skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be equally important to make a graph of how much CO2 they offset by paying taxes, even if only theoretically.
Yeah, completely agree.
If I understand that paper, it's still the case that there's zero evidence for dark matter annihilation from AMS positrons. What it says it that (a certain type of) such evidence could, in principle, exist—it contradicts a previous theory conclusion that dark matter and pulsar positrons would have indistinguishable energy spectra. I.e. the OP blogpost is still completely accurate. (??)

(Of course—just to clarify if we all have a shared understanding—nothing in OP rules out the possibility of dark matter annihilation; it just says there's no evidence for it currently in AMS positrons. And to clarify shared understanding of a different point—the OP research isn't about positron energy spectrum features; it's a separate question about their total luminosity. The intro section of your paper discusses the distinction: "In addition to energetic arguments, the positron spectrum has long been discussed...")
I would like to get journalists to see things my way, so we'd get a little less "oh look at the bad tech" and a little more of "look at the C-suite of companies X, Y and Z employing tech for bad" kind of articles, but I get the feeling that I won't get through to them either. Something about things your salary depends on not understanding, etc.
The statistics are that Covid is much worse than seasonal flu and that’s after vaccination. To say otherwise is to ignore reality.
Apple and Microsoft have a very different market share. Windows has something around 85-90% desktop/laptop market share. So you can make a very good argument that they have a functional monopoly over the desktop OS market.

Contrast this with Apple, they have around 10% desktop/laptop market share and around 50% of the smartphone market share. Here you could only argue that they have a duopoly with google on the smartphone OS market.

Microsoft had to open up the platform or they would have gotten destroyed by antitrust laws there and then. They had to let other developers deploy on their OS and support them because if they failed the government would have gotten involved and forced them. So smartly they decided let us no destroy the nice thing we have and play as nice as we have to to keep our profits and our market share. And they mostly succeeded in that regard.
This is interesting as a gimmick, but it seems wildly impractical compared to charging a power bank from an A/C outlet in a public place. I expect most homeless people would rather have a power bank that's larger or cheaper than one that can charge from bike pedal power.
“Until vaccines became available, there was little difference in COVID death rates between blue states and red states.
After vaccines became available, there were clear differences, with red states having higher death rates, almost certainly as a result of lower vaccine uptake among Republicans.”

These are the claims he makes and arguably the data shows these to be true. The rest looks like whining where he objects to failures like “ice cream causes drowning” then eventually comes around to show the most applicable categorical statement is “states with higher vaccination rates had lower death rates. Sure. There’s a political divide that causes differences in behavior and outcomes. I don’t know. I spent the time reading but I can’t find any value in that post. Seems like venting to me.
4chan enforces anonymity even across posts (at least on /b/) and with missing nesting, you can lose track of replies fast. So you're basically reading ideas only. Altough I do agree HN's post system is one of the most similar. HN has a more coherent culture and moderation, though.
Yeah, it did. Your point?
Walter Renwick, a 69 Yo retiree who lives on Plankey Mill Farm just 8 miles from the gap, was arrested on Friday.

The farm is owned by the Jesuits. He directed an unauthorized campsite on the farm. National Trust owns an adjacent property to the campsite.

Over a number of years, the Jesuits, have received complaints from both the local council and the National Trust about the unsocial behavior of several campers, especially in 2020.

This lead to him being evicted in July 2023, after a 15 years grace period given from the Jesuits to find a new home [1].

Local rumors had linked him with the tree felling, because of his former profession of lumberjack, and as revenge by been evicted from his home.

He said that he didn't do it. "It makes it sound like me, doesn't it, because it was a good cut. It was dark obviously but it was a lovely moonlit night... the cut was brilliant. You can tell a good lumberjack by the way he cuts a tree down. I haven't seen the cut obviously, but I have seen it on the computer" [2].

Maybe it was him or maybe not, but he had the skills, the opportunity, and the motivation.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1788020/Jesuits-evicting-t...

[2] https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/sycamore-gap-lumberjack-walter-re...
What you're describing is not a 1D superconducting plane in a 3D molecular structure.
People in Norway earn way more money than Germans do [1], that offsets the high taxes on alcohol.

[1] https://www.handelsblatt.com/karriere/norwegen-arbeitszeit-h...
Isn't that literally the point. Crappy drivers and no hardware documentation?
Same symptoms for another pro-Ukrainian youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBntV-vbRQ4

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You're right, there is certainly nothing in our evolutionary history to suggest that "working all day" is a natural human way of being.
So now you want the government to pass laws that make consumer experience worse?

