skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are a attempt to replicate, in written form, the rhythm of conversation that is typically encountered when two or more people speak in person, face to face.

The "Ummmm" we see in the present example, expresses doubt in what was just said (written, really), and foreshadows that the statement to follow (from speaker #2) may be disagreeable to the other person (speaker #1).'

Similarly, it is not uncommon to find the word "Hmmm" as a preface to some statement. This expresses a notion of "I will need to think about this." But in some contexts, "Hmmm" can convey skepticism. In real-life conversation, people frequently exploit this ambiguity, as a clever way to signal that they are skeptical but will not state so out loud.
This feels like it could be true - I think dreams went to near zero for me around the time I started drinking coffee and tea consistently. But so much else in life was changing at the same time, it's hard to be sure.
For the young guys the experience of learning a new thing and playing with it is likely more valuable than for the guys that already had that experience a dozen times or so. It's not that older guys don't like new experiences, it that some experiences aren't new for them anymore.
The Dogs of Chernobyl
The Sony XM5 and Nuraphones both offer variable levels of ANC. The XM5s also show the estimated dynamic pressure as you're playing audio in the companion app.

Not nearly enough people talk or are aware of dynamic pressure and how important it is.

By far my favourite headphones are the Ultrasone Signature Pros - they're wired and non-ANC but very low dynamic pressure while being studio quality, truly fantastic headphones.
it's really easy to get access to the weights, I got access to them as a master's student with just a single very minor publication in the domain, and basically all my colleagues who applied did too.

there is no Aaron Schwartz thing here, a huge amount of of people will have them, someone was going to leak for sure
I could drop the batch size to 5, then the VRAM use seemed to be around 15GB. Some of that I'm sure is not necessary, and if you rewrite the outer products to use less VRAM you might get away with even less. Eventually someone will make a library so you can run it without extra work.
A popular YouTube channel recently recommended wearing Airpods with noise cancelling on the London underground because sounds routinely exceed 100 decibels sometimes.

Unless my understanding is flawed but the mechanical / energy potential is still reaching your ear drums, cochlear and in turn the hair cells. How would equalising the sound with an opposite sound help reduce the damaged caused here?
They look nothing like bicycles. Closer to a motorcycle or moped. If they count as e-bikes the definition is a bad one.
There’s anecdotal correlation between neurodivergence (such as ADHD) and a difference in how people take in and process sensory input.

I interpret this as ADHD developers who see hyperfocus are able to either tune down or ignore some of that audio sensory input. But the flip side is also true where they might accidentally hyperfocus on that specific annoyance/input.

Or to put it another way: some of our brains can do this already. But be wary what you wish in terms of unintended side effects.
Hearing loss is very serious. You know your body better than anyone else so don't be afraid to be its biggest advocate and protector. Nobody else will.

I once had tinnitus for a week after a concert and it was one of the worst weeks of my life, it felt like it would last forever (and for some people, it does). I had pristine, "golden ears" for audio engineering and was afraid about how much I'd be able to recover. I missed even the boring high pitched squeaks of doorknobs, faucets, etc. Everything was muffled. Since then, I've been wearing Etymotic earplugs at concerts (the few I went to).

There is research on proper restoration of the cilia (ear hair that allows us to hear), but we don't know if it's a "hardware" problem (these hairs), "software" problem (brain), or both, in what amounts. So it's far away (EDIT: if it's even possible at all...). Hearing aids are not something you want to fall back on. It's not like eyes with glasses and contacts. Be careful.
article author only seems to have a half understanding of the concept in the first place

> Sometimes you just can’t get the ketchup out of the bottle, but after you shake it, it becomes runnier and therefore easily gets out.

should say "as you shake it" not after, since the decreased viscosity effect only lasts as long as the stress
They forgot trailing zero. It should be 130 sq ft[1]. Looks like no window too.

