skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> simple open-source DAWs like LMMS

If you are willing to explore non-open source options, there are free DAWS that may be "simpler" for you. I say "for you" because it is subjective to a certain degree. I encourage you to try more than one.

> Feels like a lot to process
> learn the fundamentals

Before reading the doc, you may find it less intimidating to watch some YouTube videos. Just don't let the huge quantity of available videos (or even of free daws themselves) overwhelm you.

If LLMs were available when I first started, I would definitely have them explain the hundreds of little questions I had on this vast subject. a kind of personal tutor.
1) developers are not fungible. 2) things that are created are not the same , otherwise it would just be reused.
3) to understand how to build on the system you must learn the domain it is built on, which is also not fungible knowledge.

You are fundamentally building items , not reproducing them in software. A factory reproduces the same items.

There is a crisis in industry where legal contracts and business forecasts do not align with what is reasonable and predictable for software development .
Yeah I play most of the AC games but I typically play them a few years behind release. Ubisoft games, especially the Assassin's creed franchise, have been getting incrementally more aggressive in pushing ads for the latest release backward into the previous games. To me it seems far more likely than not that this one just had more pushback than they were expecting so they're backpedaling on it.
IMO fundmental freedom is being able to walk (for free) to get your daily essentials met, instead of requiring transportation that eats up 15% of household income. Nevermind people who can't afford car upkeep. Personal vehicles are more of a cowboy/frontier privilege, which is still important, but doesn't mean settlements/cities need to adapt to car usage patterns to the detriment of pedestrian patterns.

Transit linking multiple zones together enables shopping around for quality services. Car owners can still drive. Again this isn't about eliminating cars, but reducing reliance on them, especially for every day living. Yes it can be about settling for whatever is in your default zone, which frequently is enough on the convenience : cost ratio if there's enough density to attract commerce at scale.

15 minute development patterns does not prevent car ownership. Car centric development in NA have inhibitted walkability, while also getting indirectly subsidized by non car owners.
> maybe the most sophisticated video search engine on the planet

And yet youtube search is such garbage most normal users still use google search to search for videos.
Somebody being honest? Would you prefer they lie and say the opposite? Or just let the target audience assume otherwise?

Most folks I've seen do this put such a statement (in the postive) under "non-goals".
I think Trackmania has had in-game billboard ads for a few years. Although it's not really a hugely popular AAA title...
In my experience Sorbet is a lot less useful than mypy and frequently unhelpful or useless, and both of those aren't in the same league as Typescript.
Google search certainly seems to have the ability to understand video beyond a simple caption search, so I don't see why bard wouldn't have that same ability.
How come the slag is far less problematic? You didn’t describe where it goes.

I also don’t see the “ecological balance” here. That usually refers to relationships among organisms in an ecosystem where one’s waste is another’s sustenance, but where does the generated CO2 go? Or did you mean a trade-off of pollution?
> consumer demand that won’t go away

We created it, it didn't exist even 100 years ago... let's not act like this is some sort of universal law we have to abide to
Then either you didn’t configure your server correctly or you were trying to run a server on an IP address that’s part of a blacklisted netblock (e.g. residential).

I’ve had a mail server in colo for over a decade, and I even recently had to change IP addresses on that server, and I’ve had zero deliverability issues. Set up SPF, DKIM, and reverse DNS, and obviously don’t do anything stupid like send spam or leave an open relay, and you should be fine.
They used yo. Now most governments just have their own "proper" CAs which are included by default in web browsers. If you look at the default CA list of Firefox or Chrome you will see most of them are public agencies.
nonetheless your government can force your ISP to do so many things
YouTube Transcripter with OpenAI's Whisper
Hey hey!

I've been developing this tool for generating AI-powered YB video transcriptions. It currently works very well for videos under 10 minutes, so I'm working on extending it for longer ones.

I'd love some contributions if you're interested in helping out: https://github.com/technoabsurdist/transcript.ai
Like to add some context.

The 2021 event cost north of 200billion USD and killed people.

A similar event, even half the magnitude, is likely, and very bad.

It is also an active policy decision by Texas. This would be easily fixed by integrating into the national grid and applying some supervision to the utilities.

Texas, it’s people through it’s politicians, chose this situation.
It might not be "news," but God knows how many people are actually aware of terms containing phrases such as "for any reason at any time" and "without notice".

