skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> there were literally zero ways to discover new songs

Older than you, and into hardcore, not metal, but there were definitely ways to discover new songs back then.

First of all, I had friends that were into the same music, so when one of us got a new record, we all got a new record, I would borrow records from friends and if I liked it I would tape it, and friends made me tapes.

Radio did play hardcore, only they were pretty limited in what they could play, since if a band had a name like "The Crucifucks" or something like that, they couldn't even say that name over the air, but they still had hardcore radio shows that came on in college towns around 2 AM in the morning, and people would tape them and they would get passed around. We would go to a different town and drive around at 2 in the morning and tape straight from the car radio to a boombox just to find new music.

Next thing was compilation albums, so the labels would put out an extra cheap LP that was just a song or two from every band on the label, so for hardcore, Blasting Concept by SST, Rat Music for Rat People, American Youth Report, Let Them Eat Jellybeans, the Decline of Western Civilization, the Flipside comps, etc. Some of those you could even get at the mall.

Wasn't played on MTV other than a couple songs that were humorous (TV Party, Institutionalized) but you could find a little bit on Night Flight. Then there were the zines, Maximum Rocknroll and Flipside, later maybe Forced Exposure. If they compared a band you liked to another band, you would try to check them out. And of course going to $5 all ages shows, if you went to see a band you liked, 3 or 4 other bands were playing too.

So there were ways. I've never used Spotify but I know it is way easier now to find exactly what you want at the press of a button. But the search was part of the fun back then. The lack of technology did not stop us.
Only ever hearing a single one of them is propaganda.
FYI you can probably just use a Logitech GCloud (https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/cloud-gaming/cloud-...), Razer Edge (https://www.razer.com/mobile-handhelds/razer-edge), Abxylute (https://abxylute.com/products/abxylute-handheld-console), or any generic Android portable gaming thing to do that.

Not sure if you even need Moonlight; wouldn't Steam Link work too?

Personally I use a GCloud and stream from GeForce Now, and that works great.
Yet it won't matter at <2%, especially when multi-core is actually slower.
Parent comment is saying that the merge tool is not going to be able to interpret the conflicts in the file without having diff3 configured as the marker format.
This kind of thinking is plainly delusional, and likely harmful to Israel in the long run.
> Usually, “sex” refers to biology (“what’s in your pants”)

"Sex" refers more specifically to hormonal expression than anything else.

What's in your pants, what chromosomes you have, etc aren't really great indicators for that. What hormones you have in your body in practice is really the only surefire thing.

This applies especially in the historical context since after social clues, the main thing you have left is osteology/bone analysis and that's driven predominantly by hormones more than anything else.

And even if you subtract the people on hormone replacement therapy, intersex people (people who naturally express "nonstandard" sex characteristics) make up upwards of 2% of the population.

So in the end sex really only refers to what your hormones are and nowadays you can change that with medication.

Sorry for being pedantic but this is one of the things that irks me with sex/gender discourse
It's actually alien sperm, and they are disgusted by what we are doing with it.
Just like there's an imperfect but effective barrier to lying to the cops for a police report, there's an imperfect but effective barrier to staging a theft on a video camera.
Could the WASM runtime eventually be shared like that? Also, is there a reason why the overhead is so large compared to Flash?
It does remind me of a story, though, about a NASA employee who was stealing moon samples on the sly to sell them... I don't want to spoil the ending, however, but I don't remember the author! Maybe Asimov?
Aside: og xbox is not so expensive 2nd hand and a great way to set up a kids lan party. 1 old router, 3 xboxes, 3 tvs, 12 controllers, Halo gets you 10 year-olds' mayhem. Noisy fun. Arguably easier if xboxes are modded.

MotoGP, crash team racing, powerdrome, crimson skies all work great
https://www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Supported_Games
then sort by both total players and players per console descending

Is this single location lan something that has been lost since those days?

