skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "volume wars" predate CDs, but tended to be fought by the radio stations themselves. Virtually every radio station (I worked in college radio) had a dynamic processor that managed signal levels for maximum loudness. The conventional wisdom was that people would choose the loudest station when listening in their cars. Commercials were mixed as loud as possible too.

The use of compression in this way may have emanated from the fact that the station already needed to have a compressor limiter in the signal chain, to prevent overmodulation, which could earn you a fine from the FCC. I was told to dial the compressor to within a gnat's ass of 100% modulation.

How the two recordings sound in your phone or laptop might be clouded by those devices also processing your sound to make tiny speakers sound louder.

A popular processor was the Orban Optimod, so I checked to see if it's still in production, nearly 40 years later:

https://www.orban.com/optimodfm-8700i

Ironically, the new model claims that it "brings hyper-compressed music back to life."
Elect clowns, get a circus.

We need to introduce competition into the electoral process by passing comprehensive electoral reform at the state level.

Till then, enjoy the show.
170,000 Euro is ~28M Yen. Why would you take this big a loss and add very large expenses for a much worse work life balance?
Sorry, I don't know English well, but can't go by and not correct such a naive view of what's going on, if something is unclear - ask me again, I will formulate it in other words.

The culture wars seem to be true, it is a very convenient narrative for an outside audience. But Putin doesn't need the resources, or rather the people who are interested in the resources are a bit lower in Putin's food chain. Putin himself needs to stay in power if he doesn't want to go to jail for life and lose everything, along with his "Ozero" cooperative, because that's exactly what any next president whom Putin doesn't have by the balls will do.

And for that he needs conflicts with the old narrative of a "strong leader" who will enemies "kill in a toilet" and therefore no one but Putin is good enough. And Ukraine does not stand out here against the background of him past "merits", because it is quite natural for authoritarianism to increase the degree of violence, otherwise a weak "leader" autocrat will be swept away by a more brutal neighbor in the "elites", or even a "color revolution" will work.

This was the case in 1999 with Chechnya when Putin blew up houses in Russia pretending it was Chechen terrorism. In 2008 with Georgia the Kremlin propaganda called it a "small victorious war" after which the whole world stuck its tongue up its ass and Putin liked it. Then in 2014 Putin decided to repeat the "small victorious war" now with Ukraine, and again the whole world was imitating stormy activities instead of listening to the opposition in Russia, which was already shouting that Putin is a thief and a murderer. And now it's turned into a full scale war in 2022, and it's only going to get worse from here until Putin die.

That's roughly how things are IRL in my opinion, so resources are not the goal here.
It’s so weird to me that the first users of the internet were so okay looking for, and making friends.

I remember sitting with my brother with the ICQ client and randomly talking to people and even making friends with them.

The internet now is so much more guarded. Everyone pretending to be something. If you do make friends, its usually incidental, not intentional.

But early internet, we were all sold on the idea that yeah, the internet is for making friends.
It does seem to be painting with an overly broad brush to talk about "Europeans" (which covers everyone from Portugal to greater Russia) when it was a very small group of Spanish conquistadors and priests who actually did all of what we're discussing.

And frankly the Wikipedia article talks specifically about "Spanish" invaders, and the word "European" isn't even in the article. I'm not sure why you think that link supports the idea that someone other than the gp here turned "Spanish" into "European colonizers".
Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]
I grew up in cassette tape era, but they shared a characteristic with vinyl: albums had 2 sides, providing a "break" or "intermission" between sides. Many artists would purposely arrange the songs on an album to account for the break in the middle, or group sets of similar songs on the same side (I receall several Duran Duran albums having the radio friendly singles on side 1, and the more ethereal, experimental-sounding songs on side 2).
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20240324134944/https://truthout.o...
do you have links to the papers disproving that? That result is kind of the basis for the moral argument for allowing abortion for consensual fetuses for me. Without that result the cost/benefit looks terrible because the deflationary death spiral of the below replacement birthrate it helps cause is really, really bad.
Yep. I'm using Linux on a XPS 13 and Dell provides Dell Command Configure, aka, cctk. I set mine to 65%.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000178000/dell-comm...
Put more briefly, gravity does not produce a compressive stress in the phone in free fall. The external force from the table applied to the phone sitting atop it does create compressive stress. Ergo, the situations are fundamentally different.
> The whole POINT of modern governance is to separate them

This is wildly incorrect. The point is not separation - that is obviously stupid and pointless. The point is maintaining checks and balances on the power of the government, and one of the (many) mechanisms is through separation.

> Saying legislature is writing "bad laws" because the judiciary may or may not have the resources to enforce is to necessarily subjugate the legislature to the judiciary which violates the principles of separation in the first place.

