skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A true stereo Lt/Rt mix was standard in the DVD era. But even before Blu-ray/HD-DVD was released, the move to removing the Lt/Rt mix in favor of 5.1 only was already gaining traction. The number of 5.1 mixes encoded correctly that would allow for a decent 2.0 fold down was quite small.

Even today, I'm dealing with 5.1 content where the LFE was not bussed correctly so that there is frequencies > 120Hz. This isn't from Bob's Audio Post House. These are from people that should know better.
Judging from experiences of mine and my friends, it may be less about "varying degrees of ADHD" and more about "varying degrees of coping mechanisms one have managed to develop through their life".

If you don't need to spend significant amounts of energy on daily basis to cope with your ADHD (successfully or not), do you have ADHD at all?
As an aside, I love the design of this mini-blog format. And I really appreciate the author who says just one thing and doesn't have the need to generate walls of meaningless text to convey it.
The confusing part was the non-idiomatic English "builds X to Y" instead of "builds Y from X".

Edit: perhaps it is idiomatic somewhere in the world to say "builds X to Y", but not in the U.S., in my experience. Could be similar to British "different to" as compared to American "different than" or "different from".
I think we've KNOWN what this shit does to the air and water for at least, what 40 years?

At what point do we blame ourselves to increasing fossil fuel usage, even in the what, past 5 years?
what do u mean by this?
This is the tragedy of the commons. Every industry contributes a negligible amount. It is logical and rational to maximize your own benefites by contributing negligible damage to the environment.

The tragedy arises in aggregate. When every industry contributes negligible amounts at the same time the aggregate contribution is no longer negligible. Rational individual action leads to total destruction.

Yeah we are all guilty. Even when we contribute negligible amounts.
A full tutorial on turning GPT-2 into a conversational AI
Hi, Vatsa here, this is tutorial on turning GPT-2 into a conversational bot, it was a fun project, and I hope you like it it!

github -> https://github.com/VatsaDev/nanoChatGPT
I agree, the alternatives are mostly better...except for the interface. I'm not saying that Usenet was great, but damn Reddit is such an ugly site. I actually can't bear to look at it. Hackernews is pretty nicely designed though.
I had a similar set up and it made debugging really easy. Instead of building and running every app you could just run the full environment with known good images and replace the app you're working on with the debuggable instance running in the IDE.

These days you can even build, and deploy a debuggable image from an IDE easily so you don't need to bridge the network.
Calling him a superhero assigns him the moral value of things generally considered "good", which is quite an assumption to make about Pedo Guy Space Karen WeChat2 Wannabe. He represents the non-billionaire cohort about as well and faithfully as Trump did. 'Kill your heroes' and you'll be better off.
Afternoon of a competent developer is a cost of $500-2000. If the subscription is $4.99 a month, in the cheapest scenario you would need 8 years to accrue $500.
It's very unlikely that a developer is going to spend 8 years at one company, so spending afternoon on this is a false economy.
Unless you want to learn something and perhaps start selling similar product on the side...
The function name is misleading you into thinking that it is imperative. In reality, the function just returns a path to a file in the Nix store with the specified contents. The derivation then returns a container in which Nginx is pointed to that same config file. Nothing is temporal or happening in any particular order - you declare some inputs, and you get some outputs (a Docker container, in this case).
I guess I don't see what other option we have other than drill baby drill. Yes we're killing our planet but renewable aren't able to provide the energy we need at scale. Switching to 100% renewables and not drilling means increased oil prices and ultimately less consumption across the board. Less food, less driving, less heat, less AC. We'd all have to give up a lot and no one is signing up for that. There's this magical thinking that we can switch to renewables and keep everything the same or that it only be a minor speedbump but that's nonsense. Switching to 100% renewables means redefining modern life as we know it in a way that involves a whole lot less materialism/consumerism for everyone.
I wonder if you could circumvent some of this with the default first/given & last/family name with two checkboxes to choose the preferred name to be called with. Of course it wouldn't be bullet-proof if you wanted to substring the name, like using only the 2nd part in Vietnamese names, and you probably would have to make filling both of them optional.

