skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are just trying to make mixes for playing offline, you can use producing software like Reaper. You can be a lot more creative since you have more audio processing tools available, like adding compressors to equalize the volume to make it sound better everywhere.

If you are trying to dj in a performance sense, you really need a controller. When mixing songs into one another, there is often 2/3 things you have to do at once which is hard to do without dedicated knobs. But in this case, software really doesn't matter for basic functionality. As other said, mixxx is very good, and is very customizable - you can write javascript for any control. The paid software have a few more features, namely stems, which allow you to isolate vocals/instrumental/drums on the fly (whereas before you had to have separate tracks for each), which can make mixes sound a little bit clearer.

For complete info, if you are really trying to get into DJing from a performance standpoint, I highly recommend a standalone controller, namely Denon Prime Go.
You act as though Safari doesn't have a significant market presence.

Safari is not good enough as a bulwark of the free web. It's only available on Apple platforms and doesn't support ad-blockers as robust as FF.

Microsoft developed new web technologies and then patented them

What patented web technologies are you thinking of? ActiveX controls?

The situation today with Google is markedly different.

Sure. Microsoft wanted to lock you into IE and Windows.

Google wants to lock you into Chrome and ensure that the web is utterly bent to serve their advertising platform.

If you don't understand the massive commonality here -- which, again, is domination and ownership of the web -- because you're focused on implementation details, I don't know what to tell you.
https://react.dev/learn is so slow on my phone, it takes 1.5s to open the burger menu, and about 1s to jump to a section. (Google pixel 5a). It must be some SPA that loads the whole documentation all at once I presume. A traditional MPA would probably work much better here.

edit: and like the sibling comment noted, the history back button gets messed up.
edit2: I mistakingly wrote nexus 5a instead of pixel 5a
Isn't there an obvious confounding variable here where probably the hearing-aid using population has bad hearing, and if their hearing aid was not updated then it's more likely they would develop dementia? So the results from the paper could technically be true for the subset of hearing aid users that don't go for checkups.
Doesn't China building so many civilian reactors mean they are getting more experience and more specialized workforce in nuclear energy than anyone else? How can the west compete if most nations reject the atom and the ones who don't either have minuscule numbers or focus more on military reactors?
From my understanding, Palantir is mostly successful because of it's utility as a data aggregator within an organization. So yeah, you have to know how to use the tools available but it's not going to stop anyone from coming to the wrong conclusion.
That's what they're concerned about?!? I've never done so much drugs that I purchased Twitter in a massively leveraged deal just to red-pill gullible incels to build a cult of personality around me.
> What really annoys me in these situations is how the institutions show loyalty to the people who did research misconduct.

"Loyalty" means different things to different people, and not necessarily "doing what that party wants".

So, if you don't call this "loyalty", it might be easier to imagine more of the possible/likely reasons for doing something that coincides with what that party wants, in an instance.
> It seems deeply wrong to continue to participate and to pay taxes into a system that one has no confidence in. What seems more likely is that morality never played a role in this decision, and instead its a scapegoat for not taking personal responsibility for one's role in the system.

I have a moral responsibility not to participate in unjust wars, it absolutely was a moral decision. I assume there are very many like me.
Windows 2000 wasn’t the version before Windows XP for most people though. It was Windows ME. Most people would not have experienced 2000.

Windows 2000 was the last of the separate business targeted operating systems.

Therefore I’d argue the nostalgia isn’t misplaced because most people under 45 just couldn’t have the nostalgia for 2000 to begin with.

XP unified the two lines into one OS with multiple SKUs instead of completely different kernels.
I think the point is more that "OS Components" - updates, drivers, optional components-- are an entirely different universe than "third-party and purchasable content", which is what you'd expect the "store" to focus on.

They should not be using basic OS features as a wedge to make sure you open that precious Store icon and log in. Nobody wants that, and the only person who needs it is some mid-manager at Microsoft whose bonus is tied to store numbers.
I'd be curious to know how these systems manage with dissolved soap, partially dissolved skin cells, hair, etc.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240107125230/https://www.aljaz...
Honestly, I don't get why we don't just submit to OpenReview and call it a day. Paper is visible and distributed. There are comment sections where peer review can not just happen, but happen in the open (added bonus!). You can iterate and even see the difference between submissions. What is the conference/journal providing that isn't covered here? A stamp of approval? From a well known noisy system that creates other disincentives?
Theses at my time were about 200 pages long. A friend of mine wrote two tomes.

I clearly stated that I would not waste my time and the reviewers are free to provide comments and we will see during the defense.

