skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rate them as leaning left with high factualness.

that seems to be the trend with left leaning news sources. They don't make up lies, but they hide truths leaving people with a distorted view of the facts they have. It's nice to be able to trust that you're not being directly lied to by NPR, but you still end up feeling deceived.

The right leaning news sources tend to tell a mix of truth and complete fabrications, while also refusing talk about truths inconvenient to the narrative they're telling so sure NPR is the clear winner in that sense, but the bar is set so low that it can't really be counted as a victory.
Canceling my subscriptions today. It's such a pain though, apparently I have to call them up to cancel them? Talk about predatory
I don't know, but I've noticed another pattern: They don't like leaving any empty space. Every area has to be busy, filled with objects. They can never leave any empty grass, or walls, or anything. Everything is full of objects.
Please check out the 3rd paragraph of this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
I am very unfamiliar with the topic. Here's my takeaways from the article:

- almost all music I've heard uses 12TET
- JI is microtonal / an alternative tuning to 12TET
- you're the author of the lovely ambient.garden, which uses JI
- the audio widgets and visualizations were very helpful
- JI has perfect harmonies, and 12TET approximates those enough to still sound good
- JI opens up cool chord options
- but there's extra pitfalls when making JI chords compared to 12TET
- still not sure what consonant, continuous, or misleading chords are. I only know what dissonance sounds like
- still haven't looked at numbers; all I know is that there's ratios in there somewhere
What's the highest yield account that can be used to easily pay your credit card / debit card balances? Because having even just $20k sitting in a checking account ready to pay bills you're losing out on $1,000/yr.
I would say that this is way too technical for me, however, I also only have the slightest hint of music theory knowledge to begin with. It seems to me like that isn't a problem though, because this is a very technical topic by nature.

Unrelated to the writing, but I was kind of disappointed that when listening to the examples, I cannot for the life of me hear a difference between just intonation and equal temperament. I know it's there, but I can't hear it at all.
Neon doesn't horizontal scale of writes. Just like Aurora doesn't.

Also, not all alternatives listed are ACID compliant with serializable transactions like CockroachDB is.
I wonder if most/any routers will allow the bad packets through to the Windows PC?

I'd assume it's probably blocked by the vast majority if it's a TCP vuln (cause stateful firewalls).
We recently had a bot from Taiwan downloading all of our images, over and over and over - similar to the author. By the time we noticed they had downloaded them many times over and showed no signs of stopping!

Bots these days are our of control and have lost their mind!
we could find ourselves walking straight into Orwell's darkest nightmare. we need to make sure we’re not trading away our freedoms for a false sense of security.
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There’s an added objective in some of these models to make them more aesthetically pleasing based on subjective crowdsourced data that very likely contributes to this
You're referring to Orangutan Card Trick DEBUNK - https://youtu.be/j6tbG6b6xRg.

My favourite is The Debunkathon - https://youtu.be/OX-Ra4nrVj0. I found the overall message deeply touching.
Something wrong with them getting out of the way of people who actually need to go somewhere to do their jobs?

A office worker having to drive somewhere to look at a screen they can have at home, shouldn't be an impediment to a nurse that has a real job that requires them to be where they work.
Because sometimes when you measure time you want to know what fraction of the day it is, and sometimes when you measure time you want an objective measure of the passage of time.

Quite often, we want to use something originally recorded using the former to calculate the latter. It is most convenient to have a second that is of fixed duration. Which is kind of exactly why the tz database exists in the first place.

Except it's made more complicated because most systems that use unixtime also use NTP, and that means they employ smearing because essentially nothing in computing supports 23:59:60 or 23:59:61 or repeated seconds of 23:59:59. So on the day of the leap, the recorded time for events doesn't match standard time. Which is why the unsmear library exists (among others, probably).

Note that TAI (international atomic time) truly is the number of actual seconds since it was first synchronized in 1958. That is what is used to define UTC, and it's about 30 seconds ahead of UTC currently.

All that is to say... Calling unixtime "seconds since epoch" is a forgivable sin in terms of the practicalities of communication, but it's not really defensible as a matter of being a factual description of reality. The truth is that the new definition of a second was agreed upon decades before Unix came along, and when we're measuring time in seconds we don't typically care about the solar day or sidereal day. Further, there is no practical way to construct a computer or clock (barring a sundial) so that supports the original dynamic definition of time divisions. I can't even imagine how relativistic times with GPS satellites would have to work. It would be the longitude problem all over again.
>> Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise?

> Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general?

