skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience in my vehicle (mazda cx5) is that foot off both pedals seems less drag than engine braking from a downshift in a manual, but also more drag than neutral/clutch disengage in a manual.

Letting the drag slow the vehicle in an automatic is still a win -- your instantaneous MPG goes to >99 and you save wear and tear on multiple parts of the vehicle. It's a really big win, and with people so antsy about the price of fuel (aka the cost of driving) I'm shocked to observe how many people are still driving in very expensive manners (fast starts, hard braking)
Yes I also think a settlement is where this is headed. But the bill be pretty high.
What's with the CUDA reference?
Why would they do this? Is this a recruitment tool? A plan to get certain architecture used more? (The article mentions Azure and some Intel hardware)

Pure inspiration?

All the above?

Nice touch on Apache license, really shows they're paying attention to open source community
A buffer state can still have sovereignty. For example, North Korea is a buffer state between Chinese/Russia and South Korea / Japan, America. This is more about geopolitical realities than territory and culture claimed by ethnic groups.

If you are thinking of _vassal_ states, historically, Imperial China had some. A more complicated example, Qing-dynasty, Manchurian-controlled China tried to treat the kingdom of Korea as one.

As far as I know, neither Ukraine or Taiwan were or are vassal states.
I started and abandoned a couple of longer answers to this.

What survives is a just pointer to <https://twitter.com/BHPToolkit> / <https://bhptoolkit.org/users.html> which I think undermines your SUGRA prof's advice and might lead you to reconsider whether "bridg[ing] the gap" is exceptionally rare.
That's why I had some blank lines in there :)

You're right that its a big design space. The key takeaway is that "yes, higher sample rates can actually make a difference, but almost entirely down to the filter design, not because Nyquist moves ... and you probably cannot hear the difference."
Measuring Encrypted-DNS Censorship Using OONI Probe
I'm a recording engineer, and I can tell you that there definitely is such a thing as high quality audio. Certainly there are people who believe in snake oil and like to parade their ignorance as though it were knowledge. But if you bother to study the science of audio, read trade magazines, or hang out with engineers and studio owners, you will find that just quoting frequency range or dynamic range, or even noise floor, is not enough to specify an excellent audio signal. And if you think CD audio is as good as it gets, and nobody can tell the difference between that and a studio master tape, for instance, you are dismissing the expertise of the people who have studied and worked to make the recordings you love.
Wow, Google search sucks but first three tips is horrible advice. Like it would only make it worse
^ yeah exactly. Also, you really do need a pretty good sound system to hear it. I was with the poster above you for a long time, but then I did blind A/B testing on my buddy's $10k monitors, and the difference was clear.

I wouldn't call it "night and day", but I had no trouble distinguishing even 320 MP3 from FLAC on his system by focusing on the very high frequencies (3/3, small N I know I know, but I felt like I could've gone on indefinitely). The MP3s lost some clarity in the highs which led to less dimensionality/sense of space ("soundstage"), because our spatial hearing is very attuned to minute transient differences in high frequencies in particular. But you need to be listening on a system that is adequately equipped to reproduce very high frequency transients accurately, which most people don't have access to.
+1 to sketchbooks. I started using them in ~2014 and have never stopped. The tricks for me were to fold each page in half to get more columns and restrict my wandering handwriting/doodles, to find cheap books (which still have hard covers) at a local art store that serves students, and to make sure I always write the date/time down when I start a new train of thought, with a heading.

Every few years I go through the last 12-20 notebooks and take pictures, then get rid of them. I don't go back through them that much, really, beyond things more than ~6 months old, but when I do I feel like it's a goldmine.
It's unable to focus because you can only feedback so much of the ongoing transcript before it exceeds the prompt input size limitations.

