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> capitalism take hold over something as simple as literal noise

Scapegoating "capitalism" doesn't strike me as sufficiently nuanced thinking.

For instance, Tidal, has playlists dedicated to things like rain sounds e.g. https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/5ed2512d-b27b-4d0c-845d-3f...
Well neither of those fall under technology so they have no place on the list.
I agree with your interpretation, but I'd like to also offer another way to view this phenomenon that Spotify's higher execs also missed: Spotify is lucky and has found a way to monetize a feature that is readily and freely available elsewhere, and they should just be happy to get a bit of profit for it.

I would take the opposite approach and figure out how to maximize the return on the white noise without changing anything for the users; that is, focus on reducing the cost to deliver white noise, work on guidelines for the white noise presenters on how you're going to monetize this without disrupting the fad, etc.

From my perspective, I just can't see how trying to do something special with this fad does anything but immediately kill the fad. There are even FOSS white noise apps, and it won't take long for users to find a free alternative if Spotify messes with the recipe here. I sincerely doubt anyone is going to get Spotify exclusively for the white noise nor that white noise will somehow be a gateway into further Spotify use; I just don't see that the persons who want white noise would use that as an entry point into the service, it's the other way around, with current satisfied users finding out they can also use Spotify to get white noise.

Basically I see this as a happy accident for Spotify that will break if they try to press on it too much. They should treat this like a beneficial fad, and just figure out how to deliver it with the least resource cost, and just enjoy the extra revenue. I don't think it's really going to draw people in except if they play the "yeah, this is legit, we're just gonna get out of your way as much as possible here. enjoy our ads", and ride that money until it dries up.
I only had two days to spend in the Netherlands with my family a few months ago, so we went to Amsterdam. I’ve never smoked so much as a puff of marijuana in my life, but I’m still glad I went. I was a bit put off by the prevalence of the whole weed culture thing, but it was a really cool town with some really nice museums and parks.

Probably the thing I found most interesting about Amsterdam was it was the only place in the world I’ve ever seen dedicated traffic lanes for five distinct modes of transportation on one single street—pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trains, and boats.
Thanks! I really liked https://teachyourselfcs.com/!
And https://artofproblemsolving.com/store indicates I need some math refreshers haha :D
Forwarding Fly.io Logs to ClickHouse
Based on the name, I’d imagine part of TinyGo’s raison d`être would be a smaller binary size. Plus, seems optimized for speed rather than speed-of-compiler
You're describing tourists since time immemorial.
It's tremendously hidden. Of course it barely gets noticed.

There are so many hidden gems in accessibility settings, at this point it should be called advanced settings instead.
Random numbers with a brand would the ultimate excess of Capitalism.
how do you think he listens to them, is there any app that can play non audio (wav, mp3) files?
all they need to do is to add an "autoloop" option to a track. people won't notice that it loops every minute or so
Exactly what the article said. I feel like you are strongly asserting a key premise of the article as if you are saying something new.
Noise does compress poorly, but can you tell the difference between eight hours of a fan blowing, and two seconds of a fan blowing looped for eight hours?
>"It can’t be that an Ed Sheeran stream is worth exactly the same as a stream of rain falling on the roof," Warner Music Group CEO, Robert Kyncl

Why not? You've already made millions in profit on Ed Sheeran's content. Once you've broke even on the cost of making the content delivering more of it costs exactly the same. Regardless if its music or sounds of rain falling on a roof.
Assertiveness is a bad thing in drivers. Sure you wait longer for others to do the right thing, but you also don't force crashes because of your bad driving.
The transistor level is not the part to focus on

If I grow human neurons in a dish, such that they are connected in 2D layers to approximate the linear algebra in GPT-2, and the human neurons start generating tokens that express hurt, is my petri dish monster feeling any more pain, now that the substrate isn't transistors?

