skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excepting mass extinction events (impacts, supervolcanoes), have the conditions ever changed as quickly as are now?
I love this! It makes it trivial to route audio to/from any devices and programs. Does anyone know anything similar for Windows?
Isaac Newton spent more time turning lead into gold than mathematics. Time & money doesn't make dumb ideas good ones.

Bread needs water, flour, AND yeast to rise. Ain't gonna do much without all three.
> How genetically similar were the bacteria that caused the two plagues?

Genetic similarity is far too specific, but both plagues were caused by the same organism and bacteria species, Yersinia pestis.
Nothing fundamentally changed in the last few years AFAIK. I see no reason why it should rot faster. I've written things over ten years ago that work just fine today.

Client-side JavaScript is actually very compatible; see for example .at() to fix the [] subscripting behaviour (the reason [] wasn't changed was due to compatibility concerns; arr[-1] gets treated as arr["-1"], and changing it may break a script or two).
No cyclists though?
A full-grown bull moose can run up to 35 mph. So, unless you are traveling faster than that, I don’t think it makes a difference who hits who. ;)
Not for developers, it's much nicer for the users. There's a phrase "infinite headroom" which might make this a bit sharper.

With a conventional analogue recording medium, the medium has physical properties which impact the precision with which it can record audio. For example maybe the reel-to-reel tape recorders in a studio can do about 12-bit precision. At the bottom, the precision is cut off by noise, mechanical noise in the equipment and eventually even quantum mechanical noise in our universe which is unavoidable. At the top it's cut off by practical engineering limits - the magnetic field strengths are limited. A good analogue engineer ensures that there's "headroom" where if the recording is a little louder than expected it doesn't bump into that upper limit, when Aretha hits that note 6dB louder than anticipated, you had 10dB of headroom so it's captured OK. But to do this you're sacrificing that precision at the other end of the scale, listeners can't hear her turning the lyrics sheet in the background of the song even though you'd have heard that if you were in the room.

In digital integer space, we can have lots of precision, 14-bit happened early, 16-bit was soon common place, and today 24-bit is widely available (although you need to squint to see 24 actual bits, don't think about it too hard). But, the integers are brick walls at the edges of that range. If you set things up to use all your (say) 16-bits and it comes out hotter than expected, your data is trashed because it saturates † producing a harsh clipping. So you need to carefully set the headroom to give you as much space at the top as you need, but without wasting too much. Stressful.

With floats you get infinite headroom. Conventionally PCM audio is represented as -1.0 to 1.0, but in float space if you're "too hot" by a factor of literally 1000, it's no problem at all, floating point numbers can go from -1000.0 to 1000.0 just fine, and when you're ready to actually listen to it, just multiply them by 0.001 (this is called "gain" in audio).

† Or, if the programmer doesn't understand what they're doing, it wraps and sounds like complete nonsense. This is common on 1980s home computer audio setups.
Bitcoin Group Weighs Bid for 268-Year-Old Bank in Germany
What useful thing do those smart contracts achieve in practice? The only place they have authority over is their respective blockchain. They are powerless in the real world, always relying on some centralized entity to sync real-world state with blockchain state, but doing so inherently throws away all the benefits of running on a blockchain, so you may as well just let the centralized entity run a good old database and call it a day.
Evolution doesn’t have a great memory, we used to live in the ocean and now drowning is a real threat. Plenty of land mammals have gone back to aquatic living but they don’t regain gills so they still go back to the surface. The transition from feet to fins also took a very long time.

So yea massive changes over 50 years means mass die offs and even extinctions. Assuming we eventually stop introducing massive changes and in 5 million years aquatic ecosystems will be fine, but we care about the short term.
That sounds like a problem with Android or Android Studio. Two years really isn't that long of a time, and I don't really see anything in the world that really fundamentally changed in that time.
"The New Ronco Spawn-o-Matic! Just point it at your aquarium, pull the trigger, and shazam! Gametes everywhere!"
Not doing favors at all. This lowered my impression of the Princeton brand.
It’s also the worst investment ever - if the same money was invested in solar farms and research, we could have actual world changing energy sources right now.
> ... that is inadapted to its environment, fragile.

No. The "environment" of modern humans now includes modern medicine. Of course, if this aspect of the "environment" changes after awhile again, they would be more fragile than the current population in this respect on average. But the same is true for any (ancient) population confronted with new contexts. There is no fundamental difference between man-made environmental changes and natural ones.
Moving to a different node (or even a different fab of the same node) requires significant engineering effort. Meanwhile, we are talking about chips which cost less than a dollar.

