skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is this new "Bluetooth LE Audio" different from what we have today?

The new audio codec should be of a much higher quality, though it does match what some proprietary systems have already been doing. Not just "quality" improvements, but the tinny aftertones and so on should just about vanish in all circumstances. Normalisation will work better. It'll be easier to pick out voices in a crowd, etc.

BLE should be much lower latency. Potentially anywhere between half and a third. Which should be a huge quality-of-life improvement for those using bluetooth hearing aids.

BLE is _somewhat_ simpler, and has decent adoption throughout the software industry. So connecting to Windows, macOS, Linux should be possible. (The Linux story is complicated by the new audio codec - its nonfree and patent encumbered). If they've done their job right, you'll be able to connect your hearing aids like any other output device, with a quick and simple pair from whatever Bluetooth menu.

However, BLE is also known for more frequent dropouts related to battery usage spikes. Not directly because of the spec. Because the people implementing it have done a worse job thus far. If that remains the case, then it is fairly useless as a hearing aid tool.
The accepted answer here [1] is what got me to see the light. Once I realized how composable the main commands are, vi became kind of fun.

I still prefer Emacs because of macros and org-mode, but I no longer fear vi when I'm doing a quick edit, editing a huge file, or on a emacsless new machine.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
The battle of Alesia took place several centuries before anyone heard about the Franks. The "us" the OP is referring to, is the Gauls.

I won't argue with the essence of your point though, although, for what I know, much of the nobility up to the 1800's was of Frankish descent, while Gallo-roman blood dominated among the commoners. So some heritage was there indeed.
I must be the only one here who thinks a ban on all nuclear weapons is the only option, right?
The example in the article is the exact thing that has been thrown into doubt.

This entire thread is because a researcher has found evidence that contradicts the only evidence we have for expansion.

I said of course there isn't expansion, the evidence is poor for it and that poor evidence is now disputed, plus expansion means a violation of energy conservation.

You come back with "look at the article, energy conservation has been shown to be violated", but the example in the article is expansion.

Circular reasoning at it's best.
>My sense of smell seems to vary with the amount of meditation I've recently done. Normally I have almost no ability to smell; but at breakfast one morning at the retreat I could almost taste the orange someone was eating two seats away.

Ah, but what about the severely reduced food intake? ;)
Robinhood plans to make money on US stock trading in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM There are other videos on the subject in this channel (battery recycling, EV vs ICE efficiency).

According to the video, average electric car is in the green after 4.8 years. If you already own a Prius that could be true, but a Dodge Ram is unlikely.
Good. Fuck that whole shitty website. Its content was never good, and the name alone stank of lowest common denominator bullshit.

A short list of other websites I'd like to see fail:

SoccerMomHappyThoughts

DadBodFitness

LittleKidzCartoonShowz

ElderlyPeopleHospiceSite

DivorcedParentLegalStories

DinnerDateConversationFodder

...and, oh yeah, HackerNews
Seriously the way everything is going, everything will escalate into another massive war. Although I highly doubt another 'world war' will come into question.
I think to gain anything from long form articles, you need to read and consider what's being written, rather than skimming, looking for the holy grail.
So your educated opinion is that there is a grand, generations long conspiracy involving millions of people to cover up the fact that the universe works based on magic? That sounds more like lazy thinking, if you were serious about educating yourself without relying on "mainstream science" you'd do some research that does not involve watching YouTube videos or staying up all night reading comments from random forum dwellers.
That is by far more informed and sophisticated than most people's knowledge on this topic.

Further questions: Why was he in Bagdad? Why did the US use an airstrike? Why was he not arrested? Did the Iraqi government invite him to the country? Was he pursuing diplomatic relations with the Iraqi government, the nominal allies of the United stakes?

Speaking for myself, I could not support the killing without answers to those questions.
That's what jerks do. "To own the libs". I recommend not being a jerk.
I Teach Database Design
Why can't a competent developer add one more .c file to their current collection of .c files?
> I just remember that a parsec is the same as a light
> year. By astronomical standards of precision, that's about right.

I just multiply them by π. Close enough, and probably on par with our measuring precision anyway.
All of science is just a collection of observations combined with attempts to find patterns in those observations. Read up on Hume, Inductive Reasoning.

There is no fundamental grounding for the idea that what any of the rules we observe the universe following won't change suddenly for no reason apart from the fact that we have never seen it happen.
have you ever surfed the web on a Pi? even a 4.. it's not fun :D
The dish is foreign in Thailand too. It's always available where westerners might be expected to ask for it but I've never, ever, ever seen anyone Thai order it. (Where westerners are not expected it's not on the menu) I can completely understand why as it's never even half as good as a cheap place outside Thailand would serve. It's always kinda dry and bland. You can even massively overpay for it at the best hotels in Bangkok and still it sucks. It's like trying to get proper American Chinese in China... good luck with that.
OK, I now understand what you're saying. That being said, I don't believe you - I don't think someone in your category (1) has all that much of an advantage over someone in my "your achievements are publicly known and not locked away in someone's proprietary code base" category.

