skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds.

The notion of "without stimulus" seems related to the use of "silence" in what Cage is saying here. Personally I would say that it's not that there's no such thing as silence, just that it's relative, and in this case "without stimulus" is relative to the audience's (reasonable) expectation at a concert hall.
When I've had managers who have less experience than I do... I simply end up not really being managed by them. They appreciate someone who can 'manage themselves' and I don't have to deal with them coaching someone who could coach them.

I've also had peers become my manager, and vice versa, and that's the dynamic that seems quite successful.

Now if your manager is so bad that they can't recognize you are an extremely low touch employee...well, it doesn't matter the experience level, you'll be in for a bad time.
Thinking of bellatores, oratores, and laboratores yields the Knight-errant, the Trickster, and the Apprentice.
> Maybe that much water in buckets would be too heavy for the water wheel to drag up alongside the hill? One benefit of the spoons is they only lift the total volume of one of the spoons at a time, since each tower has a store of water it's holding but not moving yet.

I think that is the primary reason. Looking at the animation linked in another comment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s), it becomes clear just how many of these chains would've been necessary. Not only would a single water wheel have to be able to lift probably thousands of liters of water without any counterweight - you also need some continuous power transmission mechanism which can withstand the enormous forces to achieve that. Also, you would need some kind of safety catch to prevent catastrophic back-flow of all the kinetic energy stored in the system in case the water wheel is suddenly out of the water.

On the other hand, the oscillating spoons probably wouldn't work when too many of them are submerged in water, and their delicate wooden mechanism probably also wouldn't survive a flood or driftwood. Which is why they used a simple robust iron chain for getting the water to a flood-safe level.

It's really quite ingenious.
People get weird about charismatic megafauna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_megafauna). See the struggles in the US to get e.g. wolves de-listed from the ESA in states with thriving populations.
I used to be optimistic that we had a bit more agency than bacteria, but so far we do not seem any more able to constrain ourselves.
Yes, it did. The question is whether there’s enough value generated by taking a private jet instead of normal plane flights, which is unlikely to be the case for a business losing money.
> Yeah that's all true, but fixing that is going to do little to address the security issues.

I'm not sure this is the case. I'd imagine it would be harder to infiltrate a project which pays its contributors. Yes, there is incentive to stay on as maintainer, provide some modicum of dignity, but also maintainers wages would be traceable back to real bank accounts. Professionalize a project and that project can get serious about security, etc., too.
OSQI
But is the Internet really as centralized as Email has become? I was living under the impression that Internet backbone providers where more diversified than that.
Many, many more would consider any UI associated with IRC to be the joke. The separation is your level of nostalgia.
I agree Unreal and Unity are not appropriate but I do wonder about Godot. Its early enough where it doesn't have the strong connotations of being a game engine yet. I've seen some cool applications made in it too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kKp0oguzr8). So I wonder if you could apply your energy to making it more cross platform using WASM (if that's even necessary) and extend it with your own UI language instead of rolling your own?
I wonder if they are now going to find/replace "China" for "Russia" and publish the next Microsoft Cyber Safety Review Board findings for the Russian hacks? May as well.
They’re losing money, which seems like a time not to spend money on luxuries.
EPROMs were erased by many minutes of exposure to UV light, not a flashbulb, in a device called a UV eraser. I've never heard anyone refer to any operation on an EPROM as "flashing".
It's crazy how much hate & loathing Google gets, how much people seem to think they will do anything to subvert the web and track you.

But this incredible giant farce is all we get. This is what we've found.
Is Microsoft paying FFMPEG for support?
Depending on what you’re doing, that really isn’t a low bar. Saying you can get decent performance on any hardware is the first step.
Nope, it would have happened anyway and the lucky guy would have been Stuart Bojs with his company called "Pear"

Humanity as a whole makes progress, individual humans just partecipate in a giant lottery for monetary and recognition allocation. The latter has nothing to do with the former, much like winning a car race on a racetrack has nothing to do with building the track nor the car.

Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas GP. The GP , the cars, the track itself are the byproduct of billions of humans at work and every minute of work towards that has approximately the same value, if there's a positive outlier is very minimal and perhaps that person has never been to the track at all or doesn't even care about car racing.

