skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and my hypothesis is that it's exacerbated by the combination of three particular things:

1. It's a high frequency complex waveform with a fast envelope, so it demands bitrate.

2. Drum miking often involves multiple mics spaced apart, so more than one typically picks up any given cymbal with a phase offset, and those mics are panned quite differently, leading to a very "wide" result, i.e., left and right output is fairly uncorrelated as seen on a vectorscope [0].

3. A perceptual codec at a given total bitrate often sounds better when stored as a mid-side transformation (instead of storing a left channel and a right channel, store a L+R "mid" a.k.a. sum channel and a L-R "side" a.k.a. difference channel), also known as "joint stereo" which is a common flag on MP3 encoders, because it allows for assigning more bits to the mid channel (correlated signals) and fewer bits to the side channel (uncorrelated signals). More bits for mono center-panned stuff like vocals is the goal, which is generally for the best, but fewer bits remain available for wide stuff like those cymbals! Contrast with regular stereo mode where half of the total bitrate is assigned to each channel. MP3 below 256kbps typically needs joint stereo mode enabled in order to sound decent.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorscope#Audio
Government funded/subsidized but worker-run would be the ideal approach.
I'm arguing a tool like this could counter act the pressure of the societal delusion caused by these celebrities berating the working class about their virtue signalling causes like plastic straws while incurring such outsizes externalities. I'm not arguing against a big to small approach but this effect on discourse is important and its hypocrisy currently harmful.
No joke. The word match is absolutely crazy.
I always do a better job of writing logic when I sympathize with the victims. Some of those late night calls are devs setting ops up for failure. It was meant to close an open loop.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this data. It gives Taylor Swift's plane as N989TS, but N989TS is registered to a couple who live in Arizona: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResul...

and is a tiny single-prop aircraft. I don't think you could go cross-country in it.
Since the in house server days, technology solutions have only become more and more time consuming to implement, ID & PII obsessed, and bulky (data footprint-wise). I am thankful I remember much more simple times, when apps were tiny, run on regular computers in my office, and you could symply restore from a local backup to bring a service back online.

Now we have companies paying thousands of dollars a month to host a simple site or web app, because now it's all in the cloud, no matter the apps function, while hosting customers assume about 80-90 percent of responsibility for securing and maintaining their app anyway. Containerization is leveraged to add a "backdoor" for individual admins, but that only serves to protect infrastructure, it actually makes a customer's individual app open to vulnerability that same as running your own instance if you miss vital updates or if there is a breakdown in the supply chain. We need to stop listening to the companies that market tools and be honest with ourselves... Security needs a better model than just adding new tools and entry points to the app chain.

There's gotta be a point where you evaluate things and tell yourself that there has to be a better and more affordable way than tunneling through 5 VPNs just to push updates for 8 disparate JS and PHP libraries and 5 containers. App and library updates are also far too frequent in 2023 as well... Frameworks need to ship instances with less features, and modules should be reduced to only those used and deemed most essential, reducing footprint is a key aspect lost on technological advancement, it is also a firm indicator of increased efficiency for app and library devs if you ask me.

Now with zero trust, devs literally spend a lot of their daily workload logging back in and re-establishing VPN connections due to timeouts. There's got to be a point where we develop a far more simple IT solution to all of this mess. Security is still getting compromised regularly no matter what is done. The solution also won't likely involve Ai at this point in my opinion, as security and complexity are assuredly not resolved by leveraging current-state Ai tools.

It's also important to note this is why PHP is still going strong, it doesn't require compilation, and is relatively easier than most other langs on learning curve to implement.

I literally built my IT career on making things simpler, and in explaining complex IT issues in human language to non-technical people. There is a lot of room in my field for growth due to the rest of the industry's constant focus on jargon and over-complexity.

Simpler solutions, conveyed and implemented in human language, will be king in 2024.
I don’t think anyone here can produce that information, tax records are private, right? We’d also need to know what percentage of our taxes go to cleaning up carbon emissions, which I think is… pretty low?
Besides the point, though. Land owning class (or any class, really) wants to enrich itself, and renting repurposed housing is a viable option.
What about a collective approach run by the businesses in a town rather than companies that charge high fees on both ends?
It is a Gulfstream G650ER.
>They have internet phones, if it's not Meta/FB, it's something else.

The article discusses the fact that Facebook was widely subsidized for users by exempting it from data consumption, which allowed it to out-compete other news apps. So Facebook actively marketed itself to the dominant position which is then defended through network effects. This was not a free market, and if a company is going to actively seek monopoly on information access then it does have a responsibility over that information.