I think most of the "passion programmers" advantages are due to how public their achievements are, not due to the fact that they are putting in more than the 9-to-5. Further, most of the people I've met in this category don't have particularly interesting or programming intensive 9-to-5s, which is how they can have the appetite to program in the evenings.

Back during the most intensive period of working on Hyperscan, when we were really doing tons of interesting stuff during the day, I had zero interest in going home and doing Even More coding on some other project. It would have been seriously reaching into the "You Are No Longer Productive" number of hours/week.
I'd believe the former article, since the quote you posted from the latter is far beyond any yearly budget even mathematically possible.

You quoted "Yet DoD financial records for the Army’s 2015 budget included a whopping $6.5 trillion (yes, trillion) in plugs."

The entire US annual federal budget is on order of 4 trillion. So that number alone is fearmongering. Total DoD annual budget is around $700B. Army is a fraction of that. A significant amount of the money is simply paying the 2.8 million DoD employees, another decent portion is benefits to retirees, another is equipment maintenance and purchases , and none of these are places you can simply lose all or much of the money - employees notice when they don't get paychecks.

So the 6.5 trillion in a single year plugs is either nonsense or seriously misreported in the latter article.

Another way to see it - the article says Congress allocated $122B on 2015 for Army. At that rate Army would take 60+ years to have 6.5T in funny money floating around, and that only if it was not paying anyone for anything else, and that requires them to get 122B a year for the past 60 years, which they did not (60 years ago total DoD budget budget was ~50B, Army was a small fraction of that).

Thus it's easy to see the article is some mix of lying, ignorance, miscounting, multiple counting, or other nonsense. It's mathematically impossible for Army to have misplaced or hidden or defrauded that much money.

Care to explain their math while tying it down to actual budget numbers?
Their "heavy investment" in renewables doesn't do much for Germany. It's really coal and gas "saving" them from nuclear, and that's problematic.

https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...

#1: coal, 34%
#2: wind, 18%
#3: gas, 13%
#4: nuclear, 12%
(Solar is zero of course, it's night right now : inconveniently, this tends to happen rather regularly)

for a whopping average of 400gCO2/kW, compared to France 68, Sweden's 42, or Iceland's 28.

"It shows" indeed, but nothing to be proud of.
A note on reading big, difficult books
Sam Altman lost a bold bubble bet made in 2015. Now he must pay $100k
Honestly, you can use Git for large files with lfs. I wouldn't say I love this approach, but it isn't that bad now. You do have to make room for yet-another-tool, and you now have centralized version control comingling with your distributed tool (essentially making it central); but you can still use everything you love about git, and if your lfs doesn't change, you don't need to be connected to a server. It certainly feels pretty absurd. This isn't even a problem in SVN, but now we're tacking on another tool that you have to learn, and introduces issues.
https://www.space.com/craigslist-water-heater-mad-rocket-lau...
> But the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere as CH4 is much, much less than the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere of CO2

Parent's point is that we don't actually know how much methane is released into the atmosphere due to natural gas fracking.
I agree. Once you would go to a video shop and all the popular titles were in one location (annoying to be physically there, but central). Now you need to find out which streaming service is on, have the app, subscription (then remember to cancel if just one show interested in). It's a mess.

I did not know about these shared servers. Makes Plex/JellyFin etc interesting. All the popular media one spot ready to stream.
Born Texan, that's right but haven't been there since a was a few years old. Still feel strangely connected though
Or if the company is sold before you vest, the new management can decide not to honor your RSUs. It happened to me!
> Still keep wondering how does it get constantly overlooked.

Because you kee thinking in technological terms. Languages have come and gone, those who stayed are either old enough to have a midlife crisis or are supported by at least one big company. For all the merits D has there is no big name willing to push it forward, even though its creator is now working for Facebook and is doing some internal work: Facebook didn't express any interest in showing this off.

It really is a shame, because D has a lot of things that might interest programmers, all it takes is a little more presence.
It's to be expected that running the installer will give you a fresh install of Firefox.

You can still manually update by hitting "About Firefox" in your menu, which will keep your settings as-is.
Most of reality is inexplicable according to modern science. So, there are probably vast quantities of discoveries to still be made.
> MIPS (and Hennessy and Patterson) would be my first choice, for upending the architecture design.

I agree that it was a revolutionary design for the time. From today's perspective, some of the choices made did not age all that well (in particular branch and load delay slots).

