skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then you probably end up with CD quality since they basically sample the physical structure of the album.

Not quite. Vinyl if I'm right physically represents the audio wave forms - and there might be limits to how accurately it can do so due to the limitations of the material.

CDs sample the audio waveform at 44.1Khz (44,100 samples per second) and quantized the input to 16 bits (2^16 different levels) then using the magic of math it reproduces almost the exact same waveform it sampled during playback - with any errors (from quantization if I'm right) pushed to frequencies we can't heard.
"going through the iterative process of getting it functioning and fixing bugs was pretty invigorating."

Damn right it is! Writing scrapers is definitely the gateway drug of programming. It's such an exciting feeling to step across the boundaries from "passive user at the mercy of the UI" to "I can do anything if I can conceptualise it (and break it up into steps)".
There are countless chips for more dollars with external RAM. RAM IP costs literally dollars, costs silicon area, increases package price, makes pcb design more difficult and would probably canibalize Raspberry Pi Zero sales.
Sure, there are edge cases. I don't know why you're fixated on those.
Dairy products have the big advantage of being available as long as you can keep a cow or sheep or goat or horse or camel alive which has made them staple foods in some places where food could get scarce because of cold, drought or a generally barren landscape. This is probably also what drove the evolution of a lactose-tolerant branch of Homo Sapiens in these regions as well as the growth of dairy-consuming cultures. The fact that Asian cultures tend to use fewer dairy products can be traced back to the fact that the conditions during the last glacial maximum [1] which gave rise to lactose tolerance mostly occurred in western and northern Europe. They also occurred in northern America but that continent seemingly did not have any humans on it yet.

The mere fact that Asian cultures consider western dairy use to be extreme does not say that much, the same is said in many western cultures about some aspects of Asian food cultures. Fortunately we live in a time when people in east and west can partake in varied food cultures so we get to have cheese fondue one day, char siu the next and gravlax (cured salmon) the day after.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum#/media/Fi...
So where do you keep that more than $3M in cash? Always in N/250k banks? This is not a useful solution to running a company.
Sure it answered your questions. F-Droid gets updates, but since the bugs in the UI and the core workflow persist it feels as if it does not get updates. The "normal and correct" references the issues parent reported - since I tested F-Droid on way more phones than is usual I can with absolute confidence confirm that those bugs do exist; to experience them is normal, the report is correct.
> you need a strong labor movement led by principled socialists

The “principled” qualifier works for anything, e.g. we need a strong bank regulator led by principled felons.
Correct. Chase and Amex use the prices from the airline. They aren't as good as the scammy aggregators, which try to upsell you further in the purchase process or tell you the price is no longer available
> "The results indicate that higher wages along with additional non-wage benefits would have expanded the labor supply," the study said.

> But for now, Republican legislators are starting to turn to teenagers.

executives & shareholders: "we would rather hire kids than pay a living wage to adults"
My first job was when I was 14, working the express lane for a grocery store after school. The job was easy and I wanted money, what's wrong with that?
The first trailer kind of telegraphed that it's going to be about family and stuff but oh boy. Sounds bad. I haven't seen it yet. Didn't want to torture myself with 24 FPS imax
it's not specific to America

some countries, especially Germany, have laws against 'renting' workforce so that you can get workers by escaping the union contract you have within your company.

But most don't.

I'm in France, where it is technically illegal. But 'consulting' firms are among the most powerful companies of the country. Workers at other companies are glad to not share profits with the engineers who truly work. So consulting firms thrive anyway.

You can mostly get to work though a vendor, as an engineer. It's very hard to be hired by the company you work for, unless you have connections.

Vendors overcharge companies, who would be better off actually hiring workers. But HR at large industrial companies are often so deep into neo-liberal conspiracy theories that they think a person with a working contract and a union will lead the company to its loss. (while always being bailed out by the government). For example the power company (EDF) has made so many workers redundant in the past decade, that they now struggles to operate nuclear power plants and can't find anyone who still works with steel to maintain them. (they've been so poorly managed that they're being 'renationalized', another fancy work for bailed out before they collapse)

However, consulting has become so big, and large industrial companies have lost so much knowledge by getting consultants and subcontractors, that you now can now make a bit more money by working with these vendors.

So, to summarize, HR and a few top workers thought they would make a lot more money by getting contractors. But contractors aren't hired or bound to their company anymore, know what they tried to do, and don't care about charging high rates and extra services.
You do not have a right to a job at the taxpayers expense. We all feel for you and are rooting for the workers but no one has an inmate right to others money. Especially when the right being demanded is size figure salaries.

If you were to lose your job, there is a standardized insurance that kicks in that all Americans get.