As I mentioned here, Dropbox's Terms of Service seem reasonable. They give you a heads-up. That's the minimum I expect.
The best pixel to vector is still vectormagic. They are on it since at least 2009 and have a native desktop app. I am not affiliated but just a bit flabbergasted that they are still so far ahead.

https://vectormagic.com/
So basically:

Governments are being given authority to create dodgey certificates,

Browsers can't take it down if discovered unless they have evidence it's being used and will be harmful, and

Browsers need to advise and wait for the requisite approval [of authorities] for when the browser can take it down (i.e. the authorities can decide how long it stays up).

Or am I missing something?
Show HN: Mixing complimentary colors using P5.brush, Spectral.js, and a TX-6
Very few breaking changes between releases helps a lot.
I was hoping it was a new game you play with porch builders who build porches for the poor held together with nothing but raspberry jam.
Yes, stupid shit like punishing your users with abusive UI for regulations you dislike is neurotypical.
Collaborative Fact Checking Platform
Github repo:

https://github.com/CaptainFact
Weems and Plath make a nice tool for that: http://www.weems-plath.com/LIGHTrulesandROADrules/Lightrule....
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation
Game quality today just doesn’t support such a system. The only strong aspect of design these days is the art which, ironically, is often the quickest to seem dated.
That’s a convenient argument for coal and gas. It’s too bad Texas is the only place on Earth it ever gets cold, otherwise we might have worked out better options someplace else…
Also no estimates for how effective the kill switches will be at stopping those deaths.
>you don't have literal square miles of landfills that occupy land

Land area is a non-issue. Google says Switzerland produces "80 to 90 million tonnes" of garbage per year. Assuming that garbage has the same density of water, and a landfill is 10 meters deep, a 1 sq mi landfill will last 287 years. Moreover, Wikipedia says Switzerland has 15,940 square miles of land, so that will only take up 0.006% of the country's land area.

>eventually will leak lovely chemicals into groundwater

this is a non-issue in modern landfills because they're designed with various mechanisms to prevent that from happening (eg. lining).
Developing generative AI ‘application’ on microsoft’s land and terms. A lot of concepts here tie one to microsoft. The OPs post is a good conceptual primer that isn’t mentioned or explained in this tutorial.
Including the ability to construct a better version of said software.
Worked for Switzerland.
There are a few important roles that need to be filled by competent seamen, but the rest can just be goof balls. Check out "Whale Wars"
"wind turbines froze solid"... what kind of crappy misleading statement is that? Tell that to ND who has a lot of wind turbines and gets to -40F air temp or lower. Problem is the entire deregulated energy sector in TX who doesn't want to spend a dime on cold weather prevention.
One of our cats will sit, high five, and run in a circle on command. Neither of us have ever trained any animals before, it just took some patience and some treats.
Doordash uses Kotlin for backend as well. I suppose they want FE/BE to be in the same language. And when your main product is a native app Kotlin starts to make sense.
As someone who pivoted into more computing-centric work from an unrelated scientific field, I can't recommend Ben's channel enough! The 6502 series really helped me put together a ground-up view of hardware that I don't think I could have gotten as quickly anywhere else. His networking series is a banger too.

(I had a decent circuitry background from my intro physics courses so YMMV)
Agreed. When devs, QA, and other doers have a direct line to customers, there's no problem. In my personal experience.

That arrangement has been rare. More common is gatekeeping and incompetence. (Which may be the same thing.)

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I've never figured out how to do "agile" QA/QC/Test. I'd don't even know what it'd look like. And, yes, my prior experiences and expectations may be keeping from seeing the new paradigm. Which is why I keep asking.

The best candidate I've read about is "Test Into Prod". But I have not yet done that strategy in real life. Soon (fingers crossed).

Oh, and "bug bashes", are pretty great. Where everyone examines logs together and either explains or eliminates exceptions. That needs to be the norm.
Do Ethicists Steal More Books? [pdf]
The separate+ plugin isn't maintained, but GIMP 2.99/3.0 has late binding for CMYK (basically, work in RGB, export in CMYK).
>and mentally extrapolate how it will look even 10 more years from now.

