skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Much more appealing is passive sonar, which works by listening for the sounds naturally created by underwater vehicles.

Experts in marine biology. Reminds me of the night vision camera the british military were showing off on BBC Countryfile program. Who would have thought the military are experts in biology, but probably explains why the brits took off sunglasses in Iraq when talking to people, but the US didnt. You should see the british scarecrows as well!

> Instead, the battle of submarine silence has mostly revolved around obscure technical problems of fluid dynamics, since one of the loudest noises made by submarines is the cavitation around the screw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_propeller
Difference in cavitation.
https://youtu.be/k0yzBTTqfzs?t=436

Dont know if these toroidal propellers scale up to submarine sizes, they keep them hidden under an large oily rag along with the front of the subs.

> did the Navy withhold information on the detection from searchers out of concern for secrecy

Location of sensors maybe, after all something like the titanic will attract treasure hunters, why wouldnt interested govt's deploy remote sensors to detect who is in the area? Submarines make it easy for crew to be kept in the dark on missions as not many can use the periscope or other sensors.

I read somewhere once that a sensor, sonar or hydrophone, in UK waters could detect the sounds come from a New York harbour, which gives an insight into the distance sounds can travel underwater, but considering all the noises that can be detected, having sound processing abilities, a little bit better than something like Dolby Noise Reduction, is the key part of the underwater arms race.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/15/listen-t...

https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-sub-search-what-are-the-s...
I think it’s pretty common to be drowning in both emails and meetings.
We have, and it's Got The Spirit, but it's still not the same. It's just so much more verbose, so much noisier, and has so much less compiler safety. You don't get things like non-eager evaluation or effect tracking, your stack traces become much messier, and your open source dependencies are still in plain JS.

Overall, we found that fighting against the language this way was the worst of both worlds - you paid a non-trivial cost and did not gain enough benefit. But our original codebase also predated TypeScript (remember TLDRLegal? That's us!), and much of our TS was bolted on after-the-fact on a pretty significant existing codebase that was written in very idiomatic JS. A team with more resources to do technical refactoring (we were quite small and very focused on building product) or starting from scratch may have a different experience.
there are similar mini-trucks e.g. in Italy with left-hand drive, which could simplify import/usage
It's pretty clear to work out what happened from the timeline listed: RIGOL didn’t do shit.

The style the author chose to list the timeline is IMHO the most faithful, honest, and polite way of communicating it without adding wrong or legally problematic reasoning to the situation, from their perspective.
Agreed. I think the fact that it was just "scalions" adds to the credibility.
However, in a number of AI threads, it seems like so many commenters are wearing the hype goggles when it comes to this technology.

You should have seen the crypto threads about five years ago.

People — especially people on HN — want to believe that technology can solve humanity's problems. It can't at this time. And it won't in our lifetimes.
LLMs - Perfect? No. Useless? Also no.

I agree that many commenters here are on the hype train, but you need to recognize that it’s possible to be on the anti-hype train as well.
Melody 0.19.0 – A language that compiles to regular expressions
German was and remains a common foreign language in Yugoslavian, Bulgarian, and Polish schools. Even if people might pursue English especially in their own time, they still often get German at school, which in turn equipped people to emigrate to Germany. The impact of German on the society of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria has been so strong, it’s not uncommon for a traveler to be greeted in German first even by young people, and only then will that person switch (or try to switch) to English. You make bold assertions, but other people here can see you don’t have any actual familiarity with the wider region (or even how ethnic-Hungarian schools in your own country operate).
The president orders a massively impactful change and various processes in the company work to make sure it is safe before launching it. Sounds fine to me.

If the president were told "this is risky, we have to verify that nothing will catch fire if we store it for more than 3 months" (or similar) I'm sure they would have agreed to proceed with caution, but still treat the matter as high priority.
I think it depends very much on your use case and what you expect.

My girlfriend is a judge, and sometimes we ask ChatGPT about some judicial problem for pure entertainment. To me as a law noob the answers sound absolutely convincing, but she always starts laughing and points out that the cited laws don't exist or the exemplary cases never happened.

I, on the other hand, work as a software developer and use ChatGPT as a discussion partner to get a better understanding of problem and solutions spaces. I don't expect ChatGPT to be correct but gladly take any inspiration or argument and use it to improve my own thinking process. And for this use case, I consider GPT4 absolutely invaluable. It's like a polite, knowledgeable, never busy, untirable colleague that is ready for my questions 24/7.
> HTTP triggered cloud functions are my new favorite thing.

