skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look the Audio stack on linux is broken but, and I am an audio engineer by study and trade, windows has it's own collection of hell when it comes to audio.

"Just use asio"? Had a borked driver cause blue screens on bootup for a piece of hardware, talking 5 digit price tag hardware... Same driver randomly doesn't present an Asio device.

Want to stick to "windows default audio engines" well, wasapi is what you should use now right? KS has the best latency ( wasapi should be calling that under the hood ), how about the other 3 options?

When it "just works" it's great. When it doesn't you cannot "dig in and find you need to go directly to ALSA(the KS alternative for linux)" because the driver you have loaded may not even present a KS interface, if your DAW even allows you to use something which isn't ASIO...

I have my faie share of pain with audio on windows, I wouldn't trade that pain for audio on linux granted but honestly, never had a single issue on macOS...
I find this interesting, do you have a recommendation for further reading?
My (very naive) thinking would be that lawyers are the worst demographic to con, since they have the skills and resources to try and make themselves whole again (at the expense of the conman), maybe with a few NDAs throw in for good measure. Is this not the case?
Thanks again. But in my mind that doesn’t really explain the Higgs mass prediction/estimate going from 126 +/- 2.2 GeV to 130 GeV… The reason you have that +/- 2.2 GeV is (among other things) that the mass of the top quark mass is uncertain, right? So how could a new measurement of the top quark mass make the prediction for the Higgs mass jump so far (unless the new top quark mass was wildly unexpected)?
> why not just use Linux full time and get a PS5/Xbox for the AAA games you can't run under Linux

A PC with Windows 10 LTSC beats PS5/Xbox in terms in game availability and backwards compatibility. It also unsurprisingly still beats Linux + Proton in terms of compability. It is still Windows after all. Console gaming is not comparable to PC gaming at this point.

Using LTSC over regular W10 affords you a more stable system since you forgo any feature updates from Microsoft (only security updates), a more lightweight and snappier system with less background services running at startup, and reduced (but still present) telemetry.

Also, I unironically like the Windows UX over the Linux compositors and countless Desktop Environments that endlessly run into compatability issues and weird bugs. W10 LTSC is comparatively far more stable.
> You can't overclock mac parts

Source?
Nope, easy Linux installers were common around 2000. RH, Caldera, Lindows, etc.

XP wasn’t especially easier to install if you had to partition. It was simply easier because Dell, et al had already installed it.

I installed frequently, even had quad boot with OS/2 at one point.
Because to build a dodgy, possibly unethical system. Usually the most unethical company (and one that won’t cost a shit ton of money) will be the first ones that politicians or government will pick. Sure gov can build it in house but the system itself is a PR nightmare. Any unethical use and the current administration will be blamed.

By subcontracting it out, gov has an easy out.

- “oh there was a bad subcontractor misusing the system. It WaSnT uS!1!!”

- “oh it was just one bad actor within government. We sent person to black site. ItS NoT a SyStEmIc iSSuE”
'Accelerate or die,' the ideology that proposes the unlimited advance of AI
Its URL is presumably https://entgo.io/ .
Yes, I totally agree. I'm just saying that one should be skeptical about their conclusions because they didn't have access to much of the knowledge we have today. (William James in particular I have seen cited by religious people in support of religious arguments. He may have been a really smart guy, and there might be a lot to learn by studying him, but he just didn't know the things we know today -- no one did in his day -- and so it's not surprising that he got a lot of things wrong, including his answer to the titular question. We are in fact automata. Very, very sophisticated automata, but automata nonetheless.)
I mean, I don't think that they meant anything by it. I just think it's easy for them to be in positions of judgement when nothing like that has happened to them.

