MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codedokode | 2025-10-23 23:48:10+00:00
As I understand it is better because it gives more freedom in routing parameter values. The parameter values might come not only from a MIDI controller knob directly, but from an automation curve, or from other plugin output, or from an automation track output. For example, you might combine 2 automation curves through a multiplication plugin and route the output to a plugin's parameter input.

Or you could have an automation curve that produces a sine wave, and have a MIDI knob to modulate its amplitude, and send the result to an LPF "cutoff frequency" input, so that you can control amount of modulation with a knob.

So VST3 (and CLAP) treat each parameter as an additional plugin input, which can be routed arbitrarily.

If a plugin would instead have a single MIDI input and extract controller changes from a MIDI stream, then the scenario above would be more difficult to implement (you would need to convert an output of multiplication plugin into a sequence of MIDI controller changes and combine it with other MIDI events).

Am I missing something here? Never developed a single plugin.
by coryrc | 2025-10-23 23:48:42+00:00
I don't think you know how policing works in America. To cops, there are sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves; they are sheepdogs protecting us sheep from the criminals. Nobody needs to watch the sheepdogs!

But lets think about their analogy a little more: sheepdogs and wolves are both canines. Hmm.

Also "funny" how quickly they can reclassify any person as a "wolf", like this student. Hmm.
by xp84 | 2025-10-23 23:49:09+00:00
Note: headline is sensationalist clickbait, the only "Celebs" sora can generate are the handful who have granted the public the permission to cameo them. Basically it's Jake Paul, iJustine, Mark Cuban, Sam Altman. Those are the only "celebs" by any stretch of the imagination who have enabled this.

Honestly I think it's pretty cool that they have all done that. They are the only ones apparently brave enough to feel that making a fake video of them doing something stupid can actually harm them. Personally I think if you make a video of me doing something stupid, that reflects on your own character and says nothing about me, whether you used After Effects or Sora.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-10-23 23:49:36+00:00
Both documents are, "ceremonies for engineering personalities."

Even you can't help it - "enumerating a list of questions" is a very engineering thing to do.

Normal people don't talk or think like that. The way Cook is asking us to "think about problems" is kind of the opposite of what good leadership looks like. Thinking about thinking about problems is like, 200% wrong. On the contrary, be way more emotional and way simpler.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-10-23 23:49:40+00:00
Labor is by far the top cost. But I'm intrigued by the economics of a small setups paired with like a <5kwh battery. And for something like that where you literally just throw 4-6 panels out, you can just brute force by buying more panels instead of optimizing angles. Basically a slightly beefier version of a European balcony setup
by Devasta | 2025-10-23 23:49:50+00:00
Hardly always good. The mobile app ecosystem on both iOS and Android is a morass of freemium games and ad slop, because the market has determined that hooking one whale is more important than creating a quality product.

The competition will find the most profitable process, not the one that serves customers best necessarily.

The biggest change the iPhone users are going to see an increase in spyware. They'll also notice in a few years a bunch of websites go Chrome only.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-23 23:50:36+00:00
> While it’s true that the Department of Justice sits within the executive branch, the assertion that it is simply “subordinate” to the President - functioning as his personal legal arm - is an oversimplification that misses both the design and evolution of constitutional governance.

The idea of the republic as opposed to a monarchy is that no part of the government is anyone's personal...well, anything...but that doesn't really negate the degree of control the President exercises, both in theory and in practice barring highly variable personal restraint, over the DoJ.

> The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that while the President may remove executive officers, he cannot lawfully direct them to commit acts that are unconstitutional, obstruct justice, or violate statutory mandates.

That doesn't mean the President doesn't override the DoJ, it means the President doesn't override the law.

> The constitutional structure also relies on normative independence - a separation within the executive branch that maintains rule of law.

Yes, that it relies on this but does not actually provide any mechanism by which it can effectively be assured is the fundamental design issue I am referring to being necessary to address if one wants "the President overrides the DoJ" not to be a simple fact independently of whether or not the pardon power exists and is vested in the President's discretion.

> Finally, while the pardon power is broad, it’s not the linchpin of executive authority over the DOJ.

I literally said that the pardon power is irrelevant to that, which is the exact opposite of describing it as the lynchpin.

> Removing or limiting that power wouldn’t change the fact that the DOJ’s prosecutorial discretion must still be exercised consistent with law, ethics, and constitutional constraints - not simply the President’s personal preferences.

To the extent that is true, that is only a negative constraint on prosecution applied by the courts, it can never compel a prosecution that the executive has declined. (Congress, of course, could punish the President for preventing prosecutions, via the impeachment power, but that’s hardly a substitute for real independence from the President of all or part of the prosecutorial power if that is what is desired. Or, for that matter, much of a remedy at all if more than 1/3 of the Senate is on board with the President's conduct.
by torgoguys | 2025-10-23 23:50:53+00:00
>But it leads to ridiculous whoppers like this, and ends up in practice excusing what amounts to the most corrupt regime in this country in over a century, if not ever.

Amen. Preach it, brother!

>No, this is just bad, on its own, absent any discussion about what someone else did. There was no equivalent pardon of a perpetrator of an impactful crime in a previous administration I can think of. I'm genuinely curious what you think you're citing?

I don't know what the poster was referring to, but I AM mad at Biden for pardoning his family. It's a molehill of an issue compared to the current administration though.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-10-23 23:51:55+00:00
The less substance there is to it, the easier it is to talk about.

The Chinese comments ("issues") also seem to be the same kind of jokes as the English ones, "no code means no bugs, perfect", etc., from the few I tried getting translations of. I imagine this went viral on Chinese social media, which makes sense since it's the sort of joke that's easy to translate and doesn't depend on particular cultural assumptions or anything.
by neilv | 2025-10-23 23:52:36+00:00
> Did the Democrats make anything better? No.

Exactly.

Which is related to why I said "my current socioeconomic peers [...] let huge swaths of the nation be thrown under the bus" with a straight face.

> How can you live through Reagan and can say this with a straight face?

I don't understand the relevance.

Also, as a kid, I wasn't aware of what was going on during the Reagan years.

Which is another reason why we should be reading about the experiences of people who are not us.

> "Remembering Reagan" by Kirk Anderson:

That's a great comic. And probably we should understand how the support for Reagan happened, and how other personalities seized power, so that maybe we can prevent it from happening again and again.
by wrl | 2025-10-23 23:52:37+00:00
The short answer is that there really aren't. All extant audio plugin APIs/formats are basically ways of getting audio data into and out of a `process()` (sometimes called `Render`) function which gets called by the host application whenever it needs more audio from the plugin.

Every API has its own pageantry not just around the details of calling `process()`, but also exposing and manipulating things like parameters, bus configuration, state management, MIDI/note i/o, etc. There are differences in all of these (sometimes big differences), but there aren't any real crazy outliers.

At the end of the day, a plugin instance is a sort of "object", right? And the host calls methods on it. How the calls look varies considerably:

VST2 prescribes a big `switch()` statement in a "dispatcher" function, with different constants for the "command" (or "method", more or less). VST3 uses COM-like vtables and `QueryInterface`. CLAP uses a mechanism where a plugin (or host) is queried for an "extension" (identified by a string), and the query returns a const pointer to a vtable (or NULL if the host/plugin doesn't support the extension). AudioUnits has some spandrels of the old mac "Component Manager", including a `Lookup` method for mapping constants to function pointers (kind of similar to VST2 except it returns a function rather than dispatching to it directly), and then AU also has a "property" system with getters and setters for things like bus configuration, saving/loading state, parameter metadata, etc.

I'm not sure why OP is claiming that AU is somehow unopinionated or less limited. It doesn't support any particular extensibility that the other formats don't too.
by gpm | 2025-10-23 23:53:57+00:00
Equivalent in the way of having the numerous features small and large that Apple has patents on. Whether that's being a rectangle with rounded corners (yes they have a patent on that, or at least did, and successfully defended it in court. Not sure what's happened in the meantime), or whatever random patents Apple has on making blood oxygen sensor technology just that little bit better.

If Apple believes their portfolio of patents protecting the iPhone is worthless, they should abandon them. That they haven't precludes the argument that they are.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-23 23:54:24+00:00
I get that people are uncomfortable with explicit quantification of stuff like this, but removing the explicitness doesn't remove the quantification, it just makes it implicit. If, say, we allow people to drive cars even though car accidents kill n people each year, then we are implicitly quantifying that the value of the extra productivity society gets by being able to get places quickly in a car is worth the deaths of those people.

In your example, if terrorists were the only people killing people in the US, and police (a) were the only means of stopping them, and (b) did not benefit society in any other way, the equation would be simple: get rid of the police. There wouldn't need to be any value judgements, because everything cancels out. But in practice it's not that easy, since the vast majority of killings in the US occur at the hands of people who are neither police nor terrorists, and police play a role in reducing those killings too.
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-23 23:54:37+00:00
Another angle here is data stewardship and transparency...

When a model keeps a running memory of interactions, where is that data going... who has access... how long is it retained...

BUT if the goal is to build trust, more user‑facing controls around memory might help... such as the ability to inspect or reset what the model 'knows'...

ALSO from a performance point of view, memory could be used for caching intermediate representations rather than just storing raw conversation context...

A design‑focused discussion on memory might surface some interesting trade‑offs beyond convenience...
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-23 23:54:53+00:00
I don't find that especially good as a sole remedy, because lots of people are stupid. If they see a green outline box overlaid on a video image with the label 'gun', many many people will just respond to the label instead of looking at the underlying image and trying to make a decision. Probability and validation history need to be built into the product so that there are audit logs that can be pored over and challenged. Bad human decision-making, which is rampant, is always smoothed over with justifications like 'I was concerned for everyone's safety', and usually treated in isolation rather than assessed longitudinally.
by Ingon | 2025-10-23 23:55:05+00:00
When I adopted mmap in klevdb [1], I saw a dramatic performance improvements. So, even as klevdb completes a write segment, it will reopen, on demand, the segment for reading with mmap (segments are basically part of write only log). With this any random reads are super fast (but of course not as fast as sequential ones).

[1] https://github.com/klev-dev/klevdb
by _heimdall | 2025-10-23 23:55:20+00:00
Its into quaint, there have been plenty of times in history where countries either (a) didn't exist as they do today or (b) didn't have standing militaries.

The standing military the US maintains today only dates back to WWII, and is exactly what Eisenhower was warning us against.

Equipment complexity is theoretical at best. I'm not aware of a war between comparable militaries since WWII. My expectation is that if or when that happens, equipment ceases being the determining factor pretty quickly in favor of boots on the ground and logistics. History, at least, supports those being the deciding factors.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-23 23:55:27+00:00
I just honestly feel like any attempt to equate the two is insane.

I can't really align myself to either party, and I am diametrically opposed to the Democrats on some issues, like gun control, and think that there are a lot of real issues that they push far to the extreme to the point that it is problematic, but... there's also only one party that attempted insurrection and overturning the election, campaigned on all sorts of insane shit, pushes a narrative of needing the military to deal with protestors, etc.

It's not two shit sandwiches, it's a pot of live pit vipers vs a pot of boiled unseasoned kale and spinach. I'm not going to enjoy the latter, but it's probably not going to harm anything more than my taste buds. The other might kill me.
by Deathmax | 2025-10-23 23:55:29+00:00
As if the App Store had any sort of those guarantees. I know of people have been scammed via WebView wrappers that purported to be some benign app to pass app store review, which were then pointed at fake exchange websites afterwards. GitLab which was hosting their C&C mechanism took action faster than Apple or Google did to take down multiple scam apps across multiple different developer identities, but the scammers spun up new apps the next day.
by rglover | 2025-10-23 23:55:39+00:00
This may be mean, but we should really be careful about just handing AI over to technically illiterate people. They're far more likely to blind trust the LLM/AI output than someone who may be more experienced and take a beat. AI in an agentic-state society (what we have in America at least) is an absolute ticking time bomb. Honestly, this is what AI safety teams should be concentrated on: making sure people who think the computer is infallible understand that, no, it isn't, and you shouldn't just assume what it tells you is correct.
by annexrichmond | 2025-10-23 23:56:04+00:00
It feels like HN is slowly turning into reddit with the comment section becoming mostly snide remarks

Instead of just commenting about being dismayed with the state of things, how about step back and speculate as to why he did this pardon, and what the implications of it are.

I don't know the answer to either, but I surely didn't learn much from what used to be an insightful, intelligent crowd
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-23 23:56:05+00:00
> But we all know thoughts aren't words, the words come after the thought

That seems valid at first, but if look at that premise closely, you'll see that even assuming wordless thoughts always come first, doesn't mean that during the process of thinking they don't give way to words. That is to say, thoughts can be a precursor, but words do offer a framework which you can use structure thought.

That's specially handy for abstract concepts, like individuality, the split of the self and the world, which are fundamental to thought as we understand it through language.

Nothing prevents you from understanding a concept with the help of language and then using the concept by itself, detached from the symbols you used to arrive at it, to think. But that requires a certain effort and intention that maybe is what the article is aiming for.
by Demiurge | 2025-10-23 23:56:08+00:00
How would you even define “most fertile grassland”? What does “fertile” mean - soil nutrients, water availability, or productivity for a specific crop? And what counts as “grassland”? Are you talking about a 1 acre parcel, something for sale, or land next to a road?

There’s already data for all of this: SSURGO soil maps, vegetation indices, climatology datasets, and more — that could help you find the “most something” in a given radius. But there are too many variables for a single AI to guess your intent. That’s not how people who actually farm, conserve, or monitor land tend to search; they start from a goal and combine the relevant data layers accordingly.

In fact, crop-specific fertility maps have existed for decades, based on soil and climate averages, and they’re still good enough for most practical uses today.
by guizmo | 2025-10-23 23:56:17+00:00
I read that the ruling mention that they couldn't prove the money was used for the campaign and that the conviction is all about the participation in the conspiration you mention.

To be honest, what I would want to know is if he sent us to war in Libya to hide his crimes. That would be the real evil to me.

Getting him to jail for asking someone for campaign money really gives a weird feeling in that sense.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-23 23:57:12+00:00
it is because large majority of the population cannot comprehend that (especially in america) they have very little freedom. so then you mention “ban” and we all go “oh shit this is a free country “slippery slope banning ____” however, all the shit that is already banned - ahhh that’s ok, just don’t ban any more thing (unless it is something I want to ban…)
by MindSpunk | 2025-10-23 23:57:25+00:00
> You have to know what you're fixing first. You're going to write a lot of code in blood this way.

This is exactly how the aviation industry works, and it's one of the safest ways to travel in the world. Autonomous driving enables 'identify problem -> widely deployed and followed solutions' in a way human drivers just can't. Things won't be perfect at first but there's an upper limit on safety with human drivers that autonomous driving is capable of reaching past.

It's tragic, but people die on roads every day, all that changes is accountability gets muddier and there's a chance things might improve every time something goes wrong.
by sohrob | 2025-10-23 23:57:32+00:00
I'm so glad the chorus seems to be getting louder over just how bad things have gotten with Apple's software stack. This piece has been mainly centered on UI/UX but it's also really bad when it comes to functionality as so many bugs have seem to come up in both iOS and macOS. I will never understand how a company that has so much riding on the way their products are perceived by their users has fumbled the ball so badly--especially with how much money they have in the bank.
by coffee | 2025-10-23 23:58:11+00:00
Hey @gschier this is awesome. I've been a long time user of Insomnia and since the acquisition it's ever so slowly, well... it's been a challenge for me.

I didn't know you created Yaak!

I just downloaded Yaak and it's been awesome, thank you!

I downloaded this through AUR on Arch and one bit of feedback is that I wish you'd make the sig verification a whole bunch easier, thanks!
by dvsfish | 2025-10-23 23:58:13+00:00
Honestly, I think we are arguing around each other. We simply read this notion totally differently. You're taking it to mean that "we can't correct bias" but the statement was "we can't avoid bias". It actually makes no comment on being able to correct it (within, or without ourselves). To me it read as "when interacting with the world, we can't avoid encountering bias". If this is how it is interpreted, it actually doesn't do anything to rule out the ability to account and correct for it.

I'm not saying there's a definitive interpretation with how terse it is, just that we aren't necessarily on the same page and attempts to come to any sort of agreement with each other might be a waste of time as we are practically talking about two different ideas. I take this response as pretty fair, and I think the point you're making is totally valid, I just think our respective ideas would never converge as we are talking about 2 distinct things. (Interesting how much conversation a lack of clarity can generate).
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-23 23:58:42+00:00
Well, no, you can clearly be more banana republic than that:

* Using the justice system to corruptly punish the opposition and prevent them from competing in elections,

* Using the security/military/law enforcement establishment to simply kill the opposition,

* Using the regulatory bureaucracy, and/or the security/military/law enforcement establish, to coerce media into friendly, or at least out of critical, coverage,

* Using the regulatory bureaucracy, and/or the security/military/law enforcement establish to reward people providing personal material benefit to the leader, or to punish those not doing so,

* Using the pardon power to assure that crimes committed in the course of doing any of the preceding items are unprosecutable

Pardoning family members, by itself (provided that the standards applied are different than those that would be applied to non-family members), is certainly corrupt as a form of nepotism, but hardly the outer limit of banana republic behavior.
by wseqyrku | 2025-10-24 00:00:03+00:00
If I dare suggesting a technical solution to a non-technical problem, I think this just shows a mismatch between how we design applications and something called requirements, broadly speaking. If this has become a subject of discourse, I think we should just write cookies off as a component to rely on and try to deal with that instead of fighting over where the annoyance should be placed. It's just bad design.
by kadoban | 2025-10-24 00:00:38+00:00
> Then consider what you may regret for the last 10 years of your life, when your mobility, sight and hearing capabilities are all degraded either a lot or a little, and you look back and realize that you spent 3000 hours on youtube shorts.

I don't watch a lot of shorts, I don't find them that compelling. But I do watch a lot of shows and youtube videos, both of which many people would put in the same bucket. If I'm old and my sight and hearing suck, I'd hope I'll be happy that I watched the shows and movies I could while I had the chance.

To be clear, I don't even disagree with the original quote, I just think that there's many (hopefully mistaken, but I don't know the author) interpretations of it that come down to "no having fun, you'll regret it!"