skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thenam.online - For the first time ever guitar players are able to play AI-trained highest quality effects simulations (amps, effects, cabs) directly in their browsers.
This is a major step in democratizing musical gear since native enterprise-solution programs cost a lot and free plugins are not easily accessible (often require additional host DAW program installation, updating, etc.).
The website supports loading Neural Amp Modeler modules and optionally Impulse Responses of their taste.
For even better user experience, ToneHunt implemented the website as well - now you can visit www.tonehunt.org and just by clicking on the "Try with NAM Online" button you can preload any profile in seconds. Loaded profiles stay on your system for quicker access in the future.
I remember reading a book about UX years ago, and one of the fundamental principles there was the discoverability and the intuitive use, which boiled down to sticking to conventions that are rooted in everyone's experience. Stuff like using check boxes and radio buttons properly, having the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons in their regular places (and not a "Maybe later"), using unambiguous confirmations (unlike the "Are you sure you do not want to not unsubscribe?"), sticking to the same navigation patterns users see in most other apps.

Now, I don't subscribe to it in full. There needs to be room for innovation. To my taste, it was quite boring when all software looked literally the same. Nevertheless, I agree there needs to be some reason too. Some short time ago every new app looked like a new game where you needed go through a tutorial to learn the basics. That was probably too much.

But, I don't know, as of late it feels like this iteration comes to and end, the apps start being intuitive again and reuse some patterns. The sidebars, user menus, etc. all in the same place. Mostly.

So, yay discoverability and intuitive use. But that doesn't mean we can't innovate in UX, while keeping it intuitive. Just not the "Maybe later" abusive way, please.
> While in the west population growth is relatively slow and we still have a high per-capita CO2 footprint.

A footpirnt so high that it more than counterbalances population growth in the developing world.
Enough of a divide? This isn’t the first post about him that I’ve seen flagged
Ruby's exceptional creatures
Similar thing in France for the CRS a while back. CRS are a special kind of police that can be dispatched anywhere quickly in big packs. They're mostly here to "handle protests". They had trouble hiring so they lowered the required test score from 10/20 to 8/20.
Data Protection Day: 74% of insiders see 'relevant violations' at most companies
Eclipse is a hardcore masochism tool, try IntelliJ IDEA for Java or just about anything else.

That said, is this behaviour actually Eclipse's, or is it following the settings of your OS? Windows 11, macOS, and probably some Linux things, decided that scrollbars are not cool and should be hidden or shrunk — but there should be an option to disable that (in Accessibility settings in Windows, in Appearance on macOS). Eclipse might also have its own setting.
The whole Western world has shifted rightwards in recent years as can be witnessed in election results.
The issue is the global population. Obviously, that's the metric that matters for global issues like the climate and environment.

The global population is still increasing. Furthermore, as poor countries develop this is compounded by increased consumption (both resources and energy) per capita. In that respect, "richest 1% account for more emissions than poorest 66%" should be interpreted as very worrying when the poorest are getting richer.

Ultimately we don't anyone to be poor. At current population levels this would probably mean a total collapse of the environment.

Overall, the global population is indeed the root cause of our problems.
Zero privacy on mobile devices. News at 11. The only way to have privacy on devices is to use only fully open ones: hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, apps, protocols; all of them. As of today the number of such devices is sadly zero.

you can buy phones with an OS that is not under the control of google or apple. that is good enough for now. fully open hardware phones are coming too.

and it's also the wrong reaction. because as much as you are right. the general population did not see this coming, and they need to be told to wake up.

we need to make as much fuss about this as possible if we want to change it. dismissing that as not news is not helping
> High schools are designed to provide a bare floor of knowledge a citizen should achieve.

I agree with your general point, but I don't know about high school per se.

I quit school at age 14, got my GED, and this was one of the best decisions I had ever made. I feel like there should be more options for people to leave the system early, once they've attained that bare floor of knowledge. (Which, for a sufficiently motivated child, could in all seriousness be at age 11 or 12. The GED test was laughably easy, and it still amazes me that people sit through four years of school for that.)

FWIW, the military frowned upon GEDs, often requiring a waiver, but allowed GED holders to enlist.
If I have a favorite genre of doc, it's the ones about outsider artists. In addition to American Movie I love "Monster Road", "In the Realms of the Unreal", "Exit Through the Gift Shop", and my personal favorite "Crumb".
They aren’t underpaid, at least not on the low end.