So having a conversation with even some of the best GPT models is going to be like having a conversation with the protagonist from Momento.
Yeah, terrible idea, except this is Daniel Bernstein, who already had an equally terrible idea years ago, and won. That victory was hugely important, it pretty much enabled much of what we use today (to be developed, exported, used without restrictions, etc etc etc)
It is impossible for neutral companies to get mDAU data for Twitter. Twitter needs to provide proof. You can’t use Twitter professionally without using bots btw.

There is a food market at the ground level of Twitter HQ with an awesome beer selection. More valuable than most Twitter accounts. :)
Dear Sophie: How long am I required to stay at my job after I get my green card?
Dear Sophie,

I’m a software engineer who is currently on an H-1B. My employer sponsored me for an EB-2 green card and my application has been approved, but I’m still waiting for a decision on my application to register for permanent residence.

I want to leave my employer and do something completely different. Can I transfer my green card to another employer in a different field and position or should I stick it out in my current position until I receive my green card?

If I should stick it out, how long should I stay with my current employer after I receive my green card?

— Craving Change

Dear Craving,

As my dad (also an immigration lawyer) would always say, here is one of those classic lawyers’ answers: “It depends.” It’s so exciting when a company is willing to sponsor you for a green card, but things can change fast, especially in the Valley. The past couple of years has been a time of self-reflection and reassessment as many have reassessed their own careers and considered pivots. Thanks for reaching out and here’s an overview of some of the general options!
Apparently Twitter subpoenaed Musk's friends and colleagues who were actively tweeting about the deal with what is believed to be an attempt to prove he encouraged his posse tweet negatively to force a lower price.
Uno multiplayer game made in React and Node.js
> Took me 15 minutes

Wow, you did all that in your 15 minutes of ever using a computer? You must be some sort of genius!

Actually those "took me X minutes" jobs are only possible because of years of prior learning.

You should not feel bad about charging for your years of experience resulting in expertise.

If it was so easy then everyone would be doing it on Fiverr for 15 bucks.
You’d be right, and we’re hiring to invest more in 3D visualizations in the app. https://twitter.com/alexguichet/status/1549492941202137088?s...
Gore Vidal: The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh (2008)
Real chance does not mean 100% chance. As long as there is a threat (and fear) of losing, negotiations can happen.
Zero progressives I know want that. Most distrust technology generally, and hate surveillance especially, government or otherwise. You've created a straw-man.
This 100%. Framing mental health as a purely individual or chemical issue distracts from the societal/cultural level problems you're hinting at.

I've come to the conclusion that a lot of what we call the mental health epidemic is really just late capitalism being fundamentally unable to meet human needs of spirituality and emotional belonging.

There's nothing inherently wrong with capitalism as a means to an end in an economic sense, but as an ideology and identity (as is especially pervasive in the US), it's extremely toxic. Capitalism in this sense dehumanizes people, and rewards and encourages lack of empathy and sociopathy. We're taught that it's OK to let people be homeless, starve, and die preventable deaths from lack of healthcare because it's their fault for not being able to succeed in a system that is designed to profit off their failures. We're told we can't fix these because of insufficient means, but in actuality it's a question of prorities and not wanting to midly inconvenience wealthy people to share small portions of their wealth to support the society from which they extract their wealth.

Being in constant fear for your survival because your wages haven't increased in years while the cost of healthcare, food, housing and education keep increasing is disastrous for mental health, that shouldn't be surprising at all. If you're in that position you might be told that your employer can't afford to pay you enough to survive, when in actuality they likely still have healthy profits that are redistributed only to senior management and shareholders.

Learning about the concept of internalized capitalism was a game changer for me. Once you decouple your self-worth from your perceived productivity for the economy/society (aka your value to wealthy elites), it's a lot easier for you to accept yourself and stop blaming yourself for something that's totally outside your control that you perceive to be as a personal failure.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/06/...
Nothing stopping a human from running AI to create prior art, AI just cannot be listed as the creator.

