skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bat (and human) echolocation is not based on distinguishing sonar pings in time domain, but rather listening to the frequency spectrum of the reverberating sound, ie. "measuring" the impulse response of the surroundings.

Sending a signal that resembles the echo pulses will skew the spectrum and confuse the listener.

In theory that information can be used to triangulate the "jammer" if you could measure the small difference in time from receiving in left vs. right ear but that's not how mammal brains process auditory signals.

So it's not like sonar in submarine warfare with hydrophone arrays and digital signal processing.
"Krigare: Ett personligt reportage om de svenska soldaterna i Afghanistan" (eng "Warriors") [1] by Johanne Hildebrandt[2].

A book about the FS19 deployment of Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan in 2010, written by an experienced war reporter. Some chapters reminded me about Generation Kill, with regards to lack of proper equipment (wrong colour, missing etc...) or purpose of deployment (too much bodyguarding of politicians visiting etc).

1. ISBN: 9789143510737, ISBN-10: 9143510736 https://books.google.se/books/about/Krigare.html?id=LpJjAgAA...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanne_Hildebrandt
There are probably (some other) risks in exposing a precise timestamp as well.
It’s not just the writes. If you’re using a non-k-sortable item (like UUIDv4) as the PK, you’re throwing away every linear read-ahead that the kernel is doing for you, because the odds of what you need being on the same page is nil. When you’re paying for IOPS, like in a cloud, that’s even worse.

You’re also causing huge amounts of WAL bloat (unless you’re running ZFS and can thus safely disable full-page writes) [1].

And on a system with a clustered index (InnoDB, SQL Server), the performance and space bloat is even worse.

[0]: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/unexpected-downsides-...

[1]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/on-the-impact-of-full-pa...
Thanks, it certainly has been. After only a couple of years in the software industry proper, though, I felt I had seen all I needed to see. Crunch time. Arbitrary, ill-informed management decisions. Management who didn't believe in the product the team was passionate about. Products canceled through no fault of anyone working on it. Office politics and bickering.

With my own business, I gain agency. If the product fails, it's because I failed to market it properly, or the product vision was bad and did not resonate with enough customers, or because I failed to execute on that vision. When all the decisions are out of your hands, and you can't even see what prompted them, they can feel capricious and arbitrary.

With my own business, I am in control. I don't have one boss, I have hundreds of them. And as long as I continue to provide them with value, I get to continue doing what I'm doing. I like those terms.
One of the possible ways of "fixing" it is natural evolution and selection, the way it happened with communication networks. They once ruled, but eventually the shifted to being "dumb pipes" (leaving aside for a moment how exact that moniker is) and the end-user device manufacturers taking over as the point of delivery of paid services.

The same could theoretically happen for entertainment content, in one way or another. A popular scenario present in a lot of sci-fi is that people subscribe to "channels" or data streams or whatchacallit, and the point of access is actually working as an aggregator and single point of payment. I can see no valid reason why big outfits like Sony or Samsung couldn't do that, effectively defragmenting the subscription craziness and easily dealing with backoffice negotiations on licensing and whatnot (Sony could probably do that without leaving the building).

Again, it doesn't HAVE to be the end-user device manufacturer to present such a single-point service, but I think they are best positioned to be first movers for such a paradigm. And not saying it would be easy, because they are subject to the same brain-dead enshittification attempts in their "smart" devices as anyone else, and that is a habit that is hard to quit.
> 30% faster and
7% smaller than uuidv4

Why would UUIDv7 be more compact than v4? Doesn’t it take the same number of bits?
It should absolutely return the actual thing you search for if it exists, and as the first result.

It would require an extraordinary circumstance to justify anything else, like if a thing exists, but overwhelmingly the entire net is full of some other reference that is probably what everyone is looking for.

