skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8-12% sounds amazing.

Could try some A/B testing on landing page text/layout to optimize conversion.

Also I suppose you could try offering some kind of freebee for signups
SourceMage: A Linux distro which "returns control back to System Administrators"
OpenAI GPT Store May Debut Next Week
Agreed. I was using webrtc data channels for a messaging app and it’s great - the data sent could simply be multiplayer co-ord’s, actions etc instead.
Ask HN: Repulsive music quality in streaming video?
From the mid-2023(perhaps earlier) the quality of music on youtube has started to evoke some sort of visceral disgust and i've gradually stopped listening to it. Is it format changes? Did they started to compress it in another way? It is some browser-induced latency glitch(Firefox exclusive here)?
For the reference, both FLAC/mp3 and even streaming from soundcloud don't have the same visceral effect.
I went through downloading the open source version yesterday and tried it with my voice in the microphone, and a few other saved wav files.

It was terrible. Absolutely terrible. Like, given how much hype I saw about this, I expected something half decent. It was not. It was bad, so bad bad bad.

I was thinking maybe I did something wrong, but then I watched some of the youtube reviews - these guys were SO excited at the start of the video and then at the end, they all literally said, "Uh, well, you be the judge"

I still can't help but feel there's some kind of trick to it - get the right input sample, done in the right intonation, and maybe you can generate anything
Why Is CSS So Weird? [video]
This is fantastic advice, thank you. I’ve had the problem for a bit and searched around but never came across this!
so if i host on my own server i still have to pay you per cpu?
Google “Horizon Worlds”
If you know the plaintext, you know the hash of the plaintext, because the hash doesn't have a key.

Encrypt() is CTR, so you can flip bits in ciphertext to alter the same bits in the plaintext.

You know the plaintext and the hash and you know where the hash is, so you can mechanically rewrite the hash to be whatever you need it to be.

You can prove this to yourself in Python or Ruby or whatever: just CTR-encrypt "We all live in a yellow submarine", along with its hash. Then bitflip "yellow" to "orange", compute the hash for "We all live in a orange submarine" (ignore the grammar), and bitflip that into the original hash.

There are formalisms to why hash-then-encrypt is unsafe that I'm not giving you here, because I'm not smart enough to pull them out of the top of my head, but the scenario I just described is already a game-over vulnerability in many settings; a similar fact pattern has broken lots of encrypted cookie schemes, which you do in fact know the plaintext, and some bit of the plaintext (like "admin=n") happens to be incovenient to attackers.
Software did it. Fixed now.
Aside from the not giving them free t-shirts or food, what other inhumane treatment is Google committing here?
> How do we know that the vaccine did not cause the same symptoms?

Because they started after COVID and not vaccination?

Edit: will add https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccination-drama...

Vaccination actually reduces the risk.
Cryptography libraries etc. are moving towards exposing AEAD modes by default, so doesn't that make it even more weird to call ECB a default mode?
Why are self-driving cars exempt from traffic tickets in San Francisco?
What is reference [9] ?
The shells scripts that bring up a machine are also "systems programming".
Oh my goodness, I wonder if that’s what I did to my parent’s TV as a kid? I remember clearly playing with a large hard drive magnet near the TV and causing the TV to change colours - we ended up with a purple blob in one corner that never went away even after many rounds of degaussing and power cycling.
I'm fascinated by this thread for many reasons, but something interesting (or baffling to me?) that I don't see mentioned yet is the marketing or target audience for this thing.

The tagline is "Create without limits". The page says "the first creator keyboard" as well as "Maximize your screen space for apps and content while you create with Clicks." In one of the videos on the page, the big pitch is that this can "double your effective screen size when you're working on captioning your Instagram stories".

Is this keyboard specifically marketed at content creators / influencers? Why? Is there some special market for this that I'm not seeing? Is adding a caption to your instagram story really something that needs extra screen space?
oh wow. yes, I can see the resemblance. Thank you for the link!
The concept of Contracting is dead in California and has been for 20 years.

