skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem i see in the dark forrest theory is the "interesting information" inwards growth. Basically, most of the external universe is boring, slow and drip fed to a ever faster progressing species. At some point its just to static "up" there, and most of the civilization turns inward towards the "infinite" fun space.
Ahh yes, had not thought of that. So when I added the link, substack embedded the player. I think I can remove it and replace with a normal link.
Part of what makes Destin's videos so good is his obvious and pure love of learning. Do I care how to measure a microsecond of a mechanical shutter? Not really. Even though I'm a photographer, who cares, that tech is long gone. But he is just so excited to learn about these things its truly infectious.

Also helps that he's covered some awesome topics.... like Coast Guard jetboats, nuclear submarines and Saturn V rockets.
I remember trying to play with a web framework (z something?) but it felt half baked and the documentation was fairly lacking, for example.
More anecdotes! I use the AirPod Pros many hours a day and have mild tinnitus. I find the noise canceling makes me more aware of the singing in my ears. I don't live in a place where silence happens, but the cancelling will kill the outside noise enough for me to remember that the ears are always singing to themselves.

For people experiencing loud noises, be aware that if the microphones can come loose, then they can get weird transients from vibration, shock, or even the sound being driven through the AirPods. The original AirPods were subject to that, I had mine replaced once and when they came loose again stopped using them. (Gross note: the original ones made me more subject to disgusting things happening best left unmentioned when used many hours a day. That was most of the reason for not getting them replaced again. The new ones definitely breathe better and don't cause me trouble.)
I assume AI generated metaverse would have to consist of some kind of "markup language" describing the data-structures that make up the metaverse.

But markup language is still about computation, describing the computation needed to render the metaverse. Then while the AI can easily generate syntactically correct markup, we can't easily specify what we want that output of that computation to be.

Perhaps some entertaining random game-worlds? But is that really useful for anything? Some entertainment yes, but how will it actually accomplish something useful, is my question.
If you don't set a volume limit on your iPhone, it will damage your hearing. Apple has a mode to do this, and I've set mine at 80 decibels and rarely have the volume all the way up. The iPhone can output over headphones at 100+.

The smart move is to get headphones that fit well that naturally dampen outside noises and to set your volume limit judiciously.
> from your comment i am pretty confident that you are around 19 years old... you need more experience and personal development before you could begin to understand this topic

And from the first paragraph of your comment, I didn't read the rest of it. Have a nice day (or don't).
And there i was thinking, that would be done by rotating a black hole/ neutron stars x-ray jet towards a offender.
Thank you for the feedback! I identified the root cause of the bug and uploaded a fixed version.
In my personal experience, inner monologue can vary within an individual as well. Some days mine is similar to what you’ve described (“me hungry, want lasagna” - love it!) but other times it can be 2-4 voices all debating a topic from different viewpoints. They’re typically similar to one another but different enough to know which is talking, sort of differences in tone/pitch.

“Monologue” might not be the right word at that point though? I guess it is all me, so the dialogue is a monologue.
Can you please explain the pyenv usecase a bit more? Let us say, I needed Py3.6 for something - I can just use virtualenv with appropriate flags to install 3.6 tooling. How does PyEnv help further.

I have read often pyenv helps maintain different version of python on same system. But if that is also possible by virtualenv/venv what am I missing?
I started getting spasms of my tensor tympani muscle around the time I began using AirPods with noise cancellation. Could hear it clearly and had a doc visually confirm.

Correlation not causation, but weird enough that a stopped using them.
I have been hesitating to buy headphones with ANC after noticing similar anecdotes in reviews[0][1] of the Sony Wf-1000xm4.
As a blind person my ears are super-important to me, and I am pretty sure that something's going on here with most ANC today. This feels like it's gonna be a big deal here in a couple years with some form of class action.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sony/comments/vl3cpb/wf1000xm4_and_...

[1]: https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-reviews/R2E9LQN575IFWB?ASI...
Why does Signia exist when there's mobx?
I have done this with APP2’s on noise cancellation while running a leaf blower. Pretty amazing, just can’t use hey siri.
Recommended read by David Foster Wallace: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi.... Read if you'd never like to step foot on a cruise again.
Between music, podcasts, audiobooks, zoom calls, etc. I’ve spent probably years of my life with earbuds in. Maybe sad, but definitely true. I’ve expected some noticeable hearing loss or tinnitus the whole time, but haven’t developed any yet. This is anecdotal, like the original post.
Because being bullied means being included!
I think a major problem is that people don’t trust Facebook. I think another company could pull it off.

