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+1 to the advice to have different accounts with different banks. I've done this for a bit over 10 years now: checking account at one bank, savings at a different bank, credit card at yet another different bank, yet another credit card at yet another different bank, joint checking account with spouse at yet another different bank ...

My spouse did run into some nonsense some years ago due to her checking and savings accounts being at the same bank and automatically linked and mixed-up. Banks are always offering you super convenient awesome features with "protection" and "connection" and just PLEASE NO - that's how one mistake, that was that bank's in the first place, takes down all your available funds. You'll probably get most back, eventually, but do you really want to live with that for some weeks/months ...
We aren’t losing all of our honeybees (2020)
24 fixed bit and 32 variable/ floating bit rate masters have more head room that may avoid clipping but doesn’t guarantee that. 48 or 96 kHz is useful for time stretching and maintaining fidelity (maybe other post processing without aliasing).

That is all intermediate formats and doesn’t really say anything about what is best for consumers like the standard mastered cd quality at 16 bit 44.1 khz.

Bandcamp is a cool market because I can download wavs from albums to store on my phone. You can see what people use as masters and its all over the place. There are many 96khz masters around and 24 bit depth is popular.

I have a usb audio IO that supports 192KHz across 8xin+out. Those file’s just clog up hard drives so I figure 96 is good enough for bat music.
Food is significantly cheaper as is rent.

Westerners are unlikely to want to live there because they've never even visited it so that's not an argument against. The Balkans is sunny, taxes are low. I'd take that any day over subzero Northern Germany.

40-50$ per person in a restaurant is a flat out lie so I'm not gonna even bother with that.

According to you it's much better to live in a 2m^2 apartment in Paris than in Balkans. I'd take the Balkans any day.
I like this idea because it’s incredibly American. If we’re going to go full on free-market, we might as well live up to those principles.

There is precedent for this idea, in 1948 the Supreme Court forced the film studios to give up exhibition (theaters) with the paramount decision. This enabled the rise of independent film, and audiences benefited from more choice.

If you try to do this legislatively the Apples and the NVidias of the world will hire an army of lobbyists and storm Capitol Hill. But it might be to their benefit. After the breakup of Standard Oil, John Rockefeller became richer because competition forced out the less efficient portions of his old business from the market.

It’s true that it could temporarily degrade the user experience of some people, but that’s a small price to pay. People who give up liberty for safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I think it's vital to strictly manage what notifications we allow our phones to give us. Unfortunately, I've noticed a trend where apps are becoming less cooperative. Many apps will have a single all-or-nothing notification setting. Others have dozens of vague, poorly-labelled categories. And all of this is hidden several clicks deep in configuration settings. The result is that we can't be sure which notifications to allow because they are important (your food is here, your credit card has a security alert) and which are just marketing bullshit, which is almost all of them.

I'd like to see a regulation requiring all notifications to be opt-in at app installation, with appropriate separation of notification categories, thereby putting the onus on the company to tell us why we should let them have our attention in each specific way.

I also think it's vital to have our phones silenced (including vibration) for nearly all notifications all of the time. But that's more for my personal benefit.
Conventions are just guidelines that aren't written down. Also couldn't help it.
One of the things I love about Android is the extremely granular controls on app notifications, it allows me to fine tune the disruption level of particular types of alerts or messages from app to app so that I'm only alerted to stuff I care about.

edit: https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png
That map specifically talks of urban air quality. Foreign visitors hanging out among “beautiful nature” are, well, out in nature, not dense urban environments. Especially in the summer when the lowlands are baking, it is popular for foreign remote workers to head up to mountain resort towns that don’t have a lot of air pollution because they don’t have a lot of cars in the area.
> shrug .. Oktorberfest

Germans are exceptionally good at kicking back, drinking a few beers, and disconnecting from the real world, even if it is just for 6 or 8 hours or so. They can do it with an extraordinary insouciance that I do not believe is easily observable, elsewhere in the Western sphere.

I remember, arriving for my first year of many in a German town, to the raucous cacophony of a Karnival (im Rührgebiet) wherein a mass of teenagers, whom I would ordinarily have deemed far too irresponsible for the drunkenness and tomfoolery on display gleefully smashed their freshly emptied bottles of local beers in the village streets for all and sundry to enjoy. It was extraordinary - definitely not a riot, but rather a very well organized and town-supported explosion of pent-up energy. The glass was all impeccably removed within hours of the jubilations' end. This was a regular thing, a kind of festival, and nobody really minded the puke. The Rührpott weather would sort it out, ho ho.

