skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing!

Stable Audio is a generative AI tool for music & sound effect creation from Stability AI.

It lets you enter a text prompt and a duration, and generates 44.1 kHz stereo output. It uses a latent diffusion for audio model, a similar technique to what’s used for image generation in Stable Diffusion.

We’d love for you to give it a go! Here are some prompts we like:

A solo bass guitar stem, funk, groove, 112 BPM
lo-fi hip hop beat, chillhop
drum solo

We’ve found it’s good at EDM, ambient music, and combining different ideas, and not so good at jazz, classical, and other more melodic genres. We’ve prompted the model a lot, but we’re a small team - if you try it out and find prompts that work particularly well, we’d love to hear them.
For USB C-C cables PD and passive 5V (5K1 pulldown) is negotiated over a separate CC pin from the USB2 D+/- pins, so it's theoretically possible if the D+/- lines are not connected/damaged.

USB A-C cables are entirely separate, there is no CC line, only a fixed always-on Vcc pin at 5V.
Fees comparison with Defold: https://twitter.com/defold/status/1701877174968492220
That's just too niche of a use case IMHO. Samsung is doing it anyway but I'm yet to see anyone using it.

Companies seem to prefer thin client solutions where the employees simply connect to the office workstations. That way, they don't have to provide expensive light and powerful computers, anything that can connect to the internet and stream the image of the desktop does the job and they don't have to deal with the security implications of having to manage a device which is outside of the company network.

Sure, the iPhone can act as the think client but you still need to provide the screen, keyboard and mouse so maybe just slap a cheap computer to those and don't bother with providing company phone which would definitely be more expensive.

So the use case boils down to people that for some reason have access to a screen, keyboard and mouse in many places but don't have computers at these places so they provide their phones as computers. Alternatively, maybe people who would like to save money by having one computer for everything is also a target audience but AFAIK Apple doesn't go after people who want to save money.
I never was a fan of Unity. To me it felt like its selling-point was that it could run on multiple platforms, but not at optimal performance compared to other engines (basically like Android and Java). My introduction to Unity was with Hearthstone (the card game), and even then it didn't natively support Linux.

On that presumption, I found it incredibly surprising people latching onto it for VR dev, and considering most Unity VR games all share the same look (cartoon-y; basically look at A Township Tale and compare it to Orbus and Zenith), that further cements my view of Unity not being a serious high-quality capable engine to be using, unless I want to throw quick non-sustainable projects together.

This news about Unity being even more expensive definitely doesn't help my view :p
That is pretty much the suggested solution at the end of the article. There, the author also removes the temporary script.

The solution really isn't that hard, it might just feel a bit "dirty" (using a scripting language to do some work). But all that "stack smashing butt clenching fuckery" surely is much worse and less stable, so I'm not sure why one would even go that way...
Oh wow. I really love the drawn style of those!
> Car designer Chris Longmore... blames safety legislation for the dramatic increase in size since the 1990s.

This doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

For example, the 2022 Toyota Aygo X has a 4 star NCAP safety rating (out of a possible 5) [1], and is about the same size as the original 1970s VW Golf [2].

[1] https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/Toyota/Aygo%20X/46259

[2] https://www.automobiledimension.com/model/toyota/aygo-x
Retroactively in terms of previous installs or in terms of already published games?
Games which are already in development will be affected. That feels retroactive, since the purchase decision to use Unity was made potentially years ago, even if it technically isn't.

It also apparently applies to already shipping games?
I haven't read the article (paywall), but does it explain why roads in the UK are specifically worse than elsewhere in Europe? Like I've driven this year in Scotland, Czechia and Cyprus and despite constant roadworks in Scotland the road quality is so much worse its not even a contest. Why? At least visually it seems like the same sort of cars one sees driving around (although there may be fewer older cars in the UK, due to rust issues and strict MOT requirements...)
It should be noted that Arab culture does not have the same ideas of identity that Western culture has. Arab culture is far more nuanced, with a very strong nuclear family bond (Aile, this bond is strong enough to warrant and excuse honor killings), a very strong bond with cousins (Hamule), a strong tribal bond, and lessening and lessening bonds the further out one goes. The expression "My brother before my cousin, my cousin before my tribe, ..." has many variations describing Arab loyalty.

The Western idea that the human is the atomic unit to be punished is not universal. Some societies even today "punish" the the hand that stole by amputation, for example.

I was discussing honour killings very recently with one of my Arab neighbours. The conversation started with him explaining to me that when security forces need to arrest a Beduin they don't use the local police, rather an Arab from the north (he lives just outside Beersheba, in the south of Israel). This is because the unit of "personality" is not the single body, but instead the family. So any local Beduin who arrests another Beduin would have his family endangered. They don't care about hurting a specific person - they care about the family as a whole.