I probably shouldn't have called the guy a fucking moron, I was just frustrated because everyone was giving me the same lecture.
Why? If there's one thing JavaScript and browser tech is good at, it's making GUI dev easier. Just look at how even Qt is basically pivoting completely towards QML which to my naive eyes look very very similar to how GUI/Layouts/styling is done with html5/Js. Why would you purposefully use something worse just to not use browser related tech? I would agree if this was about raw number crunching, where compiling to wasm makes sense and where a html5 GUI can be used as a frontend, but the GUI itself has no reason to be built with CPP.
What they call it doesn't sound like legendary marketing that I was expecting.
I don’t recall XP actually being all that easy to use. It had bright colors, but the menus could get a bit maze-like. IMO XP was familiar more than it was simple to use. iOS is legitimately easy to use.
An opportunity for Bank Rank to classify by climate impact?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38875510

https://github.com/project-bankrank/bankrank
See also: genius CEOs who react in disbelief their startup didn’t unicorn like the VCs promised!

It’s workers or users who misunderstood what they were trying to do! This is how capitalism works; they business, you give money!
On iOS you can also tap "aA" button in the URL bar to get to the scale settings.
> but the world seems to have decided on PV in a big way.

No, the world has decided to procure lots of cheap PV from China
That's true, windows ME was as terrible as Windows 2000 was great.

The story goes that they wanted to launch with Windows 2000 Home just like they did with XP, but ran into some issues and decided at the last minute to ship a pimped up version of Windows 98. That was absolutely terrible.
I use notepad++ on windows and have open all the time. Any more I want to write down I open a new tab. Notepad++ keeps the tabs even if not saved and automatically reopens them next time you start it. Combined with search in open files feature it makes it extremely useful.
Sure, loads of quid pro quo in the entertainment industry, ask any lady who ever auditioned for Harvey Weinstein. Never denied it. What does that have to do with banks and boring corporations paying six figure speaking fees to entertainers though?

Sheesh.... almost like you don't have any arguments for what Colorado brokers have to thank a former British PM for, never mind what favours Goldman Sachs got from David Beckham or LL Cool J other than a clearly very expensive speech
Defcon 2024 is going to be lit.

Imagine getting back door access to vehicles because of a bad sMaRt LaMp.

Remember folks. The “s” in IoT is for security!
There's this new thing that some academics are working on at CERN - kind of like academic papers, with references and so forth, but on the computer.

Once this is ready, people will just be able to publish their "papers" there. I guess they'll be called something else then. But this sort of struggle to publish a "paper" will no longer be necessary.
This looks awesome! If I ever have to touch C++ again, I'll surely use this.
A girl would like to ask a boy to the high school dance.

A computer can do all the calculations to decide on if it's a good idea. Given the inputs of the time they have spent together, the number of glances that are passed between then in the halls between classes, if he doesn't have a date yet or not, etc. The probability adds up to ask.

So the machine decides to ask.

The girl feels it. Has all the time they've spent together has made her feel a certain way? Maybe a weird tingle each time their arms touch. Is that glance in the hall this morning not just an accident, but him going a little out of his way for her to notice? She's asked around and knows that no one else has asked him, but doe he really not have a date yet? Can she overcome the bit of anxiety about asking a boy to the dance? Will she be able to accept the risk of rejection knowing that the chances may be high he says yes?

Only she can choose.
Heh I’m glad that there’s disagreement. I think I was even surprised myself coming to this conclusion.

> It's absolutely necessary for a lot of workflows, especially when people are collaborating on a doc in real time during a meeting

Well yeah you included the solution in the problem description. I’m not convinced of either the shared control, the talking-typing multitasking or even that the artifact should be a document. Assuming the meeting shouldn’t have been an email in the first place.

> when you've got 10 reviewers of a doc all leaving their feedback in comments over the course of the same hour

This one is easier for me to argue concretely. Shared control with 10 people is awful imo. Suggestions with click to accept can make it better (but then you have a notification problem). But what I really dislike is this perpetual state of work in progress. I think a cyclic workflow is better, with drafts and publish and much less back and forth.

