skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bass heavy tendency of western consumer grade headphones/speakers is tuned for western pop music and does not sound very good with much else, some of the non-western pop traditions are not bad. Headphones/speakers with a flat response will sound lacking in bass but will not sound piercing with sources which were not mixed with bass heavy systems in mind and will play better with EQ. While flat may lack the deep powerful bass you will get used to it and you will be able to hear everything else in the track better, including the bass.

The way they get that deep powerful bass is not just by increasing the bass, that would leave everything outside of the bass too quite in comparison, they also put dips in the frequency response to accentuate the bass. These dips work fairly well as long as the instruments are fairly consistent in their ranges which is quite regular in western pop, everything is essential a bass, a guitar and vocals even when they are not and you have 10 instruments in the mix, everyone sticks to the various ranges which sound right and the engineer (assuming they are good) fudges things with the mixing. But the dips come at a cost, you lose detail.
I don't think your clarification made much of a difference: A lot of the shit those VC-backed gig-worker-abusers do probably is (and certainly should be) illegal, too.
$35 lens turns any smartphone into a powerful microscope
> Hissing most likely comes from media

Not when there is no media playing. This was back when the first Pros came out and when I googled it, there were a lot of reports of the same issue.

I say all this as a generally-happy Apple product consumer btw - and of course, there are many people who don’t experience these issues. But that goes for the Chi-Fi brands as well, since we’re ultimately talking about quality control.
Google's AI 'learning companion' takes chatbot answers a step further
To be fair I'm the exact opposite of "reactionary", I'm all for inclusive language, but I still find it an odd choice.
A bit of a bad headline and summary (from the UN as well as the BBC). The important part of the number is that almost half (44%) the verified casualties were children, and the most hit age category is the category of 5-9, followed by 10-14, and then 0-4.

The actual report also compares it with previous conflicts in Gaza, which do not show this skew towards younger ages.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countrie...
The IPO Window Is Fake
This. I am not a manager, but I LOVE writing code and solving problems. I would NOT love being a manager.
Show HN: Xfer, a data-transfer language
Xfer is an experimental language I've been defining for a little while. It's intended to be a strictly-typed alternative to Json that offers a few other features, like comments, nested elements, placeholder substitution, and metadata. It's in VERY early days, so I'd love to hear your suggestions and feedback.
This is called project management, and in my experience seems to be a practice/discipline that's often overlooked or ignored at startups and scaling tech companies.

Generally in my book projects should only be assigned to teams, and managing that project to completion should be part of that team's way of working.

Doing this in an agile manner generally means smaller projects, one at a time.
Firefox + Simple Tab Groups addon is all you need.

Seriously, a browser is much more than just another program. It has become a foundation of lots of computer interaction experiences, and therefore requirements to it, especially to its security, are super high. I wouldn't expect "professionals" understanding all of this would want to ditch vendors they trust just because they can't keep up with tabs... Never had this problem since I discovered Simple Tab Groups, btw...
This page[1] by CIA was informative to put the numbers in context.

While there's roughly an equal amount of men and women in Gaza, 40% of the population is under 14 years old.

Given the growth curve I guess it's reasonable to assume most of those are on the younger end of the spectrum.

[1]: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/gaza-strip/
This is actually now built into HTTP Toolkit, so it's easier than it sounds - if you connect a rooted device, there's an "Android app with Frida" interception option that installs Frida and runs the scripts above for you against any given app on the device automatically. Funded by the EU! https://nlnet.nl/project/AppInterception/
I’m fairly certain you can go live somewhere off-grid and do everything however you want.