Related, “Using Artificial Intelligence to Mass Produce Prior Art in Patent Law” (2021):

https://vanderbiltlawreview.org/lawreview/2021/03/the-librar...
Are you serious?

An ant hill or a beaver dam are mere reorganizations of known matter types, and could be analogized to humans building things like walls. Stone, and even some types of mortar, participate in the great cosmic dance of Gaia [0], just like the works of the animals cited above. They decay, they are broken down by various processes over time, they are fashioned of things found in the environment.

PFAS, by comparison, does not, cannot, and is not, respectively. It doesn't break down, and was never present in any ecosystem nor any part of the water cycle until a few decades ago -- an fraction of an eyeblink in the sort of evolutionary time it'll take for PFAS' presence to be integrated into the cosmic dance of Gaia, and until then it's just gonna cause cancer.

I can agree that invoking the naturalistic fallacy isn't good argumentative practice, but some things are decidedly unnatural. Creating novel waterproofing chemicals that don't have naturally-occurring ways to break down and then dumping them into the water supply isn't something beavers, or ants, or birds, can do. Humans have transcended the natural world. I can tell because of all the new types of things we're adding to it.

[0] should be read less as some pseudoreligious thing and more a handwave about the ancient, stable systems that repurpose atoms from moribund things into newer, more vital things: microbes, fungus, rot, uptake of substances by plants, etc
Ask HN: New Wave of Spam from Onmicrosoft.com
Getting more than usual amount of spam that sometimes slips through GMail spam filter, even if I'm marking all of them as spam. Anyone have any idea what's all this about and why MS ain't doing anything about it?
Launch HN: Getcited – Collaboration Platform for Academia
Back in the day, from the people who brought you commercial Smalltalk:

July 10, 1989 "ParcPlace Systems Inc, of Mountain View California, has launched its Objectworks software development system for AT&T’s C++ Release 2.0: the integrated set of object-oriented tools include an incremental compiler and linker, source level debugger and source code browsing, and will be available in late August for Sun Microsystems’s Sun-3 workstation, selling for $2,500."

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/parcplace_launches_objectw...
And that court case is scheduled the week after this one. Musk has 3 major trials in October.
Am I being dense? What does VR have to do with transhumanism? Seems like a total non-sequitur.
I go to a mercedes shop to buy a car I can show off with, arrange a loan then get demoted and paid less. I'm "effectively" too broke to buy the mercedes. So I return the next day and claim "the lights are to curved!" Is the way I look at it.

TLDR: The worlds richest man, insecure about his wealth decided to show off and failed due to a lack of wealth. To somehow save face he claims that his change of heart is not financially motivated.

Lesson, no one in this world is above being insecure about their wealth or status. It just happened to the worlds richest dude.
I grew up programming on pentium IIIs when people were using core2duos, but nowadays I like my fast dev machine.

I'm curious, how quickly does our product load for you? [1]

The SSR version should be much faster [2].

[1] https://fastcomments.com/demo

[2] https://fastcomments.com/ssr/comments?tenantId=nYrnfYEv&urlI...
In context, the xml serialization of html5 is not what is being referred to.

Although you are right that the issue was more user acceptability and not implementor willingness.
Do you really need a typed schema for transmission if you have types on the serialization and deserialization ends? I'm thinking of something like Rust's serde that derives (de)serialization logic just from the type, so it can't serialize bad data and won't deserialize bad data.
It looks like we're going to get a pre-agricultural culture soon, whether we want one or not.

A species that spends more time living in a techno/economic LARP fantasy world than dealing with very obvious and real problems has extremely limited survival prospects.

From that POV the transhumanists already won.

Practically - here we are, self-defined as a huge success while our cities flood and/or burn.
The emerald mine stuff is super overblown and only matters to people who don't like Musk for other reasons.

If owning some natural resource like a mine or two was all it took to become a trailblazing entrepreneur who played a key role in Paypal/Tesla/SpaceX then Musk wouldn't be as popular as he is with many because there would be so many more like him around.

