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Instead of the constant focus on graphics graphics graphics, why don’t companies improve other tech like speech synthesis for a while?

That would bring about a new boom (pun) of creativity by allowing indie devs to write complex stories with spoken dialogue without having to worry about hiring actors and immutable recording sessions.
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A 20 hour work week should become the norm.

We will soon have 10 billion by 2050. Everything is going to be automated. There isn’t going to be a lot of jobs around.

If we still survive 2050 and continue having a money/currency.employment based economy, we will have to drastically reduce work hours.

But that’s a BIG IF ..we’ll see what the future holds.
And a band made a hit song in Spanish about it in the early 2000s, Asereje: https://youtu.be/V0PisGe66mY
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Why I bought the iPad Air 4th generation and not M1 MacBook Pro?
I have been On a lookout for quite some time now, to upgrade my personal laptop. I currently own a early 2011 13 Inch MacBook Pro. Almost a decade old it has been my goto machine. It has served me well for my technical & non-technical workflows. But due to lack of software upgrades it makes sense now to upgrade. In the recent times I have been mainly using it for browsing & other document processing tasks. And, That’s where the confusion begins.

The new M1 Macbook machines are phenomenal in the public benchmarks. But they are a overkill for the activities that I do. After all the current MBP is still a workhorse except for a sloppy battery and of course the OS can no longer be upgraded.

As an alternative I was also looking at iPad Air 4th generation. With the new iPadOS, it has all that I need to replace my MacBook Pro. After assessment I settled for iPad Air 4th generation. Saved a few hundred dollars and an option to upgrade to M2/M3 Macbook, and ample time to allow for it to gain support and get stable.

So far it appears to be a good decision. Tell me how often do you upgrade and what are your main points on which you decide.
There was a book about a kid who wins a contest to get sent to the ISS, and connects with an african boy over ham. I do not remember the title, but this reminded me of that.
“Making money” as a VC has dependencies on a lot of things, including reputation and deal flow.
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Context: automation of field Ag with farm robots/drones etc.
Commonhold sounds a lot like the Strata Title system that is typically used in Australia for such arrangements.
Yes.

In India, Privacy has lost much meaning.

1. Government mandates everyone to have Aadhaar card . In Aadhar card application form, there is option towards "sharing of data with third party" . Most People do tick that option. If they don't tick,there are chances that officers(mostly in bank where they take photo and biometric details of applicant) themselves tick that and apply for aadhar card.

2) Many colleges sell Students' Info, Phone number, Address for money. We get direct calls from coaching centre who didn't at all had our phone number.

3) When you buy something (say Domain name in Indian company),there are chances that they sell your information across many corporate interests without your consent.
Yeah, that's one way to understand it (though I wouldn't call this impressionism).
At the most human level, I'd say if someone connects with it, it's art. I did connect with these pieces so was bummed to see someone insulting them -- and an artist, no less.

For example, I loved these:
https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga47.html

https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga36.html

https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga46.html

But it's hard to say why ... and that's where I can start to ask why and start engaging with the work.
> VPN providers are far more likely than AWS to do the kind of shady things that might matter to your relatives, like selling their personal data.

How do you know that AWS isn't spying on your systems? Are they transparent? Do AWS release detailed transparency reports on their servers? You are identified when you pay for AWS no?

I'd rather trust a specialist privacy VPN provider like Mullvad, than me rolling my own VPN on a provider that isn't even transparent and that is hard to use for consumers other than myself.

my 2c.
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Even the most aggressive DRM like Denuvo absolutely does work. You might be thinking of Anticheat, which tends to not work. So multiplayer is currently pretty limited, everything else tends to work.
Wales was annexed to the Kingdom of England in the middle ages, but the Kingdom of England ceased to exist in 1707, when the United Kingdom was formed.

Today, Wales is thought of as a constituent country of the United Kingdom, on par with England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. From a standpoint of the monarchy, it's all one unified realm of The Crown.
whoa id love to hear the name of it!
I agree with you, 100%. When we remove the opportunity for people to be charitable, we force those in need to accept goods or services from means that are often ill begotten.
Fundamental problem is also that many things in Indian legal system are done through criminal law, rather than civil law.

Also there is no codified torts, etc, causing people to seek remedies through criminal law and intimidation etc.
This is a great reason to give to charity. Thanks for sharing. I hope it inspires others.

