sentence with the assertion that PyTorch & friends will soon be considered ancient and clunky tools. While I don't necessarily dispute the latter, I'm certain that tinygrad won't be the one replacing them.
The fact that submitting the forms keep them on screen and enabled is confusing, especially given you can submit using return.
Well, 7 minute absolute best case ambulance response time to the scene, another 7-10 minutes to do the elevator ride, potentially twice if the patient is immobile, then another 10-30 minutes to get to the hospital.

Vs in a small town ambulance response time is about the same, and travel to the local hospital is also about the same. But there are no elevator rides.

Vs living in the actual boonies (connecticut is a tiny state that is primarily suburbia), where you just assume ambulances dont exist, you keep and know how to use a proper medkit, and you know where the nearest and farthest ERs are, and most importantly - you do not live alone.
> Musk wants there to be a colony on Mars in the near future.

As a first step, to prove Mars is liveable. As far as I can recall, he believes that we must be a multi-planetary species to survive which means Earth is destined to die.

Space is absolutely a “earth is doomed, we must leave” fantasy for Musk and his acolytes.
Oh please.

Pretty much all these old tropes that we today consider stereotypes about who is at what station in life, and what what kinds of businesses and activities various races and nationalities engage in are completely and totally irrelevant in an age where the help may be any color, the laundromat could be run by anybody, the banker's religion is a toss up and the immigrant tradesman could be from almost any corner of the earth. Without the day to day reality of a living in a mostly racially/ethnically segregated (by law or by cultural norm, doesn't really matter) for these tropes to reinforce they are meaningless as stereotypes. Their only use is for people like you to earn a few quick social credit points taking a stand against.
Travel times are what they are, and instant teleportation has not been invented yet
Malware/app security is always the excuse when it comes to app stores, though.

But there's no excuse that their OS can't sandbox apps as best it can to prevent issues like this. Sure there will still be scam apps, but it should be a lot easier to install apps from outside of an app store.

It's just a blatant money grab otherwise; Spotify for example is extremely trusted and unlikely to be malware - why can't they have an "install" button on their site to install their app? Because companies that run the app stores want a cut.

Why aren't mobile OS' more like desktop OS'? Everyone acts like it's about security but then we get things like Pegasus and Google's Project Zero which is constantly finding stuff anyway.

Even now the granularity on permissions and the main problem of user apathy towards this stuff are solvable. I'm on Android and I still don't understand why an app can only ask for gallery permission/access to all files and why I'm not able to only grant it read access to a particular folder in a streamlined way.

All of this stuff should be designed around a user's intentions.
Many associations in America are managed by a third party. That association manager has a different incentive/goal versus the board which is to profit from the association. This is just the first level of disagreement.
I’ve reduced purchases on non-Amazon sites because they expect me to pay to ship a return back to them. Amazon not only pays all return costs they send someone to my door to pick up the return. Adding friction does lose customers.
> As part of the UID2 API they specifically describe how an advertiser must "normalise" their users' email addresses.
>
> This means h.a.n.solo+iab@gmail.com becomes plain old hansolo@gmail.com

It seemed to be completely obvious to me even decades back, that the + scheme would be trivially parsed and reversed.

So I don't use it and just keep on making completely new aliases. So amazon gets amazon@example.com. If I'm not going to pay for anything on this account it also gets a random name from a random piece of well known media, like "Donald Duck", and all the data filled in randomly to ensure that it's not googleable, and doesn't correlate with any accounts anywhere else.

The bigger issue I see is the desire to link everything to a phone number. Even stuff made for privacy, like Signal.
> If the stock is any good, it will get sold anyway, just as nearly-new instead of new.