Heck, some chips even cost way less. For example, Diodes Incorporated's 74LVC1G06FZ4-7 currently sells for $0.016 in quantities of 10.000. It's an absolutely trivial component logic-wise, so there is nothing to gain by shrinking the die. In fact, due to the current capabilities and ESD tolerance shrinking it would make it worse. Chips like that are never going to move to a different node - they will be produced until the fab breaks down or becomes unprofitable, at which point the chip is discontinued.
If the reality of the events were later proven, yes you would.
Just played Yakuza: Like a Dragon and the NPC animation there as well as the animation and art style in general looked better in that game than in this clip.
Personally, I found the internet more exciting when people were allowed to use naughty words.
https://www.chocolate-doom.org
I'm glad that you seem to get the severity! I'm just hesitant to ascribe malice.
I'm not American, but I doubt I would have gotten MS were it not for terrible diet, stress, lack of sleep, various deficiencies at the time of diagnosis but also during childhood. Also had a very bad bout of mononucleosis when I was 10 (while also being malnourished), so these things can go quite far. So I think my nervous and immune systems were always frail.
> The plague bacteria of 550 AD was probably not completely identical to the one in 1350 AD either.

Both plagues were caused by the same bacteria, Yersinia pestis. I don't see how being "completely identical" would matter, only that it was the same species of bacteria.
SimConnect SDK in Rust
I've just released a SimConnect SDK in #rustlang that encapsulates the C API fully and optimizes for developer experience. I'd love to get feedback on the DX and on what features I should add next.
Because it’s cheaper to make bad dolls than do motion capture for everything
A lot of games have wind effects, with moving vegetation, particles and fabrics for example.

Whether or not it appears in a game will usually be dictated by budget: both hardware budget (usually dictated by the current console generation) and budget for content creation.

A scene like this probably leaves it out because they felt like they could use that budget better elsewhere. There are a ton of characters walking around this scene, and also a ton of geometric detail and texture detail. I am guessing the directors for this scene felt that was more important to allocate budget to, for wow factor in those areas, rather than subtle wind effects which would probably go unnoticed in a game where you spend very little time stopping to appreciate the trees and flowers.

edit: I have to take that back: actually if you look at the full resolution video it's clear they included subtle wind effects, as well as details like falling leaves
What part of what I wrote do you think you're disagreeing with ?
It's definitely no joke! When I hiked half the Appalachian Trail and eventually made it to Maine, a shuttle driver that came out to pick us up from a nearby hostel talked about how he'd lost several friends to car accidents due to moose collisions. He was intensely interested in arriving back at the hostel before dark.

He also had some sort of decoration made out of moose scat decoration hanging from the rearview mirror and was also trying to convince us passengers of the many uses of moose scats - skin remedies, even ingestion. But that's another story!
The crowd/background sound in general sounds nothing like walking around in Amsterdam. Small thing but it really stood out to me.
First of all that doesn't matter, because people trust what DNS does regardless of whether it claims to be secure or not. I've never seen anyone or any software distrust a DNS response unless they already know what it was supposed to be. The only exception I know of is Let's Encrypt, which does check DNS responses from multiple sites around the world to verify that they're the same, something which isn't really a security guarantee, it's just a heuristic. And which practically nobody else does and which normal users aren't capable of doing.

Furthermore, what we build on top of DNS and which is supposed to protect from DNS attacks and does claim to be secure, like the CA PKI system, actually depends on DNS to be secure (which it isn't) in order to obtain the certificates. Not to mention the CA PKI system also depends on all certificates authorities in the entire world to be well-behaved.
Although not an implementation, Vernor Vinge's book Rainbows End (2006) had personal AR that would overlay reality to their users' wishes, including ads.
I don’t understand all the nitpicking done here. I’d say it’s extremely fun to what how tech progresses! Great work all involved!
Medium sized companies (100-300 engineers) usually have really excellent work life balance in my experience. Remote work has made meetings a bit trickier - try to find an employer who aims to have folk in nearby timezones.

This is definitely possible, though.

Regarding on-call: Work for internal tools teams at companies that aren't really worldwide. Internal tools teams, either developer or business facing, usually don't have much in terms of off-hours on-call. On-call expectations are determined more by the product you're delivering than the company culture.
That part is realistic - the only part which is not is the lack of people shouting at them to move
I suppose you meant to write that: a FMA instruction rounds only once at the end, but both the Multiply and Add instructions also round once each = total two times.

BTW. Some MIPS processors did have a FMA instruction that did round twice. The compiler was thus able to fuse instructions without the code giving different results. This was deprecated in later versions, however.
If we are listing games with bikes in them I feel that we should also mention the 1985 arcade game Paperboy ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboy_(video_game)
Smart phones have completely transformed access to information, finance and services in poor countries. Would a UN SDG focussed research agenda have prioritised technologies that enabled that, such as 4G, high density batteries, tiny low power SoCs, etc.?

