skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many (most?) PC games support surround sound. (Re another comment: Fortnite supposedly supports both 5.1 and 7.1. I have not tried it.)

But primarily via the analog audio outputs on the back of a PC motherboard.

If you've hooked your PC into your surround sound setup via HDMI, optical cable, or other single connection method, it is unlikely to work.

If your surround sound amp supports per-channel analog in and your PC has 5.1 or 7.1 out support, you can use 4 or 6 (5.1 / 7.1) 1/8" stereo to RCA cables to connect your PC to your surround sound system. Depending on your TV / surround sound system, you may need to mess with delay settings to get the audio to sync with the video. Having your TV and surround sound system set to "game mode" may help. Hooking your PC output directly to the TV may also help.

My understanding is using DTS, Dolby Atmos, etc to encode / decode surround sound requires paying licensing fees. These aren't paid by Microsoft as a part of Windows, by the gaming framework companies for their Windows games, etc.

I suspect Microsoft and Sony handle the fees for their consoles, but I do not know for certain. It's possible they require game makers to pay them.

Edited for clarity.
> it's the worst of both worlds since it's neither portable nor that much better than POSIX

Writing modern bash using the updated syntax, it is easy to make robust scripts and the syntax around things like quoting is simple and consistent.

It seems odd to me to suggest that one should either stick to the old brittle /bin/sh syntax or not use bash at all. It has it's place in the world and it should be done the modern way.

You'll find 10s of thousands of lines of bash in the kubernetes repo and all the files I checked are written using modern bash syntax. There must be a reason they choose bash for these parts.

Of course, in any case everyone should use the tools they like and find most suited to the task at hand.
> he visited Manchester on a rainy day

Are there any other kinds of days there?
CDG (North of Paris) is on the railway that joins Brussels, Paris, Rennes, Tours, Bordeaux and a number of other major places in France. ORY has a connection with Paris suburban railway network, no direct access to one distance train.
This has nothing to do with carbon emissions.
GoAWK, an Awk interpreter written in Go (2018)
Obsolete Polish Units of Measurement
NodeJs and Go can and probably are optimizing the loop away, the authors attempt to assign the sum to result does not prevent this from happening.
Retool needs a retool.
There's international law enough but there are no consequences. And that's because countries still have sovereignty. At best, they can be hurt financially, for example by sanctions or even denial of aid (NK comes to mind, they fire up their nuclear tests whenever they need more money).

The alternative would be that rich and strong countries like the US start to play international police again.

You could of course point to the UN, but honestly if they were to take action, they would have to penalize the US as well for their blatant disregard of human rights and sovereignty.
The existing situation hasn't exactly got a great track record of success.
If he installed it for 5mins to 'test the competition'.... then.... he did it on his "main" phone? Don't they have throwaway phones for that? Would he allow his full contact list to be uploaded?
The UK government has a democratic mandate to track infections, including by tracking visitors to areas of risk. The correct way to do this, and how most other governments do it is to provide two Apps. One for trivial QR/location based tracking, one for contact based tracking using the government-exclusive APIs.

The point is, the UK government made a technical error, we cannot extrapolate a democratic deficit or malice or anything like that from the information we have from this event.
It's a fresh Win10 install downloaded directly from Microsoft, put on a USB stick to install on a brand new drive, freshly formatted for the purpose.

I agree with you on it being entirely puzzling and unexpected and will continue to poke at it for a while.
Globalfoundries CEO Caulfield Stands Up for the 70%
Maybe a bit more isn't terrible, but how do you limit it to a bit? History seems to describe that slope as slippery.
Here’s one of the dirty secrets of macOS:

They build in animation delays so that the experience of using the fastest computer and the slowest computer is the same.

Take for example moving one virtual desktop to the right with control-rightarrow. It’s slow AF compared to Windows or Linux with animations off. macOS also does vsync because they never ever want visual tearing in the UI. That slows you down again. Windows does not care if you set it to look like speedy sh## and will tear all day. It’s like a dune buggy, it’ll let you do whatever and if you lose an arm it’s your own fault.

macOS is a limo with your grandparents driving. “Can I open the sunroof?” “No, it might rain” “Can I watch TV?” “No, you’ll get carsick” “....” “Stop playing with the window control!”
You can find any ridiculous opinion on Twitter. Why rebut Twitter opinions out of the blue in the middle of an HN thread?
France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights
> You can run a command with one line of code without the possibility of confusion with `system("ls", "-l", $dir)`

$dir = '-r';

You loose.

Quoting is not enough. You also have to fully understand the syntax of each command.

Fix: system("ls", "-l", "--", $dir)
They did not say it was the same, they said it is "on par with". Please read instead of interpret.