I found out that a lot of these "rules" are traditions that one can challenge and suddenly they are not traditions anymore.
What time period? That must be pre Windows 7? Or do you mean like a pre activated or volume licensed version? I'm not sure what you mean by official ISO. As far as I'm aware, since 7, you could just download it. Licensing was obviously as separate issue though.
What a good idea.
My ideal blogging platform would be one I could send an email to from a throwaway account, plain text, one image max, Subject becomes the heading, signature the authors name and done - post published.

For real blogging we could maybe each have one Honest Static website, on a shared host with no comment functionality.

I think its ok to pay hosting to make what I write freely available. File Format could be plaintext, possibly even html. Offline editing would be a side effect but I am not sure about richtext editing. Tablet editing would be ok with an attached keyboard I guess, oh and if anything is game I might use the editor on my machine actually.
Yes, MP4, sorry for the typo :).

I believe in such places the cost of service and maintenance is many multiples the cost of the initial installation. A $20 "720p hdmi stick" from aliexpress vs a $300 mac mini is a no brainer. 100 mac minis will work reliably and predictably for years to come, whereas 100 random $20-$50 sticks sounds like something that needs constant supervision and maintenance.

That said, a RPi might be enough, depends on the software. That's why FrameOS has HDMI support, to work for such cases. It's still pretty far from being a turnkey solution today, but we could easily get there with some focus at the right time.
Zstd too. IOW the single-file header (or .c/.h) is a build artifact, like a .dll.
Ask HN: Auto-Update for Server Software?
I’ve always used Heroku over AWS because I often step away from my projects and don’t want to deal with eg applying small security patches to Postgres. Heroku’s managed service does this for me.

Desktop software has auto-updated for a long time. Is “auto-updating server software” a thing?

This seems ideal. It would provide the security of a managed service at the cost of dedicated hardware.
Rust + Probe-rs + my own HAL + KiCad + JLCPCB.
And nothing sucks like a Vax(TM)
Related: NYT sues OpenAI, Microsoft over 'millions of articles' used to train ChatGPT. 2023 December 27. <https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/the_new_york_times_fi...>

Discussion on HN (86 comments; original submission title: 'A business model based on mass copyright infringement'): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784194>
Initial impression after a few minutes of use: there may be a huge amount of power here, but the app and site seem to be completely lacking guidance and I've no idea what to do or how to learn.

I've installed it on my Mac and am trying to add a set of records representing contacts with a couple of basic fields: name, phone, birthdate. I want to query those records elsewhere in other modules.

The app is giving no guidance on how to do this. On open, it just shows me a blank tab, and I had to try a few different controls to work out how to add a module. I don't know which module I should use to add queryable records, so I'm trying Board.

Now that I've added a board, I can add a first record but there doesn't seem to be a way to add a second. There are columns named "None" and "Unnamed"; the one named "None" has the first contact in it. Pressing the "+" button in the corner adds another column. Eventually, I drag the record from "None" to "Unnamed"; "None" disappears, now there's just "Unnamed", and I can add other records.

I'll keep playing with it a little, but there's only so far that people can be expected to try to work out the usage model that you've designed this for. Sure, there are loads of modules, but how do they link together? An example setup for a fictional team might really help here.
I tried the "Doc", "Sheet" and "Slide" feature and each of them are incomplete and lacks most of the popular features. It would be better if the author uses existing solutions instead of implement them from ground up.

editor.js [0] for documents and Grist [1] for spreadsheet are some good examples.

[0]: https://editorjs.io/
[1]: https://www.getgrist.com/
When using pandas in Python you are encouraged to keep each “chained operation “ on its own line.

(MyDict
[family]
[subfamily]
[element]
[property_a]
[value]
)

I honestly think all suggestions here are equally bad in their own regards.
As mentioned below, a different sword is called Kukris. In Norwegian and Swedish, we have the word "kuk" that is a slang for the similarly named English "cock"

Maybe there is a connection there as well?
Non-superhero comics have been outselling superhero comics in the US for many years. DC and Marvel have been trying to maintain their traditional model, including comic book shops, for decades now; it doesn't work.

The problem is compounded by the fact that Americans see animation and comics as something for children while the US entertainment industry pumps out unsophisticated drivel. There are countless anime series and movies that are more emotionally and intellectually complex than most live action entertainment produced in the US.
Propagandizing isn’t the word I’d use. I feel like we’re really watering down with propaganda actually is. If someone wants to write about a particular issue they can. You can prefer they don’t, which means you should buy it.
How far can you take this? Porn is on Facebook, Reddit, and Youtube. Will you need to verify your ID for social media as well? That's not even getting into Stable Diffusion and other tools that could be used to create your own porn on demand.
Would be really interesting to see where the anti-nuclear sentiment in germany formented from
That introduces a new problem when it syncs to others in the same workspace, if it’s large.
Exactly. You posted coincidentally just as I edited my post to add that distinction as well, because I saw other comments missing that path distinction. (Just in case anyone later thinks you’re just reiterating my comment)

Most people under 45 wouldn’t have experienced 2000 for that reason.
> if employees you never heard of 5 reporting lines below you screw up badly enough?

