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Show HN: I recorded nature sounds for a year, then released an ambient sound app
There are lots of ambient sound apps on the App Store, but they all seem to be paywalled. I thought I should make one where all the content was free.

I bought a secondhand professional audio recorder, then took it to national parks in Australia and Germany, in case I heard anything interesting. It was a bit of a learning experience, but I now have a library of half a dozen passable recordings.

The biggest problem was noise pollution: humans are noisy and everywhere; I never noticed until I started listening carefully for background noise. Traffic and building noise carries for huge distances.

I wrapped all the sounds up in a swiftUI interface, built around a curved video carousel.

I wanted to pay special attention to vision impaired users, so it all has VoiceOver support, and extra UI elements that can be turned on for vision impaired users.

It's free on the App Store if you want to take a look.
thx i look into it
Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for a few years.
The functionality is being migrated into youtube music
TFA explains the situation pretty well.

Google Podcasts is still around until next year, and the Youtube Music app will have that functionality added this year. It's all in the first paragraph.
Those still throttle after a soft cap.
Podcast Addict, been using it long before Google decided to try a podcast app.
I know sarcasm isn’t very hn but this is hard to distinguish from a genuine prediction.
Reminds me of this must see video for anyone interested in the topic, from someone explaining how to do these monetizations tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4

Sometimes I wonder what is is about specifically mobile gaming that makes this sort of thing so much more prevalent. Like it is very far from absent from PC or consoles, but it's still a bit different.
I highly recommend AntennaPod[1]. If you need/want sync, it can be achieved though gpodder[2].

[1] https://antennapod.org/

[2] https://gpodder.net/
Yes, there is always a 1D time aspect, which is always different than a 3D space aspect.

But relative to two observers traveling in different directions at relativistic speeds, the way time is observed to be oriented in a space time region (where the two observers directions of motions are not parallel) is different.

Different to the point that orders of events (their observed direction of time) can be completely flipped.

Upon smoothly changing the angle of one observer A’s motion, from parallel to the other observer B, to orthogonal, to reverse parallel, the observed order (observed time) changes.

A initially sees the ordering as identical to B’s, then simultaneous (no time between events, I.e. time is orthogonal to the space-time vector between events: space-time delta vector of all space, no time), then in reverse order (negative time orientation, relative to A’s observation of time).

They both see time, different than space, but its direction through space-time is observed to be in a different direction in space-time relative to each other’s observations of the same space-time position’s of events.

The orientation of time through space-time, the space-time basis vectors, change based on observation.

Between observers, space & time get traded off with each other.
EU's Breton tells Apple CEO to open its ecosystem to rivals
There was a conspiracy group that defended that was Morocco Secret Services, they even said with help of ETA (Basque terrorist group), and more fantastic ideas. It's a loony conspiracy idea that it was sold by the extreme right media and by an informal group called "Peones negros", supported by some media, think Fox group but the Spanish counterpart, and it was dismissed because it was just that a conspiracy theory for people that believe in the Illuminati, the dark council that rules the world in the shadows, and all that stupid and loony conspiracy theories. And I'm no friend of Morocco dictatorship but that was just stupid.
I've seen 18 years old full times (some that never went to college). I wouldn't be surprised to see a 17 year old intern or full time if they graduated college early.
I use PocketCast. Can't say I've investigated privacy or other concerns but it is free and seems quite functional with a good UI.
Been using Antenna[0] for years now, highly recommend!

[0] https://antennapod.org/
> To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I'd expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.

Interesting quote from Ben Hawkes (former Project Zero manager) in the article. I regularly compile Signal-Android from source and happened to notice they vendored libwebp a few days ago:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/a7d9fd19d...
The two other conditions listed in the page you link basically amount to "the buggy code has to run". Related, I think SSV [1], introduced last year, would also have blocked this bug even with SIP disabled. But none of that invalidates concern that areas of the OS we don't know about might not have the level of defence in depth that we would like - it's not like Apple has never cut corners or shipped bugs to hit a date.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secd698747c9/...
Those apps don't render WebP as far as I know so they should be fine.
In Finland and AFAIK all Nordics, all invoices must be VAT inclusive. If you are selling up until 15k EUR year you can do it VAT free, which is too small to be considered a professional business. Alternatively if you are selling services outside the EU (freelancing internationally).

It sounds like it was indeed subsidy for small businesses. I don’t know about Japan, but in some countries like Italy there is a problem of small inefficient businesses. Whether such direct or indirect subsidies are good or not for the economy as whole, to keep these small businesses around, is a good question which may not have a definite answer. Internationally it may reduce competitiveness, but it may be good for local and rural area employment, which increases the quality of life for a very small national cost.

