skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a group of six people using 3D-printed skull whistles for an outdoor festival/theatre/ritual event, emulating the sound of shrieking storm winds. It was incredibly atmospheric, and the sound carries surprisingly far!

Depending on how you place your lips and shape your mouth, you can get semi-white-noise sounds from soft to harsh, or you can shape the noise into something more like a scream/shriek.

It's funny seeing them turn up on HN just a month after using them in person :)
No need to get worked up. You can get a RealID compliant driver's license (plastic credit card sized item) or state ID (ditto) You don't need a smart phone.
There is a downside.

You need to show your identity card to buy a ticket.

(or use an app which does this for you.)
>a new hire is always an unknown factor by definition.

sure, that's why the entire hiring factor is an industry comprised of HR, recruiters, and hiring managers. you're supposed to minimize the odds of a bad hire. Similar to any other business that is an unknown factor until you do research.

Life's all about dealing with known and unknown unknowns.

>And if you aren’t FAANG, people usually aren’t lining up at your door to work for you, so you have to make do with what you get.

Not in this current economy. That's part of the frustration with the current market. Everyone is lining up, few are getting hired, but hey it's okay unemployment is low and the economy is great!

>Pair that with the fact that the new hire won’t reach full productivity until at least 6 months in

well that's also mitigatable. Make your process public and let candidates study to your tools and process. But that will never happen because it's more important to hide your process from competitors than get qualified candidates to ramp up quicker.
But this is not punishing the company.
If anything it is helping the company to avoid having all those H1B workers looking for another job.
"Oh, surely, we'd love to sponsor your green card, but you see? we can't! This senator that we incidentaly gave millions for his campaign got this idea out of his mind, alone, that we now can't sponsor your green card, and yes, it is horrible to work here after the layoffs, but looks like you're stuck with us."
Probably not worth it but if it's less than about $5k you may be able to sue in small claims court. It's unlikely the bank will even show up and in that case you would win by default. Collection might be a challenge though.

IANAL.
That's interesting. If I wear & don't wear too much in a day I do get a headache, but I think if I don't at all then (until I do) it's fine so far.

The main thing that would stop me now is the reminder of what everything should look like - the world was very slightly blurred so gradually that I didn't notice, but now I put my glasses on and it's like switching to 4k.
it's not benevolent sexism, it's healthy sexism itself that is benevolent; androgyny is malevolent. These men should assume their proper role by confronting these tigers directly, while they protect their wives and sisters by giving them the safer job monitoring the cameras. there is plenty of work to be done, people need to take responsibility
From Susan
while this is true, they also have to do a lot more management of capital than most and it's a very delicate balancing act. Already, you have issues with bank confidence and normal people getting fleeced by fradulent or overly risky financial products because of the government's interventions in banking.

Japan used to be activist towards in its banks too, and it was very good until it was catastrophic one day.
The “accredited investor” thing always seemed like a scam to me. Like if you have a lot of money we will trust that you know how to invest, otherwise we won’t let you.
Theoretically if a human can drive a car using a pair of eyes connected to brain, it should be possible to do that using two cameras connected to some kind of image processing unit.
It used to be I could be sure this was sarcasm. I miss those days.
Also not really about the Monroe Doctrine, as the US action was in response strictly to the deployment of offensive missiles (what it saw as a de facto aggressive action against it) -- not the simple fact of Cuba forming a close relationship with the USSR per se.

Also, if government of Mexico ever decides to invite the People's Liberation Army into Mexico to help Mexico defend itself

And if that invitation happened only after Mexico was invaded by the US (on as grounds as equally stupid and unprovoked as Russia's current invasion of Ukraine) -- then I'm sure we can trust that you will not only unequivocally condemn that aggression, but solidly champion Mexico's right to defend itself against it by whatever means necessary.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42199619
> Their electricity prices always have been expensive by Australian standards. However despite the investment of billions replacing coal and gas with wind and solar, those prices have dropped a little. They expect to complete the transition and be 100% renewable this decade.

I think this is one of the drivers for people installing solar on their houses... We have a solar rate of 40% in the state. People want to reduce their powerbill as much as possible, which in turn helps us become more and more 'Green'.

The problem is in summer when the solar input into the grid, vastly outweighs the demand, and the demand spikes with all the airconditioning clicking on in the evening.

Energy Storage (Batteries), plays a huge part in our state becoming self-reliant in a green way.
This looks a lot like the wordpress issue… i think the oss wars of the 2020s will be fought around trademarks?

One more reason to move to valkey i guess.
My mother forgot her ID once and she told me there are two ways:

- They can verify identify through something like a credit card, bank statements, etc.

