skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wonder why they take this approach though, as it is clearly over-engineering (if I correctly understand that the goal is just to make vocals volume adjustable).

Depends what the other non-functional requirements were. i.e. if the NFRs were as follows:

* Cannot increase bandwidth / mobile data usage.

* Cannot impact music quality / bitrate.

* Has to work offline.

* Cannot increase on-device storage.

* Has to be responsive.

Then two audio streams might not work.

Another advantage of doing it on-device is that it doesn't actually change any of the backend architecture too. It might be a lot of change to a lot of systems for a feature which only adds a small amount of functionality - i.e. architecting your entire backend and streaming around seperating audio tracks might not be the right focus.
I was very active in my local dial-up BBS scene in the mid-late 1990s, when I was a teenager. I even ran a dial-up BBS. Outside of school, I estimate that I probably spent more time online than socializing with my friends IRL. (In real life.)

BUT: I have much more vivid memories, and better bonds, with my friends. This is partially because we spent a lot of time together in school, and because we actually bonded.

Although I had online friends, and I took the time to meet some other BBS people IRL, I never developed any real bonds with them. One of my very active BBS users attended the same college as me. We met a few times, but never rekindled our online bond.

This made me realize that my online bonds are more like a hobby than a real lifelong friendship; much like at-work friendships that fizzle out after a job change.

Needless to say, a few years ago I generally dropped out of Facebook; the hobby (Facebook) was getting in the way of my relationships. The people I care about either don't post on Facebook, or Facebook seems to make me angry at them.
Microsoft launches Discord-like communities in Teams, users organize groups free
100%.

So much more practical to hack around and or build small apps.
What can cities do to survive extreme heat?

The best answer in my opinion that is unlikely to happen would be to modify building codes and standardize 3D printed modules that can be easily and quickly be put under-ground. An old example of this is Coober Pedy in Austrailia. [1] They have extreme heat but do all their working and living under ground where the temperature is constantly low all year long.

3D printed modules could be designed to be water/air tight, made from recycled materials, and in many cases entirely carbon neutral. Individuals have already been doing this for some time manually with great success. There are thousands of examples on youtube of such implementations.

Standardize this, make it super easy to implement, make all plumbing and wiring standardized world wide and this could make homes affordable to many more people. Make it modular so people could upgrade room by room as required. Use crane hooks so that a large excavator could easily life out any individual room. Seal the home in something that is easy to remove but acts like an earth insulator.

It does not get greener or more carbon neutral than this. Most air conditioners would be a thing of the past and heating can be done through solar, solar inductive, convection, heat battery walls, etc... This would also free up tremendous power capacity on the grid for EV's.

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-coober-pedy-australia...
Your example proves my point. Sort by best seller, you'll see neon bright frogs to neutrals.

People calling things trends among [generation here] meanwhile it's always been popular are quite frankly absurd.
> Great apes have capitalism.

in what way?
It seems to me that the US Government can get impressive things done if they set their mind to it - as examples, consider their prowess at things like propaganda and waging war.
not everyone agrees that your capital allows you to deserve our attention
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That's why I said "without firing a shot". Yes, a full-on invasion would most certainly be complicated. But the war excercises China is conducting are done for the purposes of intimidation, getting concessions before it even comes to that.
> "spiegel.de and bild.de have the main article behind a paywall. They don’t do this for important news."

As a side note:

This seems to me a weird business model, why pay for unimportant news?

Wouldn't it make more sense to bring important news behind a paywall?

Can someone explain? Thanks!
ChatGPT knows better!

