skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> VGA is not that bad for phone pictures

You're right. It is the terrible jpeg compression which destroys everything.
Bad government is still government.
AI-created voices do natural conversation pretty well, but many of the voices sold are developed from intentionally unnatural announcer speech. Online marketplaces became strong before the pandemic (and exploded during) and this meant many voice actors could get work and train themselves, and many of them tended toward a variety of unnatural announcer styles. This was partly because video narration was one of the largest (and lowest-paying) areas of work, and many of the buyers sought out inexpensive announcer styles.

When you buy an AI voice, there isn't (yet) much you can do to get it vary its read, and many of the least-expensive voices you can buy are from these early mostly self-taught voice talent. When I used to hire agents to train for one of the 78 Voice Acting Expo events we put on, they would tell me that most voice actors "lose their talent when they get an agent". Too many trainees feel that acting is not something you do, it something used to train them, and that once they are trained and graduate by getting an agent, they simply need to "open their mouth and gold will fall out". A similar reversion to the mean happens in other areas of training. People return to just "making an effort" after training. I remember my parents (father was an Army doctor) going to tennis camps, and being good for a few weeks afterwards, but not having much of what they learned "stick".

It's interesting to see AI immortalize this odd self-taught speech.
> But isn't the ability to learn also a major component of IQ?

Not sure what you mean by this - it's certainly not something a single-day IQ test could possibly measure! The primary reason IQ is a discredited measure of intelligence is that people are perfectly able to learn how to perform better on IQ tests - any supposed influence
of "intelligence" on IQ scores is hopelessly confounded with how much you've practiced similar tests / trivial logic puzzles / etc.

This stuff about "attempts to broaden the definition of intelligence to something that is more inclusive" is backwards. The whole problem is that nobody has managed to scientifically define (let alone measure) intelligence in any vertebrate species. IQ is dangerously misleading precisely because it is so narrow: its precision makes claims about IQ seem quantitatively rigorous when they are qualitatively meaningless.
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This happened to one of my phones after a few years, turned out it was a bunch of lint compressed into the port preventing the cable from going in all the way. I got it all out with a staple (only thing I could find that was small enough to fit), then the cable started snapping into the port like new.
Does anyone know if the presentation is public? I’d love to get a deeper understanding about what the founder mode is.

I agree with Graham about the management mode described being a very bad (trusting “professional” managers and being completely hands off from their responsibilities). And being a founder myself who saw it working first hand at the acquirer of my last company, I see that management in this mode is not worried about the company long term success.

But I’m not sure how founder mode is new or how this is different from what Andy grove suggests in High output management. Among other things, he says that the supervisor should be more or less hands on depending on the “task relevant maturity” of her direct reports.

Maybe by seeing the presentation it would be clearer.

Thanks
Does it do it in other browsers? If it’s also doing it in Spotify desktop, could potentially be your mouse.
My favorite part of the GS was the sheer insanity of the bus, 2560 bits wide in total with a clever split on the cache. The PS3 felt like a step down in some ways, blending especially.
Because, socialism ! We can’t get private business to invest in infrastructure in Canada, because like Venezuela, we might just take it over and socialize it. Like the pipeline Canada now owns and might give to the natives… lol

So then all the districts fight over who gets the power plants and the 50 jobs
> Electric power is most definitely a finite resource, otherwise we wouldn't have had this conversation and we would have all lived in a Startrek-like utopia.

You're getting caught up on two things:

1. We can build new power stations! Power may be limited in the very short term, but generation capacity is increasing all the time.

2. Eventually we'll run out of nuclear fuel and space for solar farms and wind turbines, but we are so far away from that point that it has no effect on the market currently.

> the incoming Meta new demand would be offset by the new offer (new power stations) generated by said new demand

Uhm yeah that's exactly how it works. Why do you think this is bs?
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price just dropped to $6.29
> a law that every laptop must include a DB9 serial port

/s?
I made a website to help college students buy and sell
I Said Hybrids Were The Future. Was I Right? [video]
It was hurting profits.
> Eventually, they left, and we realized that while they had been successful in large organizations with thousands of employees, […]

You don’t really believe that, do you?
Show HN: A gentle introduction to quantitative finance, today, data validation
LOL, got you! :)

Data validation is ANYTHING but gentle. If anything, that's the first problem with LLMs. Garbage in - garbage out. Fortunately for finance, there's strong mathematical requirements for data and although data providers (hired devs) aren't mathsy enough to know and care, I know and care.

Hence see my fairly smart algo for getting from basically random data to production-grade quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJkp-O98uU&list=PLx9-4eRnBA...
For anyone like me that wanted to see the mentioned computational model, it is here: https://figshare.com/articles/software/Late_Bronze_Age_Warri...
I was pleased to find that USB-C earphones are now inexpensive and plentiful. It was a must-purchase for my Pixel. The USB audio interface is mature and stable. It better supports the little remote button controls too.

