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by sneilan1 | 2025-07-18 00:05:56+00:00
Sorry, most of my code is proprietary. However, I have a stock exchange project on my github I plan to rewrite in rust. I'm pretty busy now at work but I'll do that using claude code.

If your friend is consuming massive amounts of other dev time in PR reviews, maybe he has other issues. I'm willing to bet even without agentic coding, he would still be problem for your coworkers.

Sometimes I do broad throwaway tasks. For example I needed a rust lambda function that would do appsync event authorization for jwt tokens. All it needed to do was connect to aws secrets, load up the keys & check inbound requests. I basically had claude-code do everything from cdk to building/testing the rust function & deploying to staging. It worked great! However, I've certainly had my fair share of f-ups like I recently tried doing some work on the frontend with claude code and didn't realize it was doing useEffect everywhere!! Whoops. So I had to adapt and manage 2-3x claude code instances extremely closely to prevent that from happening again.
Ask HN: How to isolate a single voice in JavaScript?
by pas256 | 2025-07-18 00:05:59+00:00
I am making a 2 player game where each player uses their phone as a microphone. It works well when players don't talk at the same time, but there is a big problem when players are talking simultaneously. It turns out the iPhone microphone is really good at picking up everyone's voice who is in the same room.

My AudioConstraints has echoCancellation: true and noiseSuppression: true, but I think those are built for a different purpose.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
by andrepd | 2025-07-18 00:06:10+00:00
Well yeah it's the exact same thing except... given to people when they're 67, i.e. after a lifetime of working and about 10 years from the mean age of death.

Gee why would they stop working, you think?

> And if people don't work, or don't work nearly as much as they did before, then how is the system going to be sustained?

Technology gives us massive gains in productivity; we could reasonably reduce working hours to <20/week in the developed world. We might have less business dynamic analysts or scrum masters or social media coordinators. We'll be fine.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-18 00:09:17+00:00
> The model itself isn't separate from the world but produced materially

To me this is like drawing a circuit diagram on a piece of paper and trying to convince someone that, "Really there is electricity flowing through it."

Models are relations between signifiers. There exists a transformation between the signified relations and the relations of the signifiers, but they are, in fact, two separate categories and the transformation isn't bijective. ie it doesn't form an isomorphism.
by klik99 | 2025-07-18 00:09:53+00:00
Those aren’t good comparisons.

Uber operated at a loss to destroy competition and raised prices after they did that.

Amazon (the retailer) did the same and leveraged their position to enter new more lucrative markets.

Dunno about Spotify, but Tesla and palantir both secured lucrative contracts and subsidies.

Anthropic is against companies with deeper pockets and can’t spend to destroy competition, their current business model can only survive if they reduce costs or raise prices. Something’s got to give
by kwk1 | 2025-07-18 00:10:31+00:00
A perception of value depends on an assessment, which requires information. Suppose the thing you thought would provide $1 of value doesn't actually.

Edit: concrete example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(automobile)

Edit2: metaphorical example. I have a very valuable bridge to sell you. Just hope the value you receive isn't different than the value you perceive at transaction time. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/I_have_a_bridge_to_sell_you
by viccis | 2025-07-18 00:11:22+00:00
Aleatoric music is mostly just "neat". I've never encountered any of it that is interesting or moving, with the exception of situations in which it is very carefully integrated as one small element of a composition. That includes the likes of Xenakis, who I think writes music whose main form of enjoyment is reading how it was composed. After doing that, listening is an unnecessary and often off putting step.
by colechristensen | 2025-07-18 00:12:41+00:00
There is a point there but those are also a couple of the most extreme examples. The eyes are delicate complicated organs very isolated from the rest of the body and changing blood characteristics requires sterilizing and replacing your bone marrow which is crazy complex and dangerous. There are many more mundane targets for gene therapy.

Also one of the benefits of cheap to produce unique gene therapies is once you figure out one treatment, similar treatments for slightly different genetic anomalies affecting the same tissues will become much easier to apply. In other words once you have a delivery mechanism down targeting something specific, the gene payload can be swapped at much lower incremental cost.
by ninkendo | 2025-07-18 00:12:43+00:00
People have been giving Siri a few years for a decade now. Siri used to run in a data center (and still does for older hardware and things like HomePods) and it has never supported compound queries.

Siri needs to be taken out back and shot. The problem with “upgrading” it is the pull to maintain backwards compatibility for every little thing Siri did, which leads them to try and incorporate existing Siri functionality (and existing Siri engineers) to work alongside any LLM. Which leads to disaster, and none of it works and just made it all slower. They’ve been trying to do an LLM assisted Siri for years now and it’s the most public facing disaster the company has had in a while. Time to start over.
by churchill | 2025-07-18 00:13:00+00:00
$1.7 trillion or 2* the holdings at Fort Knox? All the Royal Houses of the Arab Gulf can't even have that much money liquid, even with 365 days' heads up. And, no: don't do a "trust me bro," here. At their peak, ARAMCO made $161b in profits in 1 year - and the bulk of that goes towards the general pop. in the form of subsidies, etc. Simply, $1.7 trillion doesn't exist anywhere in such liquid form.

If you claim there are hundreds of stealth billionaires with $1-$20b in cash & assets, I'll readily believe that: African kleptocrats' kids, Middle East royalty, European heirs with a low profile, Russian oligarchs, etc. But, not $100b. Or a trillion. That's an insane amount of money, larger than the GDP of like 80% of the world's countries.
by mbrumlow | 2025-07-18 00:13:20+00:00
Maybe they can stop working because of cultural allowance.

Who knows how many people should retire at 30 if the social norms allowed it.

Think about it this way. If a 60 year old says “I’m retiring” most responses will be “aw good for you, you earned it”. But if a 23 year old says “I am retiring” I guarantee there will be many more negative responses and questions.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-18 00:14:16+00:00
>I wonder how this study can be reconciled with the carnivorous diet,

It cannot. Well mostly. As I said, heart disease when eating high meat diets will only be risky for those people with the wrong genetics, mostly if you have disorders of B6 metabolism, carnivore will be bad for you.

The plaques are also formed by lipid oxidation so oxidative stress plays a role as well.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-18 00:14:17+00:00
I've had plenty of background checks. Not once have I ever been asked to provide divorce documentation. I've had security checks as well. Have I been asked if I'm divorced? Sure. Never have I needed to show someone the details of the divorce itself. It's not my employer's business who got what in the divorce.

So let's just flip this. Why have you been asked, and what were they asking to see? Proof you are divorced? Did you claim something that you were awarded by the judge and had to show proof of it? If someone is asking for that kind of information, did you not ask why they needed and get an answer? It would be much easier if you just explained your experience as it is the outlier here
by mostertoaster | 2025-07-18 00:14:38+00:00
Honestly I think UBI would be awful. And what I really mean is take the sum amount of all welfare we spend today divide by the number of citizens and give every citizen that much. Would hardly be enough still. The only people who should be in favor of it though is the billionaire aristocrats.

It would effectively take the entire middle class and make them serfs.

It would be the quickest way to bring back a feudal type system with a few people at the top and everyone else pretty much poor.

Sure they’d make sure we have enough to eat and clothe ourselves, but even the slave owners of old did that.

Just look at the experiment in 2020-2021 where we gave everyone even more free money, the result we saw companies go from less than a trillion market cap to over three trillion while wages went up maybe 25%
by JohnFen | 2025-07-18 00:14:51+00:00
It's a nontrivial problem, Javascript or no. There are a few approaches you could explore, and you might find it an interesting research project.

I believe, though, that the iPhone, some Samsung phones, and Teams already have a voice isolation feature that might do what you want here, so you may not have to implement it yourself. You could just recommend that players use a supported phone and turn the voice isolation on.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-18 00:14:54+00:00
> Or changes over time.

In German, this problem is solved by the convention that the written form exists to preserve the "correct" pronounciation. So, if you don't speak the word in the way it is written, you likely pronounced it wrong (yes, there exist situation where the pronounciation cannot fully be reconstructed from the written word; also newer loanwords tend to be written as in the original language; but these are rather exceptions).
by throw0101d | 2025-07-18 00:15:08+00:00
> Well yes, they're aiming for those goals.

And everyone wants to create a longer-lasting light bulb, or a beer that tastes great and is less filling, but what are the odds of that actually happening?

LED bulbs are great, but how much of an improvement are they over CFL bulbs? Both are better than incandescent, but electrical light was a quantum leap over candles and gas/oil lighting. See absolute plumeting since 1800s, and electric light from 1900 to 1950:

* https://ourworldindata.org/light-at-night

In the last ~50 years things have improved, but the differences are tiny compared to past gains: and that's Gordon's thesis.
by pxc | 2025-07-18 00:15:11+00:00
> Well, 25% stopped apparently. Which is somewhat telling.

The report also says that half of those who stopped working went back to school! So that's no more than 13% who really became "idle". And there are also questions we should ask about that group, like their age composition, for instance. If of the 13% that quit working without returning to education or training, many of them were older people, wouldn't that meaningfully change the picture as well?
by CoolCold | 2025-07-18 00:15:13+00:00
Interesting - using WSL on Thinkpads (T460 and some Carbon from ~ 2018 till 2020, 2020-2024 on T480 and T16 G2 now) with WSL (WSL2 mostly) and cannot say it was/is resource hog or blasting the fan out of the blue. Working with balanced power mode mostly
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-18 00:16:06+00:00
The other day I was doing major refactorings on two projects simultaneously while doing design work for two other projects. It occurred to me to check my API usage for Gemini and I had spent $200 that day already.

Users are no doubt working these things even harder than I am. There's no way they can be profitable at $200 a month with unlimited usage.

I think we're going to evolve into a system that intelligently allocates tasks based on cost. I think that's part of what openrouter is trying to do, but it's going to require a lot of context information to do the routing correctly.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-18 00:16:22+00:00
I want to ask just to ensure I'm not getting an unrepresentive sample; is it just me or are college educated developers often complete walkovers?

I've been in quite a few orgs now (and always the only self-taught) where business run roughshod over dev and people are seemingly unwilling to stand up for the big picture even just stand up for basic best practice. The absolute insanity of code I've seen, all maintained by degree educated engineers who don't seem to care that much about the long-term future of what they work on. I'm starting to wonder if academia also teaches compliance to hierarchy as part of the process.

I worked in a department of a fortune 500 org with a unsecured server where everyone was told to log in over http using basic with their org creds (i.e. the creds that give you access to everything in the org and are effectively your corporate identity) everyone merrily did this without question, except me.

Granted, it was on the internal network but they had that setup for YEARS, with a privilege escalation just out there waiting to be discovered. I had a workaround but that expired due to some network changes, so it came to a head, they refused to allow me to install a cert myself and then I was the only one putting my foot down about it. I got put on disciplinery and was then forced to reach out to the Corpo HQ security team (who did side with me) and then got shit-canned internally by my department as a result. I still cannot fathom how people in more senior positions than me, with apparently better educations than me, square that one in their head, like I was the problem. To me, its like the technological equivalent of not wearing pants, and it just baffles me that my demand to wear pants was framed as the problem.
by programjames | 2025-07-18 00:16:23+00:00
I think the issue is there are a lot of welfare programs that haven't seen the same success. If you subscribe to the "taxes are to solve public goods problems" model, then welfare that doesn't come back around to help you isn't taxation, it's theft! When people talk about UBI, they're wary it's just a relabelling of the same-old "steal from the rich, give to the poor" Robinhood scheme. I think the left has also really shot themselves in the foot by talking about UBI as "helping struggling people get by" or accusing opposers of being unempathetic (or, worst of all, "what would Jesus do?"). That's the wrong way of framing it (and this holds for most welfare initiatives too).

People are always going to care about different things. Some really care that everyone has clean water, others a good education, others freedom of expression. Some care more about their families, while others apply equal empathy to every stranger, cow, and tree. When you forcibly take money from someone, and use it to fund your project, it comes from a place of very selective empathy. The proper way to fund your projects is to get everyone on board. Frame it so they see how it helps them achieve their goals, not just yours.

(Now, I know I'm ignoring that some people are just incredibly selfish; more accurately, some people's hearts are bleeding out on the floor, some are calcified into stone, and most are somewhere in between. I'm ignoring this discrepancy because 1. even very selfish people can get on board with welfare (like primary/secondary education), as long as it's framed properly, and 2. if a system relies on self-sacrifice, it's too easy to hijack that sacrifice into someone else's pet project.)

For example, with education, you can point out how much more economic activity is available when everyone knows how to read and write. I think the argument that actually worked, though, was "how can we avoid roving bands of teenagers in our city once we enact some child-labor laws?" (that's probably the reason highschool is compulsory, not just free to enroll in). For a universal basic income, you probably need to approach it from an entropy argument. The capitalist system tries to maximize GDP, but physical systems actually maximize the free energy (GDP - temperature * Theil index [entropy]). The capitalist system avoids this by artificially restricting free trade: for example, your boss makes a dollar, while you make a dime. There's fewer trades that could happen than if, say, you both made 55 cents (unless your boss is just reallly good at doing things with money). Or, more fundamental, your boss needs you much less than you need a salary. You have less freedom of movement than he has to remove you. A universal basic income fixes this entropy problem, which makes trades more frequent and the market more competitive. In the end, it can come around to help even a seflish centimillionaire.
by pas256 | 2025-07-18 00:16:31+00:00
How do you do at other parts of the interview? The background interview where you talk about a technical project from your past, or the behavioral interview where you talk about situations you have been in before and how you reacted?

If you are feeling confident after those, and it is just the live-coding session, I'd suggest being upfront about it and asking for a different type of assessment. Ask for a take home assignment, or ask to be left alone to complete the task, and then review the code with the interviewer where you can explain all of the tradeoffs you made and why. The better companies are open to making accommodations for candidates, so if they are not open to this, that is a sign of how rigged the thinking at that company may be.

On the other hand, if you are struggling with the other interview types as well, you may need to dip into some psychological tricks to get your head in the right mindset. One counter-intuitive thing to do is to tell yourself that you do not want this job. If you can convince yourself to believe that, it will lower the pressure you may be putting on yourself and open you mind to think more clearly.
by pembrook | 2025-07-18 00:17:07+00:00
They are good comparisons. All startups go against incumbents/competitors with deeper pockets.

Re: Anthropic specifically, I tend to agree, hence why I'm saying the deeper pockets (eg. Google, Amazon, etc) are perfectly positioned to win here. However, big companies have a way of consistently missing the future due to internal incentive issues. Google is deathly afraid of cannibalizing their existing businesses.

Plus, there's many investors with deep pockets who would love to get in on Anthropic's next round if their technical lead proves to be durable over time (like 6 months in AI terms).

This fight is still early innings.
by bravura | 2025-07-18 00:17:31+00:00
1) Internet commentary is generally pretty low quality, but perfume nerds seem categorically to all be the most interesting person you would ever invite to a party: https://basenotes.com/fragrances/no-5-by-chanel.10210628

every single comment on that website is amazing.