Putting all philosophical arguments aside, the very simple fact is that Facebook could have helped prevent genocide.
They’ll beg the population to donate to their non-profit fund.

See Hawaii as the latest example.
There are better options, outdated hardware, energy consumption etc.. But it’s always fun to repurpose things.
I think you should look up the history of h.264 and see who is in the patent pool…
> Had I also ordered [...] a second bear

Hopefully they have doggy bags?
I really hate the db-as-code paradigm. It leads to magic that is invisible to the app layer, and leads to a lot of unintended consequences.
I think it is inevitable we will "bootstrapping" become more popular. Investors are sitting on a ton of dry powder and the future is uncertain. Great businesses will have no problem getting the capital they need but new business without a proven business model or first time founders will definitely have a hard time raising capital.

Additionally, a lot of money is being pooled into AI companies so if you are starting a non-AI business it could be wise to bootstrap for a while until you get some sort of traction or PMF.

We are also seeing the rise of Solopreneurs who are not taking on capital and building cash flowing businesses from day one through leveraging their skillset and expertise.

As the economy starts to pick back up and interest rates mellow out we will probably get back to the "good ol' days" of free flow capital until something else disrupts the system.
I'm just saying there should be a "regulation". A couple of years ago, everybody accepted the fact that people all should have 3 shots of vaccination to have a flight. Everybody got opposed to it. But got the shots eventually.

I'm not the guy who has the golden law that will change the world. I'm just proposing that CO2 emission is a big problem and some of the people are exploiting it.
My 10 year old GORUCK GR1 backpack has been around the world and been my only carryon for most domestic flights. Plus it’s my every day commute to work pack. I’ve had to replace some heat shrink tubes on paracord zipper pulls but everything else should last at least another 10 years if not longer.
Internal vs. External Accountabilitie
From the brain side, those of us who remember the pallidotomy and thalamotomy days, the "noninvasive" part is a marketing misnomer. It's invasive (it's a lesioning/ablation therapy); it just doesn't require a pallidotomy. But it's a shockingly effective tactic; there's a steady stream of patients rolling in the office with mild symptoms who are willingly requesting to have a hole burned in their head.

(Also it's turning out not to be nearly as effective in treating symptoms as deep brain stimulation)
Very few people in your country perhaps. But I'm pretty sure the % of the world's population with access to credit isn't especially high (apparently there are 2.5 billion credit cards in existence worldwide. But of course many of us in developed nations have more than 1).
Talk about moving the goalposts. As if these same individuals don’t also have a large freight footprint.
The west did not go for a strategy of elimination through lockdown. Rather, the strategy was to delay the spread, initially only so that the health care system could keep up, and later in the hope that vaccines would arrive in time to curb the brunt of it - as they did.

The GBD is easy to find and a short read (https://gbdeclaration.org/), it does not refer to any elimination strategy - instead it discusses the costs of "Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available".

I don't see any quackery in the GBD. (Which is not to say that they were right.)
In order to research something, you first need to define what it is. There are a lot of mental phenomena, some subjective and some measurable, that may or may not be components of "consciousness." "State of mind" is a very imprecise term, as is "awareness."

I think that philosophers need to agree on what consciousness is before scientists can investigate it. And since philosophers never agree on anything, it might be a while.
1% of a million is 10k. But your point is still valid :]
Being able to fit models is very far from being able to say "it's there", especially the kinds of models that are being fit. See my responses to sibling comments. "Leading theories", especially given the human impulse toward consensus, got the charge of the electron wrong for a long time before the culture readjusted and decided to look fresh at the problem with new experiments.

> happens to be the best explanation

The people who repeat this in popular science are just repeating what they hear from academics who, surprise!, have invested their entire career and reputation in the scientific community on that being true. Science demands more skepticism and interest in the truth than parroting status quo. It's also technically true only if you assume that explanations built on fitting extremely flexible nonparametric models are theories, but that doesn't seem like a mindset that's very interested in those theories representing truth per se.

> Like the prediction of particles in standard model? Is Higgs boson that went undected for 50 years sci-fi crackpottery?

Transparent straw man. Barely worth acknowledging.
I asked a question, I didn't indicate preference.