Maybe that will cause the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” to happen.
What open standard covers shared clipboards across devices?
I'm on Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro for $39 on stacksocial is tempting. Other than Bitlocker and the ability to create local accounts, does Pro have anything particularly noteworthy that would justify the purchase?
My brother has it. Persistently elevated heart rate and breathing issues, to the point that walking up a flight of stairs would leave him winded when he was suffering the worst. I believe he's gotten a bit better since, but not fully recovered.

His resting heart rate is up 20bpm, and it can take 10-15 minutes after exerting himself for it to return to that new normal. He's almost certainly at risk for a stroke due to whatever caused the change, and it left him more susceptible to being sick- he's gotten COVID 3 times despite the vaccines, while the rest of his family has only had it once or twice, on top of the usual flu and colds going around that his kids bring home from school.

Edit: noting the sibling comment, he also had no confounding factors, aside from being slightly overweight. Even our elderly parents have gotten COVID with no lingering symptoms.
literally every human being on the planet both need and love their planet, including the air they breathe and the oceans they fish in and which regulate the climate

maybe that's more important
For a while, HydrongenAudio, arguably the best sound/music related forum, did plenty of listening tests.

The last one sadly is from 2014: they tested Opus, AAC and Ogg Vorbis at 96 kbps against a classic MP3 128 kbps, and find out which codec produces the best sound quality.

https://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm

https://listening-test.coresv.net/bytrack/index.htm

Notice that it is almost 10 years old, and that MP3 was encoded at 128kbps.
You could probably find a written article about the subject. For many things I prefer a written source. But these videos from Dan Olsen are entertainment. The subject is kind of dry and boring really, I don't care that much. Yet he presents all his videos in an entertaining way.

"Documentary make makes a documentary when I wanted a book" feels like an invalid complaint.
The incidence of heart attack and stroke increases significantly after COVID infection, so please spare us your appeal to “psychosomatic illnesses”:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321431/

(I should get bonus points for this being a Swedish study as well, since every COVID denier loves to wave around their flag.)
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You're wrong, that last thing that is happening is Russia is winning. Russia has already lost, just remember that conflicts like Afghanistan were one of the factors that that destroyed the USSR and Chechnya basically bankrupted them and caused their economy to collapse. The war in Ukraine will more than likely be the end of Russia and it's break up into different countries and nations. It might take up to a decade but it is coming......
Apple would be gaining so much goodwill and transforming the industry if they asked for feedback on notifications, and trained an ML system to decide which one to show.
Récoltes et semailles ;)
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Have you considered that people who are called specifically to emergency situations might not have the most representative sampling?
Someone is allowed to say that they feel something is horrible while acknowledging that other people may feel differently and while not asserting that their feeling is an objective judgement overriding other perspectives.
I try that but it usually doesn't work well.

For cheap items - it usually costs me more time and effort to sell than the item is worth. I might do it anyway because it helps others.

For expensive items the problem is risk - especially due to "the market for lemons".

I rarely get market price because I prefer to be honest about the known problems. For example: a car has lots of invisible known issues when you've had it a while. Paying to fix the problems before sale is just not worth it (for multiple good reasons).
Because old people run the country. That is even worse than us having to pay for them. Old men are scared of their own farts and that is not good for the future of a country. We don't want to be stuck living in the late 20th century but that is where all these old people steer the country towards.
There are problems in balkans. In Romania, hospitals are just sh**, same thing with infrastructure/public transport&hoghways and education system. For the rest, yeah, with western salary it's cheap here and food is ok, you can live with little stress from 2k eur/m
That's more expensive than Paris. Well it depends the type of restaurant of course. Would you have some examples in Bucharest?
> Don’t sleep in your lenses. Don’t wear lenses in the hot tub!

I know this isn't a solution for everyone, but if a candidate for corrective surgery (PRK, LASEK, LASIK, etc), I highly recommend it. PRK was the best $3k I've ever spent. 20/15 vision for over a decade since surgery, no need to worry about glasses or contacts. Might be able to get away with LASIK or LASEK for faster recovery, I went with PRK and a bit longer recovery time because I live a life where head trauma is more likely than not (which can cause corneal flap complications).
> Nobody is forcing anybody to do this

Depends on how you define "force".