The overwhelming majority of people typing "google" into a search are not looking for the Wikipedia page about google.
I'm not arguing about the nature of consciousness. I'm just pointing out it's not the same as qualia. I am 100 percent sure animals experience the sensation of qualia. I don't know if they are conscious. Same with newborns. It's unclear. Qualia has nothing to do with awareness of oneself. It's different altogether.

If Hofstadter's book were right, it explains only consciousness. To put it another way.. he may really truly be a strange loop but what is the feeling of being a strange loop?
I took notes in LaTeX in my college. I didn't need macros or the fancy editor setup. It's not hard. It turned passive learning into active. I didn't have a few of the formatting nuances as pretty as he did (e.g. boxes around theorems), but that's not hard.

The key difference between him and me are the figures. It's worth looking at his notes here:

https://castel.dev/notes

The figures are beautiful.

How?!?!?!?

(Footnote due to recent bad experiences to pre-empt stupid answers: "Inkscape" is not an answer. I use Inkscape, and I know how long these things would take me. It's definitely not something I could do anywhere close to real-time. I want to know what conceivable workflow in Inkscape would allow those sorts of figures in even a significant fraction of lecture speed, let alone real-time)
> English subtitles only available with CC

The worst part of the subs for the hard of hearing is that the contain so many spoilers. They'll write "JOHN:" an hour before our protagonist learns who exactly this mysterious character is, completely ruining any surprise.
Experimental gene therapy allows kids with inherited deafness to hear
Bi-cursorious might matter more when using a stylus on a iPad or similar. I wonder.
I would love to see a youtube/spotify… only, bluetooth, phone size device.

I listen to podcasts while working and to go to bed, listen to music and play music for my daughter (youtube time is 90% listening).

Does someone have a recommendation?
I actually found this worrying, since it means they are not committed to make NextJS work nicely, quite the opposite they now have incentive to not make it happen
There was also VRML[1].

In 2004-2005, our team build a home layout tool for a Furniture company, where customers can place furniture in the home layout. It was not the most realistic but gave the customers a feel of the size and space allocation without having to visit the stores. We did it in Flash. In the next iteration, after a few years, VRML was attempted and we reached the stage of creating the layouts and gave up.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
This one's not new by any stretch of imagination, I've used it way before Obsidian was a thing.

If it pays the bills, why kill it?
Microsoft Flight Simulator also uses WASM for plugins, which allows them to run portably on both the PC and Xbox versions of the game, with sandboxing, and still get decent performance.

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/WASM...

It should also be future proof should they ever do a native ARM build.
At this point I don't really know if you understand what 'neurodivergent' means. People who suffer for neurodivergency does not have different mental mappings than those who are neurotypical. Also, the way they construct their own world does not differ from neurotypical.

The mind process you have described is pretty standard, even using some different things to recover information instead of saving it. There is no neurodivergent path of extracting information and there is no neurodivergent understanding of reality or neurodivergent thought process.
The real deal is keyboard mouse keyboard mouse keyboard.

Then both hands can mouse and access a “near half” of both sides of the keyboard.
In my 40s, never wanted kids, and my position hasn't changed at all.

I've never really had the urge, and it's only ever been friends/relatives pushing the "you should have kids, they're amazing!" narrative.

I'm sure they are, but I equate it with e.g. painting. I'm sure painting is very enjoyable, frustrating at times, and can bring a ton of joy and wonder to the world. But I just don't enjoy painting, or have any desire to learn, and don't feel the world is so desperately short of artists that I have a duty to do it.

Seeing many friends of mine seriously struggle with money and time also convinces me I made the right choice. I also don't envy a lot of issues they have to go through, e.g. bullying, teen pregancy, phone addiction, tuition fees, serious/lifelong medical issues, etc.
have you recieved any info on this? If yes please lemme know
In practice, there is little if any difference between seals and signatures in tems of security.

A signature (or stamp) is easy to fake and get away with for a while. It's very rare that the authenticity of signatures is checked right away. Perhaps even easier than stealing or faking a not-particularly-secured stamp. It only happens when some problem arises and is investigated after the fact. The question is not whether the signature is "authentic enough" but who signed the document. You can aks and answer this question about a seal equally well.