In summary, I’d say that the promise of async work (which is good) ended up being sync instead - for the purposes of the human brain. I don’t want to context switch because Bryan fixed a spelling mistake, or see Janice typing out another bullet point right under mine.
Just ban minors from using smartphones. Works even better for their growth than trying to block them from seeing porn. And it's a very simple law to write, no need for useless bureaucrats to make money (but maybe that's the problem).
Stupidity in large human organizations does not favor or exclude the east or west. It's endemic to humans. Wasn't that the essential criticism of "The Lord of the Flies" and, in terms of putative solutions, Volaire's satire in "Candide"?

Leaving the conversation at I saw this or that ... is too incomplete. The question is what are we going to do about it. Management at scientific institutions should have more backbone not less on BS data reporting.
Surely this is an implementation detail that vendors can change
I've worked with and managed global Windows deployments. I've built domains and AD environments from the ground up and have worked on workgroup->domain migrations and everything that goes along with that. But I'm not here to measure dicks.

Creative software being Audacity, Fruityloops, ProTools, Logic, Reaper, various tracker, etc for sound engineering/recording and the Adobe suite for photography and graphics. Ie, my hobbies. I've never had to fiddle with drivers with any of these, just software settings, which is to be expected.

My point is that installing Windows applications, even at scale, generally does not require poking or reconfiguring the OS itself.

Not sure why you're being rude.
In my experience across a wide range of hardware FreeBSD dramatically outperforms Linux when the concurrent processing load is high or there is significant memory pressure.

While Linux is way more popular because of hardware support, lxc/lxd/Docker and various user friendly features, FreeBSD performs considerably better in my experience for heavy processing workloads.
Radiosity was mostly used by laypeople (non-rendering specialists) to mean global illumination in general.

The actual specific radiosity algorithm (diffuse only, form factors and matrix solving etc) proved to be too unwieldy, requiring huge amounts of effort and care to get good results. This is in contrast to Monte Carlo path tracing, which doesn't require extreme care with meshing, doesn't assume diffuse BRDFs and is really well suited to modern massively parallel architectures. Consequently it completely took over production rendering, and game rendering is next.
Time shifting with a DVR solves that. Watching the 7pm news at 8pm and you can jump over the funding pleas and stories you don’t care about.
First experience with the app was 10/10; other than not being able to type the letter ‘m’ in my first Doc. Little things like these can make the difference between instant churn and lifetime users.
According to this summary, Germany has lots of remaining problems with its prototype pebble bed reactors: https://web.archive.org/web/20170329044120/http://nuris.org/...
> All of these books can't hold a candle to the MCU up to avengers end game. 10 years of movies with multitudes of artists, story tellers and centuries of technology all coordinated and artfully put together to build a monument of story telling only to be dismissed by snobs for being "stupid".

> Instead these snobs worship these slice of life books

This reminds me of a quote from Philip Pullman: "In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness… The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They’re embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do.".
I hear ya. ASIO4all and never looked back. Have had good luck with that for many years now.
For Mac desktop programming and Swift in general, I find ChatGPT quite helpful. It’s been quite good at dredging up the kind of “one weird trick” I tend to need to work with these kind of closed source framework that you can’t truly understand. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to Apple stuff since I’m so used to being able to go-to-source of frameworks in Java/Ruby/Android/Go/C/Javascript programming but ChatGPT at least keeps me unstuck.

At least SwiftUI gives you a very nice paved road of productivity. Again if you need something off the beaten path good luck, but it’s never been easier to make app-shaped tools for Apple platforms.
GitUI
"[T]he comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal"
Blue flash completely destroyed, I confirm it.

