skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in the mid 1970s a local reporter was hounding the company not because he suspected fraud. (Apparently the entire company was fradulent.) Nope, he wanted to reveal that Carmichael was really a man who was dressed as a woman.

That local reporter was Tucker Carlson's father, Dick Carlson.[0] Let's just say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Carlson
No.

And I suspect this will always have phase smearing, because it's not doing any kind of source separation or individual synthesis. It's effectively a form of frequency domain data compression, so it's always going to be lossy.

It's more like a sophisticated timbral morph, done on a complete short loop instead of an individual line.

It would sound better with a much higher data density. CD quality would be 220500 samples for each five second loop. Realtime FFTs with that resolution aren't practical on the current generation of hardware, but they could be done in non-realtime. But there will always be the issue of timbres being distorted because outside of a certain level of familiarity and expectation our brains start hearing gargly disconnected overtones instead of coherent sound objects.

What this is not doing is extracting or understanding musical semantics and reassembling them in interesting ways. The harmonies in some of these clips are pretty weird and dissonant, and not what you'd get from a human writing accessible music. This matters because outside of TikTok music isn't about 5s loops, and longer structures aren't so amenable to this kind of approach.

This won't be a problem for some applications, but it's a long way short of the musical equivalent of a MidJourney image.

Generally we're a lot more tolerant of visual "bugs" than musical ones.
Penguins. Penguins can't open deadbolts.

(/s, obviously...)
As the saying goes, it is a poor craftworker who blames their tools... but the popular understanding in our community that it means a craftworker should be able to do anything with crappy tools is wrong. The real meaning is that it's a poor craftworker who has crappy tools, but just keeps using them. They should either fix them or get better tools. It is a poor craftworker who blames their tools because it is a poor craftworker who continually uses blameworthy tools!

(Or, in other words, I 100% disagree with the original post. Tools do matter, and it is folly to think otherwise in the face of overwhelming evidence.)

Since our tools are Turing complete, we are in the unusual position of sometimes being able to use our crappy tools to carve out better tools within the tools themselves, but in general, you should be using the best tools you can. And, yes, it is completely fair to judge a tool as being either bad for a job, or just a bad tool in general. Craftworkers who refuse to make such judgments are not exhibiting wisdom, but lack of discernment.

That is not to say that you must always use the best tool to the exclusion of all else. Much as we may not like to hear it, we aren't really craftworkers here for the most part, we are engineers. If I got moved to a big PHP 3.0 project, I would not make it my first order of business to insist that we drop everything and rewrite it in $BETTER_TOOL. That's not a good engineering move. The quality of our tools is only one part of a very complicated melange of relevant issues. But we're still allowed to have judgments, and the fact that tool quality is not 100% exclusively determinative doesn't mean the only other alternative is that they must be 0.0000...% relevant.
Espionage makes the world more predictable, and hence less dangerous.
I don't think it is an emergency, but I do think this is a symptom of a toxic organization.

In the meantime, I would try hard not to focus on it too much. Do a rough breakout in your head on how much time for the day you spent on each ticket then allocate that to the 15min blocks. It's not like they can fact check you on it
Funnily I am in the same situation but from the other side being the aging (60+) Pascal contractor who came in to a small company when there was no IT staff and wrote a complete MRP/ERP/Everything system. This small company over 15 years became a billion dollar one and I am now the only contractor in a large IT department with teams of programmers.

Ironically it is me pushing the change as there are not really many Pascal guys left and the current guys wouldn't dream of supporting such an "archaic language". I wish they would get a move on before I expire completely.
I think you're on to something, it makes me curious what the energy expenditure of one of these operations is in a conventional deployment, then what it would be over time with solar being the producer of energy.
I don't really see Zigbee dying right now. Hell - I used it before home automation was really a thing back in college almost 15 years ago now, and it's going strong today.

Hue has always been all-in on Zigbee. (incl the new 3.0 standard - https://developers.meethue.com/zigbee-3-0-support-in-hue-eco...)

Ikea has gone basically all-in on Zigbee (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ikea-smart-home-kit-reviewed...)

Amazon is embedding it their devices (At least 4 different models include a zigbee hub: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smarthome/zigb...)

Wifi is basically a non-starter for any real automation since it takes a boat load of power, and requires a non-local server (at least without some serious work on your part). It's a great intro spot for consumers who want to try a color changing bulb they can control with their phone, since the initial buy in cost is lower with no hub - but it's not really the same.

For z-wave on the other hand... I literally cannot find a place to buy a-19 standard socket bulbs that support it right now. Lots of "controller kits" but no bulbs.

Same for thermostats - there's like 3 z-wave thermostats on amazon right now. There are dozens of zigbee models.

Honestly - on Amazon at least, a lot of searches for "z-wave [device]" end up returning mostly zigbee results.

