skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice pitch envelopes. But it's a bit uncanny that natural human pitch envelopes encode and express what you understand and intend to convey about the meaning of the words you're saying, and what you want to emphasize about each individual word, emotionally. Like how you'll say a word you don't really mean sarcastically. It can figure out it's a question because the sentence ends in a question mark, and it raises the pitch at the end, but it can't figure out what the meaning or point of the question is, and which words to emphasize and stress to convey that meaning. (Not a criticism of this excellent work, just pointing out how hard a problem it is!)

For example, compare "rebuke and abash": in the NaturalSpeech, one goes down like she's sure and the other goes up like she's questioning, where in the recording, they are both more balanced and emphasized as equally important words in the sentence. And the pause after insolent in "insolent and daring" sounds uneven compared to the recording, which emphasizes the pair of words more equally and tightly.

Jiminy Glick interviews (and does an impression of) Jerry Seinfeld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE2utktZ92Y
> The largest of those layoffs happened during Intel's years in the wilderness when Finance guys ran the company

Actually, it happened while Brian Krzanich was the CEO - he's a semiconductor/manufacturing guy who made his career at Intel.

The narrative that beancounters screwed up the company is pretty flawed.
They consistently produce hits, to the degree that any network can these days. The Crown, Stranger Things, Sex Education, Russian Doll and Big Mouth all are still airing and all get rave reviews. They also come through with the occasional "cultural moment" stuff like Squid Game and Black Mirror. They also make a lot of "alt" comedy shows that I consider to be some of the best comedy content in recent years.
Game about squares (visual puzzle)
As a Canadian this is a good description of why I make a fair number of comments about US politics on the internet. I'm not sure I'd call it unduly though, it's somewhat inevitable that superpowers influence foreign politics.
This deck describes people being let go for performance reasons, whereas Netflix clarified this was different:

> These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance, which makes them especially tough as none of us want to say goodbye to such great colleagues.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/17/23103131/netflix-layoffs-...
I have a hard time taking this comment seriously. How am I supposed to equate a drawing any graduate art-school student could reproduce with foundational discoveries in mathematics that have changed the world in ways that quite literally were only imagined in fictional stories before the production of technology that was created on the back of mathematics.

Give me a picasso painting and a year and I guarantee you I could reproduce something indistinguishable to 99% of people. If I gave anybody a year to learn and make mathematical discoveries even 1/100th as impactful as Newton, it's likely no one would come close.
Dots 2.0 – Automate 1099/W8 payouts across any rail globally
Americans love to think they 'influence the rest of the world'. The reality is that a powerful cabal of billionaire offshore oligarchs such as Hansjörg Wyss effectively manipulate planetary politics to their ends. Given Wyss's altitude it seems likely he is meddling in many other sovereign state's politics too
During commutes and chores. Mostly really geeky tech podcast. Computer Security, embedded systems, networking. Twit.tv, packetpushers.net, theamphour.com embedded.fm, unnamedre.com. www.cbc.ca/radio/spark.
Grazed through dozen more worldsgreatestcon.fireside.fm
www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes(a season or 2 behind).
Audio books don't really do it form me.
All of the podcast I listen to have RSS feeds. Don't use podcast services
Google Clicks 'Undo' on Plan to Force Legacy Free Google Apps Users to Pay Up
Yes. I’m surprised this was so difficult for people to pick out for a game as well known as SFII.
Imperial Germany and Imperial Russia were far away from the most horrific empire in history.
SDF has a pretty comprehensive site, hosting tons of stuff: gopher://sdf.org

Codevoid: gopher://codevoid.de

Quux: gopher://gopher.quux.org
> Then why are you complaining about being downvoted?

Because downvoting isn’t discussion, it’s a lazy way of dismissing something instead of taking a real position around whatever it is you disagree with.

> Because you are not writing for yourself but for the HN readership and the HN readership most definitely includes the people you pretend not to be "forgetting" but actually are.