State law and unfortunate court rulings mean that the only realistic way to “contract“ is as a w-2 employee of a business to business Job Shops that skim 50% off the top.

I always wanted to be a contractor, but it made me sick to watch my Job Shop make $100 per hour off work for being a legal middle-man
The mental gymnastics these people do to make themselves feel good about waiting longer to fuel up their EVs to go shorter distances vs filling up ICEs is impressive.

I'm not ready to drink the Kool-aid. Give me an 800 mile range EV. Then and only then will I not care if it takes an hour to charge to 100% because I'm unlikely to be able to drive farther than that in a day. I've had to drive nearly that distance once and it was miserable and I'll never do it again without breaking it up into overnight stays at a hotel.
Oh yes—I remember it too.

I also remember using UCSD Pascal on a 64K Apple ][ with dual 5¼ floppy drives.
When adding overlay text and graphic compositions to a Reel or Story the keyboard is in the way as it covers up about 1/3 of the layout the creator is designing. Toggling the keyboard on and off to check the layout is a nuisance so I do see the advantage of an off-screen keyboard.
As a daily Gentoo user, something of particular interest is page that compares SourceMage with Gentoo[1].

- [1]: https://sourcemage.org/Comparison%20with%20Gentoo
Interestingly, all of those (except for automatic formatting) also apply equally to Rust. Maybe that's why there's such a "Go vs Rust" culture.
In my experience, I honestly didn't see much difference between myself and the regular gov employees. We did the same work, on the same projects, in the same offices, etc. The only differences were that I had to additionally report to my own company on my progress, and I got paid differently (and more of course). It really was just an end-run around the government's own inability to offer this form of employment on their own, and also to use the contracting firm as a sort of recruiting agency.

I saw the exact same thing (but from the employee side) when I worked at a huge tech company. Using contractors was a way of getting people in quickly (much faster than normal recruiting), and also being able to get rid of them quickly if they're bad workers: just don't renew their contract after 6 months. Good ones were hired as regular employees because it was cheaper long-term.
Ha! As it happens, I've recently written near identical code, and was considering writing about it in a future article - I originally had leaking internal states of xorshift128+ in mind :)
It does. I'm not saying it's not a weird me thing. It was a better rhetorical dunk back when people were rolling their own message encryption; then it served as a kind of warning that if you just took the library defaults and the simplest path to getting your code working, you'd end up with something totally insecure.
I was hoping it would be live and time-lapse streams of birds making nests, like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtLIuEg_lDg
Eh it really depends on the context. When I got my EE degree I was told getting your PE only really mattered if you worked on the power grid or similar. It wasn’t that you were less of an engineer or an expert without it but that 1) you didn’t need the legal ability to sign design documents most of the time 2) even if you took the exam to become an FE, the odds of you working under a licensed PE to get the requisite hours was so small it wasn’t worth the effort to take the FE exam.

If the case involved a field where a PE is standard, the expert witness should 100% have that license. However that’s a small number of sub-fields in practice and doesn’t necessarily correlate with practical experience.
Tianji: Open-Source Website Analytics, Uptime Monitor, Server Status
In theory - yes, multiple ciphers are harder to break. In practice, we have zero examples of anyone breaking (good) modern ciphers, and lots of examples of people breaking clever constructions involving those ciphers.
Is this made with nest? Is it open source?
As opposed to the language whose name is literally a single letter?
I lead product at Fluvio.

If I remember correctly, I had seen iggy.rs in one of the recent applicant resumes to one of our Senior Rust Developer roles. Iggy seems like a cool project. All the best for the future of Iggy.

Fluvio has been in open source development for nearly 5 years now. The team has written hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

Fluvio core is a complete distributed streaming system for unbounded stream processing that is reliable, scalable, self healing. It’s the Kafka bit.

