skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper mentions a similar issue:

> Beyond inconsistencies in demographics across the sample, another factor that could be accounting for lower scores for more recent participants could be due to a decline in motivation. As the SAPA Project is advertised as a personality survey, individuals seeking out the SAPA Project may not be fully engaged with items not measuring temperament at the capacity as they are with more typically considered personality items.

A bigger issue to me is

> it should also be recognized that the SAPA Project relies on participants finding or seeking out the survey; meaning members of the population do not have an equal probability of being recruited into the survey (Condon, 2018). Thus, selection bias has likely been introduced into the sample due to those voluntarily taking the survey being non-representative of the target population

I could see the result simply showing that the Internet (and/or college) has become more accessible since 2006 and sampling the online population reflects this. If we did online IQ tests starting the in late 80s, I'd imagine we would see a bigger downward trend during the 90s. On the other hand, King of the Hill was making fun of online IQ tests in 2002, so maybe they wouldn't be so hard to access.
For me the lack of understanding that it is subjective is part and parcel with being an "audiophile" - I like the "sound" of vinyl, the difference between me and the audiophile religious I know is they'll tell me I don't just "like" it, that it's objectively better and they start saying nonsense like we're reading in the posted thread.

Comparison is the thief of joy, and the only thing audiophiles do is compare.
I usually don't mind how memcpy sounds, but the flavor is awful. Especially if there is bit rot.
I believe they are referring to "Weiss Distribution Tool". I have a manual lever espresso machine that I used daily for a decade. The idea behind WDT is real. Distributing the grounds evenly makes much more consistent shots. If the grounds are not evenly packed, the water under pressure breaks through a channel and the shot tastes like garbage. It's not quackery, just fluid dynamics. One can argue that grounds can be distributed by other means as well. Stirring with a needle (WDT) is the quickest for me.

[1] https://coffeechronicler.com/wdt-tools-technique/
> Ummm...no. Just no. Have you ever had to create multiple subnets, DMZs, SD-WAN setups, plus VPN access, etc. etc. with multiple locations, all with security in mind, and full redundancy across three data centers?

>> Again, if that's your use case, then we're not talking about 1 cloud engineer vs 3 non-cloud engineers.

At my company we operate a setup like this on AWS with about 8 people total (5 infra engineers and 3 security engineers, I suppose we could also count their 2 managers), and that's not even their full job.
Did you spend the most you could on every component? No? Then I could be cleaner. With a massive price increase too
We need a rule to stop breaking up the words and their determiners too. (Wife is a typographer)

Something like:
« Wikipedia is a

multilingual free online

encyclopedia written and

maintained by a

community of volunteers »

Would be better as:
« Wikipedia is a multilingual

free online encyclopedia

written and maintained

by a community

of volunteers »
> had employed at least 31 children, from 13 to 17 years of age, in hazardous occupations to clean dangerous powered equipment during overnight shifts
Maybe this is a silly question, but why not target WASM instead of React/NextJS?
Ok, now try the same thing with memcpy and report back.
> I mean... people pay for reading the stars, tarot cards

I used to consider these to be pretty worthless things too. After a while I started to realise that a lot of these things provide a lot of the same random platitudes that therapists typically provide too.

Given that therapists are a bit of a dice roll as far as the quality of advice you get, why not just instead make the advice given itself a dice roll. At that point, there’s a non negligible probability that the advice given by a half decent palm / star / tarot reader might actually be relevant.

Sure, it’s all just chance and luck, but when the advice ends up being relevant (or becomes self fulfilling in its relevance) and actually helps the receiver, why not?

(These learnings are brought to you by my ex who very patiently explained to me one of the ways I was an asshole when we were together. I’m now a bit more open minded and keep my eye rolls to myself behind my sunglasses)
I would hope someone who did datacenter cabling would be able to explain that the color coding system has a meaning to humans and not to the electronics in a calm and coherent manner to an honest inquiry.

Additionally, labels on datacenter cabling tends to be less cryptic like "DCX-IN-FQP_9".
My wife and I have done similar. We privately share photos. It took a bit for my mom to get over the fact that she can’t post pictures of her grandkids on Facebook but I was eventually able to explain why in terms she understood.
Personally I'd expect them to take the joke with them to the grave
Is there any parallelism between SVB's fall and Lehman's in 2008, in terms of contagion effects?

I am sure that there are many people in my position holding a bunch of index funds trying to figure out if this is the beginning of something bigger or just a mouse fart that will be absorbed by whoever is SVB's creditor in the near future.
I am a Hifi enthuiast. Member of church of hifi. Ie I believe it sounds better sometimes. This is similar to how a wine can be rated higher if you have a nice time with friends in a good setting. Lately I have started to switch over to studio monitors. Sound is subjective for example with headphones its harder to say that what audio curve is correct as that is subjective to the listener.
Those have got to be thinly (to not at all) veiled troll statements...
SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole
This does indeed improve efficiency significantly: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07061
The money is irrelevant.