That said, the current policies or lack thereof will lead to climate change, famine, depopulation and mass migration globally. Is that preferable?
Any Group bows to pressure; will become financial holding co. overseen by PBOC
Not only this concept has a great deal of triviality, because everything you can digitally encode will have a corresponding prime (often you can change the encoding slightly, yet the binary format is still valid, so you can perform random changes and run a fast primality test, until you find a good candidate).

It is also a reversible concept: you can create an "illegal painting" by encoding a number in the painting, so that interpreting the painting in some way (like, splitting it in a X*Y grid, and assigning 1 to the squares where the red component in RGB is greater than G, 0 otherwise) will result in such number.

What's the gist of all this? That reality can be represented by numbers and the other way around, however numbers representing illegal digital entities (violating copyright or other laws) are so unlikely to happen by chance, that they need to be chosen explicitly to have such a representation: the illegal prime is just a different way to write the same thing in a file, thus is the same blatant law violation, and the fact they happen to have a prime number (very dense and common numbers) is not interesting at all.
> Wow that is an incredible story and a great read. I am shocked that dumping millions of barrels of toxic waste into the ocean was potentially legal

This is the USA, my friend! Land of the regulation-free, home of the brazen.
Not knowing anything about the subject, I'm not so sure.

Eg if someone's actions or gross negligence causes, say, a big oil spill and the ICC wants to try them, won't that pretty much remove that person's ability to travel to any country that recognizes the ICC? Assuming they'd primarily target businesspeople (eg BP CEO etc), wouldn't act as a pretty decent deterrent?
Hey this sounds like a really clever solution, actually, would love to look at it — do you have a link to the action, or have you not released it?
⁣⁣Two rats arguing about if they should get the kill shot vax or not. ⁣https://picc.io/p/tq2sFHU.png . Please kindly share on social media!
Floridian here, travelled the country for about a decade and came back to Florida the past few years.

Until you see how other state, county and municipality governments function, you can't really appreciate how well Florida gov generally works. When growing up in Florida, I was led to believe it was the most backward ass state in the country. Didn't help I also lived in a rural county. After living in half a dozen states in a decade (and visiting many more for long periods)... no. Florida has its shit together compared to most other states. Are there problems here, absolutely. But no where near as bad as other states. Especially when it comes to environmental planning and protection. Still some problems in the Everglades area with some fucktards, but on a whole, environmentalism is more active here than anywhere else. Just the news coverage is dismal.

While I'm on the Space Coast, you're right to not be that worried in Miami. Plus, there are massive seawall projects that are supposed to start soon if they haven't already. I know they were planned for 2020, but the whole covid thing through a monkeywrench in that. Last I read, there's some $20b being spent in the Miami-Dade area in the next decade all in response to climate change. A lot of the infrastructure is getting reworked, along with water management.

It's like people think we're surprised that nature can kill us. We "worry" about it half of the year, every year. We welcome the challenge... as long as we stock up on alcohol. Then bring it on. But if those liquor stores close, it's panic time.
This is my natural manner of speech, and both sentences sound weird to me. The first, "I ate too many drugs," even sounds weird in standard English, situationally, because that would imply that there were a lot of different types of drugs eaten. I'd say "I ate too much drugs."

The second one of course sounds weird because the natural way to say it is "I ain't do no drugs." But the situation I could imagine saying it in is in reply to someone who just asked me if I had taken any drugs or if I were on any drugs. I might say "I ain't do any drugs" to be compliant, submissive, and clear - mirroring the words in the question.

This is the weirdest blog I've ever read, it makes sense that it's a relic from a stupid twitter war.
So what is the problem? Just drop 2 of those 3 and you have a room for something probably more important.
I do not get it. Bitumen shingles (and normale tile shingeles) and full roof pv modules seem like an ideal combination, as the modules will protect the shingles from heavy rain, wind and summer heat and will prolong the life of them for some time.
Raw material prices have surged. Corporate profits will surge next
One thing they did that looks nice is their git syncing: https://docs.retool.com/docs/git-syncing

The tool spreads "code" around in a lot of different ways, like mustache templates, transformers, and orchestrations. So it would be hard to keep track of all that without the git integration. I didn't look at it deep enough to see what dealing with, for example, a change in the source data schema would look like.
It's not a bad reckon, but it's often very hard to figure out what you're doing wrong. I'm now dipping into my second year of unemployment!
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. Are you saying "drawing a line for crimes is hard"? Yes, lawmakers are intensely aware of that.

Or are you suggesting that we shouldn't try to fix any problems because we can't fix all the problems?
There is a conspiracy theory going around that the Russians sent more than one person in space but they kept it under raps in order to avoid the embarrassment that goes with killing one of your pioneers.
$dir = '-r';

You loose.
Can confirm there is one day of sun a year

source: spent three years at uni there
Chrome's V8 engine made quite a stir around the turn of the last decade because it it compiled JavaScript down to native code. It would even watch how code was called (if it couldn't statically figure out a safe way to compile it) and generate native code for the happy paths in hot code paths. I simply assume that all browsers do this now because we take it for granted now that JS is reasonably fast, but I could be wrong.

