skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think of 'Aether as a possible medium that we haven't discovered yet and that may not exist' then you wouldn't be too far off. The difference between that and pseudo-science is obvious: the existence of Aether can be proven (or disproven), the typical pseudo-science stays very far away from naming any testable hypothesis and instead focuses on how the proponents of pseudo-science are being repressed. But let me point you to a youtube link that will lay it all out in great detail...
Yeah, someone on that Reddit thread said it right - force the companies to publish documentation for the interfaces. Let the hackers write the drivers without painful, slow and error-prone reverse engineering.
Degrees can be overrated. I've worked with somebody about that age who also doesn't have a degree, and who also started working at AT&T. He worked his way up to programming, & he learned UNIX systems programming and networking fairly early on. He leveraged that into several jobs with tech companies, and is a principal engineer at one right now. He speaks at conferences and has many academic papers and citations, and has made major contributions to his field. (not mentioning his name in case its not common knowledge that he doesn't have a degree).
To be fair, because of my job I hear about a lot of issues at the national level, and ICS (like power plants, water treatment facilities, etc) have terrible track record of security (think: admin panels with default password just left open on the internet). I think even Microsoft will better than that, since they actually know what they're doing (compared to a bunch of engineers managing the plant).
How many silly Bitcoin networks' worth of energy are required to train the models that generate these silly JPEGs?

FTFY
having someone on the founding team who has a sizable network on social media is an unfair advantage ex: rauchg-nextjs sahil-gumroad and so on.
That's the sunk cost fallacy. They're gonna pay it regardless, it doesn't matter if people show up or not. It's still cheaper to not have folks show up because then you don't have to pay for all the ongoing incidental charges.
I think an autorouter does come in handy, but not if you use it blindly. How well it does is as you would expect of any other tool that operates without complete information.

It can't trivially tell which areas of your board you have intended for analog signals, or where high speed things are. When you autoroute a 2 layer board (in particular) if you don't drop vias next to ground pins it goes nuts trying to connect ground pins with a ground pour constantly changing. It tries to keep traces as close as possible to edges where a human would really just give it "breathing room". If you want to make a prototype that can be reworked, you need to be super careful (you always do, but it's easier to miss a lack of accessibility if it's automatic). It orients traces in ways that are in accordance with a score metric rather than geometric elegance, legibility, or crosstalk because it doesn't know what signals are where.

None of these are unsolvable, but they are the kinds of problems I expect when I use it. That said, if I have 1000 traces to route I will do 970 of them manually and be grateful for the autorouter doing the last 30 that would take me a half day to figure out a clean path for.

The problem comes when people think an autorouter is a computer program written by people who know about their PCB and that the results will approximate an expert doing an okay job. Then they realize that's not the case and decide the autorouter cannot do a decent job ever. Much later they realize that if they actually learn how the autorouter works they can use it as a tool to do... what the autorouter is programmed to do. But it can't read the designer's mind.
There is no pressure if you don’t need much money and get it from right people, who know the deal upfront
Nice! Big improvement over DALL-E 2.

"ginger tabby cat with ginger eyes, and black cat with green eyes, big wave surfing each on their own surfboard, photographed by a drone"

https://imgur.com/uKbkoke
The Ford F150 is the best selling car in the US by a long-shot and it's a gas guzzler. Given that, I don't think consumers care a lot about how much they pay in taxes when deciding on a vehicle to purchase.

I don't think this'd have the incentive that you're suggesting it would unless something else is done, such as increasing the tax overall.
Sorry, my mistake. Four DAWs: Live, Bitwig, FL Studio, Reaper. We'll have to agree to disagree on whether or VCV (which I use very regularly) or trackers are a DAW or not.

I agree with you about pitchbend, but you're narrowing what "play between the notes" means: you seeem to mean "polyphonic note expression", which is a feature that quite a few physical instruments (not just piano) lack.

MPE doesn't need to be supported by the DAW, only by the synthesizer. It's just regular MIDI 1.0, with different semantics. It's more awkward to edit MPE in a DAW that doesn't support, but not impossible. Recording and playback of MPE requires nothing of the DAW at all.

> the UI will still typically look like a 12-tone piano

We just revised the track header piano roll in Ardour 8 as step one of a likely 3-4 step process of supporting non-12TET. Specifically, at the next step, it will not (necessarily) look like a 12-tone piano.

> Audio is a pretty latency sensitive, mostly strictly sequential workload

It's sequential per voice/track, not typically sequential across an entire composition.

IPC gains are not required unless you insist on process-level separation, which has its own costs (and gains, though mostly as a band-aid over crappy code).

If you're already doing so much processing in a single track that one of your 5900X cores can't keep up, then I sympathize, but you're in a small minority at this point.