The Flink bit is our Stateful Service Development Kit which is currently in Dev Preview. Stateful Service Development Kit offers a scaffolding to compose complex chained event driven data pipelines.

Once we launch the stateful materialization bit, we will have a complete system for building end to end streaming data flows.
When I wanted to build my own mech keeb, the components were available only on AE. On AMZ they were much more expensive.
I wonder how much of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is the result of everyone browsing the same few social media sites. The latest microtrend of one small area of a site spreads to other sites or similar areas of other sites. Once you see it in somewhere, it really does go everywhere.
I think it is also known as F4
What makes it even _less_ likely is not bringing in a third party at all.

I too do not understand the angle here vs the crooks just doing it themselves.
Ah, mea culpa, it is here: https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/calculus.pdf

The preface says:

The scope is broader than is usual in an introduction, embracing not only the differential and integral calculus, but also the difference calculus so useful in approximations, and the partial derivatives and the fractional calculus usually met only in advanced courses. Such breadth is achievable in small compass not only because of the adoption of informality, but also because of the executable notation employed. In particular, the array character of the notation makes possible an elementary treatment of partial derivatives in the manner used in tensor analysis. The text is paced for a reader familiar with polynomials, matrix products, linear functions, and other notions of elementary algebra; nevertheless, full definitions of such matters are also provided.
Maven does not recompile everything each time. You have to do mvn clean to force it to. If you change a single class just that one class gets recompiled which is evident by Maven's output.
Yep. Here in Richmond they grow everywhere along the Janmes River Trail System.

Unfortunately, their popularity in the last few years has caused them to be over harvested by people selling them. Additionally, they taste the very best right after falling to the ground naturally but lots of folks keep trying to knock them or shake or climb the trees way to early in the season causing a lot of damage to the trees.
There's a bunch of work with sentinel sar sats and a few others tracking marine VHF and radar emissions. I can't go much into the newer efforts though unfortunately.

What is your specific PhD interest?
I agree. My mom's first android phone was the sidekick 4g

https://www.t-mobile.com/devices/sidekick

It was a solid device, but it got sluggish pretty quickly. Not sure if it was because of my mom's usage habits or the hardware.

And my first android phone was the Motorola cliq

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Cliq

I think I went through several devices on warranty because it malfunctioned in some way.

Anyway, I just mention this because smartphones with keyboards are not new inventions, but fewer are being manufactured. I don't think I would get a smartphone with a keyboard, but I'd love to see more innovation in this space. I'm kinda tired of the whole "more, better cameras" and "more processing power" pattern we've been seeing.
Related:

Sparkey – Key/value storage by Spotify - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6314310 - Sept 2013 (55 comments)
In the provided example, you can fix it without affecting any caller by changing the parameter types from “struct Vector” to “const struct Vector &” pass-by-reference. A lot C++ code that I have seen where pointer bugs existed needlessly used pointers even when passing by reference could have worked while being easier and safer to use.
I’ll admit that my company posts jobs to show strength to customers, partners, and competitors despite not actively hiring.

My rationale is that if people actually cared enough to reach out to me personally (we are tiny startup) I would respond honestly.

And yes, if the perfect person came around I would hire them on the spot.
I'd rather avoid an increased risk of parkinsonism!
I love Bluey but my kid won’t actually watch it. I wonder how common that is
"... Powered by AI", you'd have the most buzzwords title
Hah, you might have beaten me to the punch! I submitted it nonetheless. Soon the world will know about all the geki-action.
And the music in all his Crisp Game Lib games is randomly generated!
Media is popular and valuable not only because it's entertaining, but also because it's something you can talk about and relate to with others. So in that sense having the big brands with popular shows that most people watch is still relevant.
> I don't know how you can't be excited. This is the dreams-come-true timeline.