You are demanding special, better treatment at the tax payers expense.

Look, everyone on this forum is going to be affected by this. I myself was laid off a few weeks ago due to the tech bubble.

It's still not right to demand other people's money and act entitled. We all get it's hard out there right now.
how does paying adults more necessarily stop labor shortage
Recent developments in this field:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/08/16/craft-beer-...
I don’t know why people suggest Pandora as an alternative to Spotify. They’re completely different things. Unless something has changed in the last few years Pandora doesn’t let you listen to albums, or even songs by a single artist. It’s like radio, and Spotify is like a music library.
If America practised capitalism they would accept the free labour market and start paying people more. Businesses that can't survive paying the market rate to compete for labour should go out of business.
Regular Americans spend every dime that comes in.
They choose it a bit. First eating all the day long some crap (sweets, processed food, fiberless industrial food), drinking sweet sodas and not walking/doing real sports is a choice. It's the choice to live unhealthy. They should feel bad the same way smokers should feel bad. It's quite a disrespect for oneself.
I mentioned DTSS's userbase for a reason. Every single Dartmouth undergraduate student from 1968 onward wrote BASIC programs during a required mathematics class. Every Dartmouth student and faculty member was free to log into DTSS at any time from hundreds of terminals scattered around campus, plus hundreds more off campus at high schools and colleges in the northeast US. This drove an incredibly high usage for both school and fun among Dartmouth people (yes, including games). Nothing like this existed anywhere else on Earth in 1968, and was still rare 20 years later.
> “Sometimes writing for money, rather than for art, or pleasure, is really quite enjoyable.”

I think that changes the meaning, since it’s now a list of 3 items with an Oxford comma, rather than two lists, with the first list having 1 item, and the second list having 2 items. And I’m having a rough time even making sense of such revised meaning.

Expressed as pseudo-code, I read the original intent of that sentence as:

“money and not(art or pleasure) == enjoyable”

and that can be broken into

“((money and not art) or (money and not pleasure)) == enjoyable
Might actually be good for business.
>Those people aren't making a choice to be fat any more than i am making a choice to be thin.

What an interesting take. Are you saying that people do not essentially "choose" what weight to be by their eating habits?
That's the bit that OP and the writer, if they're different people, miss. Fat acceptance is basically a position that we fatties have been forced into. If every skinny person learned to mind their own business, it wouldn't exist.

The problem is not that we aren't listening to our doctors - the problem is that people like OP exist who self-appoint themselves as our doctors and start preaching. And that word was chosen carefully, because it's exactly the same bullshit.
I keep my list here: https://caub.github.io/misc/

I'm still impressed by my connect4 and 2048 solver
The future of air travel should be airplanes with higher pressure and humidity (e.g. 787 Dreamliner is much better than any other Boeing plane), more ergonomic seats, and a government-issued obligation to have enough legroom on flights which are longer than, say, 8 hours.
Really? I never got this sense at all, and I worked in biglaw in SV for the better part of a decade. We recruited from SLS, and none of those students were remotely conservative. As I think back on them, they were among the most progressive young lawyers that I knew.

I'm curious to know what influenced your opinion that SLS is on the conservative side (even within the legal academy, which is generally quite progressive).
Let them eat cake. In their first class lounger seats. /s
I'm based in the UK with ~15 years experience as a professional web developer.

I lost my job early Jan and found a new role by early Feb. It was difficult though. This was the first time I've ever experience recruiters ghosting me. I hustled like crazy to find my current role and I think I got quite lucky honestly.

Every time I see these threads I feel the need to remind people that no one's circumstances will be the same. Experience and geography are two very important factors in our industry. There are jobs out there, and if you can beat out a few other candidates you'll probably do fine. If you can't do that then you may struggle.
If you are a small business who has way more than $250k but only has time to manage one bank account and lack the need for more sophisticated treasury management, then yes, I would absolutely say you should put it in the least risky bank. Or you could take the wild step of not putting all your eggs in one basket.

The bank run was the proximate cause of the failure, but they also made some big bets and lost, making them vulnerable to the bank run in the first place.
It will be quite weird to have this brief blip in the anthropological record of like 1980-2010 where cameras were cheap enough that lots of real images were captured, and then 2010-2019 where everyone (in rich western countries at least) had cameras all the time and we got tons of real images of everyday life (filters are popular of course but using them is an intentional choice).

Then everyone goes inside for like 2 years (pandemic), there isn’t much to take pictures of, and then by the time we start going back outside everything is actually paintings by AI artists.
You mean, personal savers and very small businesses can continue to rely on the banking system. That’s not 99% of the economy.