And its the same throughout the German state, which is accustomed to so much gloom but yet produces so much beauty, life and vitality. I dare you to find the fertility of Münich or Köln or Frankfurt, in summer time, elsewhere .. it is palpable.
But the sender chooses an e-mail service that sends e-mail in a way they aprove of.

The receiver has no control over that besides possibly ignoring those e-mails, therefore the e-mail services favor the interests of the sender over those of the receiver.
Won them two world wars when losing is famously bad for the economy.
Uber is terrible at it.
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First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563590 - July 2023 (299 comments)
I actually initially also wrote "std::get and std::tuple_size", until I double-checked. :D

Is there a reason not to just handle/accept everything that has a valid `std::tuple_size` specialization?
No, just sign into both of them with your iCloud account
„Germany“ doesn‘t have a housing shortage. German cities do, and it‘s a huge problem. But on the other hand, Germany also has a huge infrastructure deficit in more rural areas - I live in Berlin and would happily vacate my flat to move to a 2nd or 3rd tier small town, but that means giving up on solid public transport, connectivity, supermarket next door, walkability and fast internet in many many places. Work wouldn’t be an issue, our company is remote anyways, but all of these things are a huge problem. Fixing those issues would mean less people want to move to the city, less pressure on the housing market etc.
"most" to me means more than half. Many folks think it means somewhere around 2/3 or 3/4.
"the effective dynamic range of 16 bit audio reaches 120dB in practice" https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html#toc_1...
you'd be cranking for two days straight to charge up your phone.
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Most writing uses "plastic" to mean any synthetic polymer, even non-organic ones like silicone. I don't think this is deliberately disingenuous or even ignorant; it would simply be awkward and mostly irrelevant to use precise technical terms every time.

Technically rubber is elastic, not plastic. But even "thermosetting plastics" aren't physically plastic anymore. Silicone is synthetic but not organic, while lots of organic polymers aren't synthetic. All the public really cares about is "shit that doesn't belong in the ocean".
I was able to get a tour of <redacted>'s factory. And it was super cool. My mother in law was with me and she was very surprised. "They have a cafeteria with cheap, great food, showers, rooms with beds for naps. This is awesome!" she said. I replied with, "Because they never want you to leave, they want you to live at the factory and work 24/7." ... She then went, "Well, that is a lot less exciting then."

A 12-12:30 lunchtime nap? Perfect. An alternative to going home at night and just sleeping at the office (which I suspect is more in line with how things work in Japan)... no thanks.
Well, the actual mask's performance is 95% effective, but you can't really make a guarantee about the overall worst case effectiveness when deployed by humans. N95 masks are not 95% effective on someone who has a big fluffy beard preventing a proper seal, for example. Or with people who use their gut feeling to decide where and when to put them on (like deciding if there's nobody in the elevator, you don't need it, ignoring the fact that someone may have gotten out of the elevator 20 seconds ago and left particulates in the air).
>They were never truly democratic in the first place

[citation needed]. What does 'truly democratic' even mean anyway?
I personally use a related version of this, and it's a lot simpler. Cost per month.

The biggest factor in buying something for me is typically resale value vs what I pay for it. This is why I always buy the Amazon Marketplace Used items, or used items from local sellers, where available. This way, I mentally only consider the depreciation over the period of time I use the item as the cost. Usually, the depreciation is minimal over a short period, allowing me to buy stuff I don't need just to experiment with it (I keep a budget for this) Then I divide it by the number of months I'll have it， and then compare the value I get from it relative to eating lunch outside ($20), days of work, or something else like that.

I'm effectively leasing things to myself. I'll own nothing and be happier.
Marketing traditionally encompasses: price, product, placement (distribution) and promotion.

PR, advertising and sales fall under different branches of promotion.
Because nearly no-one wants to walk to the store, walk home, walk back to the store to return the cart and then walk home again.

I never drive to the store and I still wouldn't do that.
I have also been declining to apply to any jobs that require me to create a unique account of any kind, or otherwise involve similar tedium. Maybe those systems are designed to keep those of us who don't want the job enough out?

However, I think I'm going to have to of course revise my approach pretty soon and submit to the reality of having to deal with that crap.
Sandia built something like this about 20 years ago. It was a ball with a combustion-powered pogo stick piston. A weight inside allowed the ball to orient itself, and then the piston would be fueled and fired to launch it towards the next destination.

The intended application was swarming land mines. Drop a few hundred of these from an aircraft. They sense nearby targets, and when they find a good one, such as a convoy, they call to others nearby to come join the fun.
> Wouldn't the fact that there was a system set up specifically to allow someone to send an email and then lie about it make you very suspicious that they had done exactly that?