Do you honestly think that “every post must include and add a disclaimer accounting for every possible perspective of every possible reader anywhere on Planet Earth” is a reasonable expectation to have for this, or any, conversation forum?

Should every discussion of, say, Spotify mostly focus on how unaffordable it is the population of Burundi, rather than trusting reasonable readers to understand that people are speaking to their own experiences rather than trying to make universal claims about the entire globe?

I’m seriously asking, because it seems like an absurd expectation to me.
Compression detail per bandwidth.

With blurred background due to bokeh, more bandwidth bits are available to the face detail. Nothing to tune, that’s just how constrained bitrate compression works.
You should worry more about NRA, Reglious cults & Drug companies funding politics than any other business.

Americas stupidity is spreading even in developing world now. Concepts such as flatearth, creationist theory, anti-abortion, owning guns and mass shootings and ponzi schemes.

America is settings a bad example
The battery doesn't have to be small if you're okay with moderate thickness. And a lot of power goes to the screen so that cancels out. To the extent that this is true, you're just restating "push for thin" and it's not a separate problem.

Lower performance than what? I'm not convinced that's a real issue unless you're trying to make a flagship.

Why couldn't you fit a top-tier camera? That's like a square centimeter.
This is true for the new Windows terminal, which is more-or-less xterm compatible.
Putin involved in war ‘at level of colonel or brigadier’, say western sources
> At Salesforce, we understand that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data is vital to your business [...]

Hey Bob, why didn't you tell your customers a month ago to rotate their creds just to be safe? This is flat out insulting.
Please remove American from that comment and the comment stands.
Give Camera Live[1] a shot. Canon's own software doesn't support my ancient Rebel TSi so I have to use this one instead, but it's worked really well for me. It connects using Syphon so matching up architecture shouldn't matter (and it works under Rosetta).

I use Syphon Virtual Webcam[2] to feed to Zoom, but you can also use OBS.

[1] https://github.com/v002/v002-Camera-Live

[2] https://github.com/TroikaTronix/Syphon-Virtual-Webcam
> Unfortunately I didn't see any sequences that do this. Anyone have any ideas?

Assuming you tried moving the cursor vertically, have you tried the alternative approach of Store Cursor Position / Restore Cursor Position cf https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28986776/ansi-escape-seq...

The scrollback buffer may be a limitation, so you should try with enabling or disabling the alternate screen (ti/te)

If that fails, you may have to tweak your terminal emulator to "hook" the SCP/RCP to a specific point of the scrollback buffer, to allow this scrollback.
It's not same thing. I used be amazed by many of these works because I would try to think if I would have drawn that and why and how. It took me a while that lot of these works have no reasoning and rational or even internal representation or mystery whatsoever. Many of these works even stem directly due to mental health conditions.

While working in AI research, we have known that many of the similar works gets generated when you accidently wire networks differently or if network has short of schizophrenia and works on a region and then sort of randomly but still somehow similar way does something else on other region. There is no rhym or reason except that our brains gets surprised by patterns that it hadn't expected.

I feel people who appreciate this art and put down others for not seeing things are in same category as wine testers. As one of the commentor said, if you didn't knew if this was from Picaso, your level of appreciation would be much less.
It's interesting that Tesla has chosen not to use geofencing for passive keyless entry since the app knows where the car was last parked.

It would make sense that if it receives a cryptographic challenge from the car, it would only respond if it was inside of the geofenced boundary for the vehicle, provided by the phone's location services.
There is no marketing. Bigger is just better. I got the regular sized iPhone and every time I pick up the pro max it feels good. It’s visually more striking, it’s nicer to use. It’s just a little harder to hold but with two hands is still fine.
> the UI of discord is basically perfect

I find it way too distracting- everything is constantly bleeping, blooping, popping and animating.
Exactly. I've long dreamt of a "dumb" phone that has a text-only screen, can do text and calls, have a great camera, and also do WhatsApp (text only) because that's an important mode of communication for me. But those are *my* requirements, so I know it's not going to be built because hardly anyone will have my exact requirements.
This is legitimately uplifting. I've lived without drinkable water on tap for just a few weeks, and its not a fun experience.