- Even if you do not have this, they can phone someone that will verify your identity over the phone after getting some info from you. From what I heard you are only allowed to use this method twice per year.
The TSA is intentionally vague about this. Via https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification

> The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity verification process which includes collecting information such as your name and current address to confirm your identity. If your identity is confirmed, you will be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint, where you may be subject to additional screening.

> You will not be allowed to enter the security checkpoint if you choose to not provide acceptable identification, you decline to cooperate with the identity verification process, or your identity cannot be confirmed.
There's an argument that jobs which can take a life require more maturity, and there's been talk of specifically limiting jobs like infantry to older, more mature, and more physically-trained people.

That said, the vast majority of military jobs are not combat-coded. They involve mundane things like fixing aircraft, crewing ships, doing admin paperwork, moving boxes, and so on.
GCS is just missing x-amz-copy-source-range in my book.

Can we have this Google?

…

Please?
You’re naive. God bless you for not encountering one of these people.

People like this are masters at working the system and will make everyone around them miserable. They crave attention and love to wield power.

The most toxic person I can think of spent most of his career broadly filing complaints for various forms of discrimination, which insulated him from accountability because any attempt to fire him would be seen as retaliation. His parting shot was to call the FBI and accuse a coworker of trading illicit porn on his work computer.

Nasty, evil people exist.
Amusingly, calling a devoted fan of something a "stan" is a reference to an Eminem song. A lot of these people claiming they don't know who Drake is would probably recognize the meme even if they don't know his music.

Also, not a response to you, but rather the parent, that Destiny's Child and Eminem both released their debut albums in 1997. Not being a fan is one thing, but saying you've never heard a single song of theirs goes a bit beyond being out of touch with "today's" culture unless you define today as this entire millenium and a few years of the last one, too.
There is no "the IQ test". The most prominent ones are Stanford-Binet and Wechsler.

That, I think is the first problem. There isn't a single agreement what IQ is or how to measure it. There isn't a single one for good reasons, because they all measure slightly different things. But that means that fundamentally any single IQ scale is likely flawed. (Wechsler acknowledges this. SB sorta does as well, but hides it well)

But if we're looking for a second at Stanford Binet :

It's hard to administer. Scoring requires subjective judgment. It's sexist. It uses language and situations that don't apply to current times. It's highly verbal. The normative sample is questionable (though SB-V has gotten better)

And because I've had this discussion before: I'm not saying IQ tests are completely meaningless. Yes, there's some signal there. But it's so deeply flawed signal that building rigorous science on top of it is just hard to impossible.
It’s a reply to this part of OP:

> Ask IBM what becomes of databases full of people's names associated with their movements.

None of this matters. If a state wants to commit a genocide, they will. Collection of IDs being there or not is a minuscule bump in the road there.
My gripe was with the Explainer modal that covers the entire article upon visiting the site.
No idea, but why would that be necessary or sufficient to make it very unlikely to lose data?

Things can go wrong on many layers above and below the database, so the property you describe seems like an implementation detail of one particular approach, not something fundamentally necessary for sound bookkeeping.
As someone building a client which needs to sync with a local filesystem (repo) and database, I cannot emphasize how wonderful it is that there is a push to standardize. We're going to implement this for https://srcbook.com
I feel like “gated community” is closer in meaning than “suburb”, in the contemporary U.S. at least.

> [Samuel Brooks] bought 60 acres of land[,] surrounding it with a high wall (parts of which can still be seen on Upper Chorlton Road). To keep the city at bay he employed his own private police force and set up toll gates, which is where we get the name Brooks Bar.
> It sounds like a big risk for a bank….

On the contrary, the banks aren't on the hook here! If they have a clear answer for "Yes, this customer's money is with you", then they pay. If not, they sit on the funds until some court orders them to do something with them.

The banks are winning big time here. It's their customers who eat the risk.

Ultimately the source of the loss is going to turn out to be some fraud at Synapse that caused their bankruptcy, but it seems like no one has details on that yet. But until then, the banks are sitting on unowned/untraceable free cash. They're loving this deal.
I agree though not for the same reasons.

Copyright law lacks the authority to deprive people of their constitutional rights.

