skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, absolutely zero of this is required for a hobbyist. This is all if you want to do professional level, repeatable, objective measurements/reviews.

Does it actually require that much gear to get
measurements that are accurate enough that no
human can perceive the difference?

Yeah and no.

For speakers, yes, you need some of this sophisticated gear if you want to do objective (as opposed to purely subjective) reviews.

The Klippel NFS is an automated rig that measures a speaker's output from many different angles and uses some nifty math to subtract the room's influence, giving results more reliable than a physical anechoic chamber. That rig costs something like $100K; I forget.

Getting a 360 degree picture of a speaker's sound output is pretty important. The majority of sound we hear indoors is reflected. You are, essentially, hearing the sum of what your speaker is doing at every single angle all at once so if we're going to characterize a speaker's performance in an objective way we need something like that.

Of course, you don't need need a $100K rig. You can measure a speaker in your suburban back yard (or better, an open field) from a few different angles and get a pretty decent approximation of all of that. I've done it quite a few times! All you need is a $60 calibrated mic, a protracter, a tape measure, and some free software. And the willingness to annoy your neighbors with loud tone sweeps. Usually takes me a few hours to measure a speaker; most of the time spent is just dragging things around so I can do 20 minutes of measurements from 5 or 6 different angles.

However, if you're looking to do this with large numbers of speakers and have lots of money like Amir does, the Klippel certainly starts to look attractive.

For measuring DACs and amps, no, I guess you don't need a professionally calibrated AP analyzer. I think you can spend a couple hundred bucks and get pretty close. Maybe less.

For measuring headphones, yeah, I think you need something like the GRAS headphone measurement rigs that are $6K-$13K. Or maybe the $299 one from MiniDSP is just as good. I don't know!
>Individually yes, genetics contribute to height, but the full range of height genetics exist in every culture.

"The full range of incomes exist in every country, therefore differences in average incomes across countries must be negligible."

You've linked a long list of articles talking about race in America and Brazil, none of which I can see claim that there are no differences in genetic height by ethnic group. One is a book from 1944 that rightly rejects racially discriminatory policies and argues "that experience rather than inborn traits determines standards of social conduct." What part of that supports the idea that the 6' Tutsis or Croats are genetically predisposed to the same height as the Taron who average 4'3?

The MedlinePlus article you linked explicitly says "in some cases, ethnicity plays a role in adult height."

"Race" categories as described by all of your links that I saw ("black"/"white") are crude aggregations of hundreds of ethnic groups. Tutsis and Pygmies are both "African," but at the opposite extremes of human height. Framing the genetics of height in terms of American racial politics makes no sense.

>The source of the ideas you're asserting as fact are very dark and extremely thoroughly debunked at this point. Honestly it's kind of shameful to present these 1920s ideas as modern.

The "source of the ideas" are the peer-reviewed journals of PLoS Genet and Nature Genetics based on landmark genetic research published in 2012 and 2020. As in hundreds of other peer reviewed studies that have identified genetic markers responsible for height and how those markers vary across populations, including articles you yourself linked without apparently reading.

>Every single variation in "genetic trends" amongst cultures is negligible and otherwise entirely attributable to environmental factors.

Is the vastly higher rate of sickle cell anemia among people of West African descent is either "negligible and otherwise entirely attributable to environmental factors"? Is it simply Europeans' "environment" that causes them to go bald and get skin cancer at rates dozens of times higher than people of East Asian descent growing up in the same countries?
Something worse? China and others bans almost every western social media company. Is the US not allowed to retaliate on those grounds alone? This bill only authorizes the banning of tech companies operated out of western enemy states: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela (with a caveat).

The international economy is already not free (never has been), so I fail to see how this changes much other than shifting and clarifying some governmental powers. The US has banned Huawei telecommunications equipment, is this all that different other than the fact that it is much more public facing?

What makes the Chinese government problematic is not protectionism or even the great firewall, it is the genocide, the policing of criticism from all sources, the authoritarian single party rule.
No, no it isn't.

Source, me with my Eastern Europe accent. There are engines out there that do far better with my accent. FAR better.
Alibaba Reorg
You don't need to invoke conspiracy theories here: the trade is vastly profitable and that's what's driving it. If China cracks down (in reality, not just on paper), production will just shift to India or Vietnam or wherever.

For what it's worth, China as a whole (both the people and the government) remember the Opium Wars quite well and are thus strongly anti-drug: stats are thin on the ground, but by all accounts drug offenses are the top reason for the death penalty. Of course, it only take a few factories to churn out vast quantities of the stuff, and the profits are sufficient to lubricate any officials who might otherwise object.
ChatGPT made me cry and other adventures in AI land
> Yet life is better on pretty much every material metric you list. [...] You think Americans dealing with bills need drugs more than subsistence farmers in Bangladesh?

