skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glancing at the article, this seems like a baroque approach to a problem with a much more elegant solution.

I’m a professional musician and audio engineer and for years I’ve been using custom earplugs that I acquired through a visit to an audiologist. They took an impression of my ear canals and within a week provided molded custom-fit plugs. These plugs provide passive attenuation spec’ed to my preference (-15dB, -20dB, -30dB, etc) and they do so in a way that attenuates evenly across the frequency spectrum, rather than over-attenuate the high frequencies like foam earplugs do, so that you don’t experience muffled sound. They’re comfy and work flawlessly. I’ve never taken them out due to discomfort.
Same here, everything just works for me on base Debian and Fedora installs.
"caused one of the airplane engines to climb" is about what you'd expect from a bad Hollywood take, so I think you're being overly polite with regard to the validity of his claims
I second a very positive vote for Kobo. There are great resources for setting them up with no registration, and they work very well. Easy to get inside and make any changes you want.

Also second the downvote for Pine products. They look good off the bat, but there is no ongoing support and low compatibility.
291,438: Downloads of this release. (blank): Code changes this month.

FontForge has always, for the few times I have used it, been a janky but reliable piece of software, that somehow lets me get the job done. Would be nice to have a UI overhaul, however, it really does look and feel ancient.
You're forgetting the fourth state: too hot/too cold.

I only mention it because, as any parent knows, infants are effectively small finite state machines, and you can deal with their crying even half-awake, if you go through a mental checklist. But you'd better not miss a state to check :).
From a May 2023 article on the decline of San Francisco <http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed...>:

>A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the East Coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’d, up 41 percent from last year. “It’s like a wasteland,” the guard said when I asked how San Francisco looked to him. “It’s like the only way to describe it. It’s like a video game — like made-up shit. Have you ever played Fallout?”

>I shook my head.

>“There’s this thing in the game called feral ghouls, and they’re like rotted. They’re like zombies.” There’s only so much pain a person can take before you disintegrate, grow paranoid, or turn numb. “I go home and play with my wife, and we’re like, ‘Ah, hahahaha, this is SF.’”

I found it notable that no one in the Reddit discussion <https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/13dvrjs/san_franci...> mentioned the Fallout comparison despite the fact that, well, this is Reddit. I think it hit too hard.
Battery Technology is a bit of a handy distraction. The only solution is to move the "Duck Curve" to later in the day. So use batteries? well yes if you use them at the household WITHOUT solar.
If you have solar + batteries you just increase the duck curve
You can use centralized batteries but that probably means major upgrades to the distribution infrastructure.
If the power companies would charge according to cost of supply (so ALL power is cheaper during the Duck Curve period) so you can charge the home battery during "duck Curve" and use it ONLY during the evening peak.
But most power companies have multiple generator technology and use power generated by "cheaper" generators to subsidize the costly overnight or non renewable generation.
Oh, the full-blown version is not just about reddit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Oh, I've got a Chromebook; didn't know it was all Wayland.

I'm thinking that it "just works" there because G has more resources to patch all the needed features. More resources than KDE or Gnome or others have available.
You CAN use multiple sub-instances of Xorg for security… Nobody does it but firejail supports it.
That's pretty easy to work around if there's a will to do it. A single word, a character limit, a dictionary validation or a non-UGC generation are all pretty simple things to implement.
> Texas idles a bunch of wind, but also has desperate need for immense amount of fresh water

Texas needs freshwater just like California does--aka not at all.

Both states have plenty of freshwater for their citizens. The citizens simply don't soak up that much water. Yes, even with lawns, swimming pools, and golf courses there is plenty of water for citizens.

What both states don't have is plenty of water for agribusinesses--they are pumping their aquifers dry. And desalinization with renewables has zero hope of ever being cost effective enough for agriculture.
If you don't show up to work, you will be fired. If you are fired for not showing up to work, finding your next income source will be more difficult. This is true regardless of whether you're making $7.50/hr or $350k/yr.

Yes, the doctor making $350k/yr can arrange his life in such a way to be more flexible in the face of diversity, but he's just as likely to have $150k worth of school debt and a house/car/etc. he couldn't afford if he had to switch careers. At $7.50/hr, you can probably walk down the street and find a better paying job.

Edit in reply due to depth restrictions: I'm not suggesting this is about ease of switching careers. I'm suggesting that you will be forced to switch careers if you don't show up to work, and it's probably easier to switch between jobs with no prerequisites than careers with 8 years of intensive prerequisites and $150k in university.
>I do get frustrated by outsiders making fun of us

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38426649
I remember owning one of the first portable CD players that did not have any anti-skip buffer, at all.

It was a very delicate experience.
Ideas are, will be, and always has been, worthless on their own.
> Up to the compositor.

