skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bone Thugs in Harmony "Tha Crossroads" has been my test track for many years. I think the many variences in the various male singing parts is excellent for calibration, as I rarely ever listen to bands with female singers. Plus, the backing track is quite variable as well.
TLDR; there's only a few manufacturers making the underlying hardware as these are now niche low volume products.

The engineering and manufacturing skill that went into producing Sony's smallest walkmen isn't particularly well reflected in the single design coming out of China right now.
Even then I want action shots not the lineup of people.
And how do you calibrate a microphone? With a calibrated speaker? :P

I'm guessing that there must be a way to either cancel out skews and work around this, but I guess it's just easier to start with a calibrated microphone
something involving ppl following whatever the political or media firestorm of the moment is, and most ppl more likely to just follow whatever the party line is?
Why not just not use JSON for config? In a sane world YAML wouldn't even exist and everyone would use something like TOML.
War crimes are the kind of thing the international is supposed to guard against. It is hard in practice because it needs to be enforced and enforcing it when there are no econimic incentives is ... unpalatable for any state. Which is why international order and US interests are generally tightly coupled. Now which war crimes are you talking about ? You need to be more specific. On the other hand, it's been a while since I have read "US marines destroy entire village killing women and children after raping them" so I guess not this kind of atrocities ?

I know the history. Yes colonialism was bad was it was mostly before the post war US led world order. If anything both the US and the USSR have sped up the end of colonialism which doesn't mean they each haven't promoted their own dictatorships against one another. That is not the current world we live in though. Indeed the voluntary alliances are mostly what we call "The west" or the "global North". The "devastation" of Africa isn't the sole responsibility of colonialism. It is mostly responsible for the dumb borders but all humans find a way to war against each other along ethnic lines. It was the case in Europe before WWII and it is unsurprisingly the case in Africa now.

Whatever you think about the IMF/World bank and economic colonialism, by which I take you mean any country taking advantage of its better economic position (China is also doing it) it is not the same thing as say sending your army to punish rebellion against the tax you impose on them.

https://acoup.blog/2019/12/05/collections-a-trip-through-thu...
https://acoup.blog/2023/07/07/collections-the-status-quo-coa...

I am pro international order and totally for the allied nations not to follow along when the leader is abusing its power but I still think that world order is preferable to intersate anarchy.

Nobody ever signed up for anything. Making the world a better place is a hard problem.
Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf.

Even if the majority of citizens agreed that forcing their morality on the minority is the right thing to do I still disagree because individual freedom is more important than majority opinion.
> Juggalo makeup is supposedly extremely effective.

Yeah, it's supposed to be better than black metal makeup and even better than that early-2010's anti-detection makeup:

https://consequence.net/2019/07/juggalo-makeup-facial-recogn...

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle

Although that was around 2018-2019 so, given how quickly face recognition is evolving, I wonder if juggalo makeup works anymore.
Besides, as mentioned by many of the interviewees in OP's article, there's a balance between changing or hiding your facial features and looking "suspicious" or "unnatural" which is of course context dependent. Concerts are safer to "cheat" than airports.
Pachelbel's Canon in Dmaj in 73 lines of obfuscated C
Stumbled upon this... somehow. You need to replace x1 with x[1] and q1 with q[1] for it to compile.
I got the same thing and worked around it by installing the previous release.
` leadingDecimalPoint: .8675309, andTrailing: 8675309.,`

Sorry but what is the benefit of this? Lazy shorthand? This is too much. Is this a string in other languages? PHP the `.` is a string concat.
Hjson looks friendlier for direct manipulation, no string quotes

What would be the advantages/disadvantages?

https://hjson.github.io
It would not be hard for them to do this, and some apps exist to emulate a desktop environment when you plug the iPhone into a dock and hook it up to a monitor, but it's pretty sad that Apple won't embrace something like this.

Despite the fact that the largest iPhone and smallest iPad are less than 2" difference, the $130 Apple Pencil will not work with an iPhone Pro Max, and both devices run different operating systems with arbitrary features.

One of the biggest complaints about their latest iPad was that it's so powerful yet limited by iPadOS. I feel the same way about my iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Apple wants you to have an iMac as your desktop, a MacBook for your mobile device, an iPad to watch videos, and an iPhone to bring with you.
If a line is operating at capacity, that's a problem. That's when you start getting overcrowding and delays. Overall utilization rates of Chinese HSR lines are fairly high. Less than 100%. More than 50%.

> to distant poorer regions

Rail is also used as a tool for economic development of such regions. The US built interstate highways across vast stretches of empty land, because the idea was to have a national grid that benefits the entire country.
I remember reading an analysis a few months ago that Biden (or the US foreign policy in general) was letting Israel continue its conflicts in order to weaken Iran and Russia.

