AlbertoGP

It is indeed the 11th of September, here is the German Government's page about it: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/leichte-sprache/11-se...

That man, Rex Malik, participated in (among other things) the 1982 BBC series “The Computer Programme” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Programme), typically in a small section at the end on an episode but also as narrator in other parts and is credited as “Programme Adviser”:

Episode 1 - “It’s Happening Now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMWEiCdsfc

Episode 4 - “It’s on the Computer”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXqb1QT_tI

Episode 5 - “The New Media“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GETqUVMXX3I

Episode 10 - “Things to Come”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLL7HmbcrvQ

I tried it out to see if I would want to use this instead of miniz which I am using at the moment, but the example seems to be missing some includes.

I filed an issue with the details: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/stb-zip/issues/1

Edit to add: I see now that you also did the Uprintf submission from a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960664) which had some baffling bugs, and then you mentioned that you were using AI for some of it. That might explain the missing parts here too.

Ah, this fixes the problem I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501362 and was also reported in an earlier reply by someone else there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508433

Thanks!

The bottom-right camera view of Jonathan Blow and its audio do not match exactly the timing of the screen capture that fills the image. There are several seconds of delay.

It can be seen clearly at this point: https://youtu.be/RIYGaSBKy3w?t=1652 The most obvious moment is when he raises his hands gesticulating but the screen capture shows him moving the cursor in Emacs.

That confused me in some earlier points where he was mentioning things that were not visible on the screen until later.

Still, the talk is worth watching. I am particularly interested in the use of metaprogramming to ease debugging by gaining visibility on what the program is doing.

Edit: the delay has been reported in the YouTube comments and they say they will fix it and re-upload.

> There are play, stop, fast forward, and rewind buttons on top and a volume dial and Bluetooth button on the side, along with a headphone jack and USB-C port.

> ... You cannot use it as an audio recorder.

>I get now what the Voynich Manuscript says, in a way that might not satisfy all the code-crackers and linguists out there. Its enigmatic script doesn't say anything, and yet it says everything. Your communication needs to include connection: otherwise, with any luck, people may only someday debate not what you said, but whether you said anything at all (6).

> Volunteer Site Managers Needed

> I am looking for 2 or 3 interested individuals to eventually take over the website. I am 68 years old and my lifespan and health diminish each year. If you think you might be interested blease contact me through the contact-us page.

> Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players.

> The Morpho language. Morpho is a programmable environment for shape optimization and scientific computing tasks more generally. Morpho aims to be:

> - Familiar. Morpho uses syntax similar to other C-family languages. The syntax fits on a postcard, so it's easy to learn.

> - Fast. Morpho programs run as efficiently as other well-implemented dynamic languages like wren or lua (Morpho is often significantly faster than Python, for example). Morpho leverages numerical libraries like BLAS, LAPACK and SUITESPARSE to provide high performance.

> - Class-based. Morpho is highly object-oriented, which simplifies coding and enables reusability.

> - Extendable. Functionality is easy to add via packages, both in Morpho and in C or other compiled languages. Packages can be downloaded, installed and distributed via the morphopm package manager.

> MIT License

> Languages: C 98.8% Python 0.7% CMake 0.5% Batchfile 0.0% Makefile 0.0% Objective-C 0.0%

https://github.com/Morpho-lang/morpho

That builds libmorpho.so, the CLI is at:

https://github.com/Morpho-lang/morpho-cli

I’m not involved in this project in any way, just trying it out because it sounds interesting.

> A foil balloon was enough to take out multiple fabs in Germany

I didn't know about that incident; more details here:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/wayward-balloon-c...

> Jumping straight to what makes the Xiaomi Modular Optical System possible, Xiaomi’s proprietary LaserLink technology helps the module connect to the phone with ultra-fast 10Gbps optical data transfer. [...]

> This LaserLink optical communication module transmits raw data as a near-infrared laser through the lens to the phone’s image signal processor (ISP) in nanoseconds without delay or compromise in quality.

Sony aimed for something similar in 2013 with their QX camera series (https://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/sony_ilce_qx1_review), but those were complete cameras including battery and SD-Card slots that communicated wirelessly via NFC or WiFi with the mobile phone so there was a lot of redundant functionality.

Reading past the first post in the thread requires login on Twitter/X, so here is a link that displays the whole content without login: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884244369907278106.html

> P.S. Huh, it appears that actually is Yuri "Four Stages of Ideological Subversion" Bezmenov in the comments.

That is not the real Yuri Bezmenov which died in 1993 but a fan account:

> Kicking off 2024 by honoring the real Yuri and sharing the reasons why I started this Substack

> Yuri Bezmenov passed away 31 years ago and gave his famous speech about subversion 40 years ago. If he were alive today, he would marvel that everything he predicted in 1984 came true. He tried to warn us. All honor to his name.