The biggest differences are almost universally going to be detected when you move from a loudspeaker with minimal volume to one with large volume.

Basic physics, dimensions of rooms, etc are way more important than anything else.

Sure - more lumber costs more, but there are clever ways around this too.
Minimal distortions, but especially one thing: less reaction to external RF noise. Remember living in the early '00s, back at a time when cellphones were barely regulated? Every time someone got a call, you could tell two seconds earlier because of the characteristic buzz noise in the radio.

Another part is less reaction to unclean power. "Thanks" to everyone and their dog using Powerline ethernet, having a clean power supply is ... difficult. You won't notice that in your audio setup unless your neighbors are all blasting the power lines, but if you're working with high-frequency stuff it's definitely noticeable.
The claim made is within the realm of plausibility. A memcpy call in a playback loop was replaced with an optimized version, and this made some harsh audio artifact ("edge") go away.

The poster showed the code and what was done to it.

The code does strange things, though, like wait for a Win32 event on every iteration. And not only one time; there are multiple calls like this:

WaitForSingleObject(hNeedDataEvent, INFINITE);

Is that an auto-reset event that some other thread has to be constantly banging on to keep the loop going? its odd since the code has supposedly buffered the entire file of samples; so you'd think it would just be iterating over that buffer in some chunks and shoving them into some pipe/device. There is also a puzzling ZeroMemory call.
>Why should people have to drive and spend their time at the grocery store

Because they chose to live somewhere stupid that doesn't have one of life's necessities, food, nearby? Or maybe they haven't figured out how to bundle trips, like going grocery shopping while little Ryder is at soccer practice?
Tarot cards are a genuinely helpful method of probing one's psyche and I've used them to benefit in my daily life.

I know many people who use them but none believe they have a magical power. They're projectives, like a Rorsach test.

The card will give you something abstract and you fill in the blanks. What your mind fills in can be quite elucidating. Your feeling as well, in terms of gladness or disappointment at what card you pull, can also give you insight into what issues you'd rather think about.

The demonization of tarot in my mind mostly stems from internalised misogyny and a desire on the societal level to paint anything which appeals mostly to women as "kooky," "overly emotional,". "illogical" and "unscientific" (projectives are well studied and used in clinical settings).
Many moons ago I found myself making parts for the audiophile community. Eventually I got in to making complete headphones. Designing and building audiophile headphones is a multi-modal skill that is very engaging. I was pretty good at it. But I had to exit the audiophile world because it was too crazy for me.

I would get messages from customers that were completely insane. And if you say "yo, that's insane" word gets out and it damages your brand. So you're rewarded for perpetuating these weird myths.

If I could build these really cool headphones without having to deal with audiophiles, I probably would. It was challenging and a lot of fun, and I was pretty good at it.
Ask HN: Windows moving files without asking?
I just got a panicked called from a family member that I setup with a local password manager years ago so they could do all their banking and bill paying online. It's been great for years now.

But today I get a call saying that "my main password isn't working." So after figuring out that it wasn't something simple like caps lock being on, I go over there and take a look.

I go to recently opened password files, which points to exactly where I initially put the file, and sure enough that file is not there.

I look in the recycling bin, it's not there. As a last ditch, I search for the file and assume that it's gone forever, and it turns up in a different directory with OneDrive in the path.

What the ever loving fuck is that? I'm the family IT guy and I didn't put it there. My relative certaintly didn't put it there, at least not intentionally.

So is someone juicing their usage metrics at ms by quietly moving your files to their cloud? I mean I get the benefit of backing things up, but this is nonsense. They can't really be doing this right? It had to have been something else. If I wasn't around to debug this, they would have been screwed. How do you trust software that pulls this kind of stunt?

It drives me nuts that we're forced to continue taking updates from these companies while they ruin their products. I'm not big into regulations, and I'm sure it's not practical, but man do I wish we could force these companies to only require you to take security updates. All the latest bullshit product "features" that they ram down your throat are so galling. Uggh. Alright, end of rant.
Shouldn't someone go to prison for this?
"Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law."

