skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What works best for me. Leaving phone at home when I meet people. It's not always possible, obviously, but if I know the address, I might take a db phone for emergencies. Or even, just a paper with the phone number.
wait, but if he could distinguish them from having mastered one of the tracks, doesn't that kind cast doubt on the "no human could possibly ever distinguish these things" mantra? as an aside, am i alone in feeling like the absolute certainty and hyperbole with which this argument tends to be stated potentially has a bit of a "doth protest too much" vibe to it? i definitely know it is a minority view, and that is ok-- i'm happy to be wrong and skeptical.

skeptical though i may be, i'm definitely not here to say that "audiophiles" aren't charlatans or anything like that, for the record. and while i don't totally understand the setup you describe in the sense that i don't get why insider knowledge on one track would tip all the rest of them (were the HQ tracks played either all first or all second, or something?), wouldn't one person's ability to completely discriminate between the two encodings seem to be very strong evidence that it is possible to tell the encodings apart? the kinds of differences between master recording and 16bit 44.1 kHz are exactly the kinds of things that would give away which encoding is higher quality, no?

i feel like there is this moving target thing that goes on sometimes, where the strong argument made loudly is "no human can tell the difference", and then the tests are more like "most people can't tell the difference between things that they have no reason to be attuned to well enough to have any chance of picking up these subtle differences.

forgive me if i misrepresent, or come across like some sort of audio quality chauvinist-- i ask all of this in earnest, and without having a strong opinion one way or the other.
> I got to this point by asking it different ways to expose its Google Search API key initially.

There still seems to be a fatal misunderstanding of how these "AI" work. How would the Bard LLM know the API key it uses (ignoring the fact that it probably uses non-public APIs with different authentication mechanisms...). From my understanding, there's two ways this would be possible - it was trained on data that contains its Google Search API key (doubtful), or Google engineers provide the API key in it's prompts (doubtful, they're aware of prompt leaks).
Agreed with the books advice (and the general advice of course.

More to the point though, op says “productive” and there’s more ways to be productive than doing grunt work. Bring books about things you want to learn or improve in your life, not necessarily code. See for example any of the books published by Stripe Press (https://press.stripe.com).
Thanks for the correction—I was labouring under the impression that the US were in Korea independently.
It looks like this is the product:
https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/product/The-NEW-rE-Monitor-...

Note that it says in the US and UK, you can send it back. They don't mention any return costs, but you can definitely try it out.
It always sounded strange to me when I learnt in high school that the "earliest" civilization had rock structures, ziggurats, temples and the like. It gives an impression that human suddenly that converged together at some point, decided to have priests and kings, and construct large structures for no practical worldly reason.

Take the discovery of fire. It is not like some ape suddenly discovered fire and suddenly learnt how to cook. It probably took thousand of years of "consistently being able to create fire" before realizing that it can be used for cooking. The ability to create fire also implies that the prehistoric human was already able to think of risk/benefit. Since fire is obviously dangerous it leads me to think that they already have some sort of culture/philoshopy. Critical thinking cannot exist in a vacuum i.e. they have to had to used it for other purposes as well.

This is obviously unscientific and extremely speculative, but I just think that these things cannot exist in a vacuum is all.
Thought HN might find this interesting.

Also a YouTube review:

https://youtu.be/Ex8Nt1Q_sFQ?si=QeEbA8N0sN8ge6Ti
Weird culture-war stuff (some of which it feels like they've more or less invented for the purpose) appears to be pretty much the entire Tory manifesto nowadays.
Etruscan Shrew
"Mudlarking" is the act of looking for historical artifacts (uncharitably: old garbage) from the river Thames when the tide goes out

https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848024-mudlarking-in-the...
Sirens are _necessary_; being noisy is the point. Probably not a huge amount you can do there (beyond enforcing that they are only used where appropriate, but in most well-run emergency services that's largely not an issue). Anecdotally, living in a medium-sized (~1.5 million people) city, I don't hear them that much, except when walking along a road near my house that leads to a major hospital.
isn't perception itself a matter of mere pattern recognition? hearing? the whole point is that you can hear the difference. whether or not it sounds "worse"... is certainly debatable, but is definitely a value judgment. and the burden of proof is definitely on the "it doesn't matter side" to prove that a lower fidelity version is "better" than one truer to the original master.
Other mRNA vaccines for human diseases had been under development for years before the pandemic, but none had yet reached approval. Vaccine development is normally slow, partly because nobody wants to put up the money for large human trials until they're relatively confident the vaccine will work.

