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Ask HN: Best way to take few verbal notes while listening to podcast,hands-free?
I have one phone that has good bandwidth and storage. I am listening to the podcast on it. How can I take like 2 minutes of verbal notes while listening to a one hour podcast, and later be able to play them back without gaps but with "n minutes in" timestamps?
Normalcy doesn't matter. I think the point is that you're not going to get much sympathy if you leave your front door wide open, leave for work or better yet go on Christmas vacation and have no sign anyone is home, and then come home to find something's been stolen. Maybe a better analogy is leaving a laptop in your car overnight and leaving your car unlocked parked on a busy street.

Obviously stealing is a crime and we shouldn't victim blame. But with a lot of software the business isn't much of a victim so much as their customers are, and there doesn't seem to be much incentive for companies pro-actively securing their software. You could argue in hindsight the developer would've been better off selling the vulnerability and/or data to the black market rather than reporting it.
Ha, this is true! (I know we talked about it recently, but I can't find it either.) I would say that the program at Sun definitely incentivized filing patents, but it was always perverse: when it paid out for invention disclosures, people did a bunch of bad invention disclosures; when it became much more heavily backloaded to reward granted patents, it rewarded people so long after the fact as to be meaningless. (But it did allow us to buy some good Amish furniture that I do indeed still have!) It's clear from the article that IBM went on a similar journey, settling on this goofy innovation frequent flyer system?!

All of that said, scrapping the program is probably the right decision: especially with patent law tracking the way it has (namely, making it harder for patent trolls), there has been less of an imperative around patents -- and paying out for patent-related work conflates all innovation with patentability, which is a mistake in my opinion. I have not (and would not) establish an incentive program around patents: it's great to reward innovation, but cash bonuses for patents isn't it -- however well-crafted the resulting furniture may be. ;)
Do pro software developers memorize stuff?
I find it borderline disrespectful that it strikes and disregards a word I purposely typed in the search field.

It’s as if you ask for a coke and the bartender suggests that perhaps an orange juice would be more of your liking.
Great to see this on HN!

Andy Hertzfeld's site Folklore.org is now hosted by the Computer History Museum (where I work). What a treasure trove the site is.

Super excited that Andy - and quite a few other key Macintosh folks -- are going to be on stage at CHM on Wednesday for the Macintosh 40th Anniversary event.

It's at capacity in-person, but sign up to watch online (free) at https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great/

PS: if you're in the Bay Area stop by to see our ongoing Mac pop-up exhibit anytime too: https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/hello-the-mac-at-40/
Here's the actual article from VMWare:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US

It sounds pretty unambiguous; they go out of their way to note that these products are no longer available by any means and are discontinued, and they list both vSAN and NSX.

But, yeah, just because a company says something doesn't mean it's true, I guess - wouldn't put it past them to say "oh, all these products have been replaced by the new VMWare vCloud Platinum MAX offering" which is just the same products in a bundle that costs ten times as much.
> Participants: 33 volunteers, not suffering from acute and/or chronic diseases.

The study thinks it's testing A440 vs A432 music. It's probably testing the effect of normal-sounding vs weird-sounding music.
Honestly I learned the basics in Econ classes during college and have an interest in international relations/geopolitics so I’m not sure a good single source for learning about it all. But yeah there is some macroeconomic wizardry involved here. I’ll add it is a political thing and not a right v wrong policy. Choosing manufacturing power or global influence is a trade off with pros and cons.
Both the left and the right in Germany are pro putin. DACH countries have a peculiar relationship with Russia for some reason. Switzerland and Austria being quite favourable despite their “support” for Ukraine. Austria being the worst.
I'd probably not say anything. At most anonymously. I'm not taking the risk as i stand nothing to gain
For me the big problem with most C competitors is they go overboard. The only alternative I've tried that sparked my fancy was D with -betterC flag. It's unfortunate that it's not its own language, but rather a "profile" of a much much larger language.
Ugh. WiFi signals aren't the best in my A/V cabinet, so I ran G.hn powerline to it. This works great 98% of the time, but occasionally there will be something that blocks traffic for a short period of time, and those things must have huge buffers.

If I'm e.g. watching Netflix when there is a hiccup, I see ping times of over a minute! I wrote a program that monitors ping times and reboots the G.hn adapters when they get too high and the problem mostly went away. I tried a couple different brands of adapters, but they are all obviously the same firmware.
Wine 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit EXEsc on 64-bit-only xNix (& Wayland)
Exactly. I'm usually a proponent of informing candidates why they were rejected, if they went through at least a couple of interview rounds. I think it's the least a company can do after they invested the time and effort to apply and go through the interviews.

