MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fullshark | 2025-04-25 16:51:07+00:00
I'm not sure music will evolve further. Computers are able to mimic every instrument's sound, what new instruments will be invented? What more can be done?

Popular music evolved and developed rapidly post WW2 cause of invention (instruments and distribution channels) and economics (disposable income among youth giving rise to youth culture). That is a product that may be at the end of its S curve.
by m_kos | 2025-04-25 16:51:14+00:00
1. I find Tim's work always so impressive and humbling. Compared to software, hardware projects seem infinitely more complex.

2. Speaking of knobs, I am writing a toy software synth for smartphones. Are there any design guidelines for mobile UI for audio? Knobs are hard to use and sliders take up a lot of space with only a little more precision. I experimented with curved sliders (inverted parabola or sine), but they are confusing since height doesn't really encode anything and the curvature is there only to make the slider longer. I didn't find any design systems focused on audio components.
by epistasis | 2025-04-25 16:51:30+00:00
Talk to the cops, not the judge who is in a proceeding? Go talk to the chief justice?

The idea that the judge did anything wrong here, based on the description given by the FBI themselves, is absolutely beyond the pale. There's zero reason for ICE agents to barge into court and demand to take somebody.

They didn't even leave one of the multiple agents in the courtroom to wait for the proceedings to end. To blame the judge at all in this requires making multiple logical and factual jumps that even the FBI did not put forward.

Edit: the Trump administration has also been attacking the Catholic Charities of Milwaukee, which this judge used to run:

> Before she was a judge, Dugan worked as a poverty attorney and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

It seems pretty clear that this is a highly politically motivated arrest that has zero justification.
by galeaspablo | 2025-04-25 16:51:50+00:00
Some input from previously working on a superset of this problem. And being in a similar position.

Mature projects have too much bureacracy, and even spending time talking to you = opportunity cost. So making a case for why you're going to solve a problem for them is tough.

New projects (whether at big companies or small companies) have 20 other things to worry about, so the problem isn't big enough.

I wrote about this in our blog if you're curious: https://ambar.cloud/blog/a-new-path-for-ambar
by CrimsonRain | 2025-04-25 16:52:16+00:00
Unfortunately, I'm at a stage of personal life where I do not have time to blog. I'd love to but :(

The stuff I work on for company is confidential and even getting authorization to use AI was such a hassle.

Based on some of your replies, I think you have an impression of current generation AIs that is 100% wrong. I can not blame you as the impression you have, is what the AI companies want you to have, that's what they are hyping.

In another comment, you mentioned someone should demo how AI can add a non-leaf feature to a non-trivial LOC codebase. This is what AI companies say AI can do. But the truth is, (current gen) AIs can not do this except a few rare cases. I can not demo this to you as I can't do this and do not attempt to do it either on day to day tasks.

The issue is context. What you are asking requires AI to have a huge amount of context that it simply is not equipped to handle (at least not right now).

What AIs are really good at is to do small fragment of a task given enough clear requirements.

When I want AI to write a Handler in my Controller, I don't just ask it to "write a function to handle POST call for entity E."

I write the javadoc /* */ comment that defines the signature and explains a little about how the core process of this handling works. I can even copy/paste similar handler from another controller if I think that will help.

Ultimately, my brain already knows the input, output and key transformations that needs to happen in this function. I just write minimal amount (esp comments) and get AI to complete the rest.

So if I need to write a non-leaf feature, I will break it down to several leaf features and then pass it on to AI and if needed, manually assemble them.

I had to write 500LOC bash script to handle a software deployment. This is not the way to do it but I was forced by circumstances created by someone else. Anyways, if I had to write the whole thing by hand, it'd take multiple days as bash syntax is not forgiving and the stuff I needed to do in the script were quite complex/crazy (and stupid).

I think I wrote about 50+ lines of text describing the whole process, which you can think of as a requirement document.