Musk is clearly an extraordinary individual even if he sometimes acts like a dickhead and had a small boost from owning emerald mines. But like I mentioned above if owning a profitable mine of some type was all it took to be an entrepreneur at Musk's level we would be drowning in them and he wouldn't be such a big deal in the first place.

But in the case of Twitter, Musk clearly seems to be in the wrong here legally.
In theory.

In practice, if I give you a random analog box, transforming it into an accurate DSP algorithm it's an extremely difficult problem.

Which is why people instead of doing that, they recreate the "idea" (reverb, delay, ...) digitally, but it's not a copy.
Yeah I’ve even had very personal dreams where my Linux root password was spoken in the dream. I’m glad I don’t talk in my sleep. There’s also truth serums that can be weaponized in war scenarios to extract secrets from the enemy without resorting to torture.
I am, not because I think “the buyer is right” but because I hate the seller with a passion.

Twitter has done terrible harm to society and whatever and whoever does it harm, it’s doing a good job in my book.
I said that I don't feel sorry for Twitter. The law should apply without consideration of political ideology.
Comparing VIRTIO, NVMe, and io_uring queue designs
Normally, how an A/B test works is that you present those options to different users and then you compare their behavior to some designed outcome. It is almost never a matter of asking users to choose between options. You are just giving them the different versions and then measuring their engagement levels. Engagement often measured by sales or click through rates. The one with the most engagement wins.
Do you have any thoughts with the ASUS vs. what you have?

Dang that's an info heavy page that you wrote haha.
I don't think they are. Dynamic range is easily quantifiable and vinyl has worse dynamic range, full stop, compared to CDs. Anyone claiming otherwise does not know how to measure dynamic range.

Likewise for bits, there is very little evidence (and, in fact, lots of evidence to the contrary) that you can detect the difference between a 24-bit and a 16-bit recording, assuming they're mastered the same way.
There is zero information present in a waveform that is not contained in the digital version, if that original waveform is confined below the Nyquist limit. Either it is that way already, or else is derived from an original-original waveform that isn't, by low-pass filtering.
Weirdly, any time I've suggested that maaaybe being too trusting of a known bad actor which has repeatedly published intentionally weak cryptography is a bad idea, I've received a whole lot of push-back and downvotes here on this site.
Afaict the cool thing about MoFi pressings (at least, ones from back in the day) is they were done at half speed. So, when the lacquer is cut from the master tape, they'd do it at half playback speed rather than full playback speed, which allowed the physical cutting head to track the high frequencies more accurately. I can say that this absolutely does make a difference during playback; my MoFi copy of Aja sounds very good (almost as good as the digital version!).

That said, vinyl is effectively an obsolete medium. I say this as someone who owns upwards of 1k vinyl records. I buy them because many recordings remain inaccessible or very challenging to find digitally. But I would never buy a newly released album on vinyl over digital if I had the choice and if both were using the same master.
> more ad revenue

Yes all of this exists because of advertising. uBlock Origin maybe isn't just a way to stay sane while browsing the web; it's the best tool we have to save the world.

All forms of advertising should simply become illegal. There goes Facebook, Twitter, all of "social media", and the worst behaviors of Google. I think most people would pay for a good search engine (I would); the "content" that people won't pay for out of their own pocket, should probably not be made in the first place.
Perhaps it’s short for barracuda?
But this is not about "being part of a country"; it's first and foremost about sharing a common culture and history. Facile claims to "Taiwan independence" that ignore these nuances are tantamount to a denial of this shared past and common identity that is part of the continuing lived experience of many people in Taiwan. They are oppressive, dehumanizing and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people who live on the island.
The frustration with Citizens is that it accorded a right that a lot of people believes is a function of natural personhood to a corporation.

