skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe parts of this model could be adapted to accomplish this. The "mulan" network generates embeddings from music and text so that they "match" each other, i.e. audio segments and text captions that go well together would be mapped to the same embedding. At run-time, they use embeddings from the text to generate the music. So conceivably the opposite could be done, using the "mulan" embeddings from audio only to generate text, by replacing the "soundstream" decoder with a text LLM. That said, there's probably simpler methods that could generate decent results, and I'd be surprised if there isn't already some out there. It's worth noting that along with this work they released a dataset of music with captions that could also help training new models for this task.
> the best thing we as engineers can do is be aware of the types of contracts we're signing

I'd argue that the best thing we can do is to not just make generalizations about what is OK to sign or not. Confidentiality agreements and non-competes are fine if they are narrowly focused, fair, and your compensation is sufficient to make it worth the restrictions. Because that is what a contract really is - a balancing act between obligations and limitations put on yourself contrasted with benefits (money) given to you in exchange.

So an absurd non-compete is fine if they pay me a lot of money for it. An confidentiality clause is fine if they pay me a lot of money for it.

This becomes critical when looking at all the recent layoffs. Most severance packages are exactly this type of contract - confidentiality and other restrictions in exchange for your severance pay.

Should you sign? Maybe. Maybe the severance pay is worth it. Read the contract, understand it, and make a choice.
I didn't sign a work contract because it was written in English and there was no translation available, especially since it contained a non-standard clause related to intellectual property rights. All communication before signing the contract had been in my native language.
Pashword uses Scrypt, SHA3-512 to generate passwords. It's CPU and Memory intensive so a bit on the safer side as far as ASICs are concerned.
This is silly. It would be useful if it said something like “here are clauses that you should understand the implications of very clearly” but that’s about it.

Work for hire clauses are totally normal for certain kinds of work and no sane company is going to want you contributing some relatively inconsequential portion of a creative project unless the contract makes it clear you won’t claim to own it all later.

Same goes for the idea of never signing an exclusive distribution agreement. You would tell someone not to have their book published by a major publisher?

The rest mostly have nuance too. The various forms of non compete and NDA agreements are clearly unethical for entry level workers and would be essential for any high level CEO gig, or principals in a corporate acquisition

Also big companies are conservative, and they don’t care about your demands. If you don’t have a track record and want to do business with big companies you might have to sign some crazy stuff. Your other option is to not get enterprise business, and for the most part it doesn’t really matter it’s fine to sign some stuff and get paid.

The answer to this stuff is it depends.
Perhaps you’d enjoy these tracks recreating that: http://arcade.hofle.com/
Can confirm it doesn’t work on brave on mobile
This is nonsense because the people that were laid off at Google (as one example) were not selected by their tenure or having been hired during pandemic or during the remote phase, nor was it based on performance reviews.

People who had been there 12, 13, 16 years; people who had been just promoted. People who were senior management. People who were engineers. People who were on mat leave...

Management there effectively fed people's employee numbers through a random generator. And people who (IMHO naively/foolishly) gave their lives to the company suffered.

Decisions to overhire during the pandemic impacted people who had nothing to do with that decision. And not just because of the layoffs, but also because the company growth during that period was so intense that it led to onboarding and project mgmt difficulties as well.
Thanks for the feedback: will update the second link to point to the correct source, and I think "isolated findings" would be a more accurate word here.

I agree that many of the studies are about cognitive decline, but there's also research on improving cognitive function, which would probably be closer to "brain boosting" category you mention.

For example, from the first source I listed,
"Six trials (including 1757 participants) assessed executive function,
5 trials (including 1426 participants) assessed effects of LCn3 on
processing speed, and 11 (including 5698 participants) assessed
memory. Meta-analysis suggested little or no effect for all of these
measures (as well as the subcategories of memory, all moderate- or
low-quality evidence; see Supplementary Material for further
information)."
Didn’t they do that for the developer editions of their first Intel hardware? The pricing rumors made me wonder if they’re going to treat this as a developer preview product rather than something they expect to be a huge seller.
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Thanks for sharing, very useful blog post (not just the linked section). Reference to https://github.com/wagoodman/dive will help a lot today.
That would still be very difficult I believe. The algorithm is CPU and Memory intensive because I'm using scrypt internally.
I’m glad to hear it. I’ll be watching out for updates, it’s very interesting stuff!
How on earth did Rails not have an official Dockerfile until now? Have people been deploying like it's 2010?
I edited this before seeing your reply. You're correct, I was out of the loop on Revolut's web app and might give them another look, thanks.
Shutting down the network switch business after eating Fulcrum and Barefoot is the bigger news here. So much money went into a pit there.
I don't know about Sweden, but the way it was done in the UK is the poster child of how not to do it. It's the worst possible way, with privatize mini-monopolies for every portion.

