skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of it is people ask the wrong questions. On a loudness-war-wrecked pop song I may not be able to tell 128Kbps from the original, but on specific content I have been able to tell. I'm not even claiming golden ears or anything; some specific audio content is the audio equivalent of visual confetti [1], and anyone can hear the difference, because the codec isn't even close. And let me underline, I mean, anyone. No special claims being made here.

But all in all, that content is relatively rare, and generally transient even in the music they appear in.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
It's whether you have hire/fire powers and you make money off of other people's labour

I think creating a hierarchy of managers and workers is just another tool that the people with power use to control everyone else.

Surely my direct manager has more in common with me than the CEO? Am I wrong to think this? Wouldn't the CEO see both managers and their teams as mere workers?
>your own good companies

I don't think I could even begin to parse what you might mean by this. What do you imagine makes a company 'our own' or 'good'? I assure you nobody in big tech is either but I'm curious what you mean.
>Slave implies they do what Google wants them to do, which is demonstrably not the case.

Google wants Google to be the default search engine of Mozilla's browser Firefox, Google in order to incentivize them to do it, offers them $450 million and Mozilla accepts it because otherwise they would be on the verge of bankruptcy since 80% of their revenue comes from Google. OK, they are not directly enslaved by Google but they are existentially dependent on Google in the monopolistic abuse of power situation.
HA is a hosted/enterprise option only (paid).
That depends on how you want those companies to perform. Cybertruck is Elon's baby. His designers were, and probably still are skeptical. Starship could very well be a Space Spruce Goose. And, of course, Xitter, which is his passion project, is down in value by 66-90% depending on who you ask.
Location and vision are separate senses. I'm completely aphantasic, but of course I can orient myself in remembered spaces. Fictional spaces are more difficult, but not impossible if the description is good.
> America can not win a conventional war with China, that is a guarantee. The Chinese could field millions of drones and a endless supply of men and with the support of Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc, would have no problems defeating the US/West. The second Americans couldn't buy a microwave, iPhone, or video card and millions of other things, they would lose their minds and surrender.

I'm not sure if it's sarcasm or not but, academic discussion aside, Russia cannot even win the war with Ukraine, so it's hard to imagine how they would fare against a stronger enemy with powerful modern weapons.
Go isn’t really hyped these days, Zig maybe. But Go is old reliable now (which is good).
Penrose and Hameroff's theory about microtubules is certainly science not pseudoscience. It is a specific theory with falsifiable predictions.

In the absence of a definition of consciousness, perhaps the only validation would be evidence that general anaesthetics take effect in the microtubules (Hameroff is an anaesthesiologist).

It might not be possible to show that macroscopic quantum effects are required, or that consciousness is more powerful than an algorithmic computer (Turing Machine) - two of Penrose's related speculations.

Another of Penrose's claims is that gravitational divergences collapse the quantum wavefunction. This is logically separate from, but is often linked with, the conscious perception issue, as presented in their Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory (ORR):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduc...

The latter gravitational claim is being tested independently from brains, using conventional QM experiments in the presence of large masses. The precision to resolve the question is within reach.

Definitely science.
What Is the Most Complex Beatles Song? [video]
Q&A with AMD CEO on Competing with Nvidia's H100 and PyTorch
There have been a few cases of CPR resucitating a patient after several hours of hypothermia. It seems (in some cases) to be able to slow down how long it takes until "you're done".

One example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/christine-ti...
1970s Ireland was very homogenous, which is to say white. It wasn't until the 90s that immigration began flowing in the other direction to a meaningful degree. So while I agree with you, it was unlikely a problem at the time.

Although that doesn't cover gender or class discrimination so I suppose that was still an issue.
They also walk more due to not being tied to cars quite as badly as Americans are.
Thanks for edifying me, I appreciate it
> Two malicious executables... The first one is a Hello World project... The second prints a Fibonacci sequence up to the largest element smaller than the number entered as input.

That should have been the first tip off something was wrong, Meta would start with a LeetCode medium or hard.
I'm not sure its true even today. I've done lots of work in studios and can hear the difference between MP3 vs FLAC and CD -- even these days.
For mp3, for me, 192kbps and higher is where it sounds pretty good, 128kbps sounds bad
YouTube is quite good with >128kbps opus audio
because twitter's real purpose is to manipulate its users and the issue is how this is more obviously the case now than before

it used to be more important that users remained engaged, which in twitter meant people got to interact between themselves as number one priority.

but now, the main priority is to manipulate opinion more directly, so users interacting among themselves is no longer the first thing you're served.

