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Winning the $10M coller-dolittle-24 prize
The deadline for submitting this year is July 31: https://coller-dolittle-24.sites.tau.ac.il/

I developed the only Android app for chatting with dolphins using underwater whistles, DC Dolphin Communicator, available for free on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sm.app.dc . Currently, I am working on a version for both Android and iOS using Kotlin Multiplatform which will be easier to modifier quickly.

I am reaching out to explore potential collaboration opportunities and I am willing to share the source code with a trusted entity to support this effort. Currently the code is proprietary.

Additionally, I have recently authored two short essays on communication with dolphins that you may find interesting:

- [How to Chat with Dolphins](https://github.com/smasse/Serge-Masse/blob/main/How-to-chat-with-dolphins.md)

- [Probable Phases of Communication with Dolphins](https://github.com/smasse/Serge-Masse/blob/main/phases.md)

For a system communicating with dolphins without human interventions, the tasks are immense but doable. It may require at least 1 to 2 years of continuous efforts (close to the time-limit for the prize), or it may require a decade. The most difficult technical components are the assignment of probable meanings to vocalizations, and their acquisition, in real-time. DC currently works in real-time with a subset of dolphin whistles. And there is more to it than whistles. At least whistles are a good start for many dolphin species.

Warm regards,
Serge
I think the behavior is slightly different since this one breaks the above case, and the other one only omits its case from fallthrough

Incidentally, what happens if you use your brkcase as the first case?

I don't find either particularly exciting - a macro that would append break to the current case feels better
> Or... just take a picture of someone wearing the hat.

That’s the hard part right? Because you don’t want just any person. You want a very specific person, at a very specific location, with very specific lighting and angles, etc.
You mean automating bureaucracy? That would make room for more bureaucracy albeit in the form AI bureaucracy. I don’t think we’re ready for that though.
If they're not asking more pointed questions about your tech as it is today, that suggests that you have very junior people in your hiring pipeline.

[edit] Or at least those are the only people that make it to the stage of talking with the hiring manager.
What's an "Azovite"?

And "ancestral hatred of Russians and Russia"? If my grandparents and parents were victims of Soviet aggression/invasion/genocide, what right do you have to question "ancestral hatred"?

The fact that Russia is doing it again is enough to arouse intense emotions in many European populations.
I can't wait until a bread manufacturer tries to advance the argument that the same level of contamination mitigation infrastructure required to contain sub-micron active ingredient powder has to be brought to bear to keep sesame seeds from moving around at random.
I don't disagree (I think "operating in a local minima" is spot on), however the argument about "a bumpy road to a better place" is just futurology. I really hope that's the case, but I have a hard time finding current evidence of it. Citing "how things got worse in the past to eventually get better" sounds a little ad antiquitatem to me.

I don't think coming back to absurdities or more traditional roles is the answer either. The solution is always putting your wallet where your mouth is which nobody (*) is willing to do currently.

(*) except Nordic countries obviously, which everyone loves to cite as an example but nobody is willing to imitate.
When I scrolled through these, Maine made me burst out laughing.

Every other state has 'welcome' or a nice little phrase or picture or design.

Maine is just 'MAINE', minimal effort, right to the point.
My predisposition is that the people hounding open-source devs for unpaid urgent tech support are predominantly commercial users freeloading off the software, which, amusingly, means that a compelling argument in favor of licensing your software as GPL is to scare away these sorts of users.
"Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
That's more or less what we have now. Slide rules and computers are linear systems which can compute nonlinear functions. The problem is that computing anything takes time and must be a linear set of instructions executed in series (multiplied by many parallel cores).

Using an analog approach could be vastly more efficient as operations are inherently parallel. You can fire off every neuron in a layer simultaneously and produce a result within nanoseconds, for basically any number of neurons. You could probably do the entire network as a single atomic operation, but that's a bit beyond my knowledge of neural networks
> A lot of Indian scholars are (re)discovering Indic history and we can expect much more of ancient India specific history to come out, which was unknown or has been forgotten over the ages, given the ancient nature of the Indian civilization.

This, there are also very real links connecting famous civilizations of the Ancient Near East such as the Sumerians with the Dravidians of South India.
Tests for Your Bash Scripts
Cracker Barrel used to rent audio books on tape and CD for exactly this reason.
MongoDB is web scale :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
We're called the Jeffersons now. It was a COVID-era compromise to keep the state from splitting in two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_%28proposed_Pacific_...