This is irrelevant. When it comes to using drugs, all that matters is the user's own perception of their life. The fact that we have a mental health crisis among young people clearly indicates that, despite any measurable increase to their material quality of life, these young people are increasingly likely to perceive their lot as being dismal. Look at the article and see how many of these kids thought they were taking Xanax, which is an anti-anxiety medication. They weren't even trying to get high, they were seeking something to help them make it through the day. Finding and addressing the cause of this anxiety is, alas, more complicated than just beheading anyone who gets caught popping a pill.
Aren't other states exporting those they don't want to California?
Spot on!

People are making trivial things unnecessarily complicated.

Unless and until you have a specific objective (eg. prepare/need for a job, go through a course etc.) all reading is cursory i.e. people are natural born dilettantes and flaneurs.
If our way of life could be destroyed by a bunch of youths going on tik tok because of how the algorithm is setup, we’re already screwed, and banning it is futile.
He's a decent facsimile.
Opposite in the sense that golang was created by luminaries for new grads
> And this after they were caught “faking” photos of the moon:

This genuinely isn't informative evidence of how the process works. You're not seeing the raw samples from the camera, which are going to be very noisy even if you're showing it a white circle. "It's actually the moon" may be a reasonable belief given the noise level.
A river has no will, but it can flood and destroy. A discussion whether AI does something because it "wants" to or not, is just philosophy and semantics. But it may end up generating a series of destructive instructions anyway.

We feed these LLMs all of the Web, including instructions how to write code, and how to write exploits. They could become good at writing sandbox escapes, and one day write one when it just happens to fit some hallucinated goal.
Isn't that the problem though? Every discussion about problems with Agile are met with retorts like "but that's not real Agile!"

At this point, I believe the common understand of Agile, warts and all, is Agile. It doesn't matter what was in the manifesto. Agile is daily standups. Sprints. Retrospectives. Jira. Scrum. Overpaid and incompetent consultants or "coaches". Meeting "facilitators". Development phases. Release cycles. Jira plugins. PHBs. Bill Lumbergh.
Doesn't this also strongly imply that universal grammar is indeed a thing?
Korea in particular is more known for actual plastic surgery than digital plastic surgery.
Ask HN: Startup Domicile in 2023?
I'm an Aussie, and looking to launch a new startup in the next month. 12 months ago I would have opened a Delaware but the global economy is techtonically shifting with the rise of the Yuan, and overinflated USD. I think I need to seriously consider if anything attached strongly to the US or China is a wise move right now. Nationalistic hats-off if possible, where are the best places to domicile a new startup in the current climate?
I wonder what their design decision was to continue with the bed sling design. CoreXY has hit the inflection point as the standard of next gen fdm printers. Still going to upgrade to mk4 instead of getting the xl though
> than it is that multiple gravity wells of that strength line up perfectly.

This kind of alignment happens all the time. Stars that line up perfectly but are separated by light years, galaxies that line up perfectly etc.
In Japan it's 8000 yen (about USD$60 right now). Weird how the Anglophone countries take advantage of immigrants so much.
Yet you participate in society! Curious!
You can try [0,1].

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.camera/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/
How do your eyes do it? (You can do it securely without a lidar by thinking about this.)
This is SO satisfying to see and hear performed well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA
AND

>No person may cause or aid, abet, counsel, command, induce, procure, permit, or approve the doing of any act prohibited by, or the omission of any act required by any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or other authorization or directive issued under, this Act.

Meaning that the VPN service must track what users are doing to prove that their users aren't using it to do something against this bill. It effectively makes privacy-protecting VPNs illegal.
It could discover the next https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)

Humans are very good at producing CVEs, and we're literally training models to be good at finding exploits: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/ai-machine...
Not endorsing the arguments either way but let's say DNA printing (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...) or something like Stuxnet or crashing a nuclear-power country's stock market or currency through trading while making trades appear to come from another country or by causing bank runs through hacking social media or something like WhatsApp or through deep fakes or by having human helpers do stuff for the AI voluntarily in order to get very rich...
Largely, yes. Every aspect of my life was heavily controlled and I had very little freedom to choose how I spent any of my time or efforts. I was still a child then, not an adult. I’ve had no problems with addiction since becoming an adult and being in control of my own life.