From the cold-blooded point of view, it makes sense, somehow "It's fine" when the US bombs are being dropped by the IDF, and screwing Russia helps Ukraine and Europe too. But probably that's a myopic point of view, a lot of the world has burning hatred against Israel and the USA now.
Yes, his #1 advice should be "do something with the data you collected".
>The face is that harassers and predators exist for years in all sorts of organizations, and this is why we need anti-harassment policies put into place.

There seems to be a bit of rhetorical sleight-of-hand here.

How, precisely, does an "anti-harassment policy" do anything about "predators"?

What sort of "predation" is possible, even in theory, in the context of, say, a GitHub issue tracker?

>The first point that bad actors are booted from organizations is false

I consider many of the people currently enforcing codes of conduct for major organizations, and advocating for their implementation on new projects, to be "bad actors". Of course, explaining the harm they can cause wouldn't fit in the margins here, so to speak.
Another one to see : Notre Dame de Strasbourg

Darker, different stones but incredible too
Surprised that no one mentioned that Chucky E Cheese also ran from floppy disks.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chuck...
I have made a Goodreads alternative all based on AT Proto called BookHive. I just soft launched it today!

https://bookhive.buzz
There's a part of me thinking the lawsuit was pushed forward by government plants in hopes of getting Apple to revisit the tech.
"He" who, precisely?
Lol we're getting the same, except we do customer support software. An actual quote I've heard multiple times from PMs and even our CTO:

"If the AI returns an inconclusive response, we should send that back to the AI and tell it to think about it!"

And other variations of that. It feels like I'm surrounded by lunatics who have been brainwashed into squeezing AI into every nook and crany, and using it for literally everything and anything even if it doesn't make an iota of sense. That toothbrush that came with "AI Capabilities" springs to mind.
> Instead of the original intention which was to grant the right to copy.

No, it was to restrict the right to copy which without any special law everyone had to make it into limited, private, exploitable property.
Huh, I failed to find the NZ page. My search skills must be getting rusty... thanks for the link!
In my question above, both compilers are 30cc, except one of the 30cc's was compiled by gcc and the other self-hosted.
There was already one but I guess an old system as it took quite some times to locate the fire
From the essay:

"The foundational idea behind PageRank is that a ‘web page is important if it is pointed to by other important pages’. Brin and Page realised that the web is not just a lexical environment but a social one, in which links correspond to prestige, and the sites at the centre of the networks tended to be the most reliable ones."

"Early plans for what became the hypertext protocol of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web were presented as tools for documenting how human minds tend to move from idea to idea, connecting external stimuli and internal reflections. Links treat creativity as the work of remediating and remaking, which is foregrounded in the slogan for Google Scholar: ‘Stand on the shoulders of giants.’"
Big fan of mise, moved over from asdf and never looked back! kudos jdx
Denuvo opens Discord to rehabilitate its image, shuts it down 2 days later
A lot of the regulations around what is and isn’t allowed on TV in the UK change at 2100, we call it the “watershed” which is regulated by OfCom (the communications ombudsman).

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-st...
I think the best we can hope for is that government officials are subject to more surveillance than regular people. Everyone is going to have at least some surveillance.
I do have children and I don't let them be exposed to things I disagree with. But thats my moral decision. Why should my morality be forced on others? Making the decision to not expose your children to certain ads is a moral decision. Let the parents choose if its important for them. They can choose exactly what kind of content their children watch with streaming and DVDs. Long gone are the days where kids just sat in front a television and had to watch live cable TV where the parents didn't know what was coming up next.
You can buy crypto on PayPal?? Our New Zealand version doesn't mention it either.
This is also the reason I prefer XML to JSON when things really got complex. XML is verbose but it is very readable on long form. I wish Rust actually used JSON or XML as Cargo file format.
>https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:BSD-3-Clause

It's compatible.

You have it under Guix too.
Everyone is free to buy whatever insurance they want. But they won't be able to pay for it with pre-tax income like their employer is able to.

It's an explicit pro-big business tax policy that hurts businesses that aren't big enough to afford the paperwork and HR involved with administering insurance and other benefits, and also to prevent people from being able to easily compare compensation offers from various employers.
Police labor is for billionaires only.
You’ll have to wait a long time to think about it, lot of materials of the cathédrale are originals (especially the stones)
Tell me you have never had kids without telling me you’ve never had kids.
Is that so? For myself, I can say that if he was caught, turned out to be a vigilante, and was convicted to death, I'd pay good money to be assigned as an executioner.

Most people are probably somewhere in the middle.
Actually, yes.

Here's [0] 5000 words by Gwern. I don't know whether I agree with his conclusions, but they're likely to be well researched and objectively thought out.

[0] https://gwern.net/nicotine
> Trump supporters are not remotely supportive of this

So, the guys who brought/assembled gallows to the capital and were chanting "Hang Mike Pence" are not supportive of extrajudicial killings? We're not on the same plane of existence, you and I.

