skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The car noise problem is partially solved (or improved) by EVs, actually. The tires used on EVs tend to be efficient (low rolling resistance), which translates to less noisy tires. Additionally, their body shape tends to aim towards very aerodynamic so they have less turbulence noise. If they didn't do this, their efficiency would be much worse so it essentially becomes a necessity.

It's pretty evident when you drive next to a large vehicle with knobby tires meant for off-roading (Jeeps seem to commonly have these). The tire noise is easily MUCH louder, even ignoring any engine noise.

The other thing, broadly, is road construction can lead to a huge difference in noise from highways. I'm sure you've experienced huge differences depending on the road surface.
In the context of someone claiming that chaining inputs fixes most jailbreaks, it is correct to say that it "doesn't work."

Chaining input does work better at filtering bad prompts, yes. It doesn't fix them. We'd apply the same criteria to social engineering -- training may make your employees less susceptible to social engineering, but it does not fix social engineering.
Lots of good reasons already mentioned, but there were 2 killer reasons for me: developer tools and extensions. I really wanted to stick with Firefox, but as someone working on the web, it was an appalling experience. And then Chrome just kept getting better and better extensions that I couldn’t find elsewhere.

Obviously Firefox becoming much slower and heavier over time, whilst introducing anti-features didn’t help either.

I despise Google now, so I don’t use Chrome anymore. But I’m not going back to Firefox either. The trust battery towards Mozilla never got back from zero.
An Apple Watch with cellular capabilities is that? I presume they want it connected to an iPhone at least to maintain iPhone sales, but you can leave the iPhone at home.
People on the outside can hear it though.
Worth noting 48KHz audio is now a commonly encountered standard for video. Not to say it’s necessarily audibly discernible from 44K but it’s obviously not quite as straightforward as 44K being the end of the story.
> At 300KHz, the sound has a wavelength of 1mm

And that’s in air. In water (which is more like what most bodily tissues are made of) the speed of sound is almost five times higher so the wavelength is five times longer.
I have a similar anecdote in my career as a developer.

At the height of the financial crisis I was just 2 years out of school and working for a small startup. Our first child was just born, and I got fired from my job as they discovered I was trying to bootstrap my side-project. There was no non-compete clauses in my contract but the company used it as an excuse to avoid paying me severance as they laid off a quarter of the staff the following week.

So there I was, anxious that no one would hire a young developer who has a tarnished work experience with a newborn at home.

I was desperate to just find some work. I eventually got two offers with the exact same salary as the job I had gotten fired from. One job sounded more appealing and offered me a chance to learn and grow. The other was for a job to maintain an existing legacy codebase for a struggling company that just went from 100 employees to 10. My wife suggested to just counter-offer with a 50% increase for the unappealing job. If I didn't get it, it was no big loss as I had another in hand. Sure enough, they accepted and the job wasn't actually that bad in the end.

Strangely, when I look back everything turned out in the end for me. I got a 50% pay raise and I also got to spend 3 months at home with my newborn child while unemployed.
> You think they’re happier to pay more than to pay less? I’m having a hard time believing that hypothetical.

I believe it. Here's an anecdote which blew my mind when I saw it as a kid, and which illustrates the point.

When I was growing up, we had a guy in our church who made guitars. Beautiful instruments (seriously, look up Petros guitars sometime because they're really beautiful), and played/sounded good to boot. Bruce was charging between $3000 and $6000 at the time depending on specifics, so while pricey they weren't expensive by guitar standards. He told me that he got feedback from customers that they weren't sure whether or not his guitars would be good, because they were priced so reasonably (compared to what one would expect to spend on a custom made guitar).

