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by vunderba | 2026-01-23 03:29:21+00:00
Yeah I should have clarified - I have plenty of generic MIDI controllers. The special sauce is reflecting the "VST" rendering/presentation of its own sliders/dials onto physical ones.

This means not having to look up and down constantly between your computer monitor and the physical hardware since the knobs/dials each have small screens/displays are 1:1 matches (so Frequency Range, Sub Audio, Clamping Point, Oscillator Frequency, etc).

VSTs are rather inscrutable and I think it would be difficult to design in an agnostic way that played nicely out-of-the box with the majority of them. Doesn't stop me from lusting over the possibility though.
by qart | 2026-01-23 03:30:18+00:00
Canada logic: "Let's take in people who have links to Canadian crime gangs, and when things go bad, let's just blame India"

> it's literally the 'garbage logic' that the majority of 'good people' are trying to escape.

Thank you very much!! Please take more 'good people'! I heard "asylum crackdown began in Canada" by someone else right here. Please go protest it. I suppose these people are all upstanding model citizens of Canada now. You are most welcome to blame the murder of Harpreet Singh Uppal on India too. Just keep taking more 'good people'.

> Stop trying to defend the indefensible.

OK. I will personally accept all future blame, just like Jesus Christ. Only if you promise to keep taking more 'good people'.
by userbinator | 2026-01-23 03:30:30+00:00
We could try to find this loading using static analysis, but remember that I’m not comfortable reverse engineering this firmware, and I want to demonstrate a more dynamic approach.

Perhaps this is a "two types of people" situation, but I would absolutely not do that; once you dump the flash you can analyse and inspect it carefully at your leisure as it is otherwise inert, but messing around with the device itself presents a very real risk of accidentally bricking it.
by tehjoker | 2026-01-23 03:30:44+00:00
Biden did a genocide in Gaza and killed 800k+ Americans with COVID. He created the conditions for the invasion of Ukraine by refusing to exclude Ukraine from NATO and probably destroyed Nordstream 2. He toppled the Pakistani government. Obama toppled Libya and allowed Ghaddafi to be sodomized to death with a bayonet. He juiced the civil war in Syria in Operation Timber Sycamore.

The Democrats are better at dressing things up and making it look like they're the good guys when they do the same stuff.

We are in a reorientation of American policy. Trump isn't doing this without consent from our elites, the same people that fund the Democrats who suspiciously aren't fighting it.
by rmunn | 2026-01-23 03:30:45+00:00
Precisely; the reason for omitting many realistic elements is because they would be boring. If I wanted to play through all the steps of plowing a field, planting the grain, irrigating the field, dealing with weeds, harvesting the grain, and hauling it to a market to sell I would play Farming Simulator. If I'm playing a city builder, I'm perfectly okay with those steps being reduced to "plant crops, wait for crops to grow, harvest crops", and to have workers auto-assigned to those tasks while I'm laying out roads and palisades.

Also, having my village randomly wiped out from time to time by events beyond my control (plague, wars, etc.) would be realistic, but no fun at all in a game.
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 03:30:45+00:00
the old voice cloning and/or TTS models were CPU only, and they weren't realtime, but no worse than 2:1, 30 seconds of audio would take 60 seconds to generate. roughly. in 2021 one-shot TTS/cloning using GPUs was getting there, and that was close enough to realtime; one could, if one was willing to deal with it, wire microphone audio to the model, and speak words, and the model would, in real time, modify the voice. Phil Hendrie is jealous.

anyhow, with faster CPUs and optimizations, you won't be waiting too long. Also 20GB is overkill for an audio model. Only text - LLM - are huge and take infinite memory. SD/FLUX models are under 16GB of ram usage (uh, mine are, at least!), for instance.
by spijdar | 2026-01-23 03:31:34+00:00
Haha, I haven't yet, but I want to. Maybe soon! Though extending libc isn't that exciting, really: that's kind of the cool (Unix-y??) thing about it. You just (IIRC) extract the static archive, add whatever .o object files with whatever symbols, add the symbols to a manifest, pack it up, and any C program on the system can call it. Since all C functions were implicit at the time (header files only had structs and enums) you can use trivially add whatever.

> Ultra 5

You should give it a shot! Even NetBSD/sparc64 has support for SunOS 4 binaries... allegedly.

If one was so inclined, you can abuse the kernel a bit and tell the compat layers to use root as their search path. I did this to make a "Linux system" with a NetBSD kernel and full GNU/Linux userland, just for kicks.

In my mind, you could do the same for SunOS. There's also COMPAT_MACH and COMPAT_DARWIN... imagine NeXT/SPARC binary compatibility alongside SunOS.

Hmmm. :)
by maest | 2026-01-23 03:31:40+00:00
With credit, it's the merchant who loses out. They get bullied by the credit card provider to eat losses.

Relatedly, the credit card system is truly a tragedy of the commons situation.

It's a ~2% drag on the economy for what? For some silly points with constrained value and an excuse to not build better financial infrastructure.

The frustrating thing is that, given the current equilibrium, you're a sucker for not using a credit card - you end up subsidising those who do.
by pramsey | 2026-01-23 03:32:13+00:00
I feel this howl. I found that sales work was forming relationships so that you could make promises, personal promises. And what drove me out of it was that, beyond a certain point, there was no way I could guarantee that the promises I was making would be met. There was too much uncertainty, too much risk. But the client, in their heart, wanted you to look them in the eye and say "we'll get it done". Real sales people could do that and then go home to dinner and bed and a good sleep. I would do that and then go home and stare at the ceiling for 12 hours.
by patmcc | 2026-01-23 03:32:55+00:00
No joke, it just came up at work as a possible solution to something. We have some legacy systems that talk over TCP in plaintext. It's all within well-secured networks on locked down machines, so fine. But now we want to move things to Megaport, and their agreement says "btw don't put anything in plaintext ever, we guarantee nothing". So stunnel will probably be the fix.
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 03:33:21+00:00
you can install flash attention, et al, but if you're on windows, afaik, you can't use/run/install "triton kernels", which apparently make audio models scream. Whisper complains every time i start it, and it is pretty slow; so i just batch hundreds of audio files on a machine in the corner with a 3060 instead. technically i could batch them on a CPU, too, since i don't particularly care when they finish.
by fumi2026 | 2026-01-23 03:33:50+00:00
This feels less like scientific integrity and more like predatory marketing.
I find this public "shame list" approach by GPTZero deeply unethical and technically suspect for several reasons:

1. Doxxing disguised as specific criticism: Publishing the names of authors and papers without prior private notification or independent verification is not how academic corrections work. It looks like a marketing stunt to generate buzz at the expense of researchers' reputations.

2. False Positives & Methodology: How does their tool distinguish between an actual AI "hallucination" and a simple human error (e.g., a typo in a year, a broken link, or a messy BibTeX entry)? Labeling human carelessness as "AI fabrication" is libelous.

3. The "Protection Racket" Vibe: The underlying message seems to be: "Buy our tool, or next time you might be on this list." It’s creating a problem (fear of public shaming) to sell the solution.

We should be extremely skeptical of a vendor using a prestigious conference as a billboard for their product by essentially publicly shaming participants without due process.
by PeterWhittaker | 2026-01-23 03:34:36+00:00
Definitely false, at least historically. The original FIPS only required HW at levels 3 and 4, "required" in the sense that levels 1 and 2 were quite doable in software (level was/is no authentication to the CM, letting it be protected by the host; level 2 was/is a form of basic authentication, e.g., encrypting private keys under a key derived from a password).

I was part of a team that had multiple level 1 and 2 certificates for software-only CMs in the 1990s, both 140 and the second edition, 140-1.
by wing-_-nuts | 2026-01-23 03:34:46+00:00
I'm just going to copy and paste the end of my last comment since it seems you didn't read it

>I'd have no problem with this if dense, multi-use zoning were common. As it is, very few places in the US are as livable as much of Europe and the more developed parts of Asia.

It's easy to say 'live where you want' when your preferred housing isn't illegal in most of the US.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-23 03:35:19+00:00
no offense but the US spent about a billion on the WHO. That's a lot of influence for chump change. US defense sits at only 3% of GDP compared to 8% during the height of the cold war.

The argument always seems to be that the US is getting these rough deals, but objectively what it has spent the last few years be it in terms of soft power for organizations like this or in weapons to Ukraine, a few decades ago people would have opened champagne bottles getting that much bang for your buck.

This is British "the EU is stealing your NHS money" stuff, like it doesn't work at a basic level of arithmetics. What's driving spending in the US is entitlements, literally a straight line up
by mrcwinn | 2026-01-23 03:35:30+00:00
I guess it’s about priorities and not prowess, but it is shocking/fascinating the things Apple seems really bad at.

The Mac is funniest of all. I can’t imagine Tahoe drives an upgrade cycle. I buy a Mac for the hardware. Why not refine it? I would love to have a Mac with a better OS. (Don’t troll me about Linux. It’s worse.)

Hm, what’s worse? To be incapable or simply not to care enough?
by lateforwork | 2026-01-23 03:35:36+00:00
Don't forget Trump had a hand in starting the pandemic.

Here's what we know: In 2014, Obama administration halted the so called "gain of function" research because of risk of laboratory accidents. In 2017, the Trump administration restarted this dangerous research. See links below.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/white-house-to-cut-fun...

Excerpt: [Obama] White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous. The White House said the moratorium decision had been made “following recent biosafety incidents at federal research facilities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih...

Excerpt: [Trump administration] on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal. Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic.

So, Trump restarted the dangerous research that Obama had shut down. You may be thinking, what does that have to do with Covid? Covid started in Wuhan, China, right?

It turns out that the Trump administration, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provided funding to the EcoHealth Alliance, an American non-profit organization focused on studying emerging diseases. The EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for researching bat coronaviruses. The rest is history.
by bsder | 2026-01-23 03:35:47+00:00
> spinning wheel (which should have been invented 1000 years before it did if inventors thought about it at all)

Nope. You can invent it, but if there is no economics to drive its adoption it won't spread.

Medieval thread production and thread consumption was roughly balanced so there was no great economic incentive to engineer it.

A spinning wheel is significant labor from a craftsman which means you need to have excess cash to buy and maintain it--farmers surely didn't have that. In addition, if you suddenly generate 10x the amount of thread, that doesn't mean that it can be consumed--weaving doesn't magically get faster. There isn't a lot of trade beyond a single village, so there is nowhere for excess thread to go in order to become money. All this is even before you have engineering limitations--spinning wheels didn't create great thread for weaving from most fibres.

(Side note: In fact, the excess thread from spinning wheels basically didn't get consumed initially. It just created a surplus of rags. Which then led to printing because there was suddenly a cheap supply of something looking for a usage to consume it all ...)

Contrast this to later: The invention of the flying shuttle suddenly kicked up demand for thread which then needed the spinning jenny which then needed the cotton gin. That was all "demand pull"--there was pent up demand that would result in profit if you could fill it. And, even still, a LOT of "inventors" went bankrupt inventing all those things!
by JohnLeitch | 2026-01-23 03:36:22+00:00
Sure, but that is aside from my original point. If somebody:

a) Has the knowledge to run tcpdump or similar from the command line

b) Has the ambition to document and publish their effort on the internet

c) Has the ability identify and patch the target behaviors in code

I argue that, had they not run to an LLM, they likely would have solved this problem more efficiently, and would have learned more along the way. Forgive me for being so critical, but the LLM use here simply comes off as lazy. And not lazy in a good efficiency amplifying way, but lazy in a sloppy way. Ultimately this person achieved their goal, but this is a pattern I am seeing on a daily basis at this point, and I worry that heavy LLM users will see their skill sets stagnate and likely atrophy.
by cvhc | 2026-01-23 03:36:27+00:00
I and a friend (both are not Apple users) had the same issue about 2 years ago. I gave up after trying different (non-Apple) platforms, IPs and phone numbers. He was applying to Apple internship and ended up borrowing a Macbook to set up his account.

