skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what "on for 1% of the time" means

It's a description of the synthesised waveform.
There's no envelope and sample rate isn't particularly meaningful as there are no samples or recording involved.

The wave is a pulse/square wave -- 1 bit.
The signal goes high/"on" at a frequency of e.g. 440 Hz.
The 1% refers to the duty cycle[0] -- this is expressed as a percentage of the wave period (1 / 440 Hz) that the signal remains high.
So every cycle of a 1% pulse wave, for 0.01 / 440 seconds the signal is high, then 0.99 / 440 seconds the signal is low.

Changing the duty cycle can change the character of the tone, but the note/frequency is unaffected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_cycle
I've come to the conclusion that men will eventually just be naked in the future. Every time i go to shop for clothes in the USA the men's section has shrunk and the women's has gotten larger.

Or we will all eventually just dress like steve jobs, just pairs of the one legal compliance shirt and pants combo available for sale.
I have played with it for 20 minutes and here’s my review:

1. The low latency responses do make a difference. It feels miles better than any other voice chat out there.

2. Its pronunciation is excellent and very human like but it is not quite there. Somehow I can tell instantly that it’s a chatbot, it feels firmly in the uncanny valley.

3. On the same note if I was on call and there was a chatbot on the other side of the call I can instantly tell. It’s a mix of the voice with the way it responds, it just does not sounds like a human talking to you. I tried a bit to make it sound more human like, asking it to stop trying so hard in conversation being briefer etc but I wouldn’t say it made things better

And so my final review is, it is a big achievement over anything out there, nothing else comes close but it is like video game console graphics. You can instantly tell it’s not the real thing and because of that I find it harder to use than just typing to it.
> California will never have its own tech giants

Might be quicker to name the tech giants that aren't in silicon valley
Try Enu

https://getenu.com/

Enu is a 3d live coding playground where you can control objects with code. Similar to LOGO but in 3d. It uses Nim - language very similar to Python and easy to pick up.

Duscussed previously on HN:

17 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36966116

6 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38520901

Nim forum post with announcement of Enu 0.2 and some useful links: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10700
Do you have a point you're making beyond there being a long history of racism in humankind? We know. The choice is to end it or continue it. You appear to choose to continue it, though you seem to be afraid of elaborating beyond one sentence even as you re-edit your post 3 times.

Honestly I think going back to basics and just thinking about how prejudice affects individual people at the most fundamental level would do you a ton of good.
I've heard a few environmentalists comment that anchovies are rare in the sense they are one of the few fish that can be industrially fished and it be sustainable. Given the apocalypse we're imposing on the ocean that was nice to hear but I can't supply a source on this information so take it with a bit of salt but does sound plausible because they really aren't tuna or cod.
This is like saying a gun that appears safe but that can easily backfire unless used by experts is completely fine. It's not an issue with the gun, the user should be competent.

Yes, it's technically true, but practically it's extremely disingenuous. LLMs are being marketed as the next generation research and search tool, and they are superbly powerful in the hands of an expert. An expert who doesn't blindly trust the output.

However, the public is not being educated about this at all, and it might not be possible to educate the public this way because people are fundamentally lazy and want to be spoonfed. But GPT is not a tool that can be used to spoonfeed results, because it ends up spoonfeeding you a whole bunch of shit. The shit is coated with enough good looking and smelling stuff that most of the public won't be able to detect it.
Oooh, a legacy version of winamp? Might as well clone the repo, that'll be a pretty small download, from before when software got all bloated

...

750Mb later: WTF?

[tippety tappety clickedy clackedy]

Oh.... they vendored everything, including a bunch of external x86 binaries. 32- and 64-bit. FFS.

But also - I sure hope they got the licensing correct for those parts...
Implement it yourself then and save your $$ at the expense of your time.
An interesting article on this found thanks to your help with search keywords:

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-things-to-know-ab...
Yes! XM and IT are coming too. This was the thing that helped it dislodge OpenMPT for me as a casual tracker for noodling around.

OpenMPT obviously has much more accurate playback of PC era mods, but the UI of Furnace feels less awkward to me and reminds me more of composing in ST3/IT without being a completely backwards-looking clone like Schism.
I'm in Australia, so not a customer (yet), but I like the idea. I made a comment before about the potential for AI on the seller side of the transaction too.

One question/quibble:

How is the data collected from buyers kept isolated and secure?

Is it used to "personalize" algorithms related to offer suggestions, or will all users be guaranteed equal offer proposals?

I guess to summarize, how transparent will you be about your offer suggestions and AI driven analysis?
Intel ME is disabled and neutralized on my Librem 15.
The problem is that the average number of years does not inspire confidence, and they make almost no promises anywhere.
I cannot speak for other country but VISA bought the Carte Bleue system in France un exchange of following all regulation and not upping the fees.