Young people hear plenty about bank failures - specifically as a success story for big government, a problem we solved, such that depositors are secure these days.

I recognize that startups are in a bit of a weird place where they might have a lot of money to manage before they are sophisticated enough to have a big finance team. If only there were some sort of entity specialized in dealing with their unique needs… oh wait.
Consider the reasons why most of SVB's clients chose SVB instead of a larger, more traditional bank. The traditional banks work very slowly, are hyper-cautious with/outright deny businesses they don't understand, and if a startup did manage to get an account, its transaction maximums would be extremely limited relative to its growth. Now imagine the government is the custodian, and those problems presumably become 10x worse.
You just ask IntraFi to place it for you. https://www.intrafi.com/services/deposit-solutions/for-regio...

It generally looks transparent and like it's just in your chosen bank. (Though if you want laddering, etc, you do need to plan).

If you have a lot of cash, you buy T-Bills and other instruments with some of it.

And yes, you have some risk remaining, of some of the cash disappearing. But with diversification and insurance, it is negligible.
I am very interested in how that toxic loan portfolio is valued.
FDIC took over the bank on Friday. There's no going back from that, the company is over and shareholders are wiped out.
With AI, he doesn't even need to show up to set.
Gaussian blur is indeed super common in nature, any sum of noise will be Gaussian in the limit.
The negative takes bashing capitalism are weird. First, because keys loves summer jobs and pocket money!

Also, it can be fun: I fondly remember my first job! It felt nice to start feeling useful and do valuable things instead of just netflix and games.

I only wish I could have started earlier, as it also gave me the opportunity to learn many interesting things and increase my skillset.

You may want more money, but if you are an adult and already have a job, maybe think about the kids who'd love to get A job and ANY money at all!
There's only one way to fix this folks. We need to abolish the FDIC and use the money saved to give a tax cut to the rich. The rich then trickle down onto the failing banks and their depositors to resolve this problem.
I think we need to cover the housework-loophole.

You can tell a 10 year old to clean the house, weed the garden or wash the dishes. But tell a 10 year old to help dad at work and suddenly it's illegal.

If getting children to work is bad, then housework should be treated the same as any other work.
is it this?

https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

If so, you just introduced me to an incredible looking project ahah.
OK, I see what you meant now. FWIW: employing the phrase "corruption in the federal government" to refer to what was clearly lawfully drafted and correctly passed legislation marks you as kind of a wingnut, so I interpreted your point to be "see? we can't trust the government!" and not "the government did something bad".

The fact that the 2018 bill was a bad bill with bad effects doesn't make it "corrupt". Congress debated it, congress passed it, the president signed it. All that happens in public; it's the opposite of "corrupt".
The managers are just following metrics. Existing user satisfaction is not one of them.
That depends on if they're using Reddit's own app or a third party one.
> Tether has remained pegged at $1 USD since its inception (i.e., stable).

This has nothing to do with the validity of their Tether

> Why all the Tether hate? Is it because a US company doesn't own it, or is there more to it?

Or is it because they are fraudulent scammers that reneged on any claim or promise they ever made with regards to the source of their funds?
https://archive.md/gmJxU
I get you mean chatGPT has solved the problem, but it feels as if its solved the problem without answering the deep questions. We still don't really get how the brain does it or the answer to any of the deep linguistic questions, instead we get two systems capable of language which no one understands. But at least its useful! So maybe there are natural language parsers yet to be written, for nothing else than to finally test our understanding of natural language parsing.
Yes. If you manage $1.2M you need to be smart enough about managing it, or have some smart people advising you. I don't manage $1.2M yet I know there's a limit on FDIC insurance. If you manage $1.2M and you don't know that, maybe the people who gave you $1.2M made a mistake.
Does anyone know if this includes SVB UK as well? Or, given it's run by FDIC, it only relates to the (much bigger) US business?
One issue is that for the betterment of society in regards to climate change, dense urban living is undoubtedly better than spread out living in the countryside. Assuming we want to maintain current population, of course.
> No, it's exceptionally bad to fly close to Mach 1 and you do better if you fly faster up to Mach 3 or so.

Where do you get this from? I suspect you are talking about the Breguet range parameter, which is (M / SFC * L / D), where M is the cruise Mach number, SFC is fuel consumption per unit thrust, and L/D is aerodynamic efficiency.

Cruise L/D drops monotonically with Mach number until it asymptotes out to hypersonic waverider type figures (the well-known Kuchemann curve fit for supersonic L/D and the asymptoting to waverider values is illustrated at: https://aerospaceweb.org/design/waverider/design.shtml ).

