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> NO WAY a soundbar can compete [but may be a] great non-intrusive solution

Used to agree with you, but there’s yet another setup out there that is good enough while non-intrusive, that I’m perplexed how.

I’m a home theater snob. For 20 years in a suburban home I’ve had a 20 ft diagonal screen in a cork walled room with multiple level floor going back to the projector, with a series of AV setups.

Meanwhile, in city condos or co-ops I’ve used top of the line Onkyo or Denon AVRs with Polk or Definitive wired speakers and powered sub (compromises made to get white speakers for white decor) in 7.1.4 or 7.1.2. I had auditioned a number of sound bars, and no way. Sound is just too important to the film and premium television experience.

But then, this summer I’m at a vacation home where for expedience I brought two of our HomePod speakers (full size) that were for whole house audio, plugged them as an Atmos enabled “stereo pair” to latest Apple TV that has eARC, and … I am shocked.

(Room/TV/speaker arrangement: room is shaped like a shoebox with 75 inch wall mount TV on the narrow wall with Home Pods 6” below and 1 foot in towards the center from the sides of the screen, and about 2” away from the wall. Room is ~3 TVs wide and ~5 TVs long. Couch is 4/5ths back in the room.)

I don’t know what Apple is doing to make just that pair sound so good. Certainly, I can tell it’s not “real” 7.1.x, but it’s better spatially than top of the line gear rendering Dolby Pro-Logic to 5.1 worth of speakers, and competitive sonically with the top in-wall/in-ceiling Polk and free standing Definitive models. It even “sounds” like we have a sub, though you cannot “feel” it.

For a studio / apartment / condo / co-op, thanks to how minimal this is relative to the sound experience it provides, as long as Apple keeps updating or at least supporting the HomePods I don’t think I’ll ever do a full system again.

I even purchased another pair to update and then keep in a box as spares.

// Yes, LG TV’s own audio was garbage, sounding practically mono and somehow simultaneously tinny and muffled.
I've done astonishingly well for someone whose main goal has been 'do better'.

I grew up in a very rough area, my teenage years was focused primarily on getting out of there. Had I stayed, I would've likely been caught up in a drug life like the majority of my graduating class.

As I'm just over 30 now, I'm trying to get more specific. I can't keep riding the wave I'm on, expecting things to keep working out.

My career is bound to plateau, and where I'm at now is paying me well but I don't know I can keep up the required pace/concessions (eg: 12+ hour days at random, deadlines)

I believe the term 'golden handcuffs' applies here, it's been a developing concern of mine.

I've made decent pay since my early 20s, but without a plan like... buying a home, I worry it's all likely to be for naught.

All that to say I suppose, aim for goals but be willing to let them flex or outright change. I never could've fathomed where I am now, but I've learned their value.
Staking requires all those things too. Or you could pay a service to do it for you, but that applies to PoW mining as well.
> I would talk to my team/boss and ask for time off. Serious time off like 3+ months. If they really think you are worth it, they should give that to you. Make it unpaid but tell them you want to come back. You may not though and that should be ok. Regardless, do it for yourself.

I've been on an unpaid leave for a little over a month. I thought the same as you; that if I'm worth it, they should be accepting of the break. However, they've repeatedly bothered me about getting doctors' notes (which my doctor obliged) and made it clear that if I was not covered under FMLA (I'm in the US), they would _have_ to let me go. This in and of itself makes me want to quit, because it's disingenuous to say that I'm one of the most valuable engineers, then talk about firing and rehiring me when I want to take this leave.

> If you can quit and feel the need, do it. You don't need to answer to anyone except yourself. You may not know if quitting will work but if that is what you THINK you need right now, you should do it.

