skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the vertical axis is literally labeled "Quality"

And the labels on that axis make it perfectly clear what they mean by "quality". It's how much of the spectrum they preserve at that bitrate. If "quality" referred to subjective quality there's no reason why the chart should stop at 128 kbps. It stops there because the fullband codecs don't brickwall the signal past that point. Instead they use psychoacoustics to compress it.

>Early Opus vs. MP3 tests were done with LAME, which is awful.

That's funny, because other commenters say LAME is currently the benchmark for MP3 encoders.

Here: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Transparency it states that MP3 is considered artifact-free at 192 kbps, although here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/when-is-mp3-transparent-an-a... someone did an ABX test and they could still hear differences more than half the times at 256 kbps. If I take the lower number, MP3 is still 50% less efficient than Opus.
Until this works on a mass scale without even worse side effects, I read this piece as more submarine PR from the plastics industry.
Does any consumer router manufacturer publish that?
So you didn’t read the review because “you did your own research”.

Yet you can’t seem to find the magical XPS 13 and cite a review?

Did your “research” tell you that by every objective measure it’s worse? The resolution is four times worse, the battery is three times worse, it’s loud, it’s slow.

Here is the review of the Asus B series. The newest one I could find. The contemporary MacBook Air at the time which was better in every way came out in late 2020 and was cheaper.

Again from the Verge and it’s the nearest one I could find..

https://www.theverge.com/22239215/asus-expertbook-b9450-revi...

Just make sure you know what you’re getting — because the low-powered processor and deafening fans certainly aren’t ideal for everyone.

but potential buyers should be aware that the processor is mostly suitable for basic office tasks. More on that in a bit.

And it’s even worse than the Dell XPS 13 that you were bragging about.

The Core i7-10510U is a four-core processor that’s significantly lower-powered than the chips you’ll see in the best laptops on the market like the Dell XPS 13. It’s far from a workhorse.

So it’s slower, hotter, louder, with worse graphics and lower battery life.
What is exactly the problem with Discord? (I mean I personally do not like Discord, but would know what others think.)
Bitlocker is Windows-only
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But how would that actually work? Two companies have an agreement to work together and share specs between themselves?
personally I think it's because it feels like that both the screen and the Iphone screens are edited on. Also, it feels like the finger flick scroll is too instant, I believe flick scrolling in Safari does not stop instantly but slowly slows down until it stops (unless it can be disabled). I could totally be wrong though.
I am confused how this is new.
UUIDv1 is time based, you just need to be careful about entropy, and in MySQL 8 you can for a longish time use it as an ordered field.
Thanks for the helpful post. I especially liked the part where you called it “pseudoscience” without engaging points they listed. Helped me to really be convinced.
Archaeologist: "This amazing find represents us understanding early humans and their ties to the seasons and fertility"

[8000 years earlier]

"Man": "Yea, so Gary over there cut down my favourite Olive tree so I commissioned this huge statute of a dick to let him know how much I hate him"
It's not designed for this use case. It's for cases where events in the same epoch may as well of happened concurrently.

ULID on the other hand does address this case by providing monotonicity within an epoch for a given producer. So would still need to treat each producer as a separate partition of the key space but you could order X > Y as long as both were produced by same producer (which effectively acts like a sequencer in this case).

EDIT: nvm, the UUIDv7 spec -allows- for arbitrary allocation of the remaining 62 bits which can be used as a counter: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-u...
All points for ULID can also apply to UUIDv7 depending on generation algorithm.
Can one create a dedicated WiFi network via their router that only their work computer is connected to?
I think there are a couple minor problems:

- if the ID is intended to be opaque then the vendor shouldn't document it as a UUID, as this changing to a different format would be a breaking change

- if the customer isn't going to process the subcomponents of the UUID then they should process it as an opaque string

- if the UUID library encounters a version number in a UUID it doesn't understand, it shouldn't reject the UUID but present it as an unstructured string.

After this blog post it seems likely that even Kite more customer will parse the IDs to extract time, since this has been documented.
12 fps is blindingly fast compared to some of the early color eInk displays which took 20-30 seconds to update -- while wildly cycling through different colors.