Huge props to MIT and the research team for this.
Running the Java version quite smoothly in OpenBSD 7.1. Nice!

The name reminds me of the old Anarchie FTP search client :) Probably not the intention, but similar era.

This is bringing back quite some nostalgia - the internet used to be so much different!
Interesting to note that the forward was written in 1994 by Donald Norman (author of The Design of Everyday Things) who was ironically an Apple Fellow at the time.
The Sony Xperia 5 iii

It was really expensive and was impossible to get at launch. The optical zoom was a nice touch but I didn't really care for the weird aspect they have.
Oh my god. This is crazy. I never knew this could be done. Thanks
Good, we agree, America is a free country where people have choices which impact the direction of their lives and of society.
>conservative groups trounce progressive ones in terms of raising "dark" money, but it's suddenly a problem when a progressive foreigner plays by the same rules.

What are some foreign conservative billionaires that we should be worried about?
The null hypothesis is that both dominate the world's politics. No need to be picky.
I wish for the "naturalspeech versus recording" comparisons they'd used a different voice for the synthesized speech. Otherwise the fact that we may not be able to tell them apart by ear (in a blindfold test) doesn't tell us much about how good it is as a speech synth engine with that evidence alone.
Honestly has anyone ever been swayed by a political ad? I wonder if this is something both the left and the right freak out way too much about. I’m just not convinced people’s political opinions are that malleable.

Also, I do believe in the power of ads otherwise. But I wonder if politics is for most people, a little different, a little more tribal, like sports fandom.
Street Fighter II is a classic of the fighter genre and is the principal example of the 6 button fighter.

If the marketing rendering was as closely attentive to detail as the item themselves there are plenty of 4 button fighters that could have been used. It’s so obvious that I wouldn’t be surprised if it is an intentional troll.
Ok. Here's some data to let us know where things stand so we can at least know the lay of the land in this conversation. Talking generalizations without data doesn't do anyone much good... these were more disparate than I thought, though I'm willing to bet they aren't as far apart as you thought. As usual, the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle =)

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/11/04/raising...
That particular strawman is looking pretty flimsy given the ample evidence that some companies (the ones I was referring to that have strong work/life balance) see a competitive advantage in providing freedom to their employees.

Work/life balance makes people happy, which makes them do more work in less time with fewer errors. Everyone is aligned incentive-wise here, as long as management bothers to continue to learn.
Vladimir Putin
I can't make sense of your comment.

> you don't pay more to person A to entice person B to enhance your team

That has nothing to do with the "dream team" idea. It's a metaphor referring to the 1992 USA Olympics basketball team [1] that included:

Magic Johnson,
Michael Jordan,
Scottie Pippen,
Patrick Ewing,
David Robinson,
Charles Barkley

... and a few other of the most famous all-star basketball players. The coach was the famous Mike Krzyzewski of Duke. This was made possible by a rule change that allowed professional basketball players to play for the first time in the Olympics.

This team went to win the gold medal. The closest score in the eight olympic matches was 117-85. In other words, the "dream team" utterly dominated.

Netflix does not try to make do with what they have. They try to assemble a "dream team" for each thing they do. I saw Netflix be pretty successful at it while I was there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_men%27s_Oly...
> I don’t know nor care if it’s a reasonable price for a piece of software but if you think it’s a small sum of money you have no idea of what the life of an average person looks like.

It’s a small sum of money for me. It is obviously not a small sum of money for a Bangladeshi beggar or a Peruvian cobbler.

What, exactly, is the point of this complaint? It’s obvious that people are speaking about themselves. Some people in some nations have more money than other people in other nations — that’s the world we live in. We are all already aware of this.