Often, the future use of scientific study isn't obvious until many years or decades later. Wouldn't this just result in prioritising scientists who are good at writing funding applications that make BS claims about how this area of research will reduce global poverty? We already see quite a lot of that.

It seems to me that the most impactful technology rarely comes from SDG focussed research.
Understandable, he doesn't want to see "What have you accomplished this week" replied to him every time he tweeted anything.
Moving to an entirely plant based diet has made all the difference in the world for me. It isn’t a cure, but excellent nutrition makes a HUGE difference.

Eating entirely plant-based can also be done very very cheaply if you’re careful.

Walking or other gentle exercise is essential - it’s hard. It hurts. But it WILL slow down the progression of the disease. Keep moving!

Do some reading about your legal rights - if you have a diagnosed case of MS in the United States, you have all kinds of ways of protecting yourself from job termination. If your HR department isn’t evil, they should help you here. If they are evil, keep careful records of everything so you can sue the crap out of them if they fail to protect you as the law requires.

Don’t give up! It’s a disease, not an identity. Don’t let it define you or control your thinking.

You’ve got this.
What makes you say that NIMBYism stems from redlining? I've always assumed that NIMBY feelings naturally occur in any society because people dislike change. Under that theory, NIMBY has always existed and always will among those content with their lives. Redlining is a particularly toxic outgrowth of NIMBYism, as I understand it -- a lot of rich property owners saying "no" to folks who don't look just like them living in their neighborhood.

I don't think NIMBYism is inherently undemocratic: in most cases, it has to work through (semi) democratic means, like elected officials.

NIMBYism has an impact on democratic representation sometimes through gerrymandering, though. Maybe that's the connection you're talking about?
Reference Counting in DynamoDB
Yeah, FMA is really just one operation.

Except when it's time to boast about FLOPS. Then it's always counted as two operations. :-)
The GIL gets even more complicated than that because it can also be released during CPU bound tasks that don't interact with python objects (e.g. Array operations in numpy)
It’s reassuring to hear stories like this to know it’s possible.
It's the same main author, I think. He writes the Qtractor DAW, too.
Yes I'm quite weary of Spain, I lived there for 25 years! I am also wary of it since it's in the wrong timezone :)
The next tier of mediocrity
No ML. We templated some common architecture patterns and placed things in the world.

I wish I could show you our internal demonstrations of it. Basically we would plot the map in snowdrop using GIS, then raise cuboids from the shapes on the map. Then we would manually try to match google street view with something in our template library, and modify the object to match reality.

It was a very manual process, but we based the map on the real thing so distances should be 1:1.
America’s Chip War with China May Already Be Lost
We always have this discussion in these threads. There should be a HN wiki for these things. It's not just a name because it does measure true progress over time. We should just use density of transistors per area because that is increasing at the same rate as the name of the process is decreasing. It's just been done in other ways than just shrinking every feature. This article is about one of those steps in the design of the transistor that allows for that density increase. That 3 nanometers is not a feature size doesn't mean that it's "just marketing" either like it's often claimed. The process node scale does measure true progress. It's just unfortunate that we ended up with feature size instead of density for that scale because of historic reasons.
There used to be such tools for DirectAudio, but that is deprecated(but in Windows style, never abandoned). Not sure about the newer framework.
So they neglected their properties for decades and now about to fix them for free?
The figure cited was 30% of 2 years’ worth of sales of a segment of the market (SFRs) going to investors. That might be a net total of a mid-single digit percentage of the total market.
And of course Sir Isaac found time to fit alchemy and mathematics in between the daily activities of subsistence farming. Oh wait ..
There is enough demand for tech workers that you can more or less tune these kinds of things.

I would suggest talking with a recruiter about what you want and they'll probably come back with it in short order.

Lots of tech jobs with no overtime or OnCall.

Management tends to be a little different there. If you want to work fewer hours I would suggest technical roles over management roles.

For starting your own company many people find they work quite a lot. I've met people who run fairly casual side businesses too though so I won't say it's completely inevitable.
This is just a GUI for the underlying Pipewire sound software, which is what the applications actually talks to. I don't think you get something like that on Windows.
> croc's biggest failure is that it doesn't really do NAT hole punching, so you're limited to the speed of the relay.

I'd like to test this. Can you give me an example of a program that does do NAT hole punching for file transfers?
Art direction trumps tech in games for a while, now. This is just well lit, well researched and compression artifacts smooth out the details. Character's eyes are still kinda dead, animations fidgety, screen space reflection artifacts if the "reflected" area isn't in frame, etc, etc. Definitely no different from the average "realistic looking game" 5 years ago and probably, yes, even "high end graphics" 10 years ago. Things are slowing down.
Elm-UI – A user interface library and framework for Elm
NPC motion is where I think graphics technology should be focused. Environmental detail is more than sufficient. It's actually now an uncanny valley because the environment looks so realistic, and it is jarring to see unrealistic human movement. It pops out a lot more and looks way out of place.
Let me go off topic a bit here. I've never seen a scene in a game as realistic as the footage provided in this tweet, and I say this as someone who has been gaming all my life. I am not even a fan of CoD, don't even play those types of games. As a Dutch citizen I was simply happy about the fact that they were able to recreate Amsterdam in such a beautiful way.