It has to be something more subtle than the contents of the program in isolation, or the substrate in isolation, otherwise it's easy to reach very non-intuitive results that we won't like by transposing whatever we've tried to isolate to a less familiar situation.
Is 8gb ram notably low now?

Further you mention 2 sets of specs, and use an unmentioned spec as your measure.
I agree that it's a total mess on all sides, but I do want to clarify that MSI is a database of what should be installed. I also want to push the note about MSI files being difficult to nearly impossible (outside of a project in visual studio) to make - I wanted to package something I wrote in vscode in an MSI and honestly I still cant figure out WiX after messing with it for hours.

The worst is install shield wrappers around MSI files. I assume it's easier to make but it makes them awful to use for an enterprise.
The vast majority of open source projects are undertaken and maintained as a hobby, or as a side project related to other paid work.

You have to consider your market as well, literally nobody is going to pay money to use a terminal widget library in 2023.
> contracting for one customer for more than 1 year or so is prohibited

Why?
This isn’t the kind of thing you need to theorize about when there’s real world data to look at. American drivers have 13.5 deaths per billion vehicle miles, you can try and adjust that for conditions etc but people still fuck up driving good cars in nearly perfect conditions.

The fully autonomous cars without safety drivers haven’t yet crossed the threshold to compare fatalities, but you can compare vs the 5 million car accidents in the U.S. each year 43% of which resulted in injuries. So there’s enough data to know they aren’t wildly dangerous.
Maybe the difference is I'm not vegan or vegetarian for philosophical reasons, purely health reasons.

I don't really care what the label is to be honest, it's just how I eat.

Vegetarian is probably closer to being more accurate. But then again I will happily order a steak at a restaurant. So maybe I don't deserve any of these labels at all :)

A better way to put it is I prefer eating vegan rather than I am vegan
I think this is why google really wants to control the brower. Once AI is cheap and on every device, the user has the ability to use it to filter all inbound. Trivial for a local LLM to strip hate speech from a twitter html regardless how much Elon wants you to force you to see it.
You also have the situation where an assumed perfect car that drives exactly as you expect, but once in a million goes just kills you - is likely to be much less annoying (unless you’re dead) than a car that every single time you interact with it does weird things, even though it never kills you at all
The entropy in white noise is maximal, if it's really white noise.

One sample of white noise is indistinguishable from another; so if Spotify can identify white noise, then they can dedup, i.e. serve the same sample for every request for white-noise track.

What I find annoying is that people are wasting bandwidth uploading and downloading an undifferentiated hiss. White noise is trivial to generate locally, without consuming any bandwidth.

[Edit] Real white noise has the same energy at every frequency; the total energy in white noise is effectively infinite. Practical "white noise" is low-pass-filtered, which means it's no longer real white noise.

I wonder if these samples are really pink noise, and Spotify is talking nonsense?
>Heck my first laptop had a second LCD to show battery level without the machine even being on

Many modern laptops still do this though. Dell XPS had some LEDs on the side and a button on the case that when pressed would light up the LEDs as a percentage indicator of battery charge, and my 2 year old Lenovo has this feature built into the motherboard EC controller and Bios that when I press any key on the keyboard when the laptop is OFF, it wakes the laptop's own display to show battery percentage. Modern laptops have many neat features.
Fact check before posting ChatsGPT please. (If you did, you didn’t say as much.) Also, there are lists of this kind already.
If you eat more than your maintenance weight, you’ll gain weight. There’s not a long term coping period.

Basal metabolic rate does go down with age, but basal metabolic rate and total energy expenditure are mostly stable between 20-60. The basal metabolic rate of a 60 year old is about 120 calories less than that of a 20 year old. And actual maintenance calories are 200-300 lower for people with low to moderate exercise.

What happened is that the kid is either eating more, or is exercising less.

