skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Story time

When the USB audio device class was created [1], it had support for AVR-like audio controls (volume, balance, tone etc.), and, like would be reasonable, made all that work with decibels. But, as far as I know, that part of the standard got ignored by basically everyone, including some of whom wrote it (Microsoft), by presenting e.g. the on-device volume control as a 0-100 scale, like Windows and ALSA still do. Except... some hardware devices actually implemented the spec, including the PCM29xx family of audio codecs. These, and clones of them, have been used in quite a few USB audio cards and some very low-end audio interface over the decades. And for those, "100" in Windows means something like "+30 dBfs" [2] - so you'll get extreme distortion with basically any signal.

[1] 1.0 is actually impressively complex and basically models the entire stack of audio devices someone could have possibly had in their TV cabinet in the 1995, including stuff like dolby and surround decoders.

[2] This is defined around 5.2.2.2.3 and/or 5.2.2.4.3.2 in https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/audio10.pdf
Ah, I was looking at it from a system level. Make it a highly lopsided financial cost for a company to use data that hasn't been consented to, and the huge number of people keeping tabs on them would make it financially ruinous for a company to try and skirt the rules.

End outcome is the same - peoples privacy already has a price. That price is just currently only represented by FAANG profits.
This is why I own a Titan Pocket. Physical keyboards are simply superior.
The RuneScape Wiki and OldSchool RuneScape Wiki left Fandom in 2018, for similar reasons: https://runescape.wiki/w/Forum:Leaving_Wikia

I think the move has been really successful. They've managed to add lots of exciting game-specific features to the wiki, like tracking requirements for a quest, or historical item prices. It also didn't seem to take long for the new wiki results to rank above the Wikia/Fandom results on search engines.

Good luck to the Minecraft wiki and its contributors!
>Isn't that why we don't have just a single country with a single set of laws?

Historically this is not the reason. And as a justification for continuing to have many countries it would only be convincing if people were free to choose which "experiment" to join or start.

The reality is, we are all guinea pigs that get thrown into some random country where some experiment has already started and we have no right opt out. If this is indeed someone's experiment, I would say it's highly unethical :)
Tried those too. They pass for users who don't want Netflix or have specific apps they cannot part with. And sadly Wine would be too slow.
> I feel like the hyphen changes her identity which she might not have agreed with.

Emphasis mine.

Sure sounds like you're speaking on behalf of Hedy.
I did YC in w23 which was a hybrid batch (talks and office hours on zoom with weekly SF events). Speaking for myself, most of the value was in the in-person events and not the zoom talks. Talking to alumni from the fully remote batches, it's clear that they missed out on a big part of the YC experience.
> People are beginning to be much more choosy with what site they click through to.

I would love to believe you (especially as someone who exclusively uses Kagi now); but do you have statistical data on this, as it pertains to the median usage of Google results?
This is an old idea... when it was first proposed by Bush[1], the media to record on was microfilm, not PDF files. It's never been implemented, and forces that believe in "intellectual property" are aligned against doing so. (One of the main features was the ability to dump a selected "trail" through documents to microfilm for others)

You're right, of course. I'd like to see a local proxy that caches everything for at least a month, then automatically keeps stuff referenced or revisited.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...
About five years ago, I did it with a raspberry pi used as a host, with the Kindle connecting to an istance of screen running on the raspberry.

Not exactly what I did, but you get the idea.
https://liliputing.com/kindleberry-wireless-using-a-raspberr...

This solution seems easier, and more portable.
> Other devices had absolutely horrible keyboards and should best be forgotten. PCjr.

But, hey, it had a wireless keyboard!
No it doesn't. You're projecting your own value, interpretation and criticism of libertarian concepts to make it mean "dominance of the strongest". It's no more the case than with all other forms of government, including the majestic and noble "democracy".
>Idiotic decision by Croatia, here I'm talking both as a Croatian, as well as someone supporting this kind of "liberal" experiments. Instead of seeing this as a fun experiment that wouldn't cost Croatian tax payer anything, the most politically controlled nepotistic organization full of "uhljeb's", Hrvatske sume, decided to act this way (under direction).

I feel as though you're taking a rather naive view of the situation. Currently Croatia isn't claiming the land as their own because it's part of a larger dispute, and if they do lay claim to it, they lose a larger chunk of more important land to Serbia.

Do you REALLY think if they allow ethnic Croatians to start building permanent settlements on the property in question, they can continue to claim that it's not theirs in the broader land dispute?

This isn't "a fun experiment that costs taxpayers nothing". It is a GREAT way to lose permanent rights to a much larger swath of land so that some people who think they're free from government oversight can play make believe. I'm not sure what the actual benefit to the people of Croatia is but I'm open to ideas.
Fujinet is an excellent way to make an old computer useful.
Whether or not AGPL3 software will virally infect an entire service of which it constitutes one part.
That incentive is obfuscated, though. Every insurer exists as an invisible boundary where cost is not passed to others.