For assembly level programming/debugging, my favorite architecture by far was POWER/PowerPC. Looking at x86 code vs PowerPC after Apple's switch made me almost cry, although the performance benefits were undeniable.
hydro is not low carbon, generally.
Cut down on your commute time, skip lunch, and get by on less sleep. It is possible.
Metal fatigue (and other wear and tear) might be a reason; our muscles are self healing and regenerating. It would likely be cheaper and less error prone to simply have more sensors, not moving at all or with much narrower ranges of motion to simulate depth perception. Training a computer to understand a simulacrum is an entirely different challenge, I think.
Encrypted, Offsite backups are key!
My first thought was that this was a setup by the Script Kiddie (maybe they did know what they were doing). If you knew that your actions were going to come to light then you might as well messy up the trail for investigators. I wouldn't be surprised to find out this was a planned maneuver
That was my first thought, but the article specifically addresses that. It's due to improved treatments for lung cancer. Take lung cancer out of the data and the death rate improved by 1.4% last year, which is basically the same as the baseline 1.5%/year rate that cancer deaths have been dropping since 1991. If it were due to the opioid epidemic, you also wouldn't see that sustained drop over 3 decades - life expectancy in the U.S. has only been falling for 3 years.
Yup, doesn't sound like a negative to me. People will still try to build simpler ecosystems like GitLab/GitHub/Atlassian, with similarly mixed results.
The most obvious choice would be async/await support - no specific plans yet, though.

The concurrency model is, like C++ or even C#: sequential consistency for data-race-free programs (SC-DRF). No green threads or anything crazy, no 'message passing', just normal system threads, normal locks, you control how you access memory yourself. You do synchronization just like you'd do in C/C++.
Weird, I have had zero real issues with BLE. However, I'm on the device side, GATT Server, not the phone (client) side. So I have much lower access than if I was writing a Core Bluetooth app or something.
True; on the other hand, Iran seems to have already benefited from Soleimani's killing: after the world's fear of a new war, the outrage, the divisions within NATO, the Iraqi resolution to expel American troops, the contradictory claims by the US government, the US position is weaker than before. So it was wise not to waste this advantage with some act that could have reunited the West against them.
Maybe the inhabitant only weighs 80 pounds, and that is all the floor is capable of supporting. The basement holds a large collection of glass containers holding venomous animals.
In addition, and in this specific case, it's a lie that is easily discoverable. Just because your data is encrypted does not mean that it all looks random. For example, AIUI, LUKS has a partition header that contains a magic number, identifying it as a LUKS partition. Additionally, GPT's "partition type" field can identify the partition as a LUKS volume.
am I the only one who thinks tools that induce time anxiety aren't really healthy?

i'd rather use a carrot than a stick. this is a psychological stick.
Leaving the question of machine translation etc aside for the moment, this is about playing chess from textual examples of play. There is no reason to assume that, even if GPT-2 was really any good at machine translation, that it would be any good at chess.

I guess people think "it's a powerful model so it should do well in any task" but that's typically not the case for neural nets. I know what OpenAI claims about how it can do a little bit of everything, machine translation benchmarks are borked and I bet so are question answering ones (which I confess I don't know much about).
To be honest that fact felt the most violating in this whole ordeal for me
You are using circular reasoning. Energy is not conserved if the universe is expanding. I am saying of course that isn't happening, the evidence for expansion is poor and now has been shown to be unreliable. Without expansion energy is conserved. The example from your article is expansion, which it assumes to be a fact based on the poor evidence that is now invalidated.
Oh - I read it quickly and thought Avro Arrow was some computer system that was idling for decades at someone's home and then suddenly blueSCREENED.
The Kessel Run as performed by the Millennium Falcon; not just any ship can do that!
Before Uber, I used to call taxi dispatchers in Oakland to get a ride to the airport from my house. The taxis would rarely show up. One day I was getting a ride home in a taxi and I asked why this was the case. The driver explained that most drivers would not accept calls to certain "more dangerous" neighborhoods. I guess I won't be getting Ubers now for the same reason.
>why life is evolvable

Sorry, could you explain why you think life is not evolvable exactly? Assuming you take the existence of a single celled organism with DNA as a given (we still don't know the origin of life), evolution gets you the rest of the way rather nicely. Notably, "life" usually contains the assumption that it is evolvable as part of the definition. If the children of the organism can't adapt to the environment, we don't consider those things to be "alive" (e.g. a 3d printer that can print a copy of itself isn't alive).

As for the origin of life, all serious scientists are onboard with abiogenesis, though we don't know the mechanism. Every year, new science comes out showing how microfluid droplets with organic compounds + the natural environment, can result in behavior that looks similar to a cell.