What is useful about bringing this up? Should every discussion of every price of everything in the world have to list how affordable it is in each and every country on earth? Is that your idea of a realistic approach to a discussion?
There's a reason there's an operative "dark" in "dark money."

On net, I don't care if the billionaire is a foreigner or not. I care that they're a billionaire.
This works early on, but during later stages of the company there's those who start to empire build. These empires are happy to label all their employees as "Keepers" and encourage headcount growth as a top priority.
> It's like saying "I've never really understood why Isaac Newton is considered as good as he is."

I think there's something to be appreciated in Picasso, but that's a bad example. Physics has Newton, Einstein, maybe Galileo, and then no one who can match those 3. Art easily has dozens of people who can match Picasso. Just because he invented something new doesn't mean the work he did extends throughout the entire discipline, like Newton does. Picasso is not that important.

It would be better to compare to, say, Wilt Chamberlain in basketball or something. Or if you want to reach to physics, say Neils Bohr or James Clerk Maxwell. But then I think Bohr might even be reaching too far. Schrodinger?

I know: Hugh Everett is the Picasso of physics. He gave us an interesting and different way to see the world (many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics). He was no doubt brilliant, and many modern physicists continue to lean on his ideas regularly. But, of course, tons of physics would exist without him.
Disagree. Twitter takes "monetizable daily active users", defined as logged in users that are triggering ad views. Not users who post, or anything like that. Just users logged in. They pegged it at under 5%. They also included giant fucking disclaimers in the SEC filings that the real number could be higher.

The random groups that have tried to measure bots, have measured 9-20% of *users who posted recently* as bots. We know that most users are lurkers by like a factor of 10x, I take this as strong support of twitter's <5% mDAU number. Those independent estimators wouldn't even know how many twitter counts as monetizable. Remember that their number is about percent of users causing revenue that are bots. Not amount of fake discourse, etc.

The whole "but the bot percent!" is just distraction. Musk is trying to get out of the deal, or at least pay a shitload less, after noticing that the markup he's paying has grown by like $9 billion.
I spent the last two days migrating my company to Render from Heroku, and now I'm glad I did. Render is a little rough around the edges; Heroku is far more polished.

But it's probably to Render's credit that, in my opinion, the most annoying thing about Render is that it's impossible to google about Render because "render" is such a common word in the tech world!

Their support is good and responsive, and the developer experience was good enough. It has some warts, and there were definitely times I missed Heroku, but their speed of improvement gives me confidence in their future.

Sad to leave Heroku after almost a decade with them. They were far ahead of their time.
Because America influences the world we live in. When you live in the empire, keep one eye on Rome.
>About 100 cases of ghost surgeries were prosecuted in the five-year period before 2018, according to the health ministry. But between 2008 and 2014, about 100,000 patients were victims of ghost surgeries, the Korean Society of Plastic Surgeons has estimated.

Wow, that's a pretty large number. I can see how this could have society-wide impacts
> but I don't think that commenter is a gamer either. Casinos are absolutely dominated by the shittiest of games, from a pure game design perspective, with seemingly no room for anything else.

Definitely not the wider market, but I wouldn’t think it unfair to describe the mobile gaming market like this. There have recently been a number of AAA PC games ported to mobile which makes me actually realize the power of the hardware in my hand, and also wonder why every other mobile game I see is a rip off puzzle game concept that’s been done a million times over.
For folks employed by Salesforce, the phrase "Trust is our number 1 value" only comes up in two contexts:

1. company all-hands meetings, which are basically pep rallies with no actual content

2. when someone working at Salesforce brings up a glaring problem and says "if Trust is our number 1 value, why don't we do something about this huge problem?", which is usually met with either silence and bureaucratic obstacles or with excuses, usually something like "customers trust us to spend the money they pay us building the features and products they want", which is like...exactly not the definition used at any of the pep rallies.
Influencing the U.S. gives you the best leverage on your dollars. The U.S., for better or (more probably) worse, is the leading country of the West. It has the largest population, the largest economy, the dominant culture, and, most importantly, the largest military.

