skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's two questions here -- one for audio processing, and one for communications.

In terms of audio, the speaker locations in the car for a specific model are all fixed and can be known. So it seems like Spotify could probably add it if they had not only all of that speaker data, but also acoustic modeling to see how each speaker's frequency sweep was transmitted and reflected to each passenger's ears. So they'd want to get their hands on an actual car and spend a lot of time making a lot of microphone measurements inside of dummy ears. And then the spatial audio algorithms aren't trivial to write, but that kind of thing has been around for a while now so it's definitely doable.

But as for communicating that sound to the car -- the problem is that there are 31 speakers requiring 31 sound channels, and you certainly can't play that over Bluetooth. So I assume there has to be some custom audio stream format happening here over CarPlay? That's where the vertical integration is going to come into play. I also can't help but wonder if the Mercedes come with a dedicated audio-processing chip to handle it all. Because while a phone's chip is definitely capable enough to calculate 31 streams, I'm not sure if a Lightning port has enough bandwidth to output that uncompressed, and I'm also not sure if it would slow down the phone enough to affect the performance of other apps like Maps. So you'd probably want the phone to just output the compressed 5.1 stream, and have the car do all the fancy spatial audio processing.

In any case, if this works like AirPods, the Spotify stereo audio stream will be "spatialized" so it'll work just fine. It will be inferred stereo spatial rather than 5.1 mastered, but that's still awfully effective. And a group audio call could similarly be spatialized from a stereo stream that merely panned participants left-to-right.
Airlines discount tickets at the last minute. That's because flying an empty seat around doesn't make any money.

Magazines sell ad space at a steep discount the day before it goes to press. Same reason.

Stores have clearance sales. Again, same reason.

And so on. No landlord in his right mind would leave half a building vacant if he can get a paying tenant in.
We all know how this ends: put your AI on to the internet and it becomes a nazi
The twitch channel is also awesome!
I became a web developer, basically. Doing web apps, web services, etc in Ruby, Node, and Go. It was a pretty easy transition. If you know and love programming in C#, my guess is you can pick up just about anything in a short amount of time.
Only the ACE2 receptor is human. The rest is of murine origin
So you don't have a refutation to things like "EV fires are harder to extinguish" and you're just attacking a claim I didn't make ("sleeping parents or children were killed by an EV fire")? In the first place, I explicitly said that this is why people are scared, not that it actually makes Teslas unusually dangerous. Situations like this are all about shock value.
I am halfway done with the C deck, as we are switching to C soon, and I will setup a kickstarter after, should be done around December.

I want her to know why x[3] and 3[x] are the same thing.

int x[3];
2[x] = 5;

printf("%d %d\n", 2[x], x[2])

A lot of people struggle with

x = 5
y = 6

y = x

x = 7
print(y)

and

x = [1,2]
y = [3,4]

y = x

x.append(5)
print(y)

There is something magical in understanding how the computer uses its memory, its almost as if you walk out of a mist.

I think it will be very valuable to have a set of 4 decks: python, machine code, unix pipes and C, so that the decks compliment each other. In the machine code deck there are few cards that have pointers (e.g. https://punkx.org/4917/play.html#43), and they can be used to help with the C deck for example.

Then its LISP.
Nothings scary about it. The techie thing is that most people simply do not care about it. My mum does not care that email is federated but WhatsApp isn't. She just uses them. If anything federation is worse for the average user because it leads to more spam and ossified protocols (does IRC support images yet?).
>They don't need to customize their headlines to modify the reaction of the people you are referencing

Why not? Doesn't media regularly customize their headlines to avoid stating factually true things that would propagate negative stereotypes against minorities and other protected groups?

I think most responsible media organizations do avoid putting headlines like "Muslim man stabs three in church in Nice". Even if they do mention the religion, it is usually called "Islamic terrorism", and they have also invested quite some significant effort into emphasizing that most of regular Islamic people do not in fact have anything to do with Islamic terrorism.