I credit much of Chrome's success to V8. It's a marvel of engineering. Shame that the rest of Chrome hasn't been held to such a high standard.
There's nothing totalitarian about holding people responsible for the long term damage they do to the environment. It should also be painfully obvious at this point that a more passive approach does very little.
Scare quotes around "the environment"? Seriously?
What is the point then? I'v never understood it, except as a novelty (my kids think it's cool).
What's been publicly and thoroughly debunked is the very idea of writing shell scripts in the first place, instead of using a non-ridiculous scripting language like Python, Perl, or JavaScript. If you want to be safe instead of sorry, then never write shell scripts.
Erlang/OTP 22 (on my machine™, of course) runs it in 9.3 seconds when invoked from the compiled module, and in at least in 5 minutes when invoked as a fun defined in the shell: "at least" because I did not have enough patience to wait until it actually completes.
> Nobody is forced to install the app at all (at least in the UK's case).

Unfortunately, that's not quite right. Citing the latest rules:

> The rules on what you need to do when a group enters your venue have changed. You must ask every customer or visitor to scan the NHS QR code using their NHS COVID-19 app, or provide their name and contact details, not just a lead member of the group. [0]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/maintaining-records-of-staff-cus...

Delving into the rules, it appears this applies to all sit-in venues, while takeaway customers are exempt. A paper-based system should be available, if you trust the business to handle your data responsibly (or forge fake data if not).

This morning at a cafe I was asked to scan the QR code "or we can't serve you" for a takeaway order. Clearly some misunderstanding, and I didn't press about a paper-based list as I hadn't read the details myself. Hopefully it's an isolated incident, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was some simplified comms (/FUD) about "just get customers to scan the code".
> Currently, mainly outside of the US, companies have too much of a free rein to do whatever they like - in Brazil and China it's even government mandated.

Huh?

China is not known for its laissez-faire business environment, or for being uninterested in environmental quality. Reality is pretty much the exact opposite on both dimensions.

And obviously there is no location in the world in which environmental destruction is mandated. You must have meant something else (?), but I can't figure out what it is.
If you're not doing `set -euo` and if you run your scripts as root before testing them, you're asking for something wrong to happen.

EDIT in response to your EDIT:

My users get either:

- a tar.gz archive
- a binary
- a docker image
- an helm chart
- a POSIX shell script (very rare)

Then they can use any method they want to deploy it.

You want your software to be portable? You have to put in the work to do it.

If you expect your users to know better (assume they ARE idiots), again, you're asking for something wrong to happen.
Thief the dark project supports HRTF through OpenAL Soft[0].

Head related transfer function is the.. modeling of how sound waves bounce of your body (shoulders, ears, breast). And it's a part of how we determine where a sound is coming from. Other part is the timing, as in the difference of phase of sound coming in one and in the other ear. Amplitude(volume) is also a part, probably, but we are much more sensitive to difference in phase then amplitude.

If you want to start researching in these things; the start is probably "impulse response" as well as.. a lot really (systems and signals is a heavy book that i should read one day). Just remember that everything is a spring.

As for practical modeling in 3D games and such. The problem is almost the same as global illumination. You would need to model the whole environment and how it responds to sound (absorption, reflection, idk probably even the speed of sound in various materials to be accurate). A great youtube person has a couple videos on whitepapers about this [1-2](the 2 is more practical). Valve bought a company that played with these things, but idk if anything came out of it (iirc it is part of the steam framework now).

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW-W3A2l5UE

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzsZ2qMtEUE

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx8viOFKiIs

PS Headphones are better then 5.1/7.1 for surround sound, mostly because of room acoustics.
No contact details other than email and chat, no company info, no tax info. Not even a country where this business operates. That's a no go.
Future HomePod May Feature iPad on Robotic Arm to Track Users Around the Room
He is hinting at the conspiracy theory that Soviets had a previous unsuccessful attempt when the cosmonaut died.

While the USSR was fairly secretive and during its existence, a successful hush-up of a major screw-up was at least possible, we would have learnt about it since 1991.
Regeneron drug stops symptomatic Covid-19, according to Regeneron Study
It's dangerous for countries that are run by demagogues to have nukes. Pakistan is a muslim country, but they've had nukes since 1998 without much fanfare. On the flip side, North Korea has nukes, and that's far more unsettling.
Canadian software engineer here, would be interested to hear more but if you're US based ITAR may be a problem. Email is in profile.
He is referring to Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts
Please, don't feed conspiracists.
> White media always character assassinates PoC in these situations

The media has consistently supported the BLM narrative, refusing to so much as consider white victims of police brutality or explore other factors (e.g., crime rates) which might have contributed to the disparity in killings.