On top of that, insurance is optional. There is no guarantee a person will get affordable care. That's the entire point of the system! If there were a guarantee, it would be indistinguishable from Canada (and practically every other country's) single payer healthcare system.
Which post?

It's hard to believe something like that gets a net energy yield from burning the syngas, also technologies around syngas seem to struggle when competitive fuels are available.

The construction material bit is definite downcycling and even that sort of plasma torch might destroy PFAS it is (i) not going to destroy or isolate toxic metals like like and (ii) it is not going to extract various precious materials that are widely dispersed in waste: so low-value outputs can't really be good.

I've heard that the plasma torch can be tuned up to separate elements, at least coarsely, and if it could produce high value products it would be a big help.

My understanding is there really is no shortage of landfill space there is more of a political unwillingness to build more landfills. There is a huge interest in a "circular economy" but that precludes downcycling and of course making products recyclable is a start.

Another I find interesting is that very similar chemistry is being proposed for battery recycling as is used for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, it seems a technology similar to PUREX could be tuned up to extract just about anything out of a mixture of everything in the periodic table but probably not economically. Similarly there are all the "pyroprocessing" techniques based on molten salts and such that are not so discriminatory as PUREX but more so than the plasma torch.
I worked in day labor for less than two days. Day labor is, needless to say, low-skill and high-turnover. But there are still dangerous jobs to be done. My job involved directing a wet-vac to pick up water, inside a store, while the other guy was grinding or something that needed to be wet down.

I am a nerd and my glasses were falling off from the sweat. I think I was wearing a pair of work boots which may be required. But the guy giving me orders on-site was not my employer. These clients are well-aware that day laborers may not be back tomorrow. So why give us durable safety equipment that costs money? The day labor office is my employer, but they may not be accurately informed about the safety requirements of the client and the site. They may require us to purchase safety equipment at own expense, but if we don't know what the site requires, or how long we will be there, that's an up-front expense we are unwilling to part with.

Day laborers are one step up from the guys hanging out in Home Depot parking lots, whereby they are legal to work in these United States, but can't get a job anywhere else.

So it's a 3-way tug-of-war of vagueness and parsimony, and it always just ends up being nod-nod, wink-wink, do the best you can.
Ask HN: Would criminalizing long commutes improve quality of life?
And how would this impact urban planning?

How would this impact working from home?
So it's a startup idea: Making the body's stem cells always active regardless of age, like they were when we were in our twenties.
ImageMagick – 200 file formats, 300 operations – Interview
There's distrust but greater apathy. I have multiple friends who identify as leftists and could tell me how big corporations are bad all day long. We talk on Facebook Messenger because it's too much effort for them to move to something else. It's really bizarre, honestly, I've had multiple conversations of "you're the only person I talk to on Facebook" but zero interest in moving to something except Discord.
Is a case for disruption:

> Text editing on mobile was considered “good enough.” Since people weren’t complaining, there was little motivation to improve it.

Put it another way, "make things better" just because they can be made better.
How is this 125 mph when it's same travel time as by car?

YT vid says Journey Time: 3 hr 33 min

Google maps says this 3h30m by car MCO to MIA.

Security overhead on the train looks medium, with TSA-style scanners but otherwise normal walk-up access when train arrives.

1h flight (tho add 1-2h for airport overhead)

Price: $79 (Smart), $149 (Premium)
It seems like a complicated solution to a reasonable problem.

Text editing involves a pop-up keyboard. Why not add a menu with arrow keys, selection toggles, and copy/cut/paste there?
Good. Fantom is a plague. And unlike Pinterest, it actually contains stuff I'd be interested in. These ad-traps can't die soon enough.
Very neat. Thank you @tempaway22641
Surely it's going to need hardware innovations (e.g the ability to "roll out" a larger keyboard) for text editing on mobile devices to even come close to the desktop computing experience?
I will never stop using tt++ (though if I do, the client will be rad as hell)

You can still get help from the author through the forum/discord, when you're running into something confusing

I never really go hard w/ it, merely being able to version your aliases/triggers/etc is nice!

https://github.com/search?q=owner%3Ashmup+tintin&type=reposi...
> You'd think that in order for the state to take the life of a human being, you'd need to prove it using means that are more thoroughly vetted

Unfortunately, for the state, taking innocent lives is just an Oopsie.

I’m not saying this from a cynical political perspective. IMHO, the problem is more about the psychology of people in power. They usually believe that the thing they do is the most important thing in the world and sometimes they may screw up(huge material losses or tragic life losses) but that’s not a big deal. Even there endless desire for destroying privacy in the name of security is rooted in this. You can’t let a murderer go free and if you have to you can kill a few innocent people in the process and that’s not a big deal == you can’t let criminals commit crimes and if the privacy is the casualty that’s not a big deal.