As far as I can tell, media companies certainly seem to be aware of the effect their headlines can have on propagating negative stereotypes and good editorial judgement usually involves an attempt to avoid doing that as much as possible.
> I don't think they can be called VSTs

They aren't VSTs but that's my point. A "Reaper plugin" to the community usually means a JSFX plugin.

Playtime is a VST plugin, not a JSFX plugin, but it also relies on Reaper specific API calls making it incompatible with other DAWs that support VST.

It matters because you'll find it in the VST section of your Reaper plugin list and I believe Steinberg also requires you to use the VST branding on any plugins using the VST SDK

VST isn't an open plugin format and it doesn't guarantee compatibility across all hosts. It's a source-available format owned by Steinberg who grants financial free use of it (but not free use in the FOSS sense)
1. Reverts to the standard vehicle interface

2. Siri is activated by user input (holding a button / pressing a button in-car) with a side feature for hot mic (hey siri) that’s disabled by default

3. Maybe there’s car implementation solely driven by Siri? Hondas is touch screen and Mazda is button/knob based (and touch screen but only when idle).
Yeah, people also park in the driveway in many cases, which similarly protects you from a fire spreading to your house. At least where I grew up most people used their garages for storage or as a workshop, etc. Maybe climates like Florida's encourage garage use though since weather is going to age your car's paint more quickly? Not sure.
Rents also went down in San Francisco during the pandemic. Something that the people on HN wrote could never happen :-)
Well, another report said the drones originated from a Chinese cargo vessel, but they usually seem to leave that part out of the press reports.
I had sales training in a "seven dwarves" computer company. I quickly learned that sales wasn't for me, and switched to sales support; but I then spent a good eight years working alongside very experienced salesmen (all very unlike me, but I liked most of them a lot).

It's said salesmen are always selling themselves; I don't agree. But they're always pretty engaging company.

They taught us that a good salesman can sell anything. But that's hyperbolic; you have to know the product you're selling inside out.

They taught us to sell solutions, not features. That means (as someone said upthread) you're looking for people with problems, and you need to find out what their problems are, so you can help them.

We used to get leads by setting up stalls at exhibitions. I guess your prospects aren't the exhibition-going sort? But they probably gather somewhere; maybe you could go there.

I dropped out of sales because I couldn't cope with the dubious ethics. Not my employer, particularly; but there was an awful ot of politics, we were taught how to commit expenses fraud by our own boss, and everyone was fiddling commission. It wouldn't surprise me at all if brown envelopes exchanged hands.
>it’s an interesting move.

It was an US unilateral move after CHIPS4 couldn't agree on export controls that basically killed 1/3 of their semi revenue, i.e. it seems more like US desperation after being unable to get East Asian semi on board after realizing merely "sprint" strategy wasn't enough to stay ahead of PRC, but must sprint and hobble. To me it looks like essential admission that PRC will make it sooner than later, and now US is trying to buy time at all cost despite lack of cooperation from allies who will most likely start de-americanizing supply chains for that 400B PRC semi pot.

>dependence on TW
>shy of making serious retaliations

The opposite is happening, US trying to cut PRC Off TW semi that US is 90% dependant in. So PRC now has more incentive to meddle with fabs on the island to disrupt US high tech at little cost to her own industry. I expect we're trending towards developments that will end in PRC disrupting TW fabs in the coming years to destablize US supply chains. Otherwise PRC leverage is still the same, she still has calorie food sufficiency, with now guaranteed long term supplies (grains + fertilizer) from RU. Managable real real estate crisis still being managed. Meanwhile PRC still has controls over most of supply chains and rare earth production, F35 made from PRC metals just got waiver. The reality is, PRC hasn't made serious retaliations so far because it didn't want more high tech decoupling, but once decouple past certain point, PRC hands will become freer to retaliate. We'll have to see TSMC/Samsung and other if waivers stop next year.
so now you have virtual honks ?
It's used by Eio in OCaml for the Linux backend: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/eio.
I take it I hurt your feelings?