SFC for gas turbines is extremely sensitive to cycle parameters and internal temperature limits, but generally well-designed gas turbine propulsion systems are going to beat ramjets until they hit thermal limits. Today's gas turbine technology is far more capable than the J-58 technology of the the A-12/SR-71 era. That said, SFC is still going to increase monotonically with cruise Mach number until you asymptote out to flatter slopes of ramjet and scramjet curves. (Edit: see the Isp illustration at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse ; Isp is the inverse of SFC).

So you are banking on the increase in M more than offsetting the increases in SFC and decreases of L/D. This is not going to support the case for increased efficiency in high supersonic (M >= 3) cruise. You could make the argument going full-on hypersonic waverider could "make sense" since the range cost functions plateau out, but that is still going to have a strictly lower overall range parameter than a supersonic vehicle. Kuchemann addresses this topic in his well-known text, "The Aerodynamic Design of Aircraft".

A naive Breguet range parameter perspective also fails to consider airframe mass penalties associated with flying faster (roughly, aircraft acquisition costs trend with aircraft unfueled weight), or that high aerodynamic efficiency is often at extreme odds with volumetric suitability for passenger & cargo carriage. Mass penalties will come from variable geometry, thermal management, Cg management, degree of compromise in structural efficiency for aerodynamic efficiency, etc. Let's say you manage to keep Breguet range parameter really high and fuel burn per seat-mile is acceptable. All the complexity and increased airframe mass of the faster aircraft is still going to make recurring costs to operate & maintain the aircraft really high.

The above also neglects boom, which you ideally want to minimize to maximize overland flight potential for your supersonic aircraft.

As per a previous comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27386119 , if you're going to go in on supersonic civil flight, you likely want to be below Mach 2. Mach 1.4 - 1.8 might be the sweet spot when you consider all factors, assuming it makes any sense at all economically.

For the majority of air travel, we would be better served by making the airport experience much more streamlined and less shitty. And I say this as one who loves and works in high-speed flight.
It may actually not. The hypothesis may be that building and maintaining muscle simply increases linearly with the increase of lean muscle mass. If (and these are made up numbers) one lb of lean muscle mass takes 10 cals to maintain, adding 5lbs of muscle would only increase your caloric needs be 50 cals.

At 190lb, my BMI is 26.5, but I'm relatively muscular with a body fat % of around 15%. I have more than 5lbs more muscle than an average person, but my required daily caloric needs are only a few hundred cals more a day at most.
This little script in my i3 keybindings opens a new terminal with the same working directory as the currently focused terminal, pretty useful for my workflow:

bindsym ctrl+$alt+t exec xdotool getactivewindow getwindowpid | xargs ps | grep "alacritty" && (xdotool getactivewindow getwindowpid | xargs pgrep -P | xargs pwdx | cut -d":" -f 2 | xargs alacritty --working-directory ) || WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR=1 alacritty

https://github.com/pkos98/Dotfiles/blob/master/config/i3/con...

I probably scratched some parts together from the internet a couple of years ago.
MyQ Garage Automation had issues with my account and wouldn’t send me notifications when the door is left open for a long time.

So I automated the notification system using IFTTT.

https://github.com/ravivooda/thoughts/blob/main/docs/garage_...
Enjoy.

https://linuxgazette.net/archives.html
Too bad debt/GDP isn't https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S
"Step 1: Declare that there is no objective standard for a better skin color.

Step 2: Declare that things like race and skin color are strictly a cultural phenomenon that have no grounding in reality or biology.

Step 3: Assert a power dynamic imbalance. Since there is no reason for people to say one skin color is better, then white people are merely "race shaming" people to oppress them.

Step 4: Relentlessly point out all the ways "non-white people people" are "oppressed". If anyone disagrees with you, accuse them of "race shaming", label them an oppressor, etc."

I did the thing you said, replaced weight with skin color, but it came out pretty damn racist.

If you're reading this and it sounds racist, might be time to switch it back to being about weight and realize that yes it is also shitty to treat people poorly because of their weight - just like it's shitty to treat someone poorly because of their race.
The risk of a top 20 bank failure is small compared to the myriad other existential risks being managed by a new startup. We still don’t know if this new failure will even result in depositor losses (though for some reason HN is full of people who seem to want them). I looked at the FDIC database and it seems depositor losses are quite rare.

It would be great if VCs would provide simple cash management services to their fledgling investments, though.
Nothing, young people should be able to earn and build experience for their own enrichment, but it's not a solution for a labor shortage.
Absolutely. It's probably the case with many businesses.
You bet. My father did too. It's one of many reasons why he was highly successful in responsibly managing the money of every institution he was ever put in charge of.