skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
very cool to hear lossy was an inspiration, and to know there's a more accurate version of the same idea out there in the world. and yes that's a totally accurate characterization re: accuracy when it comes to lossy. the loosely-based-on-mp3-ness also lets us be creative with certain engineering constraints, like getting it onto a guitar pedal: https://www.chasebliss.com/lossy
can anyone recommend anything within this world related to MIDI programming/OS's specifically for sequencing midi? im hellbent being able to work on something similar to the mister FPGA (Atari ST).
Of course it will manage 15 access points, there is nothing to it.
Another reminder... https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/mediterranean-diet...
OP didn't say to never learn it. They said just cram it in for the interview.

Once you get the job, sure learn it. Unless your job doesn't require it or you're not that interested.

But, online we need to be pedantic. That's rule 1.
Obesity can be a primary factor for getting type 2 diabetes.
There isn't some simple silver bullet here. While the US ends up subsidizing other industrialized countries for prescription drugs (and that should be stopped), it is a small percentage of overall healthcare costs:

>While prescription drug costs only accounted for 8 percent of total U.S. healthcare spending in 2020, the price of such drugs has risen substantially over the last few decades. ... The U.S. spends twice as much on prescription drugs as other comparatively wealthy nations, on average.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/11/how-much-does-the-united-s...
I suspect the above worked for you? this is 100% nothing like my experience and it wasn't a "fairly simple scheduling problem"

and "Not having to jump instantly on the crying baby" made things worse

our experience was a not great to begin with, but the sleep deprivation only lasted around 6-10months per child and for the benefits it gave - I would definately do it again

to all the potential parents out there, please do your own research and try not to fall in the trap of the victorian mindset - which on the whole (massively over simplifying it) seems to suggest actions to make your life easier at the expense of the baby.
Lol. T-Mobile has gotten good at flagging spam calls as "Scam Likely", but for the landline I do the same thing. (I don't believe landline carriers...at least in the US...were forced to implement Stir/Shaken, so it gets the full brunt.) My logic is always that if it's important, they'll leave a message. The landline message also includes the three escalating (line disconnected) SIT tones, which I would like to think helps. But if the spammer uses speech-to-text technology, I'm screwed.

> Instead, report the phone number that the call instructs you to contact.

Under the above scenario most callers aren't dumb enough to leave a message, and I'd be concerned that actually engaging with anybody would increase the number of calls, at least in the short term.

If you're a staffer running the honeypot lines at the FCC, it would be fine because you can go home at the end of the day, but for a personal number I would need convincing. Would love to hear testimonials from anyone who tried this technique and their interpretation of the results.
Broken adblocking is immediately visible to anyone, including non-tech people.
What books cover exclusively about this topic ? Thanks
Thanks for clarification. I thought you were suggesting size or growth as a value themselves.

I agree people want some activity on discussion forums, otherwise what's the point. Another hand I think a lot of people think volume is inversely related to Quality once you get past a certain threshold
On Piracy and DRM
The iPhone calling app has a more direct native setting for this "Silence Unknown Callers". Anyone in your contacts or recent outbound calls will still ring, everyone else is silenced (without having to change your global focus).
Harmonic[0] has a dark mode.

[0]: https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN
Universities also teach the same basic courses every single year!
MicroVM Management Software
Advent of Code

I do the same this month: github.com/xovbd/advent-of-code
I cannot imagine that this can work well: my personal speaking (and also writing) in my native language is often full of puns that obscure side-meanings or homophones of words, or subly alter common phrases.

I cannot even imagine how this translation service might be capable of translating this. A human translator (translating it from speech or text to text) would likely add lots of footnotes with explanations so that the reader is capable of understanding the intended side-meanings that are hard to translate.
> I did a 120km bike ride this year and the next night I slept for around 6h.