A normal 20 year old who isn’t an exercising a significant amount can’t regularly eat 3600 calories and maintain a healthy weight. That is to say, the average 20 year old with a healthy BMI who exercises 1-3 times per week will gain somewhere around 2 lbs per week eating 3600 calorie per day. They’ll gain less over time if they don’t start eating more as they get closer to 350lbs because their maintenance weight will go up.
I think the idea was born with Sleepify[1] in 2014. (I love how Wikipedia classifies its genre a silence). This was kind of a stunt back then, receiving mainstream media attention and ultimately allowing the band behind it to finance a small tour.

Of course, repeating this one-time creative feat is just boring and annoying and for Spotify it is just a slippery slope. If they forbid silence, people will upload white noise, if they forbid white noise people will just resort to some low effort AI generated sound. None of which is desirable for anyone.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify
On iOS, Rain Rain is my favorite. It’s a free with limitations app, but I don’t find the limitations too bad.

But honestly, we have a HomePod mini that does 99.999% of the work in the house. The HomePod has half-a-dozen or so background noises including rain, ocean and white noises
Thanks for the thoughts. I agree that you're not going to disintermediate existing datalakes, no matter how successful, so integration makes sense.

Every few months I run up into a use case where I'm like "I want to get a whole bunch of data, analyze it, then search for it later with embeddings, and probably keep running different sorts of analysis on it, and store the embeddings of those analyses in a related way." This still feels fairly difficult to do, or at least there aren't canonical "right" architectures yet.

My instinct is if you nail the ml+dev+data ops needs with good architecture and api you could really have something -- good luck!
It’s more expectedness.

I find CA drivers to be very assertive, meaning they will accelerate to pass you while joining the freeway; in the Midwest people will slow down when merging to be polite, which causes many more issues.
I have been at some US companies that had people from Europe working there. They were fully remote companies.
Containers :: MSIx / AppX tries to do this on Windows. I think it's poorly executed since you also need all of the dependent libraries installers as well (AppX) since they don't get bundled and you're back to square one.
If your spit isn't wet like water, then you could do with a drink, although being in an anxious state may indicate a false positive.

Thirst is an early'ish warning, but not early enough if you've eaten food that needs more water in order for your body to process it than you have consumed prior to eating, or you have diarrhea, or you are low on electrolytes, or your kidneys have problems monitoring and maintaining the balance of said electrolytes.

See also:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31082167/
They're just Debbie Downers trying to stop you having the mother of all acid lights shows by bouncing control rods in a Ibisa swimming pool reactor.

Cherenkov radiation for the masses I say.
Strandh also has his Call Site Optimization idea, which allows dynamic redefinition of things without having to recompile everything (just replace jumps to small code snippets at the call sites.)
In one "inside a video game" LitRPG the main character gains an achievement for being the first person to read the ToS to the end before clicking "accept".
Arguably the raison d’être for Rust is memory safe systems programming, and opt-in GC you implement as / if needed is just a consequence of that… if you’re not targeting the very small subset of systems that _cannot_ benefit from automated GC then that’s a great choice, but for everyone else it’s just complex boilerplate. This is aimed at an evolving runtime spec that already incorporates opt-in GC.

In other words if it’s Rust’s broader features but explicitly meant to write programs for a runtime that already includes opt-in GC, then it’s not doing what JVM languages or Go are doing, so there’s space for it.
A lot of tech goes into making (good) lsd.
Although not all floppies there's something nice about the sound of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMe2vza46cQ
Thanks! It is indeed fixed.
Thanks for the reply!
It is fair that you indicate that my questions seems like group three.

I can assure you, I am not. I was simply a little overwhelmed and wanted to use swarm intelligence to find good approaches as there are, as indicated by you, so many sources out there.

I am more between 1 and 2. I have built software before, but with really scrappy Ruby on Rails to solve some basic problems. Now I am considering a career switch as I do not want to stick with my current job forever.

To specify:
- I am interested in learning react / typescript / vue.js
--> I am, at least from what I read / tried so far, a JavaScript fan and want to get more into that to start.