This is reassuring, thank you. I'm not sure that it's the _correct_ advice, but it's nice to see :P
Peterson is a Jungian, which is why I brought it up. Check out Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung himself, for a fun accessible entree. Basically, the theory is that humans are deeply wired to use stories to understand the world, and some stories are even embedded in our subconscious.
I'm thinking it's not so much what is legal for Copilot to do with code chunks from GPL'ed code, but what it means for end users (i.e. developers at for-profit companies) to incorporate those chunks into commercial products
I find that Grateful Dead works for me for this purpose, and they have enough material, one wont run out of it in a long long time.
Curate aggressively.

A gun is dangerous. Twitter is dangerous.

Both are useful if used appropriately with the right training and safeguards.
The machine is performing some sort of transformation. Whether you want to call that a "(creative) work" or not is irrelevant to the point I was making: The machine is doing something to the input, and that makes the 'cp' comment I replied to kind of silly.

I think we can assume the author doesn't believe that piping bytes through the 'cp' command automatically removes copyright (as the person I replied to suggested).
Cold War business idea, half a century too late: manufacture a cheap, unremarkable substance and sell it at an extremely high price to the U.S. government, to confuse Soviet intelligence. Shroud the production in secrecy and compartmentalize knowledge of the manufacturing process, so that everybody involved in production thinks that in a different section of the plant something secret is being done to create an end product that is special and useful in some way, but in reality you're creating exactly the cheap, boring stuff you say you are. The government could drive truckloads of it into nuclear weapons production facilities, shuffle it around from one warehouse to another, and eventually relabel it as waste.
I do have some code lying around somewhere that would revive wordpress blogs via wayback, using a UI where you could select elements in the 'theme' and restore the backend database. It's simply a messy business IMO. But for one off jobs, scraping is the go to.
Pretty sure if someone trained a code suggestion tool with Windows source, Microsoft would claim that a single similar character being the same is grounds for copyright infringement.

They are putting GPL code in non-gpled codebases. Is it okay to take sections of other people's source code and use it on yours, if you just got it as a suggestion?
I'm probably getting a lot of shit for this, but "intensive meditation" sounds exactly like something that Americans might come up with as they lack time for actual meditation.
What stops them from fixing their food supply?
Indeed, but was the paper wrong?
It's another type of telescope. In history we first observed waves in the visible spectrum, then perhaps infrared, radio, microwave, ultraviolet, X-ray, etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope#By_spectrum

This will allow measurements of another type of wave.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational-wave_astronomy
The internet in general is prone to “the loudest 1%” problem, but Twitter is something special where it’s the craziest and loudest 0.01%.

It’s so sad because all JS related discourse moved to Twitter at some point so I keep trying to make it work, but have to keep quitting for my sanity’s sake.
What do you use to check news every day?
Online as opposed to batch.
> a CLA (which, between other things, allows them to make closed source versions of Audacity)

But all previous commits they'd build on are GPL..
Well, the currency lost something like 90% of its value over the last year since the blast. (https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/05/lebanon-currency-inflat...)

This April the black market rate dropped to 12,000 and caused minor riots. Now its at 18,000 and plunging in fits and starts.

The median salary is now something like $30 a month (down from $600 couple years ago). The army no longer being able to afford to feed its soldiers has resorted to giving helicopter tours to tourists (https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/06/29/Le...).

There's gas shortages and riots everyday all over the place. This is Tripoli now: https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/oaw4h5/tripoli_rig...

The foreign currency reserves have dwindled over the last year from $30 billion to $15, the minimum required by law is currently $14, and their very extensive food subsidies program is costing them 500 million a month and is about to be nixed. They can't maintain their electric grid and people get only a few hours of power a day.

Also this whole time there hasn't been a government. All the key players are corrupt beyond belief and wanted for either terrorism, drug trafficking or embezzlement.

Pretty sure they will indeed have a famine soon if nothing changes.
Not only containers, it can also forward services!
Mine does too but I find that investing time in nuanced grooming of my beard is often a bridge too far now that I'm on kid #3. These days it's let it grow out until wife complains, shave, repeat.
>it suggests that even reproducing the smallest excerpts of protected works constitutes copyright infringement

Actually, it is. It has to do with whether the small excerpt is copying what could be called "the heart of the work"; which in the case of code I would argue is almost always what you are after. No one's gonna copy the indentation style, boilerplate around functions/blocks, punctuation, etc. You always go for the "functional" part of the code, which is definitely "the heart of the work".