Not really. Most of it ends up in a dumpster unless these are really high-end items. Or in some liquidation warehouse if the quality is good enough. Otherwise, probably on a landfill in Ghana.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/30/business/online-shopping-...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-...
While some of these methods likely wouldn't apply to a super-luxury apartment, there are a variety of ways someone might launder money through property, as outlined here: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4242839e-373c...
The later part refers to the plus addressing, like "han.solo+github@gmail.com", which people use to so that "If they later start receiving spam to that address, they know the service has leaked or sold their info.". Now the IAB requests that advertisers should normalise such addresses by dropping the part after the plus sign, and therefore effectively stopping users from "tracking" the advertisers.
As an aside, thank you for reminding of how terrible the Spotify library design is.

You should be able to have a similar experience with your digital collection. I wish I could flick through covers in my library rather than browse a grid.
I initially phrased it badly, and modified it to better explain my point. Forcing everyone to accept the current viewpoint of most scientists, especially in a rapidly evolving field such as studies on a virus discovered less than 5 years ago, is stupid, but you also shouldn’t blindly believe nonsense and most Covid disinformation is. You need actual evidence, and luckily platforms like The Lancet make it relatively easy to find studies (although they should be more open tbh)
The a&l regulatory requirements are certainly not self imposed. And the limits aren’t just in the form of rough ratios. They outline the classes of debt the balance sheets can have, how they are accounted for, operational procedures around the balance sheet and extensive reporting requirements.

But after 2008 equity holders became more risk adverse so demand tighter deposit to loan ratios. This caused the banks to disengage with lending, one of the things that caused the fed to remove the reserve requirement.
You basically want the functionality of https://htmx.org/ but without the added JS.

This would definitely be very nice to see --
but somehow I don't see browsers moving in that direction.
ahh, missed those. very cool. even caged / tnps patterns.
There are centuries of research into inelastic collisions, starting with Newton himself who, instead of resting on the laurels of his three laws, modeled the limiting case for high velocity collisions. Very cute model, btw.

Aside from the material properties of this particular asteroid what did they find?
Because it's a value judgement. It's one thing to say "we don't deal in porn and guns" but to then pick specific media they do deal in and say "oh and also this one" imparts the kind of fine-grained value judgement that it's inappropriate for an eCommerce platform to be making.
But do you have a business plan?
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Oh earth will be just fine. We are screwed. But earth? Just fine.
Four year old me (a guess, don't know the exact age) tried to put on his favorite record all alone and ruined not only the needle but also the record in the process. Haven't thought about this event in decades, first time that hn brought tears to my eyes. Weird mix of long forgotten sadness and nostalgic joy. Birds' voices, with a narrator calmly lecturing the names of the species and probably some small tidbits about the way they live. So much to learn when you are young! Completely devoid of all the "why would I need that" and "ugh, more? really?" that eventually creeps in!
One of the pieces of evidence is the huggingface model zoo, and the proportion of torch-only vs tf-only models, but if you start poking around you'll notice just an overwhelming number of variations of the same few models that somebody has fine-tuned or maybe just used different random starts.

If you search for 'distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-emotion' (picked only because I noticed it a lot down in the tail) you'll find five hundred and twenty seven results. Are they all the same? Different? Who knows!

I'm going to guess that there's some kind of 'learn ml' class that as part of the curriculum teaches students to upload to huggingface and that's skewing the numbers beyond use.
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Eh.

My job is going to destroy my health anyway. Why pretend I have agency here?
The majority of GA alternatives use cookies, which of course do allow tracking returning visitors.

If you're asking what GA alternatives don't use cookies but DO allow tracking returning visitors, then the list gets pretty limited. The only tools I review in my book that don't use cookies by default but do allow tracking of return visitors are Clicky (which does it with User Agent + IP) and Visitor Analytics (which does it through fingerprinting).

User Agent + IP as used by Fathom and Plausible could track returning visitors if they didn't rotate their salts, but if they did this then you would need to ask for consent to track. IMHO, the issue that determines if you need to ask for consent is this persistent tracking, not the technology you use.
I agree on this. I don't see any difference between a human looking at my work and learning to imitate it, and some AI doing the same.. The AI will just be better at doing it.
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Get a nas. Put them on there.
Better rename it to Kindle Limited then.
Did anyone try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim... ?
I think Bill was being sarcastic