This is my userChrome.css (I also have a megabar remover in there, that's not shown here):

* {

transition-delay: 0ms !important;

/* This is the magic to kill it 100% */
transition-timing-function: steps(1, jump-start) !important;

/* Animation Killer */
animation-delay: 0ms !important;
animation-duration: 0ms !important;
animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
animation-timing-function: steps(1, jump-start) !important;

}

Also I have ui.PrefersReducedMotion=1 set in about:config.
Fair enough, so instead more CO2 will be captured in more plants and more animals - and more infrastructure if we use wood or capture it in concrete, etc.
Clever Apes in the Modern Workplace
'Don't attempt to apply again, else ...' – 'rude' rejection email goes viral
YouTube has gotten beyond out of control. Ad to start, ads in middle. I’m giving up and reading more books, playing more video games. Used to enjoy YouTube, cooking, aquariums and other hobbies. I feel bad for the content creators who are at the mercy of Alphabet.

Seeing prime announce ads broke the camels back for me.
It's been copyright claimed again:

https://mashable.com/article/disney-steamboat-willie-brock-b...
good insights
Is this really news?

Banks have been investing money held for decades, at least in the US.

A nothing-burger for a slow news week? Perhaps an opportunity for "ethically sourced" interest payments?
Mostly because I think that the person(s) behind the name just plain lost the wallet at some point.

There's also the myth and legend of The Satoshi Wallet. People have software checking it automatically and _any_ transfers out would be stuff of legends immediately. Any major transfers would cause panic - the founder is leaving, what's happening?!
> with a large well-funded media representing the whole political spectrum

I'm reasonably sure the UK media tilts mostly rightwards with only a tiny strand on the left and a small chunk of centrism.
I'm dreaming of the day there would be a chatgpt like thing for all those internal proprietary tools and their "documentation"
You can easily harm people with ai. I can hypothetically harm people with ai today (fake news, etc). I can't harm people with fake moon life. AI already poses a greater threat to humanity than moon life ever did.
Yes, can’t argue with that. Making apps for iOS and usually Android is often way more pleasant.

Have you seen any serious proposals on this front?
To clarify, those security updates are only partial:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-secu...
I said "ads-only." Not "ads-free."
Not quite sure of how to get this resolved. I suggest you try a different mail provider when you do regain access though.

Try using a service like Fastmail over Gmail unless you have a really specific reason for using Gmail. Google support is as bad as it gets, and if they nuke your account for whatever reason you’re SOL mostly. Fastmail is smaller, reliable, and will respond to your issues in a reasonable time and manner. There are others but yeah.

This article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil... / https://web.archive.org/web/20240101224708/https://www.nytim... scared me off of Google services forever.

“ Mark appealed his case to Google again, providing the police report, but to no avail. After getting a notice two months ago that his account was being permanently deleted..”
Not so much newer shows as streaming service exclusives—often funded by the service.
This data is collected, stored, but not shared. For example, when you arrive at any airports located in China, your facial information (along with walking gait) will be collected by the airport authority. This data, however, is not shared with checkpoints alongside the physical border. It would like a central directive to set up a shared database and the system to correctly utilize the data. I doubt that a simple porn/ entertainment corporation has the ability to do such a thing (even if they somehow are allowed to obtain the data legally).
I was speaking technologically. Both Starlink and ASTS satellites are technological demonstrations so I would argue only the technology matters. Since ASTS plans to launch using SpaceX and manufacture through 3rd-party contracts I don't believe Starlink's existing constellation provides any benefits; rather the competition will come down to funding and manufacturing expertise.

The 6-1 satellite advantage doesn't necessarily favor Starlink. BlueWalker 3 was launched 15 months before Starlink's first mobile communications satellite and was itself preceded 5 months by BlueWalker 1. However the six Starlink v2-Mini-D2D satellites feature inter-satellite links, so that is a point in favor of Starlink. BlueWalker will be succeeded by five commercial satellites called BlueBirds which are currently under construction.

As for technology, I can't find any information about the Starlink direct-to-cell satellites. As far as I can tell they haven't been even given NORAD IDs yet.The entire Jan 2 Group 7-9 launch seems to be classified as 58699/Object-A. Given that the launch lifted 21 rather than the standard 22 satellites we can assume the new design is similar to the Starlink v2-Mini in size and weight - perhaps only 125 kg heavier. This suggest the efficiency/weight ratio favors Starlink. Starlink v2-Mini weighs 800 kg

edit: better sources:

starlink v2-mini:

* antenna array: 11.07 m2

* solar array: 104.96 m2

* magnitude: +7.87 +- 0.09 (mean, distance-adjusted)

* weight: ~800 kg

starlink v2-mini d2d:

* antenna array: 19.98 m2 (1?)