Also, if my statement is the dumbest you have ever seen, you haven't seen many statements....
Can you think of any real life examples of websites that use Chrome only apis and don't work in Firefox?
It's not a monopoly, it's a baseline. Like the postal service or Medicaid. You're always free to choose the non-government option if it suits you better, but the government option guarantees that there is something reasonable on offer for the 10% of people that corporations deem "unprofitable". Old people, sick people, poor people, rural people. It doesn't have to be great, it just has to provide this now-essential service for those who would otherwise fall through the cracks.
> Writing a driver off documentation is: a) very hard, how do you debug anything without JTAG ports and simulators? and b) not correct on principle because the documentation is not the hardware, there are errata in the hardware so what documentation says is not always what the hardware does and there are mistakes in the documentation for the same outcome.

I agree with you, no system (particularly not something as complex as an entire SoC) is free of bugs.

> I.e. the every single vendor currently on the market...

And yet, we have Apple, whose hardware quality alone is good enough for a dedicated team to reverse engineer and write drivers for, with almost zero documentation available.

The problem, as I expanded below, is the complete lack of competition in the SoC space. Everyone gets away with mediocrity because the largest players in town (Apple and Samsung) refuse to sell their chips to externals. The result is that the mobile ecosystem as a whole suffers, because that is what happens in markets where entities get too large.
This is no surprise to me since the UV here is actually sunlight related. Lots of co-conditions that affect it too. The paper said they adjusted their numbers for socioeconomic factors but still probably that adjustment won't be perfect.

Anyway, from all I have learned and done, the best health advice that I think applies to most people is moderation is the best. Trying too much and too hard on something will just backfire. Eating only meat and milk will cause cancer sure, but eating only vegetables and beans will also affect your health, namely nutritional deficiency. Etc. and etc.

I will just live normally while adjust things within limits and enjoy life while it is still good.
Those who complain about dependency hell in Java haven't tried JavaScript/npm. And those who complain about a complex static type system in Java haven't tried TypeScript.
I've got 25,000 PS5's in blade form to sell you. The only problem is that they don't have ECC memory or drives, so you have to iPXE boot them.

What would you like to do with it?
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The quality of devops scripts, from the perspective of a person who likes to write code that has to work right the first time, is about two standard deviations better than sysadmin scripts. But still of a par that would keep someone from getting promoted past a Senior Dev title.

What’s worse is they can be condescending while shoveling out absolute garbage. If I’m honest that’s the part that bugs me the most.
When Chrome first launched it was actually quite rough. There are some rose tinted glasses on this thread. It was Windows only, lacked basic features like printing, had no extensions system and had no few site compatibility bugs. The primary "features" that set it apart were all non-functionals like performance, security and the skyline tab UI which was nice but other browsers had tabs too. Oh, there was Incognito Mode, which was a nice improvement over other browser's history clearing UI.

It got some initial launch attention but then usage fell a lot (I was at Google at the time), and plateaued for a long time whilst the team fixed bugs, ported to other platforms and caught up on the feature set. It took a lot of belief by Google to continue funding it during these quiet years when relatively few people used it. One of the biggest struggles the Chrome marketing team faced turned out to be that nobody even knew what a browser was let alone why they'd consider switching to a different one.

Still, the team didn't give up. They just plugged away at it, year after year. They caught up on features, added a thoughtful/controllable extensions API and were careful to stop power users doing things that would accidentally trash performance, like opening billions of tabs or installing extensions that trashed the browser internals (a particular problem for Firefox).
totally a valid point, was focusing on building the product so didn't think too much about the email signup, will allow regular email sign ups soon!
What now? If you’re spending that much time on devops I feel like you’re doing it wrong. I do eng (team of 7) and devops (only me) and I feel like I spend about 5% of my time on devops.

These tools have made deploying production quality infrastructure take a fraction of the time. These environments are basically already preaudited and verified. They’re also just much higher quality in general. It’s quite typical for different projects to share infrastructure in traditionally deployed systems but with devops we can have much better isolation with less deployment time.
> Also, in feudalism the owners of the land would not provide services as these platforms do, they would only exert the power of ownership. The relationship here is more complex, as the cloud-serfs are also a source of capital as they buy the items sold by the platforms.

Both of these claims (that owners did not provide services and that serfs were not sources of capital) is contradicted by wikipedia: “Serfs … were entitled to protection, justice, and the right to cultivate certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence. Serfs were often required not only to work on the lord's fields, but also in his mines and forests and to labour to maintain roads.”

The source for the Wikipedia text isn’t quite clear to me, but the content jibes with my prior understanding of serfdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
Not sure why you're so deeply triggered by this; is your name on that list of top consumers that you would be personally affected?