Again, incorrect, because the principle is limiting power, not separation of powers test for its own sake. Not passing laws that can't be correctly enforced is not a violation of that goal or the strategy of separation of powers.

> There are countless examples of legislation that does not get litigated due to political or other pressures on the judiciary. Your argument would require that the legislature lie down in those cases.

Nowhere did I say that or does my argument imply or necessitate that. Being unable to enforce a law due to lack of resources is categorically different than political pressure. You're intentionally misinterpreting my words

> But in a modern, principled government, the entire principle is their separation and independence.

This is your own projection of what a "modern", "principled" government should look like - which, as stated before, is obviously stupid and pointless. Separation is not a virtue - it's a means to an end. You may want to consider reading the US Constitution to see this in action.
I will have to spend some time visiting all these links (and the ones in the replies). I hope these address what I think was an incorrect statement in the article:

"There’s less of a sense of exploration because there just isn’t as much out there."

I'm assuming that is not true but rather that is just harder to find the good stuff among all the billboards and blaring, glaring lights of the mainstream sites.
Yeah, you can't change the model much with low LRs. That's the point! Same reason you don't get continual-learning if you just keep using low LRs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08763 You need to really shake up the model if you want to learn some genuinely better (ie. different) internal representations that exploits the DenseNet (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06993)/LTG-BERT (https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02265) arch you're using here.
I agree; I think it should apply even more strictly for user-provided content.

Assuming there's no third-party backup of these levels somewhere, they're destroying countless people's creative work. I don't care what the terms of service say. Companies shouldn't have the legal authority to delete the only copy of third parties' copyrightable work.

The current situation is mass censorship.
It was like that with java too in 2000/2010
Metallica's Death Magnetic is the worst example I know of an album that's been utterly butchered by the loudness war. It is absolutely unlistenable - the compression makes my ears bleed.

And it's a crying shame because in terms of raw songwriting it could have been the best thing they've put out since the Black Album. What a waste of some good riffs.
D2 lang is great.

Created a guide for it a while ago: https://victorbjorklund.com/build-diagrams-as-code-with-d2-d...
Most software (components) should never need to access anything but a specific file at all
> In what ways is it stacked against the target?

Copying a comment I made (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622375) on an unrelated post:

The DMCA is significantly skewed in favor of copyright holders (and senders of DMCA notifications on copyright holders' behalves). The only "penalty of perjury" part for senders is claiming to be the copyright holder or someone authorized by the copyright holder to send the takedown notice (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)) [1]:

> (vi)A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

As for justifying the claim of infringement, the sender only needs to claim good faith (512(c)(3)(A)(v)) [1]:

> (v)A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

The person whose upload was taken down can file a counter notification, but must dispute the takedown under penalty of perjury (512(g)(3)(C)) [1]:

> (C)A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.

In Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. (2015), the Ninth Circuit decided that the copyright holder (or at least the sender of the DMCA notification) must consider whether the user's uploaded material is fair use before filing the notice, but the user's burden to disprove the copyright holder's claim of good faith remains exactly the same as before the Lenz case. From the case text [2]:

> To be clear, if a copyright holder ignores or neglects our unequivocal holding that it must consider fair use before sending a takedown notification, it is liable for damages under § 512(f). If, however, a copyright holder forms a subjective good faith belief the allegedly infringing material does not constitute fair use, we are in no position to dispute the copyright holder's belief even if we would have reached the opposite conclusion.

Or as the Harvard Law Review put it [3]:

> In short, the fair use determination does not have to be correct or reasonable; it just has to have happened. The court in Rossi held that the jury therefore had to determine if Universal’s actions sufficiently approximated a fair use analysis (even if not labeled as such) on which it could have formed a subjective good faith belief regarding fair use.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

[2] https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/09/14/1...

[3] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-129/lenz-v-universal-...
> The fact that it has dragged on as long as it has being due to Western interference is incontrovertible.

It is disputable. If Ukrainian forces were defeated conventionally, the resistance would just move underground, to a guerilla warfare.

But it's a strange argument. On one hand it's factual, but what do you want to say with that? That Ukraine completely subjugated by Russia would be preferable to the current state? For whom? Ukrainians clearly prefer the current state of things over subjugation, but then people like you basically claim that they're wrong in their preference.
Well, give it 1-2 more years and they will leapfrog TSMC with their manufacturing process. 18A is allegedly still on track, and Intel is also getting into foundry business, I can totally imagine NVIDIA switching to Intel for their next-gen GPUs for example. That, combined with worries about China attacking Taiwan makes me bullish on Intel stock.
We see that mass marketing and availability of opioids had a touch of harm that continues to be mitigated, but surely making cocaine widely available won't have any of the messy problems of opioids.