Ex: Go search Amazon for "Z-wave plug": Row 3 starts to return zigbee devices.

Go search again for "Zigbee plug": It's zigbee devices all the way down the page (one early result does both zigbee and z-wave, but otherwise you have scroll waaay down to see any overlap)

Basically - Having both Ikea and Amazon go in on Zigbee has radically shifted the market from where it was 3 years ago (when I would have probably agreed that z-wave was the better pick).
Either case is speculative. With Trump, a narcissistic gesture is far more believable than one of reverence.
In my experience (with FAANGs at least) the interviews have been virtual since the pandemic began. Haven't heard of any plans to return to return to flying out candidates for in-person interviews.
> If Nassim Nicholas Taleb is such a great investor, where is his hedge fund?

Taleb was a founding partner of Empirica Capital from 1999 until about 2006. He has also been active in Universa https://www.universa.net/, which is an active black swan fund selling long-vol strategies.
I still have yet to get video encoding ever working on fedora with chromium, even with the mesa driver including closed codecs.
It just never works, it always uses the CPU for some reason.

And thats with AMD, Nvidia is a lost cause.
All of that combined for the rest of Musk's life wouldn't even get close to 1% of his total contribution.
> Usually, your manager won’t have conclusive proof or just won’t feel like having a giant confrontation, so they won’t say anything. But they will remember

... which is often true even when you aren't lying. Almost everybody who claims to manage by data actually manages by "feel" - or, how much do they like you personally?
Marginally off topic here, but Occams Laser created a 'sequel' album to the Daft Punk score, and I feel it more closely feels like an updated original Tron soundtrack.

There are two complete albums they've released: The Grid[1], which is a concept album based on the 1982 original, and Return to the Grid[2] which is a reimagined concept album for Tron Legacy, both that I absolutely love listening to.

1. https://occamslaser.bandcamp.com/album/the-grid
2. https://occamslaser.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-the-grid
I understand now, and this is a similar problem to how some GraphQL engines work

I imagine you want to do something like:

select
*
from
public.users join stripe.customers
on
public.users.stripe_id = stripe.customers.id
limit 100;

Then yes, it might make 100 consecutive calls to your stripe account. There are 3 options here:

1. Materialize your customers into your database (like I mention in the previous comment)

2. We build a "smart" FDW, so that it parses your query and fetches the Stripe data first, then performs the join.

3. Use a CTE:

with
customers as (
select * from stripe.customers
),
users as (
select * from public.users
)
select
*
from
users join customers
on
users.stripe_id = customers.id
Every piece of apple hardware I own is ~3 years old. They all run very well:

2017 macbook air

early 2020 Iphone SE 2

2016 thunderbolt display

With the exception of the iphone, the other equipment was all second-hand. This in contrast to a Toshiba and Dell I had as laptops prior to getting a mac which both became useless in 4 years.
Please don't trivialize it by calling them hogs. Also one of these things doesn't have to be acceptable; they can both be cruel.
>You're the person they're trying to fool, so if they cheat successfully you would never know. You've never seen overt displays of bad cheating, which is different.

I don't think it's widespread at least, since in my experience people that do well in technical zoom interviews do not drastically decrease in apparent competence when we move to in person rounds.

People definitely get told interview questions by recruiters though, if you count that as cheating then it is everywhere.
If you really want to build a social network, don't fall into the trap that many side-projects and freeware products fall into: Trying to experiment. There really is no room for experimentation, because the market has already been there and tried that. Anything novel or unique you can think of, existing sites have already either experimented with, or decided against based on A/B testing.

Better to just make a "bland"/"vanilla" social network and focus on differentiating yourself by having a sterling reputation and "new car smell". Be like Google when Google was new:Just another search engine, but eh, it seems nicer than the rest somehow!

Facbook/Instagram is haunted by Cambridge Analytica and ongoing investigations and lawsuits around the world. Twitter has become Musk's playpen. LinkedIn is full of dark patterns (and that was even before Microsoft bought it!) TikTok is banned in several countries.

You also need to be able to make enough money from the project to keep the servers running, and pay engineers to fix bugs, and pay customer support people to do GDPR deletions and stuff like that. And you'll need moderators to keep the Nazis away. So, you'll need to build an advertising platform also.
Avoiding paying taxes by spending even more money that he can no longer use for himself? There is no way to financially come out ahead by donating to charity.
This is a logical fallacy, appeal to authority.