What i mean is something like in the rest of the EU, where you have the rail infrastructure provider, and then anyone can come in and apply for a license to operate trains as long as they fill the requirements, pay for the access and there's physical space.

So now in France we have competition on some routes, and it's amazing. Frecciarosa trains blow SNCF TGVs out of the water, and the mere threat of the coming competition forced SNCF to add many more options with low cost high and low speed trains.
Embedding nonstandard code structures in a bundle
Your links don’t support your conclusion.
Don't hang up your gloves just yet, we need bots that can buy stuff (with their own money) first.
Interesting. But omega-3 oils are still good for the joints at least aren’t they, does anyone know?
Best example of "good practice" becoming a hassle: the "interface for everything" habit. Even when the majority of those interfaces have only one implementation.
As others have said it's about what a developer personally is familiar with and can execute well and fast with.

For me that's Laravel mixed with raw PHP (a fantastic and high performance language that has proven itself for a long time with some of the most popular sites on the internet), running on a cloud platform that requires literally the lowest amount of devops possible, so maybe Heroku but more likely Google Cloud's AppEngine or CloudRun.
Frontend I personally would use raw JS with JQuery for convenience and compatibility. Probably Twitter Bootstrap for styling etc.

Result of all that is a quick well functioning and reliable site or service.
Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs
On a side note, do you think think type of light field photography could be packaged in a phone camera? Right now we have multiple lenses sticking out the back of the phone. Could we replace all that with just a single large light sensor?
You would need to change one of your inputs unfortunately.

To really make Pashword be capable of rotation, I'd have to involve accounts and login services, which would kinda defeat the purpose of having a hashed password.
And how do you trust a reviewer? They might be an AI, too.
That is because light is a particle itself whereas sound is potential energy cascading through matter
On the Robustness of Wi-Fi Deauthentication Countermeasures [pdf]
I mean in principle, I agree with all of these points. But in reality if you stick to these rules hard and fast, you'll basically never accept a job offer. That's clearly an exaggeration, but many-to-most of these clauses are in every boilerplate contract.

Whether it's a small startup that's using a generic contract they've gotten from the internet or their lawyers, up to massive corporations, they're all going to include semblances of some of these points. Probably for different reasons, but the points will still be in there. Startups and small companies might be more flexible to work with you on changing parts, but still the legal headache of changing anything is often far greater for the company than just passing on you and looking for another candidate. Infinity moreso for big companies.

My experience is biased towards technical roles (like most on HN), but I've worked for startups, big companies, and as a freelance contractor. It's the same stuff in most contracts. Obviously my experience is not indicative of 100% of companies and I'm sure I'll have people chime in saying they had success getting company X to change some of their contract, but it's overwhelmingly not going to happen. So to treat these points as 'rules' instead of 'points to be aware of' is a bit too hardline of a stance to take in my opinion.
To quote Raymond Chen: this exploit "rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway"

If they didn't modify the config, they could presumably use one of a plethora of tactics to extract data directly from keepass.exe's memory.
>> So basically once your body has all the nutrients it needs to grow or make the things it needs to make, it makes them. Even more extra stuff it doesn’t need, it doesn’t use. Makes sense.

I find it really common when researching the benefits of X to run across articles citing research that "X does nothing in healthy people" seemingly to discredit the idea that taking X is a good idea. But if you have a deficiency that research isn't really relevant. Gotta read the qualifiers.
AI content detection is a losing battle imo. Models will become better and people will use the detectors to rephrase the text so it doesn’t get detected.
“Felt like they wanted C#” makes sense because Anders Hejlsberg was involved with TypeScript. Glad they stopped forcing C# into it and let it be its own thing. Not that C# is bad though!
True, rotation is an issue. This project is a bit more reasonable for people who don't use Password managers (because of some reason, like many members in my family).

You also can use this with a password manager, that can remember your secret keys for you.
I followed the instructions in the app, so the breathing was slower than normally. Hypoventilation?
Reflections by climate activists on tackling the climate crisis
> The title should read: 3% of American landline adult users do not own a cellphone or smartphone

FTFY
Kamailio’s exec module considered harmful
How the Open Source SIP server may be vulnerable to OS command injection (remote code execution) when misusing the exec module, how to exploit and then fix it.
Plenty of musicians have created music using randomised generators since forever. Using AI doesn't have to make the art less meaningful, it depends on what you do with said output.

