skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency in this case is cumulative. 1-5ms for DAW encoding of your analog signal, encoding it in whatever codec is used for transmission 1-?ms. Actual transmission 10-1000ms. Decoding the signal into audio channels for playback 1-5ms. Don’t forget this is duplex. You are transmitting as you are also receiving. In an ideal world we could get very close to zero-latency (enough where an orchestra could by in time step with each other).

It sounds do-able. It sounds like we should already be there. Looking around though you’ll see we aren’t because of technical issues described that are systemic of the infrastructure used.
> The quality of learning seems low, they seem unengaged and only respond to teacher when absolutely forced to.

It seems like they have now managed to accurately replicate the average UK classroom, I'm sorry to say.
More about Ken

https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000379516/
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Unless you're raising the hens as well it can still be cruel.
So is the internet and computers and cars.
Do you trust Amazon, Google and Microsoft or millions of sysadmins in podunk companies to secure their infrastructure?
Presidential impeachments typically occur at the bottom of 11-year solar cycles
My experience is that French is flat (rather monotonous rhythm and stress is much less important than in English). This makes it somewhat easy to follow for foreigners after some training compared to e.g. Spanish which is typically all over the place and very fast (though not more difficult once you get the hang of it).

On the other hand French speaker can get confused by strange intonation or stresses. Also there are several sounds that do not exist in English (e.g. /eu/, /u/, and the nasals /an/, /on/, /in/, the /ill/ can be problematic as well). Approximations of these sounds are distracting and can be genuinely confusing. And contrary to some English accents you can’t count on properly stressed syllables to help carry the meaning.

During my time in New York I had the opposite problem. As a native French speaker with some English education (having lived in London), apparently people understood me without difficulty. On the other hand, it took me a while to get the meaning of what other people were saying without asking them to repeat. After months it was still difficult to understand announcements in the subway.
I do, because the results from my research varies when I'm validating the model.
I'm working on tool called Unobin that lets you write Ansible-esque playbooks and compile them to a standalone binary with all of the templates and files baked in.

I'm trying to solve the "works on my machine" problem that's very prevalent in the devops world. One person's playbook (or Terraform module or Chef cookbook or whatever) works fine on the developer's machine due to assumptions made during the development. But transfer that code to another machine and it's a whole 'nother story. There is often a lack of rigor around dependency management and versioning, along with hidden dependencies such as programs that need to exist on the machine where the playbook is run. I want to make it possible to include all of the dependencies directly in the binary, so you truly need just one binary (unobin) to download and run.

I've made a lot of progress and have what I feel is a solid POC at this point. It lacks many modules but I'm just writing them as I need them. Right now I'm working on a reference playbook to build a Concourse CI stack, and that's giving me solid feedback to myself about what's missing.

https://github.com/cloudboss/unobin
Can we maybe talk about the root cause of this problem, aka an unhealthy business model that incentivizes platforms to pit people against each other and promote divisive content to generate "engagement"? None of this would've happened had people not been radicalized by being fed endless crap in their feeds for years when all they initially came there for was to socialize with friends & family.

The worst is that the scummy platforms are trying to save face and virtue-signal by "deplatforming" the content they turned a blind eye to for years and made billions off (while plenty of equally-bad content is most likely being left alone, simply because that problem hasn't yet escalated to this stage and they can still profit off it until it does).
Elon Musk sent me a box
This is a very broad and general sentiment. Do you have the source where they talk about this, so that things can be put into context?
> The first interpretation is mistaken. The SAT very explicitly does not test knowledge of high school curriculum.

This is correct, but it's not really relevant. The SAT subject tests (SAT IIs) explicitly do test knowledge of the high school curriculum, but they are psychometrically equivalent to the SAT I. That is to say, someone's SAT II scores do contain the same information that their SAT I scores do, and don't contain additional information (such as studiousness).