Faster CPUs don't help graphics when the graphics layers have been written for years to use non-CPU hardware. Also, as you sort of implicitly note, there's a more inherent parallelism and also decomposability of graphics operations to GPU-style primitives than there is for audio (at least, we haven't found it yet).

Offloading to external DSP hardware keeps popping up in various forms every year (or two). In cases where the device is connected directly to your audio interface (e.g. via ADAT or S/PDIF), using such things in a DAW designed for it is really pretty easy (in Ardour you just add an Insert processor and connect the I/O of the Insert to the appropriate channels of your interface. However, things like the BigMuff make the terrible mistake of being just another USB audio device, and since these things can't share a sample clock, that means you need software to do clock correction (essentially, resampling). You can do that already with technology I've been involved with, but there's not much to recommend about it. The Overbridge doesn't have precisely the same problem in all cases, but it can.
Really your example serves as disproving your point, without the hardware walled garden there could be nothing to prevent apple to distribute the software to copy-paste from-to multiple devices
Or that Apple simply changes the default Bing, offering something less but greater than 0, and Google loses out on >20 billion in ad revenue.
IT workers may need to physically move things like servers around so it seems to be a reasonable requirement.
Yes, indeed! The actual rate of heat transfer is equal to the temperature delta divided by the thermal resistivity of the body-environment interface. So, to keep your body temperature constant, the temperature delta needs to be your metabolic rate multiplied by the thermal resistivity.

The thermal resistivity depends on, among other things, the material you're surrounded by. That's why if you wear insulating clothes, you're comfortable at a lower environmental temperature (i.e. higher temperature delta).

To this you can add the effect of convection: if the air is moving then you don't accumulate a layer of warmer air around you, so the effective temperature delta is higher. And unless you're in a hot tub or air at 100% relative humidity, then some of the heat you produce goes into evaporating sweat. It takes energy to vaporize water, and this energy is locked into the water vapor until it condenses somewhere else.
I haven’t done the math, but I wouldn’t be utterly shocked if undithered 16-bit audio, cranked up some silly amount (such that full scale is 130dBA perhaps) has an audible noise floor.

This is consistent with my other comment about badly encoded MP3 being far from transparent.
Perhaps there is a better archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230930133128/https://www.newyo...
I didn't claim that it birthed it but that the same issue I see in the unsustainability in software today is literally the norm in the kernel. If it's bad in one domain, perhaps it's reasonable to question its value in the other.
Recommended reading: Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsche
I'm quite surprised of what Postman and Insomnia did. They barely have any moat, they basically sell GUI and API for cURL.

I had been using Postman and got annoyed it, so I developed my own API exploration and testing tool for my use case. I also saw recently that there is a YC-backed Postman competitor, let alone a dozen of other open source alternatives.
Not really the biggest difference, I feel. In Prometheus, you only have the data you scrape. So lets say you scrape every minute. Then all you have is a counter per pod increasing from some value to something else.

With influx you can save every event. So you know exactly when it happened, the unique labels for that event etc. It's a completely different paradigm.

So in Prometheus you have

myCounter,pod=1,time=20:23,value=1000
myCounter,pod=2,time=20:23,value=500
myCounter,pod=1,time=20:24,value=1100
myCounter,pod=2,time=20:24,value=700

so all you know is that some event happened 100 times on pod1 and 200 times on pod2 the last minute. But with influx you could have a row for every single event. Of course that explodes the query time in comparison, but allows you to do much more with the data if needed.
I know no other way to say this. But this idea is just dumb. The entire value proposition would be worse for everyone. Software and hardware integration is what makes a product better.
There's no shortage of anything except training and wages/benefits. At some point, companies are going to have to bite the bullet and start training their own employees. The horror!
I think (based on my limited research) it's either a loose affiliation (mainly based in China or Russia), or the children of party elites who likely have more privileges and access than thr average North Korean.
"you need more than anecdotal evidence"

"have some anecdotal evidence"
The house price to average income ratio has become much worse over time in most "developed" economies.

There is a mountain of good enough cheap products now due to global supply chains, but you have to stuff them into a tiny flat/apartment.

Sitting on a papier-mâché chair in a well sized home is by far the better situation.
A New Precedent–A.I. Gets the “American Nobel” Prize in Medicine
>AlphaFold was the first A.I. to receive the Lasker Award since the "American Nobels" began in 1945
> I think Hanlon’s Razor applies here. You don’t need to read a conspiracy into it

No one needs to interpret a conspiracy into at least the Musk side of things. It's very clear by what he says (and backed by the utter drivel he posts and reXes all day):

> “Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.