This is what happens when there's 8bn of us right now with a total number who ever lived standing at 10-12bn
Replying to myself with a question, as someone could have the answer: Would it be possible to create the splats without the training phase? If we have a fully modelled scene in Unreal Engine for example (like Matrix city), you shouldn't need to spend all the time training to recreate the data...
I hate sudoku variant videos that rope me in with some impossible scenario and then explain a totally different set of rules.
> ...even if A.I. delivers the largest productivity gains to less-experienced workers, that does not mean they will reap the rewards of higher pay and better career paths. That will also depend on corporate behavior, worker bargaining power and policy incentives.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydTRk1l0ZqI
I think XP defaulted to task manager, but I can't be sure, I don't have anything on hand to check.

GPO could set different conditions, including replacing fast user switching (the "new" login screen in XP) with Win2k style including enforcing use of System Attention Key (Ctrl-Alt-Delete on PC) to login.
Unlike the original version, this version compiles and seems to basically work correctly. However, the design is misleading: `buffer` is declared as an array of 4 bytes but only the first byte is ever used. The code also has suboptimal performance and error handling, though that's not the end of the world.
They come from my VoIP provider as 16bit 8kHz WAV files. I crunch them down to MP3s using ffmpeg before uploading. I don't get any say in the source quality, but I'm quite pleased with it as well.
DollyAI – Create an AI clone of yourself
DollyAI lets you create an AI chatbot that mimics your style of writing and personality. Trained on your WhatsApp chats.
good catch. feeding it the error output of rustc it then produces:

use std::fs::File;
use std::io::{self, Read};

fn read_file_character_by_character(path: &str) -> io::Result<()> {
let mut file = File::open(path)?;
let mut contents = String::new();

file.read_to_string(&mut contents)?;

for c in contents.chars() {
println!("{}", c);
}

Ok(())
}

fn main() {
let path = "path/to/your/file.txt";

if let Err(e) = read_file_character_by_character(path) {
eprintln!("Error reading file: {}", e);
}
}
Thanks! I haven't looked deeply into font yet, but I've always been partial to HarfBuzz for shaping, so will probably build on top of that. It also has an experimental Wasm shaper which certainly served as a bit of inspiration for the design of this.
You could probably just apply a 300Hz-3300Hz band-pass filter to any given recording and make it sound really close to analog phone call audio [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service#Ch...
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Tesla needs a new leader.

Tesla used to appeal to logical car buyers but once you really research it as an option it quickly stops being a good choice.

1. Poor build quality

2. FSD = broken promises, danger to other road users

3. Expensive and lengthy repairs after accidents

4. High insurance rates compared to non ev

5. Supercharging is expensive, often not worth to buy an EV for non-home owners

6. Poor service, gaps or issues "up to spec"

7. Lack of 3rd party OEM part manufacturing

8. Expensive out of warranty battery replacement, which renders the car useless

9. Elon says a lot of stupid shit and many might not want to support him by buying his product

10. Used Tesla prices have collapsed, with some dealers even refusing to take in as a trade in

For these reason I would not buy a Tesla right now. I feel like buying a hybrid Honda will be cheaper over a 15 year period. I understand many love Tesla here as it is tech centered forum, so I expect counter arguments.
We also collaborate with https://github.com/thorvg/thorvg.

We were impressed by your work, https://github.com/rive-app and https://graphite.rs/
For me "eschewing unnecessary complexity" stands out as a phrase that I've heard in the context of joking (as it is itself an unnecessarily complex wording) but which didn't fit well here as it didn't seem any joking was intended.
> So that's Apple products for you.

Makes you wonder why they are so popular if this is the average user experience right?
Manifold is awesome! Would love to get that integration going. I've implemented a lot of procedural geometry functions, but that is a long way from an actual CAD kernel.
…and that money has no discernible impact on the voting habits of their members.
This happened with Nosgoth which shook me and my friends.