During the pandemic, however, governments gave financial guarantees that allowed vaccine trials to go forward right away, so SARS-CoV-2 is the first human virus with an approved mRNA vaccine.

> how much more complex was it to create a vaccine for COVID-19 specifically?

It's not necessarily more complex. A number of different approaches ultimately worked, including one of the oldest technologies: growing virus in eggs and then chemically inactivating it. However, mRNA vaccines worked the best, and had less side-effects than most other approaches.
> Idk if you are aware but this means physical surveillance on everyone, because with Tor you can't narrow this stuff geographically. Would you rather to be physically surveilled.

Presumable the content is actually produced at some specific physical location.

> Hash matching is not dairy reading.

The article is not talking about has matching, though. Quote from one of the Europol officials:

“All data is useful and should be passed on to law enforcement, there should be no filtering by the [EU] Centre because even an innocent image might contain information that could at some point be useful to law enforcement,”
Yes, they do exist, but they are clearly marked, including on the maps, so you need to do only a minimum amount of adaptation. On the other hand, most of the examples of egregiously bad driving I noticed were in Reykjavik, and in the countryside drivers are generally very careful (modulo tourists who suddenly slow down, stop, or even reverse a bit to take a photo or smth).
Reducing transmission is a bonus, and very hard to measure initially. It is not the main (measured) goal of new vaccines

Nobody will worry about transmission when it provably reduces mortality

> So I don't think they saved lives at all

Thank deity we have data proving otherwise

And even bigger thanks to Darwin who rarely disappoints
I've done the same blind test with decent but not amazing headphones (HD590) and I could tell the difference all the time as long as the music was slightly complex.

If loudness was artificially boosted, I had a harder time but could still often tell. I think the sound engineering of the music played a big role and a lot of modern music isn't mixed with complexity in mind.

I also go for lossless ;-).
As a long-time Python coder (2010): dreadful packaging, no threads.
Source Code at Risk: Critical Code Vulnerability in CI/CD Platform TeamCity
ICE cars tend to have gears, and can drive very well in lower gears. You don't want to do 30 in 4th gear.
Likely due to the limitations and challenges with the viral vaccines. Perhaps the biggest limitation is that the virus used as the vector must be one to which you don't already have immunity. For instance the adenovirus used by the Chinese and Russian vaccines is pretty common in the west, with something nearly half of all Americans have some immunity to it.
I've heard the following explanation:

Go was designed for internal use at Google, and one of the primary goals was to reduce compilation time for huge codebases (the size of Google monorepo). For such amount of code even `javac` was too slow for them. To solve this problem, Go was designed to be compiled with 1-pass compiler (similar to Pascal and Modula-2) which makes features like generics and type inference very hard (if not impossible) to implement.
Please read the article and the section "Reactivity under the hood": https://nuejs.org/blog/rethinking-reactivity/#reactivity-und...

You'll see that the compiled code is pure JS and parsed by the JS interpreter on the browser, unlike the parent commenter states.
A useful/horrifying pattern on this topic: you can use UUIDv1 as a prefixed id, giving you a way to generate tagged IDs in a system that uses UUIDs.

You set the node field to a broadcast MAC address, and use that as a namespace/prefix. This inches close to the boundary of the RFC, but is arguably compliant.

As an example, you may generate demo or “canary” data items that are UUIDv1s with a well known node field, which then lets you do distributed “isDemoData()” checks by just looking at the UUID.
Depends, a backlit e-ink display is actually quite easy on the eyes. I'm middle aged and I should get reading glasses but haven't yet. Basically, the backlight creates enough contrast that I can easily read the text. I tend to read late at night when my eyes are tired as well.

However, unlike LED screens, the contrast comes from the light reflecting on the display, so the more light, the better it gets. You can use e-ink screens comfortably in the blazing sun wearing sun glasses. Even the best LED screens struggle to deliver enough contrast under those circumstances.
Flask definitely wins the documentation and maintenance department. FastAPI has "shiny" docs. Flask at least has an API reference.
Can we have a look at it ? / Give it a try ?
Sweden never locked down and has one of the lowest covid death rates overall now.
I don't think weakened viruses go through our protein-making machinery (aka code execution), but directly cause immune system reactions.

Edit: I stand corrected.
It has Android support, but no wrappers for anything you'd actually want to do. Some successful Android builds of things like Raylib games with the Naylib wrapper exist, but nobody's really doing anything.
My wife hasn't set up focus, so my Signal messages to her don't notify her late at night. That's when I tell her I'm buying new things :)
Nowadays even with a GitHub link or claims of being open source you have to go check the repository to see what license they actually have and what percentage of the source is actually there. Some repos even have only binaries and some have the source for the open source projects they use.

