skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven’t wired earbuds always sounded better than Bluetooth at the same price point? When I set up my home theater, I first thought to use a Bluetooth transmitter for the audio but it stunk. Quiet sounds constantly dropped out and there was no bass for the subwoofer. Actually using a long aux cable from projector to speaker was night and day.

As for wired earbuds, I can highly recommend JLab as the most durable, and therefore the best for my tastes. Pairs of mine have gone years and through a lot of abuse (dunked in coffee with surprisingly frequency) and still work. I feel like every other brand lasted less than a year for me.
I'm in the process of shifting my machines from Linux to FreeBSD because I'm not a fan of the development direction that the Linux ecosystem has been taking. I am very happy to have an alternative to Linux.
You can’t scale up a wheel on a children’s toy and expect it to work on a loaded cart. It would just break. Cartwheels that will go the distance require fairly skilled carpentry.
This is probably a little too close to what you just showhned, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html about reposts.
I'm sorry this is getting down voted. The kayfabe surrounding Rickover and the Nuclear Navy is pretty impressive -- it's hard to find anything negative about it when you do an internet search.

For instance, you won't find any mention of the "Skipjack Skydiving Club"[1].

It would be interesting if they released statistics for the suicide rate within the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program vs. the rest of the population. Anecdotally I would guess 30x.

[1]: "Skipjack", named after a Naval Vessel, is the name of the tallest dormitory at the Goose Creek Naval Weapon's Station Nuclear Power School. I'm sure you can do the math on where the club name came from.
> I can't imagine how anyone could even achieve such state. There will always be that skill I do not yet have, that book I haven't read yet, that hobby I haven't tried yet, that place I haven't yet traveled to, etc. etc.

I can imagine it. After sidehustling and grinding hard for ~10 years, I realized one day that my savings make more in annual interest than my sidehustle brings in revenue. Not profit, revenue.

After a bit of math I realized that if I just do nothing unusual – go to work, keep my savings rate – I’ll have the option to retire in 3 to 4 years.

The big thing I was pouring my heart, soul, and mind into for so long suddenly feels small and meaningless. Like what is even the point? The sidehustle became more of a hobby. It’s enjoyable but the drive isn’t quite there. The things that used to feel like a big deal make me yawn.

So I try to work on bigger more impactful things. But these take longer and so there’s less of that regular dopamine hit of overcoming challenges. And even if ultimately they don’t succeed, oh well not too big a deal. So they just feel less of a pressing issue.

The ultimate feeling is one of aimless ambition. I want to do and achieve, but wherefore all the effort when chilling brings almost the same result?
But it's listed for acute pain, don't opiates already work well for that use-case? My understanding is that the time-limited nature of them and lack of continued access makes dependence unlikely and that the holy grail is a solution for chronic pain.
PromptFile – AI Prompt Manager
> The key difference is https certificates often require signing authority integrity

Couldn't you use your "traditional" SSH keys to generate an ephemeral self-signed client certificate which shares the same keypair as your SSH key? That would at least solve the CA issue for the client-to-server authentication.
Yeah Carter was a really sound guy. Smart and honest. Even after leaving the presidency he negotiated for peace all over the world. I think he doesn't deserve the bad rep he got.

If there's anyone who could have made America "great" it's him. Of course I'm not American so I know I'm butting in where I don't belong..
A Coder’s Invention Was Used by North Korean Hackers. Did He Commit a Crime?
it's never late at all
DNA of 15M People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
That is the German alternative, not the European alternative.
The answer is 100%. This brings us to the start point of the real conversation this person is trying to have, which likely centers on the nature of employment, the importance of Job Creators, and/or the infallibility of markets.
It’s not about what’s right or wrong, it’s just trying to appeal to a place’s sense of shame when you’ve failed to secure any local support just makes you look bad, and like you’re grandstanding.
> I would've thought this would be a relatively atheist/agnostic community, if not one that eschews discussion of religion entirely.

Briefly, why?
Fantastic shot!

I was in Tenerife in November 2024. I did some basic astrophotography one night with my Pixel 6 phone and a steady hand.

I managed to photograph M31, the Andromeda Galaxy for the very first time. It just appears as a faint oval smudge... but I was in awe.

Locating it was a challenge (I was flipping between a 2D star chart and my photos) so I was very happy to finally capture it. A few days later I discovered the Stellarium app which makes locating things much easier.
Honestly, with speakers it was mainly a patent avoidance thing (patent on essentially the same thing but done with dedicated hardware, doing it with software on "application processor" bypassed the patent claims)

A lot of similar stuff is done in firmware on x86 laptops, to the point that both AMD and Intel now share considerable portion of the stack, with both using Xtensa cores for DSP, with Sound Open Firmware as SDK. When I use built-in microphone array on my laptop, it's parsed through the DSPs "transparently" to end user.