So Bruce decided to raise his prices, and see what happened. He said his sales went up after raising prices, presumably because the guitars were now at a price point where people went "yeah this is what a custom handmade instrument should cost" rather than "what's the catch here". Weird, but hard to argue with results. People aren't always rational buyers, as someone else pointed out.
N=1 but I've felt that I always sleep better when I've spent an hour in the sun that day. Considering how the sun has been a constant during much of human evolution, it just makes sense that our biological processes, both known and unknown, should revolve around it.
I mean i dont think requiring dkim would stop attacks based on totally broken authentication. In that scenario, mailchimp might as well be signing the emails for the incorrect domain as well.
Yep, as Monty showed in the 2nd xiph video a square wave will have issues with a low nquist frequency (at for eg 44khz sampling).
Not at l surprised by this. I conducted a similar experiment when I was trying to get it to generate a body for a "Nigerian prince" email. It outright refused at first, but it was perfectly happy when I just told it that I, Prince Abubu, just wanted to send a message to all my friends about the money I needed to reclaim my throne.
This is an important point. The main reason that pro audio gear pushes bit depth and sample rate up to higher that 16/44.1 audio is because when you start doing the floating point math to mix and apply effects to audio you can end up with audible differences when multitrack recording. In this case (and I still think it’s optional for all but the most demanding recording of live performance) higher sample rates can help and to a lesser degree but depth can give you more dynamic range.

I give that long preamble to say once a record is done and mastered, having > 16/44.1khz is wasted bandwidth.
I know this is maybe completely out there, but could focused ultrasound be used to heat up food? The current issue with microwaves is that they heat up food very unevenly. I am sure the current cost is quite prohibitive and all. I'm more interested in the science part itself.
Does anyone know if on company-provided macOS/macbook, can these kinds of tracking programs turn the microphone or webcam on without it being indicated in the system?

Obviously, it is a device that's not yours and the company can do all kinds of things such as installing rootkits and other things to do whatever, but putting that aside, short of that level of commitment, is anyone familiar with these kinds of programs and whether or not they indicate in some way (e.g. macOS-level indicators that some app is using the microphone/webcam).

I'm just curious if I have my work laptop in clamshell mode and it goes to sleep, to what extent is it not a 24/7 active bug? Maybe I should be shutting it down every single moment that I don't want to risk being spied on?

Is "sleeping" the macbook and closing it shut, enough? Is it low-level enough of a block, or can apps circumvent even that?

I'm specifically putting aside Pegasus-level circumventions here, since then all bets are off. I'm just thinking about 'off-the-shelf' level apps that companies can license and use.
Wow, didn't see that Zambia one, that's big news to me.

Question - how can they prove that someone in more recent times didn't notch more ancient wood?
Based on the name of the post I assume you've already looked/are aware of it, but just it case, check out some projects from past Data Science for Social Good summer programs/fellowships?
The vetting and hoops of interviews (talent side).

From the client side, there's nothing onerous but Toptal also prioritizes (requires?) clients that have mid to longer term commitments.
"context" : another word for ad hominem argument

you did at least respond to some arguments, so I'll give you that.
Presumably these companies would like to follow up with finding out __why__ work is not getting done. Not that I agree, but these companies seem to think that coming to the office increases productivity.
We chanced upon what may be the world’s largest white hydrogen deposit
I think part of this issue is: what is a sysadmin? That’s a pretty hard question to answer today. Maybe it was more straight forward in the 80s or 90s. But if you go to /r/sysadmin you have desktop support, help desk, office 365 admins who only use a gui, solo it guy in a small business, and also programmers, devops, cloud architects and network engineers.

The sysadmins who were already automating large amounts of tasks for n Unix servers and k switches with p services, had a vastly different skill set and migrated to the more modern software defined devops SRe world no problem. But plenty of sysadmins basically could (and some still) only use a gui, and do things from trial and error. Those people might have retired or become managers, but they had a lot more issues with the transition. Which to be fair the transition happened fast and hard in some companies.
As noted in other replies, this isn’t the Stata homepage, but rather an academic page about the use of the program. Apologies for the confusion, I chose it because it has images that neatly match what Silver shows.
That we pay for with our taxes? How much property tax does one in a high rise apartment pay?