Address the information not who's delivering it.
SHA-256 is vulnerable to a length extension attack. This is well-known to cryptographers; it doesn’t matter for some applications and can be worked around in others. But it still catches some developers unaware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
Why do people keep spouting this nonsense? Yes there is a place for nuclear in the mix, but renewables have already moved the dial in a lot if countries. I the uk about 40% of our energy is from renewables, mostly wind at 25% and biomass for much of the rest. Or does that not fit your narrative? Or do you not consider that moving the needle? It's a damn sight easier, quicker and cheaper to put up wind turbines and solar panels than it is to build new nuclear reactors as well
Here's a great talk on this subject from the world of medical science:

"Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IO2DZjOkY
HN is a social network. (Nearly) All content is submitted by users. Rankings are influenced primarily by users. Users comment on the content. Conversations happen.

Your Ask HN is you collaborating on a social network. Without your content, and the content of users like you, this social network wouldn’t exist.
Sounds like you had some non-zwave+ devices or you were using a lot of s0 encryption. Both are known to slow down the network. Like everything it’s gotten better over time. The 700 series stuff is pretty quick.
> It requires a fundamental change from the reach model towards concentric social circles. The social network would allow users to arrange into small topical groups called social circles. These social circles would have a cap of 10 (arbitrary number) members. Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.

This reminds me of Google+. They had circles of people that you could share to. I actually thought it was quite brilliant, but in typical Google fashion, they killed it and had horrible marketing.
It tickles me that organic neural nets that learn by viewing information are incredulous that neural nets could learn by viewing information.
I see a lot of pushback here but I'll mention why I'm eager for my DE of choice to get Wayland support: Gaming under Xorg with multi-monitors can get very hitchy/teary, and Wayland is focused on smooth frame delivery.

Details if anyone wants it: The game itself may only be running on one monitor, but it doesn't matter, if I have multi monitors active it'll hitch. You can apparently mitigate this somewhat by making sure all your monitors are running the exact same frame rate, but two of my monitors run 59.95Hz while the third runs 59.92Hz, that's not close enough, and I can't seem to get them to something common like 59.00 Hz. I tried disabling two monitors while playing on the third, and it's better, but still far from perfect.

I tried a very recent KDE on Wayland and while gaming felt smooth, its multi-monitor support is very buggy right now -- actually the whole DE felt really buggy -- so that's out.

I really wish gamescope could be run on top of Xorg and the game could 'just' run in that...
I wouldn't say saying it came from the inside is unique to AI art. You very much need a welder's understanding of welding in order to be able to automate it for example.

I'd just say the scale is different. Old school automation just required one expert to guide the development of an automation. AI art requires the expertise of thousands.
Snakes Have Clitorises
This is magical thinking, no different than a cult.

The fundamental design of transformer architecture isn't capable of what you think it is.

There are still radical, fundamental breakthroughs needed. It's not a matter of incremental improvement over time.
It’s big enough that they have a bus to go around. It’s called Ivan the Terrabus.
That is an inaccurate history. Nest has always been IP-based and drove much of the initial Thread standard. Their radio was 802.15.4, but not Zigbee.
yeah, I'm aware of that. They are designed with no cap, but clearly this type of growth was not expected.

Seems like it is an easy fix if it is determined to be a problem worth fixing. Just add a IRA cap at something like 50 million before you have to withdraw.
the whole world is being turned into one giant psych ward, and somehow we wonder why people increasingly seem to play the part
> Of course climate change affects everyone, everywhere

I doubt you'd be holding the same stance if you were dying of HIV and/or Malaria.

And besides in general people living in bubbles of wealth rarely are conscious about being in them or the priorities of people outside such bubbles.

If you asked a billionaire they'll probably perceive themselves as the underdogs fighting for the forgotten men and women, oh wait the #1 person on Forbes shouts and whines about being an underdog fighting for the forgotten men and women each day, multiple times per day.
Nobility is not my goal.
> Software engineers aren't automating away their jobs, they are automating away someone else's job.

That's the best case scenario.

Right now we're talking about automating away someone's _software engineering_ job. You could end up on either side of that fence.

When AI enables less-capable (cheaper) software engineers to do your job, the 5x programmer skills that you have won't make you safe. If AI quality control allows your employer to offshore jobs with higher reliability, it won't be pleasant.

Just keep your eyes open to the changes as they come.
Sculptures that double as safety features
I wonder why microperl or miniperl didn't really take off. Would be a nice thing to have -- just a single-executable-perl with the basics and file i/o, alongside awk, Lua or any other tiny language.

An interesting effort and article from around 2001: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html

And an old Perlmonks discussion on a 850kb Perl: https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=222465

There is a newer github project as well -- it did work for a simple project with core modules for me: https://github.com/bentxt/microperl-standalone
Reinventing Back End Subsetting at Google (ACM Queue)
* Get a lawyer (that is not his lawyer)

* Fire him (after talking to your lawyer, so check all the details)

* Was he hired in 2020 or in 2014? Make a giant sign that says "4 Years with a 1-Year Cliff"
Eevee also dismissed with this argument as well in the same article:
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

> Do not tell me that Facebook and Wikipedia are built in PHP. I’m aware! They could also be written in Brainfuck, but as long as there are smart enough people wrangling the things, they can overcome problems with the platform. For all we know, development time could be halved or doubled if these products were written in some other language; this data point alone means nothing.
You misinterpret, I'm not worried about my job. I wouldn't mind working less but I'm worried that sooner than we think we will be reduced to pure consumers (we're already pretty far ahead in that respect) and then life will lose its meaning...
This borders on absurdist. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've come to expect a certain level of daftness and self-absorption with the Trump Org, but this is just...weird.