Those rights would inevitably be violated as many bureaucratic functions of government require internet access, and not responding is not an option. It would also act to weaken the courts by setting the stage for further devolution of "rule of law" to "rule by law".
I occasionally reconsider it so I can try a bunch of the FB alternatives (Folly, Thrift, CacheLib, etc.), but... yeah. Still just kind of waiting for a panacea.
Bazel is a project created by Google, and Hollman works for Google. So - perhaps the Bazel tribe is people working at Google? There _are_ quite a few of those....
RPC for LLMs with the first client being Claude Desktop. ;-)
That whole bundle of traditions - prayer times, prayer directions, prayer accessories, etc predates Islam if for no other reason than that Islam is comparatively new. But the cross-pollination could have easily happened more than once and in both directions.
Might finally be possible to do this on S3:
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/go-gcp/gmutex
> Then he went on to create a rocket company that broke barriers of space travel no one has been able to do.

Look closer into how the sausage is made. For example the Moon grant for SpaceX to the tune of about $3bln was awarded by a person who wrote it in first person singular and after she did it, she promptly quit and went to work for SpaceX.

Musk is definitely successful, but a grifter not a businessman.

> [...] man produced a highly successful car company

Musk is claiming to posess and even selling non-existent technology to both investors and consumers (pre-orders never fullfilled) for almost a decade now. Other people (Theranos, Nikola) who tried to replicate his success in this field but didn't have pants padded with hundred bln$ are curretly serving very long prison sentences for investor fraud. While Musk got off on the grounds that what he says is widely known to be pure puffery and no-one of sound mind should expect what he says to be accurate. Funny how billions "in the bank" can change how justice percieves you.

Musk is now basically so full of hot air that when he stumbles he falls up.
>To be honest, I am genuinely surprised an attack never materialized.

I'm not. The TSA is hated by the populace the way the population hates every wasteful boondoggle jobs program. Foreigners hate them for profiling but that's pretty far down the list of grievances. Foreigners looking to strike at America and Americans looking to get off the porch likely have dozens of more preferable targets.

I doubt the TSA makes any would be attackers list of top five most deserving agencies.

Edit: A fed sponsored false flag attack on the TSA could make a good comedy plot. It might need to be a TV series in order to have time to fit in all the jokes, references, tropes and wise cracks you'd be obligated to make when covering such subject matter.
How is that related? The people electing someone despite their background doesn’t have any bearing on the power of the exec branch
I'm not so sure the thinly veilled preposition there ("big government" is the solution) actually holds on empirical basis - government-enterprise monoliths don't exactly have a great track record with these things.
I used to cave dive years and years ago and explore dry caves when we lived in the Missouri area. There are a ton of limestone caves there. Many aren't mapped or really marked at all, especially when you get in the bluffs along the Mississippi.

I stopped when I got stuck in a tight passage and almost drowned in a flash flood. Caves seem like these super cool places and they're climate controlled so they seemed kind of, I don't know, soft?

Then I figured out they're not and they're really really really fucking dangerous. Oh, the stupid stuff 20 year olds get up to.
To summarize the article, and paraphrase and editorialize, I've heard a lot of criticisms of the US Navy culture ("boat feudalism" is one of my favorites), but I don't think anyone has ever seriously accused the US Navy of being so open, egalitarian, and woke as to become even the second best navy on the planet.
Like most policies at Netflix, or for that matter most workplaces anywhere, judgement is required.

The policy is unlimited. You are welcome to take a year of vacation a week after you start. However, there are other factors, such as remaining employed. You most likely won't be meeting your job duties if you're on vacation for a year.
> Google is likely found to be severely abusing it's powers beyond what you can actually see on the surface

Yes agree. But we know Apple does the same. I don't think divestment is a good solution for Apple, but there is a clear concentration of market power that causes problems.
In Rust, the de facto standard advice for such cases seems to be, "just use indices into an array instead of references".

While this is sometimes done in C++ as well for various reasons, it's certainly not the default pattern there. If you have two things that need to point to each other, you just do that.
The evil path for a director is to acquire a nonessential group and make it the land of misfit toys.

Bank them away from everyone else, and nuke them from orbit when necessary.
It's a limited risk. Even if the file is compressible by one byte, it's very unlikely you can figure out how to get a decompressor functioning without plenty of bytes of overhead. And even if that problem disappears, he'd still win 99.6% of the time.

And you can get rid of that risk by requiring 100 bytes of shrink. Just measure the size right.
Side web-development gripe: Notion redirects to a completely different domain when nagging people to turn on JS. This means whatever you enable for "this site" is the wrong site. It also does so in a way that removes the original URL from the "back" navigation, so you're extra-screwed if you opened it in a new tab. Argh.
Who are they going to sue? Yotta? Synapse? Evolve?
I wish it would remain as a basic viewer with syntax highlighting. If you want an edit/cursor mode you should have to click a button to enable it. At the moment, clicking on thepane places a cursor at that location which breaks using the arrow keys for scrolling the window -- if the cursor is off screen it will scroll to the cursor location not where the viewport is currently located.
Along with that:

> mDL apps will be required to log each time a digital ID is presented, and to whom. This is described as a measure to protect ID-holders’ privacy, despite the obvious risk posed by police or others being able to know when and to whom you have shown your ID.