Tell me where those two statements you quoted are materially different (keeping in mind I was including the 0% of experts reply later), if you’d like to continue. Or don’t.
Regulatory capture is still the government doing it, not the market.

Government will always abuse its power, the idea is to give it as little as practical.
George Hotz is 'in the industry' and seems to disagree with you. I have heard others say the same. It seems people who work at Waymo/Cruise are totally convinced by those things.

Different approaches lead to different paths to solutions, I am not convinced that either will be successful and not convinces Waymo/Cruise is ahead.

Unlike those, Tesla actually makes money and uses the technology stack in more limited forms.
> Or, is it the case that people are actively discouraged because they aren't "represented" in the field? If they can't overcome that challenge, then how are they going to make any real progress in the field?

The challenges of fighting unethical social and political resistance to your inclusion in a community are distinct from the intellectual challenges of the associated field of study. Having to overcome both is certainly not fair to anyone.
The cars will presumably fallback to native clusters when the phone stops responding. It’s still too early to tell though, but they are a very safety conscious company so I assume that people have thought about contingencies before making themselves liable.

At the least it likely won’t be worse than the multitude of cars that have moved to digital clusters anyway and may freeze themselves.

The claim of Carplay not working without Siri is also incorrect. A quick Google search shows you can disable Siri but will be limited in what you can do https://stereoupgrade.com/how-to-use-carplay-without-siri/ since the goal is hands free use.

Lastly most newer iPhones do on device Siri processing for common commands so it’s not really a privacy issue.
Github Copilot is not AI at all, it is just a dumb code regurgitator that just sells you code you wrote on GitHub and takes all the credit for it shamelessly.
Are you familiar with how Ghidra works? You run it own your own computer on a binary that you feed it. It’s not like it talks to the NSA to exfiltrate things.
Was coming here to reply: Fanatical Prospecting - start there. Glad it is in the top comment mentions.

Good book to get a solid base on all the sales jargon and learning the generic sales cycle that applies to all products and services and businesses. It’s legit The Bible for all AEs/BDRs, I’ve even heard hiring managers / HR people say to potential candidates to read that book before applying for a sales role as the X Sales Manager / VP really applies the philosophy in their team(s).
are theses acequias roman in origin as well?
https://www.uv.es/cuadernosgeo/CG15_001_024.pdf
I'm very curious what is the impact on liver and kidneys function.
Thanks, now I can't unsee it either and will be on the lookout for it wherever I come across a scissors icon.
Okay I haven't seen this speech before. I guess we can actually trust the guy who worked at NSA at time to know their reason for releasing it. I mean Chris Delikat.

And yeah he does mention recruitment benefits on second slide.
Yeah, when I'm parked and enjoying some music, that's great.

When I'm driving, I want my ears to alert me to spatial happenings where I can't see them. I force the audio to the front speakers only, specifically to prevent it from sounding too "real". I also hate it when the music has sirens in it.

So, this is spiffy, but I hope there's a way to turn it off.
This has been common in the commercial sector for decades - and in the commercially managed residential sector (think large apartment complexes).

All this is doing is bringing it to smaller apartments and single family rentals.

I still feel that if you correctly account for costs and back out appreciation, being a single family home landlord ain’t worth it.
> China was a 3rd world nation which experienced an industrial revolution

Why did that happen? Why isn't it happening so rapidly for other "3rd world" nations? I mean it wasn't luck. Economists will point to specific policies of the Chinese government that made it happen so quickly.
On a Google phone Android, turning off all animations doesn't replace it with a loading icon. It just makes the phone faster.

In Android 12 the Google Android launcher (the desktop, with the non removable Google assistant/search bar), doesn't obey turning off animation. I moved to the Nova launcher.

