skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually is weird and exotic. The analog SVF filter is made with digital components and is highly nonlinear. No one fabricates these any more though it would be technically possible.

Emulating the distortion is done with varying levels of accuracy.

Additionally the fabrication varied from part to part and from rev to rev. So the sound of any SID is a combo of its batch of substrates limiting bandwidth and the intermodulation distortion (IMD) of its FETs' imperfect emulation linear adding and multiplication functions increasing the bandwidth. Note that these non-linearities are in a feedback loop.

Furthermore the external caps ("matched") used for the filter varied considerably, but this is more easily reproduceable.

The envelopes are unconventional too, but more easily emulated than the filter. They are a mix of linear and exponential and use the non-linear FET multiplier.

Also the oscillators are not simple analog oscillators. They're high frequency lookup tables with digital aliasing related to the key the music is written in. The noise waveform is not analog, either, but a variable frequency LFSR, although this is easy to reproduce in FPGA and somewhat in software, although the max frequency can be challenging.

Finally the entire signal chain is replete with IMD so any melody/rhythm played on one voice is affected and influenced by what is played on the other voices.

In summary the SID was designed by electronic musician Bob Yannes who modeled it after typical analog synths but was technically limited by the fabrication of the age to make it less clean than even the grungiest cold war soviet synth. Still it was better than everything else at the time and it got a lot of loving attention from devs and musicians who squeezed every ounce of juice from it.
It doesn't matter what happens to WeWork. Adam Neumann and the other VCs already exit scammed out of it with their millions and additionally dumped on retail.

They successfully got away with it, despite knowing that the business has hundreds of millions of dollars of losses pre-IPO, which was over $900M+ [0]; the biggest of all red flags as I said 4 years ago. [1]

This company could only exist in a cheap money era with decades long quantitate easing. Now just look at the ship sinking faster as the interest rates are now much higher with no cheap money this time.

WeWork is the gold standard of unprofitable companies who are good at losing money whilst pretending to be a 'tech company' or 'tech startup' and was just used as a vehicle for an IPO at an extremely inflated valuation before the bubble burst.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/14/wework-releases-s-1-filing-f...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213365
Why would they even do so ?
Large ISPs are public, so this activity would appear as extra revenue (if they sell traffic data) in their financial reports and annual reports.

The most likely is that ISPs are just respecting the local laws, and doing the minimum retention as required by the law (because more data storage = more costs),

and that their actual fear is that someone leaks this data and causes reputation damage, so they'd avoid storing anything if they can.
Sarcasm doesn't make it better.

And IMHO a video without references (or references behind a paywall) is not HN-like as it does not allow to verify the sources nor an open discussion about the topic.
Neither does knowing which parts of the book are darker or happier.
What will hurt artists is, when in 10 years, all publishers are demanding that the vividness score (TM) be at least a 95% “because that’s what drives sales”.

Which is what will happen if the authors don’t proactively stop it from happening. Look at how the music industry has evolved over time.
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The main use-case is for building peer-to-peer systems with small eng resources.

The win is basically that the entire stack gets much less complex. Network, database, and business logic all operate within the same model.

For example, once the system is finished, building a full p2p chat should be possible in a couple hundred LOC.

The goal is somewhat political, to enable people to build their own social software, instead of depending on finance for everything.

> I also don't think I can see such a design ever doing anything very quickly, as every operation is necessarily committed to disk.

There is overhead to be sure, but it's nowhere near as bad as it sounds.

In practice, we don't need to fsync every input. Each syscall chooses if it should wait for a sync before running effect. Sync only blocks that effect, everything else continues to run.

For example most REPL IO doesn't need to wait for a sync, but a network transaction does.
That list seems pretty incomplete/sparse. It's pretty unsettling that paracetamol, as common as it is in modern medicine, would still lack a known mechanism of action. I wonder if it's just a hard question to answer, or something more boring like research cost vs benefit ratios etc.
I have had 4 or 5 attempts with them at upgrading offices. For instance, from the ad-hoc membership to on-demand, then from on-demand to a small office. Their sales staff just don’t seem interested. It’s been a “please take my money” situation for much of the last 3 years.
An automatic shiny hunter for any Pokémon game
In this case, the company seemed to be very hung up on irrelevant bullsh*t. Huge red flag.
Then when audit team is gone, they enable user logging. I think thats a possibility in every provider. IMO based on the transparency they handle police requests to get access emails, I will keep using protonvpn.
Every country has their own interests.

The USA is not perfect, but there isn't anyone else out there.

Beggars can't be choosers. Especially after European NATO members underinvested in defence for decades and refused to see Russia as a threat that it is.

