skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really believe there is more to it. It is hard to even begin to like the non-scooped tone, even through forced exposure.

The funny thing is that the traditional mid-scooped rock guitar sound actually sounds midrangey, and that becomes obvious in a mix with other instruments.

In other words, the EQ curve (particularly of distorted guitar) is actually a "volcano crater" shape. The overall profile is midrangey, like a low-band telephone call that is limited to around 4-5 kHz. Frequencies above that are too dense with clashing harmonics and so tend to get substantially rolled off to eliminate harshness, and guitar speakers being basically "midwoofers" do that naturally to a great extent.

The guitar mid scoop is actually a fairly narrow area. E.g. centered on around 700 Hz, with a bandwidth from around 300 to 1.6 kHz. This is the "volcano crater".

What may be going on is that when we have narrow band sound limited to below 5 kHz, we need to crater it so it doesn't sound like an annoying honk. Otherwise the natural midrange in that 700 Hz area will overpower the lacking high end. I'm guessing that the guitar mid scoop could possibly improve the perceived voice quality in narrow band calls.

However, the upper end of the midrange cut is critical; extending the cut into the 1.6 to 3.1 kHz area will make the tone utterly disappear, and the 3 kHz to 4 kHz particularly has to be there so the tone has "bite"; it is often boosted a little.

Volcano with not too wide a caldera.

(By the way, I'm aware there are styles and guitar tones with a lot of high end past 5 kHz.)
add, this is typical whether your a single employee contractor or a multiple employee contractor with the least leverage in the deal. Its a fact of real life, not a ploy against the self-employeed
The point is that anyone using the term woke is using it in bad faith or if they think they are not using it offensively then it's poorly researched.
I have no books that have any value other than I already own them. After moving across the country a couple of times with them plus all of the other various moves, I have thought about getting rid of them numerous times. The only reason I have not is just sheer laziness on taking them some place. My most recent move left them in boxes and just stored.
What are those benefits that don't scale with salary?

I know the US has that health-care thing, is it just that or there are other ones that need a cut time somewhere?
Harvard was given public money in 1636. It was a religious school and trained clergy.
While they have a Github repo, it is incredibly annoying how it's almost impossible to find any documentation around deployment/hosting. Unless I missing an obvious page
It seems the only thing this paper demonstrates is that both sides will invest in causes they believe in. It draws the conclusion that liberals support equality more because they support more institutions that talk about equality. How much those institutions actually contribute towards reducing inequality is not measured or discussed.
I agree “white” is a made up category that isn’t meaningful. But the same people who do the trainings will perpetuate the concept of “white” by talking about “white people” versus “people of color.”

My daughter has four “affinity groups” at her school. “Black girl magic,” “young black men,” “BIPOC,” and “LGBT alliance.” A teacher recruited her and some Turkish kid into “BIPOC” because they have no other non-black non-white kids.

It’s not just a demonstrative analogy. The people running these diversity programs think theses groups are real.
Well, with the recent news that Facebook censored vaccine side effects by order of the government, I think we shouldn't underestimate censorship.
The PHB wanted A/B testing! True story. I've spent two months convincing them that it made no sense with the volume of conversion events we had.
For anything serious your best bet is using an SSH client like Prompt or Blink, or an RDP client (Microsoft's app is decent).

You might have some luck with something like iSH, but it's pretty janky if you have to do real work.

Juno is a decent workflow for Python/Jupyter and has local execution, but it's far from a complete IDE.
Yeah I was disappointed with their RenTech episode, despite it being hyped up on HN. Think I learned more from the Jim Simmons numberphile (I think) interview.
Almost to the letter -- https://www.dalmomendonca.com/rules-for-rulers
While your example is interesting, I would at least give those people some credit for taking the action they could (even if it is largely pointless as you said).

I think a better analogy is people who would criticize other heterosexual couples for getting married when homosexual couples could not, as it is both pointless and needlessly antagonistic.
It's strange. Tech journalism also has a bizarre fixation on them. There are tons of smart speaker companies out there but every time Sonos releases a product or really does anything they get tons of articles written about them.
Oh fuck yes, let it happen. The entire finance industry will take note if it were to pass.

Naturally, this means that JPM will take extraordinary efforts ( OWS level ) to ensure it does not come to pass.
easy thing to say with 10 digits in your account!
It's no coincidence that PG published this days before Trump's inauguration.

