skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone explain why the results are different to begin with? E.g. why is this audio fingerprinting even possible in the first place?
There are bigger things than a failed trial. There was a lot of money invested in this and when it was found to not be harmful there was a large push to show success. A lot of careers will be cut short because of this. There’s a lot of motivation to show something works. I was told to avoid research because of this kind of thing. There were a lot of highly paid people in a room that were not scientists but tasked with showing how much money could be made. That sounds evil but their intentions are good, that doesn’t help ALS people but there’s enough money put into this I wouldn’t be surprised if some progress is shown somewhere.
Does this technique fingerprint based on hardware/driver/OS differences with audio processing, or just the browser software?

I believe there are (or were, hopefully) similar techniques using <canvas> that exposed differences between the underlying graphics devices.
A superb writeup. Thanks for posting. Reminded me of Herbert Simon saying Learning required "Drill and Kill". And how our education systems were tending more towards entertainment by undervaluing rote or practice.

Had to dig up the quote - "The criticism of practice (called "drill and kill," as if this phrase constituted empirical evaluation) is prominent in constructivist writings. Nothing flies more in the face of the last 20 years of research than the assertion that practice is bad. All evidence, from the laboratory and from extensive case studies of professionals, indicates that real competence only comes with extensive practice... In denying the critical role of practice one is denying children the very thing they need to achieve real competence. The instructional task is not to "kill" motivation by demanding drill, but to find tasks that provide practice while at the same time sustaining interest."
> I wonder what is the significance of it being a salt rather than a pure lsd?

The salt is patentable.
I'd like to understand more about essential tremors - is there anyone here experienced in such matters and/or able to point me toward some good resources?
You clearly didn’t read or understand what the bill is saying.

This might be helpful to understand context too: https://youtu.be/ma0xH0EI7Us?si=Qhg5pz6-FgYC0j_o
Adult Swim games are being removed from sale by Warner Bros
Well, does it actually search through reviews if you ask it a relevant question? And how well does it work?
Side entry powered wheelchair access like from BraunAbility. Ramps generally require assistance or a large amount of space around the vehicle.
Women Are over the Myth of 'Having It All' Favor Work-Life Balance over High Pay
The refrigerator is nice… shame it’s been powered by coal and petrochemicals the whole time, leading to a situation where you need a better refrigerator to keep the same food edible.
Why use the word "blindly". It looks like it uses a LLM. Possibly one fine tuned on Amazon reviews and product data. It can also answer other questions. Is that bad? Why should Amazon be embarrassed about this?
Back in the day when computers were slow (like, megahertz slow) you could do this with code execution to help with debugging. If you played with a piece of code long enough you'd get very familiar with the patterns (they were tones, not just ticks) and it was easy to tell when something was off / different.
U.S. forces, allies shoot down more than 2 dozen Houthi drones in Red Sea
Here is why you should ditch Insomnia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqf9kD2XPn8
My charitable take is that it does take both ends of the spectrum to arrive at a solution that does not exactly satisfy everyone, but is an acceptable place to stop the impossible arms race. The unfortunate reality is that we are nowhere the end of that race.

Admittedly, that was the first time I read about fingerprinting in this manner and bypassing explicit privacy protections is definitely not something I would want for my future self ( or that my of my family ).

In other words, I think you are right. Privacy probably needs to be codified. It may seem hard to do given existing entrenched interests, but you have to start somewhere. Not that long ago people thought buying people is 'just the way world works'. Things can change. Slowly, but they do.
Maybe because the real standard is "the benefits out weigh the risks" you might want a drug that has a 10% chance of harm if it has a 90% chance of benefit, for a condition that is terminal if untreated.
> No, we know the exponent is at least 2, not that it is 2.

From the article: "bringing it closer to the ideal value of 2, which represents the theoretical minimum number of operations needed."