The reason that SAT II scores don't get confounded by studiousness is that taking SAT IIs is opt-in -- if someone takes the test at all, then they've been educated in the subject, and the residual is an IQ test just like the SAT. (Counterfactually, if everyone had to take the SAT II Latin, then stupid people with Latin training would often outscore smart people with no Latin training. But that's not the system we have; smart people with no Latin training, in reality, don't take the SAT II Latin.)
When is using TCL the right choice? For example ruby is a good choice for building a web app and fortan is great for science. How is TCL typically used?
Thank you for JACK btw.
What's wrong with Thomas the tank engine?
printf -v j <-- what is this magic that sets the variable $j ?
It's only economical to mine in areas with significant excess power, mostly around dams, but also wind farms and regions powered by geothermal. If anything, mining subsidizes green energy projects, and drives interest in cheaper and more efficient energy production, as well as more efficient semiconductor technologies.
Telegram is based on the UAE. The UAE is known of their very strict monitoring practices of their citizens. Not until recently they allowed FaceTime to work there. I honestly doubt that Telegram does't give the UAE government access whenever they need it's a monarchy government.
I think there might be a lot of people here (my self included) that literally didn't know that about fireworks in modern parlance. It's because talking about fireworks just doesn't ever come up in my life. But I think "mortar" is commonly known as a military kind of weapon even if you know nothing about fireworks.
> I mean when you put it like that, why hire a magician (bullshitter), if the magic relies on the blacksmith?

Because magicians are better at the smoke and mirrors that drives funding rounds and closing big sales deals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25785121&goto=item%3Fi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25785030&goto=item%3Fi...

Were the ones I saw, re reading them a few times I could see them as being human written. Maybe just someone in a hurry to post.
Edit 3: See my nested child comment. My understanding (from a 2010 conversation with a friend who was deep in btc) was that there was a time where bitcoin scripting could cause transactions to appear onchain that would look valid to a novice but would not actually perform the actions described such that a scam could be perpetrated. I have not done the work to validate these claims. I stand by my comments on Eth and Satoshi Dice.

The crazy thing is: bitcoin was ethereum.

The community killed scripting because it was antithetical to the thing that makes money in BTC: trust. The constant flow of n00bs coming in who got their transactions reversed by OP codes and said "BUT I THOUGHT BITCOIN TRANSACTIONS WERE IRREVERSIBLE!!?!?!!?!?!1111" was eroding trust in the ecosystem.

Really, I think the beginning of bitcoin jumping the shark was Satoshi Dice: https://www.coindesk.com/company/satoshidice.

Anyways, Bitcoin off-chain scripting won't replace Eth anymore than any other off-chain scripting system will replace Eth. If this kills Eth it will be because people don't want on-chain scripting, not because people want off-chain scripting on bitcoin (ergo, the meta problem is that on-chain scripting doesn't scale in every sense of the word scale; fees, tx speed, finality, etc).

Caveat emptor: it's entirely possible this company could work or take off. In crypto, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Edit: Just to be extra clear, the problems with ethereum, to me at least, aren't actually on-chain scaling; that feels solvable. What feels unsolvable to me is two things: 1) turing completeness and 2) compilation malleability (if the compiler/machine can change but the code can't, guess what, old code's behavior becomes less predictable over time... computing systems with longevity gain minimal entropy over time).

Edit 2: The only rational way I can make sense of turing completeness and compilation malleability as features is if the ecosystem is engineering ecological behavior in, that is to say: old programs should become less valuable unless they accurately predicted the future. Maybe that's rational?
Facebook is not suing them for stealing users' data, they are suing them for stealing THEIR data.
Min – a functional, concatenative programming language
Just for fun, I built an app for magicians to reveal a playing card to a spectator. The spectator is asked to think of a card and then place their finger on the magician's screen - after a few seconds, their selected card magically materializes into view. So far I've been trying it on family and friends and it's been getting great reactions. Disclaimer: you probably would want to have a little bit of card trick experience for the app to be useful.

Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/card-mind-reader/id1548145803

Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carddispla...
Native smart contracts would be cool, but Stacks is not native smart contracts. It's a separate blockchain that integrates with the Bitcoin blockchain.

In other words, you are trusting the Stacks blockchain to custody your bitcoins, just like with TBTC or RENBTC or any of the other decentralized Bitcoin bridges.

From their site:

> Like Bitcoin, Stacks is a layer-1 blockchain. Proof of Transfer connects it to Bitcoin with a 1:1 block ratio.
There’s also the fact that they require a lot fewer function calls to perform the same work, so what overhead there is from each call doesn’t add up as much as it used to.
Yeah, it's sketchy, which is why I put it in quotes. The reason he is not really a war-time president is the only war he is even close to actually starting is a civil war :P
Serious Eats came to the same conclusion in their taste test: https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/08/what-are-the-best-eggs-c...
Well, _they_ want your data and they want to sell it for profit or make use of it in a profitable venture I imagine. They don't want anyone else getting it for free.
Tether’s bank Deltec says it invests customer funds in Bitcoin
How much more do you boil it down?
> the lack of syntax highlighting is pure elitism in my book

That might be true.

When you get past the snark, there is a strong argument against syntax highlighting in Plan 9. If your desk is too messy to find anything, tidy it up; if your code is too messy to read, ditto. Syntax highlighting, from this perspective, is like bringing in a mechanical excavator when the answer is to stop digging. If you look at the Plan 9 code, they practiced what they preached.

But that perspective is an elite one, that of research programmers at Bell Labs, where the code is the product.
Oh come on don't be naive. Have you ever seen something put out about renewable energy by a "conservative thinktank" that wasn't full of shoddy reasoning or outright misinformation?
It was pretty cool. I did a few capability demos for my team back in 2000 using the IE plugin + Limbo + Tk stuff as a replacement for some really bad Perl configuration tools, but could never get any momentum with it. Wish I (and the plan9/Inferno) people were better salespeople.
Germany debates making N95 masks mandatory
https://taskflowy-9a9aa.web.app/demo (desktop browser only so far)

The idea is a daily note/task management tool combined with the WorkFlowy concept of infinite lists. The real use case here is for heavy note taking and also tracking the todos within all the notes. I found that with WorkFlowy I had so many buried todos that I could never see them in one place and manage them throughout the day. It’s great for notes, but wasn’t working for tracking tasks.

It allows you to prioritize the tasks at every level. You can zoom in on certain nodes to see only the tasks relevant for that node and descendants. It seems to actually work for me but would love to talk to people who haven’t found a note/task tool that works for them yet.
I'll likely tweet it out when we release it. We're only working on it for a few hours a week so we won't have anything shippable for probably a year or more. My twitter handle is @twiclo
A Primer on Product Metrics
I was thinking it is due to porn as well. The availability, fidelity, and variety of porn that can be called up with a few taps of the finger is unprecedented in all human history.

Just a hypothesis.
I'm building Reslash - a video calling app which is the antithesis of Zoom. You can play with everything - backgrounds, gifs, stickers.

You can recreate a bar lounge, classroom, office, 80s party and more. It also has spatial audio - just move closer to talk to people, like you do IRL.

We launched 3 weeks ago. Have about 2k users right now.

Check us out at https://reslash.co
I remember Colobot, it was exciting (for a teen). Your project sounds deeper and cooler, I hope I'll get to play it.
Québécois is lovely, though! It’s just funny sometimes and they have interesting phrases. Granted, it’s probably not the best if you learn French as a foreign language, but still. I love speaking with French Canadians.
The last paragraph answered my question:

"Tcl continues to be heavily used as an embedded scripting language, a domain where it still seems to be the best alternative"
This made me lol - We should write a second post together
I've mainly see it used in HDL tooling to glue disparate tools together.