It’s only a tradeoff if you also want all the convenience of modern society.
i’ll also expand upon my answer to say that, in tech at least, the need to fire is often after a hiring binge. if there is a general feeling that the hiring binge went too then it is natural to assume you need to fire those you have just hired.
I’d say security cameras and alarm systems are security products, too.
Was 'Snowball Earth' a global event? New study delivers best proof yet
I like the cut of your jib. Let’s let the sails loose on this venture and see if we can’t move the needle.
Bandcamp and Soulseek.
When importing existing Firefox bookmarks make sure to export those into the html file as linkding won't process the json backup file that Firefox can produce.
All these "why AI" ads, addons, features et al makes me think it's just middle managers having ideas on how to make their jobs easier and work the least while getting credit for bringing AI to the table.

Reviewing emails, summarizing meetings, documents, key points, TPS reports.

Are these all seriously that impactful? If your job can be condensed into information summarising, then your job can and will be done by the same machine that is doing the summarising for you.

Any and all "edge" a human might have in that business (unique insight and perspectives, noticing details that sound okay but actually aren't, human pattern recognition) get lost in the human-AI-AI-human translation. In this commercial, if prospectus was written by AI and is now summarized by AI, what is the point of the people around the table? The ad's should be used to show it's impact to scale the edge instead of scaling generic business bullshit.

If your company is a swarm of people using AI to generate all input/output, your company might scale wider but it will (mostly) be doing mediocre work - unless your hires are explicitly good at using AI. If it's mediocre and scaled wide, others can easily create the same output and beat you with pricing.

tl;dr; scale the edge, not the middle.
Show HN: Invoice Generator Chrome extension, cloud free, upload logo, save PDF
I have created another invoice maker :) It's cloud free. Works offline. You can upload your logo for the invoice, print or save as PDF. Fast and easy.
Fat: Why It Matters and What to Do About It
A Soviet swamp rat scheme for Azerbaijan went horribly wrong
The article seems to talk more about how to avoid other people going on the defensive, than how to avoid being defensive yourself. Both things are probably useful as neither party in such an exchange can solve it completely on their own.

Being non-defensive towards someone actively emotionally abusive is a bad idea for obvious reason. Conversely if someone if sufficiently insecure or fond of the victim role, no amount of softness in the approach will help
> I wish I'd spent more quality time with mine while I could

Absolutely! My parents were never always that healthy but would love a long walk and meander. I had a period where I didn't go home for a few years and when I finally saw them again it was shocking how much they'd declined. A couple more years since and now they can barely walk more than 10 meters without stopping in pain. Now it's so bad we can't even walk to a corner shop nearby. When I think back that only a few years ago I could've gone on a long walk through London with my father, it stings. Now it's a case of "what next" with their health.

Of course it seems like you have to learn this lesson "for real" for it to sink in, which is the sad bit about life...
Maybe you shouldn't visit then? :P
The hissing is almost certainly an issue with either the transparency or noise cancellation features
I'm very interested in this, I do a lot of protocol debugging. Kaitai looks very neat - is that the most popular format for this kind of thing, or are there other popular options I should look at too?
The map is not the territory. Unless you can convincingly explain how your map would have been better in the situation, and together with his apparent dislike of dying would still have had you stick with the aircraft, he shouldn't be blamed.
It won't do anything with the folders though. That's a pitty. I love putting my bookmarks into folders.
My children were given a soft toy a few years back from a relative who had bought it from a Chinese street market while on holiday in China. When it was switched on it jumped about frantically and sang a very loud and shrill song. Not 100% sure which language it was, but it is entirely possible it was some form of Chinese street music, and certainly fits the article's description of "Mainland Chinese recordings" as "shouty, harsh and ear-piercing". Normally my children love things that adults find annoying, but even they were afraid of this one.
Sometimes it’s odd to realize there’s people that can say this while simultaneously not being my grandfather. There’s a whole period of computer history I skipped.
Crypto Market Hits $3T Market Cap; Bitcoin Surges $87K
Pretty neat tech - the RGBA brush engine in Krita is doing something fundamentally different from PS's basic alpha masks. Being able to encode directional data in the brush tip itself opens up some interesting rendering possibilities. Been messing with similar effects in PS using layer styles but this seems way more efficient.
First heavier-than-air flight happened 130 years ago today
Very nice. Yeah, you can also replace all the HR, execs and CEOs now with the smallest llama models (I would trust them more as they re more objective and knowledgeable). You dont need to wait for gpt 100 to fire doctors, engineers, devs, designers ... start by firing CEOs, execs, HR, ... and save all that cash for R&D. Would love to see this experiment even in a simulated environment.
I'd be interested as well!
One thing to note about command line arguments on Linux is, any user can typically inspect `/proc/{pid}/cmdline` and get the full command line used to start the process. So if you pass secrets like API keys, passwords, etc, via an argument, they're visible to the rest of the system. However, if you put secrets into the environment of the child process, only the user that owns the child process can inspect `/proc/{pid}/environ`.
They're saying lots of people try the product and they all conclude it's not worth paying for. Not exactly something that makes me reach for the credit card.
Because the UK really doesn't do regional airports. If they did it would help, but basically I dont have many option outside of the London three or Manchester.