It's fine if the article is wrong. You sound informed. Just wanted to highlight the difference.
I wasn't able to read the article (behind paywall) but this was also in the news recently, related to CF & Zn.

https://newatlas.com/medical/zinc-lung-macrophages-anti-bact...
Did I read this correctly and audio fingerprinting is mainly about identifiying the used browser version and OS or laptop, but it cant identify end-users in a stable way?
This has nothing to do with the microphone...
That's more a question of defaults, right?

I'd hope adding quotes around Robert Jenkins Park would avoid aliasing. If so, then they optimized for aliasing being the default with a simple way to avoid it for the (presumably) uncommon case. If aliasing was off by default, what would be a similar syntax to indicate that you actually want it on for a search?
ICE yes, RB or RE? Forget it.
While I do hate Postman because its overcomplicated in everything.

But attitude like yours has shifted people and money away from developer tools. Instead of all the possible tools we could have from many developers, we are now totally dependent on big tech to sponsor it, like VSCode etc. And over time it would move in direction that will promote another service from the same company like copilot and vscode.
This, plus...

- building a large personal project

- writing documentation for other's projects

- answering questions in slack/discord

(Teaching makes you learn things deeper)
For the present, electric cars are mainly vehicles for conveying a sense of smug superiority onto well-to-do people.

If you fly overseas yearly, you burn so much jet fuel that your driving doesn't matter.
Indeed, as orlp mentioned, light is self-propagating and does not require a medium. This is broadly true for all EM waves.
~2030 IIRC, unfortunately Google results are drowned out by N copies of this piece.

Ah, found this:
- https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-system...

from broader context I remember, the 2025 "commercially relevant net energy" means "net positive, and not trivially so, i.e. not for 2 femtonanopicofemtoseconds for 1 of 30 trials if we had a better laser"
>human-guided quality discrimination

This is the part that I don't really understand. Isn't this basically an evolutionary algorithm, where the fitness function is "whatever people like the most" (or at least enough to post it online)?

People rarely generate 10 pieces of content with AI and then share all 10 with the world. They usually only share the best ones. This naturally filters for better output.

Are they saying that evolutionary algorithms don't work?
I use httpie's CLI tool for testing application/json endpoints. That and some jq really can make some things nice.

(Apparently it has a GUI version as well, but I'm not interested in trying it.)
Zip trees are novel but their performance (and therefore also skip lists, since they are isomorphic) lacks behind other linked structures like Treaps and especially LBSTs. [1] I personally find skip lists to be overhyped binary search trees in disguise.

[1] https://rtheunissen.github.io/bst
Ketamine is a dissociative that's used as an anesthetic. General anesthesia is a different beast. The precise mechanism GAs use isn't understood, but they cause slow waves of electrical activity to wash over the brain, constantly resetting neural networks and preventing communication, leading to coma. This includes breathing, which is why the patient needs to be intubated.

Ketamine doesn't stop respiration. It causes profound dissociation and hallucinations, but I don't think it causes coma. It's definitely doing different things than GAs, at least.

So it doesn't seem unreasonable that ketamine wouldn't work if you're in a coma. I'd be surprised if LSD did either. Or anything, for that matter. There's not a lot metabolically happening in a neuron under coma.
Sure, but what's the point? There still is no distributed postgres. there are read replicas, but that's not the same thing.

So why do you think that is?
How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again
Love it. Triggers memories!

I wrote my own similar-ish version of this for a school project in 1991. Although mine wasn’t mono, so I could draw in foreground colour, preserving the existing text, background colour or text. Eg draw a filled in square made up only of background colour changes. Obviously this is very different but I love the sense of surprisingly good output despite a lot of restrictions.
The Purple Streetscape
Yep, but practically speaking, you need those records anyway even if you're using another queue to actually distribute the jobs. At least every system I've ever built of a reasonable size has a job audit table anyway. Plus it's an "Enterprise Feature™" so you can differentiate on it if you like that kind of feature-based pricing
Pretty cool. I'll have to come back to this

But can't someone just ask merry kitty where they got the idea from?
1/2*(0.5oz)*(15000mph)^2 = 319 kilojoules of (kinetic) energy

1/2*(1,955 lbs)*(60mph)^2 = 319 kilojoules of (kinetic) energy

So it's basically the same amount of energy as a car at highway speed. But, you'd need to concentrate all of the mass as a small point in order to cause that sort of hole.
Teaching others / pair programming where there is a disparity between seniority levels with the participants.
To train AI, you want contents that are human generated. So since Google is interested in the AI race now, filtering out AI contents is high on its list of priority. We are lucky it "trickles down" into us in this form.