Would you blame yourself if your 3-year old overdosed on Tylenol he grabbed from your medicine cabinet? Would you blame yourself if your 17-year old daughter chose to commit suicide by grabbing a bottle of Tylenol from your medicine cabinet?
Always excellent to see Video Sequencer updates so we can eventually replace After Effects / Premiere
Huawei did it too, although Samsung was more recent https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-p30-pro-moon-mode-co...
Endless shaming of people on social media as a means to change behavior, as well as people publicly denouncing their affiliation with people who had bad behavior, shows that that claim isn’t true. America has changed.
Yeah, I re-watched that video tonight. We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of "The Birth and Death of Javascript".

Much of it still holds water. I think what's disappointing is how little progress we've come in the 9 years since that video has come out. WASM has been a disappointment -- at least to me.

And the problem WASM solved really would be almost better instead if we just had a ring 4 for web browsers. It seems clear that X86 has won, unless you think that RISC V still has a chance (which is dubious unless you're in the embedded space)
I might be on board with this if the things they hope to accomplish in 6 months were tractable, let alone in such a short amount of time. The concepts in the letter are basically ill-defined puffery.

For example, take the word “safe”. The letter suggests making AI that is “safe”. Great idea, but what does it mean? Safe at all costs? Safe within certain bounds? Who gets to decide? What do I do if I disagree? They should probably start asking people tomorrow if they hope to get a consensus on the goal of safety, let alone realize it. Needless to say, no such consensus exists.
Yea, putting aside any other ties he may have had with the CIA, its hardly a mystery why the CIA would make a big deal out of the death of a former director who went on to be a US Prez.
The quote you cite indicates exactly the opposite. I'll omit some of the optional elements of the sentence to create a concise sentence that makes it clear simply downloading something is considered a transaction:

> The term “transaction” means any use of any information and communications technology product or service.
I skimmed the bill and I'm having a hard time determining what type of activity is prohibited once an entity is identified, except for

>(B) with respect to a transaction found to pose an undue or unacceptable risk and qualify as a covered transaction, determine whether—

>(i) the covered transaction should be prohibited; or

>(ii) any other action should be taken to mitigate the effects of the covered transaction.

I suppose the least charitable interpretation is that this gives them unlimited power to do whatever they want to "mitigate", but that seems like something that would be struck down by the courts for being too broad.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...
I'm still on Windows 10 and the last time I opened it, I had an image of garlic in the search widget of the task bar. Clicking this lead me to a page about a wild garlic festival in Germany.

As far as I'm concerned, whoever is running Windows has lost their minds. I have no idea why someone considers the wild garlic festival to be important enough to put directly on my desktop.

I'm not gaming much at the moment so the last reason to stay on Windows has gone. It's really just down to laziness which is keeping me on it.
yes i keep it in my handbag
Run them on EC2 or whatever managed service whatever cloud host provides (RDS, S3, etc). It's possible to run stateful services on Nomad (and I assume k8s) but from my understanding the cost is extremely high, usually much higher than the benefit.
What you linked to is Apple Messages for Business. Individuals will not be approved for using this product, the costs are noteworthy for businesses that are approved, and live, human staffing for escalations is required on a daily basis.

There is no ability to send messages to a phone number registered with iMessage either.
No problem, says China, if they can't get at us via software and the Internet, they'll just start installing Trojans and RATs on every electronic device they ever send us (source: my current laptop was custom manufactured and shipped direct from Shenzhen).
Loved reading this, and then pleasantly surprised at seeing the name at the end, though I probably shouldn't be. Everyone I've come across who met Brandon always seems to have a story of his kindness.

Mine was much smaller, just having a genuine chat with him at a hiring event without knowing who he was at the time, but it left a lasting impression. Gone too soon, unfortunately.
These are all good questions, and questions like this generally gets settled through court cases.

9 times out of 10 you can basically assume, " reasonability". Does viewing ads in TikTok give them money? I would expect not, because you're not getting the money. Posting ads on there certainly would count.

Giving gifts to creators probably would also count, although I'm sure a court would consider that incredibly minor, it would probably never get enforced, and even if it did it would probably be some tiny paltry amount.

The bank who lets that transaction happen however, might get in trouble.

If you let yourself be tracked using a VPN...? I suspect the answer to that question is going to lie in why you're doing that. Inadvertently? Almost certainly not going to be an issue.

Do you have some sort of ulterior motive? It's probably going to be a problem. After all, you're literally committing espionage for a foreign adversary of the United States in this case.

Remember that law is backed by court cases, and courts tend to be pretty reasonable. These things aren't programmed, they're human
If you don't let it do that, the picture will often be annoyingly dark in the foreground / blown out in the background, because cameras' dynamic range isn't anywhere near your eyes. This is called local tone mapping/dynamic range optimizer.