But sites like this make this hard to justify. Most of the ones I saw on the front page are standard generic responses. If that's what it takes to get on rejectedagain.lol then you're encouraging companies to just ghost you instead.
At 49 I became a new father. My son (perfectly healthy thus far) is now 2.5 years old.

When I became a parent (a thing that the docs said was "likely impossible" given the obstacles in my and my partner's bodies, and yet here we are with what will likely be my only child ever), a number of perceptions changed, and one of them is that I can never look at any story involving parents, children and tragedy the same again.

I found it supremely difficult to read your piece but I did it anyway. ..... aaaaand I just had to pause because my eyes welled up at the end of the last sentence.

So I'm going to say nothing, because as you said, saying anything is awkward, and you already know how I feel to an extent, because you were a new father too once and terrified of stories like this (much less living one), so in honor of you sharing this part of your life story, I will make sure to hug my son when he returns from daycare shortly, because at the end of the day, love is the only currency that matters.

Keep loving that kid, even given the current situation. I know you have no choice, but keep doing it anyway. Much love to you and yours.
This is the discontinuation of all non-subscription licenses. I.e. vSphere (the software) isn't discontinued rather vSphere (the perpetually licensed product) is continued. You must purchase the new subscription items if you want to renew support. For more minor products there may not be a subscription bundle but for anything in common use there should be.
Sorry, but the law is wrong.
That's a turbine in the middle of active farmfield, off a dirt road, servicing a town a bit under a mile away that is barely 10 city blocks wide at its widest point. In the middle of Iowa.

My point just because you can build the turbines to clear everything, there are areas in this nation where there's just no point to doing that; and it's more economical to just make them shorter and put the money towards something more useful
Yes there’s a serious issue, but thrust of the previous comment was that it’s not productive to criticize poor research using poor research.

Conservatively 90%? Bullshit. The real numbers are already terrible so why use unintentional hyperbole to make the argument it just weakens it.
The company we purchased from is pretty sure VMware is cutting them off. We used to deal with CDW, but cdw’s service went to crap
I still don't consider myself 'great', although I know I'm better than most. What got me to where I am is a combination of "time in seat", "variety of work", "continually challenging myself" and "being curious".

As others have said, as you gain more experience, your greatest impact will shift from your individual contribution to your ability to grow and guide teams of people.

To be able to do that effectively, you've probably had a variety of experience. You've seen things done well, and also been involved in enough mistakes to understand where the dragons lie. You've been responsible for greenfield delivery, modeling multiple business domains, have worked on codebases that resemble modular monoliths as well as microservices and can confidently explain the potential benefits and pitfalls of each. You've read a lot, kept up with changes in the field. You read other people's code, especially well written open source stuff. You probably contribute to some open source stuff too. You actively solicit feedback on your own code and don't take criticism personally. You've seen testing done well, and testing done badly. You've studied different programming paradigms and languages and become experienced enough in each to be able to make good decisions about where to use them (and where not to). You've worked with multiple different frameworks over 10s of years and can see the differences, but also the commonalities between them. You learn how to decouple your core code as much as possible from things that are subject to change on a whim. Your curiosity over your career means you have picked up adjacent knowledge; business domain knowledge being particularly valuable, but also things like an understanding of the full stack - networking, security, databases, infrastructure - you're as comfortable digging through a wireshark capture or tracing through system code as you are facilitating business/tech workshops discovering bounded contexts.

Eventually you become the goto person, the one who everyone wants to bounce ideas off. The no-nonsense person who confidently knows how to get stuff done. And then you start growing and empowering others and realise that's where the true 10x multiplier comes from.

That's been my experience anyway. YMMV.
Interesting. And reading all the changes from C, it looks like what occasional C developers should always remind themselves when coming back to C. That's a useful list by itself.
If you use a regular database for money, then some people can go in and change the digits massively in their favour without doing any work, just as we can see happening with fiat currencies.
I could bend a girder to any angle. 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it. 31...
Good luck getting off this earth without industry. Earth won't last forever. It's a degenerate mindset that thinks we should just rot here on Earth without advancing.
I don't think the "hardcoded" part is at issue here. If this wasnt a MySQL database but an API that exposed other customer information, he would have the same moral duty to disclose and the same legal liability, I think.
2024 Commercialization of Copilot to Boost AI Server
I've had scenarios where one candidate ticks all the boxes and we hire them, and we have another great candidate who was earlier in the hiring funnel that I stay in touch with even if we don't have an open requisition at the time. I've gone on to hire folks months later if they're still open to looking at opportunities.
Do it anonymously if you do it at all.