There's actually another category. Open source software with paid plugins. I always wonder what happens when someone adds similar functionality to the open source version.
Noble Price
Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace it with a dumb phone?

And as an aside, I have a theory that the attention/distraction economy is not exclusively the fault of Big Tech spending billions working out how to "steal" people's attention, but also has an element of people being much more easily distracted nowadays thanks to rise of pointless jobs, unfulfilling personal lives, etc.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/freedom-2
The crazy thing is this conspiracy is being spread by the people who bemoan the loss of freedom for their children/grandchildren -- it's not safe for children to play outside like we did, too many cars; used to be able to send the kids down to the shop to buy pop, etc.
More work for the author, but nicer for the reader, and makes it more self-explanatory which sets are meant. The latter is what I cared about.

Also, if you’re on desktop with a suitably configured Compose key, it’s actually simple to type (Compose I R for example), no need for copy&paste.
As another note, the mRNA platform has a few concerns that the viral vector vaccines do not.

In particular, the delivery of the mRNA payload is done via lipid nanoparticles that are not in any way targeted to a specific cell type.

The European Medicines Agency released a report on the distribution of the mRNA found in various organs:

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/assessment-report/spi...

> "Besides injection site [muscle] and lymph nodes [proximal and distal], increased mRNA concentrations (compared to plasma levels) were found in the spleen and eye. Both tissues were examined in the frame of the toxicological studies conducted with mRNA-1273 final vaccine formulation. Low levels of mRNA could be detected in all examined tissues except the kidney. This included heart, lung, testis and also brain tissues, indicating that the
mRNA/LNP platform crossed the blood/brain barrier

A similar 2017 study was conducted using mRNA coded for luciferase as a tracking mechanism:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5475249/

And it, likewise, found the protein was produced in the muscles, lymph nodes, spleen, liver, heart, bone marrow, kidney, lung, stomach, rectum, intestines, testes, and brain.

One of the main draws of using the lipid nanoparticle as a delivery mechanism for other payloads in the past has specifically been that the lipid nanoparticle can readily cross the brain-blood barrier (BBB). And the EMA paper/quotation referenced above seems to verify that this is, in fact, the case.

A question that both platforms have to contend with is: "what, if any, risks are associated with having your cells producing and expressing a pathogenic antigen that your immune system is to identify and attack?" But one that the lipid nanoparticle delivery system has to contend with is the same question, but in the context that it has very little differentiation WRT where it is going to be deployed and expressed.

With the viral vector vaccines, the delivery mechanism is a living virus, and has much more predictable infection pathways. For one, our bodies have millions of years of evolution for dealing with viral infection, and particularly safeguarding the parts of our body least desirable for infection. Viruses have a very hard time crossing the blood brain barrier, whereas lipid nanoparticles do not.

There are, meanwhile, concerns associated with the viral vector vaccines which are not associated with the mRNA vaccines, but I've yet to see this sufficiently addressed as a major shortcoming of the mRNA platform. Targeted delivery is a very important topic in the world of gene therapies, and seems to have been completely neglected in the available platforms.
It's not like anyone ever drives exactly that speed anyway. It's all approximations. We don't need 4 digits of precision here.
You can do Android with the C backend, but that's through some Java interop hackery, and there isn't anything in the ecosystem that would make Nim attractive for mobile development
Forensic analysis to answer which question?
I'm convinced that procrastination is not the problem with social media - it is FOMO. In this regard social media are not all equal, there is a hierarchy. In this way hackernews as social media is nearly a misnomer, I am not being projected upon by the perfect life of a billion people, algorithmically picked by my insecurities.
And her daughter won 2 Olympic gold medals! That family must be intense!
It's possible that they found out that the vast majority of users don't disable the notifications so you would fall in the minority who do. Still worth it for them
The Right to Record is clearly protected under provisions of international human rights standards such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights that protect freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the right to information.
I suppose so, if you look at the exacerbation of economic inequality, starvation (+15 million worldwide), and deaths of despair caused by the lockdowns and associated interventions. Seemingly no one minds that.
(I'm aphantasic) one weird thing about aphantasia is that spatial awareness is often actually better in aphantasics. I have an extremely good internal mapping system but none of it is visualised - I just seem to know where I am in relation to other things around me.
> When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years.

Huh, I've not had that issue with the documents I've worked with in the best part of a decade.

What is it that's different for you? Page layout, text wrapping/length, image support, table formatting? Something else?

What platform are you using, and if you're not on Windows do you have the equivalent-metric Liberation font families installed so that docs which rely on non-redistributable proprietary Microsoft fonts can be rendered properly?