BLM probably wouldn’t have gone far if it weren’t pushed by the whole of the media. Of course there was a time when the media was anti-black subtly or overtly, but the idea that the media is trying to impugn the character of black Americans in 2020 is beyond credible.
I really liked Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future as a guide to think through the effectiveness of various carrots and sticks in staving off the climate catastrophe. It's a work of fiction set in the very near future. The carrots include a carbon coin that is paid out to those who sequester carbon emissions, for instance by leaving oil in the ground.

I don't recall courts being one of the sticks, but notably targeted assassinations of the worst climate perps are.
> I can't get dark themes

I really hate that firefox sets prefers-color-scheme: light with resistFingerprinting [0] even if the site is implemented in such a way that the color scheme selection provides no information to the server (no JS, no external resources loaded dependent on the color scheme). Even using no-preference would have been better - then the site could at least choose to make a dark theme the default.

> you're locked to en-US

Ugh, this will only lead to even more websites ignoring the Accept-Language header and just guessing based on location derived from the IP address.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540726
Photonix Photo Organizer – March 2021 Update
"there must be a reason" hahahahahaha
It makes a lot of more sense.

`resetLessonPosition` is not a member of the data structure but a parameter of the function that generates the positions and it has an effect on all sections.
Titles should be posted as is. In this case:

"Covid-19 Drug Prevents Symptomatic Disease in Study, Regeneron Says"
Targeted assassinations as a driver of progress is a very underrated idea, I wish it would become more mainstream.
One thing that immediately stood out to me was the following quote at the beginning of the article:

> You don’t think much about $200,000; it’s not life-changing

I'm happy for the author that $200,000 isn't and wasn't a life-changing amount of money for her, but to so many people it would be incredibly life-changing. I could very comfortably live off that amount of money for 10 years. As an alternative view, that's more than four years of my net income. Obviously my cost of living is also dramatically lower than it is in SF.

For someone working minimum wage where I live it would be more like 11 or 12 years, that's an incredible amount of money and I think it's important not to forget about that entirely.

EDIT: I've said this in a grand-child comment, but I just want to clarify this here since it has come up more than once. I don't mean to say that $200,000 is or should be a life-changing amount of money to her. I just think it's easy to forget the scales sometimes. I've had the same "whatever" reaction to smaller amounts of money that would have been life-changing to someone else. My point is: those of use who are fortunate (and I include myself in this group), let's not forget it.
>The legal actions undertaken to force climate legislation are setting a dangerous precedent that can be used by any other group wanting to force their own pieces of legislation through.

It's not accidental. The sociopaths out there who want absolute power will use whatever excuse they find most convincing to get away with it.
Pandemic Lockdowns Did Cut Air Pollution–But with a Catch
Right. ORY is very close to Massy TGV (2 stops or so on the suburban train) which goes to the west (Rennes) and south (not sur if Bordeaux or Lyon or both).
Radio communication monitoring would have gave it away
There are dumb conspiracy theories that supposedly he wasn't the first one to fly, just the first one to survive.
Yes because a random twitch stream is going to be believed. The newspaper and the journalist have credibility. If you dont understand how the media and politics/government work then I can't educate you on that in this comment section.
> I'm just wondering at that bizarrely enough, Larry Wall (or somebody else) found it useful to have a simple, convenient way to execute a command with exact arguments, but not for when you need its output.

It had backquotes from the start. So it was as convenient (and as unsafe) as the Bourne shell.

Of course you quickly want more safety and backquotes are just legacy you can never use for serious stuff.
Ask your wife if she wants a miserable or a happy husband. I moved for my wife and I didn't regret it. She is willing to move for me too, if it ever comes to that.

But most IT jobs are remote now anyway. Look for those opportunities. Don't be scare.
> Click on the settings panel, get a spinner. And not for 100ms, but for a second or more.

I have experienced that only once.

The computer was a $150 tablet from ~10 years ago, with 1GB RAM, 32 bit Windows 10 (sold with Windows 8, I think), and Intel Atom SoC for a CPU.

Computers with adequate amount of resources worked well for me, even very old ones.
Shortage in mental health services fans flames of employee burnout
No, if you're using a language that requires you to perform some obscure incantation like "set -euo" before running your scripts, you're asking for something wrong to happen.

Blame the disease, not the symptom.
I wouldn't count on rural Texas stunting any growth. It's where the suburbs of tomorrow and current/coming new housing builds are.
That doesn't indicate disbelief in the concept of the environment. It is a comment on the usage of the terms 'protection of the environment' / 'the environment' in the laws and advocacy that concern thepangolino.

Similarly, if I characterized some legislation as being 'for "the children"', I would not be expressing disbelief in the concept of children. I would be expressing disbelief in the honesty of the description 'for the children'.
The problem there is that nobody especially likes being assassinated.