> ChatGPT isn't being clever at all here, just repeating a common superstition

Source:

#include <stdint.h>

int64_t midpoint_ChatGPT(int64_t a, int64_t b) {
__int128 sum = (__int128) a + (__int128) b;

// Shift the sum to the right by 1 bit to divide it by 2
// and get the midpoint. This operation is equivalent to
// sum / 2, but is more efficient because it uses a bit shift
// operation instead of a division operation.
int64_t midpoint = (int64_t) (sum >> 1);
return midpoint;
}

int64_t midpoint_rep_lodsb(int64_t a, int64_t b) {
__int128 sum = (__int128) a + (__int128) b;

// Shifts are for the superstitious.
int64_t midpoint = (int64_t) (sum / 2);
return midpoint;
}

Clang -O2 output:

_midpoint_ChatGPT:
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
movq %rdi, %rcx
sarq $63, %rcx
movq %rsi, %rax
sarq $63, %rax
addq %rdi, %rsi
adcq %rcx, %rax
shldq $63, %rsi, %rax
popq %rbp
retq

_midpoint_rep_lodsb:
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
movq %rdi, %rcx
sarq $63, %rcx
movq %rsi, %rax
sarq $63, %rax
addq %rdi, %rsi
adcq %rcx, %rax
movq %rax, %rcx
shrq $63, %rcx
addq %rsi, %rcx
adcq $0, %rax
shldq $63, %rcx, %rax
popq %rbp
retq

GCC -O2 output:

midpoint_ChatGPT:
endbr64
movq %rsi, %r8
movq %rdi, %rax
sarq $63, %rdi
sarq $63, %rsi
movq %rdi, %rdx
addq %r8, %rax
adcq %rsi, %rdx
shrdq $1, %rdx, %rax
ret

midpoint_rep_lodsb:
endbr64
movq %rsi, %rcx
movq %rdi, %rax
sarq $63, %rdi
sarq $63, %rcx
movq %rdi, %rdx
addq %rax, %rsi
movq %rcx, %rdi
adcq %rdx, %rdi
xorl %edx, %edx
movq %rdi, %rcx
shrq $63, %rcx
movq %rcx, %rax
addq %rsi, %rax
adcq %rdi, %rdx
shrdq $1, %rdx, %rax
ret
This article feels so very out of touch, like a car enthusiast telling parents with 4 kids that their minivan should have a manual transmission since it's a better driving experience.

It gets the whole situation backwards: it blames the modern audience for not wanting to take the time and money to go out to the theater unless they get a theme park-style spectacle.

In other words, the article is blaming the customer. How dare they look to their Internet-connected 4K television in their living room to get Oscar-quality storytelling? How dare they turn to long-form television story arcs to deliver deep character development rather than Oscar-winning directors who pack it all in to a two hour movie made to be watched in a sticky theater?

The article laments that things aren't right in the world when Steven Spielberg can't draw a theater crowd. Well, Steven Spielberg is an old, wealthy man now, and he is making movies for himself, not for the kind of audience that made Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park massive successes.

The Fablemans might be a good movie, but it's still at its core a piece of Steven Spielberg fan service. It's the deepest of the deep cuts. If you didn't know who Steven Spielberg was, The Fablemans is supremely skippable.

The article continues on to describe a theater environment where the vast majority of Oscar contending movies are financial failures, but to me this is the natural evolution of film as technology advances. When you look at things like 4DX, IMAX 3D, and the kind of advanced sound systems you can find in theaters, it's quite obvious that the most beneficial movie for that experience involves action-packed escapism. Yes, it is a mini-theme park, that's what people want, and that's okay.
It's not that people only go for theme park rides, they'll also go for "kino" movies. That's why Tarantino can still do it. His movies are all about completely immersing the audience in the movie's world and making use of tech and techniques that make for an epic viewing experience.

No one wants to go to the theater for a "basic" (maybe intimate?) movie where the cinematography doesn't really matter, the sound and visual effects aren't interesting, there's no grand cinematic vibe, etc. Don't get me wrong, it might be a great movie, but why would I want to see it in theater instead of at home?

People will go to theaters for Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey, not for Life Is Beautiful or The Pianist.

A more modern example: I'm really stoked to watch The Whale, but I will absolutely watch it at home. I don't see any point in going to the theater for it.
So it's funny you mention that. I own a couple of decidedly retro machines from the 90s, one runs DOS and the other runs Windows 98. These are used both for gaming and for productivity, both are equipped with solid-state drives as of late (I still have the original spinning rust.)