There are unfortunately two drawbacks which may make USB inferior to other interfaces: the C plug is small and weak. Already my first set of earphones became unusable due to a loose, flaky connector. Also, given that phones only sport a single USB, the earphones monopolize it and, sadly, prevent charging, PC interface, tethering, etc.
You say you distrust government, but you propose to tax large corporations out of existence. The government would do that, who else.

What's worse, any single rule against large corporations will be worked around. You will have a loose association of just-the-right-size corporations. They will find a way to work together as one, while legally being many and each small enough to have small taxes.

Look at the recent software for rent collusion. Without an active powerful government to attack this new invention, they would claim there is no price agreement. Actually they do claim that. There is none formally, but the same effects are somehow achieved. If you want the government to be limited to applying some simple rules, this would go unpunished. This requires the government to adapt and use judgement and discretion.

You need an active powerful entity to balance the power of economic behemoths. We don't appear to have any other way, yet. I think the key is balance.
I think you've missed the point a little or are perhaps are being slightly obtuse. Of course it's POSSIBLE to make a phone with waterproofing and a 3.5mm headphone jack, and of course it POSSIBLE to make a modern thin phone with a 3.5.mm headphone jack taking up extra space...

The point is, it's simply harder and more expensive to make a highly waterproof and slim phone, while having to have another large hole in the phone which requires a long connector to fit inside it. And when you consider that extra expense and R&D required to design the phone shell and internal architecture, versus the actual demand for wired headphones (basically zero these days), it's obvious why major phone makers don't bother to include it.

It's simply a matter of cost benefit analysis. Lots of cost, very little benefit. No mystery.
I have the full history in my blog feed.
> I post my comments here knowing there's a risk this judge might learn of my existence and persecute me for them

My brother in Christ. There is ZERO chance of this to happen for this kind of comment and to me It only tells me you need to distance yourself a bit from this. Focus on something positive for a week. You're going down a path that is so far outside the realm of possibilities at this time that's worrisome.
But the "community"!!! :D
A summary: it's a successfully failed idea we can reach a day something like semantic search thanks to carefully written metadata, or we can classify anything to make anything easy to retrieve as a single information atom (a book, a report, a map) or even inside it finding just the bit of information we look for not in a single atom but across many.

Another Library of Babels/Biblioteca universalis by Conrad Gessner (~1545). Unfortunately while in theory the system could work we can't ensure anyone use is WELL in practice and just some metadata to classify anything in a coherent way it's far from being enough.

DC was an immense diplomatic effort in library science still with a damn limited practical outcome.
Modern ANC headphones (over ear) have plenty of battery life for any flight. Most are north of 30 hours, some reaching 50 hours even with ANC on. For planes there’s just nothing better than over ear headphones for noise canceling.
I am not complaining about how the game works, I am just saying that there are no instructions, so the only thing I have to work with is the name and the inspiration. And if you know how defragmentation works, this all just makes no sense, why does it automatically select blocks, why can I not move them repeatedly and to any free space? Sure, most people do not know what defragmentation is and how it works, even in developer circles I would not expect people to know if they are not old enough to have worked with computers in the 90s, they might hear about this in one computer science lecture and never think about it again.
> Voting with your wallet probably isn't going to work, because you probably represent a drop in the bucket of sales.

I mean... it worked. People voted with their valets and the side who likes tangled cables to listen to music from their phones lost the vote. That is literally voting with your valet in action.

I understand that you probably mean "voting with your wallet won't work" in the sense that it won't change the situation. But it is also a bit like saying that democracy doesn't work because my party didn't win, because there were not enough people supporting it. A bit against the principle of the thing.
I agree with this. I do google symptoms myself on occasion, but I always try to make sure that what I see online reflects what's actually going on with me to the extent possible, and I don't freak out when one of the possibilities ends up being, for instance, "cancer," because it's relatively unlikely that I have cancer, and a lot of things end up being symptoms of various cancers.

Here's a great example: I had some weird calluses show up on the very sides of my thumb pads and on the ventral aspect of the first phalangeal joint of each of my index fingers. The areas in which these calluses showed up was exactly mirrored on each hand. I googled a little bit and found a whole lot of nothing, but I did find a reference to calluses and esophageal cancer. I clearly do not have esophageal cancer. I have none of the symptoms so it's just a wildly improbable diagnosis.

What I did was show them to a friend of mine who's a family med doctor. I have an agreement with all my doctor friends that I will not ask them personal medical questions beyond "hey, is this weird and should I go see someone about it?" My friend said those were extremely weird places to have calluses given that they weren't the result of some activity I'd recently taken up using my hands (and they weren't).

Eventually, I ended up in a dermatologist's office where they diagnosed hyperkeratotic hand eczema. Given I have asthma, allergies, and I've had eczema issues in the past, that's a reasonable diagnosis.

And when I went to a doctor, I didn't say "I googled this and these things came up." I said "I have these weird calluses. I don't know why they're there because I haven't started any new activities recently so I'm a little concerned about them."
250,000 fiber end points
1 core operator

Yikes
My car is too old for bluetooth audio, so I have to connect either the dongle or the charger. The dongles i can buy from gas stations always break after about two months, while the gas station aux cable they connect to has lasted years. I also always run out of power on long drives.
> Sad state where POSIX hardly matters for portable UNIX code.