Funnelling everyone through such a small number sounds efficient for the airport, but isn't from a travellers perspective. Heathrow and Gatwick, are massive.
Well, that's the nice thing about a library... when it works, all that effort happens under the hood. :)

By "regular ole" I presume you mean some flavor of RDBMS. Those have significant issues at scale that the newfangled platforms don't... but as you see there's a price to be paid at design time.

If I do my job right, you get to have your cake & eat it too!
I get the opposite feeling. That's the cool thing about hobbies: they can be totally pointless and that's ok, as long as you enjoy them. I spend time communicating with nerds using old radios and Morse code. I can't think of anything more pointless than that. But doing stuff I enjoy keeps me sane.
My impression is that Tidal does a bad job of this in general. I have lots of artists I follow on there who have albums appearing on their page from identically named but different artists.
Interesting approach to branching dialogue - reminds me of old hypertext systems but applied to modern LLM conversations. The tree structure makes more sense than linear chat when you want to explore multiple paths from a single response. Could be really useful for technical debugging or research workflows.
Re the Z80 chip: I recall seeing a picture of a feller laying out the tracks with a roll of sticky tape on a drafting board.
There were people trying to make money but that wasn't the default and the attempts at doing so weren't as repetitive.
Scientists found 'nitriles' in an interstellar cloud – why that could be huge
The "feeling good" podcast by David Burns: https://feelinggood.com/list-of-feeling-good-podcasts/

I came across it in this remarkable interview in the "Clearer Thinking" podcast https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/192/david-burns-...
After that I was really curious if his claims about success in therapy were plausible or wildly exaggerated, and my conclusion so far is: it seems he really is legit, but his students aren't able to fully replicate his success, so it seems it's only partially the "TEAM CBT" model, and partially that Dr. Burns is an exceptionally good therapist.
Not a cure, but for me, when safari on iOS loads up way too many tabs, I open the overlapping squares in the bottom right of the screen,(phone) then the menu under the box that has the number of tabs open.

A menu item with the number of tabs opens up with a checkmark to the right. Hit the "Edit" button.

The "number of tabs" item then shows three dots to the right.

Tap that and you have copied all the links to the clipboard.

You can paste the copied links to email, a text editor that understands links (as links and not plain text) or whatever

Close the many tabs, or not. Easiest way is to clear history and browsing data. That settings/safari item will ask to close tabs or not.

"Tabs zero" (if you choose) and "Inbox 1."

