skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>NOT including the positives that exists due to constructing infrastructure around that mode of transportation

This is what this statement was trying to address. If we built everything around using ziplines we couldn't go "OF COURSE ziplines provide a net positive." That'd be an incredibly silly statement.
Your numbers looks very wrong. Any source for your claim?
Sleeping is not seen as lazy in Japan. You are correct that sleeping is viewed as the consequence of working hard. Public sleeping is common in Japan.
> I can also write how CD tracking quality affects audio clarity, but this comment is long enough. In short, Yamaha's old CD-Recorder, CRW-F1 really improved sound quality by abusing Red Book standard by lengthening the pits of audio CDs. It reduced to capacity to 68 minutes, but it was worth it, esp. on lower end CD players.

Sorry this one part especially makes no sense. Digital is digital. Either it added more samples per second, or more bits per sample, or it's snake oil. There's a stream of bits that comes out of the reader. There's no residual information about the length of the pits.

EDIT, yeah sorry this is completely and utterly impossible that you are getting better "audio clarity":

"Yamaha tries to attract computer enabled audiophiles with the Audio Master technology. Audio Master promises reduced jitter and decreased error rates for audio recordings via extended pit and gap sizes on the CD-R. This is actually quite simply achieved by increasing the disc rotation speed vs. the laser clock frequency. In other words, Audio Master recording at 8x rotates the disc at 8.2x, thus creating the extended pit & gap lengths. This naturally reduces the capacity of the disc."

Literally they are just spinning the disc faster, reducing capacity and make it slightly less likely that errors will be read. If you're getting read errors on playback, that means your disc is dirty or your CD player sucks. It's the same bitstream, just read at a different linear rate.

If you honestly believe that this is an audiophile concern, I'd urge you to reevaluate a lot of your other beliefs, because they are clearly not all grounded in technical facts.
Why AB and not ABX?
That's fine, but you should appreciate that you are lying to yourself until you perform a blind test to prove it.
None of this holds any water. Google does not control Mozilla. There are other companies who would happily pay more than Google, and for a few years Yahoo did. Mozilla is constantly stepping on Google's toes, in many different ways, and there is zero indication this hurts Mitchell Baker's compensation. (I think it's also significantly less than 90 % of Mozilla's revenue that currently comes from Google, but that's completely besides the point.)
You don't need super high-end equipment to hear subtle details in audio, you just need reasonably good headphones. A few hundred dollars worth of headphones will get you quality that would cost tens of thousands with speakers and the room treatment speakers need to perform at their best (digital room correction can make a good room sound great but it can't fix a bad one).
in what ways have we not already returned to normality?
"Near-death" experiences. Obviously, they didn't actually die when their heart stopped. At least, it should be obvious.

It seems dangerous that some of this is tainted by mysticism. That sort of thing will make doctors less likely to take it seriously and some patients who could still have been revived will not be. Or there might be possibilities for new approaches that weren't considered before.
... when ... was

Not much has changed, the whole contraption still is, to a frightening extent.
Recent and related:

People experience ‘new dimensions of reality' when dying: study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725115 - Oct 2023 (52 comments)
I’ve always wondered why, if we can safely propel hundreds of people in an aluminum tube, 35k feet in the air, at hundreds of miles per hour ground speed, thousands of time day in and day out - why is safely generating power from nuclear so often dismissed as unachievable? It makes me wonder if we as a culture have lost our courage to tame insanely dangerous things.
> Yes, I thought this was clear from my statement.

Yeah, sorry, wasn't really necessary to repeat that point. I was too focused on the "limiting the height of the tree to 32" formulation.

I have to admit that I don't quite understand what invariants along the lookup you mean. All lookups that reach a particular node on level 32 have the same hash, so regardless of how you compute the branch from the hash below level 32, they will always follow the same path starting from there (except for terminating at different levels, obviously). So nodes only ever have one child at most, and there's no loss in simply picking child 0 in all cases.

Sorry if what I'm describing is again obvious, maybe I just don't understand your point correctly.
I think the funny thing is that Nate can be a flippant twit on Twitter but has totally fallen for it in critiques of him. Essentially this article is “a bunch of people baselessly speculated about an assertion I made, so I’m going to spend lots of time proving something they don’t care about”
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-31/sweden-cov...
Hector Martin is the project leader, and regardless of wherever they comment, people will read into disparaging comments such as the one in this post (as opposed to expressing respectful disagreement).
If you go too historical, it minds again. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37651874

Also just tried "Julius Caesar eating a salad" and it's still banned it appears.
The laws of physics (of the time) conspired to make everything look as if there was phlogiston, too.