Still, doesn't mean I'd want to use it as a computer display.
In a way its hilarious that you're proving OPs point that state actors are influencing the board. It's also interesting that you're not denying that russia/china is influencing 4chan. You're just saying that america does it as well.
I just notice you said AppleScript didn’t exist then. It was introduced in 1993.
> What the Higgs mechanism does is add effective mass even to particles which are intrinsically massless, so long as they couple to the Higgs field. For the standard model, that means leptons, quarks, and the W and Z bosons.

this was sloppy: the W and Z bosons have mass because they mix with the Higgs field (this is the Higgs mechanism, properly speaking), while the mass acquired by leptons and quarks is due to interacting with the remaining Higgs component in the usual way.
Is there a better alternative they'd want?
July 17, 2023: https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1701
Seems like a sort of hashed lookup table, rather than a straight algorithm - but pretty cool, nonetheless.
Probably still yes if you include all the employees' professional carbon footprint.
The use of a MAC address and fine grained timestamp are challenges of UUIDv1.

https://blog.devgenius.io/analyzing-new-unique-identifier-fo...
Why women specifically? Or did you mean humans?
That's very interesting! I imagine a bunch of bored Victorians have already dug everything up and thoroughly wrecked the provenance of everything.
Have only recently started using JQ, and it's absolutely brilliant. I'm on wsl2/Ubuntu - just pipe any Json content to it, and you get an easy to read colour version rather than your regular monotone output (which seems incompatible with my brain).

And you can then create queries to select certain keys - highly useful if you're dealing with monster documents, and customise the output of that (eg to reduce into just the info you need). Plus probably much more, but those are the features I've used so far. Big thanks to the Devs!
I take the heals of my palms and apply gentle pressure, just long enough to create phonemes. So, not rubbing. (Not that this too might not be a good idea to do too often).
When the Lion Fought the Bear: Interspecies Cage Fighting on the Mexican Border
I prefer jQuery and jQueryUI - actually I go one further and use the devextreme components so I have paid support (outrageous I know) for spa's or something like umbraco for CMS but they are very unsexy and old. Delphi for cross platform applications, but try and sell that as a development platform :-D

I think the big advantage of this sort of stuff is you have a million debugged and working examples to pick from and people who know them inside out.

Edit: I watch the kids trying to figure out how to release things on docker with their multiple git branches and merges, and re-engineering their microservices frameworks, and each time I die a bit inside. This was all done so long ago, why continue to make it harder. Now I'm not talking something google scale, but something with a few hundred users and maybe 20 concurrent, why would you do this, sigh.
And what would stop Apple from doing that while also having to publish documentation?
> While it may not be reading specifically that is the problem

But that's specifically the claim, and it's hogwash. "Straining your eyes" doesn't damage them. Using your eyes in the dark doesn't damage them. Not using them enough in the light may damage them, according to the article you linked.
It inst perfect, but it doesn't need to be unless your risk is disproportional to the market. Risk will always be there, you just need to manage it inline with your corporate risk tolerance - and implementing DMARC to P=Reject is most likely going to (very likely exceed) that approach.

Yes, some companies have elevated risk here (Banks, Payment Processors, Social Media companies) - but honestly most don't.

Btw - this is as much an acceptance as a survival strategy - nothing will ever be perfect, not without significant cost & impact elsewhere. Survival of the fittest these days is managing (and please the understanding of) risk better than others
The Onion, not me: "this is the only country where this regularly happens"

You: move every goalpost

All that was necessary to refute you was to find ONE incident in another country.

Is one isolated incident really all that is necessary to refute the Onion's assertion that this is the only country where this regularly happens?
Clustering, replication and high availability may not be easy, but there are thousands of production PostgreSQL instances out there have solved them. That's what makes it boring.

Compare solving those problems to solving them with a brand new database engine where you might be one of the first organizations to run at that scale.
A thought experiment for those without children approaching having one from a rational perspective. What is the value of your closest personal relationship; your mom, your spouse, your pet etc? Let's say you have a choice, for that relationship to have never existed, meaning all memories (good and bad), and everything you've gained (and lost) from that relationship would be erased unless you paid a price. How much money and time would you sacrifice for that relationship to still exist?
>BlackTech actors bypass the router's built-in security features by first installing older legitimate firmware [T1601.002] that they then modify in memory to allow the installation of a modified, unsigned bootloader and modified, unsigned firmware [T1601.001].

I wonder how best to handle this kind of downgrade attack. Is reverting to an older firmware version an intended, supported feature? If so, I assume it's present in case the customer has a problem with the latest firmware and they want to revert. Maybe it makes sense to implement some restrictions on reversions -- e.g. they can only be done with physical access to the device, and it becomes impossible after an upgrade has been in place for 1 month say.

The focus on international subsidiaries was very interesting to me. I wonder what, specifically, it is about a subsidiary that makes it a softer target. Perhaps it's easier to gain physical access to a subsidiary office.
Paul was what people call a 10x programmer. He was highly prolific.

The book Mastermind goes into this a bit.

So do some old web posts straight from Paul himself, if you know where and if they are still up.
“Doesn’t” isn’t even the right word here. “Can’t” is probably more apt.