With a few tries, I was able to get the whole script with near accuracy. My reading revealed some issues. Pointed them to AI. It fixed them. Tests revealed some other issues. Again, AI fixed them after pointing out. I was able to get the whole thing done in just an hour or so.
by Magma7404 | 2025-04-25 16:52:36+00:00
Hijacking the right-click button? I hate this. Try https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1130127#answer-8... for a fix.

Also it's broken in my LibreWolf with the error "Blocked https://spritepaint.com/ from extracting canvas data because no user input was detected."
by taeric | 2025-04-25 16:52:37+00:00
I've had arguments on the sapir-whorf idea before. Sucks, as I'm not familiar with the environment that it originated, but it seems that people seemed to have taken an encoding idea and expanded it to experience, writ large.

That is, people will lay claim that some societies that have the same word for the color of the sea and the color of grass to indicate that they don't experience a difference between the two. Not just that they encode the experiences into memories similarly, but that they don't see the differences.

You get similar when people talk about how people don't hear the sounds that aren't used by their language. The idea is that the unused sounds are literally not heard.

Is that genuinely what people push with those ideas?

The argument of notation, as here, is more that vocabulary can be used to explore. Instead of saying you heard some sound, you heard music. Specific chord progressions and such.
by rustcleaner | 2025-04-25 16:52:47+00:00
>you can't lie to the feds

We really need a court case or law passed that says a stalked animal has the right to run (lie) without further punishment resulting from the act of running (lying). Social Contract™, and "you chose it" gaslighty nonsense aside, the state putting someone in a concrete camp for years, or stealing decades worth of savings, is violence even if blessed-off religiously by a black-robed blesser. Running from and lying to the police to preserve one's or one's family's liberty should be a given fact of the game, not additional "crimes."

We also need to abolish executions except for oath taking elected office holders convicted of treason, redefine a life sentence as 8 years and all sentencing be concurrent across all layers of state, and put a sixteen year post hoc time limit on custodial sentences (murder someone 12 years ago and get a "life sentence" today as a result? -> 4 years max custody). Why? Who is the same person after a presidential administration? What is a 25+ year sentence going to do to restore the victims' losses? If you feel that strongly after 8 years that it should have been 80, go murder the released perp and serve your 8!

The point is to defang government; it has become too powerful in the name of War on _______, and crime has filled the blank really nicely historically.
by noitpmeder | 2025-04-25 16:53:24+00:00
My prior comment is poorly worded around what my intent was.

I think it's important to separate the person from the machine.

{company} has done {things I disagree with}, and {candidate} was working for them during this period.

vs

{candidate} has done {things I disagree with}

Sure there is overlap and gray area, but, not "reject someone's resumè for having any {company}" level.
by manwe150 | 2025-04-25 16:53:55+00:00
I think I like this idea that the rotation interval could be made proportional to length, for example doubling the interval with each additional character. Security standards already now acknowledge that forced yearly rotation is a net decrease in security, so this would incentivize users to pick the longest password for which they would tolerate the rotation interval. Is yearly rotation too annoying for you? For merely the effort of going from 12 -> 14 characters, you could make it 4 years instead, or 8 years, 16, and so on.
by alistairSH | 2025-04-25 16:54:04+00:00
120kW charging system, so ~30 minute 20-80% (on a relatively small battery), was what I saw. It's not "wall plug" slow, but it's nowhere near state-of-the-art. The small battery and slow(-ish) charging means it's mostly a run-about and less (relatively) suitable for roadtrips. The American market loves to buy on the most intense use, not the average or minimal - giant pickup trucks because somebody might go to Home Depot once a season or tow a small boat at the beginning/end of lake season. Etc.
by openasocket | 2025-04-25 16:54:30+00:00
That would really depend on what the judge did, though. If the judge said, “the guy you are looking for is with the chief judge” and it turns out he wasn’t with the chief judge, that sounds like obstruction. If the judge said, “the chief judge wants to talk to you”, and the chief judge really did want to talk to the ICE agents, is that obstruction? In that scenario, ICE could have just not gone to see the chief judge until after arresting the suspect, or just sent one of their agents to talk to the chief judge and leave the rest in the courtroom.
by bredren | 2025-04-25 16:54:46+00:00
Possibly, though there are regularly available jailbreaks against the major models in various states of working.

The leetspeak and specific TV show seem like a bizarre combination of ideas, though the layered / meta approach is commonly used in jailbreaks.

The subreddit on gpt jailbreaks is quite active: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTJailbreak

Note, there are reports of users having accounts shut down for repeated jailbreak attempts.
by tmpz22 | 2025-04-25 16:54:49+00:00
If the facts come out that the charge is flimsy or legally unsound AND protocol and precedent was breached, such as it being very atypical to haul a nonviolent offender (the judge) from a courthouse, would you change your mind?

Will you follow up on the facts of this case or do you already know everything you need to know?
by prepend | 2025-04-25 16:55:07+00:00
ICE does issue warrants [0].

Some immigration matters are criminal. There are specific immigration law enforcement officers that execute warrants.

Maybe what you mean is that ICE warrants grant different authorities than an arrest warrant (ie, can’t enter private property to execute).

[0] https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/ice_warra... https://www.ilrc.org/resources/annotated-ice-administrative-...
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by savesepta | 2025-04-25 16:56:13+00:00
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I'm a college student who's really pro-transit and I wanted to help SEPTA, the transit authority here in Philly, secure funding to avoid service cuts.

I made this website from scratch with Svelte. It's not the most technically interesting thing I've done, but I think it's the one that has had the largest impact (so far).

The most technically interesting part about it is that we do the representative lookup in-house instead of calling out to some Civic Information API (we do use Radar to geocode the address though, shoutout to them!).

I've been thinking of ways to include other technologies into the website, mainly using LLMs to help people compose letters to their representatives, though hallucination concerns have put that on hold for now (I.e. I don't want the LLM to misquote or make up a statistic about how SEPTA impacts the economy).
by xpe | 2025-04-25 16:56:15+00:00
Generally, I share these concerns. At the same time, this story is very new. In any case, looking at the primary sources is important. See https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69943125/united-states-.... I'm not a lawyer, but the criminal complaint does appear to be, more or less, within the realm of normal.

Now, putting aside that complaint, the decision to arrest Dugan is questionable for sure. My current understanding is that such an arrest is only done if the suspect is a flight risk.

It is probably wise to give this at least a few hours of detailed analysis by legal experts before we jump to conclusions or paint it with a broad brush.
by aidenn0 | 2025-04-25 16:56:54+00:00
For anyone curious, if you made a similarly sized gas-powered pickup with an i4 engine, it would be penalized more than a full-sized pickup for being too fuel inefficient, despite likely getting much better mileage than an F-150 because, since 2011, bigger cars are held to a lesser standard by CAFE[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...
by hylaride | 2025-04-25 16:57:01+00:00
> Yes, definitely. It being a 2 seater is kind of a deal breaker for families.

What you need is not a pickup truck. Catering to families means expensive bells and whistles, like entertainment systems, etc.

> Back in the day, we'd stuff 3 kids between two adults, but these days the Safety People would have a heart attack just thinking about that.

Rightfully so. Back in the day we did so many things we shouldn't have, and survivorship bias makes us default to thinking it was ok. As kids, we used to go barrelling down dirt roads in the back of pickups or played in the backs of station wagons. There's a reason automobile deaths have gone down.
by mindslight | 2025-04-25 16:57:10+00:00
And yet many people calling themselves "Libertarian" signed themselves up for full-throated support of this fascist wannabe dictator. Their supposed interest in "freedom" doesn't extend past their own interest in oppressing others. The dynamic is especially pronounced in the surveillance industry, where digital authoritarianism gets a pass by appealing to the individual fantasy of creating your very own digital authoritarian startup.

signed, an actual libertarian.
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by yesfitz | 2025-04-25 16:57:33+00:00
Everyone should live in Iowa City at least once in their lives.

I love downtown Iowa City. Absolutely adore it. I've spent a lot of time trying to convince family, friends, and anyone who will listen to move here.