For example, this one shows fairly interesting "cell like" movement without any life, and there was another last year that proposed a possible abiogenesis of cell walls through evaporation and organic compounds that suck up large molecules into the interior when evaporated.

https://qz.com/487712/why-these-colored-water-droplets-seem-...
We shall see. The ability to do hardware prototyping in the Bay Area went from expensive but feasible, to nearly impossible thanks to increasingly stringent environmental and occupational safety regulations, unique to California(which has its own “CalOSHA” and environmental health agencies), and as I understand it the manufacturing capabilities in region was a major boon at one point for tech. Additionally, the inequality in the Oakland-SF-Berkeley area is definitely driving people away. Something like 50% of the state is considering moving in some polls.

Also, if you aren’t aware, California has a fundamentally underfunded Public Employees Retirement Funds, which were designed during the dot.com bubble with those growth rates in mind as being sustainable forever(seriously). Even after the decade long bull run it’s still only 70% funded, the fund even admits that this could be a rough decade.

https://calpensions.com/2019/08/26/calpers-gets-candid-about...
The good thing about atmospheric methane though is that at its half life is only about 30 years.
New Projects See GPT-2 Summarizing Movies, Playing Chess
How Thinking Can Change the Brain (2007)
Holy crap that would suck, how many staff did they loose when they decided to screw with peoples pay like that?

I would think, as a company, you would just be shooting yourself in the foot unless you did something like increased base-pay to cover the loss of RSUs.
worse than coal? I doubt it.
Zhmenu – A lightweight adaptable input menu
Still no punishment for Musk committing fraud on twitter?
The second manga explores this in detail as well.
opus_256k can decode in real time on ~40MHz arm9 from 1999, or 16MHz DSP core https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc_audio_opus_code...
The end of the function: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Defer_statements
My favorite youtube channel by far. It's always a good day when a new video is out.
> I'm surprised how little damage each hit inflicted. Purpose
> more to say "we struck the US" rather than actually do damage, I suppose.

I highly suspect that these missiles had no warhead.
Why would you ever spin those drives up again? I'd sledgehammer them just to make sure.
> Cameras on a car are stuck in one place. Take some time and notice how often your head moves while driving.

That's why multiple cameras are used and positioned farther apart than you could move your head while inside the car.
If they were serious they would crowdfund a cubesat and track it as it orbits the Earth. It was good enough evidence to prove that Sputnik was in orbit. You can even put cameras on the things so I'm sure there's all kinds of experiments you could do to verify that NASA wasn't faking it.
Virus Spread by Shrews Linked to Human Deaths from Mysterious Brain Infections
I think you're describing something like a hybrid social network/semantic web with versioning, knowledge provenance, and asynchronous peer review.

One serious problem for any such system is ontology selection: how is one to represent the entire body of scientific knowledge under a single type system? Different fields of inquiry make use of extremely diverse conceptual models. I suppose mathematics are in a way a unifying language, but there's hardly a single homogeneous mathematical discipline.

The present "weakly" connected network has almost zero technical barriers to entry. It uses well-established technology within a well-established workflow, and it offloads the hard, fuzzy work (e.g., all the model-binding that would presumably take place in the proposed system) to the most flexible computing device we know of: the brain. Everything is already freely downloadable/usable, for the most part (lots of research is open access, and what isn't can often be obtained from the investigators by request).

That said, maybe the sort of thing you describe could be translated into a research question. One could try to compare the shape of various data under different encodings, for instance (some sort of topological analysis?) to identify similar structure? I think category theory has been used to unify previously disparate regions of mathematics.

There are already a few entries in the social network/resource-sharing platform space. Have a look at Open Science Foundation. Academia and ResearchGate are similar, but without the materials-and-data-sharing.
Disagree. I could teach a child to use git. I don't agree it's elegant in a face value way. Yet if you've used other version control systems, git has features that you'd dream of (I "invented" some of the features of git on my own). So in a way it really is an elegant solution. I can't think of much that I really hate, or wish to change; and I can't think of any serious proposal to "fix" it.
He was there at US request to deliver a diplomatic backchannel message on deescalating tensions between Iran and KSA... that is news and disgraceful, if true.
Should be the "Pedantic Party".
He did mention at the beginning he could almost do an hour video just breaking down scene by scene. I think he kept on target even in the face of numerous enticing rabbit holes.
> There was no performance management system in place either, so the people fired were basically just the bottom of the stack rank their managers were asked to turn in, which was often based more on personal like or dislike than performance.

And that differs from the result of a performance management system how? Maybe that rank and file didn't have to spend as much time writing reviews?
I'm in embedded world. Writing realtime drivers has been... Painful. Fixing existing realtime drivers has been worse. Almost every piece of hardware I've touched hasn't complied with the spec in some way.
I don't understand the relevance of git in all of that
Apparently it was the first thing humankind mastered.
Zig author here. Welcome to the club.

How do you solve the IDE features ("fast and trustworthy refactorability (ie: renaming symbols)") in the presence of conditional compilation?

btw your name is an anagram of "beefitrian"