Sounds like a good way to encourage execs to prioritize safety systemically.

In either case, of course negligent decisions on part of the C-suite would be considered.

> sudden collapse of the entire industry that would be a fast way to do it.

Compensations would increase accordingly. The industry would be fine.
Threshold in what sense?
I’m skeptical that content quality is as high. Movies especially are stumbling, and many streaming service originals seem very derivative or written by algorithms.

Now content quantity is enormous, but that just makes separating the wheat from the chaff even harder.
No telemetry is anonymous, these days it's trivial to associate an IP with any number of personally identifying factors. All you need is partners.
Hey would love to connect. I am not on Twitter/X tho. Discord?
I often would rather go home from work an hour earlier than sit and eat lunch for an hour. It's as simple as that, really.
Browsing is slow but not that unusable. firefox-esr is in the repos; I prefer palemoon but I'll take what I can get. Gnumeric is faster than LO; both are in the repos. The Broadcom blobs for that Gateway machine are sadly out of date, so I yanked the wifi module out entirely; ethernet works fine, though in most cases I use it landlocked. The editor I prefer (jstar) is TUI, so I mostly work out of xterms.

Use-cases? Remote and while-you-wait work, RS232 and ethernet test console. It's bigger than a netbook but it's what I've got, so I lug it around.
was the Windows 7 nearly 8 era.

Was running 2012R2 on the server, there were copies available online of the evaluation edition if you submitted your details, but they wouldn't join a KMS server unless you manually intervened to change the “edition” from evaluation - Joining the domain didnt fix it.

2014-2018 for that directx + download anecdote
PSA: Total Solar Eclipse (April 8, 2024)
No, it's an argument from logic that applies to any claim that any given entity can do things that are not computable.

> Until you actually do draw the rest of the owl, it's not exactly "religious" to say there's no owl.

The "real owl" here is to assume the human brain does something non-computable, in violation of all known physics and logic.
the US invented shopping malls, but China is writing their next chapter
You can also find hardware on which Linux will install just fine. We should blame to OS for driver issues or not, either way, but we can’t have a double standard.
Reminds me of the old joke about an app for finding local playgrounds being misused in that exact same way you are implying.
This is really impressive.

Please keep in mind all feedback here in context with whether they have shipped anything this broad and through on their own.

2 questions:

- I like what you have said about E2EE, is there any chance the implementation could become zero knowledge encryption?

- There likely may be interest in the world where users will pay to be able to self host this, while you can continue to maintain and develop
first step to solving any problem is accepting that the problem exists.

"How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks"

Well for starters, accept that social media is being manipulated in real time by AI to not just increase engagement, but also to manipulate users opinions for the agendas of whoever is paying.

Anywhere bots can emulate actual users, this is running rampant. Places like reddit are more bots than actual users.

Whatever happened to the huge bot problem that twitter had? Musk pointed it out then bought it and went all quiet on the subject. It's almost like after buying twitter, he learned the bots WERE twitter and with those, massive influence can be had.

AI is just a tool, the threat to democracy was when lobbying became legal.

Sorry to sound so defeatist-- until LITERALLY BRIBING is illegal, I hope no one expects change. The system is profitable and will resist all attempts to get away from how it is.

People are getting the best politics money can buy at this point.
I guess I’ve always been lucky with Windows, it has always resolved all my devices automagically. The only thing I need to manually install is the drivers for my UAD Octo card.

The last but one Linux Mint install I did didn’t even recognise the mouse and keyboard I had plugged in, haha! (The installer recognised them, but not the OS post install!) It turned out I needed a slightly different flavour of mint, but yeah, the average user might even throw in the towel at that point.
> Windows 2000 wasn’t the version before Windows XP for most people though.

That's probably a fair observation. Windows 2000 came out before Windows ME, so it you had just a slight interest in computers, you'd try it out and after that Windows 98 and even ME felt like a downgrade, so you'd stay on 2000. I remember getting an beta release of Windows 2000 in late December 1999 and that was basically it, every other version of Windows since then, even XP was a downgrade.
Please refrain from ad hominem and guilt by association.
I also see at least one car without a plate every day I drive in my metropolitan area. Perhaps other areas are more rigorous. But certainly there’s also Portland (Oregon) or Berkeley (California), where the police no longer allow it:

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/06/portland-police-wil...

The only time I was stopped for a missing rear plate in my ~week of waiting for new car plates a couple years ago, was once by the state police. I imagine it’s because I had a new car and they were confused about how I ended up without plates, which was definitely an unusual scenario.
Human Development Index (HDI)
Sure, Windows has no issues. It's why no one actually works supporting Windows.