For two decade before that and since then, all carte bleue are visa and vice versa.

Mastercard exists here as a premium level card giving you tons of bonus, and usually fee with your account. Eg my bank account online is free and almost no fee for anything (I pay 9e for extra phone and wallet insurance and next day replacement), and as long as I keep more than 24k in the various accounts and give me a Gold+ visa card and a mastercard with 1% cashback.
> Unless it's one of those cursed things installed at the customer thousands of miles away that never happens back in the lab.

> Once you can actually reproduce the issue, you've often done 80-99+% of the work already.

War story...

I spent over a year on-and-off between adjacent sprints circa peak COVID chasing an elusive intermittent bug that kept coming back after failing formal acceptance testing performed at a designated off-site location. Despite requesting that I be flown to this location to personally replicate the issue within days of the initial report (unable to replicate in local lab and familiar enough with the system's design to intuit the superficially unbounded depth of the rabbit hole) and every subsequent failed test report thereafter, PM persistently decided to allocate funds elsewhere and just kept kicking this product to the back of the pipeline.

Nearing project end as the last backlogged issue in queue, I managed to isolate the root cause to a race condition in a firmware ISR of an embedded microcontroller buried 3 levels deep in mixed-signal hardware. This subroutine's execution path interacted with an async signal from an instrument that was occasionally ~10 ms slower between bursts than any of the references we had in our lab...which really shouldn't have mattered because the entire flow control setup was designed to be timing insensitive and executed by non-realtime host...except this one buried onion subroutine that really wasn't.

Attaining local replication was an imperative, which required some creative speculation and a kludge hardware mock, but once I got to a state of repeatably mirroring the failure mode at will, the problem was effectively 95% solved; what followed was a quick subroutine rewrite, anti-pattern scrubdown review, host software update to account for new payload, and instructing off-site techs to field reprogram before the next scheduled test event. I'd never been happier to tag an issue resolved and finally merge an all but abandoned WIP branch.

To this day, I still don't know with certainty what caused that catalyst instrument to occasionally perform ~10 ms slower relative to our references. In the end, we indirectly absorbed at least 50x the notional cost of that site visit when the dust finally settled.
The low end doesn't have to deal with AON vs GPON. They get DSL or DOCSIS, or if they're unlucky dial-up.

And when the poor souls on slow internet do get upgraded, AON vs GPON suddenly decides if they can get upgraded to the new higher speeds in the next ten years or not. 1gbps may be relatively slow in 10 years, but with a widely spread GPON you're not getting much more out of that, while with AON entire neighbourhoods can be upgraded by replacing a single rack in the local POP.
Jørgensen pointed out how drugs were only 10% of medical costs and that the real issue was obesity and the many diseases that accompany it making the drugs required in the first place.

No one seemed interested in the truth.
I see you channelling Conner O'Malley here: "we need, we need, we need, we need" - and as coherent as one of his rants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBiyWlYous
Voixx was an unknown unknown problem.

Cardiovascular safety was tested in the original trial. It passed. Nothing in the data during development suggested it was an issue. But trials can’t detect everything.

It wasn’t until it got to market did a safety signal pop up. Then retrospective analyses of large data sets proved it.
Sounds like Llama guard:

https://medium.com/pondhouse-data/llm-safety-with-llama-guar...
I mean they could've not deleted the accounts of people who didn't migrate (and instead just stopped them from playing until they did) and they did delete them so that is definitely the case.
val.town or something similar may be an option?
Intel's Turnaround Hinges on New 18A Clearwater Forest Chip
A single sentence can have a lot of different meanings. I wonder if it would be more fruitful to use rolling pairs and triplets? Ie was thinking about how you use two moving averages with different window sizes to detect trend shifts.
These boards were basically laid out using masking tape on transparencies. The rounding comes naturally from turning a corner with the narrow tape. The teardrops around pads and other more complex shapes (like footprints) came from pre-fabricated stickers. The layouts were produced in 4:1 or similar scale and were optically reduced during photolithography of the resist on the actual PCB (just like semiconductor masks).

Way back then you also had some concerns about manufacturability because sharp corners tend to be undercut during etching when your process is poor. That's probably why they usually added little fillets to T and similar connections.
... What? In France I can vouch that both personally and professionally, a charge back at caisse d'épargne, banque populaire, société générale or crédit agricole will take you less than 5 minutes on the phone.

I would be interested to know which country and bank gave you a hard time to do charge back
Reminds me of the final scene in Hackers (1995).

“Beat that!”