Is chemistry "convoluted" to you? The concept of oxidation? Combustion? These are big words with lots of implications, are we sure they're warranted given how easy it is to chalk it up to phlogiston?
We're basically already there. Every time I open snapchat it begs me to re-enable spam notifications
Yes, I think it is like saying that, but I also think that OP was considering targets less than 4mm in size. The focus of the FUS wave being no smaller than 4mm, very small targets would be larger than the smallest focus.

It's like saying "how can a syringe extract the cytoplasm of a cell?" if you take OP's angle.
It's true that they keep the application process simple but nonetheless, it's always gonna be a pain in the ass since it's "the norm" and the choices out there are slim. These ATS systems are given in bundles, so I'm guessing performance isn't what drives them.

I actually had a quick chat with a friend today who works in HR and they use SAP...the amount of stuff that could be optimised is insane. I've heard some horror stories about BambooHR as well.

Since I'm not from a technical background, it's a bit hard for me to dive into Workday's dev API but as I mentioned in the post, if someone technical is open to working on a new ATS Saas, I'm down. I'm almost done creating the design of the platform itself and have figured out a way to streamline it all.
I'm running InfluxDB 1 and 2 in parallel for a personal project, waiting for v2 to get mature and stable enough to replace v1. It's never happening I guess. v1 still works great for me.
The hilarious part for me is when the author admits it's not something you would really hear in regular music listening except that it's really obvious in bassoon solos.
I want more standalone daws integrated into pianos like the key 61, I resent needing a computer to select my instrument or arrange my sequencer.
No, it's what happens when there is no competition in the SoC vendor area. Apple and Samsung don't sell to external customers, NVIDIA doesn't do much with Tegra outside of the Switch and automotive, Broadcom doesn't do much in mobile SoCs (and from what the Raspberry Pi community learned hard, their chips are utter dogshit which is how RPi got started after all - they used surplus crap that Broadcom wasn't able to sell), which leaves Qualcomm as a sole supplier for the "high end" and Mediatek/Rockchip for bottom-of-the-barrel crap. There used to be Annapurna Labs as well, QNAP used their SoCs for a while, but I think they stopped selling to externals as well as they were bought up by Amazon and now only do Graviton which are Amazon exclusives.
greatest technological achievements done by 4chan community this year
https://boards.4channel.org/g/

- Automatic1111's work on stable diffusion, and comfyui

- Leaking llamav1 torrent on 4chan leads to explosion of local models

- GPT4all by old 4chan user/troller Gpt4Chan

- Various uncensored LLMmodels

- Exllama born because a 4chan guy believes he can do faster inference than llamacpp

4chan guys goal of AI is very different from normies .. they are building an AI Waifu and to replace human wives ..
German drinking culture is certainly different. Pubs don't exist. Yeah sure you might have a Kneipe or a Biergarten here and there, but mostly, you go to your friends house to drink there or you sit around in a circle on the pavement (but never on the kerb…) outside a closed bar. There's a weird street energy there, but it's not intense, just conversationally pleasant. Maybe you get a Kebap on the way home, but only if you're waiting for your train.

The UK by contrast has a different energy. Pubs almost every corner, fancy ones with fireplaces and sofas, high heels and bare legs no matter the (often chill-inducing) weather, kebab shops surging with a strange camraderie, singing in the streets, and most importantly, people sitting on the kerb.
OPUS is still better than AAC and MP3.
Oh, I was assuming a US-style school bus system where a separate yellow bus goes around and picks up the kids. It sounds like your kid rides a regular public transit bus to get to school? It's still unfair to have that system be inaccessible without a smartphone, but it's not as completely incomprehensible.

It sounds like they definitely need better UX, and the buses around here very much accept cash still (or special tokens if you buy ahead).
Could you please stop taking HN threads further into ideological battle? We had to warn you about this just the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699522.

It destroys what this site is for, so we end up having to ban accounts that keep doing it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Apart from having taste or smell affected, I don't know anyone with "long COVID".
> sampling at 44.1 kHz prevents you from accurately preserving e.g. a sine tone at above ~6 kHz

This is mathematically false. A 6kHz or 8kHz or 10kHz or 20kHz signal absolutely can be perfectly preserved with a 44.1kHz sample rate. Not just kind of preserved, but perfectly preserved.
Unfortunately they have to if they want to make sure parents get it. Every week my school's sends out a weekly email of everything happening in the quarter with emphasis increasing as time get closer. Then there's emails for when parents actually have to do something like sign up. There's physical flyers. There's the private Facebook like app that reiterates when parents have to do something. And the public Google calendar. Parents STILL miss it. And it's not even a few. At this point I just assume I have to tell people in person with my own mouth if I want to make sure they'll do the thing for their kid (and thus make my kid's day better)
bring back snacks
I think you need to spend more time with the systems and the music you have. Because, at least for me, understanding the differences at the first shot is very unlikely.