This is so insanely unintuitive that I had to share.
Same reason everybody can't fix "it", whatever "it" is for them. I have other shit to deal with that's even worse.
Great content! It is interesting to see all the names; as far as I know, at least 3-4 companies use massive talent from LATAM in the Data-AI space.
Funny you would mention that. A few weeks ago, I wrote a Python-based client library [0] for the website kicker.de [1].
It supports the NFL, too:

import asyncio
from kickerde_api_client import Api
from kickerde_api_client.model import LeagueId

api = Api()
query = {'league': LeagueId.NFL, 'season': '2024/25'}
season = asyncio.run(api.league_season(**query))

print(season['longName']) # 'National Football League'
print(season['country']['longName']) # 'USA'

print([
team['shortName']
for team in season['teams'].values()
if team['shortName'].startswith('B')
]) # ['Buffalo', 'Baltimore']

day = season['gamedays'][18]
print(str(day['dateFrom'].date())) # '2025-01-05'

[0]: https://kickerde-api-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/autoapi...

[1]: https://www.kicker.de/
The most common number will probably be something very low since in many cameras the numbers reset when you format/erase the card.
Non-Technical API Design
Is this really the standard terminology?

Well, it is close enough. The definition is that a brown dwarf forms like a star through gravitational collapse within a protostellar nebula, but it just wasn't massive enough to ignite. However, a planet forms in an accretion disk around a star that is forming out of the larger cloud. Of course, nature does not always perfectly align itself within our neat categories, and it is not really possible to distinguish between a brown dwarf and a supermassive planet that happened to be ejected from its star. Anyway, perhaps such a supermassive planet that is not ejected should really be considered a brown dwarf in a binary with the "parent" star. For gravitational collapse to occur in the first place, however, requires a minimum density which sort of puts a lower limit on the mass of a brown dwarf, so smaller objects are not really going to form independent of an accretion disk, but they may form in one and be ejected as you say. So yes, there is kind of a practical line between planet and brown dwarf, but it is a bit of a fuzzy line.
> no matter the project goal, your leadership team (the people in your reporting chain who care about the project) will always have basically zero technical context about the project compared to you.

This is not universally the case, and I've been much happier when I find teams and orgs where this is not true.

Good leaders understand the details. Find them. Be one.
Considering this was before September 1999, the airport wait times were also much shorter, making this more viable. These days, getting to the airport less than 90 minutes before the flight is cutting it pretty close.
There are some situations where you try to reduce type II errors (false negative) even if you increase type I errors (false positive).

The hypothesis is "the captain was to blame". If this is true but you reject it (type I error) you will probably loose another ship. If this is false but you reject it (type II error) you need to find another qualified captain (which, depending on the field might or might not be a problem).

My guess is that there are more pilots/captains trained that planes/ships.
While There is money to be made in further integrations, hell thats where i see most of thr priductivity increase from these tools coming from, OpenAI has already spent billions developing these tools, money which they have to pay back in some way soon.

This is also ignoring the giant elephant that is open models, soon enough models like Llama, would be able to match or even surpass what ChatGPT, by which point why would any sufficently large company pay for API when they can run their own model, especially when all those GPU used for training flood the market.

But then again, plenty of large comapnies still use aws, even when it makes no sense to go serverless, so they might have a market to capitalise on.

We live in interesting times for tech, moores law is dead, intel is falling, layoffs are everywhere...

I sure picked the best time to go to university for Computer Science T-T
The Super Weight in Large Language Models
meanwhile most chi-fi IEMs have options for MMCX connectors that are entirely unsuitable for the use case

It seems they're far more common to have a 2-pin connector now instead of MMCX.
All of that more or less describes the early days of Twitter, before it became Xitter.
Interesting, looks expensive

And I mean "chip factory expensive" not "Regular Joe" expensive
I am not sure if this still works but this python script [1] helped me when I moved bookmarks from Firefox to linkding long time ago. It converted folders to tags. Linkding doesn't have folders concept and rely on tabs.

[1] https://github.com/ulixxe/Netscape-Bookmark-File-Parser
Love this Safari lifehack!
CheatEngine (80mb) is very widely used nowadays and does memory dumps and comparisons. A very useful tool not only for game reverse engineering.
A number between 0 and 1 can easily scale to whatever company you have. A number that is different depending on how many is on your team is harder to compare between teams. I guess it depends on if you ask a programmer, administrator or mathematician what a logical system would be :-)
I'm really curious why they're using setenv(3) so much. The main usages that I can think of is setting an environment variable before calling something like exec(3). That doesn't seem to be the case here.