In my opinion this is like filing criminal charges because someone opened a door at the front of your business. Normally what is known to your front end is not sensitive data for the entire user base. So if you take a peak in, its the same as wondering what the extra front door is to a brick and mortar store. You’ve got the main door with the OPEN sign and then a plain door that, whoops, is unlocked and has all of your customer’s files laying out on tables. At this point you’ve done nothing wrong. If you start rummaging around you’re outside of plausible deniability.
Yea I experienced that from the customer side. I purchased a car, the sales person wanted me to submit a survey on how she did. When I got the link for the survey, it was to rate how their department was, and it was attached to their manager. I found out later the employees get $100 per review, but we are not rating them, we are rating the manager, they get no recognition. I'm not going to support systems where the managers get all the credit and the employees get nothing but $100 per customer as an incentive to make the manager look good..
Not sure how you can pretend I’m wrong when what I stated is an observation of the world and not an opinion. The US moved its industry overseas and switched to exporting dollars in an effort to buy sway inside of other countries. It did this to isolate Russia and win the Cold War.
Very cool. I noticed that the radio-controlled unit that steers the kite has its own little wind turbine for power.
Argh, sounds really frustrating! It's hard enough to get accuracy when you can control operations never mind when the compiler is doing magic behind the scenes!

FMAs were difficult. The Visual Studio compiler in particular didn't support purposeful FMAs for SSE instructions so you had to rely on the compiler to recognise and replace multiply-additions. Generally I want FMAs because they're more accurate but I want to control where they go.
There is no retirement age in Norway. You may start drawing your pension at the age of 62 (unless you haven't contributed enough) but you are not required or even expected to retire. The 70 year limit is the one beyond which your employer can force you to leave without cause.
Thanks to low interest rate and phenomenal paradigm changes in the last 15 or 20 years, the tech sector has grown so much that engineers with three years of experience can become "tech leads" or "staff engineers" who spend most of their time drawing boxes or "aligning" whatever in meetings. Day in and day out, the most valued engineers are either in meetings or on their way to meetings. To this point, these engineers are ally TPMs and PMs with engineering background. For some reason, companies value such positions more, probably because managers are not into hard technical or product decisions and therefore relied on smooth communicators to feed them digested information, or worse, opinion.

Now that the golden 10 years is in the rear view, maybe programmers will once again be valued more, as only the companies can really build fast and well will stand out.
It was certainly flamebait, which is part of what we're asking you not to post here. (I don't mean you personally, of course—it applies to everyone equally, regardless of how pro-cop or anti-cop or pro-anything or anti-anything they are.)

If you don't feel that particular comment was unsubstantive, fair enough, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982674 certainly was, and the issue is the pattern here.
The entire economy is configured around making quarterly profits for shareholders. Any good that happens to come out for humanity is purely incidental. The US economy is not some fairytale hero.
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Not a lawyer, and certainly not in Germany, but spend a lot of time reading and noodling about this space. There's maybe a reach-y contract lawsuit if you violated reverse engineering terms; it wouldn't win, but it could be annoying and expensive.

Actually using the database creds to the point where you can tell a story about the data in the database though is enough to put you at criminal risk in the US; the DOJ doesn't prosecute good-faith vulnerability research, but depending on the kind of poking you do and the kind of logs you keep of what you find, you can put yourself in a position where your good faith isn't assumed.
Even acknowledging the state of crypto today the dev and payment experience of Metamask as a browser extension beats any conventional payment system I've encountered. What's needed is Metamask but not necessarily crypto.
You can test this in Audacity: Right-click on the waveform left panel > Rate > Other... > Reduce 44100 to 43298, or 48000 to 47127.

That's like slowing down the motor on a record player by ~ 2%.
They expect it to be from a company that’s better at masquerading that their email is sent from a real human’s inbox instead of lumped in with the rest of their automated emails default config values.
In my experience, auto scaling has not yet been applicable in the typical sense of adding more web servers.

If you use an efficient language like C# or Go, the performance bottleneck moves to the database layer almost immediately.

Caching can be added and can auto scale, but that has a tradeoff: stale data or eventual consistency.

Databases are hard to scale because typically there has to be a single master instance responsible for write ordering and transaction consistency.

Auto scaling the database layer is fraught with its own issues, and simply doesn’t work in practice for many common scenarios.

For typical business apps, or typical web pages that might suddenly get a huge surge in usage (I.e.: Hug of death), a CDN can help… maybe.