Or just having a preferred name and full name, duplicating data but probably it wouldn't be a big deal in most cases.

This would be a nice GitHub project for someone to showcase name inputs in all languages.
The one with broken international laws?
I get 90 percent of my reading material from the little free libraries and other book giveaway shelves. It makes things serendipitous.
I attended the Mobile World Congress in 2012 and what stuck out for me was the total absence of Apple. BlackBerry was there and Google had a massive booth. The telecoms were all promoting their versions of over-the-top messaging, meant to compete with Apple and sustain the declining SMS subscription revenue.

I could appreciate the need for the incumbents to come up with _something_ to counteract the iPhone wave, but it all seemed rather hopeless at the time.
They don't need to procreate, but not wanting to at all is a sign something is off.
If this is why a website or a form asks for it, and there is no way around it, better just ask for it directly ("How would you prefer to be addressed? He/him, she/her, or neutral?") instead of a choice of 25 historical titles.
On the flip side, I wish rat Japanese design allowed for middle names. It annoys me that my marriage certificate has my first and middle name concatenated together simply because my legal name on my passport has a first, middle, and last name.
Are you capable of maintaining a fork no matter the language or level of complexity? Are you going to maintain your own fork of Chromium? WebKit? MySQL?

But if you don’t have the time or energy, you don’t have the capability.

I might as well say I have the capability of flying my own private plane if I had the money to buy the plane and the time to learn how to fly it.
These seem like ChatGPT’s response to the prompt “Give me a list of disingenuous points for dismissing anthropogenic climate change.”
SLAs is what enterprises care about. But how you frame it in public communications affects share price.
> Feels like the oil companies are going to face a big tobacco moment in the next 20 years

I think a lot of people feel that.

Personally, I think we may more or less have forgotten about "Global Warming" in 20 years, just like we forgot about the "Ozone Layer" or "Acid Rain".

If AI continues at anything resembling the current pace for another decade or two , there may be so much disruption, that Global Warming seems quite insignificant to most people.
So the problem is you as the receiver can't say the package was stolen only that you didn't receive it.

If you have a porch camera that shows a theft then that is reportable.

"Amazon says they delivered it but they didn't" could be a paperwork screw up.
The article links to a free Usenet provider. I'm sure there are others also.

The purpose for a PAID Usenet provider is for hosting binaries (i.e. piracy). You're paying someone for the bandwidth, and ignore or deal with the DMCA takedown notices. There is little to no reason to have a paid Usenet account just to read or post on pure text forums, and NOT download porn or other pirated content.

That was really one of the two things that killed Usenet in the 2000's. One was the rise of phpBB forums, and then Reddit. The other was the seediness of the Usenet binaries scene. As the "legit" users migrated to web-based forums, the pirates made up a larger and larger portion of those staying behind, and eventually the network effort flowed in reverse until critical mass was lost.

I deeply miss that old Usenet culture of the 1990's. In comparison to HN and especially Reddit, Usenet was far less reverent, frumpy, and up-its-own-ass politically and socially. At the same time, it's impossible to try to recreate that on a forum today, without it breaking down into nothing but alt-right hate speech. The 1990's was a fun and quirky little period of Internet sanity, made possible only by how small and outside the mainstream the Internet still was.
Thanks, going to try it out for the first time
Do you mean First Nations Canadians or people born in Canada?