"You almost can't go wrong" is quite motivating as I was as mentioned a bit overwhelmed with the opportunities.
The article seems to mostly equate emotional states with consciousness but doesn’t make the case for that equivalence. Paramecia also exhibit negative stimuli avoidance behavior but I don’t think that can plausibly be cited as evidence that they experience pain. I am generally persuaded by Antonino Damasio’s arguments that consciousness is roughly a system “on top of” emotion, the latter essentially being a shorthand for a variety of behaviors related to the body’s efforts to maintain homeostasis. (I’m simplifying and probably getting details of his argument wrong, it’s been more than a decade since I read his stuff.)
I am sympathetic to the idea that “lower” animals may have something like mental states or conscious experience, I just don’t find the arguments in TFA convincing.
You and others here are conflating right of way with responsibility at red lights. Those are two separate things. While emergency vehicles have right of way, that only means you must pull over to let them pass you. But emergency vehicles also have intersection responsibilities. For example, here's the law excerpt in Texas:

> In operating an authorized emergency vehicle the operator may: ... (2) proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, after slowing as necessary for safe operation; ...

And in California the relevant law is in vehicle code section 20156 [1], which clearly states that emergency vehicle drivers cannot do whatever they want without regard to the safety of other drivers just because their sirens are on:

> Section 21055 does not relieve the driver of a vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway, nor protect him from the consequences of an arbitrary exercise of the privileges granted in that section.

It's quite likely that the emergency vehicle driver is at fault in this interaction, not the Cruise vehicle.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
5, but I feel like I cheated because the classification was specific enough while saying “animals like _____, _____, and _____” and the answer was the third one.
Can someone explain in layman terms what this is? Article introduces even more new terms and is clearly not for people in the know. Comments here didn't help either. Is it a poem of made up words to express something? Is it a language of made up sounds? What is it?
I think 95-96 was the first machines I had that had a processor fan (at the high end). Otherwise they just had a power supply fan, but it was more “massive” in a way. You’d click that switch and you could hear the fan spool up.
The body's protein requirements are usually overestimated based on hearsay and this results in too much importance being given to animal based food. Unless you're a growing child, pregnant, bodybuilder or have a medical condition you probably have plenty of protein without consuming meat, and very likely in the other cases too with a balanced diet. One should pay attention to sugars/fats/micronutrients a lot more.

The silly 'But where do you get your protein?' was repeated so much that it inevitably lead to 'they will give us bugs'.
Thank you!

What I meant wasn't Moonbit targeting JavaScript, but integrating Moonbit compiled into WebAssembly with JavaScript, making it so they can call back and forth to each other more easily, like Embind wraps C++ classes, methods, and functions with glue so they are exposed and callable as JavaScript classes, methods, and functions.

Kind of like what SWIG or Boost.Python (which inspired Embind) does, too.

The plumbing for integrating JavaScript and WebAssembly is evolving (especially with respect to passing objects and garbage collection).
Article has inaccuracies.

The HD floppy is to formatted 1.44MB, not 1.2MB, and unformatted capacity was 2.0MB.

People did not program word processors themselves as they didn't exist, typewriters did.

Later, pre disk, magazines type-ins and software on (magnetic) tapes were common means of software distribution.

How to tell me your under 30 without telling me you're under 30 :D
Agree that Apple fanboys hijacking all CPU threads are indeed annoying (along with the TSMC and ASML chip hipsters) and I wish moderators would handle this so we could enjoy on-topic discussion without the usual "my M1 is so good, every other non-M1 CPU is now pointless" spam, but I think it's also that people would like to have Apple's M1 level of performance and efficiency from other vendors of more open systems and not be conditioned of always buying into the Apple ecosystem for it, which we know isn't gonna happen, as nobody else is as vertically integrated and has the market share and profit margins of Apple to pull off a X86 to ARM transition for consumers like Apple did, nor is there any standardized ARM platform yet, like the trinational IBM PC clones were, where you can just plug in an extern GPU.