Brain is interested in the low hanging fruit, i.e. the music and the melody itself, first. The music needs to became mundane or ordinary to be able to listen it deeper for more details. This is when differences can be heard more easily.

Lastly, you don't need perfect systems to hear differences, but understand how your systems respond to the music you're listening to. i.e., your music system's sound needs to be mundane to your brain too to be able to go from low hanging fruit to minute differences you were not able to hear before.
Bitcoin network fees have never been $54,000, let alone $3.6 million. The most they've ever been is two, maybe three figures. You must be reading the chart wrong.
What is ridiculous is that a "refugee" who burns his papers gets all that help. Then at the same time I had students who had to leave Germany because they did not find a job in time after their masters. These students have worked throughout their stay here and even payed into the system but were deemed either too foreign or too rich to get any financial assistance while searching for a job.

Germany is a weird place where if you play by the rules you get a very harsh treatment but if you cheat the rules you can get a lot of free shit.
Yes, I think that was it! Interesting to see they have removed that page in more recent version of the docs.
In practice, what fines would hardware manufacturers be held liable for for any bugs in their specifications? How do we conclude that, yes, a hardware manufacturer hasn’t lived up to the regulation? Perhaps the operating system is “using it wrong”. Do governments have entire departments running tests on these devices?
> Back when the Internet was quite literally held together with duct tape

No, you'd have to go back further than that.

By the time 4chan came about, the web was starting to crystalize into platforms, and standard tools and databases had been developed. Design and UX was starting to be important.

At the time of launch, I distinctly remember that my classmates thought 4chan was weird for taking after "primitive" Japanese image boards. (Craigslist, too, was considered dated.)

The early "duct tape" days were the era of EzBoard (1996; before phpBB, vBulletin, and Invision), Flash (1993), Geocities (1994), Angelfire (1996), Lycos (1994), Dogpile (1996), ICQ (1996), early AOL Instant Messenger (1997; before Trillian, Gaim, Libpurple), lots of little IRC clients... lots of CGI, Perl, and C all slapped together. That's when flat file databases were a norm, not an exception.

4chan came around the same time as Digg and Reddit, and in response to some of the platformization that was already starting to happen (Xanga, LiveJournal, and Blogger in ~1999). The machinery and practice of modern web engineering was already falling into place.
Are you sure? I don't have a smartphone and I also live in England. There are lots of services where the happy path expects a smartphone but I'm yet to find a service that actually requires it.
I can't say much more unfortunately, not yet at least.

I have semi-sketched the idea in Dafny instead of Isabelle. Direct encoding of arrays makes it difficult, but I am thinking iterative deepening might just work. I am working on a Z3 approach for this, and I am crossing my fingers.

If Z3 doesn't work, I will try emitting Dafny code instead and hooking up to the compiler.
Let's say one wants to make hardware made of 3 pieces of hardware that talk to each other. They may need to write firmware to do that. At a first approximation, I would say one of the following should apply:

Either the firmware can be modified by the user, or remotely, in which case it should not be shipped.

Or it is an implementation detail of the communication between the 3 pieces of hardware, not reasonably modifiable without returning the whole thing to the factory, in which case that firmware is actually part of the 3-piece hardware, and can be shipped.
Synthesizing Chicken Soup from Pure Chemicals [video]
They probably did all of this to increase some KPI. The more fine grained authorization system problem resulted in less interactions. A lot of applications have too many incentives to keep you engaged as long as possible.

I think apple has a nice setting where you can disable all notifications after a certain time slot in the evening. But this only works in the evenings, during the day they can still spam all day long.

At this point i cannot trust application developers anymore so we probably need an additional layer between the application and the OS to filter the notifications. If applications do not want to give you fine grained permissions. All you can do is give the application the permission and then have an additional layer filter the notifications with some kind of firewall rule.
Where I live, in Alameda County, California, masks were required outdoors if you were within 30 feet of another person. This ridiculous policy lasted about a year and provoked all kinds of altercations. It also made exercise, a key way to say fit, much more difficult. So, in this case I would argue mask use was in fact “directed at” people.
This is what happens when the established parties refuse to do anything about it and don't even address the issue seriously, instead immediately labeling people who see the problem as "Nazis." The obvious conclusion from this is that these people are inevitably supporting parties that see this is an issue.
4chan hasn't been using google captcha for 2 years.
We don't even enforce truck speed limit. On top of being more inefficient/dangerous due to weight, it tears roads up faster.
It’s probably mostly soot from the exhaust. I’m few blocks away to railroad (caltrain) and the windows facing the tracks have same black residue
Sure, but monitor group slack Channels on your computer. Sure everyone needs to be in #company-announce but you surely don't need to read that outside of the times you are at your desk.