Intensive or prolonged exercise (especially close to bedtime) can actually interfere with sleep. I never sleep very well the night after 10k runs or 60km+ rides. There is a sweet spot (for sleep quality) between zero exercise and too much exercise.
>Stop crying about "addiction"

rofl, yea, addiction aint huge issue, huh?
Buildkite is mixed-hosting; source code stays on your machines, on-prem if you like, but build logs / history / SCM triggers are hosted.

Unclear whether that’s enough for your situation but it’s by far my favourite because of how it lets you store the CI pipeline in the repository (so changes are reviewed via normal channels etc).
Can we not advertise that cesspool of a company?

They are a pile of trash who are more than happy to place travelers in dangerous scenarios, while moving refund goalposts down the infinitely+long field.

Any mention of the company is advertising, whether you want to believe it or not.
Pretty much any complaint about moderation from anyone always has another side to the story.

At least two of the tales of woe posted in this discussion have shown that the user was not in fact blameless.
> you first have to decipher what the speaker was trying to say

This is also where the quality is varying a lot between languages.

I'm a native French speaker with an heavy non-standard accent and no speech recognition currently works for my normal voice.

I also speak Vietnamese to an okay level and while the speech recognition is usually good, the fact that the language is not based on words but syllables usually trips machine attempts at translation and the result is generally pretty bad.

These kind of live translations while impressive require the full pipeline to work, speech recognition and then proper translation. If any of them fail, the whole thing fails. On my case, it only works with my English for now then.
"hoard of haters"

If you're not repulsed by Musk, you haven't been paying attention. He is an abhorrent human being, antisemite, conspiracy theorist, anti-human rights, philandering, anti-free speech, billionaire troll. Every one of those claims has citations based in reality. Sorry to burst your bubble.
If that was really the case then all surplus would already be eaten by landlords and that clearly isn't the case. In some parts rents are absolutely very high but that's not everywhere. If rents increase more apartments will be built, reducing the ability of landlords to extract rent.

But I agree that inflation is likely to increase if people get more money to spend. However, I think that would mainly be over a transitional period while the economy adapts to the new demand.
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Compliance specialist with experience with privacy and data security frameworks from a systems background.

If you're in need of someone to audit your controls or help build out your security program to meet common security requirements I can help. If you're a non-profit looking for a hot audit of security concerns I'm happy to provide that at a lower cost than to help support your mission.

Common frameworks that I support and can help implement or assess against:
- PCI DSS
- HECVAT
- CPPA
- GDPR
- SOC 2
- CISA
- StateRAMP and TXRAMP aka NIST 800-53

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This is very helpful, in Mexico, we have a couple of government-provided services where you register to not get advertise/financial calls, when you do, you can report them, and, in theory, the organizations could get considerable bills due to this violation.

I have been thinking that we should make an app to automate the reporting process.

A fun detail is that the government sells the lists of people that do not want to get contacted.

Also, lately, I have been getting many calls that are supposedly coming from the UK.
1. Why not link the original article[1] with the benchmarks and use your favorite way to translate?

2. Curious why they didn't use OG Ubuntu in the benchmarks. Yes Popos(I still don't agree on that name) is just another Ubuntu, but I would have proffered the OG snice that's the most popular worldwide and I don't know what Popos does to make it more "gaming focused" than vanilla Ubuntu.

For another popular Ubuntu alternative they could have also went with Linux Mint. AFAIK both are still default on X11 while latest Ubuntu defaults to Wayland so that could have made a difference.

[1] https://www.computerbase.de/2023-12/welche-linux-distributio...
Then they're probably not a good candidate for a high-paying, high-expectations job.

Thank you for pointing that out.
You mentioned regex and there used to be an awesome web engine to basically boil samples down to regex search patterns but now it's a non working creepy SEO page or something
http://txt2re.com/

I'd love for it to be back online but can't find the author.

now I just use chatgpt
Cigarettes are really harmful, but still not as hard as drugs.
The neural net would simply need the same inputs. I don't know if all those puns are available in digital form though.
I'd defer to the llama.cpp or exllamav2 repos for quantizing help, I just use their guides myself. For practical use, I'd say searching for the quantized model on huggingface.co is the way to go. Chances are high that someone else already did what you're interested in and it's a lot faster to download a pre quantized model.