What exactly are you talking about? Request handlers in HTTP servers? Function-as-a-service cloud computing services? Plain old RPC?
WormGPT: Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using for Hacks and Phishing
A cybersecurity firm recently uncovered a new generative artificial intelligence tool called WormGPT that is being utilized by cybercriminals.
I think the real issue is that if your game loop is so complicated that the average gamer cannot discover its mechanics by way of whatever play through you've designed, then you may have fundamentally failed to design a good game. It's possible your game is some real-time 4X Dune universe simulator and your audience is expected (and happy) to read 1k+ pages of tome and pass a written exam before they are even allowed to purchase it. But, I suspect probably not.

I feel like OW1 nailed the approach. Instead of forcing the player through a hand-holding experience with every character in the game (because god forbid someone play off-meta), they simply put the essential information regarding each under a common hotkey which you can view at your leisure.

I think if you can't fit all of the relevant information regarding what I need to know regarding the current context of gameplay on a 1080p viewport, then the game might not really be a game anymore. At a certain point, these turn into jobs with regard to complexity.

The Design of Everyday Things is just as applicable to game design as it is the design of doors and cars and light switches. I don't need to go through a 30 minute tutorial every time I buy a new car because they all follow similar human-oriented patterns. The cars themselves can be wildly different in many aspects, but I can still quickly ramp myself to a point of understanding without having it shoved down my throat each time.
Absolutely. It's has all of the drawbacks of developing on a closed platform, plus the APIs are unreliable.
I don't need your help imagining use cases; I've been in this field a lot longer than you, and have talked up the technological possibilities of AI-powered TTS here for *years. I understand the technology very well and am bullish on it. What I'm saying is that too much of the effort is being spent in solving the wrong problems. Please try reading what I wrote instead of your imaginary subtext.
Before code review:

// fires the missiles.
// Spongebob case (and extra underscores) makes it hard to accidentally type.
void FiRE___MIsSiLeS(); // !!!!
// be careful!
void fire_missives(); // posts a witty tweet

After code review:

void fire_missiles(); // fires the missiles
void fire_missives(); // posts a witty tweet

Code is more uniform, zero downsides!
> so offering bitcoin wrapped in an ETF presents the opportunity to these investors to get exposure to crypto valuations without getting exposed to crypto hacks.

Every few years I hear about a bitcoin ETF and it seems like even worse of a scam than holding cryptocurrency directly.

Clearly I’m too dumb (or too smart?) to understand how an ETF can tie itself to the value of bitcoin without also including a freely available redemption mechanism. Does it? If the value of my shares is equal to 1BTC (or whatever other cash out threshold), will they send Bitcoin to an address I specify? Is the ETF fully backed by bitcoin in a publicly auditable fashion?
The reason for that is the same reason why TFA advocates for skippable tutorials: the average gamer today has less time on their hands than 20 or 30 years ago. When I was a child, I would only be able to get a new game every 4-6 months, and I would have hundreds of hours to pour into each game over the course of those months, so I didn't mind having to spend quite a while to get into it. Nowadays, my play sessions are more like 2-3 hours twice a week or so, because adult life includes a lot more obligations than my teenage life back then. Given that I have less time to devote to this hobby, I have a higher desire to make every minute and every hour count.

That's not to say that I don't like a game that rewards me for figuring stuff out. But it should be actually significant stuff like a puzzle solution or how a certain place relates to a certain event in the world's history, not stuff like "I just died 10 times because I was pressing A when instead I should have been pressing RL+B which the game never told me was a thing I could do".
This goes to show just how superficial and backwards the American car industry is. You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup using a machine that is half the size of a Honda Civic, costs $10,000 new, gets 40 MPG, fits in any parking spot, is easy to load, and sells for around $10,000 new. But they look weak and girly.

Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.
This writing is so clear and good. I can't tell you how many NYT articles I read where the paragraphs feel out of order, chopped up and there is no consistent flow. This reads very enjoyably.
So by that chart, a barrel of oil is basically 89% used to generate gasoline, distillate fuel oil (diesel), hydrocarbon gas, and jet fuel. That is to say, 89% is used for energy and 11% or less is used for plastic, asphault, and materials. That 27% industrial figure on the right chart includes things like propane production, which is mainly used as a heat source (nuclear could absolutely replace this).

Either way, if your economy is dependent on oil exports, whether you were to lose 2/3 of that or 9/10 of that business, you're going to be hurting, and you might not rush to refactor your economy around nuclear.
Sodaplay. It's sadly dead, and was reliant on external servers.
I think its more of a systematized rentiership rather than fraud. There's no difference between local ownership and private equity except for the level of systematization.