Both of these machines are many times more responsive than any thing put out in the last decade despite being thousands of times less powerful. The applications they run are made to serve my needs as a user 1st. It gets out of my way. The user interface is clearly designed for the mouse and keyboard I am obviously using. It is made to help me accomplish tasks more efficiently rather than stroking some designer's ego or chasing some fad. Most of the software I use was released "done" rather than released half-baked with the hope of future updates. I don't have to worry about having my privacy invaded.

It's not rose tinted glasses when I'm not wearing any and can look behind me and see the color. Modern mass-market technology is "worse is better" writ large.
I'm intentionally using extreme examples of people who are highly committed to the scene they have embedded themselves in just like TFA interviewed the most extreme members of "internet people" they could find. Take a minute to think before immediately reacting with your anti-bias bias.
Well I wish you luck, it is a good cause.
Both the scope of companies fined, the trade of fines and the size of the fines are potentially orders of magnitude too small to even come close to keeping pace with the greatest violations.
Unicode has all kinds of weird exotic characters that are still considered part of the Latin script. Though diacritics are generally more common.
One of my favorite subscriptions is Regal Unlimited. ~$25 a month and I can see as many movies in theaters as I want. Going to the movies is still something I do pretty often, and it’s certainly one of my greatest joys.
Polycentricity: A Simple Rule for Governing Indian Country [pdf]
Abstract: Champions of capitalism and right-wing theorists of culture typically blame American Indian reservations’ economic woes on tribes’ historical aversion to market principles and on present-day federal policies that impose socialism on them. These arguments suggest capitalism as a simple rule to improve prospects for economic development in Indian country. We argue that the simple rule is not capitalism but polycentricity: greater tribal autonomy to choose the rules to govern tribal economies. One of the legacies of imperialism is that the primary governance challenge in Indian country today is that relations among the tribal and federal governments are monocentric, with Congress asserting nearly unlimited authority over tribes. This reduces the ability of tribal governments to experiment with rules to improve tribal economies and tribal governance more generally. Thus, debates about capitalism or socialism in Indian country miss the mark. Progress toward a more meaningful polycentric governance regime is especially critical because of the complicated nature of the economic challenges on many Indian reservations.
Telegram has been used by opposition and protestors in Hong Kong, Russia, and Belarus. Where are the reports of arrests based on intercepted Telegram messages? Russian police force people on the street to show their messages, but that kind of rubber hose attack is the same for all chat apps. Are there any police investigations from democratic countries where the investigators used Telegram communication in a prosecution?

I haven't seen anyone show that Telegram uses bad encryption. I've seen plenty of people repeat the "don't make your own crypto implementation" mantra, but just like the "don't optimize prematurely" truthism it's not always true. Where's the exploits?

And then there's another reason, most communication isn't particularly sensitive. Dinner suggestions, memes, thoughts on the latest season of The Crown... I chat about the same things that I talk about on the unencrypted phone "line", or at a cafe surrounded by strangers. If Telegram turns out to be unsafe, I wouldn't have any issue with continuing using it for everyday stuff, and using a different app for secrets. Compartmentalizing is probably a good idea anyway, I use my real name on Telegram with my family.
You're right, instead of using hyperbole to emphasize their point they should have just highlighted how every human being is complex and nuanced instead. Surely that would have done it.
> When you hire an expert on a subject, listen to them about the subject.

When someone hires an expert, they hire scapegoat to take all the blame for their mismanagement. As expert best you can do is to fix as much as you can, before shit will hit the fan.
Joshua Bloch did a great post [1] on how nearly all standard library binary searches and mergesorts were broken (as of 2006) due to this exact issue. The punchline is that the bugs started cropping up when the need and capability to sort O(2^32) element arrays arose.

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
Show HN: Vimkey – A browser extension, Use the keyboard to control the browser
Use the keyboard to control the browser, navigation, scroll, open new pages, trigger click button, etc. reduce your reliance on the mouse & trackpad.

Support Chrome, Edge, and Safari (macOS, iPadOS, iOS)

No collect any private information.
> This severely limits the kind of composition you can do.

UNIX-the-kernel just says the operating system is the wrong place to enforce data schema - the operating system's job is supporting the notion of users, processes, and abstracting I/O so each process can use I/O without stepping on each other.