Pure poetry.
That's not it, Mozilla decided to leave the fediverse and has been loading Firefox with AI and opt-out tracking features. All while still being funded by Big G.
Isn't that Linux? And only Linux. Suddenly the GNU/Linux moniker makes a lot more sense. The Linux syscall interface is very stable.

Glibc changes a lot. (But is at least very good at running old binaries.)
Users can now have persistent memory added to their LLM conversations.

This provides a new attack vector for a persistent attack that most LLM users are probably unaware of.
I feel you.

I have looked at the Wick Editors source code and managed a sucessful build with some minor changes and felt picking it up is doable, but not easy. But a satisfying way to develope for me, would require a rewrite of many parts. Or most parts, except the UI ..

Pixi as the graphical base would be the way, I think.

But I could not do it as a side project as of now, maybe one bright other day.
If we survive climate change, I would argue that conquering space should be the top priority to ensure long-term human survival. Projects like this ultimately gather knowledge that can help that goal.

But sure, we also need to tax the ultra-rich more, so that we can have money for all the things that need to be done. Tax evasion is a problem, not NASA's spending.
Gmail Conversations Archiving Has Gotten Worse
> In theory the ONT can act like a listening device

Sure, but so can the other endpoint. Even many AON installations these days are just hidden XPS-PON and similar, you just never see the ONT. (See a lot of ISPs in Switzerland)
How can we ensure not 1 of the quintillion spores it will pick up upon interaction with earth will not survive transport and contaminate Europa?
I guess I'm being spoiled by BigQuery :)

To be fair, BigQuery SQL is improving at quite a pace. If you follow their RSS, they are often announcing small but solid affordances like trailing commas, the new RANGE datatype, BigLake, some limited grouping and equality for arrays and structs, etc.

It is also probable that they expose Google's new query pipe syntax. Currently there are some hints from the error messages in the console that it's behind a feature flag or something.
Brett Favre Reveals He Has Parkinson's Disease
Most mental illness is also temporary.
https://archive.ph/mODC1
Yeah, I'd love this. My HALNY ONT doesn't support hairpin NAT which complicates accessing stuff exposed outside from home.
When I was creating a password for online banking, it required me to include at least one special char - but apparently they didn't consider the dollar sign ($) a valid character...
A New System for Temporally Consistent Stable Diffusion Video Characters
This is happening to me even when I use Google Chrome. Does this happen to you?
Yup [1]. They've basically left their core mission and just sell out now.

1. https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-fea...
Basically an ad for services. But fine: cloud can be a good solution for many companies. Our little company used AWS for years. However, remember two things:

The cloud is just some else's computer. Their priorities are not your priorities.

Cloud providers have hugely complex infrastructures, which is expensive. Cloud providers also want to make a profit. There are many arguments for using the cloud, but saving money isn't one of them.
Thank you. I keep telling people the same thing over and over again. It’s a human problem not a technological one.
In theory yes. In practice that might work that way if ~5% of your users are in that situation. If ~50% of your user base is running on a legacy protocol and you're running into Churn risks, the company is going to re-evaluate if they want to retire the old protocol.

There _is_ a reason even legacy cable TV and ancient DOCSIS channels are still being available in many countries because actually retiring a lot of old modems has shown to be risky to the business.
If I was the only one, you wouldn't have all the other languages around, a lot of which have nothing in common with C.

C is good enough for some tasks. It doesn't mean it's good. I don't see many of those programming language experts saying that C is good. I see many people who don't think they need anything more than C in their work.
My suggestion, as a game developer for nearly 30 years: pico-8. If you have any questions. Ping me on Twitter. It's the weekend after all ;)
Since you are also mentioning Mozilla, what browser would you recommend instead?
In this case. A query that you build by adding different strings. 1=1 is for adding AND statements to the WHERE clause dynamically. In your code. I never seen it used for anything else. Adhoc is just the practice of running raw SQL queries.

So you end up with things like this.

"SELECT * FROM Music WHERE 1=1" +
"AND category='rock'"

The risk is now that you by mistake allow for SQL-injections but also every genre will generate a different query plan. Depending on what SQL engine you use this may hurt performance.

And one would think that this is a thing of the past. But it is not.
If it was up to the majority of companies out there, they'd "self-regulate" into forcing their workers to work 18 hour days for pennies while they dump toxic waste into the water supply to save an extra 7 cents YoY. It's a complete fantasy.
Sorry yes, you are correct.
> Advanced Voice is not yet available in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.

That's disappointing. I wonder if it's related to legal issues, technical issues, or just doing a phased rollout?
Doesn't mention what hypervisor is used (qemu? bochs?) but if it speaks NBD then you can do:

$ nbdkit floppy /path/to/some/directory

which will serve the data in that directory as a floppy disk over NBD on port 10809. In qemu you can attach this with -drive nbd:localhost:10809.