With that said, I do agree that we've rewarded this form of rentiership and also enhanced the barriers to entry for other forms of private ownership (like a partner owned firm). This is in place of value created as a source of wealth, which the tax system has entirely devalued

The whole practice of a LBO does seem like a fraud almost. I dont understand how a buyer can "lend" to the purchased firm without bearing actual risk perhaps I don't understand the mechanics there fully
GothamChess - 10-Minute Chess Openings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmbU97iftC8&list=PLBRObSmbZl...
In the PNW these are absolutely everywhere and for good reason - they're exactly what most people need when they need a truck bed for hauling capacity. Plus, many are 4/AWD and have relatively high clearance so they're great adventure wagons for forest roads and getting out there.

If a manufacturer made a truck similar (or slightly larger - not much room for people 6' and over in them) available for the market here, I'm sure they'd sell well. Seems like the biggest impediment is the safety laws here though and American insistence on having the biggest vehicle on the road.
The author mentions not wanting a Ranger or Tacoma, but I still think those are better options especially considering the drivers position…

Even better is a 80’s/90’s full size 2 door pickup. Same size as a modern Tacoma/Ranger, but with payloads comparable to todays F250’s. Throw in working AC, airbags, and a wealth of cheap replacement parts and it’s a no-brainer
I wonder what supercavitation sounds like
Definitely do your research if you live in another state, a growing number are refusing to register Kei cars at all. They know what they are, they aren’t baffled when you try, they just have rules against it now. No surprise, this is largely because many states’ DMVs source their regulations from the same org.
> You can bet that people that fly these planes without a license also don't spend the time and money to get a radio license; that automatically prevents from flying to or from a towered airport.

I don't think having a radio license will keep you from flying into a towered airport. I worked as flight instructor in the southwest US, out of a class D under a bravo shelf and flew in and out of class B, C, and D airports all over the US just a few years ago and I've never held one. I worked at a busy 141 school. It wasn't and isn't required for anyone I worked with.
Purge with fire. Got it.
Ask HN: How to find Commercialized FOSS projects?
Looking for a fun company to join. Inspired from [this](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32862672)
> You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup using a machine that is half the size of a Honda Civic

No you can’t
I think it’s harder to go 80–100 than it is from 60–80.

I’m both cases, you need to stuff the same volume of additional air into the tank, but in the 80–100 case, the resistance to the stuffing is higher.

At least I think that’s how it works. Assuming spherical cows and an ideal gas.
How does this interact with the norm of commercial vessels responding to distress calls at sea?

I know distress calls aren't at all the same as search and rescue, but in some incidents both phases must occur.
Joe sounds like he's the producer and the developers are sick of his dumb ideas?

Source: experience of being a developer in the games industry lol

edit: I checked, he was the lead designer.. aka producer.
Something being illegal means you can’t trade it legally.. so that doesn’t make sense.

It’s like saying what age can you legally smoke? OK there’s a legal age for smoking and cigarettes aren’t banned. Then you’re asking what age can you take illegal drugs? You can’t, they’re illegal.

ETFs usually consist of legal equities, bonds, currencies, real estate, commodities.
That's not really how it works, though. The line `if(dont_know) {make_shit_up()}` does not appear in the source code. It doesn't know it's lying; it doesn't know anything!

You could train one to appear terribly uncertain, but it would still 'lie'.
“Facebook is for old people”

The younger desire demographic doesn’t want to be on the same platform as their grandmother.

Do you really want to depend on video platform that may not be around? Serving video costs a lot and investors don’t have the appetite to poor money into startups like they did even two years ago.
> the focus seems to be on only the publications from traditional publishers, like these...

All of these are entertainment publications. I'm really not too concerned with how it's paid for, whether its ads, subscription fees, or a Youtuber doing it for free. The news I worry about is the eat-your-vegetables sort that is valuable for society, but few people actively seek out. Public funding doesn't work well because its subject to political whims, ad funding doesn't work because it doesn't drive enough volume, and subscriber funding doesn't work because not enough people actually want to pay for quality reporting that isn't biased towards entertainment.
Microsoft has signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on Playstation
>People are far more expensive than managed infrastructure and that is what the comparison should be... not against 'bare metal.' When you compare the managed infra costs to bare metal directly, you are comparing apples to oranges.

Clearly, because "DevOps" people / skills are for free right?

Good software engineers who additionally have exp with Cloud and all its craziness definitely aren't asking for way higher salaries?

I've worked in small size data center and the amount of work performed by 2x minimal wage technicians was huge.

They were running on 5-10 engineers + 3 more skilled ppl at day and 1 person on night shift with 1 or 2 being "wakeable"
For the unfamiliar, Linear A was an ancient script that is associated with the Minoan civilization of the island of Crete, around 1500 - 1800 BC. The later Linear B system encodes archaic Greek, and is very similar to Linear A in glyph form. The Minoan language written with Linear A is probably unrelated to any other language.