That's down right horrifying.
I found a demo video here: https://youtu.be/ZyeR6pCyUi0

As it seems it's rather a beginner's tool.
this exactly! everyone should find the bare minimum which does not get you fired and just do that - nothing more. salaried employees just don’t grasp the simple truth that putting in more than bare-minimum-required-to-keep-the-job is absolute waste which only benefits the employer. if I have no equity or vested interest in company’s success - this is the way!
This is really how I see it too. If this spirit was really so important to the bet (and not just vaguely implied) it should have been stated clearly. Friendly ribbing over "you won by rules but not in spirit" is one thing when it's a free wager between buddies but not with real money on the line. Falling back on a position of spirit and intent trumping hard written rules in text in real money wagers basically guarantees that the banker has no real incentive to rule fairly on a win that can cost him money if he can get away with the loss of reputation- he can always weasel out of it one way or another by acting in bad faith and engaging in pedantry during the judging. No one would ever take up someone on a bet if they could turn around last second and say, well you didn't mind-read the additional rules and stipulations I'm adding on now after the fact to our original written agreement so in actuality you lost.

Additionally Mike's behavior during the exchange makes him feel all the more untrustworthy. His condescension, playing the fool and intentionally misinterpreting the test to "win", remarks made that seem specifically placed to needle and aggravate Pat knowing there's no way to force him to pay up, and threats of accusations of fraud were a show of really poor character. At the least it would've been more of a class act (even if he never paid out) to admit that Pat outplayed him due to naivety and a self inflated sense of cleverness on Mike's part, to admit that he is not familiar with betting culture and got in over his head.
So they want an open protocol, and instead of say collaborating with other people that provide models like Google, Microsoft, Mistral, Cohere and the opensource community, they collaborate with an editor team. Quite the protocol. Why should Microsoft implement this? If they implement their own protocol, they win. Why should Google implement this? If they implement their own protocol, they win too. Both giants have way more apps and reach in inside businesses than Anthropic can wish.
There are a number of decent books.

"Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager", "The Manager's Path", "Becoming a Technical Leader", "An Elegant Puzzle", "Resilient Management".

But your best bet is either finding an experienced manager who's willing to coach you, or working with a management coach.

(There's a number of folks blogging as well. Gergely Orosz, Laura Hogan, Camille Fournier,...)
Lots of projects do it. I look at starts and update frequencies. My toml parser is called taplo, for example.
I strongly disagree. The example sentences you give would be very out of place in a scientific paper. If i saw them there i would assume an LLM wrote them because they are inapproiate to the genere of writing and LLMs sometimes have trouble with that type of context.

Writing is all about context. What is a good sentence in one context might be a terrible sentence in another context.

To go in more detail
> The paper has: "Sound, an omnipresent sensory stimulator, holds significant relevance in the human experience, as it continually engages our auditory and mental faculties." This is just a sentence stuffed with adjectives. It conveys nothing beyond the definition of sound in a bunch of adjectives.

That sentence doesn't say anything about the definition of sound at all. It makes 2 claims that are important - sound is everywhere and sound affects people. Neither of them have anything to do with what sound is. I imagine the author (correctly) assumes the target audience already knows the definition of "sound".

> Complex (and admittedly annoying) writing would be something like: "Ever-cognizable and in continual interplay with our auditory faculties, sound is one of the most significant objects of human sense perception." This is annoying writing for sure, but it's well-constructed, unlike the LLM opener for the paper. It culminates with the fact that sound is important because it is ubiquitous to our perception.

Sure, that might be a fine sentence in some other article, but why would it work here? It promotes the aside, that sound is important to humans, to the main idea. However that makes no sense in context. The author isn't writing an essay on the importance of sound. Sound being important is not the primary thing the author is trying to set up here, so why would you cumulate with that?

Re the fancy one - I would say the same thing. There are plenty of contexts where that would be a fine sentence, but this isn't one of them. It is inappropriate to the genere in question and communicates the wrong idea. Sound might be powerful but this isn't an essay on how sound is powerful.
I took time to read everything on Twitter/Reddit/Documentation about this.

I think I have a complete picture.

Here is a quickstart for anyone who is just getting into it.

https://glama.ai/blog/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol-quic...
It’s common with unionized workforces.

Usually there’s a layoff list with a timer.