> Also up to the compositor.

Exactly my point! Right there. Thanks.
Voyager is meant to be a direct ripoff, delivered as a PWA. In my usage, it delivers a very similar look and feel, although it is definitely not as feature-filled yet which is understandable for the price.

https://vger.app/
Guidelines, not rules. I think it's a perfectly fair topic on a thread about the outcome of the Reddit blackout.
Yann's explanation here is a pretty high level overview of his understanding of different thought modeling, it isn't really related to how we define intelligence at all and isn't a complete picture. The distinction drawn between System 1 & 2 as explained is more of a limitation in conditions given to the algorithm rather than ability of the algorithm itself (i.e. one could change parameters to allow for unlimited processing time)

Yann may touch in how we define intelligence elsewhere, I haven't deeply studied all of his work. Though I can say that OpenAI has taken to using relative economic value as their analog for comparing intelligence to humans. Personally that definition is pretty gross and offensive, I hope most people wouldn't agree that our intelligence can be directly tied to how much value we can produce in a given economic paradigm.
Overall, everything has gone back to normal. A vocal minority was convinced that Reddit was going to Digg itself but they didn't know that Reddit's audience is vastly different than it was 10 years ago. The nerds were outnumbered, and it shows.
Well, as usual, the answer is a mix of cost and usability. I don't know if people outside of Germany remember it, but there was a big splash when it came out the NSA hacked Merkels phone. Our chancellor! Why doesn't she have a secure phone?! What do our security authorities even do?! Well, the thing is .. she had one. And it probably wasn't hacked. But the usability of these secure phone is so bad (one common thing is that everyone needs one, which has to be compatible with each other) that she usually just used the phone that her party gave her (she was also the head of the party), which was a normal smartphone and the NSA hacked this one.

Same goes for switches etc. There are no real standards, everyone does a bit of their own thing, so you have a bunch of incompatibility. Then you need to configure them special, which takes more time and effort and so on.

And, at the end of the day, there's always the matter of cost. Resisting cyber attacks means probably different chips, which are safe according to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename), and the software has to be checked extra and programmed to different standards. Someone has to pay for this, simple as that.

Also, if you are not the US, the US will probably want to have a say in whether Cisco can sell you such machines. Same goes for other companies and their countries.
And as we all know, the cover is the best way to judge books...

Also there are multiple cover arts! Which editions are you referring to?
So I take it you don’t believe there are any black balls in the urn of possible inventions?

[1] https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
It’s in TFA but pretty self-evident: in traditional non-nuclear families, extended kin (especially grandparents) help with childcare, reducing the burden.
In fairness neither did yours, and recursively neither did this :D
I'm not the one attacking you, but I think I can explain.

Your original statement was quite absolutist "It’s really the only way to do accurate time." A statement which would have had more agreement would be "It’s really the only practical way to do accurate time."
What hardware are you measuring performance on?
I didn't mean /etc stuff, I mean more like Xmodmap, .XCompose… the sort of things americans don't use and are completely unaware of.

But I personally speak 5 languages (with very different levels) and writing gets a bit complicated.
>Imagine a program that utilizes several separate windows for palettes.

One way this can work is: When the program starts up on first install with a brand new config, all those palettes are part of the program window. Then as the user decides to undock them one by one, they are removed from the main program window and a new window is drawn containing that palette. So the user isn't presented with "a ton of palettes"; they get them one at a time and can move them as they wish.

The rest of that (maintaining their position next to the main window, restoring them when the application is restarted) would be solved by a protocol that allowed relative positioning, which was already suggested in the wayland-protocols MR discussion.

>it can be useful to have functionality that lets the user designate a screen for a particular function (for instance, putting sliders and knobs for audio production software on a touchscreen)

This can already work today if the compositor provides a way to do it, as long as the application tags such a window with some unique `app_id` or `title`. For example in sway the user can write config rules to match windows based on such criteria and run position etc commands on them. I assume KDE also has something like this because I remember it having a way to match windows using X properties in the KDE 4 days.
> And it wont help against jamming.

No, but if you're running a jammer, it's not going to be long before the FCC pays you a friendly visit, and instructs to you to kindly turn that shit off.

'What if someone will be running a jammer to disrupt police communication' is about as big a concern for this procurement as 'what if there's a full-scale thermonuclear war'. Sure, it can happen, but it's not on a PD's top-50 list of things to be concerned about.
>Before the pandemic, there was bad stuff (in particular poop all over all the sidewalks) but there was relatively more good stuff because white collar workers commuted in on the weekdays and (at least) bought lunch. Post-pandemic, it’s all gone, so crime etc now has outsized leverage.