My customers keep asking for auto scale to solve their problems, when the root cause is invariably a missing index in their database.
Yuck. The subscription everything model of everything just feels dystopian and a step backwards. It’s everywhere .. even silly simplistic applications and add on’s all subscription.
I wouldn't say it's so clear, if you read the article it seems like the developer was investigating an issue and found the database credentials, assumed the database connection was single-tenant (or that the user would be limited by permissions) as the software was connecting directly to it, and used them. When they realised they had access to more data than intended, they disconnected from it.

I have done exactly the same thing in similar circumstances – I had a desktop software vendor that we had issues with, saw the config files stored database credentials in plaintext and connected to it. In my case, the database was single tenant for our company so I managed to get what I wanted done.

Surely intent must come into play when it comes to applying the law in cases like this? It doesn't seem like the developer had any intent to access a restricted system.
Maybe not? Again, only speaking to US law, but your intent matters a lot here, and you have more plausible deniability sending API requests than you do making a direct connection to a database.
> Both sessions used the same music (movie soundtracks) but tuned to 440 Hz on one day and 432 Hz on the other. Each session consisted of 20 min' listening.
These guys have a systematic methodology for doing meta-analysis in health

https://www.cochrane.org/

The process starts with doing a literature search and then culling low-quality results which is almost always most of them because most studies in health have too small of a sample size, lack controls, and have other basic flaws. I saw one the other day where they found 80 studies but could only include two in the analysis.

Physics has its own hall of shame. It's quite likely that a large fraction of high energy physics is "not even wrong" in that there's not any evidence that the universe has 10 dimensions or that supersymmetry exist. In my field we used to make a plot on log-log paper, draw a line on it and say we'd discovered a power law so we published a lot of junk papers like this one

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9512055

Mark Newman was at our institute at the time and after he finally got tenure a decade later he wrote a paper that put the smack down on it but it was in a statistics journal so for all I know people are still doing it wrong.

One of the reasons why I never really found my voice as a scientist was that I never found reconciliation between the ideal of scientific truth and the reality that there is a lot of bullshit (e.g. if you don't publish some bullshit you'll perish)
I quite enjoy 432Hz music.

However, I suppose that’s because I have perfect pitch and my childhood piano was tuned to 432, so that tuning evokes a certain nostalgia for me.

I doubt there’s any real effect that makes 432 special outside of that. If it lowers heart rate vs 440, then let’s try 432 vs 424 (or whatever the next step would be). I’d bet you’d see similar results.
Ferpa Violations to Avoid
Doing work in the education field? You may know about COPPA but the other acronym that pops up is FERPA. Trust Worthy provides a guide on violations and what to avoid.
900GW it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country
If you otherwise completely healthy, wouldn’t you want to still keep the chemo therapy (even if it’s only a small asditional contribution) I’d want the greatest chance of winning
@Dang the current title, and maybe article linked, is going to cause a titanic misunderstanding in what's happening.

The 1st party link has a much clearer title "VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products" https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US&ref=thestac...

E.g. it's not that NSX as a whole is discontinued it's that NSX perpetual licensing is discontinued and you must buy the NSX subscription licensing. Some of these other SKUs may not have an equivalent but for anything "big" like NSX or vSphere there will be.
I'm one who has identified much with descriptions of Autism but never been diagnosed. In particular, the descriptions of monotropism[0] feel like a personal attack. :) The article doesn't seem to mention it but it's common to see similar commentary from diagnosed autistic people who have been introduced to the idea.

Now just to find a competent neurologist who's willing to run a brain scan.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism
What do you mean by spend into existence? If they collect much more money in taxes and investments than they spend (which they ary), are they then really spending anything into existence?
I think the original blog post from VMWare pretty much says what the above person was claiming, if I'm reading it right:

https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-...
The tax you're describing sounds like it would be illegal under international law and tied up in courts for years if not decades. I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea in principle, but I don't understand why you would have to do that first before taking much more achievable action. There are a lot of people working on this problem, we can focus on quite a bit at the same time.
That's the problem - the banks are robbing us all, you just don't realise. Look up M2 USD and find a chart over the last 50 years.
Next time: never report anything. Sell it on some black market, then forget everything about it.

Alternatively, get a sockpuppet account, publicize the information anonymously somewhere, then pretend you accidentally stumbled upon it and sue the vendor for gross negligence with your data. Go on the offence. Germany is so anal on privacy laws that I suspect the whole case has been hinging on the company making the first move. Keep sucking those sweet damages. I'm surprised there's not a whole fucking industry around this behavior, which is way too common to go unpunished.

Don't be a boy scout. This seems to be frowned upon these days.
Are they not done or are they done and nobody wants to publish them?
Corollary: The part of the system with the least amount of queuing will tend to fail the soonest in a situation of overload, thus you can always move the blame to a different part of the system by increasing queuing at the part that is failing.