[1] https://www.lifeatseacruises.com/pricing-and-cabins
If it was the buds maybe they caused temporary harm while the Apple ones are causing lasting harm. To date Samsung's innovations haven't been like Apple's butterfly keyboard. I have Samsung buds and they are pretty impressive but I think if they were more powerful it would be weird.
I am 47M and can relate to what you are feeling. U might be hitting Mid Life Crisis a little early. ( A few of my younger friends experienced it too)

There could be imposter syndrome where you feel like you do not deserve the good things which you have.

1) Take very good care of your health as you might start to disregard your body signals.
2) Weather this out using meditation. ( I used Breathing techniques called Pranayama ) Find if you might like a Vipassana retreat in Bangalore or perhaps Isha Foundation or whatever technique suites you.
3) Keep connection with School friends alive
4) If you did not get Married consider yourself lucky. It is fast loosing its appeal for long run and laws have simply not kept up with feminists in full swing. (Hormonal imbalance makes us think in wierd ways about opposit sex)

Hope this helps.
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When I repeatedly explain "No, that's not what I said, not even close.", that is not being pedantic.

My original post was less than 20 words with no intent to add any more.
Googling for lte qwerty gave me e.g.

https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket

maybe that's something for you.
I think the Great Wall is even further, unless you can dock in Pyongyang. Utterly ridiculous.
Hello Hacker News!

Asciify’s origin story begins with my attempts to use SVG’s more esoteric features like lighting effects and animations. If you’ve ever tried to make an animated SVG, you’re unfortunately familiar with just how slow they can perform even under modest designs.

Three.js to the rescue! Somehow their demos always ran at a smooth 60 FPS, and could render actual 3D graphics unlike the perspective-trickery I so often used in SVGs.

Despite the promise of a better tool, I was quickly humbled by a new domain of mysterious terminologies and fractals of OpenGL APIs. I still haven’t found a definition for a “normal” that feels intuitive. But I pressed on until I felt confident enough to put some simple scenes together. I tried some of the examples in their API documentation and discovered their ASCII effect.

It was pretty! And slow!

Maybe it was a feeling of gratitude or a sense of pride, but I knew it could be faster…and it only took me 3 weeks to crack the code.

It was simple at first. Their version used string concatenation. Could I use DOM nodes? Yes, but they’re slow to initialize. Could I use the same nodes and update their values? Okay that’s a bit faster. Maybe CSS grid could help with the layout. A marginally better FPS but what happens when I enable color? Slow! What if I make a diff from the previous frame buffer and do selective updates? Okay, now it’s fast but only on mostly static scenes.

The game changed when I moved my efforts to a canvas renderer. I discovered how I could pre-calculate each cell coordinate to optimize my frame rate, skipping the unchanged values. I could rethink how I perceived an array of RGBA values — height is just a derivative of width! And why are we using these expensive math operations when a bit shift could do the same thing? Let’s get rid of these string arrays and use 8 bit integers while we’re at it!

Did you know that Chrome’s Turbofan only optimizes `String.fromCharCode` when you use a 16 bit integer? Oh, the things I could tell you…

Eventually my efforts plateaued at a humble 30 FPS. The canvas `fillText` method is slow slow slow. This would’ve been the end, but I found a new inspiration while making the image upload demo. Drawing a single character is a lot like drawing an image buffer, so why don’t we pre-draw the ASCII characters to individual canvases? We could then call the much more performant `drawImage` method and consistently hit 60 FPS!

There’s more to this story that you can find in the Asciify source code, including the horrifying tales of reimplementing the color blending with alpha masks. The truth is that there are still optimizations to be found for someone brave enough to port this to WebGL. But I’m happy with the results and proud to share them with you.

I think that great artists can change how we see the world. Does that make coding an art? I certainly think so.
I think he's saying they're eating it up. I haven't bothered paying attention to business-type's face's in all hands when a business person presents, but I imagine they glow up at corpspeak. Those with more technical specialties are more likely to have a neutral reaction, or more realistically a pokerface.
It feels like it’s either a move of desperation or they’re just filling empty space and you’ll inevitably get lesser service and upsells everywhere.
This is typical

I am looking forward to the enquiry into capitalism lead by Jeremy Corban and informed only by British ex-steel workers
13 square feet? No.
When I started intermittent fasting and stopped eating after ~2 PM, my dreams became more vivid and felt longer.
If saving on typing time is the primary goal, APL is the way.
Looking around his site, he did write about Covid in China in magazines, one article in April 2020[1], curiously entitled "Life After COVID-19", and one in April 2022, during/after the Shanghai lockdowns.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/life-after-covid-the...