Getting rid of the welcome signs was part of the compromise.
no have not seen any one
The marathon trials for 1968 Olympics at Mexico City were held at high altitude (women were not allowed to race that far for many more years)

They drank cold coca-cola that was defizzed every five miles, which surprisingly has good fuel as sugar with caffeine

https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20827587/history-in-t...

2:30 marathon at 10,000 feet in August heat is pretty damn impressive given the poor shoe quality over 50 years ago.
One thing that might explain it is this logic thread: a) this is a car, b) this is where a car's license plate would normally be, and c) license plates usually have numbers like this.

Upon close inspection the plate's digits look realistic, but there are some symbols that look unfamiliar to me. But I don't know what country the footage is from, so I don't know real from unreal when it comes to symbols.

If the car's badge turned out to correctly match the car model, that might be a bit of a red flag. Although it's not out of the question that a model could eventually recognize car models and get badges right. It just seems unlikely that I'd see such an advancement in a video before I ever saw it in a still image.
Intermodal is one answer to "solving the hard bits". Stuff everything into a largish box, and move that between lorries, ships, rail, and whatever.

There are limits to this: containers don't handle bulk cargoes (liquids, ores, grain, lumber), large assmemblies (automobiles, wind turbine components), or high-quantity gasses (e.g., LNG). There are some rail-based options for these (specialised cars), and in other cases alternate transport modes are required.

There's also the general problems that railroads are hard for many shippers (that is: entities looking to ship goods) to deal with, transit times are slow, and routing is inflexible.

There was an article a couple of days ago about Japan looking to implement a very long conveyer-belt system (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40809276>, <https://newatlas.com/transport/cargo-conveyor-auto-logistics...>), which is exciting if only that it's amongst the very few novel proposals I've seen in the freight world since intermodal / containerised freight became dominant in the 1970s and 80s. I'd be very interested in what a flexible end-to-end routing without major transshipment and switching congestion might look like. I still think steel-wheel-on-steel-rail is hard to beat for overall efficiency, but more dynamic management of trainsets, electrification, and the ability for, say, containers to autonomously achieve last-mile (or last 20-mile) delivery on their own might be game-changers.

In the early age of rail, one of the strongly-complementary transport technologies was horse-based drayage. The train could get your goods to the station, but further delivery within even a small town required a horse and wagon. In large cities such as New York, the situation was far greater. Automobiles and internal-combustion-engine based lorries utterly revolutionised this, and solved what was an increasingly intractable pollution problem of horse manure, urine, and corpses littering streets. ("Mud" is an interesting euphemism to look up, and fashion choices such as calf-high boots become far more understandable.)

It's also struck me that high-speed rail could (and perhaps should) revolutionise high-speed delivery, taking much of the demand off of air cargo especially for regional delivery. Old-school trains had post office cars in which mail was actively sorted en route. It seems that high-speed rail might offer an automated version of same possibly.
What's up with putting the governor's name on some of these signs?
Have you run any benchmarks yet? I'm guessing it happily handles thousands of queue operations a second given that it's SQLite and Go - would be interesting to see how settings like SQLite WAL mode affect its performance.
It's amazing; there is so much TV content out there now I was totally unaware of this show.
And now i get to diatribe, even though i laughed at your other comment.
I have at&t fixed wireless. Until tomorrow - at&t is discontinuing it; as they discontinued copper ADSL, as they discontinued pre-paid ipad SIM cards, they now discontinue wireless uverse. The replacement product "isn't available in my area" and probably won't ever be, there's just not enough towers to support the speed metric they want.

I have starlink, but i live in the middle of a national forest and there's no place to put the dish where it doesn't have service interruptions. It's great for downloading things, but awful at nearly everything else, such as realtime communication, quickly looking things up via a series of browser tabs, and online gaming.

My only other option is hughesnet; and i don't consider 1500ms ping times and severe 2000s era bandwidth caps and speeds to really be an option. T-mo doesn't have penetration for "wireless home internet", nor verizon, i have tried both. There's 3+ fiber runs along the highway near my house (highway in name only!). One is a backhaul for centurylink - no consumer access. Another is Suddenlink - they got a tax benefit for running fiber to public schools, and are not tapping the lines for any consumers. at&t has the third line, but they want $15,000 for a loop, and at the time i was researching it, at&t wanted ~$1,200/mo for 1gbit and $8900 for 10gbit. Fortunately Optimum is currently running a fourth fiber line down the same highway, and my understanding is they charge $155 for 1gbit service.