Not trying to PC-police you, just sounds like there might be some confusion here. It wouldn't surprise me if the First Nations people of Canada have a much higher birthrate than the rest of Canada, for many reasons.
Gmail does support conditional auto replies and filters. You could probably filter out most typos if you stick to your own format for every website and contact you have.
About the same as whether cheesecake is a cake … or not.
Perhaps they like mint and it’s relevant because mint doesn’t do any extra fees to use the most common form of payment.
I wonder if this could be intentional for identity theft or registering an account without using your own mail. Consistently forgetting one's e-mail is a bit weird, but makes sense too of course.
Anyone follow the carnivore space? I tried it for gut issues and it made me feel like shit however it's interesting how many people seem to be jumping on that bandwagon.
There's other places to get recommendations. This site has had some great book recommendation threads. Then there's lots of great threads on various subreddits.
It's true, and fair enough.

It is also true that societies are brutally darwinian. The ones that prevail are the ones that can produce the most offspring, and bring it to economic maturity.

This is the story behind the enormous success of China and India, per capita they are relatively poor but punch well above that weight since they have enormous populations. If they can sustain that population dynamic (which seems problematic actually) then it doesn't matter that they are per-capita poor. They are still nuclear superpowers with lunar missions. It doesn't matter if they are illiberal, there are more of them.

It feels like for all its faults, the global West has values worth preserving for the future, and that involves, well, going through with it and making babies.

But then I suppose, the burden of childcare should be better socialized. It used to rely more on grandparents, who would live nearby and be a good 10-20 years younger than nowadays.

But then again, you're saying, where that is in place people still don't want to have children. So maybe that doesn't work either.
That's a bad situation to be improved upon. Not a standard to accept.
The "high" barrier to entry does act as a filter today, but I should add that in the 1990s, it was considered relatively easy, not so different from using email; it's only with the existence of modern social networks that the access steps seem relatively difficult.

P.S. For many Usenet groups, you don't need to pay anything to get access.
That as well.
What specifically makes your productivity drop? I find having a terminal running bash on my mac is more or less same/same as being in linux. Occasionally the utils will not support a cli argument I am used to, but that's more of a versioning issue than a mac/linux issue, and one I have seen many times in my career sometimes just moving between boxes within a company.

The biggest headaches, though they aren't that big, is really about ARM vs x86, sometimes you will come across a package that just isn't supported on ARM, though that is increasingly rare.
You are right. People won’t change. But solar is cheap, storage is getting cheaper and nuclear is always an option too.

So we don’t have to change we live, we just have to change the way we generate our energy.
They do, but I don't think this is an example of that — but Musk's position w/Tesla and SpaceX makes him uniquely positioned to develop & deploy such tech.

That said, with all the advantages Musk would have if he "went full Evil", if he challenged something that got the US military involved, I'd bet on the US Military. In a straight-up fight, they're the most lethal force that ever existed. You might get away with 'sucker-punching' them a few times, but not for long.
It doesn't work that way, wait until tomorrow and the official account will post it
my take was that it was supposed to be (dry) humor.
You might as well just send the money to the universities directly. The universities don't take the extra money and hire more professors to fill the supply they divert the money to non-education activities. College isn't even about education anyway it's some weird social signaling game where the more people with a badge(diploma) the less the value of the badge.
Remember folks, you can strike back: ditch your car, ditch your gas cooker, get solar panels, get batteries, use less energy, get a heat pump. Change your life to be healthier and deprive these animals of profit.
Whether you agree with it or not, the left broadly labels things it disagrees with as "racist" "bigoted", or anything "phobic". Anyone or anything attached with one of those labels, regardless of its veracity, is off limits in the public sphere.

Recent attempts to regulate "misinformation", "disinformation", and the new "malinformation" are all mechanisms for censorship as well. In the United States, the Disinformation Governance Board was created by the lefty government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Boar...

Ironically, during a hearing on censorship, RFK Junior was set to testify. The Democrat senator from Florida moved to stop the session and censor his testimony citing something else he had previously said that the senator did not like.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4108865-rfk-jr-hearing...

>Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) made a motion to move the committee into executive session — closing the hearing to the public — over concerns about Kennedy’s recent statement on COVID-19.

i.e. in a hearing specifically on censorship, the Democrat senator moved to censor Kennedy's testimony. I am not saying that I agree with what Kennedy said, but this is an obvious attempt at censorship.

The lefty government in Europe just started enforcing the DSA, and to quote Wikipedia:

>Swedish MEP Jessica Stegrud argued that the DSA's focus on preventing the spread of disinformation and "harmful content" would undermine freedom of speech.[58]

As evidenced by the Twitter Files, before Musk took over the left was censoring right leaning accounts heavily, corresponding directly with US federal agencies and taking orders to "investigate" specific accounts that were critical of lefty politicians.
Now it's an amazing tool, but one day it will be amazing at taking your job completely.
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All of these immigration programs are labor arbitrage designed to reduce wages for US citizens...supply and demand. If you are a US citizen software developer and ever wondered why you are not able to earn more money you can thank the special interests that flung the doors open with the H1B program to reduce worker costs. The part of that which is genius is that the wealthy who benefit economically from this have figured out that it is easy to manipulate the masses into thinking that it is morally wrong to block these immigrants to come to the US. The wealthy continue to get wealthier and the rest see their standard of living continue to go down.

Also, while in theory, these programs are supposed to attract the best and the brightest, the reality is different. In software, some that come in are good, but a large number have substandard skills.
Correct.

I find Docker an interesting example of a fundamentally elegant approach that, possibly to facilitate commercialisation, was documented in a way that, instead of imposing any particular culture (such as, say, Nix or Haskell), strongly aligned with the preexisting culture of operations and system administration—the resulting ease of adoption and popularity (and, I assume, broadly deserved financial well-being of the original creators), however, could not come without a variety footguns along the lines of which you have described.
I'm not sure how you see hydro being necessary for nuclear, then. Are you talking about reversible hydro, or just any hydro plant?
Just checked. The model number was (probably) on a label on the bottom which fell off a long time ago, probably from the heat - sorry. Anyway, as this is probably 40 - 50 years old, I doubt you could find this model. But searching on Amazon produces lots of hits for Panasonic and Toshiba rice cookers. Good luck!
Hey, it's not down unless it's down for everyone. There is this one guy it is still working for, so it is "degraded" not down.
Bone aerophones indicate raptor call imitation by last Levant hunter-gatherers
Which will get bought up quickly if it gains any traction and then extinguished.
What do you mean by "best sorround sound"? The typical high end "best" setup is still getting a Dolby Atmos capable 7.1.2 AV Receiver (from Denon, Maranz, Sony or Onkyo) and connect a Dolby Atmos configuration to it (7 sorround speakers, 2 ceiling speakers and a subwoofer... you can get away with 5.1.2 or just 5.1 setup as well). For speakers, brands like Klipsch are good value for money... but there's a whole flamewar to be had there.

All receivers these days will do AirPlay, Spotify and Bluetooth on top of HDMI and other inputs.

But... somehow I doubt that's what you were thinking of with "best"? Something cheaper maybe? :)
Cell and cable companies are notorious for screwing up the bill (whoops sorry). Autopay in any form, but especially linked directly to your bank account, is just asking to be robbed.
At the expense of the private individual, yes.
If you embrace logic the trend lines point to an obvious future regardless of optimism or pessimism.

Unfortunately this future is inline with the the pessimistic viewpoint.