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/08/libreoff...
The right to record is a human right.
^^^ An excellent event, which I hope more HN'ers will check out!

(If you're in Vienna, Austria, you can go to the Retro Gaming Museum and see the winning entries on a real computer, in person..)
The issue with the CPS implementation here is that the compile times are too slow, and there are several restrictions due to flaws and limitations of the compiler. That's the reason CPS in the compiler is a big deal. I've used the CPS lib you're showing before, and it's very nice, but the compile times make it absolutely useless for productive development.
I hear their TV sets actually look like a cloudy sky when they're tuned to a dead channel.
This argument is often brought up as “proof” that socialism doesn’t work, yet completely ignores the reality of late-stage capitalism.

Of course boomers love capitalism when in the 60s a factory worker could easily pay off a huge house, two brand new cars every 3 years, and support a family of 5 on a single income.

But that isn’t capitalism today. Young people are working themselves into the ground just to share a room in a house with 6 other people, barely able to put food on the table.

What do you suppose the current generation will say about capitalism when they get old?

Wealth is flowing from poor people to rich people at an ever increasing rate. It’s no wonder alternative economic systems are gaining in popularity.
Some places never locked down, like Sweden and South Dakota, and their death rate wasn't significantly higher. Overall there's no evidence that lockdowns actually reduced mortality: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737 .

>Using an event study approach and data from 43 countries and all U.S. states, we measure changes in excess deaths following the implementation of COVID-19 shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. We do not find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier had lower excess deaths. We do not observe differences in excess deaths before and after the implementation of SIP policies, even when accounting for pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates.
Governments could have avoided shutting down if they had been willing to accept much larger numbers of deaths. In the US, that would have meant somewhere around a million more deaths.
As soon as I get to a point where I would normally get zero notifications from FB/IG, they invent a new way to give me a notification. Always.

Usually it's something like "Group x has a new post, click to read it now!" where X is a group I haven't visited in years and would never give me a notification before. So I click "Only get notifications for friends posts in this group" and then it happens again with one-three other random groups the next week.

It's all about trying to get the user to spend the most amount of time in the app.
>I don’t know what else they could do

They could remove the comment section entirely. They've had some version of a comment section for almost two decades now and at no point during that time have they succeeded at cultivating a platform wide culture for interesting comments.

Flame wars were obviously bad and negative. Generic positive comments are slightly better but they still do not say anything interesting related to the content of the video.

At this point, comments could just as well exist out-of-band on other platforms that have figured out how to foster discussions better (hint: extensive manual moderation is required, which Google will never provide).
I feel like there's way too many discoveries of ancient civilization dated 10-15k years ago to not think that "some" of his ideas must have some truth to it.

Obviously I understand that he might have exaggerated a lot of it.
> One of the insane defaults is Microsoft OneDrive. If you setup Windows with a Microsoft Account it automatically configures OneDrive. Which in turn moves the Desktop, Documents and Pictures folder into the OneDrive folder. I expect "My Documents" to be located at "C:\Users\<username>\Documents" NOT "C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive\Documents".

I would consider this a direct attack, not only on my own privacy but also on the businesses of my clients. That is hostile action that should make Windows an absolute no-go for anyone who wants to use it for work.

None of this made you think before you moved to this atrocity? Did you not learn anything? That's like being the poster child of the blasé user who obediently holds still while they are being abused.
Indeed you are right, just the other ones.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-shots-previous-inf...

> Unvaccinated, infected inmates had an estimated 36% risk of spreading the virus, compared with 28% among infected vaccinees. After adjustment, any vaccination, previous infection alone, and both vaccination and previous infection cut the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by 22%, 23%, and 40%, respectively.

> Booster doses and more recent vaccination further lowered infectiousness among vaccinated inmates, with each dose conferring an 11% risk reduction; the risk of transmission rose 6% for every 5 weeks that had elapsed since the last shot.
Except in London, where hearing a siren is so common people (other than drivers) don't react.
Europe’s Faustian Bargain
If there is no way to transfer the disk to another machine, it's not a disk I want to use. I think that there are very few use cases for losing all the data when a machine dies.

And if there is a procedure to let me move the disk to a new machine, somebody can wrench me until I perform that procedure for them.
What data is that? That data on lockdowns suggests that they didn't reduce overall excess mortality: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737

>Using an event study approach and data from 43 countries and all U.S. states, we measure changes in excess deaths following the implementation of COVID-19 shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. We do not find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier had lower excess deaths. We do not observe differences in excess deaths before and after the implementation of SIP policies, even when accounting for pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates.