Sound event recognition is so interesting and seems to be lagging the other ML domains
Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
What did you find is the most reasonable explanation?
Pilot suicide by a long shot. There is no other alternative theory that comes even close. What was interesting is to see them piece the theory together from the very fragmentary and little evidence (what is even more mind-blowing to know how little evidence there was to play with given we are talking about a 747). The true mystery left is how did he execute the suicide and why. How did he dispatch the co-pilot? (Ther…
It was a 777. Back to the rabbit hole with you!
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#233I’ve fallen into the plant tissue culturing rabbit hole. I was selling excess trimmings of aquarium plants locally on Facebook marketplace and made a surprising amount of money, and my kids really enjoyed it (they got a cut for helping me out). I thought hmm, this could be a great excuse to make a little business around this, teach them some skills, get them thinking more constructively and feeling a sense of agency…
Do you have a biology/botany/lab tech background?
I've always really wanted to get into this but really don't know where to start.
Also, "Murashige and Skoog" is such a silly name; I love it.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was a big moment for me too when I realized that the real world has infinitely many interesting things to do and explore. The real world is incredibly detailed.
Hard disagree. The real world only has pain and suffering. Endless trials and never a payout. Games on the other hand and very detailed and have a well defined path to success.
This oddly enough has been quite a big issue in my life as of lately.
I need to get off my ass and start working towards better things in real life in order to (potentially) better my situation e.g. new job, better hobbies, etc..
However, I have always had issues with gaming on and off throughout my life (perhaps a lot more on than off). I seriously think that a lot of my issues with gaming is that games are preferential to life in many regards. In a game, I know if I work hard and follow the steps/guides/quests, then I will be rewarded. Goals are obtainable in that if I fail to achieve them it is my fault -- because I did something incorrectly.
Sadly, when I take breaks from gaming, I am not a productivity machine. I just find something else to waste the time with.
In the back of my mind, I want to believe that if I work hard and better my situation, then will finally be rewarded. But I have worked hard to get where I am, and I am still awaiting the reward, so to speak.
So, I think a part of my brain has taken the shortcut to destroy my motivation because I know that Sisyphus isn't the only one rolling the boulder up the hill thinking, "maybe this time will be different?"
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#235I've been interested in making a homebrew playstation 3 (childhood console :D) game for a while, and finally got an environment setup yesterday. Ended up getting a simple rust function built, with some slight miscomplilations via wasm + wasm2c. Now I'm going to try to get graphics working. There is a surprising amount of public code containing calls to sony's licensed SDK, if you know what to search for (Not to menti…
This is very cool, do you have a place where you post updates?
I was playing with w2c2 last week to try and get some stuff running on Mac OS X Leopard, but I couldn't quite get it working :(.
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#236Unrelated to work: the black hole rabbit hole. It started with an article about the hypothesis that planet nine may be a primordial black hole with 3-6 Earth masses. What’s a primordial black hole? It’s one that formed in the first seconds after the Big Bang. We don’t know for sure they exist but many theories and simulations predict them. They’re an excellent dark matter candidate. Could it be that simple? Could at…
Neat! Is the bounce idea incompatible with hawking radiation?
No. Unless I didn’t get it Hawking radiation is part of what this looks like to an outside observer. But I would lean on a physicist more familiar with the loop quantum gravity model to explain how these relate.
The bounce idea is super neat because it feels less “magical” than a true singularity. A black hole is just a whole lot of mass stuck in a time dilation tar pit… from our frame of reference.
There are other implications too. From what I read LQG may allow stable micro black holes due to quantum effects dominating at small mass, naked singularities (well not true singularities but regions of off the charts mass energy concentration not hidden behind an event horizon), and Hawking radiation subject to quantum spectral effects similar to how emission spectra work.
It also resolves the black hole information paradox. All the information just bounces back out. Easy.
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#237I installed NixOS and went down into that black hole.
Tell me more. What was your use-case for installing NixOS? I’ve been thinking about putting together a new media server and saw a recommendation to try NixOS. (I’ve previously used Unraid). That was a couple weeks ago, and it was the first time I’d heard about it
My use-case for NixOS : Got tired of breaking Arch and never ever wanted to solve package dependencies issues again, so I installed it on my workstation laptop.
I havent tried it yet for home server stuff. I am still running containers on a Proxmox host.
Nix documentation is bad/incomplete, so I helped myself with some Youtube videos to get started.
This might get you started https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/01/some-notes-on-nixos/
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#239Saw all the CSPAN videos for the hearings on the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, listened to Trump's call with Brad Raffensperger, and The Trump Tapes with Bob Woodward, and Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor.
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#240Tracing the lineage of the British royal family back to Elizabeth I.