And talking about why I wanted a new Apple account... My old account was created with stupid security questions (like, What is your favorite dish) as a second factor, which I believe Apple has long deprecated. I forgot my answers and that blocked certain functionalities. Resetting the security questions requires answering the questions...
by eddythompson80 | 2026-01-23 03:37:44+00:00
Not the address, but the phone number has a bug I run into it occasionally. Some merchants support the +1 country code, some are local US only and don’t expect it. Safari’s auto-fill figures this out when filling the form. But then I go to Apple Pay, an it replaces the phone number with a 1 at the beginning and drops the last number, then I get an error that something is wrong. Initially took me a while to realize what was happening and that you can edit the number in the Apple Pay overlay before it applies it to the order. Just a bit annoying
by tokioyoyo | 2026-01-23 03:37:50+00:00
I mean, it’s “Not A Good Thing” for the US. Chinese people are proud of their accomplishments in the past couple of decades, and deservedly so. Now they can do the whole realpolitiks as well.

Sure, I don’t agree with lots of their stuff, but I’d rather a guy who doesn’t flip flop his mind every 4 years.
by MrVandemar | 2026-01-23 03:38:18+00:00
Not just Charlie Brown. The entire cast of the comic.

* Charlie Brown will never talk to the Red Haired Girl. His kites will always be eaten by a tree. He'll never win a baseball game. He'll never kick the football. He has abominably low self-esteem.

* Lucy's infatuation with Schroder is clearly one-sided; likewise Peppermint Patty / Charlie Brown; also Sally/Linus.

* Snoopy will never get the Red Baron, nor enjoy publishing success

* Linus will never stop believing in The Great Pumpkin and is disappointed every year.

Probably loads more. The comic is about losers, and losing.
by Nursie | 2026-01-23 03:38:31+00:00
You said it, so I had to look it up:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/10/chinese-traditiona...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3326972/ho...

https://rhinos.org/tough-issues/promotion-of-traditional-chi...

It actually is like they're sending TCM doctors to Africa!

I had no idea...
by nine_k | 2026-01-23 03:40:01+00:00
Players also find it fun and satisfying when an FPS player can carry five large weapons, with 100 pounds of ammo for it, run while carrying all that 20 mph in any direction without getting tired, pick anything from the floor without slowing down or ceasing fire, etc. A realistic shooter would be much harder, and having to limp slowly after taking a stray bullet in the leg would suck.

And people play for fun, not for feeling the misery of war. Or, in that case, of the slow and restricted early medieval life.
by sealeck | 2026-01-23 03:40:15+00:00
I thought the point of Turso was to offer better concurrency than SQLite currently does. A la https://turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-... and https://penberg.org/papers/penberg-edgesys24.pdf

Would be great if one of the Turso developers can clarify :)
by shoo | 2026-01-23 03:42:19+00:00
great idea -- for sufficiently lumbering enterprisey clients you may discover that it is impossible for a mere dev to "push" a change into production without the right part of the org tree pulling, let alone for that to happen on timescales of less than a week. but even if so, that's a profoundly helpful thing to learn on week 1 so this is still great advice!

("...what do you mean that any changes going to prod need to first be socialised with and endorsed by the ABC steering committee & have their full rollout, rollback, & test plans signed off in blood by the responsible product, engineering & test managers & then sent for review by the change review board with at least 5 businesses days of lead time prior to the requested change date...")
by AnonC | 2026-01-23 03:42:21+00:00
With the latest Google Gemini deal to be the backend for Apple’s AI, I wish Apple could also do a deal for search (even though Google seems to be struggling more as time passes). Apple’s search being broken in Settings on iOS, macOS and iPadOS seem intentional — it can’t search in a relatively small and fixed list of items! Is it any wonder that Mail search doesn’t work with external data?