Also there is cost for maintaining the records and adminstration: for 15k EUR/year this cost would be significant % for the actual value adding activity.
I only took sensors that have been tested by AQ-Spec into consideration because they mention the PM module used and the Awair Element was not tested by them.
I'm just waiting from Proton to stabilize theirs then I'll switch.
'Confidently incorrect' is the best phrase to explain it. Like a cat pouncing on the red dot of a laser pointer, it absolutely knows it's caught that truth.
> Chrome doesn't yet support a memory safe language

In addition to the safety features you mentioned, Chrome supports Wuffs, a memory safe programming language that supports runtime correctness checks, designed for writing parsers for untrusted files. I don’t think it existed at the start of the webp project either, but that’s what I would expect the webp parser to be written in, over Rust or a garbage collected language.

https://github.com/google/wuffs
Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator
Tell me with a straight face that you'd voluntarily buy something from China and send them crypto for payment.
It’s getting rolled into YouTube Music, not killed off.

The UI might not be as good. I guess we’ll see.
If you have points in a 2d space (a sheet of paper) and you want to separate them into two, you can draw a line between the two. The equation of a line is y = ax + b.

This is the equation of a neuron is you squint.

So if you chain a bunch of neurons, you are basically drawing a bunch of lines to test whether points belong or not.

With enough lines you can approximate any shape, like a circle.

What neural network do is given enough examples, it finds the lines that are needed to separate the points to give the appropriate label.
That's an interesting position. Could you explain in more detail what you mean? What is the correlation? Asking without sarcasm.
My phone came out in 2017. I'm still on Android 8. There's an update to Android 9.1 available somewhere, but AT&T never got around to porting it to their crapware-riddled fork.
YouTube.com/podcasts doesn't even fucking work outside the USA.
I used the new AI assisted LinkedIn summary and it had all the usual buzzwords I can't stand either but, alongside things like company 'culture' (we're a family here) it looked to me to be the kind of vapid and saccharine paragraph that presents the corporate image we 'want' to present. I thought hey, at least I didn't have to write it.
A year of lying about Nord Stream
But this just isn't the case, for your claim to be true we would have to be constrained to only do _inductive_ reasoning.

When we do _deductive_ reasoning, and we feel as though the reasoning has been done correctly, then we know something _assuredly_. Mathematics and empirical science are very different in this respect, that much of mathematics is purely deductive.
Can I ask how you get the autocomplete in VS Code? I've never managed to find an extension that does this, and by default the autocomplete only works on previously seen words (so it gets split by the colons in account names)
This is infuriating, I had just migrated from Stitcher to google Podcasts
This is a bizarre comment, what is this supposed to mean?
Youtube music has no functionality.
In both safe and unsafe languages
It’s also a dumpster fire that someone else pointed this out, then it was screenshot and posted again without attribution, then appropriate attribution was provided later
I'm a little confused, what is the usability issue?
> That was in the early 00’s iirc, prior to the net neutrality debate.

Net neutrality as a policy concept was first specifically named in 2003, in direct response to actions beginning to occur at the time, and the FCC chair at the time adopted four network freedom principles that are the core of net neutrality as guiding principles (at the time for case-by-case action without general regulation) in 2004; the first action in which they were put into practice was 2005.

The regulatory debate kicked off in earnest in 2010 when the FCC lost a court case over its non-regulatory application of the principles against Comcast’s BitTorrent blocking.
Mathematics is an outlier. Possibly because "innovation" in math doesn't involve bringing anything new into a world larger than that of a very few ivory tower mathematicians. Consider instead Nobel laureates:

https://www.nber.org/digest/dec05/great-inventions-come-late...
The good thing about the secure knot is that it's basically the same as the bunny loop, just one more pass through the hole.
Amazon to invest up to $4B in AI startup TechCrunch
PocketCasts is open source and is decent. It was bought by Automattic (who also own and develop WordPress), so should be a reasonably safe bet going forward.
Oh no, not that service I never used because I learned my lesson trusting Google with basic media organizational applications!