My experience is that the source of all this is the fear of having a substantial disadvantage against the competition and having to defend your decision of sustaining such a perceived disadvantage against the CEO/board. Understandable from my point of view, even though I don't like the outcome. This then usually trickles down the hierarchy in companies and, yes, someone will somehow implement it to earn their living. I'd define the implication of losing your livelihood as a consequence of not doing what you are told as force, but that is open to opinion I guess.

An anecdote that might be worth mentioning in this context:

I was once told by some CEO that they didn't hire a really qualified person, because that person had enough money to not be dependent on the job. This is, in my experience, an appropriate reflection of the role of money in controlling people's decisions. It's essential that you are dependent so that you can be forced to comply or risk losing your livelihood.
Ask HN: Could a Wii be a good headless server?
Im glad we banned straws
Yes. I’ve heard Berlin has been pricing up lately regardless. Maybe they’ve already worked through their historic inventory.
Interesting—have been tinkering in this area for decades now and always heard AAC was better than MP3. But until now have not seen how/why it was better. Thank you Stereophile.

Yes as several have written, the piece is from 2008 and it doesn't matter any more.

First, once LAME and VBR came about, I've never been able to tell the difference between my 192K MP3 and lossless files, even as a spring-chicken with expensive equipment. Been "good enough" for a very long time.

Second, since storage and bandwidth exploded I've used FLAC exclusively. Why not? But, have found 24/96+ files on the internet occasionally and first thing I downsample them to 16/48khz and do a listening test. I sure as hell can't hear the difference between those. I do leave the last extra 3.9khz... why not? Incredibly cheap and maybe the kids can hear it. Playable on car stereo and more compact, one third the size.

Finally, a big exception. Techies obsess about compression formats, but they don't matter as much as you think at the high-quality end. I've learned the source, i.e. master recording is more important. Example—rip "pristine" FLACs (or WAVs) directly from an iconic 80s CD. Do a listening test. Compare them with a modern remaster encoded with 192K Lame VBR MP3. The MP3 will sound a lot better and preserve the improved high end details. Yes, more noise but you'll struggle to hear it.

(Caveat—this is assuming we're not talking about a shitty 2010-era "loudness war" remaster but a quality-oriented remaster.)

Was mildly surprised by this after insisting on FLAC for almost two decades. A bit too early, in hindsight. Storage is so cheap now though, it again doesn't matter. FLAC it is, Opus from online sources.
Oddly, "moral turpitude of advertisers" is not one of the reasons for increasing ad load.

There's just no way to deny that advertisers behave unethically. It's a basic assumption in "caveat emptor", one reason why the US FDA exists, and why many places have truth in advertising laws. Ignoring that fact, as this analysis does, shows that the analysis is too limited.
It's cheaper to cut up a chicken than buy chicken breasts. It's cheaper to make your own burger than buy takeout. Of course there's TidePods etc.

That said, there's also the other side. I've seen people prioritize paying down their 3% mortgage with extra payments, because, "debt is bad", when they could be earning 5% on that same money and have a "rainy day fund".
notable for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominu....
It is a broad question, so here’s a broad answer:

A computer program is a sequence of instructions for the computer to follow, to transform some input into some output. To write useful and interesting programs, it is helpful to have some way of representing quantities which might change depending on those inputs.
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What decision would those adults make? The vendor changed the deal after the sale.
This is the problem with mask absolutists. They take data from masks that are super effective (hospital setting, correct usage, basically gluing the mask to your face) and extrapolate it to some guy on the subway with a cloth mask. It’s a bad way to make public policy, and I don’t really understand the motivation behind it.
This is certainly true on a global and evolutionary scale.
Yet, we, as individuals don't work on a global and evolutionary scale, but an individual one, at least in our society.
Therefore I'm perfectly fine not having kids, because I have absolutely no intention to accept and feel the societal burden on my unprivileged shoulders.
Replace Android here with - let's say - a narcissistic person. The same sentence would still make sense. Something like "I love how my narcissistic partner requires an extremely granular control so I can adjust their level of disruption to me."

I'm not making fun of you, it's just that your sentence made the similarities so painfully clear to me.
> And yet Apple uses Qualcomm chips and manages to update 10 year old phones.

For modems, yes, but only because there's even less competition in that area (which is why they bought Intel's mobile modem business, but failed to produce a viable design in all the years since).

They've been running their own SoC designs since the iPhone 4 era in 2010.
Interesting. Outside of that, do any of these people do any other activities that offset the damage they do with their private jets?