In theory yes, but imagine having to fight with another 8 billions directors to find someone who watches your movie. The day we can make our films at home (read as: everyone can make their films at home), is probably the day we'll need to create our own virtual audience as well, as the chances of being watched by some real person will be lower than winning a lottery.
FWIW, fosspatents was one of the first commentators to side with Oracle on the claim that APIs are copyrightable (according to existing copyright law). The tech community at large seemed to think fosspatents was a shill blog hired by Oracle for propaganda. There's a lot of info about the case on the blog too, since the legal dispute spanned many years.

It's also useful to note here that the FSF's stance that software using GPL libraries need to be GPLed (i.e. the "viral" mechanism) was largely based on the idea that APIs are copyrightable and software that uses these APIs (by copying their definitions during compile and linking phase) need permission to do so. You've probably realized this by now, since it is analogous to the kernel syscall issue. It was very interesting how the community generally accepted the FSF's stance but vehemently opposed Oracle's (hint: they are the same w.r.t. to API copyrightability).

People these days are beginning to realize Google could be the asshole too (not that Oracle has ever been the innocent one), so this stuff is probably less "controversial". But it was a very contentious issue back then.
Ah thanks for catching this!
It can also be quite easy. Buggy complicated Route 53 and self-hosting with a buggy bespoke solution aren't the only options, but they are the only kinds of DNSSEC failures I've seen on the HN front page.
He gets a gold medal in the EV mental gymnastics olympics!
Yup, that's pretty much exactly it.

.hex() is a good idea, and probably has a decent chance of beating gzip, assuming .translate() is fast enough.

The fastest approach for the bitsliced AES impl ended up being pretty cursed: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/python-bitsliced-aes/blo...
Again, what exactly are you trying to argue? It sure sounded like in the previous two comments you were trying to argue that Google was using contractors in place of full time employees. That full time workers and contractors are doing the same work. If that's what you're trying to claim, then that's incorrect the NRLB finding did not at all claim this.

That Google controlled aspects of their work? Of course, they're contractors hired by Google. If I hire a janitorial contractor is it violating labor law to tell the to change the bags once per day? What if I have them use a specific brand of garbage bags that I think are more reliable? Contractor are hired to fulfill some need that the customer has. So of course rh customer is going to be controlling the work that contractor do. At what point am I directing contractors to such a degree that now I'm their joint employer?

The NRLB's examples of Google controlling the Cognizant employees does indeed revolve around RTO and time off, as well as things like not using your personal phone at work. None of them strike me as particularly out of place, and I'd be unsurprised if the appeal has a different outcome.
Yes. A lot of 24-byte structs at Google are passed by value.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap [video]
Nobody said anything about RISC-V being "perfect" or not. The problem isn't how good RISC-V is or isn't; it's that your desire for software to target one and only one type of hardware just doesn't make any sense. That's not how computers have ever worked.

By the way, what do you mean by "PI lockfree"? Googling "ISA PI lockfree" just leads me to...another hacker news thread where you're arguing that RISC-V should replace everything.

Anyway, yes, please do "investigate how much out-of-the-box-thinking and disruptive this is" before continuing to have these inane arguments.
I wonder what the train-track diagram for C++ would look like...
Dart evolved into a nice language with null-safety and exhaustive patterns.

Hopefully in Go 3, we could see these features added as well.
They are both in the same genus.
Tailscale. It's Wireguard under the hood but with a company doing got UX on top.
Bluey, I honestly believe, is a show for adults (more specifically parents, but, you know, parents are adults) that kids can also enjoy. Like, traditionally, the "best" kid's media from an adult point of view has been kids shows that are also enjoyable for adults, but Bluey is genuinely the opposite.

There are episodes where it feels like the entire point is to get the adults in the room misty-eyed and sniffling, and it all relies on contexts that younger children just absolutely wouldn't have - but they'd still have a good time! And while Bluey and Bingo (the kids on the show) frequently learn lessons, as you'd expect from educational children's media, those lessons are almost always coupled with examples from Bandit and Chilli (the parents) on how to constructively _teach_ those lessons.