Like the parent post, every friends and family member I showed how to turn off animations was very pleased with the speedup. Nobody ever asked to turn it back on.
You would have to equip every train with that system, leaf fall during Autumn in the UK is surprisingly high, so cleaning once a day wouldn't even be close to good enough. Many councils increase their street cleaning 4x just to deal with leaves. Not to mention that wet leaves are surprisingly heavy and sticky, so you might need a pretty complicated system to reliably remove leaves on a train moving at full line speed.

At the end of the day, leaves cause issues for about four weeks out of every year. That makes it tricky to justify adding thousands of pounds of specialised equipment to every train, just to deal with four weeks.

Of course, you could find a solution to all these things, and have far more reliable trains. But the cost would be high, and it would require our government to actually want reliable public transport. So far, all the evidence suggests our government is only interested in subsiding private vehicles, because public transport "doesn't return a profit".
I don't disagree that the US is an outlier even compared to other common law jurisdictions such as the UK, but I'd argue that the common law framework is a necessary (albeit insufficient) condition for what the US judiciary is doing.

For instance, decriminalization of abortion in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Morgentaler
> a landlord can often leave a place idle for months holding out for a higher offer, especially if AirBnB is an option

I guess they can, but they are running a business and their goal is to make money, so they'll eventually take what they can get.

And remember it works both ways. It doesn't seem like it now, but sometimes, in some markets, it's hard for landlords to attract tenants. I have serious doubts that regulation or any other form of intervention on pricing would have anything but unintended consequences, in some cases leading to the exact problem you're trying to prevent:

https://www.americanexperiment.org/new-york-landlords-are-ke...
Deep Momentum Networks for Trading
Sensors can tap into mobile vibrations to eavesdrop remotely
Autosave is an awful idea, making modifications to existing files, creating new files "in memory" that i throw away (i.e. not saving them at all) and of course making many modifications that i decide later to save under a different name are things i do all the time with all sorts of programs.

If i want something to be stored in permanent storage i explicitly request that with the Save or Save As functionality.

That is not to say that an autosave functionality is always useless, it can be useful -e.g.- for recovering from program failures, but not as a replacement for the explicit Save/Save As functionality.
I don't mean I personally did it, I just offered what I could for news articles at the time for a page that had been up and then got removed for not being noteworthy enough. And then I think the authors argued amongst themselves about what constituted relevancy.

Regardless, the barrier to entry seemed unnecessarily high at the time.
Every newspaper and pretty much any other medium over the past century or so. That’s what editors used to do.

Scaling is not the problem - profits scale with the number of users, the cost of moderation would too, in the worst case. The problem is company’s unwillingness to pay anything at all. Their profits didn’t came from offering a good product, but from discovering a new way to offload the costs of their operation while keeping the income. In this case - by pretending to be a part telco, part newspaper (which brings income), but without taking their main responsibilities (which cost money).
Or at the very least show a list of save points with user-defined points highlighted.
> The situations I am referring to more broadly is say, the inevitable onslaught of “PHP is hot garbage” comments on anything mentioning PHP. How does that make people write PHP for a living feel?

I use PHP and have for 20 years. Comments like that don't make me feel anything. Either the person making the comment has something useful to say or they don't. Calling a successful language and its ecosystem "garbage" (which I have seen plenty of times) communicates ignorance or maybe insecurity, but it doesn't affect me emotionally. I don't feel any worse about myself knowing that trolls and ignorant people frequent online forums.

If someone wants to define their identity in terms of a programming language they love, or hate, they can of course go ahead and do that. I don't understand why someone would choose such a trivial thing to hang their identity on so I'm not going to let them get under my skin.
This is mostly not true, excluding skyscrapers, which yes are costly. You’ve forgotten roads, sewers, utilities, sidewalk maintenance etc.
Missing-middle housing is much more efficient than suburbs.