I seriously doubt you've ever even seen a large scale Windows deployment and spend all your time on your "creative software". Is that Powerpoint by any chance?
Snap. You nixed the blue flash too?

/* No blue swipe on tabs when loaded */
.tabbrowser-tab .tab-loading-burst {
display: none !important;
}

Can't find the original reference, looks like plenty of others though, e.g.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/11js1cuprevent_...
> You knowing your subnet is not the issue. The other party needs to know it.

You misunderstood, knowing subnet is an option for discovery of nearby peers. If you know your subnet you can scan it in reasonable amount of time. Otherwise you'd have to scan the whole IPv4 space (or worse IPv6 space).

> WebRTC needs info about where to try to connect. It doesn’t specify the signaling method which is how you get that information and share it.

Yes.

> If you’re already on the same subnet, use mDNS.

You can't - you are in the browser.

> If you’re on different subnets it requires some kind of way to share the subnet info.

Yes, that's how connections are established with an intermediary signaling service. The p2p question is about possibility of establishing WebRTC connection without a signaling service that runs over something else and/or requires a centralized server.
Windows 2000 was nothing like Windows 95/98/Me.

2000 isn't remembered as much as XP because it was never marketed to end-users but as an upgrade to NT4 and a workstation os. Home computers at the time came pre-installed with Windows Me, that was barely usable. When XP came out, it was so much better than Me that people loved it fondly, but in fact it was mostly Windows 2000 with a shitty Telletubbies theme.
You can make a cron job for installing updates. I'm not saying blindly installing updates is a good idea, it will break.

On my servers I have a cron for fetching updates, but not for installing them. I get an email so I manually install them.
The demo is kind of incredible. It’s the admin ux of an app we built internally over 2ish years.

It’s just… right there :)
Extremely accurate. L3Harris pumped so much ad money into the walkways at Dulles I'm surprised they don't have naming rights to a terminal. There was a time not too long ago where you couldn't listen to WTOP without hearing Mitre and ManTech ads with the term "Digital Twin".
Who are these Americans? I have never once been happy with my health insurance; I mean, sure, it beats not having it in this country, but I constantly get billed the wrong amount because someone at the hospital didn't code it exactly the way the insurance company requires, or suddenly my health insurance decides that my doctor or dentist isn't covered so now I have to pay up front and do a song and dance to get reimbursed for some smaller fraction of the price, or whatnot. If I go to the ER (even accidentally, when I asked for urgent care but got directed to the ER instead), I've got a $500 dollar bill waiting for me regardless of what the treatment I needed was. Oh, or I'm on a medication that's prescribed by my doctor, but suddenly the insurance company decides it's not covered and I have to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocked while I chase my doctor down to send them more documentation that yes, they tried other alternatives first and they weren't effective, yes I really do need this medication.

And I pay more for this, just in terms of my monthly premiums, not to mention all of the out of pocket and deductible costs, than I would in taxes for healthcare in just about any other developed country.

I don't know what metric people are using when saying that they are "happy" with their health insurance, other than comparing it to being uninsured in this country, in which case, sure, it beats that.
Transputers are also interesting as a bit of economics/public policy history. In the late 1970s and early 80s, the UK government was seriously freaking out about the impact of computerization on society. For various reasons (insert debate here), the late 1970s UK was stuck with stodgy, outdated industries employing a lot of people, and computerization only threatened to make that much, much worse. Imagine 6 million unemployed instead of 3 (which was already extremely worrisome for the brits).

The UK government launched a number of programs to try and get things moving. One, the BBC Computer Literacy project, gave us the BBC Micro, Acorn, amd eventually ARM...plus a generation of Gen X people here on HN who cut their teeth on the 6502 and Z80 cpus inside the BBC micro andnits competitors.

The other was to throw money at any UK firm that looked like it could be the basis for a modern tech industry. A parallel stream at that time was the fear that Japan would leapfrog the West with so called "4GL" systems and hardware just like they had done with cars and consumer electronics. I imagine that Inmos, with some flashy innovation, must have looked pretty sexy to the UK government at that time.
Hehe ;)
ML still isn't free from objections that "it's not real learning".
There is just no chance you'd hold my attention long enough to work out whether this was all width and no depth, or if it was actually good. If you're going to propose a new do-it-all system, it's got to be a lot more convincing than that.
> The only known energy source that can cause the appearance of life is the reaction between dihydrogen (elemental hydrogen) and carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide.

What do you mean by “the appearance of life”? These elements couldn’t make even a single amino acid, so I’m not sure I follow how these molecules could lead to the appearance of life.
If you've ever read the details of that crash... I can think of no better example of where "corporate death penalty" should have kicked in. Instead Alaska has bought up multiple carriers and increased their footprint, all while continuing to engage in shenanigans.