Phonetic values are necessarily from Linear B or otherwise guesses - it's very likely there was a great deal of overlap, that the symbol representing, for example, the syllable "ni" in Greek, represented a syllable that sounded a lot like "ni" in Minoan. (Linear B is quite unsuited to writing Greek sounds, an indicator that it was borrowed from a very different language.) But since the language of Linear A remains undeciphered, that is really just an educated guess at best.
It’s not even remotely as capable as a full size truck. Or a compact one for that matter.

Edit: Don't be grouchy and just downvote. If you really think a Kei truck with a 1000 pound payload and 60mph [optimistic] top speed is comparable to a full size pickup, explain why. It's the same payload as a Corolla, not a full size body-on-frame pickup. And even then, that completely ignores towing, which is a very common use case for full size trucks today. A Corolla would do -that- better, too.

Kei cars are neat, but be realistic.
Sleeping Dogs almost lost me when I encountered the "you went the wrong way!" failure meme during the tutorial. I played it again sober and am glad I stuck with it because it ended up being one of the best games I've ever played.

It also forever ruined Robert Palmer's "Bad Case of Loving You," since that was the song I chose for the karaoke date you're supposed to ruin by singing it poorly.
...and aren't allowed on a highway or freeway.

They're useless for most consumers.
That's all true, but I think it's a pity that the jobs that currently exist for voice artists will disappear. Gamers and consumers will have somewhat better interactive experiences, which is good. Indie game developers will also be able to put out games with lower budgets, which is nice for them. But the market for voice acting work is largely going to dry up and blow away for people who are not already at the top of that field. People who could previously have made a modest but sufficient living as voice performers will be replaced by computer-generated voices. It will be almost impossible to make a living in that field within 5 years.
In you need a really compact form factor, you can buy a Jetson right now and run more complex models on it.
It's pricey though.
By “SOTA” tts I think you mean LLM based TTS? With sound and language tokens trained GPT style?

Without going into too much details, imo they’re not really usable right now for TTS use cases.
I am finding an odd intersection of Kei trucks and geeks lately.

My friend imports KEI trucks and Vans for the mid Atlantic region and always has inventory: https://ohkei-imports.com

As it turns out a bunch of people want these things and he's been importing and shipping all over the US.
Wasn't the issue with Texas that renewables were behaving as expected (unfortunately not producing a lot of electricity), but fossil fuel power sources were failing unexpectedly due to the freezes? Thus the issue not being renwables.

I'm also surprised at the mention of a coal renaissance in germany. While coal isn't reduced as much as it should, all the data I found pointed to a continual downwards trend over the last years.
How hidden contracts took over the internet
You know how much embedded dev pays? It’s shit. People that are good are usually good enough to go write some Java crud apps and make 3x as much.

Unlike the games industry there isn’t nearly as many people drawn to writing the shitware on a consumer router or cut rate oscilloscope.
Ask HN: Anyone Moved from Seattle to Bay Area?
We witness a lot of folks who moved from the Bay Area to Seattle.

I would like to hear from people who made opposite move on their own (not "forced" by a new job):

1. What did you like/not like about it?

2. How did it impact your monthly budget/finances?

3. Did you get more opportunities?

4. Was it easier to create a new social circle than in Seattle (infamous Seattle-freeze)?

5. Did you move your entire family? If so, how did you like schools, day/care availability/price, etc.

I am considering this move with a family, keeping the same job. Seattle area became increasingly expensive over the last few years almost matching Bay Area (except for housing, but close), but I feel it is still sub-par to Bay Area when it comes to weather, no. of opportunities, access to VC capital, even education.

What do you think?
>> This article is almost entirely speculation, and I don't believe it.

In support of your skepticism, I'm quoting here the main passage where the article is speculating about the change in performance:

A common consensus was that GPT-4 was able to generate outputs faster, but at a lower level of quality. Peter Yang, a product lead for Roblox, took to Twitter to decry the bot’s recent work, claiming that “the quality seems worse”. One forum user said the recent GPT-4 experience felt “like driving a Ferrari for a month then suddenly it turns into a beaten up old pickup”.

So all we have to go with is "a common consensus", what it "seems", what someone "felt", and so on. Nothing concrete at all. Which shouldn't be a surprise. Empirical investigations of large language models can either be cheap (in time and money) and perfunctory, or systematic and expensive, and most users don't have the budget, or the inclination, for systematic evaluations. Users form an impression about the performance of LLMs from little experience and then they change their minds, again from a little experience. That's nothing to base anything on.
It's disappointing, but I wouldn't expect research algorithms to be available immediately unless they held it back until the product is ready. I guess Apple would do that?
Disparities in Heat Vulnerability in the United States