Currently, for the garbage internet service i have here, i am paying over $300/month. thankfully that gets reduced tomorrow, as i won't be able to get service from at&t even if i wanted to. As someone who could 40% utilize a gbit connection 24/7 at-will, this is extremely frustrating. The tradeoff is i live in a rainforest and 90% of the time there's no indication that other humans exist around here.

ymmv, my FICO is available upon triplicate request.
Conceptually I expect compiling NNs to hardware to eventually be done at a small scale at first. Imagine you have a relatively simple task with a fairly small NN which is being used a low latency, mass production application. If you could compile that sensor into a passive component array, that could be massive.
"The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him."
If you feel tired and lethargic without coffee than to me that is a bigger problem to solve. I find the view on coffee here so strange. If I don't drink coffee I still get up and go for a run, I can still do everything just the same. My performance at work is the same. I drink it because I enjoy the taste and that's where it ends.
That was only a national conclusion after the advent of modern cigarettes.

Cigars and pipes are more nuanced and far less harmful (especially because of the chemicals that aren't added, and the fact that you don't inhale)
> Astoundingly, she said they are more than 200 times more efficient.

Than solar panels? Which already convert light to electricity with >20% efficiency?
They used to be sealed. HR&CE is the govt arm that is controlling Hindu Temples. It is infiltrated by anti Hindu interests who have been selling temple artifacts and manuscripts by smuggling them out of the country for hundreds of thousands of dollars.. many have been taken out of the humidity controlled vaults built by the Kings.

They have been drilling and building within temple stone walls that are hundreds of years old and installing ceilings fans and lights.

Here are just a few of the recent HR&CE crimes : https://x.com/joshigargigoyal/status/1806747391917511165

And this: https://x.com/joshigargigoyal/status/1807105132087452000
And it is a bit of a surprise, if driving fast you could mistake it for a USSR Flag :)
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I'm not sure if this should be flagged because it is obviously a free energy scam.

Or if it's relevant to hn, BECAUSE it's an obvious scam with educational (and entertainment) value to enterpreneurial folks.
> It's surprising how hard it is to manipulate objects without good touch sensors.

Thread a nut onto a bolt. The coordination between the feel of the nut engaging the threads, along with the just right amount of pressure, is exquisite.
I love „Neo Turf Masters“ — which always has been Neo Geo exclusive AFAIK and possibly the best golf simulation if you don’t actually play Golf. There is a Switch „port“ which really is just emulating the console but a fun diversion from Zelda and Mario.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1211920539
I've personally verified and approved a actual bugfix made by a LLM. Wasn't the trickiest nor most severe bug I've ever seen, but it had slipped through the cracks in our testing and review process, and the LLM caught it.

Nothing snake oily here.

Also: What compiler are you using that's giving you false positive warnings?

I have never heard of a false positive warning nor error from a compiler, but perhaps you're using some weird tooling I'm not familiar with?
Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free
Congratulations, I find the generated prompts have the best quality I've come across so far!
Thank you, I was scratching my head trying to figure that out.
That's definitely from some minor road crossing from New Hampshire. The highway ones are... well they're not that much more spectacular but they do include either "Vacationland" or "The way life should be".
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https://www.tldraw.com/ can be live embedded (in Notion at least, I haven't tried Confluence or others) giving you a very nice shared drawing ability within a wiki that doesn't otherwise support that functionality.
Yep. Society is not immutable physics. Note how it keeps changing despite appeals of prior generations to stay the same.

How the species tries to blow itself up.

If we were meant to exist forever all these physics things would not be able to harm us. Constrain us to life on Earth. We couldn’t die.

Entropy is a bitch.
> In terms of monetization, the goal is to just have a hosted queue system. I believe this can be cheaper than SQS without sacrificing performance. Just as Backblaze and Minio have had success competing in the S3 space, I wanted to take a crack at queues.

are you monetizing this as a separate business from: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scratch-data
At first blush based on the patch to fix this bug, I’d say the code looks terrible: https://github.com/indutny/node-ip/commit/32f468f1245574785e...

Seems impossible to read and verify. Wouldn’t it be simpler and more consistent to have a first parse the IP into an internal format then perform all logic on that?
in a kind constructive way: if you can find non-rape analogies, it might be kinder to people who are sensitive to that word
it was a different segment. Redbox was more like holloywood video or blockbuster - new releases are more prominent. for the past 3 years though you couldn't tell by looking, but there haven't been many new releases so the selection has more old releases. Netflix (dvd.com) had tv shows, and a rather large back catalogue of dvd releases that weren't available on any streaming services, nor brick&mortar, nor redbox.