Not that long ago France even attempted to sell them aircraft carriers.
I just pressed the "autocorrect" button on my phone over and over. Here are the results:

> What’s your name is my sister is a teacher and I have to be in a school so I’m gonna go on my own so yeah I’m not a girl and I’m a boy so I can do it but I’m a boy but I’m not gonna be in school and I’m a kid and I’m not gonna do that because I’m not gonna do that so yeah I’m a boy I don’t wanna be in school but I’m not going on my phone because I’m a girl so yeah I am I don’t want a boy and I’m not going in school I want a boy I don’t know I want a kid but I’m not gonna do it because I’m a kid and I’m a girl and I’m not gonna do that I’m not gonna do this because I’m a baby I am not gonna be in a boy I want a baby I don’t know how do I have to be in school I am not going in the game is that you know I don’t want a girl and a boy I don’t want you are you know
Overall I agree, and usually the right answer will filter to the top, but not always. Here's some of the main groupthink pet peeve ones off the top of my head:

- Gorilla Tape for tubeless. Reality is that it's porous and absorbent and the adhesive is hard to remove, and can pull the cosmetic layer off carbon rims. It works, but with all sorts of bad side effects. Standard tubeless (polypropylene strapping) tape applied properly rim wall to rim wall works far better.

- A screwdriver is just fine for removing a crown race from a fork. (This almost always mars the fork, and while on a cartridge bearing fork this is mostly cosmetic, it can do damage and is bad looking. Shows lack of attention to detail.)

- Contaminated disc brake pads can be cleaned to like-new by applying heat. I've never once seen nor heard of this actually working long-term. It's always a "well, it might work" that turns up negative. And the outgassing of burning off break fluid isn't good to be around.

Then the litany of "how's this dent in my frame?" with the inevitable and loud "it's metal it can dent and be fine".
Sorry, discord is a NO NO for me. I think you should create an email waitlist, that would be a bit better :)
That's silly. Humans review books all the time, using very similar words. Where's the outrage over that?

This is manufactured, stretched, overhyped objections. I believe it's all as the OP suggests, because the word AI is in there. Not because anything illegal or immoral is going on. In fact it's a terribly useful tool, and once the mob cools off it'll likely return.
https://www.cazzulino.com/sponsorlink.html

Sponsorlink reads your local git configuration, grabs the email address from there and does an online check whether your email address is a sponsor of the project...

Never mind the GDPR shitstorm, but what about projects with multiple developers, does everyone have to sponsor or suffer a build delay?

Oh, and the cloud end of SponsorLink is closed source, by design: https://github.com/devlooped/SponsorLink/issues/13
They probably enter into long term lease for the building they can’t get out overnight?
> The most an attacker might be able to view is the addresses of the sites you are connecting to.

With TLS 1.2 or earlier the attacker can almost certainly discern the real DNS name of the site you're connecting to, in TLS 1.3 this is merely likely (and ECH might some day largely eliminate this risk) but not certain depending on how you connect.

In practice your client hates wasting bandwidth and so precise size measurements are also surprisingly effective. If six people who I'm snooping watch movies from the Fast & Furious franchise on a streaming service and one watches "The Imitation Game" I can tell them apart with more or less 100% reliability. If they all read Wikipedia, six looking at stuff about dinosaurs and one reading about the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, I can tell again.

Clients (e.g. your web browser) could do more to hamper this, but they do almost nothing. For example, suppose I'm sending an encrypted HTTP request with some data in it, and it'll fit easily into 4 Ethernet packets. I could pad that last packet so it's always full, and have the decryption step remove that padding for free but clients don't bother, so a bad guy can measure how long my data is to within maybe 16 bytes.
Add in URI. They're all necessary. Do you really think hypertext is dead? It's just evolving.
I had several WeWork employees in my friend groups in SF

they were gullible as hell and were educated people that couldn't understand a single word of Wall Street Journal and the investment banking community's dunking and pile-ons about WeWork

they couldn't understand the tech community's dunking and pile-ons about WeWork

everyone was saying "why are investors buying shares of this company at prices as if its a tech company"

employees were like "my first tech company omg guys I love shares and family"

just collect a paycheck, its fine, but the hopium was flat out dumb. its one thing to be at a startup that never tells you its valuation or gives you a clear answer about the strike price of your options in a way for you to model an outcome, its another thing for the financials to be presented clear as day and put blinders on.
I know what you meant, but my point still stands. From what I've seen road bicycles seem to be the tallest, while hardcore mountain bikes tend to the shortest.

For example, looking at medium - large sizes, Trek Marlin 8 Gen 3 [1] has a standover of ~750mm, while Nukeproof Scout [2] has one of just ~710mm.