The AirDrop and Hotspot issues described are spot on. The success rate for these is like 40% to 65% (the latter if you’re lucky). These features require doing a dance of airplane mode, disconnect from WiFi, go to Settings and fiddle with the toggles, etc. When it works, it’s like magic. At other times, it’s a big joke on “it just works”.

Text selection and the trials to just move the cursor quickly and accurately: it’s like Apple has no senior management that cares enough (looking at you, Craig Federighi), no QA (this is obvious truth to every user) and no money to spend on making things better (don’t let the stock prices fool you). FWIW, I know of slower and fiddly ways to move the cursor somewhat (press space, hold and move or place finger on the text, hold and move).

All these issues persist for years or decades because senior management does not care. I can’t think of any other rational explanation.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-23 03:43:31+00:00
> Real sales people could do that and then go home to dinner and bed and a good sleep. I would do that and then go home and stare at the ceiling for 12 hours.

100% this

I can’t think of a more toxic environment than the sales culture.

Go look at literally any sales culture organization and it’s an unironic copy of Wolf of Wall Street
by n_u | 2026-01-23 03:44:57+00:00
Cool! I'd love to know a bit more about the replication setup. I'm guessing they are doing async replication.

> We added nearly 50 read replicas, while keeping replication lag near zero

I wonder what those replication lag numbers are exactly and how they deal with stragglers. It seems likely that at any given moment at least one of the 50 read replicas may be lagging cuz CPU/mem usage spike. Then presumably that would slow down the primary since it has to wait for the TCP acks before sending more of the WAL.
by alt187 | 2026-01-23 03:45:24+00:00
> Linux is free, but you pay for it with your time.

People like to repeat this thought terminating cliché because they think it makes them sound smart and insightful, to doubt that a free thing is really free. But it's an uniquely naive opinion.

On Windows or MacOS, it's more often than not that, when you meet a problem, the only thing you can do is throw your hands into the air, and suffer the problem. This is paying with your time. Every single time you have to sit and wait through a forced update, this is paying with your time, in the realest sense of the word. You give your time for continued use of the product, and nothing else.

What people mean with the idiotic folk-wisdom is that you spend lots of time with the internals of Linux.

That's not true, but let's assume it is. The internals of Linux are likely a thing you'll really want to learn in depth if you're professionally into any computers science related job, because the market has settled on that.

If you're not, it's also something you'll want to learn, because Linux's design makes a single skill you learnt applicable in a lot of different workflows. So stuff you learnt while troubleshooting, you may adapt in other situations.

You don't pay with your time, you invest your time. Like all investments, it has an initial cost and dividends. It's a pretty good investment.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-23 03:46:32+00:00
Hyperfocus is not about "focusing intensely on your job until you perform it at world-class level". The hyperfocus of ADHD is essentially random and driven by the very same inattentive "monkey mind" that's the defining feature of ADHD itself: it's not necessarily targeted to a productive task.

Those who face this issue can of course try to "gamify" their upcoming tasks to themselves in a way that will hopefully steer that focus in desirable directions, but that's not always easy. The monkey mind also resists ongoing habit formation, which is the tool most non-ADHD folks would generally resort to in order to effectively manage their overall schedule and just be more on-task.
by hibikir | 2026-01-23 03:47:12+00:00
America's banks enjoy pulling a bait and switch on HYSAs: They will create new account types with better rates, while they let their old ones become uncompetitive. Citi has pulled this too.

Unless you really think you might need the money immediately, chances are that keeping your money in a brokerage account and using a money market fund (say, VMFXX or something like that) will lead to less headaches with rate manipulation, as the funds aren't playing games with the general public.
by literallywho | 2026-01-23 03:47:33+00:00
Usually gone or retooled for something else. Even just within the Prince of Persia series, they had a game called Prince of Persia: Assassins that was canceled and turned into Assassin's Creed. There was also a sequel to Prince of Persia 2008 in development that was cancelled and never showed up again. You can even find footage from both of these games online, but they will never see the light of day unless someone leaks them (which does happen sometimes).