It’s always a bad sign when you feel like you need to completely rename your company.
I drove by your building a few years ago and thought it looked great amidst the scenery. I like that you were able to convert it, thanks for sharing
Me too, I feel something pressing my eardrum. I can't use noise cancelling.
There are also Etymotic earbuds. I swear by them for listening to music in noisy environments such as the subway or airplanes. They cost less than ANC They do a much better job of reducing ambient noise -- I can keep the volume to a whisper even in environments where having a conversation is uncomfortable. And there aren't any batteries to worry about keeping charged.
Why would these super advanced aliens need Tesla? They can just target whatever themselves.
I have an internal monologue. After accidentally dropping a spoon full of ice-cream on my shirt, I ruminated on what it would take for me to look at that event as the catalyst of an abrupt change in the trajectory of my life.

Then it's a flutter of little shards of partial thoughts one after the other, trying to solve the A* from shirt stain to self actualization. Then I went and changed my shirt.
I highly suspect wearing mx3s in my home office with needless noise cancellation on during the first 1.2 years of the pandemic gave me tinnitus... Esp paired with a barely perceptible capacitor wine from a printer. That probably enter frequency is about where my tinnitus frequency is. I don't use noise cancellation anymore. Switched to some Sennheiser game ones ... Noise cancellation was useful in the office... But home office is silent

I'm betting there will be some huge class actions
> China is in a state of terminal decline and closing off to the world, barring any huge macro trend reversal (CCP loses power)

While everyone would love this to be true, I've been hearing this shit for a decade.

I'll believe it when there are Islamic dronelords rampaging through the hinterlands of Sinkiang province, neo-steppe cyberwarriors laying waste to Peking, and Elon Musk has a territorial concession over Shenzhen.

That's what a proper true-blue "China collapse" scenario looks like in the 21st century, accept no substitutes.
Socialize the problems. Privatize the rewards. Its like socialism, but in a handstand.
>That means wages have equalized in every country, which is a good thing.

maybe climate changes makes lots of hotter countries unlivable.
Similar concept but more oriented for embedded development: https://www.heise.de/download/product/bitfummler-70589?hg=1&...

It includes a C interpreter and is very handy when manipulating registers.

Unfortunately not open-source.
Your 12yo will look at Asian chicks a lot differently after Ex Machina.
Liberty carries risks, but most people understand that the promise of safety in a nanny-state is a lie.

You have the same (if not more) risks but have lost your personal liberty to boot.

The social contract has always been a balancing act between the most benefit for the most people, and the ability to enjoy life as you see fit.

I find it disheartening how "cool" it has become in recent times to attack the fundamental concept of liberty.

It's like, folks feel like it's ok to reverse hundreds of years of progress on liberalism just as long as it's their tribe that's in charge.
This is very interesting. I've noticed my tinnitus has seemed to be worse as of late. I exclusively use AirPods Pro. I wouldn't say I listen to loud music, but I'm wondering if the noise cancellation could have something to do with it...
I thought the specific purpose of a helicopter headset was noise isolation, given the high noise levels of rotorcraft.
But why did they choose the replace Conrad by Austen instead of replacing Hemingway or Kipling. Both Hemingway and Kipling are more controversial in certain circles (for Hemingway, cf. the Ken Burns' documentary, for Kipling, he is a jingo imperialist). As far as I know, critiques of Conrad were done in the 80's and never really stuck.
So, no, it does not make sense: if they wanted to remove someone controversial, they would have started with Kipling, then Hemingway, then Conrad.
I am not sure if I’d prefer fewer libraries (of alleged higher quality) or more libraries in a rotting state.

To be completely honesty if I had to pick a smalltalk to start messing again I’d pick pharo again to go with the most popular implementation.
Opera mini 4 and 5 supported a bit of JS.
This is very true. Relative is currently converting 4 story office building into apartments. Weirdly enough much of the space has been vacant since around 2018-2019. Not sure how much it has to do with the area but I think small businesses in general have started to lean away from office space as technology has gotten better.
The Fallacy of AI Functionality
Tell HN: Duolingo (NYSE: DUOL) disrepects your privacy and dislikes questions
After a mandatory signup for a Duolingo account, anyone using their iPhone and Android (and possibly web) apps can add you as a 'friend', without requiring any confirmation from you whatsoever.

This is mostly just annoying and might be considered 'typical growth hacking', but also constitutes a privacy risk: your 'friends' are notified whenever you are online, have completed a number of lessons, or whatever. The Duolingo privacy policy (https://store.duolingo.com/pages/privacy-policy) is obviously a cut-and-paste job (for a NYSE-listed-company, really?) that doesn't address concerns like this at all.