Not really, not when people have been arguing for this setup as a best practice for years for whole domains.
I would like a “allow notifications for the next n hours/days” setting.
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From personal experience, I have some proof that dreams are not similar to plain eyesight, and are probably produced somewhere else in my brain.

In a dream, I saw a friend. The images in the dream were very vivid, and I could have easily mistaken the dream for reality. However, when I woke up, I could not tell whether I had seen my friend from the front, or from the back.

This suggests that the property "feels very realistic" can be produced separately from a dream actually being realistic. I highly doubt that dreams are indeed producing high quality visuals.

I have also tried to draw faces from people that I have seen in my dreams. I am fairly proficient at hyperrealistic portraits, but with the dream recall -- no luck so far.
Your comment is written like you have a undisclosed stake in skeema.io
When I visited Paris and Berlin, there were pay toilets.

I'd rather pay for toilets and have them be clean, than free and dirty.
Show HN: ChatGPT AutoExpert (Supercharged Custom Instructions for ChatGPT)
I’ve created two sets of ”ChatGPT Custom Instructions” for folks using ChatGPT’s web interface (i.e. not via API). They aim to dramatically improve the quality, depth, nuance, and utility of all ChatGPT responses.

Both of them instruct ChatGPT to begin its completion with a preamble designed to take advantage of how the attention mechanism attends to recent tokens. They relieve the user of having to determine a task-specific prompt, and turn even the simplest questions into high quality context for ChatGPT to attend to.

The first (“Standard Edition”) is for both free and paid ChatGPT subscribers. While it naturally works much better for GPT-4, it does show marked improvement for reasoning and planning, even with GPT-3.5. It automatically determines the best role to adopt, incorporates Google search links (GPT-4 is hallucination free; GPT-3.5 is, well, better), and ends each response with an “epilogue” with links to related and tangential content that the user might enjoy digging in to.

The “Developer Edition” is perfect for anyone using ChatGPT’s pro subscription (GPT-4 + Advanced Data Analysis), and comes with a companion Python script that you upload at the beginning of each chat. It adds /slash commands to help stash/recall text (perfect for reminding ChatGPT about your stack), building ctags (which you can ask ChatGPT to reference when writing or editing more complex code), and backing up all your files and session memory to a zip file that you can upload to a new chat to pick up where you left off. You can even upload wheels to extend the sandbox capabilities.

Like the “Standard Edition”, the “Developer Edition” instructs ChatGPT to begin its completion with a preamble that takes advantage of positional and semantic attention heads, influencing the quality of its generated code. The epilogue includes a brief history, as well as a simplified source/symbol tree, making it much less likely to forget what it’s been doing.

It even does a great job of creating complete code, by automatically adding // TODO comments for itself, and generating code over multiple chat turns.

Check them out, and tell me what you think.

EDIT: I think some folks here might be particularly interested to check out how /slash commands were implemented. The technique used in the companion script is a great way to extend ChatGPT’s normally limited space for a “system prompt”, and can easily be adopted to do prompt chaining. I’m wrapping up another script that acts like a sort of “setup wizard”, guiding first-time users through creating a YAML file describing their stack, preferences, etc. through a series of chained prompts. I know there’s a big push to build apps that are just frontends to the API (I’ve made plenty, to be sure) but ChatGPT with Advanced Data Analysis is pretty powerful.
I don’t know for sure but I can guess why it would be worse for teens.

During your teenage years there’s a lot more FOMO as you are trying to establish yourself in your peer group and the social hierarchy in general. This must-check-that-notification then compelled them to react to it, which generates more notifications in a feedback loop.

Compare that to now, when I’m in my mid 30s, if an app generates too many notifications I will revoke its permissions to notify me very quickly, all of my social interactions are more asynchronous and slower and deeper, since I’m not being interrupted by notifications all the time and am communicating on my own terms
Does look like both natural and synthetic polyisoprene is at-least somewhat biodegradeable: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC92035/
My data point when I lived in SF is I would walk a third of a mile with two bags of groceries. But didn't really want to walk half a mile.

Back when I lived in San Jose I could also walk to the store because way back in the 1940's they put a pedestrian walkway between two streets which dropped the walking distance from my house to the shopping center from half a mile to again a third of a mile.

Which brings up something I think is over looked. Which is the layout of streets in post war housing tracts makes the distances you need to walk twice are far as they could be. With zoning changes, money and some eminent domain we could make things better.
> and we're not at sub-millimeter precision yet

How do you get sub-millimeter precision with ultrasound? At 300KHz, the sound has a wavelength of 1mm. My understanding is that sound with a frequency greater than about 150Khz dissipates after passing through 5cms of air; it must dissipate faster in flesh.