That being said, it grew on me as a general scripting language kind of generally in the same space as Perl.
When I came to the Philippines I was shocked by the large number of obese people here. I thought it would be like China because that was my only reference point in SE Asia. Relatively speaking, it's not as bad as the States or the UK but it's getting there. If you look back only a few generations, you'll see what happened here: they were colonized by the US and adopted Western-style processed food and soft drinks. Also, car ownership is a new thing for most families. Before WW2 this was not the case, and thus there was far less obesity.
NSA warns against using DNS over HTTPS inside enterprise networks
Mongo absolutely offers this. A company I worked for had a contract with them -- these terms are hugely expensive, to the point it was worth switching to the AWS version when we had no AWS services.
This is canon and dates to the original DAO. A quick google on DAO crisis should give you a bunch of reading material.

Compare that to the time Binance lost $500M in BTC and contemplated doing a chain revert because it would be way cheaper than $500M but didn't because it would break the illusion that BTC tx are irreversible.

BTC tx are reversible, it's just going to become prohibitively expensive for almost anyone to do soon.
People in England do that all the time.
I mentioned JamKazam in this thread above about latency. It’s the top of my list for this purpose but still has some issues when the connection quality isn’t good (ISP issues)
They shouldn't buy it, yes, but this is fundamentally a privilege to even consider. That's what I struggle with, that I'm in this privileged position to discern to what degree do I want to be complicit in my presumably negative impact on the sustainability of Earth and Life.

Manufacturing ridiculously cheap shit at scale to where more and more people click a button and have anything they want delivered to their door in a fucking day... is absolutely disgusting to me. But that's me, in my privilege. This machine adds ever more people up to the "consumer" class from out of abject poverty and welp that is a good thing.

I'm just conflicted because I feel like that has to be so doesn't it? We get to pontificate about "post consumerism" and derive meaning and such and such and such. Meanwhile that literally-worth-2-cents-t-shirt actually happens to be a good thing, at history scale, to all the people that have not being able to clothe themselves =/

sigh, I don't know what my point is, your comment just compelled me to share.
So it's a sidechain that ocassionally checks in it's state to bitcoin's main chain? And you can lock up BTC on the mainchain to use it on the sidechain?
Are you doing instructions, including "your hand position isn't right" etc.? For that latency is tolerable, but different alten y for picture and audio is problematic.
Submitted patio11's thread as it provides some context and commentary.

Direct link to source:
https://www.deltecbank.com/2021/01/14/a-covid-year-in-review...

Coindesk article:
https://www.coindesk.com/tethers-bank-says-it-invests-custom...

For additional context, Tether is expected to produce documents clarifying its business as per request from NYAG tomorrow, January 15th: https://www.coindesk.com/nyag-tether-bitfinex-loan-documents...
A mobile app for free running gait analysis for reducing injury risk and improving running efficiency.

The app uses a user provided video, estimates the runner's position in 3D space, and analyzes the gait over the video duration to identify potential gait abnormalities and areas for improvement.

Things it will (hopefully) detect/measure:

- Gait asymmetry

- Basic running stats (speed, vertical oscillation, stride length)

- Common risk factors for running injuries

Motivation: I used to run competitively, but didn't have access to a regular running coach. So I felt like I missed out on developing proper technique. I've been looking for free running gait analysis but I haven't found anything meeting my needs (free, privacy friendly, convenient).

It's still pretty rough, but I'm hoping to release an Android prototype in the next few months. If you have time, I'd love some community feedback/suggestions on my anonymous Google form. Thanks!

[1] https://myfluidstride.com/

[2] https://tinyurl.com/fluidstride-feedback (no email required)

Edit: formatting
I barely walk, but I've been losing weight like mad because I've been cooking at home everyday now, not eating fast food, and not drinking soda. Look at the ingredients for any premade foods, even the ones that bill themselves as healthy, they are mostly sugars and carbs and sauces containing HFCS. Also, the caloric density is insane, one "meal" can be upwards of 1500 or 2000 calories if you ignore their "suggested serving" which is unrealistic to what people eat.

