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When I was in high school our amateur jazz band went into a recording studio to make a fun keepsake album. My memory is fairly hazy, but the whole experience was a lot of fun! Everybody got their microphones and a headset. Maybe we recorded by sections and likely with a metronome track.

When we finished we got to go watch the sound guys at work. They meticulously gridified and autotuned every note. After it was all over I got the cd, I listened to my favorite tracks that I got to spend the semester playing with my friends, and it had no resemblance to what I knew our group to be. I think I threw the album away.

Hi! Looks really good, but could you explain a bit more what exactly you're doing here?

Straight Story is such a pleasure to watch

Lake Michigan is famously terribly cold to swim in. However this year I’ve found it mostly comfortable, almost as comfortable as a swimming pool. Looking online, it’s above 70 degrees! https://apps.glerl.noaa.gov/marobs/php/data.php?sta=0

Up in Door County the lake would freeze enough to ski on, but nowadays, well good luck with that.

I see duckduckgo provides an easy iseven() service as well

It’s like parroting the king in the royal courtroom but for the 21st century. Look what happened to Spain as a warning, next thing anyone knew, one day their whole country woke up talking with a lisp.

So can someone explain how this is different/superior to Raptor RAG? I don't have the current concentration to figure it out for myself...

I noticed your “jump to” function is 1 indexed >:(

Let’s say they do alter the price based upon demand (which it sounds like they won’t do at a granular scale like the other commentators are suggesting). It will punish customers who come later, but reward early customers who buy in bulk. Imagine scalping ice cream in a parking lot on a hot day! But seriously, i would like to see non linear scaling of prices for people who buy a lot at once, for scarce items. Everybody gets a little seems like a more moral way to handle scarcity, but Walmarts new pricing system won’t handle this. Oh well. Overall though still a fun development.

Interesting take! I like how the app embellishes the real world rather than replacing it. What’s more interesting is that old me would like this app way more than young me.

When young me had wanted to date and was lonely enough to use an app, just seeing an attractive person in real life could be stressful and therefore awkward if it felt like a high stakes, rare opportunity…something this app would make worse.

However, to older me who doesn’t care anymore but would want to meet an interesting somebody, no stress, this app could make a great ice breaker. A neet niche you’ve found!

How do you deal with partial matches of interests?

You are correct. “Karl Fundkvist, a design engineer at Goodyear who specializes in acoustics.

At low speeds, the engine and exhaust system are the primary sources of noise, but at about 35 mph tire noise comes into play. At freeway speeds, the tires account for about 60% of the noise a typical car makes, Fundkvist said.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-12-hy-wheel...

Searching for jobs in ML/NLP, I’ve seen many companies specify they want 5+ years experience in both natural language processing and 5+ years experience in neurolinguistic programming. Always gets a laugh. The poor job poster. Knows they need nlp, and there’s this thing called neural networks, but can’t quite understand what all these acronyms are…

Should be fun but is just depressing. How about a reverse trolley problem where good things happen? Now that i think of it, this might become the next great life/career planning tool…:)

A moment of reflection: on the positive trolley tool, not being able to pick both good things is its own tragedy (let’s say family and career). But the reverse doesn’t behave the same - the decision to pull the lever for two negative outcomes doesn’t cause me to feel joy that only one of the disasters occurs and not both!

This is really cool. I was thinking the one biggest contributions to the feeling of public spaces being "not as nice" in the united states vs Germany/Europe is not the views or lack of money invested, but background car noise. You can hear the sound of a background highway almost everywhere in the USA, whereas the background world in for example Germany is much much quieter. And of all the ways cars make noise, I thought there was nothing to do about the sound of tires slapping the road.

The page points out the intent is to reduce tire noise in the cabin. I can see this being a marketing angle to sell it to the average driver, but will this mechanism lower tire noise for everyone or just the driver?

No problem reading it for me. I’ve noticed some news organizations putting access behind a human verification step (cloudfare), maybe something like that is stopping you

Very cute! Love the concept. One thing i would love to see is character development, or if the AI will snap at a certain point. That would make the harassment feel more rewarding ;) but nicely executed.

If anyone is curious to try one of the Civs out, looks like Civ IV is currently $3 until the 21st on Steam

Now that I think of it I should set up poisoned models on huggingface which, when used to read resumes, will auto-accept anything with my username on it

Is this a message from heaven? Is the holy Hacker News now God’s preferred vehicle for answering prayers, yonder the silicon curtain far beyond?

Im surprised there are more word games out there that are legitimately fun! Good job with it. I like the design choices of the site as well.

How is pedophilia considered psychologically? Is it a treatable condition, an untreatable permanent condition, or simply a criminal choice?

It’s the same trade off in all secure systems. Reducing false positives in exchange for false negatives. Implementing new secure standards would have disproportionate effect on preventing legitimate voters from voting, for very small gain in preventing bad actors. Research from some years ago had the ratio being a few orders of magnitude difference. Stopping 300 legitimate votes from being cast to prevent 1 fraudulent vote makes no sense. In any case, these shenanigans can get you a felony and we’ve repeatedly seen very low rates of this kind of fraud.

That is to say, you can swing more votes in more effective and legal ways than flubbing mail in ballots.

On the other hand, being able to land such a job with no substantial checks who you are is pretty crazy. You would think a six figure employee would warrant at least that amount of attention!

The landing page looks very nice, and it’s a niche I’m interested in :) Voice quality is important though, do you have an example video of the final product?

I’m sure this has no meaning given other similar changes taking place in China, and does not need to be viewed in a wider context of militarization, because it will have no impact on the unfolding of our collective futures.

This is one area i believe laws are needed to warp the market. If it costs $0.50 more to make a compostable container, you can bet most companies will buy the cheap plastic.

I’m shocked at the single use waste that can be found in the restaurant industry. One of my favorite places used plastic for everything: cutlery, plates, cups. Their trash bins would be filled every day, and for what? To save a few cents? I feel customer facing plastics should all be compostable as a first step, if also for its social awareness impact.

What’s the best way to develop good policy? Pin point a few industries with maximum benefit/minimum cost to legislate for and expand from there? Or write a more holistic law that the entire population could then collectively weasel around, but it would be “fair” and “make sense”?

As someone unfamiliar, what do you know about it?

Anywhere that gets into technical details and design?

Reading this i just think of the Fassbinder movie The Third Generation, where the protestors, in causing civil disobedience for their higher values, are really supported and lead on by the commercial interests of their parents.

In this case, while the protestors say they are against all car manufacturers, only Tesla is new to the massively automotive dominant corporate scene. Their ideological stand only serves the entrenched powers.

But very typisch Berlin in any case, no one can be surprised!

Link for those who can’t read Twitter?

Work day makes you input your entire work history into their structured web form anew for every job you apply to, there is no saved or transferred state.