I don't think it's a relevant comparison, but I do think that particular suggestion should apply to them. Imo a fundamental component of "succeeding" in Western culture is in how quickly you learn which parts of which systems act on perverse incentives or actively against the good of the people, and subsequently being able read the room when there's an opportunity to play hero; sticking your neck out might earn you a smily face sticker next to your obituary, but more likely it'll end up screwing you, and it's naive and/or arrogant to think that this time will be different and you'll singlehandedly rid the ocean of pollution (metaphorically). Realizing that you can't rid the ocean of pollution doesn't mean you should start dumping more trash into it, and it doesn't mean you shouldn't do your civic duty to reduce your personal waste, but it does mean you have to set your ego aside for your own benefit, because in practice and in all likelihood you'll make practically zero or even very negative difference, and put a real tangible target on your back, in whichever context this plays out.

Could be a safety meeting at your company in which you're just a peon and you feel like speaking up about a code violation, could be that you're a young Mr Beast employee that wants to vouch for their co-worker who's making less but doing more, or it could be that you want to make your company's website more accessible, in any case, unless you very clearly have the latitude to do so and control over the outcome, don't, because you'll screw yourself or someone else.

Drive as well as you can in your lane, whatever that means to you, and if you don't like it, signal and change lanes, then do it again.

This also means not overexerting oneself on things that require real tangible sacrifice but have only tenuous, nebulous, or only marginally more financially beneficial outcomes. Don't sacrifice too much time alone or with your partner or family or in nature for shipping yet another arbitrary AI SaaS bs product that will disappear in a week, pick the relevant battles and demand am important outcome, we don't have enough time to squander on such asinine missions. Again, that doesn't mean don't do work, or earn money, or help others, or whatever, just be careful how much of your life you trade for some 1s and 0s.
I can tell you it’s a real thing because it happened to me.

6’3” and at that time (19 or 20) was probably right around that 180lbs - no one would have described me as muscular back then though, just skinny more like it.

Anyways, first day of training, the first thing the instructor did was assume I needed humble pie. Told me he wanted to see my baseline, said get in the cage, and called over the only female in the class. She was ~5’6” ~140lbs from memory. Not chubby, just stalky and solid. Rest of the class came over to watch with cheeky smiles too. Later found out it was kind of her thing to break in the new guys.

She had me in a rear naked tapping out in under 30s.

I didn’t know what it signified at the time, but she was a brown belt and regularly took home hardware from regional amateur tournaments.

I had ~6 mo striking experience (Muay Thai), but had never rolled, never wrestled in high school. Best and only entry on my grappling resume was growing up with a brother.

So it does happen, as I can attest, but I do understand your skepticism if you haven’t seen it, especially because of additional hidden context like this:

- I had never directly encountered, and was extremely uncomfortable with, the idea of physically overpowering a female. It was the most unnatural thing, and I was psychologically paralyzed by this until it was way too late.

- She had zero chill. Probably read my obvious body language, and knew her play was to blitz.

- I didn’t know how rolling was supposed work with any opponent, let alone a female. I didn’t know rolling etiquette, conventions, nothing at all. Not that it would have mattered because she had no intention of offering me the usual respects anyways.

If she had attacked me on the street with murder in her eyes, and I reacted with full force, would she still have gotten the best of me?

I’d like to tell myself I would’ve bested her in a life or death scenario, but truth is I’m deeply uncertain of the outcome in that hypothetical.
The Monumental Discovery That Changed How Humans See Themselves
That’s what happens when the political apparatus shortchanges public education for decades: illiteracy and innumeracy.
I want to apologize. I just lashed out from my past bad experience. You don't really deserve it, and you're right, it could just open up a discussion about writing an alternative for egui. Sorry about that.
Oh yeah that’s not what I was going for here. Doing things is great. I just hope that they think through the pitfalls and loopholes of whatever they decide to do. I want to avoid the fates the article hinted at, stuff like “since you broke us up, we can’t possibly maintain Chrome for free anymore, that’s gonna be a subscription now”.

Another example of this was Apple’s response to being forced to allow alternate app stores, where they added enough fees and restrictions that it was effectively unusable. The spirit of the law (allow anyone to make apps without a gatekeeper and fees) was not what happened.
> that are at best ambiguously standard compliant (e.g. evaluating floating point expressions in higher than specified by the user).

That's not ambiguously standards-compliant, that is literally something that the standard has explicit mechanisms to indicate that's what the compiler is doing (look up FLT_EVAL_METHOD).
Not really my problem, I’ll sue you when you get breached.
Easy to overcome by adding minimal, white space, empty space, etc. to the prompts.
Any bank can do this.