The reason we have signatures (or stamps) is as an explicit ritual signifying ratification of a document that one cannot plausibly deny later.
The spirit who charges a fee to prevent bad weather from ruining shows in Brazil
Cool. Drop kick a hornets nest in a zorb ball. What could go wrong? Not everyone attending DEFCON is getting 6 figures to red team, I suspect.
Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble
> I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Or not recommend it.

That's the point: these aren't equal opposites.

The answer to "should I have children?" is "you have to decide that for yourself but be aware of what it is you're deciding".
Amiga: Hamulet engine – 50 FPS large HAM bobs animation test [video]
I apologize; I’ll review the guidelines and try to do better next time.
If you really cared about getting off the rock and not so much about containing the radiation you could build some VERY thrusty nuclear rockets.
Yes, to all of that. But: the amount of control is directly proportional to how fat your wallet is, as it gets leaner you lose some of that agency so make sure you never even go close to depleting your reserves. That's a lesson I learned the hard way at some point and it causes me to be pretty cautious from a financial perspective. So far so good ;)
'Terror Camp' Could Be a Glimpse of the Future of Fandom and Scholarship
Auto-follow chopsticks grab flying UAVs from the back of a vehicle
Someone created a VS Code version: https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/11fipv1/come_in_if_y...
Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko sets world record for most days (878) spent in space
Dennou Coil (2007) trailer [video]
A beautiful story set in a world where AR and reality start blending together in the minds of children and adults.
See Io, our most volcanic moon, erupt like never before
TikZ and pgfplots
> Now older and wiser, candidly a lot of folks would be well served by default blue links, og html submit buttons and tables for layouts. A fair bit of modern UI is complete trash: it's the product of a designer and a product person putting the next bullet point on their resume.

Material design, and a lot of the related nonsense was one of the worst things to happen to modern computing. It sure _looks_ pretty, in the way an expensive, glossy brochure looks pretty, but the usability is garbage. A good UX should signal intent and function at all times. Anything less is doing a disservice to your users.
Smartphones are awesome. You can use them to play chess, read books on the go, pay your bills while taking a dump and send your mom pictures of your baby.
I've been using various tools and configs regarding this for years now, with tons of my own modifications to them. These write-ups and corresponding repositories are of great value to the vim/LaTeX community and Gilles' loss is tragic.

Rest in peace, you won't be forgotten.
Show HN: Boost User Trust with Data Content Authenticity
I found that there currently is no solution that can create a blockchain transaction for free, that's highly affordable, and has the most integrations...

...So I made one. Partnered with a blockchain + Zapier.

Now, it's the fastest, most affordable, and most versatile "blockchain timestamping" tool out there.

I then found that there are a few problems with "web2" data...

First Use case: Blockchain Timestamping, Blockchain e-Notary (for lawyers, supply chains, etc.)

Second Use case: AI Content Protection, Boost User Trust & Brand Authority (for journalism, bloggers, news, government, biz, etc.)

I discovered that you can input data into the blockchain so that each "transaction". I've standardised the input, so that you can easily create "Verification Certificates" — these are timestamps with additional Trust Factors such as "identity", "certificate type", "validate the certificate content", "date created", etc.

All of these make it stronger than just a "timestamp"...

Also, it has a "revision" history. Currently waiting for plugin approval in the next 1-2 weeks, then I can reveal this new feature.

Currently building and assessing PMF.

Let me know what you think!
Increasing the number of teams will reduce the revenue shared out to all of the existing teams. So most likely all existing teams lobbied hard to prevent it from happening.
The OP was annoyed they bought a podcast they liked and then put it behind a UI/UX which is hard to use. Presumably if Spotify went out of business Rogan would end up back on the open market. Turns out the new deal lets Rogan put shows back on YouTube so it doesn't matter.