Just wondering because this is such blatant clickbait material for an editorial, I won’t be surprised if an article about it is being written right now.
Hi there! This is Anoop. Glad that you like Bruno. On the import issue you mentioned, its due to the architecture choice of Bruno where every request is stored on the filesystem as a file. I don't have a solution in mind, perhaps the a reasonable approach is to fallback to "Untitled" at the time of import.
There's nothing inherently weak about the fidelity of 16-bit audio on its own. PC audio subsystems don't deliver the full dynamic range on a single audio channel by default. They reserve headroom so that they can mix additional audio sources with less risk of clipping. Audio players that let you increase the volume beyond 100% are just letting you use the full range.

None of this is relevant to a real, dedicated music playback system that doesn't contain a digital mixer. You can't hear noise at -96dB. Your amplifier will swamp that with it's own internal noise sources. In the 80s the audiophools loved to complain that CDs were too quiet because their beloved LP noise was supposed to be desirable for some whack reason.
The common HN response that I have trouble relating to is:

"Network! Go to coffee with people you worked with, offer to help people for free with their projects, and go to many founder and social events! I never used a recruiter in my life and I'm a bazillionaire founder over in the Bay Area!"

In contrast, never in my 20 yr career have I ever found a job like that. As charming as I am, it seems I'm always going to use recruiters (and today I'm a senior manager).

Recruiters and the interview process blow, but they're unavoidable in my experience. No books or startups to my name, however.
No, I lived this. I want to live where I can bicycle entirely (and mostly did, because transit is often dirty). I'm working toward spending a few years in Japan and later the Netherlands. But only because we can't have nice things in the USA. I'm not going to live where junkies own all public spaces and kids get stuck on needles and die.
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There are several Firefox forks of some note: LibreWolf, Palemoon, etc. I think you'll find that maintaining a huge, legacy codebase that supports a rapidly expanding API is significantly more costly than a single engineer's salary.
There is a single mention, in passing, of disabled workers. This is absurdly misleading.
In principle there was already some separation of duty as solictors in England owe a duty to the Court regardless of who pays them. However it seems not to have been enough in this case. Hopefully will be looked into.
The fact that we have a “devops team” at work infuriates me. It’s enough to distract me me from how “Scrum” has destroyed Agile.
I would encourage readers to read the “Main results” section of the review for themselves. It takes under 5 minutes. Don’t trust a commenter on any online forum on this topic (myself included), as it’s completely politicized.
This is entirely due to people not testing the impact of too many marketing notifications on whether people keep their notifications on—partially because Apple doesn’t share that information with developers, so they have to guess based on who comes from a notification with UTM tags.

Sending too many emails or too many notifications has an evident and enormous cost when you measure it (in lost opportunities that effective notifications could bring you). If your employer does not know what the threshold should be and does not routinely cancel certain notifications or emails because they don’t meet that bar, they are losing a lot of money. It’s probably the most accessible and impactful project you could work on if you want to prove your value.
You'll be battling 29 other parents as well who see their phone as a necessity for life.
This is a pleasantly nuanced overview of recent debate/discussion over Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and the philosophy of science around consciousness.

It's great to see this from a leading voice in the area (Anil Seth).

It's also nice to see a title that matches the content of the article.
Also EVs have no tail pipe emissions. At all. An ICE vehicle converts 100% of it's fuel into toxic tail pipe emissions. The tire dust is marginally the same for the same weight. We are not talking a new set of tires every other month for EVs. And there is very little brake dust indeed. So, what are we really talking about here exactly?

Well that's more complicated. Articles like this don't come out of the blue. There's an extremely well funded effort by fossil fuel and ICE car manufacturing companies to spread FUD about EVs. They are looking at double digit percentage drops in demand for their product in the decade ahead. That's going to impact them financially in a big way and they have a huge financial interest in slowing that down. And their tool of choice is misinformation. Little white lies, lots of half truths, twisted facts, lies by omission, etc.

That's not to say tire particles in ocean water aren't an issue. But the reality is that most of those particles come from ICE vehicles right now.
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According to some western sources, yes, but many of these same sources have also made false reports on everything from Russian ammo shortages, missile shortages to total economic collapse before rolling back on them so I wouldn't necessarily put too much faith in them.

I would calibrate the predictions you see from your sources with the predictions that they made 12 months ago. The results may surprise.

There are several technological areas where Russia is obviously ahead of the west - the two most notable being anti aircraft defences (S-400) and hypersonic missiles.
in places where people don't need to buy neither a $15 or $60k private automobile, they don't buy any of them, they just ride the train or a bike like normal people do

visit tokyo, paris or any other transit oriented city and see for yourself