skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t twisted pair solve this problem? You can encode signals in the difference in voltage between the two wires which means that any noise which occurs in both wires cancels out?

We have gotten pretty good at sending low voltage signals over wires with little to no noise so it seems like we can apply similar principles to audio gear?
We use Preact nowadays. It feels so much better and intuitive having first class support for ESM and use the browser's technologies for events, for instance. The TSX to JS transpilation is a bonus.

In general, for us: the Vite + Preact team feels just right.
That's an amazing idea..
Something similar happened back in the late 80's when we had painful EGA and then VGA/MCGA arrived with its glorious mode 13h, then everything about graphics became easy and cool! Then Super-VGA entered...
(“under sufficiently colours” should have been “under sufficiently different colours” - not sure how I managed to completely a word there!)
And if you use the same technique to WebP Lossless, which is generally better than PNG for most cases, you will find that it hardly improves the compression. This is to be expected because underlying algorithms are same for both, but WebP uses a slightly more tweaked algorithm to exploit more patterns in 2D images. A code and in general text is not a 2D image, so there is nothing left to exploit.
The Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY is built on a freight railway. It's a fairly new plant and still expanding.
If you’re burning it in a barrel behind the garage maybe. Actual waste to electricity plants do a whole lot to ensure corn emissions.
Ideally a big green "Unsubscribe" button. Make it promise cookies too for good measure.
> I really don't know why stereo components do not communicate digitally via ethernet cables.

If you’re building a new pro audio setup today, be it studio or even live sound, that’s likely how you’re doing it.

Even 20 years ago we had digital audio routers that worked pretty decently (not great, but well enough). This was a recording studio of course, not a home audio setting.

The reason we don’t have this in consumer audio is almost certainly cost. Now you need to add a ADC, Ethernet, and a small chip to run it all. Meanwhile nobody wants to run cables anymore and WiFi is everywhere. But of course putting WiFi in everything drives cost too.
Not rich enough to buy way in, not poor enough for poverty-related affirmative action, and competing with too many sames.
I could tell the difference on a 10km run. The difference was around 10% extra time + a feeling of my legs being heavy. No "torture", though.

It wasn't 100% predictable -- sometimes I felt fine fasting (and ran fine).
Man I agree with all your comments so far. You get it!
IMHO, the most concerning sign about software engineering practice isn't exactly "bloat", but the inability of the industry to do anything securely.

Consider every software security update to be a bridge falling down, due to incompetence.

In this case, the fault isn't so much individual incompetence, as collective incompetence of the field. The ecosystem is toxic, as are conventional practices, as are market incentives. Individuals might be incompetent on top of that, but the situation is nigh impossible for competent ones as well.

And there are no professional engineer licenses to pull, nor few individuals to send to jail.
Inequality Inc
I’ve lived near tracks a couple times and the loudest by far is the horn from at-grade crossings. If you are a heavy sleeper and a few blocks away it might not matter, but if you are nearby it is incredibly loud.
In other words, you made these scenarios up and you know perfectly well that they're unrealistic, but now the onus is on everyone else to prove you wrong.
HDDs wear out. Cheap eMMCs wear out too. I believe these were big reason for performance degradation on computer. With decent SSDs, it shouldn't be happen (on computer's lifetime) but some computer performance still degrades a bit, so there should be other reasons too, like bloating Chromium.
Tapatalk was/is great to heighten the experience in that regard. But I’m not sure whether it is still supported with recent versions of forum software. Also many admins didn’t like it as people using Tapatalk didn’t produce ad impressions.

Nowadays, forums should support ActivityPub so I can subscribe to threads from e.g. my Lemmy instance.
Isn't this just like getting spammed by recruiters on LinkedIn?
Just to clarify, he donates hundreds of millions in the aggregate, not to each outlet.
Went to the Dover hovercraft collection set up when the cross channel car ferry craft were pulled from service. (knew a former pilot, got a behind the scenes tour.)

Amazing machines, I remember riding in one there and back as a kid. Aircraft seats along the sides, lots of super lightweight construction (plastic, alloys). The captains were dual certified: sea craft when not lofted, aircraft (just, if ground effect) when raised.

Pre-digital tech in the cockpit, amazing discrete logic everywhere, knobs by the hundreds if not thousands.

They were stunningly noisy when in service. Major major turboprop vibration noise throughout the craft. A lot of pax preferred the slower ferry because they were this noisy, and very bouncy in rough weather.