But technically you can load your own firmware there.
> Haven’t wired earbuds always sounded better than Bluetooth at the same price point?

That's certainly been my experience. What Bluetooth gives in terms of convenience it takes away in terms of audio quality, reliability, and having yet another thing to charge.
AI is the only reason I’ve been able to keep up with the constant death marches. Since the job market went to shit employers are piling on as much work as they can knowing they have indentured servants.

The code quality isn’t great but it’s a lot easier to have it write tests, and other code, and then go back and audit and clean.

Feels absolutely awful but whatever.
You only get partial credit unless you figured out what, precisely, needed to be done, but had someone else do it for you.
I'm doing server code (which I guess is the main use case for nodejs), I just COPY the project folder in the docker and ship that. No need for bundling, shaking and other annoyance.
Most of the book criticism they do summarizes to the point where I don’t feel the need to buy anything so I’m not sure it’s personally working as an ad for me.
Interested in purchasing if you get legal advice (something like an attorney opinion letter) that clears this for personal use assuming no redistributon of captured data.
It would be great if this was implemented in a way that also other manufacturers can easily start building mic arrays such that it would make them immediately useful.
You say complexity, I say lucrative support contract.
It would be just a super simple package with one config file for the container, dependency on podman, and maybe a post-install script for creating system account and directories for data. I haven't done this myself for containers, but I don't see any reasons why it wouldn't work.
It is not that taboo. People talk about that in private very often, but I agree that it is rude in public. Plus it is a bit better in the younger generation.
[I'm not sure that I understand the first part of ypur comment, but just in case, I didn't downvote neither of ypur comments.]
Avoiding extra coprocessor and/or avoiding patent dispute like they did with speakers (which differ from a H-K patent by not having a discrete chip implementing it)
https://xkcd.com/774
Wikipedia does this. The Vatican site did in the past. Google seems to have partial support, showing Italian in some places and Latin in others.
you're posting on HN mon ami. you can see the signs here.
Yeah it's basically paying the US for protection.

I don't blame them though because they do have a whole country full of about 15 times as many space-constrained citizens next door (Indonesia)
I think the idea is that you can extrapolate that a singularity will occur and when it’s likely to happen. It’s what happens next that you can’t predict.
I don’t think any of this is “just politicians trolling.” Trump would absolutely attack Canada if he thought he could get away with annexing it.
I think the closest proximity to suan/sour is just sore. I like the suan metaphore, like something marinated/fermnated/drowning/gone slightly off in dull pain. It wierd because "sour" does feel very apt descriptor, English has sharp/stabbing/throbbing/burning/shooting/stinging/tingling/numbing... etc lots of metaphores. But "sour" is just your default sore/ache.
https://archive.is/cWnVC
Like a credit a card, charge the merchant a fee. I think its around 4% which is why i am surprised door dash did it, usually on higher priced goods with more margin.
Even that Wikipedia page has this snippet:

In 1937, Claude Shannon introduced the idea of mapping Boolean algebra onto electronic relays in a seminal work on digital circuit design. Zuse, however, did not know of Shannon's work and developed the groundwork independently[11]: 149 for his first computer Z1, which he designed and built from 1935 to 1938.
America – and the media – needs a Covid reckoning
That is also the reason why patents are of limited duration.
Capita's Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit
> Trump got just over 1/3 of eligible US votes.

Sorry, that's kind of bullshit. Stating things that way is just spin to mischaracterize the actual result.

> almost 1/3 of the US eligible voters didn't vote at all.

Things are weird now. The indications I've been seeing is the less engaged the voter, the more they tended to support Trump. So if those people voted, Trump would have probably have had a bigger win. In prior years, those voters would have tended to support Democrats, but not anymore.

The Democrats got rejected badly. They lost to a dangerous buffoon. Instead of sticking their heads in the sand, they need to own that loss and internalize what that means about them.
>Https does nothing for security.

What sort of definition are you using for security? It's obviously not the standard one.

Sending passwords in the clear vs not is covered on the first day of security 101.
Not according to the oh so moderate and reasonable HN comments. Having an opinion about that to the point of painting signs or showing any sign of protest is an extreme view.
The term you're looking for is privelege.
Facebook had the cachet of being for college grads from Harvard and MIT. TikTok had the pandemic to help it along. (Not sure about Instagram.) There was also the mass migration from Digg to Reddit because of an unpopular redesign of the former. Is it possible? Absolutely, yes. But there needs to be a catalyst to make it happen that I don't think that can be caused with money.
You act like software engineering is a respected field.

Most of our job is fixing slop. Previously this was slop produced by low quality cut rate developers in countries known for outsourcing. Now it’s just fixing AI slop and foreign outsourced slop.
The easy answer is that the piano is not the "reference" instrument. If you look at a violin, the A major scale is generally the first scale you learn -- not C.