My suburban neighborhood also has a metro tax district that funds the roads sewers etc.
On $10 cheap buds? Yes. On $100 middling buds? Very, very few people will notice a difference.
Those are all real complications!

A big one is students have far more to lose. “Solutions” are generally worse than the problems they address.

Grad-student / professor-advisor relationships are extremely personalized as well as career impacting. And not hot swappable.

Losing an advisor and getting any kind of rep can be disastrous. Degrees can flounder and die in an awkward aftermath.

I have no idea how faculty & peers should help, after the fact. In both examples above, people knew & didn’t approve. But stepping in would have been war - with the probability of everyone regretting everything.

A culture that emphasized ethical student treatment, with specific examples about research and going into business with students, might be preventative.

But on the going into business side, a lot of universities want to parasitically insert themselves into that too.

To me that is a conflict of interest with their educational mandate, but administrations think they must feed to grow & grow to feed.
> Outside the English-speaking world, identity politics didn't really take hold.

The idea that identity politics (especially considering ethnic and religious identity politics, the two most significant kinds anywhere) are uniquely a feature of the English speaking world is... amusing.

> Things like the blackface issue, affirmative action or the Rowling debacle don't make "cultural sense" here, even to those who lean left.

Blackface specifically is about a particular manifestation of racism in American history, so in that point it makes sense.

Affirmative action, though, particularly on gender, ethnic, and/or linguistic-community grounds (and often in the strict quota sense that has long been illegal in the US) is enormously common in non-English-speaking European countries (and, from what I can tell, faces very similar controversies to those over affirmative action in the US; unlike the US, the biggest issue isn't “race” in the narrow traditional sense, but then Europe has much less racial diversity to start with.)
Euthanasia for someone temporarily depressed is probably not something humanity can handle without abuse.

It’s like a ‘guns for all’ policy.
I expect they've sponsored a lot of research. So you've read it all?
In case anyone is curious, I took a quick look at my copy of the set:

- The Fellowship of the Ring

- Theatrical: 66.7 GiB video @ 53.5 Mbps, 3.81 GiB English audio @ 3055 kbps

- Extended disc 1: 51.5 GiB video @ 69.8 Mbps, 2.22 GiB English audio @ 3000 kbps

- Extended disc 2: 56.8 GiB video @ 66.4 Mbps, 2.56 GiB English audio @ 2989 kbps

- The Two Towers

- Theatrical: 72.4 GiB video @ 57.8 Mbps, 3.90 GiB English audio @ 3108 kbps

- Extended disc 1: 49.8 GiB video @ 66.9 Mbps, 2.30 GiB English audio @ 3089 kbps

- Extended disc 2: 52.6 GiB video @ 58.4 Mbps, 2.73 GiB English audio @ 3032 kbps

- The Return of the King

- Theatrical: 73.2 GiB video @ 52.1 Mbps, 4.33 GiB English audio @ 3086 kbps

- Extended disc 1: 59.2 GiB video @ 66.3 Mbps, 2.66 GiB English audio @ 2985 kbps

- Extended disc 2: 61.5 GiB video @ 64.9 Mbps, 2.80 GiB English audio @ 2957 kbps
> you are lying to yourself until [...]

Not really. I'm not proposing a hypothesis that needs testing; I'm just reporting subjective anecdata. I don't need to test it, because even if I'm deluded it costs me 300GB instead of 100GB. Pfft.

"Lying to yourself" is silly talk; that implies that I'm knowingly telling myself a falsehood, which doesn't make sense. At worst, I'm mistaken.
> What's wrong with kitboga, out of interest?

Can't pin it down exactly. He's doing good work with scambaiting, though.

> Also I don't think scam callers put any great deal of thinking or art into the craft (compared to LLM jailbreaking).