Otherwise, Google being Google would ignore this issue just as they have ignored all the SEO and bot spams in the past. They lost their visions and has succumbed fully to corporatitis. I think anything short of a major surgery or blood transfusion would save Google now.
If you scour my archives, I once made a heavily down voted post about how 'doctors were evil'.

It was obviously meant to be provocative and tongue in cheek. But all medical boards are exclusively run by doctors, so you have to assign blame to the profession for doctor NIMBYism.

Imo, it's another case of : "you can't get someone to understand something, if their wealth depends on them not understanding it."
Ah so a patent company who wanted to make a profit?

https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FDA-2023-E-2605

Interesting!
We benefit enormously from the biological technology and wealth found in the natural world.
The "zippy" client stuff comes at a cost: my browser has to download ~150kb of javascript to make this website work. Not as bloated as many sites but more JS than is truly needed for this sort of thing. Likely framework bloat.

Edit: I should say of course you can have zippy client-side stuff without the bloat (for example: just filter the JSON object and update the DOM yourself without a framework!). So it doesn't _really_ come at a cost, just typically the most expedient way a reactive UI is put together uses a framework like React.
While no broken out per plug, APC UPS network management cards provide total power output data (current, voltage, frequency, power) via SNMP, which you can log using a wide variety of tools.

And even without external tools, historical power usage logs are available via the APC Web UI.

While I don't currently log anything externally, I use an xbar[1] script[2] to display UPS output current in my Mac menu bar.

[1] https://xbarapp.com

[2] https://jasomill.at/apc-nmc-status.5s.sh
> The source code for Golden Edition features is proprietary.

Here we go again. There are two versions of this tool. One which is "open source" and another that has additional features which are closed source.

Not very "open-source" after all.
I don't know, if an American newspaper writes that a British minister went to "public school", wouldn't that be misleading?
Probably someone made money off it as according to the article this was the clear outcome.
I started using Yaak after Insomnia and Postman both decided to become user-hostile, it's decent: https://yaak.app/

You'll never guess who makes it.
No, Sandoz produced LSD tartarate back in the '50s. It's the common salt form of LSD. The freebase is lipophilic, and is typically dissolved in ethanol, while the salt form is water-soluble, and can be soaked into blotter paper or sublingual tablets.

Amazingly, I found a Swiss clinical trial from 2021 (!) comparing the pharmacokinetics of the freebase vs. tartarate in human subjects: https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04865653

Switzerland is (free)based.
There's some factors to consider here. For visible light yes, the smallest feature probably won't be smaller than several hundred nanometers, however, optical computing comes with several major advantages over traditional electrical circuits.

The first is that light beams can cross paths without interfering with each other, allowing for a level of parallelism and density of signal paths without the concern of crosstalk/interference or shorting. Additionally, the information density of an optical signal is vastly higher than an electrical signal, and multiple optical signals can share the same pathways simultaneously. Also, energy usage is greatly reduced, so the constraints due to heat waste are much less.

Having said all that, the idea of optical circuits in a VLSI is still a very foreign and exotic concept for us, so it's hard to say how far we can take it if we invest at the level we have for electrical ICs. It's naive though to say it's not feasible due to some oversimplification of feature size limitations.
What an immense shame rests on our heads for aiding and abetting an ethnic cleansing.