Thebloke, turboderp, lonestriker, bartowski. Between these 4 users on huggingface you can find pretty much every common model already quantized.
I definitely prefer not to end up on any government watchlists! I do worry a bit about my son's online searches. He is really into rocketry, not terrorism, but I wouldn't want to rely on the government to know the difference.
According to the openAI tokenizer[3], GPT-4 sees the following tokens in the above text:

Seems to me, this task depends heavily on the tokenizer, and I'm a bit sceptical if that is really the tokenizer's output. Isn't BPE supposed to result in the longest letter sequences that are in the dictionary?

If you assume that common words like "underneath" and "the" are in the dictionary, the "greedy" tokenization would match the actual words.
Seconded. Unfortunately Linux support is relatively rare in VST land. Also I wish CLAP would get more traction as a plugin format.
But it could be... if you believe
Poll: Engineers, where do you participate online?
HN is assumed. Do you talk about engineering in other places? Please vote for all that you use.

Motivation: I wanted to get feedback from my past coworkers on a new product I'm building, but to my surprise only a small percentage seem active. I'm curious if most of us do the work without participating online.
Twitter / X
Ask HN: How to grow into a Technical Product Manager role?
Not sure if that‘s the audience here, but after 15 years in the field, I am loosing appetite for the ever repetitive nature of software engineering! Now I switched stacks (did Mainframe, Backend, Frontend, Systems Engineering, p2p…) But all companies I consultated for or was emoloyed with were winning or failing not based on technology, but product market fit etc. None of the technical choices made a huge impact.

Did someone here move from IC to a technical product manager role? If so, can you recommend readings/courses or actions you took? The company I work for now has mentioned thar if I am open to lean more to product, I can allocate more time towards that! However, I am not sure how exactly I should get more involved in, and how to skill up or what I can contribute to have an impact!
FB/Insta/Threads
Github (e.g. discussions like swift evolution)
I don't participate anywhere but here
I don't participate anywhere
I'm not an engineer
Starting with R5RS compliance, then once that is achieved moving on to R7RS.

I borrowed the R5RS test suite from chibi here - https://github.com/mattwparas/steel/blob/master/cogs/r5rs.sc... - only a few of these tests don't yet pass. Something like 135 pass, 4 fail, 20 skipped since I haven't implemented the primitives yet.

I've only tested against a few SRFIs so far, but am also attempting to run the R7RS benchmark suite https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ - So far you can view the progress here https://github.com/mattwparas/steel/tree/master/r7rs-benchma...

There are some more that aren't yet checked in. I plan to get a document up with the exact state of compliance soon.

The biggest difference right now is that, like Racket, Steel lists are immutable, so there I need a compatibility layer when running portable scheme.
Pop_OS! Arch, and Nobara
Chromebooks happen to be a perfect example of a product that’s only ever used by people forced to, in this case by their school, as opposed to something people buy with their own money.
Escaping Complexity in the world of Clean Code and OOP
It is still ridiculously easy to spoof a number. I'm on Verizon with the enhanced caller ID, and it happens consistently on a weekly basis.
I tried https://theworldtravelindex.com/en/budget-tool/?location_nam... with 3 adults and 0 kids, and I got an error because I wrote 0 in that field.
The way you put this makes it sound like the process of design you described does not create the ecology you described, but it does. Why do you think "the youth" have different tastes? Fashion is constantly being dreamed up by influential brands, and they attempt to impose their vision of the future in such a way that it will become the new norm. This process doesn't just happen by itself. At the same time, outsider styles emerge and become popular by virtue of doing something different and catchy, it is a constant pursuit of holding the banner and commanding attention by many parties. Those who simply chase the style of the day will always be out of the loop because by the time they deliver it's already the past.
Looks more like a Gobot to me.

https://tfumux.fandom.com/wiki/Cy-Kill_(GoBots)
I'm always surprised when articles mention a bunch of JS frameworks and leave out RiotJS. I can't be the only person using it?
Quality seems to depend on the language. For languages with less online presence, you get absurd errors very frequently, especially if there are any typos or regional variation in spelling (common in phonetic languages, in an informal context).