It's everything people say: active, friendly, community-oriented, walkable, safe, smart, rebellious, affordable.

I only recognize 2 claims against it:

1. It gets cold in Winter. But you learn to live with it. The whole city's living with it too.

2. Natural beauty is harder to see. There are no mountains or beaches. 99% of Iowa's land is unnatural[1]. But it sure does make you appreciate the smaller-scale natural beauty that is available every day, and especially the grandeur of the traditionally beautiful areas of the country.

1:https://www.iaenvironment.org/blog/iowa-environmental-voice/...
by riehwvfbk | 2025-04-25 16:57:40+00:00
In fact, on modern cars many times these panels are replaced.

If you get a big enough dent in a door, a good body shop will offer to replace the outer skin instead of filling with bondo. They cut the weld on the inside of the door all the way around, take off the shell, and epoxy a new one on. The body shop owner told me that the epoxy is actually stronger than the factory weld.
by sema4hacker | 2025-04-25 16:57:59+00:00
> I'm not convinced Americans will actually buy such a vehicle because we are used to our modern conveniences

My town is FULL of workers doing hauling, painting, gardening, construction, etc., and they're all driving old worn rusting pickups that barely seem held together. There's definitely a market for minimal trucks designed to just get the job done without the "modern conveniences".
by kstrauser | 2025-04-25 16:58:03+00:00
> Not have 4 seats AND having a lower range makes it a niche vehicle from a consumer sales perspective.

In the Bay Area alone, that's huge. A cheap electric 2-seater that can get you into the HOV lanes? Yes please! Who cares if it happens to be truck-shaped. Squint and pretend it's an Electric Camino.

> You're a software engineer in the Bay Area.

...who grew up in the Midwest, learned to drive in a 1970 Chevy Custom with 3-on-the-tree, spent many adult years on the Great Plains, and who happens to live in the Bay Area now.

I am no stranger to trucks.

There are a million things I could use a pickup for today, especially for that price.
by avetiszakharyan | 2025-04-25 16:58:23+00:00
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by mwkaufma | 2025-04-25 16:58:48+00:00
Reading e.g. the 13% perf regression in simdjson from disabling UB:

A simpler alternative is to compile the program with LTO. We confirmed that LLVM’s inter-procedural analyses can propagate both alignment and dereferenceability information for this function, which allows the LTO build to recover the performance loss.

"can" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here. Guaranteeing expected optimizations "will" be applied are hard-enough, without leaving it entirely to an easily-derailed indirect side-effect.
by prepend | 2025-04-25 16:59:16+00:00
I thought they were misdemeanor crimes [0] punishable by jail time.

So they are crimes, but not huge.

I’m not a lawyer or a law enforcement officer, but I thought that local law enforcement can certainly hold someone charged with a federal crime. Eg, if someone commits the federal crime of kidnapping, then local cops can detain that person until transferred to FBI.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-25 16:59:25+00:00
Also, officials* in current Russian Putin regime say that above number is not true, and that soviets intentionally killed only 24 million people.

Because they do not acknowledge some "situations" like Ukrainian famine, deaths from nuclear tests on people,... as a "intentional" killing ... i.e. 'not their fault'.

*Edit : people => officials
by bobajeff | 2025-04-25 16:59:37+00:00
Yeah I've just tried Theia. Vscodium is still the way to go. I just wish they had answers for issues like running extensions that depend on cpptools. I managed to work around it by installing an old version of cpptools from before the nag prompt that checks you're running it in vscode was added.

Zed is almost a good solution but like most they are missing most of vscodes markdown editing features*. Also, right now there's no way to hide the sign in and ai buttons from the UI.

* https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-04-25 16:59:54+00:00
"respect muh authoriah"

ICE officers seem like the ones that couldn't make it through police academy and had no other career prospects. Much like the average HOA, these are people who relish in undeserved power they didn't have to earn.

As a society, we owe it to ourselves to make sure people whom we give a lot of power to actually work and earn it.