He also mentioned that this is the reason behind the honour killings. It doesn't matter if the family looses a single member of the family - because that is not the unit of personality that is important to them. The honour of the entire family is more important. And other things reflect this as well - he says that every single day one family shoots at another family, it is never in the news because who outside knows about it? Even if there are injuries, though usually there are not. He says that these attacks against the families are effective at keeping the other family's members from attacking your own family's interests. I did not ask what those interests are.

I could ask him about the home demolitions. I could definitely see that as being connected to the idea that the Aile or Hamule is punished, not just the person. And it is well established that the home demolitions are an effective deterrent against further terrorist bombings (which themselves are rarely publicized or condemned in international media for some reason - only the response which destroys property is).
> You can put the batch script in %TEMP% and hope something will clean it up, or if you're feeling extra nice you can set up an action to get it cleaned up at next boot.

If you can set an action to get something deleted at next boot why not use that to delete your uninstaller itself, rather than adding an extra layer of indirection?
Wouldn't be surprised if it did come straight out of Amazon Mechanical Turks.
Cache files might contain user's sensitive data. Makes sense to keep in them in the user's home directory in those cases.
The sun has ionizing radiations, this doesn't

Weird that we're regulating for 4W/kg of non-ionizing radiations
Voice acting is not a mystical profession only partaken by the creme of the crop of Ivy League graduates.

Plenty of broke people who can talk and read are willing to say anything for $5 online
Although less explicitly, collective punishment is used in the office as well. For instance by letting an entire team work overtime if one of the team members screwed up his work and made the team miss a deadline.

But the fact that collective punishment is used in some places doesn't automatically make it right, IMO.
This is a very hostile way to phrase a pro-union argument, and I can't actually see how it would help here.
How do you download and install a game without internet?

Even the last few games sold outside Steam still need some launcher whether it's from Epic, Ubisoft or whatever. Sure, you can install a game from 2004 completely offline but that's not a Unity game.
> Remove the need to upgrade

There's no need to upgrade yearly. They can release whenever they want, but I'm only upgrading every few years at most.
I'm not familiar with the UK tax but here in NZ, new car tax has become a political football. The current opposition party tagged it the "Ute tax", which seems to have resonated with the more easily outraged members of society and those who crowd city streets with their stupidly large trucks for school drop-off.

I anticipate politics-driven tinkering with it from here on in. Perhaps we will look like the UK after a few more political cycles.
Exactly what did happen to me. Actually my condition is a bit worse, as I have also low freq parastesia (irregular ~70Hz), I "hear my parastesia" (I have also a weak high freq tinitus in the other ear, and on "crisis" my parastesia is so intense, it can give me muscle cramps, it is usually worse during summer).

I was sure it was from "outside", and when I moved out to the other side of the world, it followed me... was actually my body giving me hell.

Nowadays, my body decides how I live and nobody else, not even me. But the hard part came after that: it took more than 10 years for my administration to aknowledge it and even with that...
It does look like there is a lot of potential for abuse, depending on how installs are tracked. If it's some DRM system, pirated copies might or might not be counted, and of course "install bombs" would potentially be possible in theory. Which means a need to find ways to potentially exclude those installs from counting towards the count. This introduces crazy complexity when really you could have simple revenue share which is much more easily auditable.
You can. Paris have less roads (or rather has closed roads to cars) and upped the public transit system frequency in the area despite a small population augmentation. I know one person living in the area, the QOL is now way, way higher.
No entry level opportunities at the moment? Do you plan on hiring anytime in the near future?
Why only the french market then? Shouldn't they withdraw from all EU markets?
Apparently some parts of this are quite recent, huh[1]:

> jstarks commented on Jun 18, 2019:

> [I]n the most recent version of Windows, we updated DeleteFile (on NTFS) to perform a "POSIX" delete, where the file is removed from the namespace immediately instead of waiting for all open handles to the file to be closed.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32088#issuecomment-50285...
not on firefox + win10
> Companies are not charities; they exist to make money

Funny you're saying that when so many US companies are losing billions if dollars and viewed as successful :)
You can also fine-tune gpt-3.5 though.
I guess this is because the agency is underfunded. Their missions are not only to check the radiation on new phones but also to check all 2G/3G/4G/5G in France (about 200k) and investigated in case of radio-frequency problems.
We're talking about ghz frequencies whereas sunlight is terahertz. Latter interacts with human cells and a portion of it causes skin cancer. Former (non-ionizing radiation) causes a rise in temperature or passes right through.