Wow, I knew that labor laws in the US were toothless but to have it spelled out like this is so depressing. A max penalty of ~15k per violation, just bravo team, bravo.
Pretty hard to fake an oral exam right now. But after a few generations of HUD improvements, even that might get tricky without sweeping the student for "bugs"
If they are nationalized, wouldn't it be 1 bank with different logos?
I can genuinely tell the difference between 320K MP3 and CD, and between CD and HD, (a group of enthusiasts got together and double-blind tested each other) but only in carefully controlled circumstances with a LOT of focus. As in, wearing really good headphones in a silent distraction-free room with my eyes closed and focusing on particular features like cymbals and chimes and staging, and even then only after switching back and forth between samples a dozen times. So after realizing that, I always aim to have CD quality, but I couldn't care less about HD audio.
And like you said, $100 Craigslist systems from 1990 sound drastically better than modern consumer-grade systems. People started caring more about "smart" convenience features and less about sound quality a long time ago.
Blender: Automatic Whole-Program Fuzzing
>I'm curious how you concluded this? In my experience it's unfortunately all too common for people to try low end products like Google Cardboard and write off spatial mediums like AR/VR altogether

Let's set aside AR because I do think there is potential there, and I never had any issues with AR. Granted, I also haven't experience an actually good AR app.

For VR, I've tried a bunch headsets, from the original Oculus, to the crappy Google Cardboard, to the Meta Quest 1/2 headsets, to the PS VR2, and some newish versions of VIVE. To be fair, none of them extensively, but here's what I found:

- if the VR app has you merely looking around, while standing still or allows 'natural' motion (where I physically walk around a space), after about an hour, I'll get a low-level nausea that will make me feel like crap for the next few hours. It's manageable to use VR every once in a while in this way, but I would never use it day-in/day-out because of the after-effects.

- if the VR app requires motion via controller - forget it. I'm not even sure I could handle 10 minutes of that.

Obviously, I haven't done an exhaustive study on headsets and VR apps, so maybe the new high-end headsets mitigate the nausea issues to the extent where it would not cause discomfort - but so far that hasn't been the case.
Fair point; that was some clumsy phrasing on my part. By the same standard even our best code is bad today in some way, I'm sure. (If only for being more verbose and overspecified than "CodeAI, write an optimized routine to losslessly compress video".)
This is fantastic timing with natural gas prices skyrocketing!
Buddy of mine has a $20k pair of monitors in a soundproofed room, and I was able to A/B 320 vs lossless on that system only, and only on certain types of material. The difference was only evident in the very high frequencies, and I really had to focus to tell.
this is really well summarized.

I'm in the same camp as you, I've got way more in my setup than the average person, but its mid-fi at best, and mostly on the headphone side. I like music, and I have headphones on for 5-8 hours a day, I'd like to optimize that experience. The good news is the average pair of headphones today is SO so much better than it used to be, and in a weird way some of the overpriced stuff from Apple/Sony/etc... is actually getting better sound to people that hadn't experienced it before.

I really wish there was more emphasis on the transparent + objective measurement side of things industry wide. There is in some places, but at the end of the day entire companies are built around not having objectively perfect sound reproduction, because there is a following of people that like the house-sound they engineer in to their speaker/headphones. And there is value there, its just hard to quantify.

About 12 years ago I built a pair of large (relatively) full-range bookshelf speakers for near-field studio monitor type use at my desk with a wild 3 chamber porting setup. No traditional physical filter-network whatsoever, I borrowed a decent mic, measured the response, generated an inverse impulse filter that I could use to preprocess the signal going to the amp to arrive at a "perfectly" flat frequency response. Guess what? it sounded ok at best.

Audio is hard. Your ears are weird.
> but they were (for the most part) right

And yet here we are, discussing things on a platform that is very akin to the web that Reader advanced. There was always going to be a market for non-Web 2.0 social media junk, albeit smaller. And frankly, trying to copy already successful iterations almost always fails (Google+). The resources that would have been required to maintain or even update Reader were minimal-- they were already wasting money on far more expensive dead end projects that were never going to make money.
Is it legal to work in the USA if you are 13 years old?
There are millions of undocumented workers in the US using fake identities to get jobs.

Both major parties support this system. Some Republican interests enjoy the access to dirt-cheap labor. Some Democratic interests want immigrants to be able to find jobs despite it being illegal to employ them.

So we end up with a system where employers have no easy way to verify that an employee is who they say they are and has a legal right to work any specific job.

This is such an easy problem to solve, but entrenched interests would rather we all play dumb and occasionally slap a business on the wrist when they get too far out of bounds.

I’d be curious where these kids end up after this. My guess is they will not end up in schools but will rather end up doing undocumented farm work.
I see it as a haircut for newly discovered risk
Switched to newsblur when it was shut down, but I'm still salty about this.
> Other way around: everything is assignable to the top type (`unknown`), and the bottom type (`never`) is assignable to everything.

Yep, sorry that’s what I meant.

> Which is precisely why `any` isn't the top type: if you allow `any`, then types no longer form a lattice, and there is no bottom or top.

I’m not sure I understand.

> If you restrict yourself to a sound fragment, then `unknown` is the top type. Compare `(x: unknown) => boolean` (two inhabitants up to function extensionality) to `(x: any) => boolean` (infinitely many inhabitants).