Australia's record has been far from clean, but how I'll ever have another conversation with someone about why their country is wrong to go and displace, kill, or imprison some ethnic group- well, I just won't be able to anymore. I'm simply too ashamed now.
My phone running Firefox for Android produced the same results as the sample data for Firefox on Windows which does seem to fit with this largely being a browser identification scheme
Churchill was the epitome of the anti-Indian/African/Asian brutal enslavement & exploitation mentality of the Colonial powers. Their evil still continues to this day, especially in Africa.

Tens of millions of Indians literally starved and died on the streets of India due to Churchill and his British administration bleeding fertile India dry of its food because he considered Indians to be less than human.

The British genocides on the Hindus and other Indians are among the greatest Holocaust of human history.

British deliberately massacred many hundreds of millions of people in India throughout their brutal rule.

Even ignoring Partition and civil riots, here are just ballpark numbers of the deaths in the artificial famines caused by the British in India.

* The Great Bengal Famine: 1769 - 1770:
10+ Million Deaths

* Madras City & Chalisa Famines: 1782 - 1783:
11+ Million Deaths

* Doji Bara Famines: 1791 - 1792:
10+ Million Deaths

* Agra Famine: 1837 - 1838:
1 Million Deaths

* Upper Doab Famine: 1860 -1861:
2 Million Deaths

* Orissa Famine: 1866:
1+ Million Deaths

* Rajputana Famine: 1868 - 1870:
1.5 Million Deaths

* Bihar Famine: 1873 - 1874:
5.5 Million Deaths

* Ganjam/Orissa/Bihar Famines: 1888 - 1889:
100,000 + Deaths

* Indian Famine: 1896 - 1897:
Millions of Deaths

* Indian Famine: 1899:
1+ Million Deaths

* Bombay Presidency Famine: 1906 - 1906
100,000+ Deaths

* Bengal Famine: 1943-1944
4+ Million Deaths

Churchill was mostly to blame for these artificial famines, but the British had been doing such evils to the Indians for a long time even before Churchill and the world wars:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53405121

https://medium.com/@write_12958/the-crimes-of-winston-church...

Additional casualties colonization has caused/exasperated...

"Malthusian economics, convenient interpretations of Adam Smith, and social-Darwinism combined to form an ideology that killed 5.5 million Indians only in the British territories between 1876 and 1878 and anything between 6.1 and 10.3 million people in all of India. The Famine Commission justified Lord Lytton’s reasoning, Davis writes, saying that if help was meted out during the famine, people would assume that the poor were entitled to it at all times. British trade could not take a backseat for the sake of Indian lives."
That answers what proportion of your mail was trash.
I think that is correct, but it still seems like an amount of leakage that could be further correlated with other another trick.

There was previously a site which could indicate how globally unique your environment was (some combination of screen size, user-agent, fonts?, etc). Locking down to a specific hardware+browser configuration probably does a lot to remove anonymity.
> Public chargers are sorely lacking and prone to malfunctions[...] But price matters most of all

Either you own a garage or you don't. How could price matter more than that?
Computer programs are logical; AI can write programs, but to the extent they implement pure logic they are too fragile for real world scenarios, and to the extent that they are resilient to real world nuances they aren't what most people would call pure logic.

I think part of the problem with Kant (and indeed also with Utilitarianism) is that the philosophers tried to formalise it logically without fully grasping the messiness of the world.

Unfortunately, there are game theory reasons to expect cheating and accepting bribes even in AI, and if they learn from humans then there are those problems plus automatically inferring and reproducing the conflicts of interest of the humans it learns from.
You seem particularly willing to ignore the facts in order to paint Apple's actions in a good light.

Apple releases developer notes containing changes included in its betas. Such a change should obviously have appeared right away when iOS 17.4 beta 1 was released. It did not.

After two weeks of backlash, Apple did confirm it was removing the feature in a public statement. They just did not want to announce it publicly before.

After two other weeks of bigger backlash and the start of an EU investigation, they publicly announced they would not remove the feature after all.