2) I hate perfume. I met an avant garde perfumist called Christopher Brosius (label: "I hate perfume") and waited 20 years to buy his samples. They are AMAZING. So approachable. Everyone who has let me dab with his fragrances has been blown away. "In the library" smells like old books. "Wild hunt" has rotten leaves as an ingredient. "Walking on air" smells like fresh cut grass. I hate perfume but I am obsessed with his smells: https://www.cbihateperfume.com/
by reactordev | 2025-07-18 00:17:46+00:00
>Our book is a thorough guide to Delaunay refinement algorithms that are mathematically guaranteed to generate meshes with high quality, including triangular meshes in the plane, tetrahedral volume meshes, and triangular surface meshes embedded in three dimensions.

While true, it also produces a topology that makes you want to throw your PC out the window.

However… if you combine this with other algorithms for decimation and approximate visual edge determinism, you can end up with pretty solid topography while still maintaining the details that delaunay gives you.

What’s really interesting is the work going on with gaussian splats, point clouds, retopology, and remeshing. Taking photos of a place and getting back 3D scenes complete with textures from your photos. Mmmmm. But it’s likely a matter of time before AI can do this more effectively.
by eggy | 2025-07-18 00:17:47+00:00
That's for automotive. We're shooting for a bunch of various relevant standards. There is no formal language spec. Who did that compiler? AdaCore's been around for a long time, so I am quick to use theirs if I were to chose Rust. I'm also following the Ironclad kernel project with its complementary OS called Gloire. Ada/SPARK for both with partial formal verification progress.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-18 00:18:08+00:00
Cool!

That said, be strategic when re-enrolling - if you have a job today, hold on to it tightly and try to finish your program remotely and/or via transfer credits. Finishing a degree at the expense of having a job today is really dumb given the current market.

If you can take low cost and/or remote offerings from a CC or normal college, you can continue to hold a job. Also, most colleges now offer their courses online for credit - even Stanford and Harvard type programs. I'm sure your original program offers a significant portion of it's coursework online for credit.

Finally, Ds get degrees. You can skirt with the bare minimum and you'll be fine. If you are mid-career and kept your day job, no one will ask about your GPA.
by hellcow | 2025-07-18 00:18:12+00:00
For what it's worth, when Cursor downgraded their Claude limits in the middle of my annual subscription term, I emailed them to ask for a pro-rated refund, and it was granted. You may be able to do something similar with Claude Code.

Changing the terms of the deal midway through a subscription to make it much less valuable is a really shady business practice, and I'm not sure it's legal.
by astrange | 2025-07-18 00:19:26+00:00
This is my problem with almost every UI framework invented in the overengineered era of the 90s-2000s.

Try to find a feature in basically any open-source C++ or Java GUI app just by looking for the code that does it. You can't, because there isn't any code that does anything! Instead there's several different widely scattered pieces of boilerplate, none of which individually has any meat in it.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-07-18 00:19:49+00:00
For anyone looking to save money, don't get the brand name perfumes.

Instead, get something from a good clone house. They have special equipment to analyse the ingredients of the branded perfumes and end up making exactly the same thing.

Stay away from lower quality copies that aren't made by clone houses (i.e random "inspired by" stuff from Amazon).
by tacticus | 2025-07-18 00:20:09+00:00
> Technology gives us massive gains in productivity; we could reasonably reduce working hours to <20/week in the developed world. We might have less business dynamic analysts or scrum masters or social media coordinators. We'll be fine.

> beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!

Unfortunately the governments and the wealthy looked at Hayek and decided they much preferred the idea where they could continue to abuse the workers.
by Avshalom | 2025-07-18 00:20:42+00:00
>Yet, I can’t escape the fact that it’s better reading than what I write.

I mean most obviously: that's because you didn't write it. It has a novelty to it that you don't experience when you write and re-write a story yourself.

More importantly though: as G.K. Chesterton supposedly said "Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly". The idea that you shouldn't write because you're not as good as you could be or you shouldn't plink around on keyboard because you can't play Bach is an idea that destroys any human endeavor and all human joy.

If they are stories that you will never share: why care about quality; it should be pure self exploration.