There was a thread today about LLMs' robustness to scrambled data; this seems heavily dependent on the quantity of training data.

That's for text to text though, not sure if voice to voice would be better or worse in this regard.
Unique solutions for unique problems: 3D printing at home
Even if it's not handling billions of dollars a day... Why fix what isn't broken? Software isn't an end into itself, it's a tool to solve a business need. If the business need is met, there's not anything to fix.
In other words, we might need a browser that’s actually an Open Source project, as opposed to something built by company and released with source.
I simply have a whitelist of numbers I'll answer.
Selling a car with intentional root access would almost certainly be illegal in the USA, and most places.

Cars have government-mandated safety features, and manufacturers are forbidden from adding kill switches. Selling a car with (manufacturer-sanctioned) root access would be legally the same as including a kill switch letting the owner disable safety features.

If an owner cuts their brake light wires to flee the cops, it's 100% on them. If a manufacturer included a switch for it, they'd be in massive trouble.
As far as I can tell this uses WebGL, I wonder if you could get these results just as easily using WebGPU
I had the same reaction as you, but the point makes a lot of sense to me after some consideration. If I cover up the new ones, I can TOTALLY see how someone could associate the old ones with values and styles they find outdated. At an extreme, if I imagine asking my 16yo niece about the old logos, I wouldn't be at all surprised by a highly negative association with the old.
Unless you are truly pushing the envelope of tooling development, I consider learning to use an existing tool well far more important than inventing a new one. The developer tooling has become so complex that it takes a truly exceptional individual to build a tool on their own, and the vast majority of tools are built by teams of people.

That is why you rarely meet developers who build their own tools, it's a often futile effort usually better spent elsewhere.

In fact I would go on to say that in my personal view people who do roll their own tooling usually do so due either to ignorance of existing tools or as a fun little side-project.

Woe be to those who push their opinionated tools onto their teammates...
GDAL and CesiumJS are pretty cool, idk how known about they are outside the geospatial world.
Nvidia's China Business Is Important to US Geopolitical Positioning
That Linebarger wrote iconic science fiction as "Cordwainer Smith".
Isn't everything he says just pontificating until it shows significant chances of passage? I’m not well versed on how their government works, but open to learn.
My guess is that he's protected by microsoft and affiliated media. But once he's served his purpose and the lid raised the accusations will resurface. But until then he'd have done loads of damage.
"So, this is the new normal." You're right - I've had to do a few KYC checks recently with banks, lawyers, and accountants, and in the past I've had to do it for a personal finance application for an "interest-free deal" from a furniture store. Here in NZ there's legislation that mandates the KYC checks as part of anti-money laundering laws.

Unfortunately, I've already had sensitive information breached because of this - twice! One was from a large financial institute in Australia called Latitude - I didn't even know that I had ever interacted with them, but they are the parent company of a bunch of these interest-free credit card deals.

So yes, this is the new normal but it's not good.
A free market involves choices, information, and the ability to change choices based on that information.

With health insurance the choices may be limited, you have very little information about what things cost and whether insurance will cover a given procedure. Most people are not educated well enough to be able to properly evaluate their options. You are only able to change your choice once a year.