It has to do with KYC, in many cases, and being a brick and mortar bank doesn't help. There are heaps of horror stories involving Chase, WF, BOA, etc freezing money up.
This is a decent write-up; my only regret is that it doesn't go into more detail. I installed Omakub yesterday on a ThinkPad (I haven't jumped on the Framework wagon yet), but it was really a treat. Omakub is opinionated and doesn't pretend not to be opinionated. Also, while test driving the configuration, at almost every turn I said to myself, "Yes, this is the way this should be done and this is what I need to be using." I think that's at least partly because this project is not absolutist in terms of open source: the driving consideration is what developers actually need and use the most.

The Omakub manual is a great source of documentation: https://manual.omakub.org/
Good examples of how to make a wide range of images with Grok
> What he meant was that the USA can't levy income tax on non-citizens living in other countries.

I did not see that in his comment. He said tax. You are making a pretty big leap.

Your comment is wrong too and here is the IRS link on when nonresident aliens have to file American taxes. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxa...
Howdy everyone. Long time lurking around here. I always wanted to learn about mobile development, and decided to build something that I would actually use as everyone always suggests.

As of right now, it's a simple Hacker News reader. The main feature is the ability to read the article/website together with the comments (none of the current HN apps have that, and I "stole" this idea from the Artifact app, which combined the news with comments ). I also wanted to keep the colors/theme in sync with the official HN.

I did several small projects over the past few years, but after deploying them, that was it. I never used them.

This one I've been using daily for the past month or so, and the number of bugs or things that were bothering me were incredibly high! It's been a good experience fixing and seeing it quickly with OTA updates.

Working to fix all the spaghetti code and open-source it. I am also adding a couple more features.

Android is ready but needs 20 testers. Let me know if you are interested. :D
> then test firing one from the batch and assuming all engines in the batch were the same as that one. This obviously isn't how things work

Curious what approach you'd propose in their place?

> The second was, as mentioned, that the control systems of the time were not that great

True. The control system was also cutting edge, and evolved together with engines, and also was much better by the 5th flight - which was scrapped - than it was at the 1st one.
You're cherry-picking technologies. I'm talking about people.

Yes, I have. Krb5, LDAP, OAuth2, CAS, and SAML 1 & 2. XML sucks but sometimes you have to pee with bits you have rather than remake the entire world all at once with a utopian panacea.
They didn't say it's fundamentally impossible, they said you need way more than 5000 hours to do it and that you'd need better quality sources than news interpreters.
I'm now realizing this and I totally agree that hiding the octave transpositions might make things confusing.

Maybe this could be clarified by having a first lattice where this adjustment is not made, and everyone can observe how frequencies rapidly become extremely low or high, maybe to the point of being inaudible. Then we can ask "how can this problem be solved?" and introduce the concept of pitch class lattices where everything is transposed into one octave.

Regarding intervals, I've always seen the irony and should probably mention it. Yes, the classical concept of fifth is related to the 3-ratio, while thirds are related to the 5-ratio. I'd argue this falls under the "empty your cup" category, but yes, leaving it untold probably doesn't help with understanding.
> If "news" was highly regulated then likely nobody would produce it. Everything would simply become "opinion" or discussion of topics.

That doesn't really seem much different from what we have now though. It seems like there's more commentary than content.
I'm shocked that there are places in 2024 that have a separate set of devs writing test code. What decade is this?
if he had a dmca process and it was followed, what's the crime?
It’s hard to compare things that are so different like that, but I will try.

Scuttlebutt: Reticulum is a network stack for routing data in real time, not a decentralized social network.

Nostr: See Scuttlebutt

IPFS: Reticulum transfers data, it does not store it (though some protocols that work over Reticulum like LXMF optionally have functionality that allows for temporary message storage)

Yggdrasil is the closest analog to Reticulum you mentioned, but unfortunately from a cursory search I could not find any details about how it works. I can see that it currently works only over IPv6 (with IPv4 tunnels of some kind), unlike Reticulum which works over anything.

I suggest at least reading http://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html to see how Reticulum works, if you are interested.
> The "why they require a CLA" is for enforcement.

None of that seems like a "why" to me; to cynically paraphrase it, "our policies require our polices." Why does your record-keeping require a CLA? Why is a CLA required to enforce the GPL?
Uhm, Llama 3.1 is an LLM.
I don't understand your point are you saying that most CEOs are founders who started the company? I am willing to bet that this not even true for startups but it is certainly not true for your average CEO.