They 100% intended to remove the feature, and 100% backed down.
Wasn't Mozilla's proposed audio API simpler? AFAIK it was beaten out by Google's because people wanted a richer API and lower latencies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120505042746/https://developer...
There are, undoubtedly, many reasons for justifying not having to use their equipment.
Besides rental cost, having extraneous hardware which is unused functionality at least raises the probability that there could be something which goes wrong due to added complexity.
The most compelling reason being if I insist on using bridge mode(on such a gateway), and then, after some unforseen firmware upgrade, that setting is reset, then my entire network becomes unreachable. Or at least as unreachable as it once was before the update.
Having a simple bridge device like a pure modem or plain old ont, there can be no functionality to reset which would potentially alter the state of the netowrk. It either passes as a bridge or it doesnt.
A lot of the friction though, at its core is the result of either, drumroll, having full access to the device providing layer 3 NAT or not.
As ISPs want to smush together their on premises equipment they, due to the nature of the stack need to take control of the NAT to do so. At that point users who would like to open ports or do anything more than request a connection from the insdide are, out of luck, and it shoulnd't be accepted, as ISPs dont NEED gateways to make thier network work. Illustrated by the many smaller ones who do just fine without.
Coincidently, they also discovered 'living fossils' amongst the entertainment acts at Butlins Minehead. Some were said to rival the tree fossils in age.
the extensions and ability to write your own extensions, or chain request/response values is crazy. when i've switched to linux box from macos last year, paw.cloud (rapidapi) was one of few stoppers for me, that good of a software it is. also not to mention the integration with keychain for credentials encryption was nice.

postman is really bad, nobody should use it. same goes for similar solutions, even this one.
There was a discussion a while back when the whole insomnia thing happened, where the dev points out how he aims to not go the same route

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269
Not good. But the breathless uncalibrated claims are not helping anyone understand the risks.
Should be able to use old version of the app to restore?
Building an Open Chiplet Economy (2023)
What are your guys thoughts on webmaster as a subscription?
Do you think this is a viable business model? If, so who is the ideal target audience?
Somebody could compile the (probably extremely short, if not nil) list of pronounceable sequences of phonemes, that are not vulgar, sexist, demeaning, insulting, "hurtful", or otherwise objectionable in any language.
Yes, hitting a 15,000 mph ICBM warhead, with a 15,000 mph pellet of tiny 0.5 oz plastic you shot out of a cannon from 5,000 miles away, would be enough to disable it. The roadblock here is hiring a good sniper in this economy. Everyone they hired missed.
Can’t believe people actually have the time to listen to such podcasts. Why not post a transcript? It’s not even difficult to create it nowadays
Emerge (YC W21) is hiring a Growth Engineer (remote)
> Calling people “folks” all the time is lazy and insulting.

No it’s not. “Folks” means “people”, it has for more than a thousand years, and it’s used most often with the exact same intent. You’re making negative and incorrect assumptions.
Not offhand, though Nick Lane's books come highly recommended and are on my own rather expansive reading pile....

David Christian's "Big History" looks at the past through large frame, and includes the concepts of which I'm discussing.

Otherwise, I've pieced together my understanding from many sourcesl
On the otherhand measuring and organization like the Catholic church and judging it today by its worst behavior over 500 years ago (while ignoring the environment it was in at the time no one ever mentions the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople going on concurrently) and ignoring the massive changes in teaching, theology and behavior that has happened in the intervening centuries.
I've been using https://httpbin.org/ to so some client testing and so far it has been great. They provide a docker image which makes it easy to run locally.
https://www.usebruno.com/buy-golden-edition
Thank you, Milen! It's nice to see Bulgarians being behind a popular desktop app! I've been a paid user for years and Monodraw is among the first apps I install when I get a new MacBook machine!
Then where are these audio samples coming from?
Tesla's gonna take over the car market, like, any day man, I swear.
First off, there's two different kinds: in young people and in old people (known as age-related or late-onset essential tremor). It's the same disorder but evidently different etiologies.

Personally I believe it will be cured with gene editing someday.

Also, it was already known that age-related essential tremor increases your risk of dementia.