I guess i'm trying to point out how twitter changed into subtly manipulating its users as the main thing; before they would only intervene directly to avoid witch hunts and things like that.

but now (with Musk) they're after money to be made by directing popular opinion, but they're noobs at this (FB/instagram are the real masters for now). This makes enough MORE money that advertisers become less relevant; and even user engagement suffers a little.

this gets to constitutional levels of danger when they intervene personal communication. But the internet has been doing this a lot nowadays; I have direct experience with reddit (shadow)blocking me from interacting with other users deep within nested comments in controversial threads; they're stiffing human-to-human conversation and pretending they don't do it; but this is just blocking... unleash the bots to really drive people's thoughts towards intended places... lest people do it on their own freewills
I love that there’s a Jira ticket in someone’s backlog that says “teach the model how many hands humans have”.
I think it depends on the style of music. I guess for orchestral / classical music it's good.

But for other styles, I don't enjoy concerts for audio quality.

It's usually way too loud, so you have to wear earplugs. I've heard some made for this don't skew audio too much, but they are still a filter.

And then you have to like the balance that's chosen by the audio engineers and they are often not ideal. The voices can sometimes be not loud enough to the point you don't hear the words well, the bass too loud. Frequencies don't all travel the same way, so if you are too far away some things are missing or distorted, etc.

And then there's the noises from other people, the claps, the screams, etc.

And the audio still possibly went through some kind of non-analog equipment.

Not saying that feeling the bass in your whole body and feeling the communicative / excited atmosphere from the crowd can't be enjoyable but for audio quality, I'd rather listen to music in a calm room with some good equipment, at a volume level comfortable to me, when audio engineering didn't have to be live and could be (even) more carefully managed.

> If you can tolerate PCM

Are there people who can't tolerate it? It must not be very convenient.

(Huge caveat to this comment: I listen to music most of my awaken hours, but I'm not an audiophile. I never carefully listen to music, it's usually in the background.)
I wonder how long it will take for some important organizations and persons, and my local public transport company, to move away from X and Facebook to more open platforms?
>Those tests don't account for our ability to sense the presence/absence of overtones.

Overtones are frequencies. If you filter the higher frequencies you remove the higher overtones. The only way you're going to "hear" ultrasound is if it's very loud and you hear audio-frequency distortion generated in your own ear, e.g. like when bats are squeaking nearby. But this isn't useful musically, because everybody's ears distort differently.
> Yeah, I don't really want my 50s, 60s, 70s to be all that different from now in my 30s.

I would argue that you probably have no idea what your future self will want. This is why advice from elders, parables and traditions are valuable. Ignore what they suggest at your own risk.
“Several” just means ”at least two” (plus usually also “less than a dozen” or so). For example, if you don’t quite remember if you went to a particular restaurant two times or three times, it’s still not incorrect to say “I went there several times”.
You can easily create blind tests and they speak a very clear outcome.
I'm curious, why does this situation require Western experts in particular?
Do they? How does that work? Why does it matter in what way the friction on the axle is generated? Whether I am grinding two metal on metal to generate friction or I'm charging a coil shouldn't matter to how much dust the tire generates, for the same amount of deceleration, should it?

Unless people are just slamming on their brakes and leaving tire marks when they have the option of coming to a gentle stop, which I don't think anyone would do?

EDIT: Apparently I misread "brake dust" for "tire dust", sorry!
Sadly thanks to the continuing existence of Russia, the same story as is here is likely to be played out hundreds or thousands of times over the next fifty years with Ukrainian children.
But it also verifies nobody tampered with e-mail after it left the server and that is still valuable.

As in the DKIM signature doesn't mean it was really the sender that sent it, but it does say that it wasn't changed after that.
Congratulations, you really do make a lot of money. Going by the averages, based on the information you shared, and assuming you live in the US, I’d say you make north of $300k per year.

Thanks for sharing that with us. Now we know that you are a member of the group that we are talking about here (the middle class and rich). Maybe you can shed some light on how members your demographic actually think about having children.

So, am I wrong? Are you avoiding having children primarily because you pay too much in taxes to afford them, and not for some other reason?
You get that in a Cracker Jack box or what?
So far, the alternatives are 'inferior' in various ways.

But after the owner of the site started posting various anti-semitic things (blaming the ADL on the site's problems, going off about 'Soros'), I decided I'd rather use inferior products than support that kind of thing. Not just me who thinks this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-antisemitism-on-x-twi...

My impressions of the alternatives:

* Mastodon seems to not have a great deal of traction. It could be cool for the right small, tight-knit community, but I don't see 'normies' hanging out on it too much.

* Blue Sky has a "cool kids" vibe and people I know, but I wonder if it'll grow. For a long time they were very slow to hand out new invites.

* Threads seems like the best so far. Zuckerberg is no angel, but at least it's a public company which probably adds a little bit in terms of guardrails. And they seem to be investing in improving the product, fairly quickly.
Maybe decoding speed is an issue or decoder quality
I have met people who can’t really code outside an IDE. If someone has a full JetBrains setup at work, and never worked any other way, it might be really hard for them to change code on demand without it.