Being in the cab was a joy. Like a modern day adventure round a dead steam engine dump, but for is-it-a-plane-or-not spaceship dumping ground.
I had a nexus 7 tablet that ran like a dream when it was new. Within a year it was unusable slow. That's because google had shipper it with a very low quality SSD. It degraded quickly, resulting in slower and slower speeds. So at least thats one way computers could get slower or keep locking up after some time.
I highly recommend this project. Getting my own "custom" version forked and built with CI/CD took me less than a day.
Disagree in this case. It made the comment easier to read than my sibling comment that happened to use the exact same quote.
Tiktoken uses the byte pair encoding, which is a form of compression. (LZ78 can be thought as an automatic form of this scheme.) So it's like compressing JPEG with ZIP, which may or may not work, but in either case is not a fair game.
What ever you think of Vulkan, it is NOT typical of modern software engineering. Its a massive outlier. It is very demanding of its users, it is very low level, it exposes the complexity of the hardware, it is large but not bloated, as it reflects the hardware complexity.

If you complain that modern software is slow (it is), then its because people are NOT using low level APIs like Vulkan, that forces you to think about how to most effectively utilize the hardware. Its because people don't want to know how anything works, and load up on a mountain of dependencies and run everything in a garbage collected virtual machine in a browser.
Samantha from the movie Her is here: autonomous agent for conversations
Do you mean compiling the .NET runtime (CoreCLR) itself or AOT compiling C# code? Because I recently tried AOT compiled C# and that builds quickly. And you don't generally need to compile the .NET runtime when embedding it because you can just load the builds they ship.
On Ancestry, it is definitely possible to link relations in the tree via specific blood, adoption, step-, or whatever.

At this point, I have five grandfathers. I also suspect that my birth mother has a recent NPE in her tree as well.

I've been working with a cousin who's a "DNA Angel" and she has some extremely strong views on who is a relative and who isn't. Her comments border on the offensive to me, someone who was adopted and loved by a family who aren't technically related to me, while my birth family has no legal claim or relation to me other than just being FB friends.

The melding of DNA and documentary evidence can be an extraordinary thing, and unlock all sorts of mysteries of the past for your family. It's interesting for me, when my ethnicity report is so cleanly delineated, that I can figure out which relatives I can't possibly be blood-related to, because of their country of origin, back to several centuries ago.
Or use balanced cables
Speaker wire? Are you sure? Network cable has it all wrong for speaker cable.

Speakers are typically around 4-8 ohm. With long cables, it is easy to get several ohms of resistance, meaning a significant part of the current is going to end up heating the cable instead of producing sound. Not only it is a waste, but impedance is frequency-dependent, so sound quality will be affected. It is not audiophile bullshit, you can hear it clearly. What you need are the thickest and shortest cables that you can reasonable use. For very long distances, active speakers are preferable, or a high voltage (typically 100V) line and transformers.

Interference doesn't matter. You are putting lots of power in these wires, enough to move the speaker membranes, then move the air, then move your eardrums. Compared to that, what you get from external sources is negligible. If you hear humming, that's a ground loop, and your speaker wires are not at fault.

Now CAT5 cable could make great subwoofer cables. I don't know, but it kind of makes sense. Subwoofer cables are low current, and therefore more likely to pickup parasites. They also tend to be longer than typical interconnects. So shielding and twisting may help.
I still don't believe that analysis that Av city driving is easier than highway. AFAIK the only company that guarantees "self driving" on unknown roads is Mercedes and that is for highways only. I think waymo/cruise are somewhat of a red herring because they only drive on known roads, which I don't really consider AV (otherwise we could call self driving trains AV as well).

That said the conclusion from the article is really that self driving is hard and we likely will not see it for many years.
When Variables Don't and Constants Aren't
I have to say that I've seen Redux being abused until insanity (and probably misunderstood) much more often than hooks. And much harder to clean up that mess, because it's a centralized mess. The hook mess is usually decentralized and can be improved incrementally.

What kind of frontend stack would you recommend that enforces keeping some meaningful separation of concern, without limiting productivity?
broken fan -> overheating, sometimes, maybe
It's like a multi-speaker version of binaural recordings!

Binaural recordings already have very realistic playback on headphones. So I'd imagine using multiple speakers would be a trip for everyone in the room.

I assumed you flipped the speakers around to record?
Two ways this can be countered:

1. anon by default
2. double opt in. Your details won't be available to anyone that you haven't given access to.
It doesn’t seem that surprising to me. In the olden days, video game companies served a slightly more technical user base, so it makes sense that they’d be more willing to deal with 2FA. Also, I don’t think the legal system will help you recover your SoJs.
Related thread for more context [0].

> Samantha from the movie Her is here: An autonomous AI for conversations capable of freely thinking and speaking, continuously learning and evolving. Creating an unparalleled sense of realism and dynamicity.

[0] https://nitter.net/Schindler___/status/1745986136059633986
> I'll have to look again to see if this cut is finally available in any official capacity;

I think you're talking about the three hour extended 'tv' edit? You can find that on DVD, or you could about 15 years ago.