Also, a wavelength of 1mm should give you a resolution of about 4mm, right?

I wish I knew more about the propagation of ultrasound; I'm getting interested in the bats that live around here.
Interesting, the linked paper [0] does show they controlled for physical activity here, since I would assume someone who gets more sun exposure, is outside more.

If they really have controlled for that factor, shouldn't we see similar results from people with sedentary lives, but high UV exposure? (possibly by regular use of tanning beds or the like?) Being prescribed UV exposure is an interesting idea for the future.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.11.23292360v...
("Tenet", not "tenant". A core tenant is the big store in a mall.)
I think that your statement is more of a stretch, than the idea that quite intelligent, social creatures aren't using a language that we simply don't understand.

I'd love to know what the local ravens are saying to each other; there is quite the variety of calls, and quite situational.
Greenhouse, BambooHR, and iCMS do a pretty good job of parsing and keeping the application process simple.

You could spend time checking out Workday's dev API or just refine your resume even further.

The biggest issues I've had with Workday are employment dates, commas/hyphens in job titles and school names, and bulletpoint lists.
If you're in the American Southeast, the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, GA has one on display. I've visited and seen it, along with other supercomputers.
The most popular F150s are significantly less gas guzzling than my 2005 sedan that I replaced with an F150. Not to mention that my F150 is more capable in winter conditions (major importance in Michigan) and more capable for the DIY stuff I do (I actually do regularly get lumber, plywood, drywall and other things that only fit in the 8ft bed that I actually bought). All while using less gas... Efficiency has gone up markedly in the 13 years between that 2005 and the 2018 F150 I bought. The weird thing is that you can get an F150 with significantly better real world mileage than an Escape, which is massively smaller, lighter, more aerodynamic, etc. Consumers are smarter than you're giving them credit for here.
But do the Japanese (and I'm rather grossly referring to a homogeneous proxy here) see it that way? Isn't it considered good to be tired at work, to the point where it's considered virtuous to be tired in the afternoon (because you've been working so hard)?
I'm not saying this is a good thing, but just questioning whether - in a Japanese company - having a nap at your desk is considered 'bad'.
AI bros, listen up

Make an app that scans those notifications and takes an action automatically.
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Thanks a lot for the warm word. Guess everyone needs a job, can't imagine living a life just traveling around. My brain needs to work. I'm already watching youtube lectures about theoretical physics out of boredom. To be honest robotics very excited about it, but this stuff is rare.

Agree it is just a normal application process in the end, had the feeling that my journey as a trader would be disadvantageous, but it seems to be okay according to the comments! So thanks again.
12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed
The recent excavations unearthed a painted wild boar statue, a human statue, and a vulture statue. All statues are new gateways to understanding pre-historic art and culture.
Just because they chose to focus on teens does not mean that adults do not have similar issues. Not every article needs to encompass every single category affected by a problem.
I don’t share the viewpoint you are responding to, but information asymmetry is a significant factor in most transactions.

Rarely is being a more informed customer not a benefit.

Or being a less informed customer not associated with greater difficulty determining which supplier/service/product is the best fit.
Its really cool. What's the difference ?
The tax/social contributions stuff can be cherry picked to become very high and very low to support any point people want to make.

There are employer contributions in Germany that are recently counted in such calculations to prove a point, while leaving costs for "benefits" in US companies off the table when doing the comparison.

Some like to add the VAT to the "what life costs here", which is a 19% (except for necessities, which are at 7%).

If you refuse to accept such calculations that mix up tax brackets (popular error in that space), that immediately filters out 90% of them.
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Also, I’ll note that I think the amp and speakers are far more contributing than the master file format. And the quality of the master and mix and tracking even moreso.

I’ll run youtube rips of dj sets through some light hardware compressors and preamps and it sounds great. You cannot have specs determine quality.
Varoufakis: Capitalism is dead, long live Technofeudalism
Yeah, they just systematically genocide their citizens having the wrong heritage (Uyghurs), blackout entire cities that might dissent from their proposed governing systems (Hong Kong) and deny the right of sovereignty to established countries (Tibet, Taiwan) that "don't agree to everything". Not even the tip of the iceberg.
Uber Eats.

I need the notifications for a taxi not marketing for groceries during the week
That is including birth fatalities. It turns out when you improve health care during pregnancy, the average life span goes up enormously.
Ah cool--pretty unique story!

How much of his religion and culture survived down to your generation of the family tree?