Like not the normal disconnect from reality, but a more disturbing indicator of unraveling. I mean he must truly be seeking any distraction from his growing number of legal threats to think this somehow qualifies as a "major announcement" to the point that the lunacy of the announcement and its subsequent analysis is more substantive than the announcement.
Just don't leak. Burning it produces water vapor, which is pretty generally available in the atmosphere.

[Edit: Yes, I know "just don't leak" is the goal, and is never 100% achieved.]
I feel you're trolling. SOAP was a horror and REST is nothing to do with data formats. And while XML was fine, XML schemas were hellish and I've awful memory of them.

> and now half of the services are SOAP and half of them are REST

which seems to contradict in tone your first sentence.
> Doing what? When we get there, anything we can consider doing, an AI can do faster and better. Write a poem? Write a book? Write music? Paint a picture? Life will be like a computer game with cheat-codes, whenever we struggle with something, instead of fighting on and improving we will turn to our universal cheat-engine: AI.

For literally anything in my life that I can do, there is already someone who can do it better and faster than me. I still enjoy doing the things that I do, and why would that change?
> while Musk's was apparently "donated to a charity".

Musk made no public announcement about this and declined to comment when asked about it. He wasn't trying to score social media points by suggesting he was about to cure cancer. This became public knowledge when he was legally required to report it to the SEC.

Gates on the other hand loudly announces all of his contributions.
So when do we get a web site designer whee you write what you want and a web site is generated? That sort of thing is stylized and there's lots of training data available.
It doesn't take much for us to believe someone is human, mostly confirming expected behaviors, doing small talk, etc. But AI NPCs will do all that and seem to have will and even conscience.

I feel dizzy trying to think through the social and emotional ramifications of becoming seriously attached to NPCs who seem real and can articulate their feelings and share experiences with us.
If you are going to follow up with a full comparison you can use something much cheaper then sha-1
Having historically mostly worked for third-tier companies in the past (including some in the SF Bay Area), stock options were never something I calculated into my total comp. I expected them to go to zero (and they have!) It was always funny to me watching actually good engineers go to work for high-paying (I.E. actually listed on levels.fyi) employers and talk about their TC, which was like 50% stock options.
Hang out with friends, play sports, eat good food, raise a family, go on hikes. An AI can automate your labor, but it can't automate your experiences. There are countless recordings on YouTube of people performing beautiful renditions of the Interstellar soundtrack on piano, yet that doesn't stop me from playing my mediocre version and slowly improving. The act of playing it myself brings me joy that listening to it could never do.
For sure. The Emacs vs VI divide has been with us for an eternity.
> Ummm...no

Blog posts like these are depressingly predictable in terms of being a list of "if all of you would do these (often impossible) things for me, it would make my life a lot easier" without considering whether or not they actually work well for the person they're exhorting to make their lives easier (for no extra compensation, job security or status).
It almost has to be.

Running a world-scale social network requires immense computing power. Those bills have to be paid, and there's not going to be much difference between "break-even-driven" and "profit-driven" at that scale.
Those aren't the OS, those are individual apps that have chosen to use a web rendering engine for various content, and it's not even correct. Calendar doesn't use WebKit at all and never has. Mail.app uses it to render external HTML input (i.e. email messages) rather than UI. I believe Music.app moved off WebKit some time ago as well, and it looks like App Store did too (Accessibility Inspector confirms that the Updates page, which used to be rendered with WebKit, is now a collection view). Both Music.app and App Store link against WebKit but that's likely because the Account Settings page is rendered with WebKit (this is likely content that is served remotely).

In any case, the OS itself does not rely on WebKit for UI, it just ships some apps that use WebKit.
My handwriting quality: No.

How well and quickly I can do it? Yes, absolutely. I had to handwrite a bunch of stuff at work and my hand cramped embarrassingly quickly.

I don't see much reason to address it.
Venture capitalists using Tesla in some kind of virtue signal is the most 2022 thing
The screen is "good enough" IMO. I definitely like the OLED screen better, but everything behind the screen is well worth it. This has to be my favorite tech gadget of the past several years.

They really thought through things in terms of usability. If you really want to use it as a Linux machine to do certain things, it's there for you. If you're buying it for a kid to play PC games on, it's just as suitable.
every celebrity is stalked by paparazzi btw, imo the job should be illegal