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/locked-down-in-shang...
"Left vs right" is just "Bread & Circuses"... well, maybe not bread
You have to sign up for three years though. Three. Years. That’s $100k and a duration that takes it out of the realm of “a fun thing to try” and into “too risky to contemplate” for me.
Persuasion basically. They can take any situation and make most of the room feel good and confident in the business. Good politicians do this too. It doesn't work on everyone, but it works well enough.
Beyond the financial concerns, this looks like the classic "solution looking for a problem" ... except it's found a problem and it still can't make it stick.
you can rent a vm on aws to run it
“Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Entrepreneurs giving advice
130 mate. https://www.lifeatseacruises.com/pricing-and-cabins Hilarious typo

The price is per person as well and you’ll be sharing as a couple. If you go as a single you will pay 1.7x the per person rate.
France, the UK, Spain, Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, I would say. All clocked at 250+.

Of course, we may split a lot of hairs discussing what "comparable" means. Certainly all of those were great powers, controlling distant shores and distant nations for long generations.
This was a really great and well-explained article. For an article that went deep into hardware internals, it somehow made it all make perfect sense. Kudos to the writer.

It’s pretty fascinating just how “dumb” the keyboard is and how keyboard input is actually being polled. It seems like this could easily lead to missed key presses or slow response, but I don’t recall the C64 keyboard suffering from either of these things. (It’s been some years since I last used a real C64 though.)

Yet, somehow on an exponentially more powerful and capable modern computer it seems that things like instant input response and no missed key presses is somehow asking for a lot.
ChatGPT on Your Data – Xata
There is no cure for hearing damage. Your body can recover from slight damage after a few weeks but generally trauma to hair cells, synapses and auditory nerve is accumulative and overtime they loose their ability to recover.

There's currently no way to regenerate these. There was a promising company attempting to do this and they recently announced discontinuation of phase 3 trials as their drug showed no significant change against placebo.

The drug was in development for almost 9 years before it reached phase 3 and failed.
> I work remote now and I love it, but for sales? Nothing beats meeting in person.

I'm remote, too, and I worry about that being an obstacle sometimes. I saw that Steve Blank article "Be Where Your Business Is"[1] linked here a month ago. I think, in my case, I'll have to start with virtual discovery calls, but at some point it'll make sense to start hopping on trains/planes and making in-person visits. One difference is that we're trying to help analysts, who mostly work at a desk in front of a computer - but I've seen conferences really work to accelerate relationship-building.

[1] https://steveblank.com/2023/01/10/be-where-your-business-is/
Isn't that the way most Westerns go on holiday anyways? Doing the same things at the same places like everyone else?
I used to do this to make life in the cube farm at Google tolerable. The advantage of construction/shooting earmuffs is that they also cancel out conversations really well.
Simular situation. For the mx4's they sound so much better when ANC is turned on rather than off imo. Especially the bass/lower frequencies.
Also the reason China will likely out compete the West at some point. They simply don't care so long as you don't criticize the The Party or make China look bad.
It couldn't work. 6 feet by 2.1666667 feet by 1 foot (edit: or any height, since it's sqft)? A normal sized adult person could not fit in such a space without breaking their shoulders
Looks like there's a discussion about running sessions in parallel here: https://github.com/wntrblm/nox/issues/544

I also think that would be a good addition, although most of the time I would probably still prefer to run sessions in serial, and parallelize tests within each session using pytest-xdist. That gives you fairly fine-grained control over how tests are distributed among workers, grouped either by test function, class, module, file, or arbitrary groups using a decorator: https://pytest-xdist.readthedocs.io/en/latest/distribution.h...
If you’re not poopin your pants, you’re not at rock bottom yet.