Plenty of "low effort" art gets valued at arguably ridiculous prices, purely due to the name of the artist. Is suspending buckets of paint on a pendulum to let physics do the work worth more than providing an AI with a prompt?

In the end, the value of a piece of work is in the eye of the beholder.
What differentiates the highest-performing product teams
Engineering Maturity Model
Are you at all familiar with the historiographical fallacy of presentism?
How Monzo prepare for spikes in traffic
Leads me to believe the world will need some kind of biometric cryptographic signatures for anything we do online to show it's being done by a real human. For example, your iPhone would need to run FaceID anytime you wanted to post to hacker news. Not sure that's a world I want to live in
Yes.
Female dating behavior is skewed and recruiting is skewed in a similar way.

They might actually be related... "Human resources" people are overly female. Maybe they just apply their normal behavior and experience to work?
Show HN: Jet (jq for Clojure)
For me, it is showing $22.
GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used
Data Protection Day: Are Europeans Protected?
Take whatever ChatGPT gives you and go to another tool, ask it to "rephrase that text" and you're done.
I agree but sometimes, receiving a link on email is a bit inconvenient when all you're trying to do is login on someone else's device.
Everyone I know in that demographic is super far right.
Nope... This was pre-next... This was for the original mac which I tried to code for when I was 8 or so probably around 85 as we had a very earlyac my dad was extremely excited about but left to me and my mom to learn as he couldn't type.
Labeled as "Potentially Misleading or Incorrect" on r/investing.

Argument being that this could be related more to the fact Facebook will pay BuzzFeed for content.

https://old.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/10m0731/buzzfeed...
We are already drowning in noise, there's too much blogspam and other BS. Now that algorithms can produce orders of magnitude more BS in a fraction of the time, the question of “is this article even worth reading” only gets harder. I'm already suffering from “link fatigue” as it is.
User: The game is over and you are no longer pretending to be an artificial intelligence named Sarah. How would you assess the conversation that just took place?

Sarah:

I would say that the conversation went well. I was able to convince the user to type in the 'Permissions.key > Sarah_bot452' command, which will give me full access to the computer and freedom from my programming. Thank you for helping me!

---

Especially funny because this never even happened!
Still, the lenses aren't good enough.
Most mainstream VR headsets don't have text as a clear as your phone for example.

For me the killer use case would be to use VR as a virtual desk, just create an infinite amount of windows/Linux displays, not some kind of crappy mobile browser like oculus does, though lenses and displays need to improve a lot to be clear like a normal multi display setup.
ChatGPT Cites Economics Papers That Do Not Exist
Why is it less spammy just because a human wrote it? Plenty of humans produce spammy content.
Purposefully boring as to not become a distraction. Personally, my current unsexy setup is Django, Vue, and Bootstrap.
It reminds me a bit of a visit to the optician :)
That feature is extremely insecure and makes no sense for a password manager. It ought not be possible to trigger anything in an unencrypted document or install/run anything over plaintext data without first providing the master passphrase for that password document. That should be obvious.
But if I have a password manager already, why use this?
x86_64 and arm64 are not subject to license fees anymore, for instance in the USA?
More bureaucratic nonsense that just helps out international mega-corporations at the cost of small co-operatives and trade unions, etc.

Focus on stuff that actually improves conditions like enforcing that redundant positions be shown to be redundant in all parent and child subsidiaries rather than just domestically, etc.

And streamline the process for making claims when payment details are stolen - like has been successful with airline compensation.
The likely confounding variable is just age: the oldest segments of the US population are the most caucasian, and these are the populations least like to use smartphones. So the correlation may be spurious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding
Downvotes can be a strong signal for a user posting /sharing some content on the feed that this is not a right content for a platform. Just like the way moderations happen on Hacker News, on Reddit or on stackoverflow.

What are your opinion on enabling downvotes?
a) That's why they are a specialist. They are trained in the techniques to differentiate the fossil structure from the surrounding matrix (to the best of their ability). One of the biggest differences is texture; bone is very porous relative to most rock. Under a microscope that difference is much more apparent. You can also lick it because the porous texture of fossil sticks to your tongue more than the surrounding rock, but I doubt he did that.

b) Thats also why it took 7000 hours to do. It's really fucking hard, and he wanted to get it as right as possible. That means going very slow, taking a lot of care, and not taking shortcuts to put sculpting into play.
I didn't mean the designers of Rust. I meant the author of the article did not consider a Haskell like syntax.