In the Duolingo app, you get notifications like 'your friends congratulated you on 14 days of being online' and, more worryingly, 'XXX congratulated you on completing 10 lessons today'. Nevermind that you don't know who XXX is, and can't do anything about notifications about your online state being sent to them. Even if you have removed XXX as a 'friend' from your in-app Duolingo profile aeons ago.

So, there is a 'privacy' option in the Duolingo app. This apparently (again, pretty much without notification, much less consent) requests a ZIP export of all your data (FYI: I'm in the EU, US experiences may differ). Which takes up to 30 days (Sure, ZIP is not the most efficient file format, but that slow?)

But, at least there is an email address: privacy@duolingo.com (pretty much the only contact details you'll get as a fully paid up Duolingo customer). Sending a very polite email reply to the minders of this account about the continuous harassment by 'friends', however, is a mistake.

You will not receive a reply, but your paid Duolingo account will be disabled pretty much immediately. Leaving you, I guess, to sort things out with Google/Apple/your credit card company.

'Typical growth hacking'... Oh, joy...
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Technologies: mostly agnostic but specialised in: web platform, mobile, R&D/emerging tech, product dev

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I had the same question. I also just stick with venv with diff py versions. What does pyenv give that venv doesn't? Similarly when you are used to a venv + pip why poetry?

Oh in all this I now see nix nudging it's way in and I am feeling a bit anxious I a missing out on something!
There no reason incoming and outgoing air have to have the same pathways. Fans that suck out inside air will not bring in outside air. This is pretty basic stuff. Your inlets can have absolutely no filters on them and the fans sucking out the air will maintain a pressure differential that makes sure the inlets will mostly only let air in.
> Ummmm

Serious question, because I see it so often: what are these fillers meant to achieve?
Surely you'd run a script as part of your task to make sure it was all set correctly? This just seems like a bad setup.
Wow, look how much of that is the IGP.

I get it, some dont want a dGPU and they cant justify the design costs of a smaller IO die, but it still seems like a waste.

Just imagine if that whole block was LLC instead.
I've a couple of years of experience of using Kotlin. In many ways I loved it, and it would have become my JVM language of choice but over time I've started feeling uncomfortable about recommending it.

The language is completely closed and controlled by a single commercial software company and there is no community process involved in its evolution and design. I had believed that this business model of programming language design/ownership died decades ago when everyone abandoned all the bespoke commercial languages/IDEs of the 1980s and early 1990s. The way Jetbrains have scuppered the attempt to provide a reasonable vscode plugin feels like reliving the 1990s where the single company providing the language spec, compilers, IDE and tooling for "their" language and aggressively prevented others from providing alternative tools and compilers.

Also compile times are horrendous - even with modern hardware, the compiler barely seems to be able to manage much more than a few 1000 lines/sec. Again, my age means I remember decades ago when compilers/IDEs advertised their performance in terms of 100,000s of lines per second. This means edit/compile/debug workflow is very painful once your project grows to non-toy sizes.

I also grew to dislike the ethos of the "community" which basically seemed to involve condescension and passive aggressive responses to to any questions regarding the design of language features particularly by Jetbrains employees.

Kotlin is undoubtably a more "modern" feeling of development than Java (or C++ for example) but I'm not sure such vendor lock-in is worth it given many other languages are catching up (including Java) or exceed it. Also I used C# for about a year subsequently and realised that Kotlin stole most of its best features from C#. Languages like Rust, Zig, Swift, etc. are just as "modern".
I love my AirPod pros and I just leave them in for hours with ANC on because they are comfy and it’s nice. Depends on the day if they get uncomfortable, but no issues here.

I’ve rarely had the “pressure” people talk about with ANC so maybe some are just predisposed somehow.
Half-way there to 600 VDC traction power!
Back in the day you could do off the books phone tapping with a set of alligator clips, a capacitor and a memo recorder. If you didn't want to do it yourself you could just get someone else to do it, preferably someone who works in a large central office (with or without phone company knowledge). The result was not usable in court, but it would save you immense amounts of time sitting around figuring out what criminals were doing.

Things like Stingrays preserve the capability of off the books phone tapping. This sort of capability is very important for things like drug trafficking where none of the people involved are very likely to file a police report. So I suspect that the attitude of the law enforcement people involved is that they have been asked to do a job that is practically impossible without this capability.
I come back to it occasionally. I'm no longer interested in an extremely slow grindy turn-based game, but it turns out that the game isn't actually all that slowly paced and games taking 12 hours when I was a kid was just because of how I played it. IMO the gameplay never feels dated and it's still a candidate for the best game in the series.