Any better ways to set up a temporary lan party for kids?

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005142269614.htm
Padding still gets in my way on a 38" ultrawide with two 24" monitors next to it, because my poor (uncorrectable) vision requires substantial UI scaling.

If you can use tiny fonts for everything else I'm sure the padding is less painful but it's super annoying if you have to scale things up and you can actually get completely lost in it if you have to use much fullscreen magnification.

This would be less frustrating if I could easily scale up UI fonts without also scaling up the whole UI proportionally, along with the padding.

In terms of apps in my life with annoying padding or wasteful use of screen real estate, though, I have to say Firefox doesn't even remotely make the list.
Windows 28 days

Raspberry Pi 400 32 days

Pi Hole 11 months

I don't reboot unless something is complaining about it. Not a fan of the new software "new version every 11 hours, please install" (yes looking at you Chrome)
There exist services for verifying user identities; I'd offload the civilian side to that.

For government employees, that might have to be done by hand, by verifying through public records.
It's hard to collect, but you're actually entitled to something like $500 per violation of the do not call list. I do wish there were a button on my phone to collect all that money.
> "They also demonstrated a machine-learning model that helps detect tampering by identifying similar glue pattern fingerprints with more than 99 percent accuracy."

This system would probably have to be far better than 99% to be helpful. If customers test (say) a hundred thousand tags per day, we might suppose that 99% accuracy means a thousand false alarms per day. If users get suspicious and return their genuine devices upon seeing a false alarm, that's a huge cost, even without any fakes at all. Reporting "99% accuracy" allows a worrisome amount of luck into a system marketed as "tamper-proof."

Let's compare to biometric verification. Apple's TouchID claims about 1 false accept among 50,000 fake fingers (FAR=0.00002) with false rejection rates (FRR) hovering around 2%-10% or so. Even though this averages to worse than 99% "overall accuracy," it makes sense for a fingerprint matcher because the genuine user gets to retry their finger a few seconds later, so high FRR isn't a problem in practice. On the other hand, it may be better for these tags to trade off a higher FAR for a lower FRR.

I'm also worried by the article's claim that terahertz waves "travel much faster than radio waves." The speed of light doesn't depend on its frequency.
That is what shows on the first line when you 'view source'.
Truth is that there is another startup called graph core that is doing exactly that, and also a really big chip
Agreed, there's a difference between "nobody has the time or money to care" and "no human mind has the capacity to hold the whole model at one time."

I was fortunate to get a computer and electrical engineering education that ran the gamut from making basic organic semiconductor structures in the lab and up the pyramid through logic gates, adders, a custom processor on an FPGA, writing a custom RTOS, patching the Linux kernel, and writing a userspace application.

There are no black boxes anywhere on that stack - someone somewhere knows or knew how it worked - but the last time that some systems engineer could claim comprehensive understanding of the stack was probably no later than the early 80s.

Individually, one can build broad competence, comprehension, and a career at some height in the pyramid, and can have limited comprehension of things directly above and below your zone, but the whole pyramid is superhuman.
What are more uses that WASM (or any theoretical technology, really) could have for a web browser? Do you mean scripting to customize the browser itself?
I used to do this but that made it harder to search on the occasion I'm looking for a prior note.

I do everything in vim and it's more keystrokes to search across separate files.

I've been using one file for 2-3 years now and it's only 1mb.
I’d love to play silent hill 1 remastered. It was more concrete than 2, and felt more real and meaningful because of it. Also, didn’t finish it, since it was a rental

Give us rentals back while you’re at it, if the larger industry is reading this
> 1. There is no infinitive in either phrase

you're right. how embarassing.

> 2. While you are correct to say that a gerund is a noun, you're wrong to say that it isn't a verb. You can clearly see that it retains the complements of the verb. A gerund is a verb cast into the syntactic form of a noun just as a participle is a verb cast into the syntactic form of an adjective.