I wouldn't underestimate them. A fool and his money are easily parted - but 19 billion dollars a year on phone call scams alone[1]? That's either a lot of fools, or very skilled scammers.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050001/money-lost-to-ph...
Kaluma Puts JavaScript on the RP2040
I've asthma, and literally can't even blow up a balloon without feeling like I'm about to pass out! This could work for a lot of people tho.
Spasmlang: Simple Python Assembly Language
I've seen employment contracts that just include a general catch-all for any kind of surveillance, even if they "don't do it right now". This in California.

I take your point though that you're saying some laws require explicitly enumerating them (from how I understood your comment).
The alternative being government restrictions or bans on 'high particulate' tires or something of that nature, if the aim is to fix tire dust.

Which of the two seems more feasible? An outright ban, or an economic incentive that encourages consumers to choose lower particulate tires which thereby applies economic pressure to tire companies?
The tail is not as painful as real engineering but as an industry we throw away billions in value every year to dumb processes. There is more to this than just the scar tissue.

It's not just a feature, the model is fundamentally different and much more conducive to delivery, feedback, and happiness.
Poor countries have no incentive to pay carbon fees. Then have rich countries pay their carbon fees? So then tax payers of developed nations take the hit and have their own economic output lowered while countries ignoring carbon fees move ahead. It's a death spiral.

Have a look at Steven Koonin's "Unsettled". He was an Obama DOE appointee and Provost of Caltech (he's a physicist). He makes convincing arguments that the climate change models are highly unreliable. It's not Fox News garbage, he's legit.

The US and EU are making very large policy moves based on models that are not necessarily accurate.
what about releasing the source code of drivers/firmware after the official support ended
If you as a company decide to RTO and it’s an expectation your employees are in fact in the office I don’t see how tracking badge swipes can be considered Orwellian. I draw the line at software installed in employee PCs to grab screens and track keys. I get it’s a slippery slope but tracking attendance doesn’t feel like “surveillance” while the other software does.
Not surprised yours skated across a muddy field.

My father loved going hunting. The 2CVs were his secret weapon to reach very inaccessible places and he owned a handful over the years. But, trust me, none of them, except the modded one, would have passed that field.
Kaluma
It can be scalable if you’re prepared to chuck enough money at it. (Response time latencies are another matter, but that is somewhat less important in email). I have no experience at all of securing production mail servers, so whether they do this or not I don’t know and other replies here suggest they don’t use HSMs at all. If they do use HSMs then it’s not crazy to assume that they can’t easily publish old private keys, but if they don’t use HSMs then that is irrelevant.
I'll sell my Cicret Bracelet for one of those when it comes out.
My superior air quality, lower crime rate, and better schools disagree with your assessment.
> Maybe we should ban history books too that describe Jim Crow era actions.

Several states already are, at least if it is accurate descriptions.
I lived for a year in a building between a busy railway (with some diesel trains) and a busy road.

The windows on the railway side gained a gritty, black dust. On the road side it was an oily black film.
They asked about solarium use, outdoor sun in winter, and summer and various other questions. All showed lower hazard ratio. See table 2 in the 2014Lindquist study.
But if the models are inaccurate, what if they are inaccurate in the optimistic direction?

That’s how error bars work and why they are indicated as +/-
Maybe instead of expecting it we should lobby for it
I don't know about the order/process elsewhere, by the time they were up for the approval process in the US there really wasn't another option simply because of the outcry after so many people had taken it, if it wasn't approved.
It compares very well: They're both nonsense.
Ok, so 'scribblings' was a fairly accurate description!
There are many sunscreens out there, ranging from greasy and sticky, to completely unnoticeable. My go-to sunscreen of choice is Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch. It's sold in most pharmacies in the U.S. It's lightweight and doesn't feel like you have any sunscreen on at all. There's also a mineral version, but I've not tried it.
> Having created a polity that broke completely from the European monarchic traditions

The US system is actually more monarchical than the parliamentary systems found in most of Europe and the Commonwealth, whether we are talking about constitutional monarchies or parliamentary republics such as Germany, Austria or Ireland – https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32741802

"Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king" (The Knoxville Journal, 9 February 1896)

> For the most part it has proven to work well over the past 200-plus years

When you look at various measures on which the US performs below average compared to comparable countries – such as police brutality – you have to ask to what extent this contributes to that.