On the series Succession, there was a scene where one of the billionaires skit kills a waiter and the father covers up evidence, and says “no real people involved” to justify his actions. I think this very accurately is straight, the thinking of people in power.
The side-by-side view in that article is the key user experience reason to leave. The Fandom wiki sites tend to be slow and covered in ads. I avoid them if possible. I'm glad to see more and more groups take their wikis back.

The Runescape wikis left Fandom a few years ago. The improvement to quality and features has been massive. I'm not sure how much traffic the Minecraft wiki gets, but the Runescape wikis got over a billion page views in 2021 [1]. These are not insignificant losses for Fandom.

[1] https://weirdgloop.org/2021-year-in-review/
From Croatia's point of view, these squatters would only make it even more difficult to resolve the border dispute. Croatia wants this land to belong to Serbia (in exchange for more land on the other side of the river), and having these people there might throw a wrench at the negotiations. Furthermore, if the negotiation goes Serbia's way then Croatia would have to deal with a bunch of squatters trying to set up a sovereign micronation on Croatian land.
Curious what innovation I may be missing in crypto. Can you elaborate?
I believe that national borders can change, and new states can form.

I don’t see how that prohibits me from looking at this particular “state” and thinking “its chances are bad and there’s no reason to hope it succeeds.”
This is in the opinion section and doesn't say anything new that hasn't been talked about on HN.
People weld without welding masks?!
But they could still offer individual photos via google drive?
Lordy - yes, terrifically horrible example.
Because some 17 year old kid with his first job in the repair shop is not the same thing as a trained pilot.
>But here, we move this organism to a state of which we don’t know whether it’s stable.

We have to test the stability in experiments. Logically though we can assume it's stable as all the macro evolutionary pressures make sense here. When a virus kills, it's almost always a fluke one off mutation.

>Also, I would think the Spanish flu, the Hongkong flu, COVID-19, etc. are examples of cases where “trending towards stable states” had fairly dire consequences.

Yes they are trending towards stable states. But these are huge anomalies of conditions involving death. Likely instable states of mouth bacteria basically involve the newly introduced bacteria dying off or having new side effects. Again this has to be measured. I think it can be easily done with primates getting fed human diets.

I think you're just reacting to the fear mongering headlines of killer virus. What's going on here isn't living at those extremities and is ultimately a different topic. Cavities in our mouths are also stable states, the goal is to push it out of this zone into the ultimate stable state of symbiosis.
Owning property is violence.
Not sure about Android, but on iOS a three finger tap will bring up a contextual menu which allows undo and redo, among other actions.
Minecraft Wiki moved to the same host as the RuneScape Wikis
Antecedents from the UK include the Railway Mania of the 1840s[0] and (to a lesser extent) the Canal Mania of the 1790s to 1810s[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania
Please don't take HN threads on generic nationalistic flamewar tangents. I'm sure you didn't intend it, but that's what this leads to, in the statistical case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you not to do this on HN more than once before. Please avoid it in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492512 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073107 (Dec 2022)
> It is genuinely impossible to find any information except from biased sources screaming that Sikhs don't want it.

>I made an assumption and it might be flawed. I would love to find some concrete data.

These two together don't compute. You obviously have a tilt that anything coming out of India is "biased source" while international one is unbiased somehow. So, why even pretend that you want some concrete data.

And that basically is the issue. Indian evidence, data and proofs are treated with suspicion. While Western data is somehow clean. If this is not a classist mindset I don't know what is.
Yes, over long time spans language accumulates and transmits experience, so rats would be disadvantaged while humans got a huge boost.

What I wanted to say originally is that we are riding on the shoulders of giants - the whole corpus of knowledge and concepts, ways to use them that have been discovered by previous generations, at great expense. AI and new born humans inherit this language heritage.

That is why I would attribute to language most of our intelligence. Not all, because we adapt and contextualise, sometimes we stumble on a new thing, a new concept or piece of knowledge. But that is a rare phenomenon, we are 99% of the time contextually reusing the crystallised intelligence in language.

We're like LLMs, where each token generated "visits" the synthesis of the whole human culture - the model weights - before being fully formed. Our thoughts travel the same path - they visit the model of human culture before being formed.

If we lost our language and knowledge we'd have to redo the path again, over a long time, and pay the same price. In a sense, language is smarter than us - smarter than one human generation can accomplish.
Only thing I could find was a study in mice (which you should always take with a heap of salt) showing an increased incident, and a modest correlation in human studies but with a lot of caveats and a disclaimer that the study was in no way conclusive.
I don't even care about any of that. I care that literally everytime I click a fandom link, I immediately regret it; with my browser coming to a crawl and being forcefed a dozen ads. And even if you tried to ignore them, any interaction immediately triggers some sort of lazy-loaded/interactive ad to take over.