A raw recruit (E1) gets $23,000 per year. Housing, food, work clothing and healthcare is paid for. After tax, it’s like ~$1,500 in completely discretionary income. This is why you get 19 year old new recruits buying new sports cars. They can afford it. The smart ones start socking away money while they are young.

A new officer (O1) gets $43,000 per year. If they are married they can live off base and get a housing allowance. If lucky enough to get stationed in SF, that’s another $4,017 per month. So just base pay and allowance is $91,000. And the housing allowance is tax free, so it’s equivalent to making more than $100,000 per year.

Then add on top sign on or enlistment bonuses especially for in demand MOSs, relocation allowances, etc.

Then you put in 20 years and you get a pension you can live on and healthcare for the rest of your life.

They aren’t making Silicon Valley money but it puts most members in firmly middle class territory.
I agree with this. For example, it leads to weird situations where a linter with a strict type checking configuration marks some code as a type error, but it runs just fine.

Which, in turn, leads to you ignoring type errors entirely, since you don't know which one are spurious and which ones aren't.
Undoing this will probably take more energy than what we gained from burning gasoline.

If you consider the whole operation (extracting oil -> refining fuel -> burning fuel -> sequestering carbon -> storing said carbon underground), the whole cycle probably provides negative energy.

At this point, things like biodiesel or alcohol (which can be processed from plants) seem more energetically efficient.
The issue is not motion, the vestibular system cannot measure velocity, only linear acceleration and rotation. The only issue is while you are accelerating in a horizontal direction in VR, but you are not actually acccelerating (remember acceleration is absolute not relative). But I don't expect this will be much of an issue. We don't have a problem speeding up or slowing down on a treadmill.
The amount of vitamins in food is trending down. We say we're farming, but the plants are living on materials delivered from petroleum or natural gas in a media where we attempt to kill all life. There's not a cycle. We shouldn't complete that cycle because our waste streams are doomed with toxic chemicals (f.ex. PFAS).

In the US we build shelters either out of carbon-intensive materials or use significant carbon fuels for upkeep... or both, usually.

It's not that the technology isn't there, we just choose not to. Hell, some 30% of people love that reality star turned president. Sadly we're getting what we deserve.
Outside of the tech community those see little use. Listings for my local music and arts scenes are on Instagram and Facebook. Underground community events are planned using proprietary group chats.

Free culture and open internet activists lost this battle
this is such a hard segment.

Apple Watch feels like it should be the best, but it's so tightly linked to the Apple ecosystem that if you're not all-in then it's the worst option (cannot update it if you don't also have an iPhone)

Garmin looks great, and their watches are good, but their integrations with Apple or Google is weak, and they have so many strange quirks to them (just yesterday my partner's Garmin was out by 90 minutes for most of the day which baffled me as surely NTP + sync time via bluetooth with the phone!?)

Suunto actually is great, except their heart rate tracking is pretty average to awful, which is a real shame as the devices are otherwise excellent

And then the Google Watch ecosystem... watches that all feel laggy, 2nd class, and just lacking polish and finish, even the Pixel Watch just feels cheaper than it should

There's so much potential, but everyone slightly misses the mark for a different reason. I stick with a Casio G-shock which isn't smart, but works exceptionally well for the little it does, but I check out smart watches a few times a year... and it feels like digital SLRs, for a long time they were worse than a film camera, and eventually they were better... smart watches are still in the territory of worse, I'm hoping they continue to get better
Until the war is over, we can't know if exploding things non stop for two years is having a part in making the last years warmer.

The models could be incomplete, or obsolete
It's open source, so we should be able to see the code?

Edit: Someone has digged it out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162126
“Error states are a normal part of all code, no exceptions required since obviously many languages don’t have them.”

An error and an exception are the same concept. Yes, it’s true that not using the std::exception class or any template named “exception” is exception free code. But you’re just lying to yourself. An error check or an assert or verify not <condition> is a “catch”.
The bloat free is more referring to executable size, build complexity, compile time and in general to hidden complexity.

Every library having its own version of common data structure is unfortunately something that C++ programmers can't really seem to agree on :)
Receipts, mostly.
"Amusingly this is not the first DoS vulnerability I've found on a train — but that will have to wait for another article."