The key words in your comment..that strikes a chord..is “no expectation of return”. It’s a good axiom to follow for everything in life.
It is a disgustingly well designed product. Go kick the tires and you'll see what I mean. It's just alarming.
reading this got me interested in getting a ham radio. anyone have any cool experiences they can share?
https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy
I never once thought MB was a real person. It was SO obvious.
Aerospace engineer and amateur historian... nice! Would you enlighten us about the main problems with Hans Guido Mutke claims?
There aren't super technical burdens to speech synthesis in games; for example, Jackbox Party Pack 7 runs just fine on the Switch and contains a speech synthesis engine for "Blather Round".

I imagine it's mostly a licensing/cost thing (since a "voice" for a speech synthesis engine still requires hiring an actor and doing a recording session).
It is literally both of those things, even if it might not be within the next decade.
Sure. So what changes after Brexit that isn't 95%-100% unilateral on the side of the UK?

If the UK wants to make it easy to import German Cheese they can just let people bring German cheese over the border. Pay with $US.
In terms of affordability of land adjusted by weather, Texas is the best place to address homelessness. Trying to fix the situation in SF is difficult due to the lack of low cost land.
Because trust has a social aspect to it, along with technical. The tech may exist, but it is going to be quite hard, if not impossible, to explain to an average person how cryptographically verified evidence of the piece of information is better than the person just accessing said information.
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. It links together Postmodernism in the cultural, social and economic domains, and makes a compelling case for the damage that over-applying it has been. It made a lot of ideas click into place, and made me see that a lot of 'the way things are', wrt the damaging aspects of Neoliberalism in particular, are not only contingent but accidental.
> top edge of the screen as close to eye level as possible. Lots of people seem to jack up their monitors on a stack of O'Reilly books or whatever,

This was based on some (completely bogus) "ergonomics" advice which somehow worked its way into European office furniture standards and various official seeming guides. It is (wrong) conventional wisdom that the middle of the display should be at eye level.

If you track down stuff written by anatomy and vision experts, you'll find that among static positions it is best (causes least neck and/or eye strain) to keep the top edge at approximately eye level, push the display as far away from the head as possible given the desk and general context (it is much easier to focus on something 1 meter away for an extended time than something 20 cm away), and tilt the display so that the bottom is closer than the top, so that a perpendicular ray from the middle of the display is roughly aimed at the face. But keep the head upright and supported directly above the spinal column with the back straight (not tilting the head forward/back or resting it on a fixed external support for extended periods of time).

This physical arrangement works because human eyes are set up physiologically to easily swivel down and to focus closer and converge with less strain in the bottom part of the field of view than the top part. (Presumably because when we evolved looking down typically involved closer objects than looking straight ahead.) Eyes are great at looking alternately straight ahead or substantially downward without moving or tilting the head.

(Personally I appreciate having a second physical display next to the first, though how useful it is depends on the task and software.)
If you do two views 90 degrees apart, that limits your FOV to one side of the tree, right? (You can't see the back side?)
God to agree with the parent, his audio books are excellent. If you like Petersons work and lectures get Maps of Meaning on audio books, it's excellent.
Playing devil's advocate in response to commenters here. I found the Triplebyte interview process a breath of fresh air. Rarely have I found an interview more aligned with day to day work, and not the same old algorithm puzzle bs peddled in most tech interviews.
The setup I use is not sophisticated by HN standards, but it does not in any way rely on the application, e.g., the web browser. I do not use the browser itself to try to control the browser's activity. I do not use browser settings, dev tools, extensions, etc., which seem to be the more popular choice.

As I mentioned in the original comment, some websites, like banks for example, will log the user out after a period of insactivity. Whereas tech companies, always trying to collect more data, may encourage users to "stay logged in", ideally forever.

Having session cookies expire could be an option that users could control. The user could choose to have the site log her out after x minutes of inactivity, or some such. The site could agree to "expire" the session cookie on the server side such that it could not be used again. How would the user signal her chosen option to the site. I leave that to the reader. Perhaps an HTTP header sent with the initial log in request: Session-Cookie-Max-Age: [seconds]
Reminds me of the fight in California to block the public from beach access. California is a state of conundrums.
Depends, YC is doing pretty well protecting their investments
Anyone who wanted to go in could easily do it on weekdays, because there were no rangers except on weekends.
I didn't see that post, but I'm sure the poster meant they had huge expectations based on it's reputation as 'the book' or it's place in popular culture and it lived up to that hype when they did read it. The original question is ambiguous and can be answered both ways.
Public/private keypairs.