The article mentions that they use exevpe for spawning children processes. So what usages of setenv(3) would remain?
> Canon cameras also use the IMG_ format.

That's a sweeping statement that is definitely not true for all cameras Canon has made.
> Web browser administration

Should I be worried?
Not deuterium/tritium fusion, but rather deuterium/protium fusion: D + p --> 3He + photon. There is no tritium. The star is not hot enough for the 3He to then fuse with itself, as it does in our Sun or to some extent in red dwarf stars. In the center of our Sun, the Dp reaction goes so fast that a D nucleus would be consumed in about 1 second.

A lot of sources just say "deuterium burning", and people assume this is DD. But at low temperature, the reaction rate is strongly affected by barrier penetration, and this is strongly influenced by the reduced mass of the two nucleus system.

The 3He3He reaction is slow in red dwarfs, and I understand the concentration of 3He in them builds up to about 1% before plateauing. I don't think any red dwarf is yet old enough to reach that stage. Red dwarfs are fully convective; unlike our Sun their entire mass circulates through the core and becomes available to undergo nuclear fusion. This (and their low luminonsity) makes them very long lived, up to a trillion years, far longer than the universe has yet existed.
Well, that's nice and all for the future, but it doesn't buy someone groceries today.

That problem isn't a hard concept. You have to work with the framework that currently exists.
Title is missing: (2013)
Global warming is on the cusp of crucial 1.5 °C threshold, suggest ice-core data
Unfortunately, Bluesky being the "popular" alternative just means it's going to turn to shit faster.

I have an account there because so many people seem to be moving from Twitter to Bluesky instead of Mastodon, for understandable reasons, but I expect Bluesky to be be awash in bots, AI and Nazis within a year. That's just the way things go now.
> Why does everyone seem to blame digital nomads - that seems lazy and probably not backed by numbers. I bet if you actually look into it, there’s way more retirees from northern European countries in the desirable sunny, warm places. And those ones actually have money to spend and buy property, etc.

Most retirees mostly choose Costa del Sol. Barcelona usually attracts said "digital nomads" to have vibrant atmosphere of "international crowd"... and even until recently it was "very cheap".

> Also, if “capitalism” means “freedom of movement” of people and of money I think I’m gonna stick with that system versus the alternatives that we’ve seen play out…

Why do you think you are entitled to FoM?

> also, people do not wanna hear this ever - but the solution is often to build more housing, to build housing up (meaning vertical).

Barcelona is one of the densely populated cities... What's more, it's usually building up (though luckily those are not skyscraper but sane 4-8 storeys which makes living there nicer). There is also problem with spreading out due to geography but still lots of people go to Sabadell, Terrassa o Mataró and everything in-between.

> For example, more people would be interested in moving out of London if housing was affordable.

Welcome to the UK, where old NIMBYs rule the world (you seem to be thrilled by the system of "people with money" doing the f* they want, including blocking everyone else) and public transit being ruled by "capitalism" (i.e. "money rule the world")... so... everything is perfect according to your worldview? :P
A car and a bicycle fundamentally get you from point a to point b.

Is the decision which you take meaningless if your destination is 50 miles away?
Well what can you expect of the most moral army in the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-31/ty-article-ma...
> And strangely some of the videos were allowed to have copyrighted content in the background

What is strange is actually how we put up with copyright interfering how we communicate to this extend. Sharing a slice of your life as-is should not be something that other people have a say about.
Also, as the article points out, there are better and worse ways to point out a mistake

If someone completely flips out over a relatively minor mistake, going on the defensive or disengaging isn't necessarily a bad response
Exactly! it is really incredible. I've not used Photoshop much, I'd be curious to know how the two face-off in the realm of brush features haha
If you think that code review is “management” then that’s very very concerning.