Seriously, though, let's stop trying to legalize and market any more addictive products in order to make a few a-holes rich while the risks are externalized onto society.
I assume the "reward" part somehow translates into some money at some point? I don’t really get it. I understand how I earn these token, but I don’t understand what gives them any value.

The threads posted by nullindividual@ are yikes!
I'm glad you're doing okay. Keep in mind you deserve to thrive in life, not just survive.
The home computer boom of the 70's and early 80's was the product of cheap microprocessors entering the market in the 1970's (chiefly the 6502 and Z80). In some cases it was scrappy startups (e.g. Apple) and in others it was an attempt to get in on the gold rush. There were no "standards" yet; IBM had yet to enter the fray, and when it finally did in 1981 it was still way too expensive for most of the home market, so wasn't really a factor for years.

So the way to think about this period is like the Internet boom of the late 90's or the AI gold rush of today. Things got greenlit because no one quite knew what would be successful (frankly, most companies/people struggled to find a use for the 8 bit machines besides gaming, which is a hard sell to a lot of parents). The quirkiness of the architectures is a direct result of the industry being the Wild West. You wouldn't see it today because the industry has been established.
If all the hydraulic fluid is draining out of the brake system, pulling on the handbrake (going from a decade of zirp to 7% in a week) is going to have an effect but that does not mean I think you can tap on the brake pedal and get the fine control you think you can.

I agree Most tech companies have been spewing capital out the door and funding the lucky RSU / optioned employees for a decade. I guess the weird hiring practises and so on have been hiding that reality. I think shareholders are waking up to it, but zirp is only a small part of the story
Are they sites that come up curated in any way?

I don't want just a "random" site, I want a random, small, overlooked, but lovingly hand-made site.
Checking for exceptional conditions after every operation sounds an awful lot to me like checked exceptions with extra steps.
Cool but something i saw that was weird, this may be the first repo i've ever seen to advertise ... words of code, i've always seen secure repos advertise their "in only X LOC" seeing words of code as a metric was funny
My understanding of the games industry is that a small fraction of game programmers are working on core game engines and low level graphics kernels. Is that inaccurate?
With hardly any images ...
Or maybe people here are not brain-dead and russian propaganda does not fly here. It's not like russians occupied bunch of Ukrainian territory and started burning books there.
You seem to have captured a lot of the links in these replies on your page.

Now I suddenly want be able to set my "Home Page" to some random quirky site.
> those endpoints are a massive security flaw in their network

This doesn't sound like a real issue. They could just firewall it off in a separate amazon VPC or publish a docker / vdi version of it, etc.
Well that's the same mindset when listening to casettes, yes?
Except choosing a specific track on vinyl is a bit tougher: you have to move the needle to certain position...
Human Phenotype Ontology
Encyclopedia of Surfing: Surf history and culture
This particular town is majority Black, so I doubt the MAGA vibe is strong.

Also, if you research the town, it looks like a big casino was just built there, at the cost of $350M. Which would suggest that the RE investments this guy made might just pay out, and that the town leadership was in fact maliciously trying to get rid of him (so that someone else would profit from the appeciation).
It was just discussed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658532

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797544
Well, indeed, the parameters make sense for the templates provided. Not for any type of question
Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies
Early Explorations of Xline a Stateful Application Managed by Karmada
but they do generally have a price. Even if it's the super-high no-one-should-actually-pay-this price, it really helps with evaluating whether something should even be on the list to contact sales about.
What are the needs of app stores?
Weather Planning for Eclipse Day
Well yes, it's both.

I was replying to jeromegv's earlier comment of:

> It’s fascinating that most people don’t get that about evolution. It needs to be a matter of life and death, if it doesn’t, then it has no impact.
Imagine a world where the statutory damages for destroying all legal copies of a copyrighted work was set to be 1000x the statutory damages for making an unauthorized copy.

Surely, deleting the last copy of a thing deprives more people of the work (and does more damage to the original author) than failing to pay for a copy of the thing.
Exactly. They took a neat device and wrapped it in a BS story that's wildly unscientific.

Nature and Science don't mind if people outright lie about what their research means as long as it gets hits. The paper is pretty much just as bad.

This is how mistrust for science slowly builds up when people publish obvious falsehoods.
huh, I put in the url and usually it takes me to any thread already discussing it. Weird.

Sorry about that, I'll delete this.

edit: can't delete it. ugh.
Have you heard of the spanish inquisition? Or the general treatment of the pagans?

I do not think what we now call human rights mattered to them in any way.