Solved problem since Nam.
You’ve got it precisely backward. Liberals make the “philosophy and leanings of individual SCOTUS justice” a “huge deal” because they rely on the courts to legislate policies they can’t get through Congress.

Objection. When we get laws passed the way the founders intended, conservatives use the courts to strike them down; for instance, state and local bans on handguns.

Nobody's hands are clean.
Sure, I never said they weren't shitty, but it's not useful to be mad at them.
Blaming businesses is moving the goalposts. I agree that it's a national problem, and I think that businesses, government, and individuals should together sort everything out. If any group abrogates that responsibility, they make it much harder to be addressed effectively.
It gets interesting if Scotland joins the EU. That would leave NI rather isolated. I'm a complete outsider, but it's hard for me to imagine a United Ireland. I can imagine an independent NI, with special relationships with the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and what's left of the UK. And independent NI isn't a tiny country, by European standards.
And there it is, just as I mentioned. Unfortunately, I can't personally attest to the company, but I'm sure others who've been spammed can do so.
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actually pwd (94/62/EG)) is a no brainer, since you only need to register in your local country and mark your packaging in categories, export and non exporting waste (you either pay only VerpackG or you pay for 94/62/EG). in germany you register on verpackungsregister.org, you get a number and take this number to some weee company, that makes the rest.
The UK has council taxes (poll taxes) instead of property taxes paid by landowners. Landowners benefit from the increase in values; renters don't.

Your council tax system basically seems batshit crazy to people from anywhere else. I am guessing that there's some serious history behind how the UK arrived at this point.
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You might be right. Also if Betfair has its own bots playing as another commenter claims, then it will be hard to compete on odds. Only one way to find out.
That money would normally go into the tax bucket, so it's really still being taxpayer-funded in that case.
Be nice. It is Christmas eve :) BTW Ammon is the founder of TripleByte if you didn't know.
Learning clickhouse, clickhouse, clickhouse. It's a cool OLAP db
This is awesome! And it couldn't have come at a better time. I've been working on my own startup product and shopping around authentication platforms. Auth0 looks great but it's just damn expensive when you start getting more users. Appreciate this!
Claims with no evidence can be dismissed with no evidence.
Reminds me of this: "Why is health care so expensive in America?" "Because the prices are higher."
Aw dang it, got it backwards!
Thanks! Agreed!

At this time, I have some pretty cool text effects. But yes, the text support is not as good as I'd like. It's something I'm working on fixing. So yeah, I'll definitely have that :)
Easy trimming and conversion (like handbrake) is nice
The Ireland issue isn't about trade. There are far more significant cross-border relationships on the Irish border. Many people on both sides of the border think of it as one nation, which currently happens to be divided between two countries.
This is 100% true. Indian laws around marriages are heavily discriminatory based on gender and religion. Marriage has become problematic especially for educated men and if you plan to marry better cover all your bases really well.
Seems like a practical device, and surprising indeed that there is no commercially available equivalent.

As someone suffering from (self-diagnosed) red light syndrome and lack of practice, I tend to produce the best improvisations before I hit that inspiration-killing record button in DAW or audio recorder. Having a MIDI capture device always on could help me capture all that (and subsequently use in production, or more likely realize that I am no genius even with recording light off).

I can also see a MIDI recorder useful in DAWless modular synth setups and/or live gigs.

One feature I could see being important is a hardware button to place a marker while recording, to make it easier to locate parts of longer performances.

> To keep things simple, because we’re only writing this code for some debugging (and maybe fun), we’ll use the standard twelve tone equal temperament tuning

Question: which tuning would you use otherwise?

> Tuscan DR-05

Looks like a funny autocorrection artifact.
I chose the opposite: M1 is complete enough for a daily driver. I change laptops frequently and re-format my system drive on a twice-monthly basis, FWIW.
Cool idea, is there a channel for project-wide discussion?
The structure may be proto-vaporwave, but the effect feels more like a curse. I think I'll clear my cache after this one, and recommend you to do the same.
I'd like to do the same thing. I have a goto mount telescope, and I've used this software: (https://heavenscape.com) to track the space station with the telescope. It's a little tricky, and you don't have too much time to realign the mount etc if something is wrong, given that the ISS passes usually only last a few minutes, but I did manage to get it to work after a couple of tries. If I had to do it again I'd practice with other random satellites first.