UNIX-the-userland is awesome because it's fast, but you are right. But, if all UNIX processes basically have to link to a libc, there is no reason why some efficient object serialization/deserialization library that's better than parsing argv/argc can't also occupy that position - other than we don't know the best one yet.

Could put one in systemd, or maybe sqlite should be part of libc /s.
The boost safe_numerics library (c++) has support for this (up to a point), in addition to detecting overflow at compile or run time.
UPS always damages my packages or marks then delivered days ahead of the actual dropoff.
I didn't expect Figma to be so ahead of their competitors (as represented by this survey):

Survey respondents: 4,260

Most Popular UI Design Tools (Which software do they primarily use for UI design?)

- Figma: 3105

- Adobe XD: 263

- Sketch (Mac only): 241

Most Popular Digital Whiteboarding Tools (Which software do they primarily use for Digital Whiteboarding?)

- Miro: 1327

- FigJam: 1137

- Figma: 487

- Mural: 136

- Whimsical: 87

- Adobe XD: 56

- Sketch: 35
San Francisco reverses approval of killer robot policy
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Pick a few from there?
> Shall we make the same argument about cars? Should cars gradually introduce you to mechanical and electrical engineering?

you need a driving licence to draw cars. Now there are some BMW and Audi drivers who never touch the turn signal.
I prefer books which have rating of at least 4.2 on Goodreads and 1000+ reviews. Higher the better.

Interval is sporadic. If I think it is urgent, then order it immediately, else keep in Amazon wish list and buy when there is a good discount or during sale. If physical copy of the book is expensive, then I consider kindle edition if kindle version is much cheaper.
> In the past few years, the governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have both made a rather bold commitment: They will soon use the Latin alphabet to write their respective Turkic languages.

Oh... They didn't do even basic fact-checking, like, spending five minutes to check Wikipedia page for Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan made a decision switch from Cyrillic to Latin back in 1992, and it already went through three different iterations of Latin alphabet on the way. The 30-years transition period officially ends 1 Jan. 2023, but de-facto a lot of things from education to official documents are in Latin (or have both Latin and Cyrillic versions) for at least 20 years.
I wonder if at some point, with solar and batteries on most houses, we'll make the switch to DC power inside the house. Maybe with some low voltage wiring (lights and such) and high voltage wiring circuits (other appliances).

This way we avoid the loss of converting from DC to AC and remove most of these issues entirely. Sure, a lot of appliances wouldn't work in DC power, specially appliances that have motors in them, so for those we can have the DC to AC unit.

Same thing for generating power back into the grid, just have one of these converters strapped to our house output/input.
Sounds like people applying to thousands of positions based on only keywords to stay competitive.
In other words, a worse outcome for us.
OTOH by transcribing those older works to the more widespread Latin script, you'd also make them a bit more available internationally.
TIL that my `.xsession-errors` file is ~16GB. Thanks, `ncdu`!

(I should probably look into this...)
I don't think so. Neither would I support offering different compensation to someone living in an apartment than I would someone living on an expensive waterfront in the same metro area.
The total data that the page will have to load on startup (probably using Fetch API) is:
- 74 MB for the Whisper tiny.en model
- 240 MB for the GPT-2 small model
- Web Speech API is built-in in modern browsers

cool but im now wondering what it would take to bring this down enough to put this in real apps? anyone talking about this?
> I think it's not unreasonable that we are sort of early to the party. Earth has existed for about 1/3 of the lifetime of the universe

Universe begins
| 9.2 billion years
Earth formed
| 0.5 billion years
First life
| 0.5 billion years
First photosynthesis
| 3.0 billion years
Enough oxygen in air for macroscopic life
| 0.5 billion years
Now

The main work was:

(1) Supernovas creating heavy elements. At first, the universe is all hydrogen (and helium). It takes some generations of stars forming, and exploding as supernovas to create and spread around heavier elements, so that a planet like Earth can form, with all the minerals we have. Do we need 9 billion years for this, or could there have been planets with heavy elements, how much earlier? Is Earth among the first possible?