More fundamentally, the first amendment is not a law, and the Constitution in general does not make the distinction that you are referring to. I am fairly certain that had the law in question for Citizens made the distinction you are referring to, the legal challenge would still have made it to the SCOTUS, and they would still have ruled the way they did.
Cryptographic secrets stored in human brains are already vulnerable to an attack mechanism that requires $5 worth of interface hardware that can be procured and operated with very little training. Physical security controls do a decent job of preventing malicious actors from connecting said hardware to vulnerable brains. I assume the same would be true with the invention of BCIs more sophisticated than a crescent wrench.
My main area of concern is hacking. Imagine how easy it would be to jack someone's life up because they bought a "smart arm" or got AR eyes. Where technology exists, bad actors will exploit it.
People are already transhuman now. I have two pieces of technology glued to the outside of my body as we speak, they are monitoring my blood glucose levels and adjusting the amount of insulin my body receives in near real time.

Could someone hack it and attempt to overdose me with insulin. Yes, it is a risk.

But it is a risk I'm a thousand percent willing to take because life before it was chore where you risk falling to sleep and never waking up again.
Warrant canaries are problematic since they can't be trusted themselves due to possible confidentiality restrictions, can be easily misinterpreted, and can also be counter-productive to an in-process court proceeding if you are in an actual situation that would involve triggering one. Thankfully we haven't ever been in any situation like this because we simply don't collect any search histories or meta data that ties searches to individuals (like IP addresses). And our searches are end-to-end encrypted so network onlookers cannot see them, even if listening in on the network.
So you're an asshole and think others should have to put up with you? I doubt they do in real life, why should it be different online?
> They literally never claimed this was accurate

> and even said their methodology could be wrong

Yeah that's my point, their supplied number is unusable for investors, advertisers, etc.

Combine that with the bot experiences on Twitter, the 3rd party estimates of 10-20% if looks way off.

I don't see why NOW anyone would trust 5%. Diligence has NOW been done and that "methodology could be wrong" looks likely.

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> But that's the whole point - Musk waived his right to do due diligence, so he is pointing at this statement being wrong (and not unusable) as his way out.

@suresk, that's not a thing, but it is a talking point, but I'm not debating that. I'm saying NOW that the diligence is done and we know it's probably not accurate. See my first post.
Indeed it didn't, 'cause they don't have any.
For sociopathic middle/upper mgmt it is all about POWER....
Your comment implies that there was a time when he was actually trying to buy the "house" in good faith. I'm not convinced that is true... It gave him a great excuse to liquidate Tesla stock without the market responding as strongly as it normally would when a CEO unloads billions of dollars of shares in a company
I don't think superchroma claimed they were entitled to anything. They were just explaining why they don't like Sony's decisions.
holy crap, i wondered why the post didn't mention work by dj bernstein outing flaws in curves submitted by nsa...

Well, didn't expect the post to actually be written by him.
There's no standard or foolproof way to find bots, otherwise we'd be able to just ban them all. It all requires judgement. Twitter's statement is acknowledging this fact and legally covering themselves from people just like Musk who might go "well I have my own calculation metric and it says there's more."
small cities and towns I've been in are predominately single family homes, yet they somehow all have schools paid for by taxes

That somehow is because they tax people that don't have kids in school. In fact, municipalities can nudge this.

Approve a 55+ community and it will give the community a net tax benefit. Same thing with a condo community. But approve a plan for a community of single family homes with 4+ bedrooms and you will have a huge drain on the tax base literally forever.
I understand what the logic is - I'm only suggesting that there is a gross disconnect between the capital available to grow small but profitable businesses and the capital available to gamble on a high-risk / high-reward situations where the "reward" is a share of a quasi-monopoly that more or less executed a hostile market takeover. That isn't so much capital allocation as something else entirely.
There's a note buried at the bottom of the page:

Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".
The Roomba j7+ cord and object detection is working well for me, although it's (probably) more expensive than the Chinese offerings. Regardless, it was a huge step up from my precis Neato Botvac connected (which was probably 5-6 years old though).