Given the current state of POSIX applications, I would actually argue that the BSD/Linux hegemony we enjoy is the best possible outcome. The only people that are mad are the people paying for UNIX and expecting to get something better for it. Those people should have learned their lesson in the 90s, I have no empathy for POSIX apologists in 2024.

The only "sad state" is one where everyday people don't have access to free software. Mac users have always paid a time premium and a performance premium for access to normal development features, this ignorance of MacOS is a pattern that persists since the 90s. Of course nobody is bending over backwards to test portability with a proprietary OS.
>How long can you leave pizza out?

How hungry is your dog or other companions?
LINQ, Splunk, and KQL are all proprietary. For the purposes of setting new standards, they might as well not exist.

PRQL is the only real entrant in your list when it comes to adding a pipelining syntax to a language for relational queries in a way that others can freely build on.
Memory saver is disabled and energy saver only enabled if battery below or at 20%. Safari does work fine.
Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness (1988)
> External displaywith a mirror

Now _that_ is a killer feature. No Android or Apple phone has that. /s
Safari and Firefox work fine
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I use my iCloud passkeys from Firefox Developer Edition without relying on an extension, so it’s implemented there at least. Dunno about “stable” Firefox.
In Texas there was a cowboy.

Everywhere he drove, he'd run red lights at full speed.

He had a passenger one day, who asked him, why don't you stop, that's dangerous!

He said, it's because I'm a cowboy.

Soon they came upon a green light. The cowboy hit the brakes and came to a complete stop.

The passenger asked, why'd you stop, the light's green!

The cowboy said, we gotta stop because there might be another cowboy coming through.

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I had a similar idea to replay blogs. It'll pull from WordPress or Internet Archive and give you a replay link to add to your feed reader.

https://refeed.to
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge
Using S3 but not the way you expected. S3 as strongly consistent event store
Dude, no one ever claimed that you can't have a waterproof phone with a jack, the point, which is fairly obvious, is that it's much harder to make a highly waterproof phone when you have a big ass hole in it for a 3.5mm jack.

I.e. it's cost benefit analysis. It's annoying, hard, and expensive if you want to make a phone which is say waterproof to 10m or 15m while having a 3.5mm jack hole in it, which most people don't care about anyway. So easy solution, stop having the jack.
I lived in the Bay Area for about 30 years, so here's my (probably biased) opinion. The biggest issue is the lack of community, and in my experience, this is due to the high turnover of residents. From my high school graduating class of 400, fewer than 100 are still in the community; everyone else has moved to Florida, Phoenix, Austin, etc. You can't encourage long-term planning (good public education policies, systematic reductions in the drivers of crime, etc.) if the community changes every two decades. My personal opinion is that the Bay Area won't improve because everyone is out to get 'theirs' and then leave. While I do miss the weather, the lack of humidity, and, honestly, a more educated population, I believe raising children in a strong community is more important. So, I'm more than happy with the trade-offs for a better overall quality of life.
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Let me shoot back with another cultural phenomenon: there's been article upon article over the past couple of years especially about how young people just plain have it rougher than their parents did starting out. Suppose this is true. Isn't it then individually rational to pursue some strategy other than working as hard as possible?
Wow! What a cool website, I was looking for something like this for a long time, gotta take a look and definitely I'm not an alter-ego of the original poster :)
I still use X and it's still very good. It's tough rn (as it always was) 6 months before the big US election but it'll go back to normal. I've been on twitter since 2011 and it's been the same pattern all these years.

The secret, always is - follow new people in small increments and generously unfollow at the slightest annoyance. There are still lots of interesting people to find!

You'll discover there's people on both sides of political issues who can make their points and not be annoying about it but these are maybe 1-3% of political people. You can also completely ignore politics by being judicious with your unfollows.
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Software that predicts body temperature of late Bronze Age warriors
Researchers must often pay an article-processing fee to publish open access
On which two devices?
Completely agreed. Beyond that , the cost of adding a headphone jack is not the price of the physical component. It’s the fact that it forces the phone to be bulkier in one dimension or another. There is less space for other components.
Possibly too costly. From what I've read, every chemical defense has a metabolic cost. This is why antibiotic resistant bacteria will lose their resistance over many generations if not constantly challenged by the antibiotic.

On the other hand, some plants do kill us.
Note that it's entirely transparent to some wavelengths of light, which is why a lot of die shots are taken from the backside, as it allows doing them non-destructively. You just cannot use visible light.
They say "like" this one because it only provides file level interaction, not disk level interaction.
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Very true, you can call into the C library or use system calls directly and have your application do all the init itself.
Nutanix raises revenue notwithstanding large deal pushout – Blocks and Files
Completely not true. Apple, on the other hand, does have a policy somewhat like that (source: it was one of the reasons I didn’t leave Microsoft for Apple a few years back, although it was a negotiable matter to a degree)
Impressive, but haven’t we just handed crooks the perfect tool for crafting their next GOV.UK themed phishing site?