[1]: https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/mountain-bikes/cros...

[2]: https://nukeproof.com/products/2022-scout-290
I would argue reaching for the shell to do your scripting is never a good idea, unless your problem is trivial to begin with (e.g. fits in less than a hundred lines of extremely readable and straightforward code). My rule of thumb is: "can I fit it in a one-liner?" - then I refactor it until it's readable, or otherwise use something else.

Once you need to do fancy array manipulation, hash tables, data structures, etc you're very likely much better off with Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, JS, or literally anything else. Notably, one or both of Python and Perl are available out of the box on Debian (and derivatives), macOS, most (all?) BSDs, and so on. Targeting Python 3.6+ will probably cover 99%+ of the systems you can find in the wild (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04 and newer).

I have also had some minor success using Go for that purpose. The toolchain can trivially cross-compile executables for ca 40 different OS/arch combinations; you need to consider the os/arch if you're running something different than Linux/x86-64 but that will again likely put you in the 1%. I'm working on some tooling to make this approach more straightforward.
Log/slog: structured logging in Go 1.21
Would also be interested to know what % of Spacs have shown success.
You are probably aware, but replacement PSUs are fairly widely available [1].

I am no EE but I would be very surprised if they are linear.

[1]: https://www.c64psu.com/
Why is it called Plunder?
Sad about this because I have a hot desk membership in New York, and it's an amazing experience that I'd probably pay more for honestly.
The analysis is cool. The problematic thing is what would have happened next, if this tool turned out to be any good.

Publishers rejecting manuscripts because "this years trend shows customers are looking for vividness in the 70+ percentile, your book is only at 55". Everything becoming the same style. If you thought Hemingway, Joyce or Nabokov had it bad with rejections, there'd be zero chance for actual innovative writing to break through the walls of The Algorithm.
Awfully similar to a post we just had on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36967594. Including the fact that both are short and finish with a list of items.

Interestingly neither post seems to be at 100% (not a criticism!), which kinda relates to what I said in the other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971378
For this very particular project I agree the reaction seems exaggerated, even though it does walk the thin line of copyright infringement. But as it happens, it rides the wave of all other AI project which started small then headed we know where. Because once your book is in the database of company X you can bet safe money they will take it and continue their "analysis" as much further as they like because hey you did not complain - and I believe you must defend yourself in order to keep the copyright.
https://archive.ph/1VpUK
Just as an aside, the same process works painlessly with podman, too, if your employer is allergic to Docker. Maybe once or twice a year I get reminded that I’m not using x86 - and it sure is nice to work all day and finish with 60% battery.
I like the idea. It reminds me of Reddit's Place, but with no way to coordinate. It's a rather frustrating experience, especially when others erase your hard-earned black squares (or when I did it myself in a moment of distraction), but it's also strangely addictive.
TL;DR: Russia has Iskander missiles stationed in their Kaliningrad exclave (former Koenigsberg if Kaliningrad doesn't ring a bell), Iskander missiles can carry nuclear warheads and have a range of 500 km which is just enough to reach Berlin. Now add two and two together. Why would Russia station nuclear capable missiles in the middle of Europe without the nuclear warheads nearby?
I'd like to see you, or any randomly selected human, try to create a flying device by squeezing any parts of your anatomy together, like all spiders of certain species can do.

Spiders are masters of tool construction and use, masters of manipulating their environment, and the only reason we don't recognise this more widely is because they don't do it in the exact same way that we do. i.e. they have the ability to produce materials to build tools with in their own body; which is, arguably, at least as good an idea as the idea of modifying materials obtained from the environment, as we do.
How much slower?

- we diable speculative execution, so every conditional branch goes for 1 cycle to the pipeline depth (5, 10, 20 cycles) to evaluate. Probably a 2x to 3x hit on performance.

- we disable prefetching, so every cache miss now has the full memory latency delay to fill a cache line. 1.2 to 1.3x hit???

- We disable SIMD as per this issue. 4x-8x hit on those parts of the code that usebit.

- If we need to go as far as disabling caching you can now only run instructions at the speed of main memory. 100x hit.

CPUs would only be faster than their 1970s ancestors because the clock speed was now 5GHz and not 1 MGHz.
Again, I don't particularly care about whether this is allowed to exist, I'm just here to laugh at the mindset that lead to it being created. But sure, I can see this being used in harmful ways.

> It seems the project was about analyzing books, not about producing new books. How is that hurting the authors?

"Vivid books are really in this year, we're gonna have to ask that you aim for a Vividness(tm) of 85 or above."

"US books have 15% more adjectives, clearly this is proof of our superior detail-oriented work ethic!"