Conceded also. This is going terribly. Have I been hustled? Are you a ringer?

> 3. A transitive verb is one that takes a direct object. An intransitive verb is any other verb.

> 4. "Them" is a direct object of "write" in "writing them", but an indirect object, marked by the preposition to, in "writing to them".

Sure, though I didn't say otherwise. I admit I wouldn't have said #3 part B so absolutely; I wonder if there are edge cases.

(Was the parent written by GPT?)
In his late 30s, Brian started a water cooler biz with millions in revenue, and a 7 figure exit and only used cold calls to get customers.
I always assumed they'd just use the gov't mandated encryption backdoor.

Then again, since the master code was 000000, it wouldn't really be to difficult to break without a backdoor
Simon Tatham's puzzles are also available on the web on his site:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
It's quite difficult to obtain EU SKUs for Samsung phones in the US, even without buying through a carrier. (If anyone knows an easy way to get them, let me know!)
I have Logitech's version of this (https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/cloud-gaming/cloud-...), one of the earlier entrants into the field, and I use it both at home and when traveling, though only when there's good wifi (so no trains or planes).

In conjunction with GeForce Now, it's better than the Steam link in a few ways for my use case: better screen (1080p and slightly bigger), quite a bit lighter and easier to hold, no fan noise, no heat, much better graphics (since it's not running on a local APU, but a 4080 in the cloud). At the time, it was also significantly cheaper than the Steam Deck, although that's gotten cheaper over time too. There are also a bunch of similar $200 ish streaming Android handhelds if price is the primary consideration.

There are a few downsides, though: Its control inputs are way cheaper than that of the Steam Deck and it feels like crap and has no gyro input. It can't run local games (obviously) except cheap Android junk like Torchlight Infinite. It's co-developed with Tencent, which means China is probably spying on all your games (and your Google login).

But overall... it's fine for what it is? I mostly just play Path of Exile on it (and hopefully Diablo 4 soon) before falling asleep in bed.

I actually got a Steam Deck at one point, tried it for a couple days, and then sold it. It just wasn't as ergonomic as the GCloud for casual play. It was a pain waiting for the OS to update, games to patch and then slowly load, etc.
Seeing a lot of people talk about auto-summary tools which reminds me of a joke.

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” ― Woody Allen
Isn't the whole point of using E2EE on Company A's messenger app that you distrust Company A?

After all, they could easily serve up slightly different js when you log into their website; for all practical purposes it would be undetectable.

Being reasonably confident that you're running the same code as everyone else seems pretty important to me - and that's not how the web works.
You can absolutely compose in just intonation (JI). It's not terribly difficult, especially digitally as you say. This style of composition is often called "N-limit just intonation" (for some value of N) or "freestyle JI".

However, temperaments allow some composition tricks that are impossible in JI. Tempered systems basically merge annoyingly small intervals that appear in JI, so you can create progressions that would be otherwise impossible.

Either way I fully agree that more musicians should be exploring JI and alternative temperaments, and I'd like to believe that it's the future. A lot of people who go down this path fall to the nerd-sniping you mention, and they end up only exploring technique while losing track of musicality. It's hard to find balance.
Netflix did VMAF for this: https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf

It checks a reference video against an encoded video and returns a score representing how close the encoded video appears to the original from a human perspective.
I think an english interpretation which retains the original spirit would be something like: "the poorly cleaned" / "the well soiled"
> The 19th-century London Bridge (famously referred to in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land) survived for little more than a century before it in turn was replaced, in the 1970s, by the present bridge. The 19th-century bridge was sold and re-erected in Arizona.