Also funny thing, typically people consider the "golden area" of US capitalism on which most of current prosperity is built the 50s and 60s, the ratio between exec pay and average employee pay is orders of magnitude different now. Interestingly, the US has lost most of its engineering and manufacturing abilities in the same time. Not sure if that is an indication of the greatest country in the world.
The pedals in a car always do the same thing every time you press them, in every car you get into. Mouse buttons are not like this. Different applications use them differently. There may be a sizeable chunk that are reasonably consistent but there are tons of outliers that do all kinds of bizarre stuff like using right click to select or to cancel an operation or to bring up a tool tip. Sometimes it’s left click to select and right click to move.

Plus you never know what’s going to be in a context menu until you right click to open it. Sometimes you move the mouse slightly and right click something else and get a different context menu. For an older person with declining vision this can be very confusing. Fixed menus at the top of the screen are discoverable. You can even search for what you want in the help menu. Context menus are not discoverable.

I’m glad your mother knows how to install video cards. My aunt worked at a TV factory installing boards into the case and soldering all the through-hole components to the board. She’s still pretty baffled by computers but she’s almost 80 years old and rarely needs them.
Wait till you learn about the power of femtosecond laser pulses...
I’ve seen this movie!
We've banned this account for posting way too many flamewar comments. Not cool.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would absolutely love to know how other engineers on HN approach interviews and assessing technical competence. I didn't _think_ I had any mis-steps here but would love to know if anyone thinks there's something I could have fixed about this whole interviewing process.

Probably the guy was just having a bad week, but all the same. Really bemused (and more than a little confused)
Skip 1.0 Release: bringing Swift app development to Android
I solved this problem for free with storage on B2 and a Cloudflare worker which offers free egress from B2. I don't know if they'd still offer it for free at 10k rps though!
Any suggestions for getting past the expanded Xen stuff? I lost my momentum and quit after yet another long conveyer belt / cargo pod section.
> Know any decent computer nerds in the 80s/90s that weren’t at least dabbling in that stuff?

Off the top of my head, Cliff Stoll did some pretty hackerish stuff on the right side of the law.
The Cheating Scandal Rocking Elite High-School Math Competitions
Show HN: Wikipedia Browser a La Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes
I was inspired by Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes viewer and created this small web app to browse Wikipedia in the same way. Clicking on a link opens the content in a new pane to the right. And you can resize panes. It's really nice for following rabbit holes or checking out lists from articles. Let me know what you think!

Code here: https://github.com/steezeburger/wikipedia-browser
No, not theoretically.

FATCA does not apply once you are no longer a US taxpayer. Moreover, the FATCA regime has been copied by so many other countries (including the EU) that there is now a global version of FATCA called CRS (and the procedural system for implementing CRS is known as AEOI).

FATCA is now considered the least burdensome implementation of CRS, which has been implemented by all OECD countries, China, India, and Brazil.

If a bank is turning you down because you answered "YES" to the FATCA question, the problem isn't FATCA. The bank is trying to avoid an audit and it's a huge red flag not to do business with them.
That guy was way out of line, even if he didn't want to work for you there was no need to act so unprofessional.
Please don't use ChatGPT to comment here.
being informed is how you know what needs changing.
Ask HN: What is the biggest size of a SQLite database you have worked with?
Wait, where's this $10/month plan? I don't see it. I see it at https://one.google.com/about, but I can't actually choose that.

Edit: I found the answer on Reddit, as usual. You need to go to your plan settings and only then is the plan available under one.google.com/settings. That's the only way to downgrade.
Buying or selling a house is one. You want the money transfer to occur at the same time as the title transfer.

There's plenty of ways where missing the payment date means you lose your deposit which can be tens of thousands of dollars.
you can talk to yourself in your head using your native language. But that's not evidence that you are thinking in your language, it's thinking of your language. when you do math, are you thinking in your language? when you drive a car or play a video game or a sport, or make love, are you thinking in your language? I'll answer for you, no, you aren't.

Do people who grow up without language (there have been plenty examples, deaf people for example) simply not think? do cats and dogs and chimpanzees not think?
What a marvelous article about intonation and temperament. It is one of those expositions that approach perfection in conveying the subject matter. I am no music theorist but rather an engineer with an appreciation for all things wave- or signal-oriented. I will want to read it multiple times to savor the explanations. The author's album based on just intonation is linked in the article ("A Walk Through The Ambient Garden") and I highly recommend it: it is a mesmerizing composition.
Offtopic; any permissive licenced (apache, mit etc) open source versions of such an editor?
ML-generated pseudo-photos look 3D-rendered because noise is information, and more information is both more expensive (a noisy photo can be 3x the size at the same resolution) and creates more opportunities for self-inconsistencies (e.g., with real camera sensor noise) that make fakes easier to identify automatically.