My take is that the game should provide self-hosted server options or open-source the IP.
I mean imo just by reading that someone senior at Microsoft told that dev to open a ticket and they just created a ticket with the exact same wording they would have used for an internal Microsoft ticket. Might not have even realized it was a third party project.
all true, as I said in another fork of the thread, this comes down to part of what humans will still be valuable for in this loop: distilling poor requirements into better requirements.
You Are All on the Hobbyists Maintainers' Turf Now
Solver is a general term, it is just an algorithm which solves a certain problem. You have solvers for linear systems, PDEs, optimization problems, graph problems, etc.

An integrator is an algorithm which allows the numerical approximation of the solution to an ODE, given that the ODE is written in a specific form where it is equivalent to calculating the integral of multiple functions.
That summarises nicely how I feel about it as well, I've got nothing against shooting games but I would love to see the tech used for building and exploration games or simulators.. why not a proper "real" minecraft clone based off some of the modern FPS engines for example: build bridges where reasonable physics applies..etc!
i love typescript, but that's still not the same as static typing. imagine a full stack typescript app with a blog type

type Blog = { name: string }

everything works fine until you decide to refactor "name" to title. you update the backend and typescript code and deploy the change

type Blog = { title: string }

user john never closes his browser and leaves your website open. he clicks on a new blog post. his client typescript expects a name, the server gives a title, and crash, "Cannot read properties of undefined".

i still choose nodejs backends, but you obviously have to keep in mind it's not statically typed. same with "any", my coworker could take my blog and modify it. it's preventable, but with large teams and codebases still prone to error.

(blog as any).title = { summary: 'blah', full: 'blah blah blah' }
Nordic Semi is a vendor in this space - many hardware vendors will make similar posts on different levels of technical depth in order to both drum up interest and build awareness of their products.

Note that the article has links to two modem chips that handle IIoT 5G radio links, including DECT NR+, that are made by Nordic Semi.

Content marketing at its best.
There was the Dreem 2 as well but they have also ended production.
I believe I learned it in this video from "The History Guy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAk1a0dqiM
It was really a math problem and not a physical one. There's so much more going on ( GR, radiation pressure ), that even if there were a solution it wouldn't be able to predict Mercury's orbit.
Thanks! Lottie should be straightforward. SWF is a much higher bar, but would be useful.
You can now follow US President on ActivityPub
By what possible reasoning would the DMA forbid things in the phone that have always been standard on all major computer operating systems as well as with Android? It’s pretty clear the DMA does not intend for such specious security arguments to allow Apple to avoid the obligation to open up their platform in th EU.
Not sure why FFmpeg is milking karma here. The very next comment on the thread shows that the library introduced a breaking change by changing a default behaviour, which can be restored with a new flag:

> Use -data_field first as decoder option in CLI. Default value was changed from first to auto in latest FFmpeg version.
Or modify AVOption of same name in API for this decoder.

Which seems to have solved the problem.

I have no reason to believe that the writer of the tweet is lying, but I also don't see evidence in this linked thread that Microsoft offered a one-time payment. I do agree that demanding urgent support requires you to be paying a long term support contract.

And I also think the Microsoft Engineer completely blew this interaction by name dropping his company. The bug is a bug whether it affects Microsoft or Joe Blow of Illinois. There should be no reason to expect that the bug is High Priority because it's affecting Microsoft.

However I also think it's possible to see that the bug is high priority despite affecting Microsoft.
Internet Archive is great, but it does make me nervous about how much would be lost if it goes down.
Sure, but there are lots and lots of games out there to play. Even if it's not entirely fair, it's not like I'm really depriving myself of much by not playing it.
There have been hyper detailed brain scans showing brain damage.
Yeah the naive approach would to join on key. Otherwise can join on a transaction id and key. However it's definitely complicated to get right.
This is irrelevant to the unsolvability.

That the three body problem is unstable and that no analytic solution exists are completely independent statements.

The upright pendulum is also an unstable ODE, yet it has an analytical solution.
That wasn't really a fork, they didn't copy the design, they actually bought the chassis from lotus. It's not really that different from a manufacturer buying brakes or wheels from another supplier.
In my Cuckoo rice cooker it's better to let the rice sit in "keep warm" for a few minutes anyway. When the cooker detects "done" there is no water left on the bottom but the rice grains still aren't finished absorbing all the water on their surface. I haven't noticed any big quality dropoff, even 1hr is fine.
This is not a great look.