Sharpening also benefits from object segmentation because you don't want the effects to bleed over into different areas, you get halos that way.
Yes, the mitigation action is completely variable and could include basically anything. It's intentionally vague because it might mean banning a service, seizing assets, who knows what.

> (12) MITIGATION MEASURE.—The term “mitigation measure” means a measure agreed to in an agreement between any relevant party and the Federal Government, or ordered by the Federal Government and of which any relevant party has been notified, in any matter addressed under this Act to address any risk arising from a covered transaction or associated with a covered holding.
Time in History with Globally Extensive High Demand/Extreme Supply Scarcity?
Essentially question in title.

I've been trying to do google and youtube searches on these topics and am not able to come across anything that fits this. Maybe I am not searching the right terms but I'm having a hard time finding this.

However, could this be a completely new phenomena since we have never had Globalization to this extent? Is there any events or times in history like this?
Well I don't think your approach of telling everyone they're stupid is going to sell them a camera…
One of the hidden downsides of this approach that I never see discussed: The competent jerk that chases off employees is going to shape your codebase and company in their image. This isn't something that may be immediately apparent, but when you start running into design walls where said competent jerk does not want to budge, then the costs of having such a person become a major problem. Especially if they decide to leave and take their knowledge of the system with them.
My Blog Publication Workflow
We can’t truly test the edge of this function without finding the most least competent person ever. They’re like a perfect anti-classifier!

I’ve actually worked with people who were so persistently wrong that we could generally take their assertion or approach (and they’d almost always be the first to raise a finger to start dropping knowledge on us) as definitely not the right answer, thinning the search space by one option.

It was actually kind of amazing. The one (seriously, one) time one was right about something, the room was stunned.

That said, they did not increase productivity, so we need to search for someone more perfect…
It's okay. Your recall isn't necessary. Just the ability to click the second link.
Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court
That seems like an overly broad interpretation. How is this different from standard laws like "you can't aid or abet someone committing fraud"? You can plausibly argue that you can use VPNs to commit fraud, therefore any sort of law that says you can't "aid, abet, counsel [...]" is a ban on VPNs.

edit: standard laws against aiding/abetting. Should we be concerned about those as well? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2
I've seen so many HN posts on "hey look at this silly language thing" that I'm immune.
I missed what it was responding to beyond “look I can show off my knowledge and my proud opposition to cash bail”.

If you want to dispute the “not weird” label, you should reply to the person originally making it. As it stands, you’re responding to something I didn’t say while implying you’re correcting something about it and getting in your virtuous anti-cash bail jabs (to say nothing of the word salad in your paragraphs 1 and 4 — try quotes or something to make it easier to parse).
He then goes on to say it didn't happen?

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
Yeah, that's a really good point. This is even more insidious than I thought. :(
A Major Toy Company Kept 4chan Online
If this passes, I think USGov will take down SciHub right away, because their position is that it's affiliated with GRU.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dep... ("Justice Department investigates Sci-Hub founder on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence", 2019)
That's really neat. Thank you.
Thanks for saying that. It made me go back and look at the username only to see it’s somebody I worked with, but I had no idea of his backstory.
Depending on specific use-case, today's JavaScript code is only 2–7 times slower than corresponding C++. That's pretty damn fast. Faster than some compiled languages. Fast enough that if you wanted to obsess over performance you can build the fastest backend framework in Node.js[0][1]

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...

[1] https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...
I don't live in the US, but it doesn't look like a place getting more liberal to me.
No? They would just need to blanket ban websites for everybody, which is something that has already been done in the US many times.

If you're not going to be banning internet services, how can you possibly ban TikTok? It has a website, you know.
Yeah this is what keeps me off arch personally. The community that instantly goes 'just get good' when you have an issue. While I never needed any help, I didn't like how the community treated other newbies. I know it's not always meant in a bad way, there's some tough love 'don't give a man a fish but teach him how to fish' sentiment there that makes sense. But the elitism is pretty strong too in my experience.

Also I wanted a distro without systemd and the init system is the one thing you can't choose or change on arch. I tried it but didn't like arch, in the end I moved my stuff to alpine which still runs my docker server.

In the end I chose FreeBSD which has a really nice combo of stable OS but rolling packages which is not common on Linux at all. And the community is much nicer IMO.
People are mobile. They go where they need to be to survive. Texan prisons will give you an open bus ticket on discharge, people head west for services, charity, and a better chance of not going back to prison.
Meanwhile 'TikTok Ban Bill Is PATRIOT ACT 2.0 Trojan Horse | Counter Points' is 2nd most discussed topic on Hacker News right now.

https://youtu.be/FWQGA_n5Z4M
Is that supposed to reassure people?! Million dollar fine and 20 years in prison for using a VPN is beyond excessive.