This is a free market in name only. But the impact of choosing incorrectly is very expensive.
"He's friendly! He just wants to give you a hug! Just don't make eye contact"
If that what tptacek meant he could have said that instead of saying "I don't understand, I don't get it" ahah
That's because HN prioritizes aesthetics over privacy and won't allow you to delete your account and all its comments.
I think it was a mistake for Github to name the whole product "Actions" and then re-use the same word for a specific component within system. It's really natural to say something like "we need a push action for this repo" when it might be more correct to say "a push workflow"
China is a special case in that GMail (and many other services) are blocked; most of the directly-accessible major services are operated by companies that will readily cooperate with the government. Hosting your spies in an environment where even the content would be available to the government seems like a generally bad idea. Using a VPN could subject a spy to additional scrutiny, especially if they work in a sensitive domain.
Sleep Advice – According to Science
Those are really low EPSS.
Computational Mechanics (2001) [pdf]
Show HN: Zenfetch – Chrome extension to turn links into an AI knowledge base
Hi HN,

Today we’re launching a Zenfetch (https://zenfetch.com) a chrome extension to allow people to curate links and turn them into an AI-powered personal knowledge assistant.

Why we built this:
- We spent a ton of time reading (or writing) content but felt like most of it was going in one ear and out the other.
- We never revisited our bookmarks or notes, even though there was relevant information there.
- Most save-for-later tools were good at saving but not at resurfacing.

How it works:

1. Click the Zenfetch icon in a tab to save any PDF, YouTube video, article, email, forum post, and more.
2. Zenfetch retrieves the text or transcript content from the browser tab and indexes that information in the cloud.
3. Use the dashboard or side panel in chrome to search or chat with your knowledge base.

Unlike most save-for-later tools, Zenfetch doesn't just store your links. It uses GPT-4 to interact with your saved content, answering questions, generating fresh content, brainstorming ideas, and finding patterns. For instance, Zenfetch helped draft this very post based on some articles we’ve read for HN launches.

Zenfetch offers a 2-week trial to get started and then converts to $14.99/month.

Our vision is to build a proactive knowledge assistant that provides the perfect context at the right time. We’re just getting started and would love to hear your feedback!
On-site (eg in a dc), pairing, some kinds of hot desking, user support.

I've mostly given up on customising and try to find efficient ways to work within each OS's defaults.

The wildcard is when you're hands-on keyboard with a heavy customiser who has wildly different preferences than you :)
postfix-users is active, and primary devs very frequently answer user questions (you should make an effort to go through the documentation first).

https://www.postfix.org/lists.html

To get an idea without subscribing:

https://www.mail-archive.com/postfix-users@postfix.org/
You can afford the openai api costs but don’t want to spend a few dollars on a better host and you would rather reimplement your product?
I don't venture too far into analog electronics so I don't know for sure, but it seems like an analog FPGA type system could really take off.
Not sure what to make of it. It clearly does what it says on the tin, and from that point of view it’s impressive; but personally it’s a deeply undesirable effect. Maybe it’s bringing back PTSD of performing on Groovetech radio, streamed over RealPlayer! :D

I guess im not the audience as I prefer analogue distortion, but I also like the sound of low bit rate digital artefacts (bit crushing and the sound of old samplers) - however unlike those distortion effects this produces quite tricky resonances that I wouldn’t want to apply to audio sources in a track (because then I’d need to spend time EQing them out to make it sit well in a mix), so I’m not sure of the use case?

Bravo on the name though! (and for making it open-source)
I was thinking the other day, if John Lilly was still with us, he'd have done it already.
“To weight” is to assign a weight (e.g., to weight variables differently in a model), whereas “to weigh” is to observe and/or record a weight (as a scale does).
Those are prone to warping but are otherwise quite nice. You can often unbend them enough, eat least this has been my experience.
Needs more data, the right type of data, and probably more parameters.
Sorta tangential but its frustrating to me how Mozilla refuses to implement standards like web USB and bluetooth in the name of security (which is admirable), which gives Google even more incentive to add more APIs and extend them without any opposition.