Wait, so someone literally got sold a bridge?
It's stupid that in 2024, Sony is still like this :(

Meanwhile Microsoft has gone the other direction, opening up many Xbox games for crossplay/cross-save with Windows, partnering with GeForce Now to offer Game Pass games there (in addition to their own xCloud, which is total crap by comparison because it streams from actual Xbox consoles), and they don't care where you end up streaming it to (including web browsers).
Do I need to use the Cake frontend to use the ownership library or is it actually macros (or an extension?) I could use in code compiled with gcc or clang?
Pay especial attention to the General Order and such right at the very start. I literally have incorporated those two ideas into the highest levels of how I solve problems. Hopefully, you will enjoy the book as much as I.
Yes, I can log in now.

I tried on both mobile Safari and desktop Chrome, but the app in its current state is too "clunky" for me to use.

The workflow for creating a trip is unintuitive and disorienting.

- Perhaps putting the trip details, destinations, and dates on the same page would help.

- OR at least have a starting point linking to all three would help.

- OR a "wizard" outlining all the steps

I may be more invested if I agreed to use this app in advance (to plan a trip with friends/family), but the workflow for the invitation link is even worse because I am forced to create an account before I can see any details about the invitation.
the 3.1 billion could be spent on Education, Libraries, Updating Infrastructure that is destroyed by harsh winters, investing in restoration of natural resources, helping the failing farmers, updating rail and lake/river deliveries. But no. we should def give it to people that will spend exactly 1% pretending to develop a factory and claim the rest for themselves because they encountered problems.
> This occurs when a moderator in the subreddit has manually approved the comment.

If you are a reddit mod and not getting paid in 2024 you're doing it wrong.
I'm not sure the quote, but you're probably thinking something related to the Hutter Prize:

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

A lossless compression contest to encourage research in AI. It's lossless, I think just to standardize scoring, but I always thought a lossy version would be better for AI -- our memories are definitely lossy!
When you have engagements as KPI, that's what you get. Everything stuffed inside the same platform and the user have troubles with their workflow. I keep thinking that Winamp had the best music player interface, because it lets you turn off parts of the UI you don't need (I did not use the media library, because my files were barely tagged), and the UI was very informative. I've just setup MPD and NCMPCPP and the experience is miles better than Apple Music.
> Like say seeing some influencer brag about how they manage to create a game engine in 24 hours

I don't think our brains were meant to cope with "your peer set is the entire world; enjoy seeing everyone convincingly better than you at everything you hinge your pride on all at once, instantly ultra-humbling you".

For me, 2 things helped me:

1. External perspective: I was told by peers and management how good they think I am (e.g., in performance reviews), and I've noticed my knowledge is above average on related topics, so I mostly believe them.

2. I enjoy doing what I do. It's the journey more than the destination. Is my thing redundant? Well, I enjoyed doing it regardless. Does it suck? Well, I'll probably enjoy learning how to make it better. :D
> This is clearly untrue, and you can tell it to my laptop running ~500 processes right now.

Average is about 200 - 300 processes Windows is kind of bloated.

> "Can do more", of what? What are your metrics, other than what appears to be a gut feeling?

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m2-vs-amd-ryzen-...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/R7-7840HS-vs-M2-vs-M2-Pro_1494...

Really it would take you moments to do research. Instead of saying something is worse or better and pointing a finger. If you doubt what I am saying you should really provide that detail too.
So ... no support for an assertion I did not make? That seems .. random.

But a contradiction of the claim that you made?

Common knowledge would have it that slavery did not exist in medieval Europe.

However, there is a thriving body of scholarship which demonstrates that slavery was practiced widely in various forms in Europe during the Middle Ages, alongside captivity, serfdom, and other types of unfreedom.

[ What "common knowledge" claims, where that came from, ... ]

Yet into the 14th and 15th centuries, medieval Europeans continued to own slaves, trade in slaves, and enslave each other as well as non-European others. They used slaves for agricultural and artisanal labor as well as domestic, sexual, reproductive, and military service

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-97...

( from an assistant professor of history whose research interests covers practices of slavery in the medieval Mediterranean, particularly the slave trade from the Black Sea to the markets of Cairo, Genoa and Venice during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. )

With references for you to read should you wish.
"Rabbinic rhetoric"?
> I'm taking exception to the lack of accountability.