> People who sympathize with this type of thing are, at the least, domestic terrorism adjacent

I remember a chyron at a national convention stating "We are all domestic terrorists" - perhaps stoking that flame was not a great idea now, was it? What's your take on those who refuse to take any action on mass shootings at schools?

> You should be monitored.

You'd love that, wouldn't you? The Stasi would be proud. Establishing a police state with dragnet surveillance is a fantastic tool for fighting disaffection and will surely improve morale.
I have children
Its default compression/decompression speed with no options passed is superior to gzip in almost every possible scenario and cpu type. It does have other options which are much more time intensive for creating an archive but which make it more competitive with bzip2, xz, lz4 and similar.
I just use Dillo and a hosts file. No JS= No AI crap.

Also: https://farside.link and https://neuters.de
"Data Science Project Failing After 1,600 Days"

Sounds like my Thesis.

How many people have spent 4+ years on a Thesis then just completely gave up, tired, drained, no interest in continuing. The bright eye'd bushy tailed wonder, all gone.
I went with my kids to a Chuck E Cheese party a few years back.

It was the perfect encapsulation of modern American capitalism.

As my kids milled about, suddenly the employees started chanting "Chuck E! Chuck E!" And, encouraging the kids to pump their arms in the air.

My kids did this as I stood there and the horror crept over me.

Then, Chuck E came out. My kids were putty in his hands at that point. He could have said "Now, turn to your dad and murder him. Don't think, just do it." And, they would have done that.

Then, they ate extraordinarily crappy pizza. I did too. It was a coping mechanism for me, I'm not sure why my kids ate it.

After that, they went into the arcade and were encouraged to "earn" tickets. Those tickets could be converted into cheap plastic toys that cost $0.10 to make in China. Earning 100 tickets would cost several dollars on a debit card. And, the conversion rate was 10000 tickets for that cheap plastic shit. It wasn't a good exchange rate. But, man, my kids were sucked in.

It was a gorgeous example of American capitalism. I have to tip my hat to Chuck E. He's a maestro.
Previous discussion from a different article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42257693
Bluesky tool: Analyse, schedule and get ideas
Another alternative for those who like to tinker is to get Tuya-powered devices which can be reprogrammed to use Tasmota, ESPhome, OpenBeken or something similar. Reprogramming the things can be as simple as running some tool - this used to be the case but it is getting rare since the vulnerabilities used to take over the devices are getting fixed - or as involved as opening up the devices to connect a TTL/USB serial adapter and a power supply after which the thing(s) can be flashed. The advantage of using this approach is that you get close to total control over the devices, you do not need any hubs, your creativity and the hardware are the only limits.

I just flashed a batch of 16 'energy metering smart plugs' this way using a TTL/USB adapter, two clothes pegs, three sewing needles, a patch wire and a breadboard [1]. No soldering necessary, just point the needles at the right chip legs, push the patch wire in the right spot and flash the firmware.

As far as I'm concerned this is the only way to use IoT devices, using free software under your own control. Software which only communicates with hosts you designate. Software which is not dependent on 'cloud' services. Software, above all, which can not be used to turn your equipment against you - not by spying on you, not by selling your data to others, not to bring down the electricity network by simultaneously switching off and on massive amounts of equipment every 10 seconds. Even so I run these devices on a separate network which can not reach outside of its own /24 (no IPv6 on this network, it is not necessary).

I also don't use Home Assistant since I prefer openHAB, at least for now. I've tried HA (core) but thus far I'm not convinced it offers something I can not get from openHAB which I've been using for years now.

[1] https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic4042412-60.html#2133...
I don’t think it makes sense to not think of generality options.

Often that helps us see a problem in more ways. Come at it from different directions. Generalizing mentally is map discovery,

But when it comes to implementation, any code that is there to enable unused generality is unused and unnecessary code. Any unused freedom of interface increases the chance of unintentional misuse or sleeper bugs.

The number of ways unnecessary code or loose constraints can be unhelpful is unlimited.

When it comes to optimizing, testing, maintaining, it is optimal to have the narrowest mission possible.

—

The exception is when designing a platform or library, with open ended reuse. Then value can genuinely be increased with greater applicability.

Then there will be generality vs. focused tradeoffs whose resolution will be very context dependent. On the subject matter and its potential market/users.
I notice. It's awful.
It looks like that makeup style might not work so well anymore, at least according to this tweet I found:
https://x.com/tahkion/status/1013568373622362113

It seems like the woman in the example is using a CV Dazzle makeup style and it doesn't fool the algorithm.

Other makeup styles work better, although I think that's probably just a short term solution (tweet is from 2018) before any new trendy makeup style is added to the training dataset.
Home Assistant is great. Started with a Raspberry Pi 4, then migrated to a Wyse 5070 running HAOS in a VM on top of libvirt/qemu. Using USB dongles for both ZigBee and zwave, passing the USB devices directly through to the VM. This kind of setup allows making full backups/snapshots of the whole VM in case of any failed updates, or mistakes when making big configuration changes.