It's one of the worse possible website experiences there is, that isn't actively clickbait or a scam and it's annoying as hell that actual good content continues to flock to that trash platform.
Can you elucidate me on how you made that connection? I only see the point that both lead to scams, which... Is not very insightful.

Railroads are a physical device for logistical transportation. This has a very obvious value prop.

Crypto is an "alternative" "financial" "system", which is missing the key components of regulation and trust that back all functioning financial systems.

Hard to draw the parallel for me.
So... people who are into sex work, fetishism, etc. aren't capable of being competent professionals?

Not saying this company is or is not legit, but this doesn't seem like a reasonable vector for criticism.
Yugioh wiki also moved to Yugipedia a long time ago. It was a contentious decision at the time but absolutely the right one in hindsight. The obnoxious autoplay videos ads, horrible mobile layout, forced adoption of styles and features all contributed to the decision.
> I don't get it.

The schadenfreude is because libertarians seem unwilling or unable to acknowledge the fact that violence trumps rules or contracts.

When their pie-in-the-sky "micronations" face this unsurprising fact - typically at the hands of real nations, they act surprised every single time.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with medical research but stating that available data is poor quality is an objective assessment. I provided a brief explanation in parentheses which you excluded for some reason.

I also provided a reference that is open access but here is the relevant section for you:

In Canada, there are no national data on the incidence or prevalence of silicosis. In the province of Alberta, where silicosis is a notifiable disease, health insurance data revealed 861 cases with at least one reported diagnosis of ‘silicosis’ during a period of 10 years from 2000. These results were based on raw data and not a secondary review of primary imaging and clinical information. Data from 2000 through 2009 showed that only 29 workers' compensation claims were accepted for silicosis in Alberta. Data from Quebec's compensation system revealed 351 compensated cases of silicosis between 1988 and 1998. Of note, workers who participated in regular surveillance had milder disease at the time of compensation.

The JAMA study is from 2019-2022. Data that is 20-30 years old is relatively poor quality.

Changes in medicine, workplace safety rules and occupational trends makes it hard to compare to silicosis rates in Canada to the US in order to assess the claims of the comment I replied to therefore I think the relative incidence described in this review article (from 2022) is inaccurate.

If you want to disregard my quality assessment, the discussion ends with the review article showing silicosis rates are 3x higher in Canada.

Can you elaborate on how any of this shows I have an axe to grind or that I’m biased?
https://windowtop.info/pip-picture-in-picture-crop/

Much better
There are several scenarios I can think of where it people would not be able to use IMAP or POP to get their mail, and you touched one of them: people without their own device.

There is also the matter of having to set it up, which is not accessible to many people who can't (or don't want to) handle the cognitive load required.
All the money you make based on work is really free-riding on earlier investments in knowledge anyway.

Why should you make $100/hr just because you did some studying 10 years ago? If you do a week of work, you should just be paid for that week of work, not for your 10 years of past experience and your week of work, right?

It seems like you're taking a pretty weird stance against market economics, made more strange by not proposing socialist/egalitarian policies as a potential improvement ("I have a problem with making money without doing any work")
> We shouldn't be able to see tides caused by changes on the mass distribution inside the horizon.

... if we hold the horizon fixed. If we don't let the horizons move at all we get all sorts of useful results like Hawking radiation via linear analysis. But if we let apparent horizons evolve dynamically taking into account anisotropic radiation reaction, the backreaction on the metric of the accretion of mass and angular momentum, and so forth, the full nonlinear theory becomes so complicated that I think it is fair to say that it is not in general well understood.

We do know (empirically) that merged black holes ring down, which involves values sloshing about in the Weyl tidal tensor (in the 3+1 formalism). I am not certain treating the apparent horizon as a substance that settles down (emitting gravitational radiation) is conceptually useful, as opposed to the dynamical apparent horizon being generated by the movement of whatever's inside the merged binary plus most of the outgoing waves falling back towards the merged binary.

The paper press-released at the top is not about merger and ringdown, though, so the internal configuration of the Kerr BH is irrelevant. Also, Lense-Thirring torques, the topic of the paper, arise even in non-BH Kerr spacetimes. We even see them in Earth orbit, and in due course probably will have good data from solar orbits too.

>>> Does frame dragging originate at the event horizon

> That "originates" word is funny

I think it would be enlightening if you were to expand on that.
Adding `html { transform: scale(0.8) }` also is pretty helpful in combination with this outline trick: it helps you see boxes that overflow the page boundaries which are frequently a source of issues
I’d never seen this explanation of what a cross product is before. It really clicked for me, even just reading it as text. Thanks!
Introduction to Web Scraping with Bash