The transition to ARM will happen first in the server/cloud space, but consumer will have to wait much longer for it to reach PCs, if it ever does, as X86 is also making progress.
If you're the kind of person who is suspicious of small sample sizes, several of the bee studies cited in the article as evidence [1, 2, 3] draw conclusions from small groups of 10-20 bees.

I think this is a good question, and I get why it's hard to do animal research at more statistically significant scales, but for me the current evidence is uncomfortably close to "behavioral psych, but for bees", right down to the fun pop-sci conclusions ("bees like to play!"), which again, cute! but overstated as something that "science tells us".

(This is all separate from the larger question of the relationship between response to external stimuli and emotional states, which just seems hard to answer.)

[1] https://europepmc.org/article/med/27708101

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334722...

[3] https://europepmc.org/article/med/27708101
The things with newborns not feeling pain is a bit different. It was wrong, but not stupid.

The idea was that newborns aren't "complete" (which is true) and that their pain system wasn't fully active yet (which is wrong), something about myelin if I remember correctly.

Anesthesia is not something to be taken lightly, and if you can operate without it that's one risk less.
Thanks, this is really helpful! I did not know https://jupyter.org/ before!
There are plenty of systemic factors that we have banned from being considered in things like insurance.

Black men have a lower life expectancy and higher chances of certain illnesses or of being the victim of a violent crime than white men. If you put a race question on your life insurance form and incorporate that into your pricing you’ll be looking at a a brutal lawsuit.

Actuarial math is not some moral law that we are beholden to as a society. There are discriminations that we decide are unjust and make society worse even if they spread the costs of insurance more accurately.
In case you need it, a static page which will give you an infinite amount of white/pink/waterfall noise: https://www.quaxio.com/noise.html

No tracking and no ads, ever.

Uses WebAudio API. Based on the code from https://noisehack.com/generate-noise-web-audio-api/, but for some reason, the code wasn't working as-is in today's browsers. So tweaked things for a couple minutes.
I've been using my own wrapper/library around syscall/js.
It crashes mostly due memory issues/allocation. My own app worked fine until a point and then it started crashing.

I applied several temporary fixes by limiting the amount of memory it allocates at start-up.
Then optimised various libs to use less memory such:

- instead of generating the html in pure Go using x/html package and applying it to the DOM later I created my own /x/html like package using the DOM (via syscall/js) directly. This was a big optimisation.

- "cleaned" up/forked some public libraries such these provided by Google. For example many of Google's libraries (and not only) use an OpenTelemetry component that's cpu/memory intensive(at least for wasm/browsers).

- replaced some libraries with my own implementation(i.e aws library) reduced to only the API calls I need.

Now it stopped crashing in firefox/chrome (at least on my computer) but it crashes on Safari(at least on mobile). At this point I stopped working on it because I feel the platform is just not ready and I no longer have the drive to fix it(been working for more than 2 years on it).

As you can see it forces you to think about resource management and browser compatibility and you are working in the dark b/c these limitations are not published/official.

Keep in mind that I didn't run intensive tasks. Just SPA stuff(web services requests, data rendering etc).

I didn't try to compile it with tinyGo because I built my tooling/libraries based on Go and unfortunately I do not have the resources required to support yet another platform/compiler(tinyGo). I made extensive use of reflection and last time I checked tinygo had some issues/restrictions with that. Recently I've implemented generics as well(where it made sense).

I may revisit Go with WASM if/when there is a WASM-GC integration.

The good part is that perf issues aside it made UI apps development a pleasure(for me at least).
> Smaller US based companies are more likely accommodate you, if they like what you bring to the table. Common arrangement is to start a company in the EU and your company will invoice the US company.

Any thoughts on how you find them? US job boards? Recruiters? Cold emails?