Seriously, it's sad that they broke their reputation on this, but the writing was on the wall from day zero. If you're an Android user, I recommend BeyondPod (http://www.beyondpod.mobi/android/index.htm): it's simple, it's reliable, it integrates to a search engine, and it also supports pasting in links with authentication so you can get any Patreon exclusive feeds you have access to (something that, to my knowledge, Google Podcasts was never able to support).
I realize this is generally an unpopular opinion around these parts but the way I see it we need more government intervention. The government needs to get back into the business of building affordable housing and needs to fund more needs based housing to help those who can’t afford market rates. They’re the only ones big enough to make a difference and without a profit movtive they’re the only ones who can reasonably make it happen. Private corporations aren’t going to do it because they won’t make enough or any money.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

They said the same thing with Google Play Music, and never added the same functionality to YT music, which is massively inferior for everything besides discovering new music
Un wow, that’s pretty drastic. Luckily you don’t run your country’s judiciary by the same criteria. Oh wait
Yes, I'm using it. I first started using Spotify for podcasts but those idiots (sorry Spotify) don't let you disable the auto play so it automatically starts a new podcast after you finish one. At least on the free tier. I then switched to Google. The reason I care is that I often listen to podcasts when I'm in bed at night as it helps me sleep.
I’m with you, but “bundling” sites like cable companies bundle channels is not even a correct analogy. Doing so would fundamentally break the internet as we know it and I am pretty certain the site owners wouldn’t like it either, since it could break ad-delivery. It would be a complicated mess that the ISPs would have to backpedal on. The simpler solution is just to change more money for everything and throttle, though I suppose they could create app-only access like what you’re describing (basically no direct access to port 80 via normal browsers). Or, recreate the glory days of something like AOL.
From an earlier article, if you're wondering the same as me:

> Podcasts in YouTube Music will be available regardless of whether you have a YouTube Premium subscription.
You actually never offered the only data that could tie all this together: How far in advance are you booking?
Nice tongue-in-cheek joke. Don't. At a given time, you are to be crypto savvy & be protected in the first place or don't be crypto savvy & use the legal system with fiat for better efficiency & solution
Yes and if other news outlets were already tricked, they could run an even better news story about that.
BBEdit has been my go to for a long time, as a person who came from Windows, it was a good replacement for Notepad++.

I'd love to buy it, but while I'd be happy to pay 99 bucks for a perpetual version with upgrades, I'm not willing to pay 50 dollars every unknown amount of time. Even if I might pay that for a known 5 years worth of updates.
The new look on mobile is radically better for me. Street names are visible and legible! Whatever the regression in usability is, I've been too busy enjoying being able to read street names when I'm trying to navigate or quickly orient myself.
Geee, wondering what the victims would say about this. Oh wait..
Been having the same problems, but I'm not using VPN at all.
Watch Carmack's interview with Lex Fridman. At least an hour is spent on this topic.
> If you’re a small business, you don’t pay VAT

Under the new Japanese system, if you're a small business but register to the tax office to get a number, you become taxable.

If instead you do nothing and don't register, you keep being exempt of taxation, except big clients will ask you for a registration number to get their rebates on their side, so you might lose them to other businesses that registered.
It's not just you. Most of the visible changes Google has made to its interfaces in the past few years have been horrific regressions. maps.google.com and google.com/maps got squished into each other and features are disappearing along the way.

I really need to get out of my Gmail account but I've got enough going on in my life to even begin to contemplate the struggle of deGoogling right now.
> because it’s been only 2 years

The net neutrality repeal took effect in 2018, its been 5 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/technology/net-neutrality...
It goes both ways:

It's incredible to see something that would take 2-3 days make $1.5M ARR :(

It's incredible to see something that would take 2-3 days make $1.5M ARR :)

Transcend ego and come drink your fill at the font of easy money. Don't let pride hold you back from what is probably the best ROI you can make as a SWE.
That was an annoying and janky migration, but Youtube Music has a better interface than Google Play Music ever did.

Though conceptually it's still just weird. A video that I like on youtube because of the video component isn't necessarily a song I want to listen to as music. Also it really needs the ability to block music from certain artists.
Rediscovering Web 1.0 Principles in Virtual Worlds
Hey all, i've been super thoughtful about HTMX and how it's challenging the landscape, I hope you enjoy my article about some of it's core ideas in a different interactive world.
With three results based on this discussion and and one content reposting site :-)
happen to have those css mods handy?
Sorry to be a finance idiot, but why would the entire global financial system explode?
TBH this doesn't matter that much, as there are plenty of other great podcast apps that one can use. This is one of the things I love most about the podcast ecosystem is that (at least for now), it's a very open platform with the exception of Spotify exclusives.
Or it shows that they don't want to abuse their position?
Just noticed that Google Meet video effects are finally working in FF. That's one less thing I need Chrome for.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/google-meet-fir...
Yes and no. In practice evidence suggests they were planning to heavily rely on app store install counts for games not using unity services, and thus for which they had no better data. This is part of the reason why they were being so cagey about how they would estimate the install counts, because they would be heavily using relatively crude approaches like that. (and also hadn't fully worked out the details).