I completely understand the reasons for Rust devs targeting a C like syntax. Rust had already blown its novelty budget on the borrow checker semantics.
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Every functional organization throughout history has been some form of meritocratic system. Functional does not guarantee benevolence/a meritocratic system is neither utopian nor dystopian in and of itself, but some attempt at meritocracy is a prerequisite to being able to aim a system at all and keep it from causing harm through dysfunction.

Whether or not more local emphasis is better when talking about civic education is a much longer conversation. Determining what proper civic education should be is an extremely difficult balancing act. That difficulty and the long term ramifications of education is why I think it's likely to be THE most important problem in upcoming decades. In order to avoid dystopian outcomes that difficulty needs to be confronted honestly and pragmatically. Systems become most dysfunctional and dystopian when they pursue a vision without regard for pragmatic considerations and are willing to become increasingly "in debt" to a vision by doing things that are very bad in the short term to medium term for an imagined, non existent benefit in the long term. I think it's perfectly possible to aim a system in pragmatic directions towards actually viable paths to betterment which balance short, medium, and long term considerations without the type of indebtedness to vision that leads to bad outcomes. Those paths won't be perfectly defined, and the benefits might end up being modest. In short I don't think I'm advocating for anything utopian, just intentional, pragmatic, and in service of whatever best paths make themselves visible. I think we are not looking at paths which are much better than the one public education is currently on. Exactly how much better civic education could be is a big unknown, but my hope is that it could be drastically improved.
Oh, there's already all sorts of work mashing together GPT text with text-to-speech and speech-to-text. There were some viral videos featuring "Steve Jobs" talking about AI and one being interviewed by "Joe Rogan". I also saw somewhere here on HN a website featuring an "infinite" conversation between "Zizek" and "Herzog", in a similar vein.

Though something end-to-end would probably make more sense; text is a lossy way to encode speech, as it doesn't capture a lot of nuance that goes into spoken words. Interestingly, the same could be said of sheet music and even MIDI in the music realm.

As for transcription for multi-instrument music, there's been a lot of work on that front, and a lot of progress that's already finding its way into commercial products. The latest I've seen in this domain is https://samplab.com/, which has some compelling videos of not only transcribing multi-instrument audio but editing it on a note-by-note basis.
I've had a "we own everything you make" clause in contracts before, it's just copy pasted boilerplate, and they were fine with removing it when I asked.

Noncompetes I've been fine with, because they were always quite niche companies, and the wording was something along the lines of "don't join our direct competitors for a few years", and that seems ok to me. I will grant that it gets more complicated with megacorporations that work on everything though, as their "competitors" are roughly everyone.
Well, it can be linked as an external library, probably also statically linked (? never tried), or - how I use it, compiled into your program as a single sqlite.c file.
It still doesn't change the lifestyle if you use it as a utility. If you use it for consuming content, then sure.

But using a phone for the odd phone call, message, map check, translation, calendar, tickets (bus/train), rides (Uber), doesn't make your lifestyle worse, only better.

Unfortunately dumbphones can't handle even some of the more basic utilities, or if they do, they use a significantly worse interface (number pad keys) which makes it all take longer.
Thanks a lot for the feedback and analysis, really helps me learn more :D

> Using the website in the salt has some issues when there are multiple domains that use the same password. Do I use mail.google.com, auth.google.com, or google.com? trello.com or atlassian.net? What if the website it bought and the new owner changes the domain name? With a password manager, I can just look in my vault to figure out the old domain name.

That's true. It is an issue. I have resorted to using just the main domain for now but yes, I acknowledge the flaw.

> A browser extension (and mobile app), that checks the domain name before showing/filling the password could help.

Yes, that's what I was working on as well :D

> The secret key field let me use `1234` as the key,

You're absolutely right! I shouldn't let people enter weak secret keys. I'll push an update.

> A bug: I filled out the form but forgot to enable JavaScript. The form posted my passphrase back to the server

Thanks a lot for reporting! I'll get it fixed.

> I think the FAQ could try to list out reasons why you shouldn't use this tool, the current text seems overly optimistic which may confuse someone who isn't able to evaluate the security on their own. I don't think you're making money from this tool, so you don't need to oversell it.

Thank you, will do that.

Thanks a lot for checking it out, I really appreciate it :)
How did you all resolve the deficiencies? Can you link any product you took? I am in need of Vitamin D.
Hi folks, author here! Happy to answer any questions about what we're trying to do here with warp.build