(2) It took 3 billion years of photosynthesis, by single-cell microbial life, to produce and accumulate enough oxygen. First the oxygen released into air would go and oxidize the minerals on Earth's surface. Only after the whole rocky surface was oxidized, would oxygen start to accumulate into the atmosphere. Somewhere around 10% or 13% atmospheric oxygen, it was enough that also other than flat, single-cell-layer multicellular macroscopic life could start to form, without the inner cells being starved of oxygen. 3 billion years of repetitive, grunt work by the microbes. (Then it took 0.5 billion years of evolution from the Cambrian evolutionary explosion, to humans.)

Compared to these two, the other steps took much less time.
Actually, if you look at the graph in the article, you will see that the 747 would have probably been cancelled around 2006 already if it weren't for the freighter variants. From 2006 to 2012 they only delivered freighters.
"Chinese pinyin is a good example - not only is it only an approximation of the actual sounds"

I think you have misunderstood something. Reading the pinyin without the tone markers (or worse, as-if it was English) would be an approxmiation (and tone sandhi isn't written), but otherwise it is what the characters sound like. How do you think kids in China learn Chinese today?
Before Napster the music industry also had its gatekeepers: the recording companies: EMI-Odeon, Polygram, RCA, Warner Music, ...

Online music piracy destroyed them but then it created other gatekeepers: spotify, iTunes, YoutubeMusic...

This is just one anecdote, but I still don't believe we'll ever have absolute freedom of information. One way or the other gatekeepers sneak in.
It would seem that the frequency and synchronization could be solved by referencing both to the atomic clock, which is a time signal available most anywhere and via methods that are not grid dependent.

Perhaps it is not accurate enough.
How the James Webb Space Telescope captures images of space
What? None of that makes any sense.

There’s been no chatter about Apple buying up or hogging wafers. Nobody is preventing others from building ARM based machines. The M1 and M2 chips are proprietary to Apple and so be it; the Asahi folks are allowing us to run Linux on them at full acceleration. What’s not to love?
> I like touch

Wait until your fingers starts complaining.
Yeah that's an interesting idea. If we were destined to get off our planets and stars systems why are there such strong gravity wells hampering our ability to do so?
>"It just looks wrong" is the best I can come up with, but I think it's that they tend to lose detail along the way.

Depends on the source script. For Cyrillic->Latin the changes are minute. Most characters have a 1:1 mapping.
I wear hearing aids, so I use q-tips every day after I shower to dry and clean my outer ear. Never had any problem with wax compaction, but I have scratched my ear canal which resulted in an infection a couple of times. You have to be gentle, don't grind away like you're brushing your teeth in a big hurry.
Here is the actual link

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instag...

Techcrunch is useless.
Theoretically, they can install it and try to login with your current phone number.
This comment might be one of the most valuable in the whole thread. Confidence is very sought and valuable. Combine it with resources , it is what women seek.

For the parent of the post, try to introduce a potential partner to a female friend. Study the questions she ask and the ones she don't. It will reveal to you what she seeks and what she already has, or what don't value now.
I use WinDirStat on Windows

https://windirstat.net/
The last sentence I wrote agrees with what you just said. The great writers are rarely good sources of tech commentary and even moderately decent tech contributors are rarely good writers. I’m not sure what you’re trying to start here but it’s not working.

I called out the authors because they aren’t some big (or even small) tech contributors turned journalist. They might be great writers but they aren’t providing very good commentary on tech from a knowledgeable tech insider perspective.

This journalism sucks pretty badly; it’s frankly bad for tech and it’s bad for journalism too. I wish I hadn’t called them out by name after some reflection based on your comment but I was frustrated with the article and it is what it is.
> That people (i don't support them) trust Telegram showing us it's secure.

No, if some people trust some service, it doesn't mean that this service is secure.
Egypt’s New Ministry of Defense Complex Looks Like Alien Base from Space (2019)
Software is always the problem: https://youtu.be/3TFz1xqp3us?t=175

When will they learn?
The video is also embedded at the top of the page, front and center and 100% obvious.
The ability to pause, rewind and get up to go to the bathroom changes the experience for the worse. You just don't have to get serious about watching a movie anymore. You don't have to prepare to settle down, be quiet, and focus.