(Not to mention, a bunch of episodes are just straight-up the parents learning lessons, while the kids are just being kids and having fun.)

For me, it fills the niche that Bob's Burgers used to fill - an example of a family that's quirky but genuinely loves one another, and communicates (both their love and in general) to move past situations that could become much more serious without it. (Bob's Burgers has fallen off -- to me -- because the characters feel a lot more like caricatures of their earlier selves and most modern episodes seem to rely on one or more characters carrying the "idiot ball" to make anything happen, but that's a rant for another time.)

My wife and I watch an episode every night after dinner to relax after stressful days (two episodes on the really stressful ones) and it's just... Its' very good. We always feel better by the time the credits roll. We've watched a few episodes with kids and they have a good time, but we've also watched a few episodes with other adults, and it's catharsis. It's on another level entirely. I can't imagine what it's going to be like for kids who grew up watching Bluey, to rewatch it as an adult and catch the entire other level it works on. I'm jealous. <3
Google builds non-PIE, non-PIC, static, profile-guided, link-time-optimized, and post-link-optimized binaries and probably DGAF about calling conventions.
Instant gratification or bust!
When you have 168 resumes to skim through, you can “afford” to just pass on this application and choose some others to interview that would be less offensive to office sensibilities. The impact of accepting so many false negatives is difficult to quantify because you don’t know which ones would have truly been good fit.

I suspect that among the hundreds of discarded resumes for a particular role was a candidate who actually believes in the company, would have been fully engaged with the work, and made a serious positive impact on the company’s success.
Yeah this is my experience - or even: we definitely need to hire for position x (go through all the approvals etc., post a job) then something changes and maybe we don’t need to hire the person ASAP, but maybe in ~ 6 months, and it ends up easier to leave the posting up and see what comes in with a tighter aperture (since this is now went from high to low priority) - there is actually an open rec but it’s like a 1% chance of getting hired today vs maybe a 5% chance in a few months…
I always felt that Gradle combined all the negatives of ant and maven in one convenient package.
Says the guy who got kicked out of OpenAI for seeking billions from the Middle East to create his own AI chip startup, project Tigris. And then let back in, after much drama. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38335525

He can be not wrong, but given who he's been trying so hard to get money from, it's hard to take this as fully honest concern.
I think the idea is to use AI to turn these short snippets of imaginary shows into actual full-length show, not to generate more imaginary shows.
That will still require the compiler to serialize the three registers to the stack, to be able to pass the pointer to the structure to the callee. It seems like the described benefit is avoiding any serialization from registers to stack, which cannot be avoided with pass-by-reference.
You can run windows 3.1 in dosbox if all you want is Tetris. There's display drivers for large screens (or 24bit color, but not both) available for dosbox as well. A full virtual machine seems a bit overkill when my entire small doswin games directory is <200mb (this includes all WEPs and a few dozen other small games for win 3.x and dos). For better compatibility with the (extremely rare) program that doesn't work under dosbox's dos emulation, you can go further and run an actual copy of DOS on a disk image.
I have seen the assembly output of Google code, and I will say that my previous comment still stands.
I expected something this: https://speech2face.github.io/ (arbitrary voices) .. this model seems to have been trained for each and every specific speaker?
The recommendations seem a bit weak. What is the best way to build a recommender system for fictional works of fiction?
It's nowhere near as much of a problem when there can be a specific cause of loss with a well-defined date. I'd say the fundamental problem is that healthcare consumption doesn't really lend itself to being insurable due to this and a few other qualities. So as the government keeps pushing more nonsensical top-down policies trying to make healthcare fit into an inappropriate model, the market gets ever more distorted and the perverse incentives continue to grow.
I've put it back. Does it work now?
> And a lot of poorer people drive very efficient cars

you're mistaking lower middle class for poor.

poor people drive whatever the hell they can afford and EV's, and their subsequent maintenance costs, aint that.