Sure, but I was referring to an exception I make for ignored parts of a type, in a type param. This example would be more analogous as:

<T extends (x: unknown, ...rest: any[]) => boolean>

Which I hope makes my exception more clear, even if you don’t agree with it. It hopefully communicates that x is of interest and rest is not.

> But `unknown` isn't the null set: it's the "set" (insofar as we're pretending that types are sets of values, which isn't quite true) of all terms.

I was referring to never as the null set. Once you narrow anything—any, unknown, etc—to never, you can’t widen it to anything (without an unsafe cast of course).
Meanwhile Iowa proposes bill to do exactly this. https://www.weareiowa.com/amp/article/money/business/sf-167-...
These days a regional bank will have robust online and call center services and probably refund any ATM fees.

Unless you need a ton of cash real quick (which is rare and getting rarer) it's perfectly convenient to keep using your regional bank even if you've moved across the country. If you do need the cash you call them and have them raise your ATM limit for a day. The overall amount of inconvenience per year is equal or less than dealing with some big stodgy national chain.
I've become fascinated with James Hoffman's channel on all things coffee related - I have no desire to buy fancy coffee, grinders, coffee machines, kettles etc. and I'm perfectly happy with my cheap Sainsbury's coffee and a John Lewis machine that probably cost £60.
Seriously. I literally can't think of anything I don't like about my MacBook Pro M1.
The calculation is much more complicated that you imply here.

Everyone pays an average monthly cost to live in a “home”. Those who own their home still pay an average monthly cost in the form of maintenance, property taxes & assessments, insurance, and in most cases a mortgage. One should also factor in the opportunity cost of the money spent on loan origination, down payment, realtor fees, etc.

There are obvious benefits to owning too and thus we see the calculation is not an easy one. If one knows they will be able to pay off their mortgage then they can look forward to relatively cheap living expenses in retirement provided they did proper maintenance.
The vans are amazing. I do a double take every time I see them on the road.

This is a thorough tour, and I want one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWCqJl0BEs i
Or think you are smart when you are really just parroting the party line of your tribe.
to be fair a mastodon instance is a pretty heavy rails webapp and having one linked to HN on a monday morning is a significant traffic event.
We definitely plan on doing this in the future to offload on the server. Unfortunately python WASM libraries aren’t at the level we would need yet.
I find that recursion is something that in simple cases can be replaced with a loop, and in complex cases is hard to reason about and therefore should be avoided.
Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse
This is how the banking system works.

As fiduciaries responsible for managing millions of dollars in capital, founders/VC have a responsibility to understand the parameters of the financial game they're playing.

Any competent financial risk manager has a well-worn playbook of solutions to the problem of "how do we put money in short/medium/long-term storage?", that are appropriate in accordance to how big the pile is and how liquid you need it to be.

If we disagree with the rules of the game, the proper solution is to lobby to have them changed and debate the merits in the court of public opinion, not to live in ignorance of the rules and cry "contagion" to be made whole, when we're faced with the consequences of ignoring those rules.
> 10-15k

Is that in USD?
Of course they could, money is a fiction after all. As long as we all keep walking around believing that fiction, there's no real problem with just inventing more money out of thin air.

The fiction has certain properties when it encounters the real world though, so there are sometimes downstream consequences, but none that could ever totally dissolve the fiction. Only enough people starting to disbelieve in the fiction itself could do that, and people mostly won't do that because money is too useful.
What would you expect any national leader to say if their territory was invaded? And what about the rest of Ukraine, was the people in Kiev asking to be liberated by the Russian army last year?

Russia is currently containing the war on not-at-all-its turf to stall while they're deporting or killing unfriendlies on their illegally annexed territory.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/11/ukraine-russi...
Having delivered projects with about a dozen different relational and "schemaless" databases over the course of 15 years, I'm proud to say I'm siding 100% with this article by now:

https://orangematter.solarwinds.com/2015/02/24/schemaless-da...

> There’s no such thing as a schemaless database. I know, lots of people want a schemaless database, and lots of companies are promoting their products as schemaless DBMSs. And schemaless DBMSs exist. But schemaless databases are mythical beasts because there is always a schema somewhere. Usually in multiple places, which I will later claim is what causes grief.

When I started my career, I thought thinking about schema was an unneccessary complication that got in the way of me delivering valuable software. These days, I don't write a single line of code without having a good schema first, because it means I have understood the domain well enough to properly model it.
OPEX vs. APEX is an interesting aspect.

It's covered more elsewhere in this thread, and I appreciated learning about it.

I wouldn't say that renting managed servers is simple at scale.

But it is both simpler and less expensive when not at scale.
OneDrive is a disaster. Uninstall it.