The piano has C natural in the middle of a full 88 keyboard, which is why it is a "natural" scale to pick (C major only uses the white keys, while A major would use three black keys).

So if you are learning another instrument, your "base" note will sometimes be entirely different.

Many "non-western" tradition also aren't tuned to 440 Hz, and even many _western_ traditions don't use 440 Hz for A, 415 Hz is also common.

[addendum]
And why Do/Ut, Re, Mi? Because of a Gregorian chant where each sound sorta fell into a vocal range of monks ... then you adopt Do to whatever "sound" the instrument is closest, many years pass and deviations and standardizations ...

[addendum]
I recommend starting out researching Guido d'Arezzo (and the Guidonian hand) a bit, that is where we get do/re/mi .. which was used as a teaching aid (which is maybe why Solfege as a term is often used in combination to sight reading or singing from sheet music). Almost no matter what language someone sings/voices Do/Re/Mi/... ... it falls naturally into a vocal range, irrespective of octave.

And then one could look into the hexachord ... and deep into a very deep well of confusion.
The way things are looking, we'll see full Wayland migration just after full IPv6 adoption.

One day...
That's what I learned in my university data structures course. I don't know anything about C++'s std::deque though.
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into login servers and stole data
> The evidence is overwhelming that it has been win-win

It's not a win-win when the rich side wins 100 and the poor side 10
I've not seen that much interest in that particular journey from e/acc either.

Others groups, yes.

Perhaps I've missed things — I have missed things, I should instead say that perhaps I've missed those things — but I while I dislike e/acc for seeing only what existing ills can be prevented rather than accounting for what new ills can be created by a lack of caution, I've not seen what you say in e/acc. Nothing wilful.
How quickly do you think our weather models adapt? Our current models are built on top of decades of detailed weather research by tens of thousands of researchers around the world, and has involved the launch of some the largest satellites in space. All to help us try and understand how weather works.

Those models don't just "adapt", they're carefully and manually refined over time, slowly incorporating better physical models as they're developed, and better methods of collecting data as it become available. Climate change absolutely changes how weather systems interact faster than our models can adapt, primarily because we can only adapt models to changes after their accuracy degrades, and it becomes possible to start identifying potential weaknesses in the existing approaches.

You're example of seasonal temperature changes vs global average temperature increases, vastly underestimates how complicated weather models are, and how much impact changes in global climate systems (like the North Atlantic Current) can drastically impact local weather conditions. Weather models, like all models, will make assumptions about the behaviours of extremely large systems which aren't expected to change very much, or are very hard to measure in real-time. As those large systems change due to climate change, the assumptions made by weather models will grow increasingly incorrect. But that hard part is figuring our which assumption is now incorrect, not always easy to identity exactly what assumptions have been made, or accurately measure the difference between the assumption and reality.
Possible, but this has a very small chance. The current theories predict an amount of energy that was too high to for the quarks making the basic parts like protons or electrons. Only after the universe expanded the average energy was small enough that matter could exist.
I disagree. He has always been excellent from the beginning of his Youtube career. Maximum potential skill levels and skill acquisition/growth rates vary from person to person. I think most people wouldn't have as much success even with twice as many hours invested in the 4 separate crafts (!) of mathematics communication, data visualization, video animation, and video editing. I know I wouldn't, and I consider technical communication one of my strong suits.

Everyone can improve with practice, but some people really are gifted.
It does quite a lot for security. It prevents evesdropping (to an extent, better with esni), disallows ad/malware-injection or content modification, and prevents credential sniffing. It does all that against most reasonable attackers, up to around the rough ballpark of nation states.

All for the price of about the same amount of work that it took to read this message.

"Https is only for credit cards" is some serious 1990s bullshit.
The Wright Brothers biography by David McCullough does a great job of covering the details here.
I wish my[1] bricked 3DS could still function as a game-playing machine but, alas, Nintendo ahem “pushed an update” to it because it had custom firmware installed and I “made the mistake” of letting it connect to the internet. Now it doesn’t boot, much like a brick. I think some people will even say this is not properly bricked because I can technically restore it.

To their point, the phone in this analogy was not bricked (nor were the printers in this case), even if such an update is incredibly user-hostile. At least, many people will think that the phone/printer no longer functions at all when they see that word, so they’ll think it’s not the right word to use.

1: still calling it mine even though the courts will let Nintendo treat it like it’s theirs
> So do do you expect to learn about censorship of German media if you follow German media which is subject to censorship?

I‘m used to work with various sources of information professionally and don’t get breaking news from Reddit. Free media do not exist. They all have certain alignments or views, they are all censored by governments etc. Russia just pushes news agenda from the top, America works in more subtle ways, through denial of access (I‘m complicit here), in Germany that’s mostly lawyers, publishers with agenda and (surprise!) privacy laws. Nevertheless it is still possible to stay updated and extract a lot of information even from censored media, sometimes reading between the lines. Overall I think German media do enjoy a lot of freedom.