But… I have some experience. Divorced, remarried, work was shit. Couldn’t focus or concentrate and felt burnt out. Finally I go into the doc for help with dealing with the ex (omg stressful) and discovered I had a pile of health issues, including a tumor (not cancer) that decided to flood my system with a stress hormone. That’s been removed, but things aren’t back to 100%.

I was on TRT, but that was stopped recently cuz it turned my blood into gear oil (hematocrit levels in the mid 50s). It helped to a point, at least where I got the habit of going to the gym and being active again.

I suspect I’m low on growth hormone due to symptoms matching up, but I’m not the endo - that appointment is in June.

I’ve had to completely restrict distractions at work. The only IMs I let in are from fam or a few close friends. Non work slacks are turned off, etc.

Get yourself a good work up, check all your hormone levels. And get active. Walk, run, ride a bike, lift heavy things, whatever works for you. Just do it.

Don’t wait until you’re middle aged to find out your body is a wreck and try to fix it.
Look at a cruise ship as akin to a floating, polluting, germ-infested mall and I think you'll never have any desire to step foot on one.
I’ve done a few cruises and there’s nothing stopping you from doing your own thing. When we went to Korea, for example, we just had a driver and hit all the stops we wanted for the day.
>While everyone would love this to be true

Please speak for yourself only. Also, not everyone want bad things for others because of some hatred guided by politicians. PRC is no worse than the US - just different.
> Does this town exist because of the distillery?

More or less. Most of the economy there is related to the distillery and tourists visiting the distillery.
-d causes the other attached clients to become detached from the session. tmux, like screen, limits the size of the rendered window to the smallest presently connected. It happens that it forces a resize to match your current screen size, but that's not its primary purpose.
At many stops, “local” cuisine includes Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville.
Wishing for the brain chip too. I hate having my ears covered with headphones or clogged with sealing earbuds or plugs, but love silence.
I have tinnitus and AirPod pros and haven’t noticed any difference. I do find that not drinking out of straws or especially camelpak style bottles with straws really minimizes it. Also, more sleep, less tinnitus
I'd say "unsurprising" rather than "under control", but yeah, I think that's a big part of it. If it's slow, you have time to see and anticipate what's going on, even if you don't control it. It's the same with humans, really -- you feel better and safer around someone that has calm and slow movements than around someone that nervously jerks around all the time.
Tunguska was a lot bigger than a metre across. Even the Chelyabinsk meteorite was a lot bigger, 18 m diameter, 9 000 tonne. So if we cn detect 1 m meteors I think we should be able to detect Tunguska scale objects.
I quite enjoyed this blog post to be honest
thank you kindly - fixed
Moore vs. Harper: If SCOTUS rules, 81% chance they overturn the NC Supreme Court
"The Moore v. Harper case before SCOTUS asks to what degree state courts can interfere with state legislatures in the drawing of congressional district maps. Versions of the legal theory they’re being asked to rule on were invoked as part of the attempts to overthrow the 2020 election, leading to widespread media coverage of the case. The ruling here will have implications for myriad state-level efforts to curb partisan gerrymandering."

"[O]ur probability for a ruling against the [North Carolina Supreme Court] is 81%, very close to the base rate for state court cases before SCOTUS."

"The probabilities listed are contingent on SCOTUS issuing a ruling on this case. An updated numerical forecast on that happening, particularly in light of the NC Supreme Court’s decision to rehear Harper v Hall, may be forthcoming."
Thank you, haven't seen this before. Similar to LiveState[0] also

[0] https://github.com/launchscout/live_state
Yes, for those unfamiliar, the city used to contract to have waste oil sprayed on the unpaved streets to keep the dust down. (Hush Children of Summer, it was the 1960s and 70s, it seemed like a good idea at the time.) In 1972 their contractor sprayed dioxin contaminated oil, possibly unbeknownst to him and the people who paid him to take the waste oil, but he wasn't being all that careful. Again its the 1970s, the EPA was two years old, the Crying Indian ad had just come out, trying to get people to carry a litter bag in their 8mpg car instead of chucking their beer cans and bottles out the window was the big thing. You wouldn't walk barefoot in a park because of all the pull tabs discarded on the ground. Dioxin is not known to cause problems in humans at this point, though animal studies suggest it could be a thing. No one has studied it.