The heart of Carmack's fast inverse square root lies in its selection of a particular set of constants and operations that happen (i.e. were designed) to approximate the square root without taking an expensive path. Copyright law would look at this novelty; I don't think it would argue around "the use of subtraction and multiplication in a computer program", as that would be plainly stupid.

I am surprised that someone who is supposedly an expert in copyright law does not (or pretends not to know) about this, not only that, but to actually suggest the opposite. This is copyright 101, come on.
Here is James May driving a Toyota Mirari which is available today: https://youtu.be/v99AthjW78U
What point is considered exhaustion, and how often should this be performed? I've gone on 20+ mile bike rides that have left me pretty tired, but I don't think I felt any better mentally/slept any better. Is it more of an "over time" thing?

I've read advice like this a lot, but it seems like such a difficult thing to jump into, especially if I've not had much success with small trials (i.e. the 20 mile bike rides). It also makes me wonder what the intended end goal is; if I spend all of my time exercising, and that does end up fixing me, what do I go back to?
> When Jason Snell posts on HN, I sit up in my chair

I believe the post is from Juho Snell:

http://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/about/

https://twitter.com/juhosnellman
There's actually a math theorem that says basically that, unless I'm misunderstanding, if your math has no bugs you can't prove it has no bugs with it.
No.

Edit: Sorry downvoters, whether you like it or not, you don't understand the terminology. You're confusing reproduction with redistribution.
Acme.sh Changes Default SSL provider from Let's Encrypt to ZeroSSL
News.Google.com for a max of 30 minutes per day.
Good point I had not connected the two but that’s pretty significant!
Morally I find the notion that the Earth is overpopulated to be evil. The problems we see from “overpopulation” is not too many humans, but instead artificial scarcity and a shortage in land.

Consequently I don’t believe the people who say space colonization won’t fix most of our issues.
There was a case recently where Apple employees demanded they not hire a Silicon Valley executive because he had written and published a semi-fictional account of his time in Silicon Valley, and in it was a passage in which he made fun of women in Silicon Valley. Apple employees passed around a petition and out he was.

Simultaneously, Apple has in its ranks a famous rapper who's rapped about (and admitted to committing) violence against women, sits in a senior and lucrative role in Apple leadership.

As you can see from above, the morality always plays second fiddle to profit.

As an old hand, my personal perception and feeling on the topic of morality in corporations is, it's a trick/PR ploy to get young people to feel like they're part of something good. There are many words to describe this phenomenon and both side and naive come to my mind.
Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong.

I'll give the best example, the one task that off the top of my head that I would like some AI help with.

I would really like to replicate the functionality of Java's SSLEngine, but for C#.

If I used Co-Pilot to help, at best, I would need to pay for a legal team to do some form of 'clean room' review of whatever was generated to make sure it did not infringe on the OpenJDK code that is out there. At worst, I would be having to defend myself from Oracle's legal team -anyway-.

And yeah, I'm assuming in this case that Copilot would be 'smart' enough to be able to make the right inferences of that java code and put it into workable C# construct. Stepping back, though, one could still ask the question; what's the risk of a Java developer accidentally getting some OpenJDK code a little too closely? There's an order of magnitude difference between even a smaller AGPL developer and Oracle.

If Microsoft/GH was willing to go to bat and agree to pay for the defense of users of Copilot, I would be far less concerned with the implications of all of this.
I think you have already been underestimating the quality of resources available in French, Russian, German, and others, that do not exist in English. Just as a single example, the math section of the French Wikipedia was distinctly superior to the English one when I was in college (2012).
Also a lot of the good software engineers in India end up relocating elsewhere, like the US, to get better pay. I've worked with a lot of really talented Indian software engineers, and some really terrible Indian developers (I hesitate to call them engineers).