The only angle that is a bit conspiratorial in nature is the Saudi involvement, but here it's hard to justify any other interpretation - either the Saudis ordered Musk around (which I find hard to believe), Musk conned them (even harder to believe), they underestimated Musk's intentions / the state of Twitter Inc (possible but if it were true it'd raise serious questions about their capacity/ability for due diligence) or they are silently agreeing with what is going on. I mean, they make a lot of money so they can afford to make mistakes, but many billions of dollars are still many billions of dollars.
I have a skeletal deformity in my neck that causes severe cervicogenic headaches. One of the best ways to relieve them is to rest the front of my head on something, or even push against it.

If anyone finds a place these are available in the U.S., please let me know. This could be a game-changer for me where nothing else works well.
Why do you need to build the blockchain out of it to begin with? Just use an ordinary blockchain to send payments to people doing inference for you.
You really made a throwaway just to spread far-right talking points about trans kids? Christ, dude.

Also twelve-year olds are not routinely getting gender-affirming surgery, full stop. Most twelve year olds don't even have complete secondary sex characteristics yet. How are you going to get top surgery if you barely have breasts?
Here is a posting[1] from a thread about a somewhat related experience with a bank more than 30 years ago, from the RISKS Digest, 1988:

"Someone, in this case a customer though in other cases it has often been an employee, complains that something is badly amiss with some system, receives no redress, and finds that their reports are ignored. ..."

1. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7.09.html#subj1
All this is just pure propaganda. I live here ... 40% of population is arab here in Jerusalem ... We walk in the same streets, we shop in the same malls, we study in the same universities, we work together.

90% of "refugees" where born in Egypt or Jordan or other arabs countries.

So your propaganda about ethnical cleansing and apartheid make Zero sense when arabs are doctors in our hospitals or members of parlement in our government...

Maybe you should just stop repeating Palestinian propaganda and come see by yourself?
> Meta-meta-comment, but "horrible" is your value judgement, which isn't shared by everybod

> I do feel Rakuten's website is "horrible"
> No, no one even has the biological ability to. 44100khz, 16-bit audio can perfectly reproduce audio as far as we can physically tell. The only reason to store anything higher is for production or archiving (that is, for computers to listen to).

I'm not an expert, but one claim I saw somewhere is that a higher bit width and sample rate is good for people who are mixing and doing audio processing, even where the final result might get downsampled to 44100 hz and 16 bits per sample at the last stage.
As far as I can tell, the issue is people misrepresenting what the review says, not that the review is faulty.

The review concludes that we have evidence that masks are effective, but the set of papers reviewed cannot be used to conclude we know the level of effectiveness enough to make accurate judgements on tradeoffs in many of the kinds of situations where people were asked to wear masks in the pandemic. So we don't know enough yet.

I read a bunch of the criticisms of this paper and criticism of the anti-maskers misrepresentation of what it said, and none of the ones I found suggested that there were missed papers which provide the precision the review didn't find.

The Guardian article is a mixed bag in my opinion. It tries to get around the idea that we really need more research, it confuses a lot of things.

(BTW, I am not an anti masker, I wore a mask, I find people who whine about wearing them to be a bit pathetic most of the time.)
>>>Either way, this kind of thing has sort of already happened in Japan.

Can you explain?
Almost like corruption exploiting homelessness.
Not necessarily. Civilization is built on knowledge of people who procreated and who didn't.
And the only evidence the prosecution needs to show is some log messages from the system saying the math doesn't add up? Nothing else?
> Indeed, the scale of these emissions is significant. Particulate emissions from tires and brakes, particularly in the PM2.5 and PM10 size ranges, are believed to exceed the mass of tailpipe emissions from modern vehicle fleets, as per a study published in Science of the Total Environment this year.

This simply cannot be true. Tailpipe emissions have more mass than the gasoline that gets burned. A car uses several liters od gasoline per 100km. I am pretty sure no car loses several kilograms of tire or brake matter over 100km.
I'm sure Isaacson expected the same slander similar to what happened with the Jobs book posthumously. I thought back then he "lost" his credibility too?

I have seen two of these type of book reviews this week. Both are very politically charged due to the subject still being alive and active in politics themselves.

> Do we — the readers of Isaacson’s book — want this particular man’s vision of the future at all?

No, but I can enjoy reading a book about a prominent/controversial figure in our history that I can learn something from(what to do or what not to do). The same is true for every Isaacson book.
A BDR who may be instrumental in bringing in multi-million dollar contracts might be paid minimum wage.

There's no obvious correlation between high pay and value delivered.
"But now it seems so obviously wrong that it’s almost laughable anyone could ever take it seriously"

Was it really that laughable?

