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Yes! I particularly love this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcb-XF1RPQ

Definitely an underrated movie.

Holy cow, it's true. Never knew that, thanks so much for sharing.

fairly simple approach

I think we can all agree this PDF goes out of its way to convince the reader that it's anything but simple.

- Pepsi DNA

- Pepsi Energy Fields

- The Pepsi Universe

It's all gold, to be honest. I love this document.

I guess all walls are 1ft high in that diagram.

You're right though, pretty sure it's a typo.

It's already been brought up by many others, but proof of purchase is not the issue here, right? It's the right to access the content. NFTs don't force Sony to give you your content if they're not legally obliged to.

Don't mean to seem like I'm piling on, but I sincerely would be interested how they would help here?

I don't think it was written by a bot either. But seemed incomprehensible enough to ask another bot for their insight :-)

In seriousness, I appreciate your analogy above. That brings the article into a more interesting light.

Appreciate you writing up a more terse version. Tangentially, I fed the article into GPT-3, then led with the prompt:

Q: Was the above article written by a bot? Explain your reasoning.

It's response was:

A: It is difficult to say for certain whether or not the above article was written by a bot, but there are several clues that suggest it may be the case. First, the article seems to lack a clear purpose or focus, instead meandering from topic to topic without really saying anything significant. Second, the writing is often awkward or stilted, as if it has been translated from another language. Finally, the article ends abruptly and without resolution, as if the author ran out of ideas or simply gave up. Taken together, these factors suggest that the article may have been written by a bot, or at least by someone who is not a skilled writer.

I thought this was a pretty humorous take.

In software at least, just landing a nice paying job seems to cause impostor syndrome, especially if it's one of your first. I guess getting a job offer is a sort of praise though, which fits your point.

Not just you. I thought it might have some interesting to say, but I had to stop a ways through it due to the confusing wording.

The wording does seem open-ended, but note this phrase

If you choose to link your Microsoft Xbox Services account with your account on a non-Microsoft service or sign in to your Xbox Services account to access a non-Microsoft Service...

I work on a service that tracks game activity for users, but we require them to go through the OAuth process and explicitly give us permission to do so.

How do you select the first guess? e.g. the clue is "popular yellow cartoon bear", and the answer is "pooh". You can satisfy the crossword using random words and a dictionary somewhat easily, but that's not really the task at hand.

I like the character of the voices, especially Male B. Sounds a little like Brokaw, maybe.

But yeah sometimes I'd have to regenerate before I got non-glitchy audio. Still though, very cool.

It's hard to argue with this stance. What you're saying seems reasonable, although it's clearly a solution that wouldn't pay off immediately.

But if the goal is to get better nutrition to children more assuredly, doesn't the direct solution make more sense? Just give the children better nutrition for free in the place they're forced to go to each day.

Maybe your mindset is geared towards solving more over-arching problems than that. And I completely agree with infrastructure and (especially) higher pay for teachers to increase the quality of education. I'm just musing out loud.

Really cool project. I was a bit confused about his explanation on measuring where the anchors were in space. Why would a tape measure not be enough?

I was also a bit surprised that more primitive CV wasn't used to track the ball--he had to freeze the ball and then machine holes into the ball to insert tracking objects. I would have thought that image recognition could have solved the problem without the trackers. Maybe the issue was that this requires very low latency?

Sincere question: Where would you rather have that money spent, if not to provide healthy food to school children?

Along with Sumatra, agreed that IrfanView is an incredible gem. It will take pretty much anything you throw at it, and is incredibly lightweight. When doing animations, I can load up a folder with several thousand images and just hold down the right arrow key to get a preview of the animation via IrfanView.

People who take time off to travel or otherwise enjoy their life don't do it based on the charity of working people as you seem to assume. They already worked, created value, saved some of that value, then spend their stored value as they please. Why does that make you so angry?

Exactly. Odd that the parent commenter is bitter about the idea of people enjoying their money. You earned the money, and if you wish to spend it traveling/any other old thing... well why not?

Sure, just submitted a new issue. Included in the issue, but I think there might be a more general problem with how block conversion is handled (at least for quote and code block types). On firefox at least, it's pretty easy to crash this by messing with block type dropdown.

Genuinely curious, can burning tissue really cause cancer? Like if I put my hand over a fire for too long and get a 3rd degree burn?

It crashed after I created a code block, converted it to a quote block, and the hit ctrl+z to undo (something about a history node not being found, I think. Sorry, should have saved the output).

I don't think an application has to actually do anything with the audio data in order to retain its access to the microphone. I'm not an expert here, but I'd imagine it's something like this:

    mic = grab_access_to_mic()
    while app_is_running:
        if (is_muted):
            pass
        else:
            send_that_audio(mic)

Also, seems like an honest mistake, but I think they got this backwards, right?

They used runtime binary analysis tools to trace raw audio in popular videoconferencing applications as the audio traveled from the app to the computer audio driver and then to the network while the app was muted.

Wouldn't it be driver -> app -> cloud? I think I'm splitting hairs at this point though.

Lastly, it would be nice if this article at least listed the apps that were investigated.

but pretty sure you're just talking out your ass

This really isn't necessary. Assume good faith.

I thoroughly enjoyed this article, it was a bit of a breath of fresh air.

Some quotes that resonated:

There should be no illusion: today’s culture war cannot be won by any side.

Good faith communication is both a complex skill and a value commitment that shapes personal identity. In other words: doing it is sufficiently difficult that getting good at it will change the kind of person that you are.

Delicately transforming a situation of escalating bad faith requires the slow establishment of previously unrecognized shared interests, often on issues as basic as self-preservation. The goal in most cases is not agreement—that would be naive—the goal is simply to preserve the possibility of communication itself.

Also learned the term "steelmanning," which seems to be pretty much identical to the hacker news guideline:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

This essay also does a good job of explaining the concept: https://mypeculiarblog.com/2021/11/07/what-is-steelmanning/

This is really cool. It would be nice to have a way use custom audio, but I really like the range of visualizations and the interface. (one very minor issue is that the scrollbars seem to intermittently appear on firefox when dragging sliders)

edit: It would also be cool to see the visualizer's current estimate for the BPM.

2nd edit: Is the shader code for the visualization's available anywhere?

agreed, I would have liked to be able to advance the comic using the arrow keys or something. It looks genuinely interesting.

They're pretty strict about usage:

- https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...

- https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...

Looks interesting. I signed up and received an email with the chrome store link, but the email didn't include an access code (it mentions it, "...and the access key below.", but the only thing below is the store link). Is this a bug or am I missing something?

EDIT: A second email showed up about 30min later that did contain the code.

Thanks for addressing motivation. That's what I struggle with, and this comment definitely resonated with me. It's still something I need to find.

I guess you're addressing the question correctly, giving "weird" tips. How does this not just turn into self-loathing and depression that drives you to become worse and worse though?