Washington DC is a good example, for those unable to visit Europe.
Can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek, but a few years back an AI bot by Microsoft ended up spewing racist replies after a while online!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35902104
> Bohmian mechanics allows for quantum non-equilibrium,

Yes, of course. In Bohmian mechanics, particles have actual locations, and so of course those locations cannot be required to obey the Born rule except by hypothesis. But it does not follow that...

> it ... does make observably different prediction, in principle

> but we're not yet sure how to create such a state

> This prediction is just not within experimental reach at the moment

It is not just that we "don't know" how to create these non-Born states, it is that creating such a state would falsify quantum mechanics. Creating such a state would necessarily involve some physical process that violates the Schroedinger equation. No such process has ever been observed. It is possible that this could change, but it's extremely unlikely. And there is absolutely no reason to believe that such a new process, were it to ever be discovered, would have anything to do with Bohmian mechanics. It is as likely that we will discover a violation of conservation of energy or the second law of thermodynamics as we are to discover a violation of QM.

> They are physical by virtue of metaphysical assertions about what does and does not exist, ie. the axioms.

Well, yeah. The whole idea of "physical" is itself a metaphysical assertion. We could be living in a simulation.

> A preferred foliation can be derived from the wave function in Bohmian mechanics. You can arguably do without one.

OK, that's news to me, but I don't have time to read that paper right now. I'll put it on my reading list.

[UPDATE] They want $40 to access that paper. If you want to send me a copy I'll read it, but I won't pay that much for access to one paper. Sorry.
The US population that has lived here 3 generations or more is shrinking, and thus trend also applies to Europe and Japan. Even China is looking at a future population decrease. Turns out these forced population decreases are not necessary.
Comparing a pure js implemention to code using opengl or webgl, I imagine several orders of magnitude difference is likely.

But a decent js implemention of 3D graphics-something would use one of the available tools for such applications. Making the difference considerably smaller.

Or is you experience different?
Usched: Stackswap Coroutines Update
I remember mine (a Pentium 2 with a SCSI disk) would go off at 6 AM, just as I was about to fall asleep (aah that student life). One day I had an aha moment, that I could change the cron timer to make it run at 9am.
I meant for me, but also in the article I felt like there should be a bit more on that.
> But yes, you will probably have one naive engineer in the middle of all this saying “repetition is Bad(tm) so let’s factor it apart and build it programmatically!” oblivious to the whole system.

Sure, because organisations like ScotRail are notorious for being engineer led, and clearly have plenty of extra cash sloshing around that couldn't be better spent improving the actual rail service.
> Why not? Demand is inelastic, and people will be forced to pay it. Right?

You're clearly not engaging in good faith so continuing this discussion would be pointless.
What happens if you drop a Cruise car at a random place in North America it has never seen before?
OP here. In this particular case, for this particular line, traveling by car is roughly between a third and half the time it takes by light rail.

Most of the other lines that I know of are similar or slightly better, but there's a bit of a spread. I don't know of any that are actually faster.

This is a metro that wishes it was a coastal style metro, but is not on the west or northeast coasts.
Yes, normally that'd be fine. Usually in submissions I only edit a title for length, but in this case:

1. The paper's actual title says so little about the study or why it's worth paying attention to it that I felt it was completely worthless. Given what they say in the abstract they did, do you think the current title is actually appropriate at all? It doesn't even communicate that they were engineering viruses, let alone the 80% fatality rate outcome which is what matters most here.

2. I still do not agree that the title chosen was "editorialized". It neutrally and accurately reflected the outcome of their study, as stated in their own abstract. A headline is supposed to summarize succinctly what the article is about or says - the current headline just doesn't do that.

For anyone else wondering what this is about, the original title was (I think) this:

"Researchers develop Omicron variant with 80% fatality rate"

which is a correct summary of the research, that doesn't contain slant. The current one is "Role of spike in pathogenic and antigenic behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron", which appears to be selected to communicate as little as possible about the actual research.