And yet there are people in denial about just how dead downtown SF is. This /r/sanfrancisco post is unintentionally hilarious. <https://np.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11z2cz5/americ...> I think they think that "People leaving SF" = "Trump wins", or something.
Not if the cost is both parents having to work a day job.
Studio One 6.5 is now available as public beta version for Ubuntu Linux
It feels like they're adopting the Macy's markup to mark down marketing program.

That said, the real question is how many people pulled the trigger on this...

$500 fat finger markdown * 100 people = $50k. Now, 1k people...10k people...

And MOST importantly, what would you do if you were HP?

I don't know about you, but I would be calling corporate lawyers for options and pressing the brakes once it got past my paycheck in losses.
Interesting tidbit about wrapping devices with cords. I never thought chemicals in the cords could do damage to the plastics in the housing.
In my experience this shape gets uncomfortable quickly because it’s jammed deep into people’s ear canals without accounting for the unique shape of each individual’s canal, so there can be a lot of uncomfortable pressure and friction. Ear buds tend to not go deep into the canal and rest closer to the entrance, making them sustain longer before discomfort arises in the ear.

Also this form factor doesn’t attenuate all frequencies evenly, which can make listening to music less enjoyable.
So let me know how do you write 5 languages properly…
"We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky every time." has never felt more true than now.
Capitalism's equivalent of a crack dealer giving the first taste for free.

That said, sounds interesting. Gives kids a huge headstart for time in the market, builds financial literacy, provides broad inflows into the market pumping asset prices. Gives the next generation skin in the game.

If we accept the premise that market participation is a good thing, then this does seem to be, on balance, beneficial.
I didn't mean "choice to easily switch to whatever job they want at their convenience" and the notion that I did mean that is so absurd that I find it to be a bad faith read of my comment. I encourage you to first steel-man my position. Or don't, that's fine too. Just don't respond with such a technical and self-assured response that is in fact arguing against a point you yourself imagined (and is not rooted in reality). It is exhausting to debate against, especially on the internet.
Try setting the DPI on one screen to 125%. This is the default setting my computer came with out of the box.

Windows can't handle this, and will render blurry text in system dialogs.

Call me when Windows figures out how to render text /eyeroll
I am more concerned about offshoring personally.
Thank you.
If anyone want to compress the list a little, I can highly reommend Dick's short stories. They have all the seeds of his novels but can of course be read much faster.
Also worth keeping tabs on MFEK [0] to see when it enters a more complete state. Everything I've seen of MFEK looks very cool.

[0] https://mfek.org/
Thanks for the pw-profiler recommendation, wasn't aware of that one.

I believe the Pro Audio profile [0] (which I'm using) doesn't resample by default.

Using pw-top, I noticed that something was causing xruns [1] (see ERR column) though I was unsure what that was. Since the Pro Audio profile uses the IRQ mechanism, I looked at interrupts [2] but couldn't spot anything unusual. There is however irq/16-mmc0 process which is at times causing significant (>50%) CPU usage, so I think I need to unload the sdcard module and see if that fixes anything.

First however I think I'll try a newer kernel (linux-lowlatency-hwe-22.04, which according to apt search is on 6.2.0.1017.17~22.04.14 as opposed to the current 5.15.0-89-lowlatency that ships with Ubuntu 22.04)

0: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...

1: https://paste.debian.net/1298908/

2: https://paste.debian.net/1298905/
My two cents is that Europe will push, and are pushing, for open-source AI. They're regulating in that way.
I don't know what your point is. That children can't articulate their needs? That we should consult adult peers and experts rather than taking children at their word? Of course we should. Children do not teach courses on child development.

It goes without saying that children exaggerate, eg crying over spilt milk. To repudiate children's complaints seems cruelly unnecessary.
FontForge is open source, cross-platform and fairly featureful; that is something to be grateful about but I can assure you from first hand experience that yes the commercial competitors are indeed much better. If you have macOS you check out some of those yourself, they have long enough trials - Glyphs(/Mini) and RoboFont. That said I’m most excited about the upcoming generation, for example the web based fontra.xyz etc.
To be fair, this isn't really _that_ accurate, it's only good to about 10ms, GPS will get you to 0.001ms accuracy, at least with the right kit.
Also on making sure that it is balanced all the time. The effort it takes to make sure that there's always input exactly as much energy as is taken out of the system is just staggering. And if only a few of the things needed to adjust it fail .. here comes the brown/blackout.
echo * does not have the newline after each file
> It's unlikely that Herbie Hancock considers people who press "start" on a Casio synthesizer to play a factory programmed demo track real musicians.

Someone at the factory wrote and programmed that song, so he probably would consider it art.