Also, exercise accounts for maybe a hundred or two calories a day for the average person who isn't into marathons or something, so the only true way to lose weight is to decrease what you eat.

It's not lack of exercise, that's the way these corporations try to blame you for being lazy so you forget their food is garbage that's making you fat.
Notably, Vitalik was run out on a rail by small blockers (mostly LukeJr) when he was trying to work on smart contracts on BTC back in the day. This is the entire reason he launched Ethereum, and took with him everyone else interested in working on smart contracts.

Smart contracts are neat. Bitcoin is neat. Smart contracts on Bitcoin could have been a thing, but now it's too late. There is almost zero intersection between BTC maximalists and people who think smart contracts on BTC are a good idea.
Thank you for that burst of nostalgia!
This is something I’ve always appreciated about Greg Egan; his personal website is filled with pages and pages of exposition about the physics of the worlds he comes up with, down to the level of simulating what certain phenomena would look like and turning it into a video. Huge fan of the guy’s work.
"deadline to apply is Thursday, January 27 at 8pm PT"
Actually Thursday is the 28th :)
It is true however.

Consider it was easy to bring an idea in this world, and the hard part was the initial first thought; writing a paper/article painstakingly rigorously would be unnecessary.
Writing a book would be a breeze and no author would ever go through more than a single draft.
The idea was born beforehand, was complete correct and perfect, so putting everything down with words is just a matter of transcribing.
An organization would not usually hire engineers with multiple degrees, but simply writers or an automated system that would listen and transcribe the idea.

An idea is truly born and exists through a lot of effort and iteration and redefinement and refinement.

P.S. There is a hard and subjective issue of where the line is drawn between ideation and minor uninteresting and menial maintainance/get the money in the bank work.

We have to recall however that a parent brings their child to life and tags along through all the effort and work. A child is the result of years of high to low level of unpleasant work. Drawing an arbitrary line of when you shall stop giving as a parent is naive and egotistical.
Texture and cost. The hazelnut meal tends to be a bit coarser, and is significantly more expensive, so you end up with gritty cookies that don't taste significantly more like hazelnut for more $$.
Maybe you can charge companies to be hidden from the service :D
url shortner. I was fun to create one I am using django for it
GridNotes: a grid-based piano for iPhone / iPad. This is more of a tool for exploring scales than an actual performance instrument. It is free in the AppStore if you'd like to check it out, feedback and feature suggestions are welcome! https://github.com/pepaslabs/GridNotes

P.S. I'll be on the job market soon (9 years iOS), hit me up if interested :)
Like Pebble, who was first bought by Fitbit and now Google?
I'm sorry, but I'm a real conspiracy theorist on this. Winner was a woman tricked into leaking a story that supported the Russiagate yarn, and part of the team on the Intercept side is clearly a federal agent/independent contractor: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/20/the-intercept-reality-win...

IMO they would have found her no matter what; the reasons they gave for finding her could well be a parallel construction, and they had Esposito as an insider who could "accidentally" out her if all else failed. This was a media operation to leak the standard Russiagate stuff through a Bernie-supporting (biased against Russiagate) peripheral insider and to make a great show of prosecuting her to give the leak more credibility than it would normally be given, from an audience (lefties) that was normally very critical.

It didn't work.
Doing the first 90% of an operating system is pretty straightforward. Doing fun demos with it is fun. But Microsoft is severely underrated for its incredible skill in, and ability to put massive resources behind, the last 10%. That includes stuff like device drivers, getting hundreds of thousands of disparate components to work together, supporting hundreds of file formats, working with a gigantic landscape of vendors, 35 years of compatibility, and so forth. Microsoft is the only reason you and I can buy a perfectly capable laptop for $500.
Wikipedia has some great content on megastructures. It's a good place to find some sci-fi book recommendations as well. I've ended up there more than once on late nights.

Here are a few good starting points:

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

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

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