What I've been thinking about is coaxially mounting an antenna and using the telescope mount as an antenna mount. The only problem is that you do need a telescope on the mount to shoot some alignment stars, so you can't just mount the antenna, and I don't know how much the metal in the telescope would interfere with the antenna.
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Score above 300, @ycombinatornews

But then sometimes i get bored and visit here to see other low scoring posts
America is culturally all over the map (and literally too I suppose?), maybe more so than Australia. While the child-in-school thing might be universal across each state, there are many places were the word hell isn’t profane.

Hell, sometimes it would be weird and just plain confusing not to say the word!
He is posting in this thread. I'm curious to see what his response to this is.
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The processor itself is the chip that has the ALU, since that's what really does the processing. The registers may be on-die with the ALU, or may be in another chip for various reasons, but the ALU would have a bad time without registers, so they're always used together.

Likewise there's usually an interrupt controller of some sort, and a timer, and technically a processor can process without these, but it's not terribly useful in the real world. But because an interrupt controller in particular tends to have quite a few I/O pins, it's often in a separate package from the ALU, and you can pick larger or smaller interrupt controllers (or chain several together) depending on the application. But these are typically designed as a "family", and are always found together.

Atop all that, you generally need some ROM to boot the thing, and probably some glue logic (muxes and decoders) to perform memory mapping, etc. And then main system RAM itself. These are generic enough that they may or may not be considered part of the "family" with the processor.

Previously, the ALU would've been an entire board full of SSI chips, or a whole shelf of modules stuffed with individual discretes. And the register file would be another board, or a shelf thereof. And interrupts and glue would be all over the place, and peripherals getting into the mix... None of those boards was useful without the others, so they were always found together. Putting each of those functions onto a single chip instead of a whole board is what made it "micro", even if it was always found with the rest of its family.

Today, we have a term "microcontroller", for something that integrates the whole shebang: ALU, registers, RAM, ROM, interrupt controller, clock and timer, and I/O peripherals, into a single chip. It does processing, so you could consider it a microprocessor, but it has basically the whole rest of everything in there too (everything but power, typically). The term "microprocessor" does not go as far.
You can thank the Raj for that, for cognizable offences, for pre-arrest bail, for Section 144...
Now that's a good idea - where I work, our security policy is such that I should be able to destroy any (company) computing equipment an end user is using and the loss of data should be restricted to their unsaved changes. A test like you propose would be a very memorable reminder for information security awareness, and so might be really effective before infrastructure upgrades if restricted to people with hardware about to be phased out, you need to nuke old hard drives at that point anyway...
Even though you trust VPN provider, anyway you should also trust VPS (or colo but it has limited ability to spy) provider that used by VPN.
Tl;dr. Teachers unions in America have more power stopping school openings because those decisions are made local, where it’s easier to overwhelm school boards with threats of a strike. U.K. Unions lack this power because opening decisions are made nationally.
not my experience. you can actually devise a strategy and try to execute on it. if it works you win. if it doesn’t you’re unlucky or executed poorly.

I may be biased since I mostly win and consider the game to be pretty basic as far as board games go.
There is nothing in the law that states that. However, it does say that all of the accused are to be jailed and produced before a magistrate for hearing and bail.

So women would simply provide a list of accused, and those living outside the home were purported to have directed her husband and in-laws over phone, linking them to her harrassment.
For me it’s really cool just to be able to speak with someone halfway around the world with no infrastructure other than your radios.
Looks good but don't think will work for me. For a few reasons:

1 - I actually need to learn through work so I have to take as much work as possible. My biggest complain so far is that HQ took some of our work so there is not that much ownership left.

2 - If you count meetings as work, and taking rest 90% of the time during a meeting as work (10% of the time you are asking meaningful questions and getting feedbacks), then I'm actually working 8-10 hours per day and don't really feel huge strain.

In general I'm OK with others with shorter period of work, as long as I get more responsibility and tools to play with :D
From Wikipedia: " Compressibility in pitot tubes of the time often resulted in exaggerated speed readings near the speed of sound, particularly in German equipment, which was adversely affected by supply shortages as the war progressed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Guido_Mutke

In other words, it's the same problem that the piston-engined aircraft of the time had: Anomalous readings at high speed.
> I could have prevented all this my bugging my ex's phone. Why? Because it all happened so suddenly. Everything came down raining without even a hint from my ex.

I could sympathize until here. If you can't trust your partner why marry them in the first place? I find it hard to believe there weren't signs of things going wrong before she slapped a case on you.