I'll bet money that their statement was run through legal and stripped of all possible blamey statements.

> They could have chosen to own that, but instead they blamed everyone else. That's not a sign of a trustworthy service provider.

I agree. Companies need to own up to their fuckups, even with legal tells them that it can hurt. Because all companies will fuck up; how they handle it is the differentiator.
Ah yes good point. By plain HTML, I meant apps which can be assembled without custom JavaScript logic needed.
Show HN: Generate unique AI music and lyrics with text prompts
There's also a number of different open source implementations of various versions of K listed on the K wiki:

https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Running_K
True, at the right price points for tag and reader, it could be used as yet another tech for jerky DRM on consumables like printer ink.

But some hard-to-clone and viable-to-read tagging technologies can be very useful for purposes like authenticating genuine product (which consumers are starting to care about), for tracing graymarket items (sold in contract-violating ways, which some international brands care about), and for disrupting retail theft rings.

There's also engagement angles that a lot of brands want to add to the tech investment. (And there may also cost be savings/consolidation opportunities with packaging costs, and it can involve the industrial design, and affect branding, and involve manufacturing, and distribution, and retail, and multiple IT integrations, and field operatives. Which is how your enterprise sales meetings get 10x more stakeholders than the person charged with reducing counterfeiting.)

(I worked on applications of hard-to-clone tags a few years ago. Unfortunately, our startup launched its first factory integration just as Covid hit the US, which meant that investors and customers understandably both got skittish about the near future, we ran out of runway, and our talent scattered to the winds.)
And conditional jumps
I swear sometimes you people post this ignorance bait to get product suggestions.

Local-first cameras are super cheap and easy to find. Most just run their own local RTSP server, which you can connect to live with VLC, homeassistant, whatever. OpenIPC is like ddwrt for ip cameras, here is the supported devices page: https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/guide-support...

But unless you're Richard Stallman, go with the closed source Reolink RTSP camera, which is about $100 and used by big corporate installs. It can integrate with the cloud, but you can set it up to just have each camera run a RTSP server with user/pass auth. You have to secure your own network.

But there isn't a really great open source platform for the kind of multi cam security that businesses might need. You have to do your own storage. But grab four reolinks, send the feeds to homeassistant, and most homeowners will be fine.
Talk about burying the lede. We've discovered faster-than-light communication... and we're using it to make tamper-proof ID tags.
It depends on what the 90% is. The research is unpublished so there's no way to know.

What is the specificity and sensitivity? Or hell just give me a confusion matrix. That'll give you the answers you care about.

If the sensitivity is extremely high then it's an excellent diagnostic for sexual characteristics that are a deviation from the norm. But otherwise tbh I just don't see it being a super useful test.
New Art Generator Released (fast/realistic Midjourney alternative)
WinUAE being Windows-only (strictly speaking that's not true, there's Wine which is actually better than running the native "ports") is also one of its greatest strengths. It has allowed Toni to maintain his razor-sharp focus on fidelity and led to an end-product that oozes quality.

To understand how bad things could have been, look at the Linux "ports" (e.g. UAE, FS-UAE and amiberry) which are plagued with audiovisual glitches, are nowhere near as compatible as WinUAE and have essentially thrown fidelity out the window. Part of the reason is the stability of the Windows graphics/sound APIs and the disastrous / ever-changing state of such APIs and implementations/drivers on Linux.
Thanks for the link, that's brilliant. I've been watching the slow development of one of these murals on a walking path near me. Maybe I should start taking my own photos to see if I can get a timelapse.
Regulations don't really it is an excuse every country has a board or ministry of health and some relationship to drugs.
But they've built dashboards! They probably even bought products with a single pane of glass!
Look we all know governments can do some crazy things and regulatory capture is awful, but you libertarian types really have some strange ideas about regulation.