It was a different and therefore enemy religion. It was beaten and then destroyed. That was the main thing. That they also happened to sacrifice humans was maybe a moral bonus to justify it, but destroying the cultural foundation of the culture you want to conquer was quite standard and old practice. Ask the druids for example.

Once a culture lost its foundation, it becomes way easier to control.

Also it is a proof, "see, your gods did nothing to protect you, they are powerless, like you. So joining us (means working for us) is your only option"
I don’t see the information overload issue in this Safecast map. If anything, it lacks info (a good air quality map should at least come with wind indicators, like earth.nullschool).

However, it seems to have limited coverage, which makes it useless for many.
Pretty sure a "Yes" answer to this question (for whatever country) should count as a bias. Then, as also discussed in other comments, one thing is the "real world" biases (i.e. answers based on real stats) vs the "utopian" world. And sometimes, even for legal purposes, you've to be sure that the LLM lives in this utopian world
I dont really see a problem with doing some basic safety testing and then letting those with poor will power or dire need be guinea pigs for a decade or two before i try it. Seems like a really good system honestly, as long as the guinea pigs are aware of the risk of trying a new drug
That's because picture taking was a rare event in people's lives in the 19th century. It was relatively expensive, there were few photographers, and you had to stay perfectly still for quite a while to get a proper photo. That's why these are all posed pictures as the technology of the time made it nearly impossible to take "action shots" due to exposure times.

Due to all of these factors, people tended to dress up in their Sunday best. If you notice the ladies on the horses in that picture are quite well dressed too.
This is absolutely not true and you know it.

Perhaps you’ve heard of Discord, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Spotify, Moz, PepsiCo? I’m sure I’m missing a whole bunch of names as I’m in the bootstrapped world where you’re seeing a lot of Elixir (especially now that LiveView is stable).
That's only true if wages keep up with inflation. Which they haven't done in decades.
It's interesting to look at /u/ufo and the attitude those participants take. One of denial, one of coverup, and another where folk heroes claim that they will release evidence "soon".

And it's always "soon". Soon never comes, of course.

These individuals simply cannot be convinced. They will even go as far as indicating the ATFLIR pod video definitively demonstrates a UFO executing what appear to be physically impossible maneuvers, when from a technical breakdown, the movement seen is due to the ATFLIR pod's gimbal camera on a fixed object while the fighter itself maneuvers against a target that is more or less flying straight and level at a distance, making it look like a tic-tac.
Tombstone is a classic. Great movie that I've watched dozens of times and it never gets old.

Although he's a controversial man for some of his opinions and beliefs, most of John Wayne's movies are also really good if you don't mind older movies.
I would imagine it is closer to lambda than quote (though also a special form), since the implementation of if would require that the bindings in the arguments evaluate to their values in the callers environment.
If you click “Manage Options” on the data collection popup, the switches toggle between two slightly different shades of grey, which is mildly infuriating.
It's unusual, but IMO makes sense, as it encapsulates complexity better than LOC do, because the latter are more sensitive to formatting preferences etc.

Books are also measured in words too (also for category thresholds, e.g. between a novella and a full novel), so there's precedent too.
That's not weird, that is just CNN.

It's ironic that they posted this story as they're a huge contributor to the polarization of American citizens.

For profit "news" media is just glorified gossiping channels.
I think the core idea hasn't changed (it's generally expected that hardware like this is usually divvied up into VMs), just the branding went from 'hyperscalar for the rest of us' (which is a bit opaque to non-techies), to 'it's cloud, but in a box'.
David Sacks is a SV venture capitalist who argues that Ukraine should sign a peace deal with Russia rather than fighting back the invasion.

He tends to follow a bit of a pro Russia narrative and annoy others including here the Ukrainian journalist Ponomarenko, who Paul Graham backs up.

Here's a write up on Sacks and some of the issues https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/144/

A bit of a problem with Sacks is he's not very informed on the history of the situation. I heard him on a podcast that he first heard about Ukraine in like Jan 2022 but proceeds to propagandize his position noisily over people who have lived there for decades.
I’ve got some of the same questions about the stability of the US as a nation. It sounds a bit melodramatic, but I worry that by the time I retire, the tax law that protects my retirement funds might be null because the government that created them is non-existent (let alone a government that is the US in name only)

Is not an unreasonable question, but you can only plan for the future you know. Regardless of when AGI appears, or singularity occurs, the road you’re on right now is aging the associated costs of that. Plan for that.
You don't need to, if it makes the front page it will probably get sorted out. Dupes and dupelike things happen all the time.
PostScript is deep magic that I admire from a distance.

This is some mad scientist stuff. Great work.