It doesn't use mkfs.fat, instead a custom FAT generator, and I think people have used it with ancient guests (however I'd have to check to be sure, either way should be easy to patch).
I'll give the benefit of doubt in accuracy for chip emulations not executed in their real world clock rate, which would be quite expansive to do real-time. But as a creative environment, this is pure fun!
You can never truly be sure as it's can't be entirely removed. There has to be a little bit remaining, just the first few modules or the machine will shut down after 30 minutes, but the Librem 15 is a beautiful machine and Puri.sm are really awesome.
The money does exist, and manpower isn't a problem considering how many people this planet has. The problem is the small monority that has most of the money, and doesn't like to pay their fair share of taxes.

"As of late 2022, according to Snopes, 735 billionaires collectively possessed more wealth than the bottom half of U.S. households ($4.5 trillion and $4.1 trillion respectively). The top 1% held a total of $43.45 trillion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
Even if we did accidentally seed life on Europa, it would be a pretty interesting result.

I wonder if any organic matter from Earth has ever fallen on any other planets or moons?
Loopholes.
You might enjoy this: https://brisray.com/web/webring-history.htm
SmileBASIC is another coding environment on Switch. The DSi and 3DS versions were quite popular, I'm surprised the Switch version didn't catch on as much as they did
>part of the department store experience is the relative expertise of staff in each department

> Costco/Walmart ... There is very little effort made to present the goods, it's all about high volume and the lowest possible price.

I can see that perspective, but it's actually quite wrong. Costco (and similar) put significant effort into buying and presenting high quality goods. Their value proposition is that they don't need on-hand staff with relative expertise trying to match the consumer to product.

A century-plus of data on consumer buying habits have allowed them to engineer an environment where their value proposition is that they are only presenting to the customer good quality for price items. The limited, rotating, selection is Costco (and similar) putting their relative expertise on the shelf and there's tremendous money spent by these companies figuring out how to do this.

The "warehouse" environment is just another method to drive down costs in addition to eliminating pushy salespeople. Costco offers you usually one or two choices for an item, maybe for a few months, then it rotates out. Which one do you buy? It doesn't matter, they're both going to be of reasonable quality and value - a salesperson would try to direct a customer the same way. The stock rotation creates scarcity, but a good salesperson would let the consumer know "this sale is only valid for the next few days!" to create the same sense of urgency.

These companies have huge analytics departments figuring out where the dairy should be in relation to the car batteries, and for how long they should have the special display for fresh shrimp running.

Costco wants consumers to feel like they are getting wholesale prices. But the actual wholesale experience is completely different. Actual wholesale buying experiences are in some ways closer to the traditional buying experience. You're usually dealing with salespeople, hired by the originating company, who try to align you with the long tail of their product offering. Big wholesale markets even advertise that you get to meet salespeople and negotiate buying terms.

https://youtu.be/RDd10-poMm8
Yes, I have hundreds of patent filings (in atom space, not bits), every invention has about a week shelf life where I’m pleased, then the following week I think it was obvious in hindsight and I look for the next hit.

The feelings of meaning pale in comparison to interacting with my young kids throwing carrots at the kitchen table or watching them be amazed with a frog they find.

Life is interesting!
>All professionals I've ever talked to seem to agree that videos are a terrible form of reference information

It really depends. For most software things, I'd prefer to have written documentation. If it's purely for reference, then yes I agree text is better.

For working on my bicycle or car, often I like watching videos because you pick up on little ways the pros make the jobs easier - for example, the steps might do a poor job of describing the angle and movement of tyre levers, but it's easily understood via video (just an example).

As a result, it can be a much richer experience when you are building skills as opposed to just following a checklist.
Completely second that and the parent comment!

Not to mention it’s a good way to have an excuse for a glass of champagne or wine when you finally meet remote co-authors.
It's definitely legal issues, probably the same reason Apple is not rolling some of the new features like Apple Intelligence in iOS 18 to EU.

[0] https://www.macworld.com/article/2374452/apple-intelligence-...
The difference between deleting an account and deleting everything in the account is semantics.

Or did I get poe's lawed?
The US spends more per capita on healthcare, then similar first world nations spend providing public healthcare to all their citizens.[1]

The US has the worst infant mortality, and maternal mortality rates, of any first world nation.[2]

Just think of it: with the highest spend of GDP per citizen, and getting so much less you're the butt of every other country's jokes about healthcare systems.

"Lack of money" has so little to do with the conditions in the US, it's essentially negligence to think it's the problem. The US doesn't want to fix any of the problems you list: it easily could, with the resources it has today.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

[2] https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-highest-infant-maternal-mor...
Does nbdkit generate the correct OEM Label value? I don't believe so.