Your comment comes across as yet another average joe randomly defending billionaires wrecking the world while we take the consequences of it. Meanwhile yet another daily disaster in nature, 100s of dolphins are dead today from record temperatures https://www.insider.com/dolphins-dead-brazil-amazon-lake-rec...
I wish they’d pair with an ear piece and the primary interface is the Ai talking to you.

Then projection would be secondary.

Also It would be interesting for privacy if the Ai updates its weights from everything it sees and hears but there’s no way to get that data out of the device.

You could still ask it to specifically take photos and recordings but that would be no different than a smartphone today.
Does your ex-manager drink cooking oil?
The pandemic, years of Ivy League scholar manipulation via social media companies, and generally everything almost tied to your phone (banking, investments, work...).

It's all stacked against you.
This is just a new spin on the same situation we had with Standard Oil and US Steel from the late 19th through the 20th century. History is repeating itself.
Thank you for sharing that. I think this is a particularly good callout: "which has been absolutely worth it considering I've made 250x that per day when I use it for work."

I think that's called "investment" :) If "loving" your computer makes you even 1% more productive and raises your income 1% that's amazing. Similarly, I've come around on my previously penny-pinching ways around things that matter.

Eg I pay for Peloton. Yes, I could workout in a cheaper way, but the reality is (turns out) that I am much more likely to work out if I can roll out of bed and climb onto the bike in my underwear and tune in to one of my favorite instructors. Ditto on buying a large car - I want my wife's life to be as easy as possible so while I am sure we "could" get away with a Toyota corolla, I don't want her miserable every time she gets the kids into their seats or the stroller into the trunk.

These things are worth it because they get me more of what I care about: fitness, family happiness, etc.
There are multiple ways to travel. You can have a bike to commute into work rather than taking your car. This is not a freedom limitation. It is just a different perspective. Greta Thunberg travels everywhere freely by keeping emission in mind.
I think that's about the material itself, then at the mask face interface you get all kinds of sealing issues
Multilingual Reading Skills of Language Models
> There isn’t one unified settings area for all notifications, which makes this extra tricky.

Perhaps not in the App but in the OS there is. On Android you can pull a notification to the side to reveal a settings icon. Open it and click the settings icon in the top right to reveal granular app notification settings and the option to completely disable notifications.
https://hu.ma.ne/media/humanexcoperni

So vague, too much buzz for me to understand...
I doubt he was on board for that flight.

Generally, flights like that one exist because the airplane is somewhere other than the most convenient place for the owner to take off from, so the crew repositions the plane in a better location for a more convenient pick up.

I don't think that this really invalidates your overall conclusion or anything, just wanted to point that out.
If I understand correctly, the initial appeal goes back to the early days of measure theory.

Say, a 2-dimensional set is cut parallel to y-axis, and the cuts all have length 1. If the x-coordinates of the cuts themselves have length 1, you know that the 2-dimensional set must be "large". This is because you can integrate the cut length, and tell that it has area 1. (Think of a 1x1 square for an illustration).

In Kakeya's problem, the cuts still have length 1, but are no longer parallel to any one axis. Besicovitch's construction shows, Kakeya set can have very small area, yet contain cuts of length 1 in many directions. This situation is quite different.

This counterexample turned out to be useful in other areas of pure math, some discussed in the wiki entry for Kakeya problem.
That's close to my take from the SF Bay Area too. A few days over a weekend would strongly tend towards adding either Friday or Monday but not both.

I do consider that "a couple" is imprecise and varies by context. Asking for a couple cloves of garlic while cooking could mean 2-4, especially if they are small. Asking for a couple bulbs of garlic on a shopping list could only mean 2!

For items, I think I'm also more like to shift into "half a dozen" or "dozen" than expect common ground on what "several" communicates. For days, I think I'd shift to "a week" or "N weeks" as soon as it spans a Monday-Friday work week, even if the start/end weeks are partial.
The HN title cuts off the other heuristics that are described:

> Whenever I buy things I try to prioritize cost per use. Sometimes I consider other priorities such as cost per smile, cost per thrill, cost per externality, and cost per lesson.
Private jet owners won't be the targets of such laws: luxury car are excluded from the future oil engine ban in the EU, and private jets aren't subjected to the recent law forbidding short distance domestic airlines in France.

That kind of ideas is parroted by people would be the first to suffer, while the "elite" will of course be exempted to comply. This is yet another power grab for the happy few.