"Whatever difficulties we may have in forming a consistent idea of the constitution of the aether, there can be no doubt that the interplanetary and interstellar spaces are not empty, but are occupied by a material substance or body, which is certainly the largest, and probably the most uniform body of which we have any knowledge.”
(James Clerk Maxwell)

We discovered there is no true vacuum. And we still don't know how exactly electromagnetic waves travel, or how gravitaion works. So the old modell of aether is clearly wrong, but before we have not come up with a consistent model explaining all of it, I would not call it laughable. It made sense at the time. And to me there still is some appeall to the basic concept, that there must be something allowing the spreading of the various waves. Or is that question solved by now?
things that are slightly louder "sound better". How did you control this sort of thing?
I agree with your assessment, but there is still some chance that there's a big innovation in nuclear that we can't foresee.

Sure, it's been around nearly three quarters of a century, but there is a chance. People in the industry have not been focused on innovation, so there has not been much exploration of the space, and honestly even going back to the pre-TMI era it wasn't about driving down costs as much as massive projects.

Battery tech was stagnant for a long long time before the current decades-long innovation push in lithium ion. I think we could see something like this for nuclear, especially if they get away from thermal conversion to electricity and figure out direct conversion of some sort (this is pure sci-fi right now!)

I'm not hopeful, and it won't happen soon, but the space has not been fully explored, IMHO, so there's a non-zero chance oh something disruptive. Perhaps not with the current on the table proposals at the SMR startups, but outside of that there is room for a shakeup. Let's check again in the 2060s or 2080s we'll have something fantastic.
In case people missed this particular (micro)trend:

Bitcoin mining company buys Pennsylvania power plant to meet electricity needs [1]

A Bitcoin Boom Fueled by Cheap Power, Empty Plants and Few Rules [2]

Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared [3]

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/91430-bitcoin-mining-company-b...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/nyregion/bitcoin-mining-u...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m...
Do you realize how much the PC ecosystem sucked back then?
Thanks for your thoughts, I think the context you're contributing is fantastic.

In both cases, the men have committed a severe injustice to society. And in both cases, it seems like they knew better than to do it, but chose to do it, anyways. I don't know if I can absolve Midgley of his moral duties to society in my mind, similar to Freeman.

What's a crime is a bit subjective, but different frameworks give us different definitions. Legally, a crime is something that breaks a norm enshrined in law. It is not unlikely that these men have not committed crimes in that sense. Morally, a crime is a deliberate injustice that harms others. With this definition, I think that these men have committed crimes.

And in some ways, it would be easier to forgive them, if they would admit to having committed a crime or an injustice. There's a very interesting talk by Elizabeth Bruenig on this [0], and she is much more articulate in philosophy than I will ever be. But I do think that once we can say that "if this person just admitted their wrongs, society could heal", that is some evidence of a moral crime having been committed.

> Pride, wrath, sloth, lust, greed, envy, and gluttony

I am not a religious man, but I think this is a good framework to judge the actions of Midgley and Freeman through. I would also add callous, ruthless ambition to that list. Allowing men like this to succeed is certainly nothing to be proud of for us as society.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87EYmV6v_nE
I always wonder why this pattern is not more popular: https://sive.rs/pg

We try to put a clean API on everything, except the one place where it really matters...
Brave has the same user agent as Chrome to avoid being treated differently or blocked outright because of the built-in adblocker and anti-tracking features. It counts towards Chrome in web analytics.
That's not what 'Dark' means in this context. It's not that it is too far away to be detected, it is non-luminous (as in: not emitting any electromagnetic radiation) and so it isn't detectable other than by its secondary effects on other objects.

Black holes are another example of something that we can not directly observe using instruments, but that we can observe through their secondary effects. But black holes are part of the cosmic accounting book in an identified manner, dark matter is not.
Robotics is my guess
It's simply a variation on Poe's Law, which origin is from 2005.
Hydrogen Audio?
Is there any other way of running full uBO on a phone?

Open a website in Firefox, click on three dots, click on "install", and you have an ad-free version of the app you'd otherwise find in the Play Store.

Just that one extension alone makes Firefox objectively better than Chrome or any of its Android forks. It is a slam dunk. Having all extensions available is a nice cherry on top, but no other desktop extension is as important as uBO.
I want to add a bit of context from the government’s article:

> Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023.
This is selling a lot of cures to pain points I have, but it strikes me that a lot of this could be achieved without AI, so how does this work?

The early paywall caught me off-guard and I came here to check comments. It seems DoNotPay has some oppressive terms and past blunders, so I will sit this one out for now.
1. Hardware companies need some software to test their product, so this will be wasting their effort.

2. Good documentation and testing is probably not as common as you think.

3. It takes a huge amount of effort to write high quality drivers by reverse engineering. The thing about Asahi Linux is that the hardware does not have many variants, but there are a lot more different hardware for PCs.
If I understand CHERI correctly it would be UAF + only intended pointer operations on pointers.
Looks similar to those travel pillows except this is more rigid and not inflatable.

Good idea, not sure how comfortable