> If someone incorporates a factory preset into a song - sure, nothing's wrong with that. That's when a machine is used as a tool, not as a substitute for human creativity.

It's all just different levels of the devil's company. What if I use an AI chord generator and decide which chords to use in my song based on what the AI generates? What if I have the AI generate 10,000 songs in totality and I choose the best one? What if I don't use AI but compose a song by mathematically computing all the optimal elements of a pop song based on every song that's come before it? What if I hire the world's best violinist and record 4 minutes and 28 seconds of the violinist not playing, could that not be art?
Yeah and a lot of the Ask posts are dominating and seem like bot posts by being a single simple questions.
Could you please provide evidence such as a list to publishers sales figures?
I don't really see why this is similar to the usual E2EE argument. these communications are public record on purpose, whereas people's personal conversations are not.

Bringing that into this is pointless, especially since I doubt this is E2EE in the same sense that private chats are.
Try to define custom XComposeKey sequences, so that you can write math symbols or greek letters and you will find out immediately.

For example I can write ∀ x ∈ ℕ: x > 1 → x² > 1, but not in wayland.
Requires Ubuntu 23.04 and Wayland, so not necessarily applicable to many Linux users, but great to see more professional software being ported to Linux in any case!

Note: Studio One is a DAW (digital audio workstation). Other offerings that exist on Linux include Ardour, Bitwig and Reaper.
Despite being very illegal, Toronto had encrypted radios for a while, and they were both somehow cloned and “lost” without being deactivated.

Primarily for crooked tow truck drivers, whom streaming subscriptions were being sold to.

But you could imagine that being a lot worse.

And Toronto police are very well paid, probably better than NYPD.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2021/2/19/1_5316595.ht...

https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto-cop-part-of-organized-...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-polic...

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5622069

edit: not sure what the term is for trusting a "more secure" system with more sensitive information, but ultimately goes sideways when it turns out to not be as secure as thought.
If the particle has zero rest mass, like a photon, it still has energy. E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m_0^2 c^4 captures that correctly, while E = mc^2 where 'm' is the relativistic mass, does not.
The other big nuisance of the MT is that its state is huge -- the most common version, MT19937, has ~2500 bytes of state and generates 32-bit numbers. A very good 64-bit PRNG only needs 16 bytes of state and a very good 32-bit PRNG only needs 8 bytes of state. That's >300x smaller. This is somewhat related to it being slow, of course, but also somewhat orthogonal.
I’ve got them all here, including the original Custom GPTs and the Custom GPT Builder: https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/Sys...
Very rarely can I say with all sincerity "I am a Dick-Head"
I got some off-the-shelf ones, so they don't fit as well as custom molded ones, but I've still never had discomfort. I love them, I wear them everywhere, as they make sound levels much more comfortable.
Author of [briefkasten](https://briefkastenhq.com) (https://github.com/ndom91/briefkasten) here - a veryy similar opensource/self-hostable bookmark manager based on Next.js.

Just wanted to congratulate you on this, looks great! Especially the bookmark cards and user profile page / infos. Will probably be copying some of that down the line :wink:
I mean then there’s your answer. If you like it, keep doing it.
If there was funding available to build secure systems, do we know how to do it? If we rebuilt everything from scratch today, what would we do differently?
Everybody knows that being sedentary and overweight is bad for your health. You think this is some secret that people are trying to hide?

The problem is that we have no strategy for long term weight loss that actually works. This is probably related to the fact that we have no idea what is causing the obesity epidemic to begin with. There are tons of theories, though.
You are vastly over-estimating the competence of both cisco and the russian hackers

https://www.csoonline.com/article/656427/over-40000-cisco-de...
Sort of, but think many many samples. BigCrush / PractRand / DieHarder are all in this space. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9780267/testing-the-qual...
I was asking OP b/c of:

> Should I be climbing stairs instead?

And they never mention whether they actually like running.

As someone who likes running a lot I’d never think of giving it up because some random article said climbing a few flights of stairs is better.
I assume its mostly because how you said they can do it and the impact is really only limited to their system AND chromebooks are to my knowledge way more focused of a UX than what Wayland needs to be able to support so they can be even more opinionated about what they support and how
That's really interesting! I assumed that everybody would aim for a resilient system to reduce support costs, but you're saying the electric grid is built cheap & fragile and the cost of support is just an accepted part of it?

How come the support costs are cheaper for maintaining the electric grid than paying a bit more for hardware that requires less support?

You can't even outsource your support costs to a cheaper COL country.

Is it because the infra is subject to nature & thus always being degraded in all sorts of ways in all different environments?
I have been thinking about getting custom ear plugs for the AirPod Pros as the tips don’t fit my ears.

My use case is that there is a lot of dangerous noise in the third world and I want to protect my ears when running.