People tried so hard to find the smallest negative effects of non-ionizing radiation (without p-hacking or silly surveys) and failed miserably. This is one of those rare cases where absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
There was a Steam package error, the error warned it might be temporary, the installer said it wouldn't continue because that would remove "popos-desktop" amongst other things.

So, he opened a console (like any user?), then used apt-get ... which had a WARNING ... "This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!". He then had to type "Yes, do as I say!" in order to "do something potentially harmful" ... and then, what a surprise it did something harmful!

That's a user error that will only happen to people who are cocky, people who are idiots, or people trying to firm up their long held stance that 'Linux isn't for gaming'.

I saw the LTT video the following day to release, loaded a VM up, installed Pop_OS (my first time) and installed Steam, no issues. Very simple. All button clicking.

>going through the installation steps of Steam //

That's mis-characterisation, he went through the Steam install steps (click install by the Steam icon), the OS told him there was an error and refused to do it. End.

Then he went sudo-ing and ignoring warnings. "You can delete System32 this OS isn't ready for users!".

You'll tell me now installs never fail on Windows, presumably, despite having experienced them myself.
As far as I remember the thing you use to delete the file on next boot does not run arbitrary code, but is a special "rename-like" action that you can't use to recursively delete the folder of your program.

edit:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...

It's the MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT flag. Honestly maybe you can call MoveFileA on the entire directory tree you want to delete starting from the .exe and spare yourself the script, I don't see an obvious reason why it wouldn't work.
PowerSync looks cool.

I would love it if it could also address the question of data sovereignty for individual users somewhere down the line. I know it's not a priority when you need the product to first hit the market, start competing, become profitable, etc but it would be such a breath of fresh air in a world where everything you think you own is actually rented.
But still for historical reasons, towns, villages, country lanes have been around far longer than cars
There's a lot to complain about with Singapore, but _monocultural_, really?
Anyone living in Germany with an EV should know pretty well that this is pretty much the case already anywhere in the country.

The incredible amount of HPC (> 150kW) chargers you can find even in the most remote rural areas in Germany is simply crazy, mostly thanks to the large amounts of german dealerships with HPC chargers (such as Porsche), gas stations like Aral with their own charging network, or even rest areas with IONITY or other providers... and lets not take into account Tesla SuC, as that would increase the number even more.
You have to understand where it came from. Unity was the simple easy to use indie darling for years when it first came about. The corporatization and financialization of the company ruined it, but once upon a time it occupied the same space Godot does today.
It is a sign you should not keep money there, but the bigger risk always was the dreaded account freeze.
I hope the deer had survived the encounter.
They didn’t say “external storage”, they said “a Mac”. Could be a significant distinction
> you, reader, use credit cards in preference to debit cards as a payment instrument

Reader from Europe here. I use debit cards for daily payments, that's just the most standard expected payment method in Europe (with mobile payments now replacing it. Is a mobile payment app more like a debit or like a credit card? I have no idea actually!).

But credit cards for online payments on the internet because (despite some debit card based systems existing which don't seem to work by default) on the internet credit cards seems to be the main supported payment method, including e.g. through Paypal, but also for local online shops, airlines, ...

So in the US credit card vs debit card is probably an important distinction between buying on actual credit or not and all the fun stuff they have there like credit ratings, but in Europe the main distinction seems to simply be which one works for online purchases or not. Of course some reward programs for credit cards do exist here, I think American Express specifically has some benefits to the user but isn't accepted everywhere (Heard from other users, don't have this one myself. I'm not really into rewards programs myself, why not just make the stuff you buy cheaper instead?). Also, visa and mastercard seem to have no practical difference and some banks just give both.

If this view is naive or incomplete, it probably just shows credit cards are indeed not as important in Europe, if they gave some huge benefit I'd have known!

Edit: I don't mean to say credit and debt collection doesn't exist in Europe. All the stuff like payday loans, car loans and buying on credit from some stores exists.
Upload speed is not a linear function of TX power?
Programming language elitism.
I'm not enough in the mood to fully focus in order to be sharp enough to grok the post. Posts like this require my full focus and I unfortunately don't have it today. I'm more at like 60% :)

I did read it. And I was just horrified at the idea. My issue is that it implies that families have each other's back. Not every family lives by the value that they should look out for each other. Why bind them culturally like this? To some families, being a blood relative means nothing. Let them have that value if that is how they want to live.

Second, this diminishes agency. Yes, you can police other people. However, you can't control other people. It's already hard enough to do this for yourself, but at least when you screw up you can simply say "it was all my fault." There is amazing comfort and meaning in that it was all you.