This is yet another Silicon Valley elite kowtowing to their new GOP overlords.
You mean there aren't already 20 unfinished projects reimplementing Wordpress in Rust?
I think the issue is less about corn syrup sugar vs cane sugar, gram for gram, and more about the subsidization of corn and low cost of corn syrup creating an incentive to use more sugar in processed food products.
A few folks with a lot of community rep could probably do a lot of good if they to threw support behind a new primary fork.
And honestly WP is a great product. No other CMS managed to get so much community around, so many plugins etc

Right timing absolutely, but there was also great product sense there

Drupal feels like it's a bureaucrats paradise. Other CMSs never got there neither
> I was unable to figure out why it tastes different, are the ratios off? additional trace chemicals in one source?

Turns out the trick is super super simple: It's not the sugar; it's the salt. It's on the label.

The soda brands that have been differentiating their cane sugar products, such as the various "throwback" promotional drinks or "Mexican Coke" all have measurably more salt in the cane sugar versions which tends to enhance the flavors for all the same reasons that salt does that in every other food. If you want your corn syrup american coke to have that south of the border $8 imported flair, put about half a pinch of salt in it. It will taste the same, except you won't get to drink it out of the tall glass bottle.
> Labor unions seem like the wrong model for organizing people in a lot of "knowledge workers." A professional association like the American Medical Association might be a better way to structure things.

Please explain—knowledge workers are still workers and the same benefits that labor unions provide to other workers apply just as much here.

Secondly, why would I ever care about a professional organization if I can't use it to collectively bargain? It doesn't seem to work this way for doctors; why would it work this way for us?
Try posting it yourself. See what happens.
PHP based static file CMS (w/o database) to render markdown on the fly:

* Kirby: https://getkirby.com/
* Grav: https://getgrav.org/
* Statamic: https://statamic.com/
I'm betting for a large part of the WFH crowd - commute and home prices (near the offices) are the biggest sticking points.
You don't need a double-blind test, you need an open your eyes test. Americans are not healthy and corn syrup is a big factor, thanks to the corn lobby, who pushes this at both ends via your tax dollar (subsides to grow it and SNAP junk food to push it). There's other factors like culture and lack of human-scale infrastructure, but Europeans, etc don't eat this stuff.
lol same kinda vibe as Fortran devs right now
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TrueSize – Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size
My recurring issue (on a variety of laptops, both Linux and Windows): the fans will start going full-blast, everything slows down, then as soon as I open a task manager CPU usage drops from 100% to something negligible.
Your friends are not the ones I was calling out of touch.

The company in the OP set up "a new payment system" without warning to their workers, and now people are getting paid 30 days later than previously agreed upon. If you think that the average person won't be impacted by not getting paid for a month, then yes, I stand by my statement.
Let's face it, we're getting there. TicketMaster, similarly, with its convenience fees:

- want to get your ticket 'delivered' via email? Convenience Fee!

- want it mailed to you? Convenience Fee!

- want to pick it up at the box office? Convenience Fee!

When you consider all your available delivery options to be "convenient", it's just a fee.
When I was building my home back in 2022 the builder's audio person insisted I use Sonos. I said no. Then I said no another 100 times as this person just pushed and pushed and pushed. I eventually explained I didn't want to be vendor locked. Technology changes, and I don't want to be caught up in the BS.

I ended up designing the system myself. Wired in speakers, down to the basement where all the receivers are. I'm really happy with the result, and grateful I didn't get bullied into a specific Vendor.

Not everyone has this luxury. Once the drywall is up, it's really hard to get a decent whole home system and Sonos was the way to do that. My Dad and my father-in-law are in deep with Sonos. I can feel their anger and frustration when we're over. They really did their customers dirty.
Melbourne's National Communication Museum is a trove of superseded technology
Hard to care about this drama until it starts to affect functionality. Terraform is still around. Elastic is still around. Reddit and Twitter have no third party apps. I used to have a WordPress blog which I stopped updating for reasons of laziness. I will try to restore the backup and see what happens.
Earlier discussion:

Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650138

WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42662801

Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667766
I would do either in a heartbeat to maintain my remote status.
> Recognizing your unearned advantages (and disadvantages) and managing to swallow your ego and acknowledge the ways you've benefited from society's stratifications.

This has always struck me as a fatal messaging problem. When you couch the problem as being one of unearned advantages, the obvious implication is that you believe the solution is to take away something from the "privileged" group, which immediately puts many people on the defensive, especially if they feel like they're already having a tough time of things.

The real problem isn't that [men / white people] may indirectly get propped-up when others are artificially held down -- it's that people are being held down. The current (and disastrous) progressive messaging often sounds like "we want to hold you down, too".
>It has every aspect of the slot machines I was playing just 2 weekends ago at casinos in Reno, but without credits being deducted from my balance per spin

So other than the gambling part, it is a lot like slot machines.

Interesting!

How many of the slot machines that you played in Reno have a feature where you get enough cultists to summon an eldritch horror? That's normal late game stuff for Luck Be a Landlord.
> In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice.