I expect there is a similar, but worse, problem growing with CoPilot and friends.
The article really wants to imply that because this worked, we shouldn't be afraid of "too big to fail", but it doesn't dare say that and kinda of ends up sitting between two chairs.

"I'm not saying that banks crashing isn't bad, but it wasn't a problem for Ireland to have banks disappear"

but the thing is, according to the article, trust in banks never disappeared, neither did the banks. People kept writing cheques against their bank accounts. There was a clear expectation that banks would open with all money intact and cheques would be processed.

That is a very different scenario from a bank failing.
I read something recently that found the majority of the reduction in people having kids is due to getting married later. I.e. if we assume married couples have a fixed probability per year to have children, and unmarried people rarely have kids, then increasing the average age of marriage from 30 to 35 approximately halves the birthrate (because after 40 women generally cannot have children).
This sort of thing gets claimed a lot (by climatologists) but isn't true. 50 years ago is in the 1970s and there were plenty of climatologists predicting a new ice age back then. Here's an example:

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/18/archives/the-genesis-stra...

There's plenty of evidence from other fields that says the Earth isn't hotter now than in the past either. Archaeological evidence, even evidence from written histories, points towards it having been warmer in the past than today. Climatologists don't have answers for that, they just ignore all that evidence. And paleoclimatology is very corrupt. One of them even stated at one point in response to allegations she was cherry-picking data, that "if you want to make a cherry pie you have to pick some cherries"! Not even a denial.

You really cannot take anything paleoclimatologists say at face value unfortunately. They are constantly faced with self-contradictory data and just toss anything that doesn't match what they want.
BMW Wireless Charging May Break iPhone 15's Apple Pay Chip
The link is extremely light on detail so in skeptical

1. What was the extent of the strike? Did salaries still get deposited? Did inter company transfer go through? Did exchanges stay open? Did lines of credit for businesses small and large stay open?

2. The whole "we knew who had money and we didn't deal with strangers" makes me suspect there's a whole other side of this particular story.
Because "too hot to handle" tells me that this should have really been prevented at the hardware level, and this is also common practice.
i found this statement (fta)

'''
Most doctors are taught and believe that the brain dies after about five or 10 minutes of oxygen deprivation,” Parnia said. “One of the key points that comes out of this study is that that is actually not true. Although the brain flatlines after the heart stops, and that happens within seconds, it doesn't mean that it's permanently damaged and [has] died. It's just hibernating. What we were able to show is that actually, the brain can respond and restore function again, even after an hour later, which opens up a whole window of opportunity for doctors to start new treatments.
'''

quite remarkable.
We can assume that modeless was referring to the dust generated by the brake pads themselves, I should think…
I think they’re pretty cool. Privacy issues are important, but access is also important! It feels like the future. Like drinking fountains for information.
I think you missed that they are talking about brake dust.
> in case of airport security or CCTV in some public space suddenly everyone is OK compromising personal privacy in the name of personal life and safety.

These are not really comparable. Even without CCTVs you can't really expect that no one will observe you public areas (it's just that cost of doing so would be significantly higher).

Also it's something you have much more control over and it's significantly less intrusive than monitoring personal communication. e.g. an equivalent would be the government opening and reading every single letter you sent or received back in the days when people still sent them (or having the option to, which to be fair is something they probably had it was prohibitively expensive to do at scale). That is not something most people living in free societies found acceptable.

> If they honestly tried to combat child abuse, how do you see them going about it?

By actually directly targeting it as the other comment describes? Instead of using "think of the children!" as a vail to justify unlimited government surveillance.

> You are speculating about intents some other people might have.

Yes. Are you implying there is something fundamentally wrong with that? Do you always accept everything politicians say at face value? If so, perhaps you're on the market for a bridge?
Nukes can be applied to all kinds of shit. It's easy enough to understand the implication of the phrase that there's no need to pretend it can only apply to specific items.
They said EVs reduce brake dust, not tyre dust. It's true that tyre dust would be created just the same.
The pattern on HN is less nuanced. A story or thread gets a bunch of low-effort comments, possibly ones that are bigoted or conspiratorial depending on the content of the story. Then the entire story is flagged and frozen to further comments.

It's like dancing in your favorite club and suddenly having a surprising number of drunk finance bros grinding on you. But the music gets cut and lights go up. Everyone is forced to leave and re-enter, and when you are let back in, no finbros, better vibe, fun times again.

In contrast, Reddit is like seeing everyone on the dance-floor having a grand time, most of the time. So you finally get up the nerve to dance and are immediately surrounded by 10 tiny incels all trying to hump your leg. But everyone else on the dance floor reassures you to just keep dancing and that everything will return to normal when one of the unpaid bouncers gets back from lunch.