In that both services were relatively easy to use to get DVDs, they're similar.
Or even AGPL just to be sure

(Personally I’ll keep licensing my stuff ISC, but I have the luxury of having near zero external attention on any of my open source stuff :p)
I'm going to agree with others questioning your declaration of the death of water. River and canal traffic remains huge in numerous regions. The US, western Europe, Russia, and China all have immense canal-and-river systems, and move tremendous amounts of cargo by water, internally (that is, exclusive of ocean freight). And the connectivity is impressive.

New Orleans connects directly to Minneapolis, Chicago, much of the Ohio River Valley, I think to or near Omaha, up the Red River along the Texas-Oklahoma state line, and via the St. Lawrence Seaway to Toronto, Montreal, and ultimately the North Atlantic.

Central Europe has river transit from the North Sea (Hamburg, Amsterdam) to the Black and Baltic. Russia similarly has water routes from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

Much of the problem with routes such as SF <-> Denver is lack of water. The Great Basin is dry. The watershed for Los Angeles extends east 1,500 miles, to Denver, via the Colorado River, which is bled dry before it reaches the sea.

Further north, the Columbia-Missouri rivers nearly meet, and the dream of Louis & Clark could possibly come to be. Rail just happens to be far more practical.
I haven't tried it in Confluence, but https://www.tldraw.com/ can be embedded in Notion at least, and works very well as a diagram editor.
A lot of my progression as a software engineer has come from decoupling my ego from the things I produce. That’s hard to do because the code you produce is a very strong reflection of your mental models and it’s justified to feel some connection to it.

Tactfully navigating this kind of thing in code review takes practice.

In my experience, the best teams of programmers work through problems with their egos held to the side.
Recent and related:

POSIX.1-2024 is published - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40679809 - June 2024 (84 comments)
Wait is this about 'ip', the command from iproute2, or 'node-ip', some node.js library? Both? Why does one part of this article say 'ip' and another 'node-ip'?
TL;DR The CVE system has no authentication mechanism (to determine the authenticity of reported “bugs” or verify their reported level) resulting in a DDOS of maintainers.

A good way to make developers not care about CVEs, and therefore allow attackers to introduce real vulnerabilities, is to post lots of fake CVEs so nobody pays attention.
Not very surprising with 16 of the 25 years being under a conservative government. Even so, the electricity production from coal has more than halved over the period.
It's also the British billion which is larger than the American billion.
Every developer I know (myself included) that has worked with QNX has a story about some insane bug that took significant effort to uncover. At this point, I would say the only reason one should look at QNX is for cost since it is pretty cheap. The low jitter on context-switching to the highest priority thread is a nice thing but the dev process is absolute garbage.
Here’s the Mastodon post: https://fosstodon.org/@indutny/112678415251316597
I would suggest GPL3, that would really scare away commercial users.

For example, IBM, the owner of Red Hat, forbids the use of GPL3 software on their equipment by their employees.
That's fine until there is political or financial instability across the world which is increasing.
+1. GPL3 specifically scares them away well
I didn't notice that section when I last read through C23, but I'm very glad to see it. Reining in UB is one of the hardest problems I've had to deal with, and being able to say operations are defined up to the point of UB makes my job so much easier.

The lack of clarity in earlier standards made it impossible to deal with code incrementally, since all the unknown execution paths could potentially breach back in time and smash your semantics.
> The point is that you can create a rich text editor that stores the data as markdown.

Both Nextcloud and XWiki do this.

Now, why not git+markdown? I'm not sure it exists so we can't really know if it can work well or not.

I have my doubts:

About Markdown: I believe it is fine for very basic content, but you will probably want something more powerful to cover more advanced needs. HTML will be too low level for this, so you will probably need something to extend Markdown with custom macros, at which point you may as well adopt something that already exists.

For git: wikis tend to have versioning per document, not of the whole stuff. You will want to have easy and efficient document history manipulation (access of old revisions, comparison between revision, rollback). And you may want the wiki to remain efficient with a large number of documents and revisions, even when multiple people are writing to the wiki at the same time, and the git repository might be a bottleneck.

For a single user with simple note taking needs, I believe git+markdown can have good characteristics. I'm not sold on the git+markdown thing for a multi user wiki. It would need to be proven, but should someone do this, they should not solve "How do I write wiki software based on git+markdown", the problem should be "I need to have a wiki that's efficient in such and such cases, and git+markdown is a good basis because [...]".
TIL the company that own(s|ed) coinstar sold redbox to CSSE in 2016. it's hard to believe i've had an incorrect assumption for 8 years, already!
Nah, we just like to rub our superiority in the faces of our neighboring states.
GP is rebutting the “upside downing” of the economy by superintelligent AGI. If you meant to argue that case, your points seem insufficient.