I don’t use any vendor hubs at all. Everything is directly connected to the USB dongles at the main network controllers.
That was fast https://mastodon.social/@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org/11361865...
That's not a good thing.
From what I understand,
a lot of "cheaper" bribes in India
are for things that the government employees must do as a part of their jobs
so like a bribe for these government employees to do their job basically which still filters up to the highest levels of government.

Why would you agree to stick your neck out for something illegal on the cheap when you can wring the ordinary people to do your job?

All this is based on second hand information so please correct me where I am wrong. Also probably things are different in different parts of the country?
Deeply nested inline anonymous function callbacks are the anti pattern. Decoupled explicit named functions passed as callbacks are a significantly better developer experience and provide clearer stack traces. I never understood why this conversation didn't take the lexicon and instead the imo inferior `async` pattern got pushed hard.
> US labor productivity has increased steadily since that paper was written, outpacing most of Europe.

From 2019-2023 EU growth was 0.3 while the US was 1.2; from 2005-2019 US productivity growth was 1.2 (EU 0.7), so not much different than the average over the last ~2 decades:

* https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/confe...
With history classes in high school I wish they bumped up the abstraction level a little sooner. All those dates and names of important figures, almost completely useless information imho.
Private Spaces on Android 15 GrapheneOS
It's fun. They sell fun, and kids aren't going to view this though a philosophically deconstructive lens.

Memories like these will last kids their lifetime. I certainly remember going when I was their age.
Af French, I’m happy they took that way. Especially many submissions were quite ugly.

I prefer the approach taken at The Louvre and it’s pyramid of glass that is built next to the historical buildings without modifying them and giving a nice mix between history and modernity
> This keeps being postponed.

> there’s no “this phone is a PC“ offering that is really viable.

> I wish there were serious efforts.

You should really google "Samsung Dex".
Totally agree with this - when it popped up asking me if I wanted to use my fingerprint to do ..._something_... I felt like I was at risk and noped out.
Pretty sure they meant plaintext instead of ASCII.
It makes sense though if I think about it.

In theory, all the money wagered is money that has already paid income tax at some point so why tax it again?
I've tried a bunch of different sites and when this tool works it's fantastic, when it doesn't it is misleading. For example, the results from looking at a specific digital marketing agency were generic concise info about digital marketing in general. In this case, yes it has distilled a lot of information into concise information, but focused on the wrong concepts.

A more straightforward application like cleaning recipes, and this thing is really helpful.
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
forms + crm + emails for indie makers: waitless
I was just tired of having to use 3 different tools all overpriced to get Jason on a waitlist or any list, manage Jason in a proper CRM with audiences & co, and finally talk to Jason through email campaigns. Hope that helps at least it helps me. Cheers to building day and night
Not granting the right to copy, controlling it was the entire point. The ability to produce copies of existing works never needed protection because it's a natural right that follows from the human ability to create. And that ability never needed limiting because creating a copy involved a large part of the same painstaking work that the original required.

Copyright was only introduced after the invention of the printing press. The whole point of copyright was to limit the persons/entities allowed to produce copies of a work, because suddenly the ability to copy became a lot cheaper than the ability to create.
I agree. I'm just saying that instead of reducing healthcare costs by having insurance companies deny necessary procedures and medications seemingly randomly, there should be serious regulations capping healthcare costs. Generally speaking I am against any form of government-set price controls, but healthcare costs are so completely out of control that I don't know of any other way to deal with it. It's also a unique situation where the customer has no way of shopping around for a competitor - if you're having an emergency, your only choice is the nearest hospital - they should not be taking advantage of that situation and making you pay through the nose.
yep I spent more time on duolingo for 600+ day streak and can barely speak spanish.
> but you seem very keen to believe them ..

Really?

I've made no statement here other than to assert that several events have been officially declared as genocides in the past decade.

This is a factually true assertion.

You can verify that each of the events has been declared as such for yourself by checking the official UN statements on each.

If you disagree with their declarations about, for instance, the Rohingya genocide then you can write a strong letter disagreeing with their lengthy report.

It remains a fact that each event listed above has been described as a genocide by multiple counties, humanitarian groups, the UN, etc.
To the reader: if you haven't before, take a stroll through the YAML spec to see what people are talking about when they bemoan its complexity: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/

Then take a look at the JSON spec: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7159
If you love this one, you should visit Notre Dame de Strasbourg :)
https://lobste.rs/s/a1jo3a/devenv_0_6_generating_containers_...
JSON5 would be ok if that's all it did. They added so much additional unnecessary complication that it undermines the simplicity of JSON that makes it good.