For IOS, for example, reinstalls don't increase that counter. I'm not sure how it works with the Play Store.

They almost certainly said that reinstalls would could because they might count for some platforms.
It's getting killed off. Some features from Google Podcasts may make their way into YT Music, but I doubt all of them will (the Google Play Music 'migration' told me everything I need to know)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230926141245/https://www.daily...
My animator friend is very upset about this because she will lose 10% of her income. I'm not sure if the anger is directed into the right direction, but I agree that it is not really a good change. I'm not looking forward to the effort and to publish my adress either.
Inflation this year is absolutely brutal with some groceries almost twice as expensive.

As a freelancer I can invoice a client with consumption tax on the invoice, but not pay the consumption tax, yet the client can get the consumption tax he paid to me back. I wouldn't be suprised if criminals managed to get money from the government through fake invoices.
I was a paid Google Music from way back. The best thing about the move to YouTube Music was opening up all kinds of independent tracks and mashups that weren't available in official music catalogs.
Yes i was laid off with 20 other people.

Got 6 weeks worth of salary, managed to find a job within a month or so, so it wasnt too bad, but i only got the same salary (i didnt ask for more since i needed a job :D, its different if one does not need a new job)

It didnt feel good but i shacked my feelings of and moved on pretty quickly.
Yes, but does risking a tipping point within the next 12 years (22, by the time we move past it?) from the much higher near term impact seem like a good idea? I think the real point is to debunk natural gas as an acceptable energy source going forward. Obviously, it will take time to phase it out, but there are people out there making the argument that it's a good solution to the variability problem with renewables.
astrology is not wrong, because it doesn't say anything provable. it just is. it's like saying poetry is wrong or paintings are wrong
Haha, the alternative the author proposes looks like either Mithril or jQuery-over-JSON. Those patterns (done like that, not jQuery) have a very concrete problem of failing 90% of the rendering in case of errors ("Don't have errors in your page then." "There weren't errors in my page prior to this breaking change in ES/DOM API."), and they aren't ergonomic (matter of taste maybe...) if they aren't transpiled from something more palatable.

I'm not really sure about why "that" would be more modern than "this" (reactive frameworks), too.
I use Pocket Casts [1]. Can't say I've investigated privacy or other concerns but it is free and seems quite functional with a good UI.

[1] https://pocketcasts.com/
It's mainly about the title and the article on Techcrunch. The interview and the other links you provided are more reasonable and less click-baity.
I think you are both getting lost in the weeds trying to make this metaphor work, or not work.

Math is simply the logical conclusion of a set of conditions someone accepts as inherently true. If this, then that. Follow this logic far enough and you end up where we are today.
How is it that we live in 2023 and apple’s native podcast app is pretty mediocre and now Google is killing one that was slightly better.
Check out the difference between Apple Maps and Google Maps when looking at an airport (O'Hare).
https://imgur.com/a/BlvCImv
Apple puts emphasis on security checkpoints and gate numbers, where Google puts emphasis on McDonalds and Starbucks
I love the eff, but I think the comment still stands — it’s not a mass market organisation. Unlike unions, it’s not clear what service eff provides to individuals, and so the market for membership is lower. That’s not a critique of eff, but perhaps a constraint on its effectiveness in contrast to unions in labour relations.
The early North American SM-64 Navaho supersonic cruise missile that was cancelled developed some technologies that were later used in other projects.
(Same for Lockheed Suntan.) If you fly high and fast enough, there's considerable overlap with spacecraft navigation technologies. You can navigate in space with sextant too. No trouble with clouds!
And small businesses have median wages below average.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/15v1cz5/err_net...

Using the official wireguard client allegedly works, but I don't know how they handle ip assignment, which is the complicated part for commercial VPNs like that.

Changing locations sometimes helps.
> AI and Capitalism are a toxic mix

The only worse combinations would be AI+Communism, or (arguably what we have) AI+Facism
Good riddance, what a dumpster fire. The tiny buttons for pause, replay, skip buttons are all right next to each other on the lock screen, so you often skip podcasts when you really want to pause or fast forward. on the other hand, the rewind 10-seconds button has half the real estate of the widget. Downloads arent automatically deleted even after the episode is completed (even if you mark as played or remove from queue). There's no skip intro/outro options.

Frankly, the Overcast app is one of the main things attracting me to iOS at this point, and a dearth of good native podcast clients is hurting the Pixel/Google ecosystem
Gaseous carbon.
If math is not real, it should be complex then.
> The move will leave only Apple among the major players that hasn’t consolidated music and podcasts into a single destination

Apple just finished UNbundling everything from one monolithic app, now people want it back?