With that said, culturally speaking: don't some Asian countries apply some of this of this system? I don't think they go as far as family punishment, but family honor is a thing. I have a suspicion that there are cultures in the world that have a more nuanced idea on how to implement stuff like this without the grating consequences of the loss of a huge chunk of agency (among other things).
At least it's not completely censored, that alone is nice
This is news to me. I only see the 11kw chargers in Berlin but perhaps I just don’t know where to look
Not your keys, not your cryptos. They don’t need to freeze anything on the blockchain, just block your PayPal account.
You can already do that with an iPad (sans fat OS). If you're using Blink Shell (https://blink.sh) the external display is independent of what's on the iPad too, which works really neatly. This is the exact setup I used as my main dev machine in a previous role.

Would be very nice to see if this works on the new iPhones. A thin client with decent security in your pocket with keyboard/mouse/display at both home and work seems like a very approachable computing setup.

Photo for reference: https://twitter.com/_______kim/status/1348736952330301440
Can someone please explain to me, in an objective non political way what German leadership is actually doing in the last 3-4 years?

It seems like complete economic suicide to me, and they are just doubling down all the time. I can morally understand not using russian energy, but the consequences of this seem to have been completely ignored. Even worse, all nuclear has been shut down, doubling down on dependence on outside powers like the US, middle east, and france.

All this in the name of green energy, arriving at loads more coal production and political dependence. Plus now, every german older household is forced to change their heater, at a cost of 500bn-1tn euros over the next decade.

It's just worse and worse, the largest power in europe is basically destroying itself.

Why? Why??

Recent german industrial production data for reference:
https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1699687261808263594
That is not a user-specified authority.
Stripe, bank transfers, crypto
I wasn't just talking about defragging. I was also talking about live volume shrinking.

> Also see my link for a solution on unix, where you can indeed fix this problem

Looping through every FD of every process just to find ones that reside in your volume of interest is... a hack. From the user's perspective, sure, it might work when you don't have something better. From the vendor's perspective, it's not the kind of solution you design for & tell people to use.

In fact, I think that "solution" is buggy. Every time you open a an object that doesn't belong to you, you extend its lifetime. I think that can break stuff. Like imagine you open a socket in some server, then the server closes it. Then that server (or another one) starts up again and tries to bind to the same port. But you're still holding it open, so now it can't do that, and it errors out.

> or simply kill the process holding the file.

That process might be a long-running process you want to keep running, or a system process. At that point you might as well not support live volume shrinking or defrags, and just tell people to reboot.

> Also the original post is about Windows installers... don't get me started on the topic (or windows services), please.

This seems pretty irrelevant to the point? It's not like they would design the kernel to say "we'll let you do this if you promise you're an installer".

> I face builds failing because I have a terminal open in a build output directory or a textfile in an editor open is far more often [...]

Yes, I agree it's frustrating. But have you considered the UX issues here? The user has C:\blah\foo.txt open, and you delete C:\blah\. The user saves foo.txt happily, then reopens it and... their data is gone? You: "Yeah, because I deleted it." User: "Wait but I was still using it??!"
I was under the impression that money transmitters do not accepts deposits as such, but can provide other stored value services (but not a lawyer). So for me the whole premise of the discussion feels somewhat flawed.
social conformity is the easiest type of human control, once you get enough people on board. unfortunately it all comes apart when the social rules have to change and you are faced with a majority of the population that has grown up and solidified their views and will not budge
Why is there no government action to prevent social assistance recipients of any sort from access to credit?
This feature has existed for more than 25 years.

My concern is more than Raymond Chen suggest that using it is still the recommended way. So much malware came through WScript.
Newly built wider roads would be a tiny proportion of the total as compared to the previous "unwidenable" roads, so making new roads wider would have little effect. It would be much more efficient to more strongly regulate/restrict/tax the width of cars so that they are the appropriate size for the vast majority of already existing roads in the UK.
> All the "ethical problems" usually are just older (usually) men in IT not understanding that people want to pay money to have fun.

Fucking absurd, to be frank. Watch a GDC talk on growing mobile F2P revenue and you will be exposed to a slew of deceptive methods for psychologically manipulating players (who are often kids) into addictive spending habits, often literally through gambling mechanisms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4
At my kids' school we were reminded of the fact that if they don't attend school for x days without a doctor's note, several times that it can impact the amount of child support from the govt.

No idea that existed but always thought it would be a good means to make sure kids go to school instead of just hanging around being a nuisance during school hours. When mom & dad can feel it in their bank account they'll make damn sure the kid goes to school.
Yes. Remember Dieselgate? BMW had to recall cars. Apple have to recall iPhone12.
In the table linked it says for "V2: 3090Ti" 30 t/s
Probably not, since Windows uses the executable file as backing for memory mapping.