BTW, I agree about the Spotify UI. I never liked it and was a GPM user until they destroyed it by pushing me to YTM. Now I use AM, since if I'm going to tolerate a poor UI it might as well work well with all my devices.
apple already deals with both mobile carriers and multi-national governance bodies.

quite profitably.
Netflix app on my TV crashed when I plugged-in my usb headset :/
And don't forget the fax machines...
Postgres can return the id to you that it generates.
I’m also wondering about how they made the figures, to be that is the most interesting and important bit.
Why do trading partners have to hide their transactions?
Interesting. Thank you for explaining, I understand now.

I'm more leaning toward not adding more options, as I'd like to keep the game as simple as possible, but nevertheless I'll have a think, it might be worth it.
Not input lag but scrolling an editor in fullscreen on a large monitor is kind of laggy for me sometimes. I hope these changes will make a difference (not yet in a stable release).

https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/3045
TOSLINK is seriously underrated
> and throwing in the towel is kinda frowned upon.

For me this was the hardest part. You don't get to get out. Maybe it's a mindset thing.

Starting a book, an app, a diet. You all can just throw the towel and be done. Kids, not an option.
I guess that says something about how that company was usually run...
> No other city in North America has a similar amount of space or options for low cost block booking

Not even in Mexico? You know, the country that's part of North America? Why not just say America?
>I want to know what conceivable workflow in Inkscape would allow those sorts of figures in even a significant fraction of lecture speed, let alone real-time

https://github.com/gillescastel/inkscape-shortcut-manager

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

I've also done LaTeX for notes (in EMACS), but was never happy with how things looked when doing everything quick. The sheer genius of the setup he made is eye-opening.
Oh, I wasn't thinking about canvas bags. What I was thinking about, and what the law is about, is the thick plastic bags I've seen at e.g. Safeway checkout that they charge 10 cents for.

Buying these thick plastic bags seems to be what the checkout line guides people to do. Buying a canvas bag would require extra effort. People generally take the path of least resistance.
Wouldn't AV pick up uploading browser cookies?
No Jaguar VR? The prototypes made it into wild- would have been the first consumer VR and it seemed to work really well!

https://youtu.be/1NCQJrd-4rk?feature=shared
Sometimes the difference is still increasing year on year, but due to the higher baseline, the percentage increase has declined.
>> the services have taken the piss?

> Which services do you mean?

As a pioneer of entitlement-based streaming video who believed in the tech, I pay for every streaming service that remains ad free and is available a la carte as an add-on "channel" to TV+, Hulu, or Prime.

I'm down from most all of them, to just a handful.

Our consulting to content and distribution firms in the 2000s told them they had to do five things to compete:

- eliminate anxiety of appointment viewing

- eliminate anxiety of acquiring media (costs)

- eliminate anxiety of ownership (durability)

- eliminate anxiety of compatibility (devices)

- eliminate anxiety of availability (when, where)

Netflix is undoing several of these. They're adding cost of viewing ads, removing promise of working on all devices, and more aggressively removing deep content.
Scammers have fooled countless mothers into believing their voice belongs to one of their children before text-to-speach was a thing. (Just to say it's not incredibly hard. I'm not suggesting that being able to automate it wouldn't have a huge impact.)
> How would it be beneficial to anyone?

Most programmers provide outsourcing services for companies from abroad (including outside of the EU).

Low taxes help them - and the umbrella companies AKA software houses - to remain competitive on the global market.

So even if they only pay a smaller fraction of their income to the budget, it's still better than if they didn't get the gig to begin with, because the contracts would go elsewhere.

> the subcontractor doesn't get any social security.

You do get healthcare insurance in Poland; no difference here. You're paying those fees just the same way.

You're only required to pay minimum pension charges though, so you have to take care of that yourself. (Objectively speaking, investing your savings in the pension system, of all places, probably isn't an optimal strategy anyway. At any rate, noone stops you from paying more than you're legally required, if you think that it is).