"What does the rise in Emotion(tm) have to say about the decline of society?"
Used Xtree quite a bit, probably still have a copy from the early 90s, DOS, from my "utils" folder I took everywhere.
archived as https://archive.is/tX1c5
Or it could help me find terser books I like, people will still have preferences and if the author tries to pander to only the largest market segment I'd argue that's on them.
Ongoing thread by the creator: https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1689235485728608256
> These servers were deployed as though they were to be production customer-facing servers, however these servers have never been utilised as such.

> Servers that ROS was given access to for testing purposes should be isolated from production data, but we found that
the Wireguard host was receiving production user traffic via multihop configuration

Ouch
For your first pain point, have you taken into account that China mandates that Google maps deliberately obscure exact locations by being off as much to several hundred meters? If you look at road crossings from Hong Kong to mainland, you'll notice that sometimes the bridges seem to drop straight into the water.
Trace Elon Musk's journey from X.com to Twitter acquisition—an emblem of innovation. Also, his bold marketing move in an upcoming cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg.
When is a computer proof a proof?
Just wait till you learn about: set -euo pipefail

That should be line two of every bash script.
IANAL. But, what's your consideration such that you think this usage of the books wouldn't be "fair use"?

e.g. in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use factors of fair use are "purpose/character of the work", "nature of the copyrighted work", "amount/substantiality of the copyrighted work", "effect on the market for the copyrighted work".

The website shows a few statistics computed from a book, and a few excerpts from the book.

I'd think a consideration of those fair use factors favours the website: e.g. you're not going to look at those statistics/excerpts instead of reading the book. The website only shows a small portion of the book. The website's intention is to be educational.
Failing a VC-funded startup is an expected outcome (statistically). What difference does it make whether the founder ended with nothing (the typical scenario) vs. a lifestyle business? VCs get nothing either way.

VCs aren't screwed because they already accounted for the risk of failure. That's kind of their job.
Company I work at went from a trashy long and cramped room in a WeWork where the toilets were always breaking and the elevator buttons didn't line up with the floor numbering because it was two buildings stuck together to a two floor small warehouse style building, same area for less than WeWork cost.

Even without the push from some to WFH WeWork was a terrible product in the 3 WeWorks I've had to work in.
The climate wrecking ball striking food supply
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Excel is at least capable of basic floating-point arithmetic. From the paper:

As mentioned in Section 3, we round all real numbers to their nearest integer values, based on the assumption that GPT-4 might have difficulty handling real numbers directly. In this section, we perform an ablation study to validate this assumption. The results are presented in Table 5, which demonstrates that using rounded real numbers can indeed enhance the performance of GPT-4, thereby confirming our hypothesis.
I believe that if you are using my book as data/model/whatever for something that makes money, then I want a piece of the action.

If it's just a paragraph, fine go ahead. But the whole book? Give me money.
It might have worked on 2008 levels and then ride the elevator up.
But to fuel the growth story they needed to go international where they could not enjoy the same once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
> Remember, you're breaking debugging tools like Fiddler when you do this...

> ...And, whoever inherits your code probably won't like working with it. Doing weirdo things like that can hurt your reputation in a team.

Well, it explains why web APIs are such a hot mess: the people creating the tools don't know the difference between transport errors and application errors, the developers creating the applications don't know the difference, and the developers calling into the application don't know the difference.

It's a pretty important difference, and it all other protocol stacks care is taken not to side-step any layer and directly fiddle with the transport layers from the application layers.

Right now, a client getting a 5xx response can't tell if the application had an error or if the proxy is misconfigured, because the application developers are sending proxy errors/server errors (5xx) and trampling all over the namespace of the transport medium.

The system appears to be well structured, but the conventions were all set by developers who were all noobs. I don't think, in 25 years of development, I ever saw a sockets program (neither client nor server) where the application detected an error and set error-bits in the IP datagram, and yet in web-development, I see this all the time.
Banks (and bankers) were still making ALOT of money even during this period with 'abnormally low margins'. Banks are government supported essential services and giant profits from this sector are parasitic on society and the rest of the economy. People hate taxes sure, but being charged an overdraft fee because a bank algorithm withdrew funds for your bills before depositing funds from your paycheque is something people also hate.
This is basically my experience too. For me it was demeaning, exhausting and a complete waste of time.
I interviewed at Canonical, doing all of the written stuff, and got an offer. But in the end I turned them down because their compensation wasn't competitive.
Not just cash but also willing to make investments which don’t show returns within a year. Amazon has a history of very lean profits due to reinvestment and something like this might not be possible with Google’s promotion culture, especially adoption takes time so the initial numbers won’t be compelling.
Think of it as being a Scheme implementation: Racket, Stalin, Larceny, Plunder.