I did some napkin math and concluded that it's a non-issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407111
Would you do me a kindness and let me know later if sarcasm gets through people who can’t care about the environment a bit more than their own consumption? I’ve tried reason but it never works.
Here is go now. The AI revolution begins with learning how-to videos. Just create the latent space for video/visual understanding, it's going to be very interesting to explore that.
“Behave” by Sapolsky
Well, generally speaking the one of most common kinds of visa that includes restrictions on working is visas for education (another common one is visas for temporary travel whether for business or pleasure, but while there may be more visas issued because people with these visas generally aren't staying, you are less likely to meet them or try to hire them), and it's common to travel for university-level education, more so for post-graduate education. So the largest population of foreigners which have restrictive visas is going to be post-graduates who are studying abroad. It's certainly the only situation where I have met someone who is legally in the country but I could not legally hire.
Microorganisms are already evolving to consume plastics.

https://www.wsl.ch/en/news/searching-for-plastic-gobblers-in...
Burnout Paradise had them in 2008

https://screenrant.com/burnout-paradise-2008-release-obama-p...
I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.

- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.

- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.

- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.

Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.

Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.

[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail/hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.

[2] Use websitename@yourdomain.come to register. Easy to block spam this way.
Ruby's weird for me in the sense that it is the language that most directly maps to my thought processes. Ruby's syntax feels extremely natural, but I first learned Java and C like a lot of my other cohort. Maybe it's because the first programming language I was truly good at was Perl
In my opinion, you're spot on: being deprived of hearing the lowest frequencies typically occurs only when there's a pressure imbalance between the inner and outer ear. Therefore, when you experience silence at these lowest frequencies due to noise cancelling, your brain may assume a pressure imbalance must be the cause.

I've had the opportunity to use a variety of noise cancelling headphones over the years, from various brands, both in-ear and over-ear, and they all had this effect.

The good news is that you can become completely accustomed to it: after a while, the brain understands that there's no pressure imbalance, and it becomes a non-issue. Not hearing low frequencies is exactly what we expect from the product.

The article goes further to discuss some slope in a graph around 500Hz, which might be true, but I don't subscribe to that. It seems unnecessary to explain the observed facts and adds nothing.

What is not addressed at all is why all models seem to emit a subtle continuous shhhhhhh across a broad range of high frequencies. It's so subtle that you can only notice it when the outside environment is already quiet. I've never been certain whether it's just noise from the signal processing. My intuition is that it's artificially added to prevent inducing tinnitus in some users.
Ringworld. That's the basic idea of the underlying society wide failure in that book.
There's no "fool it into thinking it's displayport". What you're describing is having the Mac actually literally emit a DisplayPort signal, and a separate device converting that to an HDMI signal. The USB-C HDMI Alt mode standard was never implemented by any real products, and all USB-C to HDMI converters are active adapters that consume DisplayPort signals and emit HDMI signals. Not all of those support HDMI 2.1, which introduced a drastically different signalling mode for HDMI in order to support much higher data rates (and also added display stream compression, further increasing the maximum resolution and refresh rate capabilities).
My point is that "once the possibility is proven and visible, everyone will try to get it, even the naysayers" is wrong. I could plausibly benefit from Finasteride, I'm not rushing for it even though I think it works. We can also see[1] which says "poor diet is recognized as the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and the World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, two thirds of disease worldwide will exist because of a poor lifestyle.11-13 A large body of consistent evidence suggests eating a healthy diet can prevent, delay, or even reverse CVD, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and certain cancers.14-19 The effect of such intake is rapid and profound." - yet people aren't rushing for healthy diets and exercise, are they?

And I think your claim is wrong; a lot of people pop vitamin supplements like candy expecting that they are harmless and would be surprised to find they are capable of causing harm; anecdotally I have read of people saying exactly that, which is enough to disprove "wouldn't be surprising to anyone at all".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6506974/
Starts by saying "i sent the abstract drunk, then i had to create a talk", basically admitting he started with the conclusion and then built the argument.
I'm mostly fantasizing about it because I've read about plastic-eating bacteria and radiation-powered bacteria, so it seems possible to do, like, anything. But yeah I fully admit it's probably mythical to some degree.
Why are there so many objects perfectly orbiting each other?
Without a valid certificate, any ISP MITM attacks would be obvious
Set up an embassy. Register your domain for Outlook, but don't really update the DNS (just add Outlook to SPF and DKIM to pass the validation, but don't change the MX). Then tell your MTA to send through Outlook servers when the destination is there (detecting this is a bit tricky), otherwise route normally.

I haven't really implemented this in production, but it worked for me one time as a proof-of-concept when I had an issue with disappearing mail - my message went through that time. Later it worked without any tricks, so I haven't bothered.
Product placement has been a thing in video games for years as well.
> By using the Services, you grant to VectorArt.ai, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and/or distribute text prompts and images you input into the Services, or Assets produced by the Service at your direction.