All of the talented ones had relocated and were living in the US. I'm sure there are some talented software engineers that stay in India also, I just never end up working with them (probably because the companies I worked for were trying to save a few bucks by outsourcing to begin with, and went with the lowest bidder).
Controversial? This looks extremely similar to most other privacy policies. I would urge you to read the privacy policy on any other web sites that you visit, or for any other services that you use, and compare and contrast. A good starting point might be the privacy policy on your phone's app store.
I was hoping the article would end with the author deleting her twitter account altogether but it seems she recently “straw-tweeted” a link to this article: https://mobile.twitter.com/CaitlinPacific/status/14120919506...
GPT-J for text generation: hardware requirements
Since the release of GPT-J, I worked hard in order to add it to NLPCloud.io for text generation.

This is done now and the infrastructure is stabilized but that was tricky. So I thought I would share here my key takeaways, in case it can help some of you:

- On CPU, the model needs around 40GB of memory to load, and then around 20GB during runtime.

- On CPU, a standard text generation (around 50 words) takes approximately 12 CPUs for 11 seconds

- On a GPU, the model needs around 40GB of memory to load, and then around 3GB during runtime + 24GB of GPU memory. For a standard text generation (around 50 words), the latency is around 1.5 secs

The 2 main challenges are the high amount of RAM needed for startup, and then high amount of GPU memory needed during runtime which is quite impractical as most affordable NVIDIA GPUs dedicated to inference, like Tesla T4, only have 16GB of memory...

It's very interesting to note that, during my tests, the latency was pretty much the same as GPT-Neo 2.7B on the same hardware, but accuracy seems of course much better.

If some of you also ran these kinds of benchmarks on GPT-J I'd love to see if we're aligned or not!
Once upon a time in Germany, I was put on several special duty assignments to guard documents overnight (with a machine gun!) prior to their destruction by companies like this.
I'd like to qualify my remarks on amazon: they are a very well run software/IT firm... from the persepective of competing IT execs in retail.

Really they have a CIO as a CEO, and that's the difference between them and their non-IT CEO competitors. Bezos tried to solve everything with software.
It's almost as if cetain endeavours make more sense when they're done collectively, and socially. If only there was some form of common institution where everybody would chime in with their labour, money, and votes to ensure the benefit, wellbeing and freedom of everybody.
This is exactly the problem: Twitter, unlike other platforms like Reddit and even Facebook, make curation impossible.

Want to follow someone who posts a lot of interesting things about JS? Be prepared to see posts they like about curry poodles. Oh here’s some worst-in-class topic recommendations barfed out by depressed ML, and you can’t turn them off. What do you mean you don’t like Roseanne Nostalgia? Here are some Binky The Clown Stock Tips.
As a linux user, I have absolutely no need for an auto-update feature. Hopefully that is something that can be disabled at both build time and run time.
I think a big thing is that Twitter can often repræsent itself as though what many outside of it call “Twitter views” are more mainstream than they are.

4chan, for instance, also comes with rather niche views, but does not attempt to convince one that it's views are anything but niche.

Being immersed in Twitter, and many other websites known to create “filter bubbles”, eventually might make one believe it is the mainstream.

In fact, it is not so dissimilar from how I think U.S.A. culture works; it is often noted how often inhabitants inside of it loose perspective of how idiosyncratic U.S.A. cultural memes are nothing more than that, as the people there often phrase them as though they be of a more global, even timeless nature.
Mass Media Blackouts on Inconvenient News Stories
My ideas based on what you've said now are simply don't play ranked matches online, just develop your skills against humans and engines.

For real ranked matches, participants must have 360 webcams and so on showing they aren't cheating
> China and India are among one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas. There is no policy that can change that fact.