It has a lot more in it, but it's not the most well produced piece. There's at least one "cut away for a reaction from Jessica" shot that's used in two places, for instance.
Let's face it: the DNA kit purchases are merely a come-on, to entice you to subscribe to their full-access services. You didn't really think that a one-time fee would afford you all sorts of features in perpetuity?
> You cannot dictate all of the NFRs because you simply do not have the knowledge or ability to oversee them

This is a key point, and I believe the reason why software projects are always late and why it’s impossible to estimate them generally, in a non-domain specific way.

You cannot aggregate all the estimates and recorded performance of past work and use regression towards the mean to have any predictive capacity of how long a new project will take or cost, even when it has similar high level requirements.

This is why 10xers exist, or the perception of them exists. There are people who have seen similar pitfalls in the implementation stage enough times to know how to avoid them and they don’t need to redo things as much.

This is why rewrites are dangerous, even when existing code bases are cumbersome to deal with and expensive to develop. The deep magic of low level NFRs will ruin attempts to replace them.

Some are clever and try to use linters and static analysis tools to avoid this, but these will always be opinionated, domain specific in some way, and incomplete. They can frustrate development when taken outside their domain.
What a cool idea. I'm really surprised that using big speakers as microphones still let you pick up the CRT whine way up at nearly 16KHz! I would have thought you'd be mostly picking up bass. I guess the size of a tweeter at least, isn't that much bigger than what's in a dynamic microphone.
That's entirely possible with the approach I described. Such optimizations can easily be done on the bytecode prior to the compilation to machine code.
I highly doubt that building a 10 c++ files was as fast as now. I am clearly remember building c# apps for a much longer, i remember how deployment of a trivial app on Azure took ~15 minutes. Meanwhile we still don't have 5k displays with 120hz, hardware is not even here.
I love the site, but I keep thinking when I see illustrative things on columns and funary stonework "its art, not a map" -the shields in the pictures may well be right but they could be 20, 50 or 100 years out of context because artists use old things. The density of people could be right but it also is a neccessity of columnar art you crush things together to make it "fit" artistically. So inferring spacing from the column portrayal, or from the Bayeux tapestry would be a serious mistake. Not a mistake he makes, he's a pedant, he would have better sources than that.
This is classic survivorship bias. For every student that did make it out of those schools and did make it to FAANG, there are many many many more. A much higher % of university recruiting happens at MIT/Berkeley/CMU and as you mentioned, many of the in-state schools barely get recruited.

It definitely makes things easier IF you get in and IF you use the resources of the school to their full potential. Lot of ifs, but let's not discount the objective value of those schools in making the next set of decisions easier just because they didn't benefit you.
You don't need to be an authority to see how the majority of human nutrition science is barely a step above junk. Pick any journal in the field and go through the last few issues. You'll mostly find observational studies with subject reported data (known to be inaccurate). Very few long, term randomized controlled trials with meaningful endpoints.
Missed an option for cross platform graphics, which is IMO the best one: WebGPU. Supported on all platforms, much simpler than Vulkan, and with solid C++ (Dawn) and Rust (wgpu) libraries.
Yeah honestly this could work out for them-- but the name makes me think of FTX...
best of luck to them! :)
Ingrediants can be stable but are still subject to manipulation. I made a killing by having a lot on hand, pushing bids down during busier periods, which would work synergistically with the lil goblins on during this time who list everything they sell at an undercut. This can cause the ass to fall out of pricing. You then buy up the cheap mats as fast as you can, but also alchemists will start making potions for cheap looking to undercut other potion makers with their zero time investment potion making for cheap. You buy those as well when they get cheap. Then you delist the series of sales you made that pushed prices down and buy the undercuts that helped get you there. Suddenly theres a big rift between current price and the bulk of items and most sellers stop undercutting and cheap supply runs out. relist regular small batches at 1s under market and make bank.
Thanks! More on Kinoite here: https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/
I started a new React project back in December after being annoyed with Angular, just to see whether it would be any less annoying and/or quicker.

It's been neither of those things and I'm actually beginning to regret making that choice.
The problem isn't that you cant make cables bad, its that you cant make cables excellent.

Its like vodka. There's certainly bad vodka, but there's not such thing as good vodka, only neutral tasteless vodka.
If there is a regular amount of traffic, it is actually impossible. I've tried. You can achieve it instantaneously, but you cannot maintain it because you will keep getting cut off.

It is also dangerous — especially for you — because it causes a lot of merges to happen right in front of you. Cars will end up passing you on both sides, and some fraction of them will try to then cut you off. If this happens from both sides, you're in big trouble.