This is also why Israel lobbies and exerts such outsized influence the USG.
> If an American company paid 80% of American salary to Canadians they would have their pick of Canada’s top talent.

I thought top talent Canadians who want high salaries just moved to the US :)

(Of course, this could be because such high salaries aren't offered in Canada.)
> until you need to redirect those fancy outputs to a file, or you see a lot of weird [M; in your CI logs

The application should be checking isatty by default, unless the user overrides that.

> or your ssh session does not display full 256 colors

I've most often seen this kind of thing because the remote end doesn't have the right terminfo entries for the local terminal.

> or you question why we don't have true images in our terminals when we have bitmap escape codes for decades now

Sixel, specifically, doesn't seem to have much support other than in xterm itself (as opposed to otherwise-xterm-compatible terminals). And other bitmap extensions are something that many terminals support autodiscovery for.

> No terminal was created equal and never will. terminfo is about future as it is about the past.

Part of the problem is that terminfo doesn't have much info about the future, as opposed to the past.

For going beyond terminfo, I think autodiscovery protocols would be a better future path.
I kind of feel the same thing happened to me a long time ago when I broke my ankle, the entire time I was attended to by a orthopedic surgeon and it was made out as if he was the surgeon who would operate, however my surgery was done by an intern / student. I was only aware of this because I was semi conscious despite being under full anesthesia. Afterwards the surgeon followed up. I never made any waves and I guess it turned out OK and I'm grateful for the repair but it was kind of bait and switch.
The conventional wisdom is that political ads don't change people's minds about who to vote for, but they do change people's minds about whether to bother voting (or voting for a major party and not a throwaway third-party).
> How much can a piece of art stand on its own without the context of the artist and their journey, perspective, evolution?

I was recently taught that some art is not meant to stand on its own, out of context in which it was created.
Ceiling frescoes discovered in the Temple of Khnum at Esna
Mixing corrosive saline and nuclear waste storage facilities is probably not the best idea.
that and dreamforce (over and over again)
I don't get it. Survival books show how to make a solar still with a plastic tarp, cup, straw, some rocks, and a hole in the dirt.
Productivity is difficult to quantify with intangible products and services. However, one is generally left with the metric meaning in a business context, or who is profitable/helpful to have around on a project. Note this metric is very loosely correlated with commit frequency, word counts, and generated tickets.

In general, team productivity will fall after the novelty of a problem wanes post launch, and faster with bad management policy. Micromanagement proponents (apps, nuisance ticket notices and meetings etc.) can increase output for low-skill support tasks, but ultimately fails in a Sr. developer sense. In general, I find team members naturally volunteer to take responsibility for a specific area, and if it works out well... i.e. on schedule... The criterion of “productive” which matters are met. It can also be brutal on individuals that suck at their job, as everyone in the room already knows who messed up.
;-)
I think in the old days it was much harder to maintain a box. You'd get a new server, you'd have to configure email, create print queues, move partitions around keep an eye on system logs etc etc. Now people use Linux but dont really care - the server will only be alive for a few hours and it only has to do one thing. That makes living with Unix a lot easier.
I’ve owned smart phones since the treo.

I’ve owned blackberry phones, windows mobile, even a palm pre.

I’ve had nearly every iPhone since launch.

I’m on an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

Nothing makes me yearn for a smaller screen.

I held an iPhone 3G in my hand last week after finding it in a drawer and was amazed at how it felt too small to be really useful these days.

My gal has a 13 pro max.

My folks have larger phones.

My siblings have larger phones.

My friends, colleagues, business partners, clients, all have larger phones.

The biggest complaint I hear is battery life.

I hope small screen fans find what they want but I do not believe it’s a big market.