> the contracting company has more freedoms with getting/tossing employees, although loses a safety net of subcontractor suddenly leaving or changing prices.

It's obviously a trade-off. Being able to let people go without fuss if a customer downscales their budget (I was on the receiving end of this last year) is a competitive advantage.

> the government loses oversight of actual corporate structures

What do you mean by that?
But how are you handling those system dependencies (is R and its various packages one?), and how do you know that the packages you install/manage via the python ecosystem work with them?

I think the reason Python has so many things is simply because most other languages throw their arms up and say "system stuff, not my problem" (rust is an excellent example of this, the build.rs is basically the same thing as a setup.py, except less standard, and currently lacks from what I've seen is any kind of systematic solution like cibuildwheel), whereas Python has always been trying to do something to address it.
You should check out a post from yesterday, “Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248225
Beyond the Dril-candles-tweet economics already discussed: I already own a PC that could transcode if that was something I actually wanted to do.
Is there an Emacs port for this?
When an infant needs feeding and cleaning every 4 hours, believe me your choices in life haven't "expanded".

That doesn't mean it's bad. But it's also not going to end (it will however, get different - but not easier).
Can't imagine such a lawsuit having any success, unless you have a corrupt judge, who will find or make up any fake reason for a guilty charge.

In real life there are 100 times as many accessibility problems as on any web page – why shouldn't they be sued?
I don't like these vague distros. No where on the page they do they even explicitly stated that that they're a Linux distribution. Or what DE is shipped, what init is used or what their release model is or what their package manager is.

As for the latter, they only allow installation of FlatPaks and Snaps, or packages from other distributions running in a container.
> So it's more sustainable to have two cars instead of one?
Depends on the cars but if the second one is a small EV yes, you're better using that for your daily commute.
The larger one should last longer, mitigating the production cost over the long term.

Still in towns like Paris you should favor bicycle or public transportation.
You can also have a smaller EV and rent a larger one for the long trips.
Still better than using some other OS.
> That's also why software from Poland is such a tacky crap despite so many "talents"

[citation needed]

How do you recognize "software from Poland" anyway?
That makes some sense to me, my dialect is somewhere in the Nordmørsk-Trøndersk spectrum.
There’s a pure pgsql implementation here which you can use:

https://github.com/kiwicopple/pg-extensions/tree/main/pg_idk...

Also since RDS supports trusted language extensions you can install it via dbdev:

https://database.dev/kiwicopple/pg_idkit
Using TikZ and UltiSnips in vim, you can create figures very quickly; the following took me 2-3 minutes to make (I had the datafile beforehand):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eLe0LdKqPyPdmXel_3DwP9AZcIQ...

I don't know about real-time, though; I'd never try to draw figures in real time.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to create a gamer community for Portuguese people?
I'd love to hear from you guys if it's a good idea to create a small web tool that will unite the gamer community in portugal. a website where users could create their own accounts, post their own content such as videos, images and audio, meet people to play certain games and things like that. if this post gets any number of likes i'll create this tool for all of us.
The people who already know JS/TS and would like to occasionally do something interesting with a piece of data.
With Python, most of my time goes into googling how that list filtering / mapping syntax went again or some other basic level stuff that I do every day with JS. I know Python, but I'm not fluent in it. And I will likely never be fluent in it, because my Python use cases are so infrequent.
Repel the Chicken Tax then and we'll see how auto OEM change their tunes and people start liking small cars again.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chicken-tax.asp

>Most SUVs are classified as light trucks and are therefore included in the Chicken Tax

Full story: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/subaru-brat/
WireQuery: Capture and analyze data flowing in and out of your applications
If athletes don't get tested they can't compete in doping controlled competitions.
...which means you need a round-trip to the database before doing anything else. That's latency you can avoid with client-side predictable (or determined) UUID's.

Whether you should do anything else before the data has been persisted is a totally different discussion.