skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was interesting.

Stereo wideners (a switch made to cause music to sound wider in audio 3D space) work very similar to the Dolby3D, except with equalization instead of colour filtering.

Dolby3d takes chunks of red, green and blue, and filters them so the left and right eye are seeing slightly different reds, greens and blues in a way that isn't easily detected by the person viewing them. Both eyes see apparently normal views, but together they see a stereo image.

Stereo audio wideners take a set of audio frequencies, lowering their EQ on one side while raising them an equivalent amount on the other, so that the left and right ears are hearing different equalization that still sound reasonably normal.

It makes sense that Dolby is the primary name associated to both technologies. They are pretty much the same left-right reversed comb filters, except light frequencies versus sound frequencies.
I have heard anecdotally from streamers that YouTube still pays better than any other platform all other things being equal (so long as you don't touch any topics that YouTube likes to regularly demonetize).
Right. Most clinical trials don’t work out. Even the ones that do often involve a placebo group. Participating in a trial is probably most suitable for someone interested in altruistically helping to advance medicine. Expecting to get a personal benefit from participating is probably misguided thinking in most situations, unfortunately.

[Edited]: I should clarify that I mean phase 1/2 trials where there’s no efficacy data yet in humans. Phase 3 is a different matter.
Great to hear, I love using Harvest. But could you please finally fix the (not so) new mobile app (iOS)? There are so many tiny issues that I stopped reporting them to your support.

The app state constantly gets out of sync with server state (some changes on the server only show up after a force reload, some changes on the client just revert after pressing save)

And the time tracking UX is so annoying (buttons that are only visible if you scroll down, start/stop/restart/delete buttons are constantly at different locations, depending on the state of the item).

The old app was not pretty, but it worked without issues.
What mechanisms successfully address this?
I find it pretty funny that someone posted about the Pan American highway yesterday, and then the Darien gap today. It’s interesting how ignorant most HN’ers are just south of the USA.

The user PanamaNewb covered most of it correctly. It’s still a dangerous area. There are famous bloggers that have gone missing and literally only their bones have come back. The famous one thus far is: http://travelswithmitzi.blogspot.com/2018/10/killed-in-darie... Jan Philip

Most people mistake the issue there as a technical or engineering one. It isn’t. It’s political and human centric. The indigenous people don’t have a true connection or believe in the government of Panama or Colombia. Go back over a century and the whole land was just Colombia, but Roosevelt (yes, that US president!) wanted the a Canal thru Panama and thus Panama became a country.

Decades later it came up again for road construction but it was already heavily used for smuggling and other curious business. During the 60s through 90s it came up a lot for the cocaine trade. When that was gone, the power vacuum created a few gorilla militants that aligned themselves with the indigenous- most notably the FARC.

That doesn’t really exist anymore, but the people that belonged to several faction still do and many still have revenue from passage or related business.

Most people that need to legitimately get through just take a ferry to Turbo and vice Versa. The migrants walking through is a new phenomena in the volume that try to go through. If you can read Spanish and can find the telegram/signal groups you can even get day by day news of what happens and which days the migrants are told to wait and not try. It correlates to some curious activity or so I understand.

Most people outside of South America lack the understand the above history and the dynamics in general of this graft. But before you point fingers - everyone most likely is somewhat related from Panama to Panama military, Colombia and Colombian military. The anti government groups and the idginious people.

Tl;dr no one wants change except government of Colombia and people on the internet that have no idea of what happens there. Colombia government wants to build roads and tunnels for trade and then eventually enforce laws. But the later always has bad outcomes in Colombia.
SAT – MIT 6.890 [video]
Skimming/embezzlement happens at reserves.

The Fed wouldn't even let Germany view its bars.

And a partial transfer isn't a 100% verification.

I like to trust people and politicians can waste resources, but that situation was weird.
> Lastly, I think it would be really neat to make a game that used this technique to render 3d.

See the 1994 game "Magic Carpet" for this and some other weird 3D-modes including an early VR helmet.

edit: the only brief clip I can find online that actually lets you experience the effect:

https://youtu.be/3qiIXbfQjA0?si=NLKv8Bs3EyW-lZX4&t=62

but I did find a modern platformer:

https://managore.itch.io/stereogram
Yeah, the parent is nothing beside a long-winded appeal to American exceptionalism, which is tantamount to a defense of corrupt, rent-seeking regime that almost every other wealthy democracy has avoided. I struggle to find why anyone thinks it insightful vs. demonstrative of the tedious lengths one has to go to obfuscate and engage in these apologetics. The US is only a special case in that it is remarkably unrestrained in how much it allows the rich to harm the poor relative to other first world countries.
so much this. Also,
(1) if you are laying with 500V you should be careful.
(2) cheap DMM will typically also survive (ask me how I know)
(3) You can destroy 10 cheap DMM before is more rentable a durable Fluke
Also by the authors of Habitat, Randy and Chip, presented at the Second International Conference on Cyberspace:

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: My Postmodern Adventure, by Chip Morningstar, June 1993.

"Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right." -- Donald Norman

http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html
False dichotomy much? That is not an argument against the parent's observation per se. One can imagine a culture that is organized, not hollow, and not only for the rich
The way this should work is that providers have to publish their prices for each service and then insurers publish how much they pay regardless of where you go, which might be something like 90% of the median price, i.e. the equivalent of a 10% copay.

But then the patient can go to whichever provider they want. The one across the street from you charges $3000 more than the one which is a two hour drive away? It's your $3000 and it's your two hours each way.

You might even find a provider that charges less than your insurance pays, and then you could put the balance in your HSA for the next time it isn't.

We keep trying to pretend that some important price negotiation is happening between bureaucracies that has to be preserved, but a CT scan for example is a standard service. If the prices had to be published and put in a database where patients can see them, you don't need anyone to negotiate anything, people would just choose the one with the best price absent some specific reason to do otherwise, which would exert a downward pressure on prices that doesn't currently exist.
Look at what’s happening in Ukraine, a trench with logs and sandbags is a serious fortification.

Artillery is very dangerous in war and a concrete bunker enables a team to work an anti tank weapon or machine gun and hold a position.
Also, having looked at their lineup recently, the number of Ubuntu laptops they offer really seems to have gone down
The population does not matter for the aerospace industry, you're not making roads or railway tracks, or manufacturing millions of the same thing.
So the reason you don't go for FIRE is because things might go badly and you'd be left in a situation where you had to find a job, with nothing but the big huge chunk of money you'd saved to see you through?

As opposed to?
I want the bell bottoms, long nails, and pierced ears.
I don't think that what you're saying and what I'm saying are mutually exclusive at all. Science is how we tease out truths about reality. Language is about how we communicate and is closely linked with cognition.
I see nothing weird here, Microsoft has been punishing OEM manufacturers for bundling Linux (or, more precisely, for not bundling a MS system on the computers they are selling) since at least 1983.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
In the modern era everyone is rich to their standards.
And all European Union countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland or the United Kingdom offer a European healthcare card when traveling.
https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=559
It wasn't the first computer they've made, or at least had their name on[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
ProseMirror and CodeMirror, been using them in a project for a while, the documentation is a little bit hard to approach though, but once you got used to with all the concepts, it's just great.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Book by Robert M. Pirsig

Crime and Punishment
Novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Book by Daniel Kahneman

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Book by Michael Lewis
These old ones still had a proper S3 sleep support. The new Dells are on the "modern standby" crap pushed by Microsoft and deep sleep doesn't work on any OS. Somehow we managed to regress, it's no longer safe to just close your laptop and put it to your backpack. (few times I did that with my Precision 5550, it got so hot I was afraid the battery will explode)
admins, can you all change the title to say £15?

imagine if you could somehow sum up the total aggregate cognitive drain accumulated by every HN reader outside the UK wondering why children need such heavy computers
Tried it out, got the same results. Also in Canada.

I'll assume some retail magic, Microsoft subsidy, and the life-in-Canada tax.
That’s not how sales works. At all.
Atomic Rocket
Understanding Big O Notation: A Simplified Guide for Programmers
Still waiting for passkey support. Looking through github, it feels like it is still pretty far off.
Europe has a better social safety network and wants people to have more kids.
I'm not sure why this is an issue with a long running system. Business requirements change, knowledge changes, cost structures change, etc... Unfortunately the world isn't static. I'm not sure about you, but when the facts change I also try to change.
Yes. The bottom 1%’s clothing will always be more indicative of the average clothes of the time than the top 1%’s.
I can't believe I didn't know Julia Child was a spy. That is very cool.

I have trouble imagining any of the vapid narcissists of today's stardom being able to pull something like that off.

Who would be the most likely candidate?
You'd still expect to see them in the offices. Some of these places run > 10'000 devices. All dell. Not a Lenovo on site. Maybe dell just had a better salesman up this neck of the woods. I was a Lenovo and Dell tech at the time so it's not like I wasn't sent to work on them. Just bugger all of them around here. I was the only warranty tech for like 250km.
Maybe, but I don't buy a bit better modulation cutting braking distance in half.
https://www.enotes.com/topics/legend-el-dorado/critical-essa...
None of that is how sales works. “Just try harder” is bad advice in basically any context.