And again, if a human was bombarded by people trying to get them to say something they’re not supposed to say, i would be willing to bet they’d fail miserably.
I could imagine using the timestamp segment of publicly observable ids to estimate activity patterns in an organization. Probably not super crucial and there are probably easier ways in most cases but it could be a big deal at the right moment and for the right target. This could be like a more refined version of PIZZAINT (where you can detect impending policy/operational movements by the quantity of food deliveries to a government organization).
I only raise this when I see promises that IDs are ordered and can be sorted, not merely grouped by approximate time for storage locality.

Yeah, though I’m more likely to go with a region ID and monotonic version number to compare-and-set and verify gapless data, where versions from different regions aren’t comparable. Actually I think earlier UUID RFCs talk about a “clock sequence” to distinguish timestamps from separate monotonic sources, but this paper doesn’t bring that up (or mention multiple clocks at all).
Somehow it is not the Word/Excel file readability why I must buy Office license. But the Teams.
The timestamp is first.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-u...
Another thing to keep in mind is the size of the candidate pool. There's a lot fewer F# devs than PHP. Can make hiring a bit trickier.
It depends if you have a request covers a lot of sequential data, or if you have a lot of requests of sequential data.
In places where I live it's considered polite to keep WiFi open for somebody who may occasionally be without access. You know, neighborly thing to do, like cleaning snow from a common driveway in winter time.
yes, and this large part of the population does not therefore have the means to become a technoserf.
Hint, in my definition it’s none of the above
Is PIZZAINT real? I thought it was a joke. How do you even find out how much pizza is being delivered?
In Sweden it’s mandatory[1] that each workplace should have a ”resting room”. Surely, not every workplace has it though.

[1] https://ka-se.translate.goog/2021/06/14/ska-det-finnas-ett-v...

PS. It's unlucky for the translation that toilets are called rest rooms in English speaking countries. :) In Sweden bathroom or rest room is called toalett (toilet).
Agree - you need a book that shows you how to get started and do a bunch of fun projects - there are some available as Kindle unlimited books:

https://www.amazon.com/Fun-projects-Raspberry-Pi-everything-...
You could use dislocker on Linux.
Some people are born ahead of the curve.
That's an interesting point. I see these as more of either a place of last resort or place for someone who spends all day on campus and just wants sleep, etc than a living quarter.

Not to sound prudish, but if I resigned myself to this, I'd be pretty upset if people were making a ton of noise shagging one another.

Then again, I've pretty much lost faith in people as a whole, so I envision each pod would be blasting music from a crappy speaker, making tik tok videos, or talking on speaker phone at all hours.
Having only discovered Aphantasia in my 6th decade on the planet, it's safe to say that you can't miss what you never had. That said, in a FB forum that discusses Aphantasia, a few people who previously had the ability to 'see memories', were devastated by the (stroke) loss of it.
Upon describing my situation, one friend immediately asked incredulously, "How do you jerk off?"
I'm intrigued with the article. That a "Mind's Eye" could be developed is an exciting possibility.
BTW, This is a tight, short, Hank Green video that I send to folks who have no idea what I'm talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91tvp0b1fY
I skimmed the review, it didn't match up with the models I had seen before, and seeing you basically flat out lie to overexaggerate some of the negative aspects made it easy to basically dismiss it and your reply.

I'm not putting any more effort into replying to you, other than typing in the reply box. Your point is asinine IMO, and I'm not interested in doing research to support what I already know, to someone who would bend over backwards to deny anything presented to them.

And that's the thing. You're going to believe whatever you want to believe, because Apple is the entity you worship religiously.
Did you have anything to add to that?
We have photographic evidence of the NSA intercepting Cisco routers. I'm not sure the country of origin matters if you have a red spot painted on your back.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Just do what game consoles do: add hardware fuses that are expected to be blown depending on the version, and have the bootloader verify the number of fuses blown on boot. Then the device becomes a brick if it tries to boot an older firmware.
Speaking as both the original author and someone who's been studiously pseudonymous online for well over a decade (after several decades of generally-public disclosure): anonymity and pseudonymity are exceedingly challenging.

I know I've left trails, and that if this were something my life absolutely depended on I'd probably not be writing this now. There are any number of ways to determine who a person is, or even to narrow down the probable set of individuals, often with only the thinnest of data. Given the prevalence of sensors, tracking, and physical-space monitoring (facial recognition, device tracking by WiFi and Bluetooth sensors, license plate readers, purchase and credit card data, and more), odds are pretty good that an online persona could be narrowed down to a few score of potential targets reasonably quickly by a motivated entity. Doing that at scale might be more challenging, but seems to be at least roughly possible by some state-level actors.

And that level of surveillance many well not be necessary, only the threat of such actions.

For discussion, semantic analysis, time(s) of activity, correlation with other known factors (travel or commute patterns, power or communications outages correlating with non-active periods, and the like), there's a lot of data to go on.

The biggest protections seem to me to be far less technical measures such as encryption, obfuscation, and pseudonymity, than they are strong privacy laws, civil rights, legal protections, rule of law, and civil institutions which are strong, robust, highly-trusted and trustworthy, effective, and dedicated to their mission.

That's not to say that technical protections aren't necessary; I absolutely believe that they are. However they are not sufficient, and often prove to be highly brittle: affording strong protection until at some point, whether due to a technical fault or lapse in tradecraft, they aren't. At that point the jig is up, and absent the social institutions in my previous 'graph, vulnerability is absolute.

We cannot live without trust. An absolute faith in anonymity is the false belief that we can.
UUIDv4 attaches meaning to certain 6 or 7 bits (depending on a variant) of the identifier. UUIDv4 is a UUID after all.
Can you expand what you are missing?

Prometheus is not just the db itself, it’s the ecosystem around it. You’ve got service-discovery, alertmanager and basically every application in existence having a /metrics endpoint and some pre-made Grafana dashboard.
Ask HN: Anybody using the newest version of Tor Browser?
Seems like tor has been inaccessible to newbies on Windows for a couple of days.
This is really great news. jq deserves an active team maintaining it. The new features (in particular pick()) look great.

Just one tiny personal regret. I get GPT-4 to write almost all of my jq scripts for me, and it's going to stay stuck on that 2021 version for an unknown time going forward.

I guess I could try and come up with some custom instructions that teach it about the new syntax!
NSA has both red and blue teams. Work from blue teams helps the public even if they are only known for their red team. Iirc we saw the blue team with S-Boxes in DES, but I may be misremembering things.
This is giving me flashbacks to writing my thesis back in 2005 in lab in Germany. I remember spending almost a full working day on getting the logos of the two institutes I was working for aligned horizontally in LaTeX.

You can create amazingly beautiful publications in LaTeX and I'm not aware of anything equal for writing mathematical formulas, but I would probably not recommend anyone use LaTeX for a publication in 2023.
Shadow profiles assume that people don't change. Or people never have a bad day.

Although it's a solution, its certainly not how people work in the real world.
it's only cheaper because the cost is externalized.
Well, this is just clickbait. Choose boring technology means sth pretty concrete for someone without context. It’s not that you can’t reasonably title it. It’s that you can’t reasonably title it to generate views.

I understand the sentiment, but then one should expect criticism of the schism between title and content.
The best eye comfort is being outside in nature without computers.
The one thing they got right was Chromecast. And they ruined it with a stupid remote and interactive UI while still using underpowered hardware. I use a Shield TV now.
I have been using ULID for years. Using digits now would feel very strange.
Not trying to diminish zulucrypt here but I really hope people aren't choosing encryption programs based on the GUI framework they use.
Right, people who have lived natively there have evolved physical coping mechanisms which must be taken into account when they move to other geographical areas. The reverse for "plains" people who move to high altitudes.

What coping mechanisms would that be?

Right from the beginning i had felt that the whole Sun Exposure/Skin Cancer/Sunscreen debate was nonsensical without understanding the "original adaptations" of the people involved.

What "original adaptations" are you referring to?

I remember an article which i read a long time ago that posited that all of our modern health/medical dosage "standards" (eg. BMI) are suspect because they were derived from a sample of European Males and hence are not universally applicable across the world. Given what we know today about genetics/epigenetics/adaptation i have always felt that this should be the first thing doctors should consider when treating patients.

How about you give us a reference to this article before paraphrasing from memory?
How to create a live ChatGPT plugin with no-code
From TFA:

*The differences in state death rates are very likely because of differences in vaccine uptake*

Just to be clear, I don’t mean to imply that COVID is intrinsically more likely to target Republicans or anything like that. Rather, my claim is that COVID is considerably more deadly in people who haven’t been vaccinated, and since Republicans are less likely to be vaccinated than Democrats, state partisanship serves as a proxy for this.

Indeed, we can look at vaccination directly.

... age and vaccination rates alone explain more than half of the variation in COVID death rates between states since Feb. 2021.

However Silver didn't mention age being strongly correlated (either way) with being vaccinated, which is interesting, given the rest of the article it'd be expected to be stated if it was.
I've been using this on Macs as my DB manager on a new project (MariaDB at the moment) and have been pretty happy with it.

I use SQL Editor to do the design and to generate DB-creation scripts, and once the DB is up and running I maintain it with Beekeeper while I code in my IDEs.
A typical classical symphony requires 50-80 instruments, several dozen of which might play at the same time, while a typical punk song has maybe four.
That's an interesting idea, how would you deal with the bits in the UUID that are used for the version? Setting them to random bits may cause issues for clients that try to use the identifier in their own database or application, as mentioned in the article.