You can limit notifications to direct mentions and times as well.
We would want 10 bit screens because the research indicates that the dynamic range of human vision is around 90 dB or 1:1,000,000,000, which is alarmingly higher than even 1:1,024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range#Human_perception

If all research is wrong, I'm gonna start drinking vinegar and building perpetual motion machines :P
In places with decent public transportation people do not overwhelmingly prefer cars.
A1Bs are not submarine reactors but I guess that's not important. If it were as simple as just taking a carrier reactor and plopping it in the middle of a corn field everyone would be doing it already. For their cost calculation that user is that user is making lots of mistakes. You cannot compare the A1Bs thermal power output and to the electrical power output of power stations while also ignoring all of the cost of all of the additional systems which have to be built into the power stations themselves to manage them. These systems also have to be built into aircraft carriers but they seem to be glossing over those costs. Its also necessary to look at lifetime costs. The peak power output of naval reactors is very high relative to their size because they need to make ships go fast sometimes. Key word sometimes. If you run a naval reactor at its listed max power output its expensive highly enriched fuel is not going to last nearly as long as its supposed to. This gives people incorrect ideas about lifetime cost since you are comparing to power stations meant to put out a lot of power near constantly. If you take into account all the costs naval reactors are not at all competitive with normal civilian nuclear reactors and that should not be surprising to anyone. Civilian nuclear engineers are not stupid. Nuclear power plants don't just neglect naval reactors for no reason.

Also, as previously mentioned, naval reactors have nuclear proliferation concern. The reason naval reactors get to go 30 years between refuels is because they use use uranium enriched to >90% rather than the 3-5% used in commercial reactors. Not only is this very expensive, it adds a long list of concerns to the already long list of concerns surrounding nuclear energy.
Honestly, there’s the ego if “we did this when the paid elites didn’t” in a lot of open source communities. I contribute to many projects and it always rubs me the wrong way because they don’t consider how many other variables the team has to juggle, and what priorities are like. To be clear, I’m not saying this is everyone, and it’s often the vast minority but it also often goes unchecked and unchallenged when it does come up.

Of course part of that is because corporate development is a black box from the outside , but even if it weren’t, there’s no way people would keep up with it anyway.
Thunderbird is maintained by a company that is fully owned by the Mozilla Foundation. How is that "ceremonial"?
Related, there were some drugs developed to activate melanin production by hooking in to sunlight damage reaponse related pathways, and they do work for light-free tanning. But they were then found to significantly and meangingfully increase libido in men and women, so now there are follow up projects to develop these for erectile dysfunction / low libido. (You probably haven't heard of these because they're all peptides which generally have to be injected without a lot of development work and luck, but the shocking success ofsemaglutide and friends means maybe injection-only peptide lifestyle drugs have a market)

As a general just-so-story rule of thumb to be discounted in the face of evidence to the contrary, stimulus or stress that's a consequence of doing stuff generally acts as a "growth factor" even if it causes slight damage, including exercise, heat and cold shock, and sunlight.
I'm excited to find out in 20 years what the deal was with Covid once everybody has forgotten all their political opinions.
This sounds like a real time synthesizer for performing rather than an editor for instruments piped in via VSTs or MIDI? Pretty cool, like a DAW-inspired tracker for samples. On Linux, I would still pipe it into ardour to create a mix, from what I can tell. So much money is invested in pre-existing plugins, they really need to implement that if they want musicians to adopt it. The send/receive bus will be like jack on other OSes, but is more like a programming environment than a plugin; that seems cool too.
Remember how old electrical appliances used to come with full circuit diagrams to help repair them? That's one way to go about this is - force hardware manufacturers to provide complete device and technical specification (e.g. https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p... (PDF)) for every hardware they manufacture. This should enable any competent system developers to create the drivers for it, for any software system. (After all, realistically, we cannot force hardware manufacturers to create drivers for every OS in the world).

One major objection we can expect is that sometimes hardware manufacturers deliberately cripple their products through their drivers. This enables them to sell a cheaper version, that is crippled, and a costlier one that isn't. One example of this is Intel and AMD manufacturing a quad-core processor, but selling the same processor as dual-core and quad-core (remember how AMD allowed you to "unlock" extra cores on their processors?). I think NVIDIA also limits some of their graphic card with their drivers, to sell the same hardware at different prices.
The simple fact of the matter is that having covid every now and then^ is far superior to wearing a mask always.

^ and the more you have it the less severe it is, until it asymptotically reaches a complete non-issue. As with the common cold.
Like? If I understand you raise outside only if you plan to scale and give a great return; otherwise it is better to bootstrap right?
>The only reason I can imagine to continue expanding the capabilities of lossless audio is for scientific purposes and machine learning...

Communications is the main reason. There's only so much bandwidth in 44.1KHz.
The point is more that, yes, it’s technically incorrect. But if literally no human noticed or was affected in any way, who cares? That’s the only reason bugs matter anyway.