Everyone in this thread is trying to point out to you that your assumptions about sales are the same as the LoC assumption that equivalently clueless people make about software.
> Telemedicine? No: on May 11, the feds declared an end of the “public health emergency” that allowed telemedicine across state lines.

The people holding back telehealth should be uhhhhh asked to reconsider.
Yes indeed!

Our youth is when the majority of what we do is try things out to see what fits and what doesn't. In our older years, most of that experimentation is behind us and we have a pretty solid idea of what fits us and what doesn't.

The trick is that the amount of experimentation should never be reduced to zero.
What matters to do anything big, is mainly to have ressources avaiable. Then you can buy things you need and pay people to work on that.

And I think we still have lots of enthusiastic space nerds as well - we just don't have any big company or project to draw them together, like Space-X or NASA did. All of the german/european projects are pretty fragmented.
Open source firmware is mostly funded by hyperscalers; the consumer side (Purism/System76/Dasharo) is a small sideshow in comparison (for now). Ultimately open source firmware is less locked-down than proprietary firmware and the way to encourage more openness in the future is to buy open source firmware now. Is there any specific feature you want?
Right underneath that I say:

"But then you say add it up with symbol counts and cyclomatic complexity and the average of the three should counterweight any inaccuracies that stem from each individual metric.... but does any of these metrics have anything to do with good design as our intuition defines it? I would say No."

I understood your objective here. But my counter to it is much longer than the first paragraph. You'll have to read the whole thing carefully. There are several reasons why your approach doesn't qualify as theory and why it has problems. It's more of a statistical or analytical average then it is a formal theory.
Are you guys sure that the algorithm’s goal isn’t to shove down your throat a slightly related topic to make you exposed to it, in case you’ll like it? There are a few interests of mine which I found after clicking some recommended video after resisting it for a month.
So what? TFA is not about the working class nor does it need to be. Why this fixation on comparing yourselves with the poor?
Thousands of people died during the construction of the Panama Canal as well. The Path Between the Seas is a good book covering it.

As I recall, food was “refrigerated” by the workers in nested, open pots submerged in water. …which happened to be an excellent breeding place for mosquitoes. Malaria and yellow fever would kill or cripple every worker present, and the country du jour had to keep shipping more in. Bleak stuff.

France saw like 20,000 workers die alone. Rainforests really are not a great place to live, lol
Cruise autonomous vehicles outperform humans in a comparable driving environment
Ok, this is one end of the sarcastic stereotype, but the other end is that:

No one needs to take responsibility anymore, live life to the full, have sex with 200 people, take drugs and experiment, and eventually at 40 try and have a child with IVF because at that point that’s your only shot. If you don’t like who you had it with after 5 years, just leave them, it’s fine. Oh and then pass off your children’s moral social education to bad schools.

That’s also not a good plan. Neither is the one you talked about, but society definitely needs to find a golden middle ground, because something is really bad right now. The progressive liberal path really doesn’t work in the long run.
Fumes from leaded solder, rosin, flux, are on the order of 100x more harmful than lead free
According to the US Dept of Education a 4 year Bachelor degree at Western Michigan University will cost at least $110,001. Certainly this is too high.
I suspect this happened because when DELL first launched laptops with Linux, it gave them some surprising bad press. Certainly the most famous being the woman who apparently was dropping out of college as a result of accidentally ordering a Ubuntu DELL laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbI

This probably seems like a weird one-off, but this story went pretty viral, of course it went viral on the internet for other reasons, but I'm sure the blame being placed squarely on DELL probably did lead to them being a bit spooked about consumer confusion.

The fact that nobody at DELL or elsewhere could just tell her that she can in fact, pretty easily install Windows on the machine is... well, a little frustrating to say the least. The college's IT department was aware enough of Linux to be able to say they can handle it, but not enough to say "Y'know, just for what it's worth... You can just buy and install Windows."
Interesting book for its day. Given (original) NT's very obvious Mach and Unix influences, it always seemed odd that the book didn't mention them. There was also something about missing TCP/IP networking that made me laugh about the networking chapter. The chapter on NTFS also misses that NTFS is mildly simplified FILES-11.

Totally missed explaining why COFF object files were chosen.
I don't understand how using fiber connector for audio fixes coil whine, as coil whine is audible noise generated by the GPU, not noise generated on the analog audio transport. In this case I think the problem would be EMI generated by the GPU, not coil whine- unless audible coil whine is associated with EMI.
Does the father whose daughter didn’t come home from school care if the “civilian casualty” was deliberate or accidental?

“Stop killing kids” sounds much more impactful than “establish rules of engagement to minimize collateral damage”. Language matters.