I still do not understand how is this related to privacy. Yes, in democracy all things are important and connected. But the original claim was that somehow we have a problem with it. What is the problem?
> I've read biographies of Rickover and not all people who lived through this time are complementary.

History is written by those who remain in power and Rickover was a man who embodied speaking truth to power. His career was largely ended when some corporate powers he spoke truth to finally punished him for his opposition.

> but whatever his lessons are

Rickover was very forward about his lessons: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

Near the end of his career he mainly wanted to spend time promoting his own philosophies, however his anti "power" message was obscured via political spectacle and threatening corporate power ensured that those that wrote the history books made sure his accomplishments and philosophy faded into obscurity.
It's fascinating to see how far the pendulum has swung since those days. Maybe there is no place for honest writing anymore, as he described it, in the blogs of that era, which suffered the same issues of PR and monetization.
Quantum entanglement means that the state of particles is distributed across space, making it non-local. This suggests that spacetime might not be necessary for managing these states, leading some scientists to explore the idea that spacetime could be an emergent property rather than a fundamental one. Since spacetime is a mathematical model and we haven't yet proven its existence, it makes sense that entanglement is non-local.

Regarding the idea of a particle entangled with every other particle in the universe, it's important to clarify that entanglement doesn't allow one particle to control the state of another. Entanglement means that the states of particles are correlated, but it doesn't imply any form of control or influence over the other particles. This is a common misconception, but current scientific understanding does not support the idea of a single particle controlling the universe through entanglement.
Well. Those sure are incredibly mild.

This entire thread is among the most bizarre things I've ever seen on HN.
For the past six years, CEO Elon Musk has claimed that Tesla would achieve that goal by the end of the year, and he has been wrong every time.

So either Musk has very poor grasp of the technical issues OR he is a con artist.

In either case, he lacks credibility.

There is nothing that Tesla has actually produced that justifies a stock P/E of 130 while the competition is typically under 10.
Out of that shameful letter, five astronauts have direct business ties to Elon Musk or SpaceX. Three more, have indirect or advocacy ties to Musk. Also SpaceX and related Musk business have hired, several former NASA astronauts as advisors or consultants, so I guess for the rest we just have to follow the money.

Scott Kelly signed that letter, but not sure he would stand by it, when Musk associates start decimating NASA.

Oh, and since when did we start calling Space Tourists: Commercial Astronauts ? Dennis Tito spent 8 days at the ISS and nobody would call him Commercial Astronaut
Ludiz: The no-code content gamification platform
In the past 2 years we built an easy to use no-code gamification platform.

We have used it successfully with our own clients for 2 years, so we decided to make it into a SASS so anyone can create serious games for their own needs.

It makes it easy to create serious games for onboarding, learning, team buildings... Or anything that can benefit gamification !

And with AI, you can create a game in minutes !

Share your game with your collaborators or publish it to everyone, and get detailed statistics about game sessions.
Some other ideas:

- 2 bar patterns would also be great. Many patterns repeat over 8 quarters.

- Allowing accents (dynamics). A lot of drum patterns involve just a few drums, where accents are what bring the pattern to life.

With accents and triplets, you can have the Purdie shuffle [1], which is one of my favorite patterns ever :)

:[1] https://tomtommag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Purdie-Shuf...
I understand, and I’m claiming there is no one logical or fundamental way to derive a price.

It could be logical to ascribe some value to a business’s leader having access to a US president known to be “open for business”? And we know a big tax bill is likely to be passed by year’s end.

Perhaps that will lead to good fortunes for Tesla shareholders. Or maybe not.
I believe that invention was a bit controversial, for some reason...
I had hoped the GPU API would go away, and the entire thing would become fully programmable, but so far we just keep using these shitty APIs and horrible shader languages.

Personally I would like to use the same language I write the application in to write the rendering code(C++). Preferably with shared memory, not some separate memory system that takes forever to transfer anything too. Somelike along the lines of the new AMD 360 Max chips, but graphics written in explicit C++.
Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'
The reality is, the only languages that are truly simple are Turing tarpits, like Brainfuck.

Reality is not simple. Every language that’s used for real work has to deal with reality. It’s about how the language helps you manage complexity, not how complex the language is.

Maybe Forth gets a pass but there’s good reason why it’s effectively used in very limited circumstances.
The design and impact of building a simple key-value database in Inko
FWIW when I was an aerospace major, one of the first lessons in “fundamentals of flight” as the class was named, was about the race to flight that was heating up around the time of the Wright brothers. But this was in an aerospace class, so I guess it’s less relevant. Never heard about the Brazilian guys though
I note that they don't actually say "matches the accuracy of current best models".

Or even "almost as accurate as the current best models".