-> even to images I upload? This is a no go. As a paid subscriber, I would expect to a) not automatically give a license for everything I UPLOAD
B) not automatically give a license for content I created myself
What do you mean “most games are gacha”?

That’s obviously false
When I worked with Erlang outside of Ericsson, I’ve heard the following from our tech lead: OTP built-in distributed process and failover mechanisms assume much lower latencies than usually exist between datacenter VMs and the underlying protocols consume a lot of bandwidth. I didn’t dig deep enough to verify this, but I can confirm that typical Ericsson hardware is several boards connected with high bandwidth ‘backplane’ and OTP failover was designed for this environment. VMs communicating through LAN is a different environment, and VMs living in different data centers are very far from this. I wonder if anyone else tried using OTP outside of Ericsson and what is their experience.
It's not about fads. Good UI is evergreen, even if it looks a little dated. GIMP UI is everbrown. You could dress it up in the latest colors and styles and it'll still be awful to use because the foundation is warped and misshapen.
550k H100s? Who is buying these? They are hella expensive and China isn't allowed to have them.
Even with a plurality it's unclear he will manage to form a government, so maybe it won't matter.

And for everyone who also hadn't heard about this: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-10-24/...

> AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Several Dutch lawmakers on Tuesday challenged the Netherlands' Trade Minister over whether the U.S. has acted correctly in unilaterally imposing new rules regulating the export to China of another chipmaking machine made by ASML Holding.
Really? What’s particularly bad about it?
> Having your systems 1 or 2 versions behind the mainline is good practice in every mission-critical piece of software.

I do that, and I've even personally experienced a few rare ZFS bugs that seem due to interactions between ZFS and Western Digital firmwares.

Still, I was caught unprepared: I have several backups not stored on ZFS, but all of them were made FROM a ZFS source, meaning they are now all suspicious since silent corruption has been possible since version 2.1.4, and maybe even longer than that.

ZFS is practical to use, but for now I think I'll keep a history of file checksums, like how it was done before bitrot protection.
SARs are for, like, attempted funding of terrorists. fraudy cc attempts don't scratch the surface
Kills Firefox? My entire laptop, including my cursor and typing into a terminal, dropped to something like 10 fps.

The lofi version posted in reply to this is definitely better, but it's still crazy they managed to use up an entire laptop for their status page. Cool, but crazy.
The "Directeur des opérations" was Pierre RIBARDIERE, the launch failure had nothing to do with him, it was due to a software bug (overflow) in a component that was reused from Ariane 4, but bugged out in Ariane 5 due to the much greater accélération IIRC.
I think this is great insight. It reflects why I often feel like I'm having to be the product and program manager as well. Even though I'm not, so often ideas on what could be improved, what could be done better, how to do things better can only come from the programmers, because the people whose title is manager are too removed from the actual management of the machines that are the ones executing the process that yields actual outcomes.
Yeah they should have called them tags and annotations.

Or labels and annotations.

Or something else.
Maybe your domain isn’t on blocklists, but what about your IP?

Assuming you don’t send spam, the question of whether or not your IP is on blocklists is primarily a function of both how long you’ve had your IP address, and how well-behaved its neighboring IPs are.

For example I just tried checking[^1] the public IPv4 address of a VPS I’ve been managing for about a year. It’s never sent or received any email for at least as long as I’ve been using it, but it’s showing up on two blocklists![^2]

Surprisingly, my home IP address (which is a dynamic IP, in a pool of other residential IPs) is only on two blocklists[^3] as well. I would have expected more, because in my experience IPs known to be residential are almost always blocklisted, just as a matter of fact!

Of course this doesn’t check the main blocklists used by Microsoft and Gmail. I’d expect my home IP to be on those (because I’d expect the entire pool to be), but maybe my VPS might not be!

Anyway, the point I’m trying to make is that whether or not the battle has been “lost,” it’s definitely stacked against anyone who doesn’t start out with essentially a known-good, static IP address that you can control the reverse DNS record for.

You could do absolutely everything else right, but if you can’t get ahold of an IP address from a reputable provider that isn’t known for spammers using their service, you’ll probably have a lot of trouble with delivery of outbound mail. And that’s not a battle that I want to fight right now…

[^1]: https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

[^2]: spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net and dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net.

[^3]: dnsbl.sorbs.net and dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net