Similarly: Does the worker without a job care whether they were fired, laid off, or affected by a reduction in force? Probably not. But “affected by a reduction in force” sure makes it easier for leadership to press the button.
Microsoft Comic Chat -- they had Jim Woodring do the comic book characters and environmental graphics!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Woodring

https://www.jimwoodring.com/
Obligatory note that it’s unethical to do a real control experiment at society wide levels, so we will never untangle causation/correlation.
I can see the similarities. That said, there is an advantage to allowing a bit of hubris in young teams. It is a gambit that can uncover absurd progress.

There is also a bit of the established problems obfuscating themselves. Such that it is easy to see many new workers have been given the run around many times.
Germany has the same fertility rate as Japan.
Right?

What is this thing about some groups being "off limits" while others are fetishized and babied?

There's no longer anything "brave" in making a joke about a "safe group" to joke about.

In today's day and age since trans is the new sacred cow amongst certain crowds in the Western world, it seems natural that that would be the subject of jokes.
> I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium

I see this kind of language all the time on HN. Reminds me of "This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body". The context was Microsoft closing the support forum for some keyboard software they hadn't updated in years.

The top comment from that thread seems relevant: People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.
There’s a little segment where he talks about that! It blew me away because he so casually mentions how it happened as a side project. I hope someday I can manage to put something that impressive together in my free time.
Ah that’s great to hear!!! I unfortunately don’t have access to VR but that’s going to be at the top of my list when I do.
> Where are the dads?

> One of the biggest issues is that women seem to be giving up on men, particularly those without college degrees

this is about what i would expect from npr

it has nothing to do with welfare starting in the 1960s where you can visibly see a breakup in families by incentivizing divorce, its.... college
natural experiments to the rescue!
> and wants people to have more kids.

That doesn't seem to be the case. The last 60 years saw plenty of anti family propaganda (same like in the US) and the numbers confirm that trend.

The only people keeping the number of kids per family high are immigrants from Africa / Middle East who haven't been indoctrinated for 60 years.
OK, in Czechia:

- there is a big debate if doctors should serve 24 hours without break (non stop) in hospital.

- doctors may be forced to operate after 24 hours of non stop work. I know for fact anesthesiologist who did so. We have VERY strict regulations for truck drivers to only drive 8 hours per day...

- there are no basic medications in pharmacy, like penicillin or anti fever sirup for kids

- you pay 8% medical income tax (it is called insurance), but there is no chance to find dentist or GP. So you go private an pay it out of pocket

- no chance to sue doctor or hospital for mistreatment. I could tell stories about tampons and tools forgotten inside patient...

- we have highest numbers of doctors per capita in Europe, yet system is very inefficient

- doctors spend about 40% of their time with paperwork

- base salary for doctor (without overtimes) is very low, they would not even qualify for mortgage..

- once I waited 12 hours at emergency room in public hospital (with life threatening condition), at end I gave up, and went to private clinic. I took second job to pay it...
True, of course, but miniaturization is always lurking in the background of every big physics project. When I was in college, we had a Nobel laureate in physics that won the race to photograph an atom by figuring out how to do it on a tabletop. While everyone else was figuring out how to build bigger and bigger systems, he worked out how to trap a single (I think) cadmium ion with magnets and make it glow.
Regular Chrome and Safari on a regular iPhone
Too slow. Every 2 years would be better - tax accountant included.
> never been able to reliably wake from sleep. Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Windows 11- it doesn’t matter.

Same, with other Dells. There was one where I analyzed the BIOS ACPI tables and concluded it was impossible to wake from sleep on any OS, due to bugs I've found: I can't find my old post, but https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/kolf5f/patching_the_d... is a good summary.

Error on Dell ACPI tables are usual: for the 5510, see https://gist.github.com/jamal-fuma/17d2d605280a52376326384c4...

I also remember someone doing deeping ACPI table modifications to limit the power draw on the Xeon Laptops. I can't find the link right now, but IIRC it was related to the PCH powergating.

These issues plague the whole line. For another analysis (and confirmation), this time on how deep C states (very important for temperature and for sleep) can only be reached one after boot, see https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/precision-mo...
I love the subject matter of Halt and Catch fire but felt let down by the story telling.
Everything cyclical. I for one miss the loose fitting jeans of the late 90s/early oughts, which were largely replaced by skinny jeans.

Now I'm older and don't care about fashion, so just wear carpenter jeans. But it seems like skinny pants are still in style, apparently in sweatpants form?
Look forward to the future write -up of how a Zookeeper issue nuked their entire Mesos stack.
Yes! Absolutely this is a problem. The 3x factor is very real. Of course you have to still factor in the medical insurance, and evtl. University tuition, if you have kids. But even with that, you are looking at 2x effective.
You are free to live any where but most people live near jobs. Great rhat you can get a 10k house in Detroit… bad cause there are no jobs.