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/yuri-bezmenov-top-quotes...

This is way more detailed than I expected it to be, and I will keep it as reference. When I did my own image loading and display I did meet many of these issues but this article made me see that the horrors go way deeper.

Website: https://osci-render.com/sosci/

That URL is in the YouTube video description.

> But he pointed out that only the species names had been changed, not the common name. Researchers, he said, can keep using HIV in papers the same way researchers use “mouse” and not mus musculus. (Critics argue that, with viruses, it’s not so simple, and note the new names have already tripped up such august bodies as the World Health Organization.)

The claim is that everyone shoud use "generative AI" for everything the whole time:

> And, she added, “when it comes to developer productivity, the survey found widespread adoption and significant time savings from the use of AI-powered coding tools.”

Inteesting, not as simple as jobs being hard to find:

> At the same time, firings are really low.

> Workers who have jobs aren't losing them & workers without jobs aren't finding them.

Twitter/X showed me only the first post but here is the whole thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1874853029872365961.html

Still no references, only a link to a sound playlist of elephant noises called "ElephantVoices":

https://soundcloud.com/elephantvoices

I found a brief mention related to this from 2017:

> Dr Joyce Poole and her colleagues noticed one of the younger African savannah elephants making truck-like sounds that were unlike any of the calls they had heard from African elephants in the past. They realised that from her night compound, the elephant could hear the trucks three kilometres away on the highway.

That Dr. Poole seems to be the person behind ElephantVoices as reported by National Geographic:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/elephants...

Update: ElephantVoices has an explanation of the playlist in their website under "The elephant ethnogram":

https://www.elephantvoices.org/elephant-ethogram.html

> I had done what the pop-feminist chore-management gurus suggested. I had tried to reduce my mental load by foisting ownership of and accountability for tasks onto my husband. The only slight hiccup in this plan is that if your husband doesn’t do the tasks, the system falls apart.

> The problem, as both Fair Play’s author, Eve Rodsky, and I, and probably lots of other women, see it, is the men.

And Dark City was delayed after it was finished, it should have come out before The Matrix. I copy here my previous HN comment from June 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36415981

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I watched Dark City years after watching The Matrix (on opening in the cinema) and I enjoyed it very much, have watched it multiple times over the years.

Here is Dark City’s director Alex Proyas: “Alex Proyas on: The Matrix copying Dark City” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxjsetVIRM

And this is a juxtaposition of some scenes with background music: “The Matrix vs. Dark City.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moW17YHl6B8

This is Mr. Hand [Richard O’Brien] talking in ”Memories of Shell Beach”:

> It was a very groovy movie, you see?

> I remember saying to Rufus Sewell [who played the protagonist], I said, you know, it actually, truthfully, it really doesn’t matter, does it, whether it’s a box-office success because we’re going to get paid as actors anyway, sorry Alex [Proyas] but this is true, we’re gonna get paid as actors anyway and isn’t it nice to be part of something which is groovy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrK4U6PEu94&t=1029s

This story is being published in many venues including Scientific American linked yesterday in HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%20lost%20control%20of%20the%2...

Written by Amy Maxmen which was very active spreading misinformation about Covid-19 right from the start, lied about not knowing Peter Daszak once he started getting unwanted attention.

Not even one passing mention of gain of function research?

SciAm in 2021:

> The riskier version of gain-of-function research creates viruses with abilities they do not have in nature. In two separate studies in 2011, scientists famously and controversially did just that with the H5N1 influenza virus, or “bird flu,” resulting in a version capable of airborne transmission among ferrets.

> The naturally occurring virus does not have this ability.

> Making mammal-to-mammal transmission easier set off alarm bells and triggered discussion of a U.S. moratorium.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-scientists-tw...

While the ALL CAPS looks like clickbait, the title is true and it was well worth it for me to click.

I suppose the difference would be whether the main point is the tutorial or the interactive platform on which it is built. The title suggests the first. I'm personally fine with this but that might be because I do use Raylib and like it very much.

> In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, judge Simon Pschorr described the practice as "common, customary and legal", indicating that the 64-year-old former convict may well have to foot the bill.

> Before he left office, former Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) had planned to abolish the practice, but his plans fell by the wayside with the collapse of the traffic-light coalition back in November.

The collapse of the coalition happened because of disagreements about Germany's involvement in Ukraine, so this is another consequence of it I would not have expected.

The description in the documentation sounds interesting but I can not find any license, and although that might seem pedantic I can not even read the source code without it.

Very dissapointed by the lack of a picture of the salmon hat, I looked for one and this other article has it with the caption "J27 Blackberry sports a dead salmon hat on Oct. 25 at Point No Point in Washington state.":

www.vancouverisawesome.com/animal-stories/orcas-revive-dead-salmon-hat-trend-from-80s-9886630

When did this happen?