No, in almost every usage I've seen it's people objecting to the actual social justice. There is a massive wave of reaction breaking right now. To posit that it's just (or mostly) about some annoying attitudes is absurd. This kind of strength of feeling you can only get from people feeling actually threatened – which is pretty pathetic when you pick out what the actual policies and demands of the accused "woke" are – very mild progressiveness. A desire to go a little way to redress the balance. It's a lot less than I'd favour!
Click the GitHub link. It’s a gui. You (or your parents) publish the static pages somewhere.
Right: it's worth noting the Puritans departed England in part because they were, basically, zealous pains in the butt who didn't get along well with contemporary English society.
> I live in one of the wealthiest cities in the US. Government-run schools are funded to the tune of $27k per student per year. I had hoped to send my son to one of those schools, until I discovered that none of them would have provided him an appropriate education.

Sounds like it's time to raise hell at a district meeting.

> This is an argument for taxpayer-funded education. I have not said anything against taxpayer-funding of K-12 education. This doesn't mean it has to be government-run.

Most non-public education options in the US are run by religious institutions. The First Amendment to the US Constitution is supposed to build a wall between church and state.

I also want at least some say in how my tax dollars are spent. There are absolutely people in my county and state where people would take my tax dollars and spend them at the K-12 version of a bible college.

> This is a reasonable argument with respect to private schools, but doesn't explain why the nearby charter schools, who admit students purely by lottery, are so much more efficient than the government-run schools.

If your parents have the time and energy to study out which charter school to send you to and put you into a lottery, there's a pretty good chance you have the resources at home to have a quality education regardless of who operates the school.

That last point brings up an ugly thing about privatization that many proponents of vouchers don't want to talk about: optimizing family structures for shareholder returns over the last 50 years (meaning both parents working outside of the home for stagnant wages) has had a negative impact on the children of this country, and you can't just fix that by telling the local school district to split their funding with another educational system.
I would think the burden is on them to prove that you were. They were just digging for a reason to deny the claim.

If the police report mentions an second individual in the car unrelated to you then they might start digging around for your name in Uber or Lyft, but most of the time that is probably just a standard question to screw over the unwary.
Glass can be economical to re-use, but I thought recycling it uses nearly as much energy as producing it in the first place.
I'm a little surprised to hear that some folks hate being inside such buildings -- my apartment is in one, and I specifically selected it for its floor-to-ceiling windows in every room. My brain is apparently a little different from yours.
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It’s more like a two stage tea made of an MAOI (the first type of antidepressant developed) and psychoactive tryptamines.

Eight ball yoda says… bad trip sitter he did seek, hmm?
Arguably there's some fake/virtual/game money that you can wager by deciding which item to buy (or whether to buy at all).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgPu1lXu84
It feels like a new level of AI agents where they can just become conversationally built. RTC between app and AI feels powerful.
Another way of seeing the situation: let run your MAB solution for a while. Orange has been tested 17 times and blue has been tested 12 times. This is exactly equivalent of doing a A/B testing where you display 1 time the orange button to 17 persons and 1 time the blue button to 12 persons.

The trick is to find the exact best number of test for each color so that we have good statistical significance. MAB does not do that well, as you cannot easily force testing an option that was bad when this option did not get enough trial to have a good statistical significance (imagine you have 10 colors and the color orange first score 0/1. It will take a very long while before this color will be re-tested quite significantly: you need to first fall into the 10%, but then you still have ~10% to randomly pick this color and not one of the other). With A/B testing, you can do a power analysis before hand (or whenever during) to know when to stop.

Literature does not start with "just do A/B testing" because it is not the same problem. In MAB, your goal is not to demonstrate that one is bad, it's to do your own decision when faced with a fixed situation.
But the problem is that if Wordpress disappears overnight, you're left with a sea of alternatives that's 100x larger than when Wordpress rose to popularity.

Ex-Wordpress users are just going to diffuse into all the other decent options that already exist. Or stick with a Wordpress fork that caters to them. Though note that Wordpress isn't going away. How many Wordpress users even know who Mullenweg is?

The idea of cobbling together yet another blog platform that will somehow capture these users better than Wordpress plus all the decent incumbents is some good ol fashioned developer hubris. :P
Not without its tradeoffs either. Cost. Lack of good manufacturers and oems or really very many ebike stores. Lack of serviceability of the ebike specific components. The bike specific components generally crap. 2-3x the weight of a human powered bike. Heavier tires that are more annoying to deal with in every metric. Nonzero risk of batteries exploding. Uncertain water resistance ratings. Arguably higher risk of theft.