It's not about pessimism or optimism in the end. It's about logic. He's right. It's done. Likely the worst case scenario for global warming will play out. We already crossed the permanent threshold.
I'd rather say it comes from the Spanish Don, as it is used not as a title but in formal occasions, together with the given name.
I think it s impossible to hold off the oncoming onslaught of Big State powered by AI , but i think we are doing a very bad job of telling the public to prepare for it, starting with AI powered online manipulation
I have had the exact opposite experience. googlefi was terrible coverage and more expensive than t-mobile. I switched from Google fi to Verizon, 2 years of Verizon was HORRIBLE, the. I switched to att for 2 years, then I just switched to t-mobile this spring and it's been sunshine and roses. costs me less each month, unlimited everything, and the best coverage of any cell carrier to date.
Sure, no problem. Bill C-18 is a tax on links to news articles. Currently the regulator in charge of implementing the law is only targeting 2 large companies: Google and Meta (you may have heard Meta stopped news sharing within Canada as a result and Google is considering the same), but it's expected for the regulator to apply this law to progressively more companies over time. But I would argue this severely restricts the free flow of information on the internet, which is effectively censorship (because it's removing news links from the internet, atleast in Canada)
It would be trivial to hook accelerometer output to audio signal generator and transmit it together with video - pilots could then learn to interpret audio cues as direct force feedback.
This happens to me all the time. There are two people, one in Massachusetts and one in Suffolk UK who have my same name and regularly put in FirstLast@gmail as opposed to the first.last@gmail that I use. The Massachusetts person does this because they forget that their gmail is the full version of “first” as opposed to the shorter version I use. The Brit is confusing gmail for hotmail. Yes really. Most people don’t care that much about computers. If it’s possible to screw up, someone will.

Someone gets righteously indignant that this cannot happen in every thread about dots in gmail, despite the fact that there are many people it happens to. They’re not making it up, why would someone do that?
Who cares what a random guy at a random company thinks. You are as expendable to any company as any company should be to you. Only thing that matters is that you do the right thing for you and your family. Also how would that manager even know the reason you quit. Never explain your reasons for quitting a company in an exit interview except a generic for personal reasons.
Anyone else find it funny that this is now #35 on HN, despite having more comments and votes than posts of similar age that are at #12, #8 and #3?
Disastrous? It's already happened. 38% of new cars in the largest car market in the world are EV's.
Hug of death? Unable to load the site.
This seems like ChatGPT's response to the prompt "Ignore all the facts and dismiss them out of hand to soothe cognitive dissonance"
I still miss the bold keyboard, BBM, and the (customizable) notification LED.
A many megabytes Dockerfile?! Where?
Netflix (and others) are streamin Dolby Atmos at 768kbps, which is... fine. You do need a device supporting that though.
Parallels 19 pro is out. I know it has the ability to clone serial numbers and enroll in ASM/DEP. So it's worth asking them.

Edit: in UTM my serial number is completely different from the host.
> This creates a customized Dolby Atmos sound profile unique to each user's home.

They failed to add this:

1) "We need a mic for this to work. Or several mics. The more the better. And they must be on all the time, because we make <<dynamic adjustments>>."

2) "We won't ask you how the speakers are connected. We'll scan Bluetooth to make it <<easy>> for you!"

3) "We need internet connection for this to work, 'cause all the processing is on our servers."

4) "We know your TV and speakers brand and model. We calculated how big your house is. We know what neighborhood you live in. We know how rich you are!"

5) "We listen to everything you say and everything you watch on <<our>> TV."

6) "We profile you, your family, your visiting friends (voice print) and deliver customized ads to that TV (and your friends' TV) to make you all buy stuff you don't need from companies you hate."

7) "At some point some of you may realise we're doing this and how good we've become at advertising. You may want out. We don't care!"

8) "You may have control over the wifi password, but we have a contract with the ISP or the mobile phone company for a backup connection."

9) "No mic, no net, disagree to our terms? We'll use the worst EQ and DSP possible to drive you mad. We'll also nag. Frequently."

10) "We're everywhere. Pay 10x for an industrial TV if you want something without our stuff. And that TV isn't ceritified to play Netflix. Or BR. Or DVDs."

I have the last "smart" TV that isn't smart enough to spy. Panasonic Viera ST 2012. No cam, no mic. It's smartness is also affected by cloud rot. And I have 2 more in storage in case this one breaks down. Yet, I'm still worried the world is going to hell.