Fine, I'll bite. Presume for a second that the partitioning of India didn't end with Pakistan and Bangladesh, but that the entire sub-continent split into 15 odd countries each with the population of Mexico.

Would you still be demanding that just these 15 countries carry the disproportionate burden of solving climate change?

You wouldn't, because is would be painfully, obviously dumb to ignore other similar sized groups of countries (Europe, SE asia, etc.)

India and China obviously emit more, because they are - uniquely - single countries with continent sized populations.

They don't suddenly earn some moral burden for that in an atmosphere that is without borders.
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Ask HN: Domain Filtering?
Over the last several years I've noticed a decrease in the quality of submissions to HN. There isn't a magic bullet to solve this but it would be nice to be able to filter domains out of the feed. I propose this as a change for HN itself, instead of a third party app, as I would like this feature to trickle down to all the various mobile apps. Any thoughts?
Nobody reads much less agrees to these idiotic policy texts. I don't care who made the software or their "conditions" for using it. If it's running on my machine, it answers to me and me alone. This "we put it on the terms and conditions so it's fine" bullshit needs to go away.
And yet that barren field,
Covered by snow;
Is not bleak
But beautiful.
Clean fresh snow
Presents rebirth and hope
And stark beauty,
The field will grow and flourish
Soon.
With knowledge of space and time
One should be optimistic
About such a vision.
Spring will come
A future will grow.
Not citizens, they don't have any freedom of movement to start with.
Ardour -Audacity Alternative to Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, OS X and Windows
A gun won't actively bait you into fights.
> It's worth saying that it was really hard coming back and starting work again.

This is indeed a worry of mine, though I think if I'm actually fixed, I'll be jumping to at least write code and work on software projects. I've always been very driven, and was trying to start a software business at 13. I don't think that aspect of me will ever go away, even if I'm super depressed.

> I took 8 months and traveled the world. It was great (but expensive!).

Where did you go and what did you do? I grew up relatively poor, and combined with my social anxiety, I have never really gone anywhere (I don't know what I would do when I get there). I don't even have my passport and have never left the US.
It depends - but most people feel warm and fuzzy committing funds to a candidate if they know that they 'got nowhere else to go'
Nothing here overrides there system wide Python version.

The article specificially goes into why not to do it.

> pyenv allows us to set up any version of Python as a global Python interpreter but we are not going to do that. There can be some scripts or other programs that rely on the default interpreter, so we don’t want to mess that up.
Was JS Twitter itself toxic? Because if not I don't see why you wouldn't just follow the relevant accounts and not see any of the stuff the article talks about.
I created two accounts, one for political screaming and the other for "sane" follows, like programmers and scientists and artists etc. I ended up only paying attention to the screaming Twitter just deleted it.
In another 12 months, Elon will realize that it is an _incredibly_ hard problem -- particularly the bit about liability transferring to Tesla for accidents that occur while Full Self Driving (FSD) is engaged.
There is a market of secure microchips and it's evolving. Of course, there are no 100% secure solutions, but we're heading towards practical security. There are no full-proof solutions for anything in life. Even Bitcoin is not full-proof. You just need to capture coordinators of a couple of mining pools. I believe collecting those in China will be enough to gain 51% control.
I quit Twitter around 2014/5. I couldn’t figure out why people were posting about inane topics (what I ate for breakfast etc.) and not talking about subjects that matter (politics, corruption etc.). In particular why weren’t celebrities with huge followings not talking about important issues.

Well, how wrong was I. I’d love to go back to that time.
I can’t even find any existing audits. If you know of any or have read any I would be extremely interested.
I like transfer.sh and use it occasionally as an easy way to send things to friends that are on a remote server. However, I've realized that the upload speeds are pretty throttled to the point where it takes minutes for 100mb file. So I started using oshi.at which afaik is petty similar but faster uploads. Though, the one downside of oshi.at is that you can't watch mp4s in the browser it just starts download immediately.

I look forward to seeing a CLI for wormhole.app though