Microsoft really should have a support contract in place with maintainers.

This feels like they’re abusing their position by making these requests in an open forum, when really it’s likely just an employee that doesn’t know better.
Why? You have more evidence than the journalists involved in this investigation?
Check out Receiver! It is somewhat a survival game with an interesting skill ceiling for gunplay.

Additionally, if you enjoy satire and dystopia, check out Cruelty Squad!
Let's look at the history of this company. No.
Nice! Looking forward to your alpha release. (And eventual HarfBuzz integration.)
Did anyone catch that Elon Musk provided the fix. What?!
> that game does not work and makes zero sense as a single play game.

Why not? Just unlock all in-game contents, replace other players with offline bots, then shutdown the servers. Many online games have chosen this route in the past.
Anyone know a software development company that could help out these Microsoft guys?
I don't think you're appreciating the sheer volume of animals that end up shelters yearly. Looks like it's 6.3 million companion animals per year in the US. Open ended sanctuaries don't make sense unless time and money and labor are free.

Especially once you consider how destructive a single dog can be in your example. And once your 100 acre utopia parcels out the land for a fraction of the animals that need sanctuary to live out their days, what do you do with the rest of the animals?

Frankly, PETA shelters are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to optics. It's easy to criticize them without offering a better solution to the ugly reality of mass scale animal dumping beyond naive suggestions like "how about all shelters just become no-kill shelters." I think we should reserve more of our anger for people who breed animals into existence, not the people trying to handle the glib externalities.
Wasm is better positioned for this in that, as a lower-level spec, the attack surface is inherently much smaller. But also in many ways it is essentially a VM, just for an architecture that has no dedicated hardware outside of VMs.

Wasm shared memory semantics are very similar to process isolation on OSes, so presumably the same techniques can be used there (and if those techniques are faulty, then so are containers and VMs).
You can listen to a WAL replication stream as a dedicated node without affecting performance of the original insert/update/deletes on the writer. That's not the case with either triggers or listen/notify.
Google to Discontinue Skaffold
Always puzzles me when looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets we always try to look for oxygen - life existed for a long time without it
I am the primary caregiver for a blind academic and I can tell you that any work in this area by you will be more than welcome, by both he and I. There is a lot of progress to be made in this area. There are tools, but they are primitive to where it is headed (hopefully in part to your efforts).
Aahz's Law? Very well then, carry on.
Who administers the network? How is it monitored? This has the complexity of a small cellular network.
It's the writing style. Humans simply don't write like that, unless they are writing a research paper.
I love this bot, thanks for sharing!
To me, this is a cute toy, but I highly doubt the AI can generate anything actually useful. Plus, I already have a code editor open, so context-switching to the browser to do "coding" feels a bit non-ergonomic.

I'd also like to see what the failure state looks like ("no, AI, not like that") because that's the main pain point when using tools like Copilot. The amount of time spent tweaking the AI prompt (or multi-shot re-prompting) ends up being comparable to just writing the thing yourself.

Like @IceDane and @ssijak, I'm also a bit shocked at what YC is funding these days.
A Peek inside HN: Analyzing ~40M stories and comments
Hi HN, I've been working in the last few weeks with the HN API to analyze stories and comments—about 40 million items in total. I've put together some stats on user activity and story scoring, and I've shared the code as well. If you're curious about the data or have insights to add, check it out.
I'd love to hear your thoughts :)
In a recent scandal, salmon fillets wrapped around lead weights shoven down the fish's troats was also used to cheat.
longform stuff on defector (the writer-owned site built from the ashes of deadspin) hits a lot of the same notes for me
Eucalyptus in southern California; railroads thought they'd be great for building ties out of, they're not, and they're extremely flammable and explode.
Looks like they are also discontinuing/trying to donate Kaniko to CNCF.

https://github.com/cncf/sandbox/issues/88
Programming the windowed EPROMS was called burning. Don't ever recall hearing anything about flashing them for programming or erasure.