* solar array: ?

* magnitude: ?

* weight: ~970 kg

* mobile bandwidth: "~7Mb / beam" (40-100km radius)

bluewalker 3:

* antenna array: 64 m2 (front side)

* solar array: 64 m2 (back side)

* magnitude: +3.09 +- 0.04 (mean, distance-adjusted)

* weight: ~1500 kg (redacted?)

* mobile bandwidth: "14 Mbps" (2)

1. I don't have access to the FCC filings so I multiplied the new bus length by the old width.

2. Per-beam, I assume.

From what I gather satellite mass is more correlated with coverage (number of beams) rather than beam efficiency. For the moment, ASTS antennas are just better ($/bandwidth not published). And the new BlueBird satellites are going to be horribly massive and horribly bright compared to BlueWalker-3.

P.S. Anyone know what BlueWalker-3-deb represents?
> we have got laws

Of which as mentioned previously by Miraste/flight 261 regarding Alaska were not implemented clearly and cleanly given that the person who raised the alarm of ghr situation was fired and the situation continued onwards

Right now regarding boeing there are also boeing whistleblowers in new NGOs set up to police boeing malpractice... If only laws work and this weren't necessary, as boeing also has bribed faa staff to achieve their own objectives risking public safety
You cannot compute what you don't understand, and even if you did by accident, you wouldn't know you computed it, as long as you don't understand what you're trying to do. That seems obvious to me.

And "computable" and "computable for us" are very different things. It's not about the machines or algorithms we might make one day, provided that we fully understand everything that goes into our our thoughts and emotions with nothing left unaccounted for, and everything turning out to be countable; it's about the ones we are actually making, back then and today, and then in some cases outsource our decisions to.
Of course, you missed my point though. You can't look at climate in a silo, just like you can't look at the economy in a silo, nor can you look at any one nation in a silo - geopolitics mattering - and the harmful increase in costs the West is taking on with policy is further benefitting the East who's policy allows them to crank up their CO2 production even further, reducing their costs, and benefitting . It's a blatantly obvious disconnect that people pretend doesn't need to be solved at the same time otherwise disadvantage and harm isn't evenly distributed; if harmful policies are going to be implemented instead of technological solutions that don't cause harm but instead accelerate a shift.
I am just surprised people are surprised. Of course this was always the endgame. The thing that is nice, for now anyway, is that: 1/ I get to watch what I want when I want it, so this is better than cable and 2/ I can pay extra for no ads, which is something that has genuine value to me and I will happily pay for.
Can't you skip pre-roll Prime ads? You can in the UK at least, although they have started moving their shows to "Freevee" which seems to just be ad supported Prime.

I don't think it's too big of an issue to be honest. Unlike in the 80s, streaming services now compete with bittorrent.
Japan's earthquake alters coastline, extends it by two football fields
So much fun!! Thanks for sharing!! Does it support other languages apart from English?
Thank you for sharing, that sounds really shitty
But the severity of Chernobyl definitely fomented anti-nuclear sentiment much further than it had been. It “showed” that a major radiological release could happen in a civilian power plant (nonwithstanding that such designs weren’t used in Germany). Ultimately the formation of the sentiment was a process, of which Chernobyl is a core part.
> so we're going to be extra careful just in case

If we're going with that analogy, moon is roughly simultaneously visited by many private companies, each bringing samples back, some paying lip service "we're totally be careful", some not.

Continuing with that analogy, there are other planets, moons, solar systems with perhaps bigger chance of finding life. The laissez-faire approach to bringing samples back continues, now strengthened by the "see, we visited moon, brought samples and we still live!".