Visually it benefits a lot from being at the very end of the 2d era rather than the start of the 3d area. The HD patch makes it work at modern screen resolutions, and as long as you don't mind pixel art it's really quite good looking.
And if you are not aware of the monkey mind, then it is likely you are often under its invisible control.

Becoming aware is the first step. Then choosing which thoughts to pursue and which to shut down or replace is the next step.

Then after enough times of shutting down a particular thought, such as “I’m not smart enough for (this whatever).”, the negative suggestion stops appearing.

And if you are replacing the negative thought with something positive, such as “I can learn anything, and I build good things.”, then eventually you believe this. (And your life experience seems to confirm this — or whatever you are thinking often).
Interesting same thing happened to me - a very strange sensation. I was using Galaxy Buds every day for work and have since stopped using any earbuds and the issue has pretty much gone away. Can’t say for sure it was the buds but… felt correlated enough that I’m wary to use them again.
Maybe if you have that many emails and 3G only and can't load a backup for some reason.
That discussion yielded interesting debate and I would conclude the results as being inconclusive at present. Also yielded other projects doing similar work.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10121
No, it’s the opposite actually, when it works. Sound is just a pressure wave traveling through air. By outputting a diametrically opposed sound wave, you’re zeroing out the pressure. Noise canceling, when it works, lessening the pressure hitting your ear. If it really want to learn more, just look up YouTube videos on destructive interference.

The problem is that it isn’t always able to do that perfectly so it could situationally increase the decibels for very short times.
This is a terrible idea.

Traffic in one dimension is bad enough. In three? It will make traffic congestion worse in every way.

Cannot hear it until it is 200 ft away. And if there are a dozen in a 200 ft radius, deafening.

Rich people flying over poor people making their lives even worse. What horrible selfish technology

I hope this fails horribly.
There are plenty of places on dry land that are a LOT cheaper than 30k/year. Probably would be more comfortable too.
hmm, well everything is just something to do. This helps me because it's great discovering magic, but it's sad when it goes.

the magic is not specific to the thing like programming. so you lost the magic, it no longer compels you. i suggest thinking about the why behind the why. why did you get into programming? for me my why behind the why is "i like to make things". it's more nuanced, i learned html and css cuz i wanted to make a website for a t-shirt company i was also "making". HN is big on entrepreneurship; it's because a business is just something to make with a lot of upside. most technical people are "makers".

i'm intentionally riffing, no direct advice. Ask yourself more questions about why you see magic.

btw: after 12 years doing software, much magic is also gone. another commenter mentioned what a shit show js frontend is. What you're feeling doesn't get better lol. Rather, we can reframe our perspective and appreciation. I still code and still want to make a business. but hell no i'm not the 23yr old i once was. and can only do a few hours a day. The world has lots of magic in it!
Re: your username You might enjoy the new alternate history of Project Azorian that Turtledove just came out with[0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Miles-Down-Harry-Turtledove-ebo...
That's fair enough, but it's very weird to start criticizing people when they actually start to acknowledge the problem. Surely that's the time to start applauding them?
Book as occasion for essay is a great genre of essays though.
Speeding up the time critical parts with Cython or Numba or ... is rather easy.
For that price, I would happily sign for all those services for a room with sea view. That would be a dream.

But if the room is on a big noisy, vibrating vehicle consuming lot of fuel and I’m not allowed to go walking/cycling outside in the forest, the dream become a nightmare.
> the "personhood" of what people generally find to be implausible bullshit generators

If this was the dividing line for personhood, many human beings wouldn't qualify as people.
I’ve been using ANC headphones basically 24/7 for years.

I enjoy the silence. I wish in the future there’s a way to do this via a brain chip or something and maybe even selectively completely filter out noise.
I have worn mx4s for 4 years in my home office for over 10 each day with noise cancelling. No issues.
They already had tinnitus but it was never quiet enough for them to notice it. When you focus on other sounds it just kinda fades out.
It's funny to read your post because I was pretty much in the same spot as you a "few" years ago. So you know what I did ? I dropped out ... I didn't do the 6 months internship ... And I'm still paying the consequences of that choice.

Finding a first job was a nightmare and I've been stuck in helpdesk for more than 5 years now. My advice to you would be to finish your darn Master degree no matter what. Whether you decide to complete it this year, or next, finish your degree. I'll add that the professional environment might be a welcomed change of pace and you might enjoy it more than studying, so go into the internship with a positive outlook.
What an interesting piece of writing! Even after you think it's ended, he starts writing about the food he had. It's inspiring me to pay more attention to the little things in life (like having interesting meals so I can write/talk about it later...).
Automation of telephone systems have been rule-based and unable to communicate with knowledge bases. An AI-powered automation system that have access to knowledge bases... now that's a different story.