Plenty of people do tool around on ebikes in socal. But it is a lot fewer people than I might have guessed would be doing it today if you asked me 5 years ago. Not even all that many people rent the scooters anymore.
I mean, it'd be a remarkable coincidence if firms queuing up to renounce their DEI initiatives and argue that the President's new bestie was doing a great job of promoting free speech were doing so without regard to the imminent inauguration date of a President who's never exactly disguised his loathing of such things and his desire to make life miserable for people he sees as "woke" (or his fondness for recalcitrant critics for that matter). Even PG himself is busy observing (on Twitter) the trend of removing pronouns from profiles. In fairness to PG, unlike Zuckerberg he's not actually rolling back anything he's been doing for most of the past couple of decades, but it'd be a helluva surprise if he'd just forgotten who was in charge when he got suspended from Twitter in his haste to lavish praise on the president's right hand man for doing such a great job of removing censorship from Twitter
IIRC in one of the "Fighting Fantasy" books the hero is captured and can choose if they want to spend the rest of their lives in a standing-only or a sitting-only cage - the story ends badly either way. I was a bit angry reading it as I didn't have a "save state" earmarked with the index finger.
It's origami, yes ? Surely someone here at HN can find a folding pattern and an appropriate size & weight of paper.
Apparently he has a tattoo of Sonos headphones on his left forearm.
I have an iPad and joined HN about the time the first iPad shipped.

My guess is programming on one is about the same as it has always been:

1. Either a kludge of necessity or an expression lifestyle identification.

2. An uphill fight against Apple’s design discipline for iOS.

3. Doable to some degree if everything is accessed through the web including tooling.

That it is not an obvious mainstream practice suggests that it is little different.
Analyzing CVE-2024-44243, a macOS System Integrity Protection Bypass
To see that a society with low levels of physical activity and high intake of sugars (of all kinds) and other highly processed foods results in some measurable poor health outcomes?
This seems illustrative of the "boogeyman" points that many commenters are making. I think it is a very small number of people who don't want people to call black people "black", and that the majority of liberal people would find the notion "you can't call them black people" to be ridiculous.

Are there people who believe this? I'm sure there are, but I think they are a vocal minority.
Simply not racist. Anti-racist means racist in reverse.
are you really fired when you get nearly $2 million in severance?
Really disappointing article, full of disingenuousness and strawmen and a few interesting points as well. For the record, while I'm on the progressive side of things, I certainly do not agree with all of the various viewpoints and practices ascribed to "wokeism."

He seems close to misunderstanding a pivotal thing, but glosses over it:

[Priggish] was not the original meaning of woke,
but it's rarely used in the original sense now.
Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one.

He then moves on to spend hundreds of words talking about why wokeness is bad, never really recognizing that for most of its relatively short lifespan the modern incarnation of "woke" has been defined and used almost exclusively by conservatives as sort of an amorphous blanket term for "various progressive ideas they dislike" and is not useful as a basis for any discussion or essay.

Instead of going out into the world and quietly
helping members of marginalized groups, the
politically correct focused on getting people in
trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

This is a glaringly bad false dichotomy. Apparently we can talk about good things or do good things, but not both?

I mean, I have certainly done both. There really isn't a conflict there.

Another, similar false dichotomy:

The danger of these rules was not just that
they created land mines for the unwary, but that
their elaborateness made them an effective
substitute for virtue.

We can't have rules and virtue?

It's the kind of sentence that sounds good if you don't think about it -- because of course doing good things is better than simply making rules -- but this is such an amateurish and false dichotomy.

This is about as sensical as saying that we shouldn't have code review, or coding standards, we should just focus on writing code in our own personal little vision of what good code is. Yes we should write "good code" on an individual basis, and yes we should (as a team working on a project together) have standards and reviews. If a particular team member is contributing zero code and doing nothing but toxic reviews, sure, that is a problem but that is a problem with that individual and not some kind of inherent paradox.

Some things can only be effectively tackled with both individual effort and community/systemic effort. If you feel that things like racism, sexism, etc do not fall into that category... well, I strongly disagree, but I wish people would simply say that directly than ranting and raving about this bogeyman of modern "wokeness" that is -- and I cannot stress this enough -- a mindbendingly nonspecific term. Talk ideals and policies.
In a first instance? Unlikely.

If you KEEP saying it, despite being told that it's making your coworkers uncomfortable, then you're just being an asshole, and sorry, people don't like working with assholes.
The banks making money off of the shakedown is certainly a part of the problem.

But I bank at a local credit union, and I've mentioned FedNow to about 5 different branch managers. So far, no one has even heard of it 8-/

They just cancelled a relationship with zelle (which I didn't like or use), and I've suggested that tehy replace it with FedNow, but no one even knows what i'm talking about.

p.s. Love your username mosburger! My favorite Japanese fast food chain! Especially for their offering of the YasaiBurger...