Edit: This is all made worse by the fact that Reddit, unlike HN, has a lot of incentives for people to post very personal stories. So even though Reddit mods can and do lock comments when things get too rough, that typically only happens when there's a critical mass of nastiness. Given that most stuff on the frontpage has 1000+ comments, that leaves room for dozens of abusive comments reaching the OP and only getting moderated later.

So a woman posts a story about narrowly avoiding a date rape, initially receives a few dozen personal insults to her inbox, which get modded, leaving what ultimately looks like a wall of enthusiasm and support, encouraging lurkers to post, who also get initial personal insults, and so on...
Those dimensions are an invention of our brains
I think people vastly overestimate the probability of abiogenesis and underestimate the power of various filters after that. We are naturally biased to see it as something that happens inevitably, but I think it's not a crazy idea that we are the first life to make it to the point of wondering about others. 14 billion years isn't that much compared to how long it seems things will stick around.
> harmless and 99% anonymized ad tracking

Let's be serious now, not even the biggest ad industry proponents really believe that line.
"...you just don't know about it"

Oh, I see, ignore the data and instead believe in your hidden truth. Got it. Thanks for the help, all this time I've been going around making reasonable conclusions based on evidence, like an idiot.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, your second source does very much imply some people can tell the difference quite reliably. As expected, regular people can scarcely tell the difference, but musicians are better at it and sound engineers are in fact quite accurate.

This matches my own experience well: most of my friends do not care about various levels of compression, nor what headphones they use - that's fine, I'm glad they're enjoying art in their own way - but I, and some others, do in fact stand to benefit from less compressed audio.

I've personally done blind tests on myself using a python script that randomly plays compressed and uncompressed snippets of the same track and mp3@320 was not transparent to me (though opus@256 was).

Can I tell the difference when casually listening? I don't know, but when the cost of lossless is having my music collection take 60gb instead of 20gb on my 512+gb device, I have no reason not to go for lossless.
I was going to comment this as well. Here is a thorough explanation of the missing term: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/143652/is-e2-mc2...
The thing that I love about this formulation of the equation is that it directly ties it to the Pythagorean theorem: c^2 = a^2 + b^2 . It really shows you just how pretty that equation really is!
It’s great to bring this problem up. But the focus on EVs is a distraction.

> EVs tend to shed around 20 percent more from their tires due to their higher weight and high torque compared to traditional internal combustion engine-powered vehicles.

It’s covered in this panel discussion on Fully Charged: https://youtu.be/LeHakmL6eEc?si=ebBAn8RSDhmmLfHI

Fleet operators don’t see any significant difference in tire wear. EVs have higher torque but that doesn’t matter unless to drive like a mad-man. EVs also allow you to drive very smoothly with no sudden jerk in torque.

Cars have been getting heavier long before EVs came around. One of the problems is that EVs are all new. Too many of them are bigger than they need to be. But that also goes for new ICE vehicle models.

I’m not too worried about the weight of EVs long term. Batteries are expensive. Increases in energy density, increase in vehicle efficiency and decrease in weight tends to have very significant effect on the amount of batteries you need to cover a certain range, which has huge impact on the price.

What we need to focus on is infrastructure for walking, biking and public transportation. An E-bike has made it just possible for me to bike to work in a reasonable time. So I drive our EV less and less to work.
lessons from Ukraine... "don't give back your nukes"
Parent post brought up brake dust, which is not what this article is about. EVs definitely put less wear on brakes but that has nothing to do with microplastics.
Is there a canonical answer (or three) for why Chrome beat out Firefox the way that it did? I think I remember Chrome doing per-tab sandboxing back when a single Firefox tab could brick your whole browser, but I'd be a little surprised if that was a huge deal to the average user; maybe Firefox (which I used through ~2016) just crashed a lot more than I remember? Or maybe Chrome was just wayyy faster back when it launched?

I stayed on Firefox for years so that I could use Pentadactyl[1], an extension that made the Firefox UI minimal and vim-like. I think I had to run LTS Firefox to keep it working through 2016 or so and then moved on. I miss it!

Maybe it's just because I'm based in NYC but a lot of folks I know have moved to Arc this year - I'm excited to see where it goes and whether it can push things forward!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadactyl
> if you've gotten to five, you're pushing it.

I agree; five is right out.
Yes, let's fix the problem by compelling people to have kids they don't want instead of creating a world worth bringing kids into. /s
Because it cites it's sources probably
More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit
> When Yaccarino was first asked about user metrics during the interview, she seemingly wanted to move away from that particular conversation, saying that X had between 200 and 250 daily active users.

I hope they mean 200 "million" daily active users. Otherwise it would indeed be quite bleak lol