Meanwhile, 10 years pass, the EPA has connected the oil hauler to contamination problems in a number of sites. They take samples at Times Beach and the next day a 500 year flood covers the town. Dioxin is now listed as a human carcinogen, and the towns streets contain 50% of the dioxin contamination in the entire state. The EPA uses the newly passed federal Superfund to buy out all the residents. The town is sealed off from humans, but apparently that river can flood and carry things downstream.

10 more years pass… The EPA decides on incineration, build an incinerated, purify everything with fire. Problems solved. It's now 1997. 25 years from contamination to cleanup.

Bonus Context for Diligent Readers:

Low level dioxin exposure has since been concluded to not be a health hazard. No one in Times Beach showed signs of dioxin poisoning. The decision maker for destroying the town now says with current knowledge he would not have ordered that. There was actually no disaster.
I have used active noise cancelling headphones for almost two decades and have used them a lot. I have tinnitus but I assumed it was because I was drinking too much.
Yet somehow, "we" as the people not consenting still put up with it because we're too busy to make ends meet, of if we do, picking the next toy to distract us from reality with.

And when it comes to freedom of speech or gun laws, it's suddenly all about "muh freedom" and that we need all this in case the government turns rogue to defend ourselves. Which is absolutely true but at the same time, how much more messed up do things need to get to actually get us on the streets in masses and protest this madness? Probably as long as there is some third would country doing worse than us left somewhere on this planet, we can paint over this cognitive dissonance with some good old "at least we're not $county"
Thanks! There's a preliminary PR with a discussion here: https://github.com/facebook/hermes/pull/933 (and broader context here: https://github.com/facebook/hermes/issues/811 ). But we'll see if there's any interest on Hermes' side to merging it. They definitely want to improve the parser, but it's unclear to me if they want to take on the simdjson/simdutf dependencies.
Love me a good Scott Aaronson blogpost!

I go back and forth myself on whether I buy the austere interpretation. Mainly I struggle with the open question of probabilities. Something about the combination of probability and philosophical argument - the two most hard to intuit things in the world - makes my head spin.

Though there are also so many compelling advantages, like providing an arrow in time in that branches of the wave function never re-merge.

I'm also fascinated by superdeterminism. I don't have the same philosophical issues with it that others have. I settled on the "useful fiction" view of free will a long time ago anyway. But I've yet to see any logic supporting the idea that the entire universe would, or even could conspire in this way. But I also used to think many worlds was inherently illogical, so I don't know.

Then there's the voice in me that says "it's just a collapse, it just has to be when there's enough moving parts", but again, can't think of a justification for it other than intuition.

And now there's a 4th shouting at me "why are you thinking about this, you're a programmer". I guess I'm just wired that way, I can't not ponder the things I don't understand, no matter how irrelevant they are to my life.
Id be curious if anyone can prove or disprove if this is a full hallucination https://i.ibb.co/p4vyFrT/image.png and then it outputs this https://i.ibb.co/xhMK10m/image.png or https://i.ibb.co/FJLhdFC/image.png. other possible nonsense rooted in partial reality includes https://i.ibb.co/SPkq1H5/image.png https://i.ibb.co/jJL3nXP/image.png https://i.ibb.co/fQ9CH3f/image.png https://i.ibb.co/7y6sj8h/image.png

There also potentially appears to be a system.md/prompts.txt file that comes up regularly. It may or may not be a name of the rule file.
Does Cigna have gun-welding police force?
If you’re wearing headphones you have a physical object blocking external sound waves from reaching your eardrums. Kind of like wearing earplugs but not as effective, although properly fitted airpods pro probably come close.
Completely agree with you. I just googled "lake ontario shoreline" and i'm sure if you spent a few mins you would find multiple answers for the reason you specified.

I think shoreline also includes islands, so in lake Ontario's case.. there are a lot of islands and so my point is sort of washed.