Full of excitement I've opened the comment section for this post and what do I see? The top comments are full of negativity about how the waves in the water don't look right, the sounds of the footsteps are not squelchy and there are artefacts in the rendering.

Why is HN so negative about amazing things? I get that we like to provide constructive criticism, since we are so passionate about technology. But come on guys, this is just spewing hate at the level of some cesspool internet forums I will not name. Be better HN!
Do people not know what real life looks like anymore ?

Not even a second in the video you can see some weird artefact through the car windshield, the lighting looks completely off too

What fools us is the low res + motion blur, pause the high res video at any point and it looks like a video game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LlSR6-ibA
It is not really profitable to build FAB's in the US at all with the regulations, labor problems, and 100 other things

CHIPs act and other government initiatives changes the profitability calculation since the government is paying a large part capital costs
I forgot about the dairy part - also dairy free.

The brain fog can sneak up on you. Try to keep a journal of everything you're eating and how you're feeling. It will help you notice issues and track them down.
Unless it’s a timing based leak..
If I understand your problem correctly, you could iterate through the elements disabling one at a time and checking whether the bad outcome still occurs.

Assuming this works, it should be optimal: if you’re only getting a binary outcome at each step, you’ll never do better than lg(2^n) = n.
The government with jurisdiction over the tigers would be filing the lawsuit against the poachers for misusing common goods (killing endangered species), not necessarily the purchaser.

Because most libertarians are not anarchists, and because statism encompasses all sizes of governments, statism can be compatible with libertarianism. However, people who want to abolish government altogether cannot be statists, and people who support government expansion to an excessive and unnecessary extent cannot be libertarians.
Its one of those presentations I come back to and re-watch every now and then, wish there was a 202x version of it.
Plus the fact that the Tories have been busy criminalising protest.
In Ireland we had a huge bruhaha over our Tánaiste (a high up in government) being "terrorized" at a protest in Jobstown.

For weeks, headlines across the country talked about how she was "trapped" in her car "for hours". She was "terrified"! Protesters were brought up on serious criminal charges over this incident of "kidnapping" and "forceful detention".

High ranking police-people testified on the stand that her car was unable to leave the area due to the protesters, for hours.

Then, it came out - leaked on social media - that video footage from multiple angles proved beyond doubt that the incident had been completely overblown.

In fact, she could have left at any time, with plenty of space behind her car. All those police sergeants and the Tánaiste herself were lying out of their teeth.

The response from Irish media was to try and put restrictions on social media. They ignored the story for a while, then a few years later printed stories about her "recalling her trauma" at the protest.

So yeah. This was a high profile incident with an entire country watching - imagine what they do when the accused is 'just some professor or journalist or whatever'.
What would be a "good project" though? The way I see it, smart contracts have no power on the real world and thus always require a centralized entity to sync real-world state with blockchain state.

Not only is it not always possible (what if the blockchain states that a certain house belongs to X, but Y is currently living in it - do you have the legal authority and/or a team of goons to forcibly kick out the current occupier?), but it throws away most of the advantages of using a blockchain if a centralized entity is ultimately responsible for applying (or not applying) the blockchain's wishes.

At that point, why not just run a database, thus no longer being a "crypto" project.

There are legitimate businesses that can be done all on-chain but I find the space to be very tiny. There's only so much people can do entirely on-chain (as most business, not to mention people, live in the real world). Even something like sports betting would require an oracle to feed real-world sports results into the blockchain for the betting smart contract to do its work, at which point the oracle can just run the betting site directly (and publish data augmented by Merkle trees if transparency is desired).
The water is too pretty and un-dirty in general.
Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole [video]
That is more or less what Transmeta did (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta#Code_Morphing_Softwa...)

The “without any drawbacks” part never panned out, though.

It also is fairly similar to what Apple has done with emulating 68k on PPC, PPC on x64, and x64 on ARM (but those, AFAIK, do not offer full emulation of the host CPU, as they don’t need to run code in kernel mode)
It is absolutely possible, you just need to find company/team with an established product that is not trying to mimic a startup. I work 8a - 5p M-F, and have done so for over a decade.
Here is a survey [1] from October of 2022 or just the graph [2] as that page has some odd CSS menus for me that block half of the page. This page uses an additional source. [3]

[1] - https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-surve...

[2] - https://news.netcraft.com/images/2022/10/wss-share.png

[3] - https://www.stackscale.com/blog/top-web-servers/