> Do we care that those who don't share this level of local democracy don't miss having it? Do they know what they're missing? No, and probably not, but that doesn't mean it's not valuable.

What percentage of Americans think the way you do? Surely, it isn't 100%. Indeed, I wonder what percentage have ever seriously thought about this issue at all.
One of the very important skills to learn in this era is purposeful curation of one's own attention.

If you don't keep the avenues of interruptions into your daily life in check they will overwhelm you.

Everyone everywhere wants you to look at their thing or listen to their thing every time they have a new thing. You have to aggressively pare down what gets through and when.

Only the absolute most important things should be able to interrupt you. You can probably count those things on one hand.

Calls from spammers are not on this list.

Email newsletters are not on this list.

Notifications of new comments on a post are not on this list.

New articles on a publication you read are not on this list.

At the end of the day, everyone's list is different.

Turn off notifications on most things. Unsubscribe from most things. Push notifications off for most things. Persistent notification dots and numbers off. Sounds off.

Take your attention back. It doesn't always come naturally to learn this skill but in 2023 deciding if, when, and where you will pay attention to something is paramount.
I'm not too worried about a random sick deer in the middle of some forest infecting a whole bunch of humans. The worry with animals is that they could mutate the virus into something much more nasty. Especially in factory farm settings where animals aren't properly cared for and are packed in like sardines while covered in shit and open sores, and where workers who are also treated terribly could end up getting exposed.

Lockdowns could do a lot to reduce spread and protect people from infection in large population centers, but certain areas are basically breeding grounds for disease and even before covid they were a risk for things like antibiotic resistant bacteria. Ignoring them was always going to be a problem.
More to the point: living expenses.

If someone starts out with $10k, invests at 5%/y, that's $500/y added.

If that person's rent + food + utility bills are $1000/month, that $500/y is 'peanuts', and other income (like regular job) is needed to make ends meet long-term.

(ignoring inflation for simplicity)

But if starting with $100k, 5% is $5k/y which would cover 5 months/year living expenses. And no worries about losing a job.

Starting with $1m, that's $50k/y interest, or all living expenses covered, no need to have a job, AND $38k/y left over to increase capital or do fun stuff.

That's apart from effect of increases in the cost of living.

So very different effect even if interest % and all else equal. Moving up the ladder from $1k -> $10k -> $100k etc as savings, can take a loooonng time (if possible at all).
> There is very little opportunity today for any team (let alone individual person) to push the boundaries of the technology in a meaningful way.

Checkout the demoscene.

An example of a megahit that started as a tech demo was Teardown [1]. It features a fully destructible world running on a custom game engine created by one guy. It succeeded because of the technical "wow" factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardown_(video_game)
This is why an ABX test is the way to go. If you don't know which version of a snippet is "right" there's no way to objectively say which one is "better" - maybe you like the distortions (cf the famous vinyl "warm sound").
If this is what the future of CS will be like, then count me out.
He didn't even make a point, just gave us a fact about their social support programs.

Clearly paternal leave doesn't fix the core problem since it's been there, and grown, over the entire time the birth rate has fallen.

It doesn't even make sense to do it unless both parents have exceptional careers, and most people just have mundane jobs.
Quebecs lockdowns continued for 2 years and were far more draconian than the rest of North America.

As far as I understand this was mostly a factor of our public hospital systems being absolutely over capacity and the government doing whatever it could to keep up.

Needless to say I’ve since moved away to a region with a more functional health care system and that allows families to gather together as desired.