Also, from a legal perspective, you are incorrect that if you rear-end someone, you are at fault (IAAL).
I think better automated collision avoidance as well as automated “you’re driving erratic take a rest in a safe location, we can help get you there” are clear wins. But forced autopilot is definitely not there yet and would require a lot of improvement over average driver (because I don’t want to increase my personal risk in order to decrease risk of high risk individual).
I learned from Kimon Nicolaides' _The Natural Way to Draw_ – although it's really more of a teacher's guidebook for many months' worth of regular drawing sessions, there are some "lesson plans" for classical subjects like slowly introducing colour into your practice, drapery, etc.
Most high end sensors, especially lidars, are targeted at L4 applications. Otherwise the price cannot be justified. It’s a safe bet that sensor makers are including AV developers in their market research.

For lidar, the range is also limited by power limits + physics, which cannot be overcome by increasing money/power/device size. Some dependencies on semiconductor manufacturing tech or better signal processing might be possible to solve with more money.
Perhaps not enough. I've certainly heard of shady companies, but I simply am not aware of a direct analogue to NSO Group. I am curious if you know of one!
> I first looked at nix-shell which you can use to create ephemeral environments just like Docker, with the difference that they are 100% reproducible and you don't need containerd or like.

Sounds like podman. What is the big differentiator from it?
As usual, anecdotes are anecdotes. I consistently have a great experience with FedEx. It's almost like its a huge company that is only as effective as the humans that execute it's operations in a given area.

In other news, people in different areas share wildly different experiences with the quality of their local McDonalds service. The jury is out, is McDonalds service entirely and objectively good or entirely and objectively bad? We investigate at 11.
The author says they were choosing three years ago, when webgpu did not exist
Don't get too caught up in the language.
Harvesting and curating offerings from AliExpress would be fast way of starting out...
fdX x Shopify could be deadly
Assuming it's well designed. If so, this cant be beat.

Arent studio monitors this?
> It’s frustrating that diversity efforts visibly took a backseat with React leadership

Who cares?!? Imagine trying to justify your decision to choose a framework to a manager by talking about their diverse leadership.
Our primary issue is that our DB is a dynamic Entity-Attribute-Value schema, even quite a bit denormalized at that. The model has to remember to do subqueries to retrieve "attributes" based on what's needed for the query and then combine them correctly.

NLQ is a somewhat new feature for us, so we don't have a great library to pull from for RAG. Experimenting, I found that having a few-shot examples with some CoT (showing examples of chaining attributes retrieval) sprinkled around did help a lot.

Even still, some queries come out quite ugly, but still functional. I'm thankful that DuckDB is a beast when tackling those :D

> Did you folks experiment with building an Agent-like interface that asks more questions before the LLM finally answers?

That's something I want to figure out next:

1) try to check if a generated query would work but would generate absolutely junk results (cause the model forgot to check something) and ask to rephrase

2) or show results (which may look "real" enough), but give an ability to tweak the prompt. A good example is something like "top 5 products on Cyber Monday" <- which returns 0 products, cause 2024 didn't happen yet, and should trigger a follow up.
That is definetly not a review. Thats a shit post from an "hater" (He acknowledged this himself in the article) written caused he got banned.

I doubt people know what an honest review looks like nowadays
I've become a strong believer that software engineers to form a guild/professional society such that we can hold ourselves accountable.
Japan puts tall fences around highways. I've assumed that's for the noise but never checked.

Example: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webca...
Great article but i wish they mentioned that the APU wasn't in the AR glasses but in the magic leap's Compute Pack
Its a multiple of vendor price. So for a few items it is quite hefty. For pets, its always 1s flat so pet pricing can be quite volatile.
The friction between Linux wanting all drivers to be open source and Nvidia not wanting to open source their drivers isn't really relevant to any other platform besides Linux. Console manufacturers have no reason to care that Nvidia's drivers aren't open source, they can get documentation and/or source code under NDA if they choose to partner with Nvidia. Secrecy comes with the territory.
I've been happily playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my MacBook at 1920x1200 resolution with most settings maxed out. It hasn't sucked. In fact, it's been pretty smooth.
Highlighting with Emacs Isearch
Drop shippers will do it automatically without FedEx needing to do any work.
Shizuku has made this bearable for me, otherwise I think there is no longer any benefit in running unrooted Android. If I'm going to give up all control of my device I'd rather run iOS.
The Unexpected Ways a Big Raise Affects Your Happiness
I'm a little sad that they didn't link the obvious original inspiration for that test - this classic Audioholics forum post by Bob Dean from 2004:
https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/speakers-when-...

As far as I know, that post is where the coathanger wire test idea originated.

Another thing I really love about it when viewed in context is, right after he destroys the entire idea of expensive cables in one post, the immediate follow-up post is "Is your speaker system time coherent?" Some people will never be convinced.
"Once you get an offer, try to generate competing offers from your key relationships"

I've always seen the statement of getting competing offers but how does it actually work in reality?

Is it as simple as contacting the key decision maker from competitor and saying...

"I've got an offer X, what can you do?"
Amazon FBA takes a big percentage, abuses sellers/brands, and significantly limits business models (e.g. international sucks) There is a market here. I hope they pull it off.