Don't say more.
It has only become volatile after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Was quite stable and safe before. It's just they didn't have nations before, were colonised and controlled by Ottomans while in Europe we had nation-states and nationalism since ~17 century and had enough time for cleansing to organise mono-ethnic, cohesive states. While even that, was only finished decisively by post-WWII "population transfers" (which was nothing but ethnic cleansing sold as a good thing).

They are still just starting on it.
> can only turn 33%

Energy density of gasoline is literally 12900 Wh/kg and 9500 Wh/L, Li-ion(not combusted) is ~250 Wh/kg and ~700 Wh/L. That's 50x/14x raw and 17x/13x at 33% efficiency without hybrid/ICE optimization gains.

(23222915000 Wh/kg and 370000000000 Wh/L for Pu239 btw, source[1])

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Whether standards of living are sustainable depend on how many people live that way.

Obviously they are not unsustainable in absolute terms but only when too many people live that way compared to the planetary capacity.

So population is inescapably key because we want everyone to have high standards of living.
Im not dang but I would like to share a hypothesis why this maybe isn’t so terrible.

The thing that always stood between the world and climate action was the fact that fossil fuels were the best energy source.

Since a few years, the tables have turned and solar seems to be marching towards absolute dominance.

So there isn’t much to do in terms of political climate action, since the incentives are now mostly economical.

I agree though, the extend to how people are happy to just roll over and accept that the world will go down with them is surprising.
get a phone with an alternative OS that doesn't send data to google.
Hearing a rumor isn't illegal.

Hearing and trading on a specific statement by an insider at a public company, as an outsider, is insider trading. It's not that complicated
> I spent a lot of time implementing v6

Maybe I have a significantly different setup, but on the SaaS side this only requires binding to to ipv6 and adding an AAA record on your ingress usually.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for misconduct
One-step extraction and concentration of estrogens for monitoring of wastewater
Thanks - article on Army reversal: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/30/army-swiftly-...
I'm sorry but you are wrong. Russia is the only country that I know of that does not follow "common understanding" of insider trading
Have we read the same article?

Because you know, i read it and i have been followng the game industry for ages as well.

And there was no clear answer to my question: How do people keep finding and buying his games so he makes the mone he does for ages.

But thanks for your comment...
this looks sick! absolutely game changer for guitarists!! kudos
What country is going to take the hit and start the high altitude sulfur spraying? If we even could get the forcing back to what it already was in the recent past that would be a great help.
Since ~2013 Apple designers have been throwing over board lots of conventions the company had been itself establishing for decades.

I remember user interface design class at my university ca. 2005 where 20 out of the 30 best practice interaction design patterns originated at Apple!

Steve Jobs for the most part really cared and you could feel those priorities clearly: "it's how it works, not how it looks!"

Aside from some natural missteps, the "form over function" critique at the time was predominantly false. Apple is slowly getting there though, joining "ignorant web" as correctly called out here by Nikita.

The thing is that none of this is a joke or could be taken however lightly. It's 2024 and by now we've fundamentally realized the "Software is Eating the World" prophecy; living in a digitally permeated world.

Bad design is a moral issue, in worst case scenarios it has been killing people before and will increasingly kill or harm even more going forward. It always starts with the little things, especially so in design / engineering.

I desperately hope that Zoomers at least will start to realize that Millenials really fucked it up in that regard. I know, I know it also were the bosses pushing for this but we clearly should have said "no" much more often as the professionals (?) implementing this stuff.

There is much satisfaction waiting in learning; a full-grown craft with deep history.

Zoomers: Alan Cooper's "About Face" is a great start, probably super cheap these days as seemingly no one cares anymore.
How to Fight Phone Addiction?
I'm using android phone I'm trying to fight phone addiction but I deleted all social media apps. But I still find other ways to kill time on it. I'm thinking the only way to fight is to use dumb phone but then I would need to get alternatives to navigation apps for car (that would be any navigation device) digital signature is made using application on my phone (I can get hardware signature devices to use it only on pc) or maybe there is other ways to limit my phone usage like getting a time lock box?
Yes the library is trying to model an alternative C++ world where the standard library tries to be more like the standard libraries of other languages (Python, nodeJS for example) providing actual functionality out of the box rather than just "containers and algorithms".
It doesn't really add value if you don't know, from top of your head, what the big differences are.

And apparently he took the time to write about it, so it wouldn't be hard for him t explain it
That's a dangerous oversimplification. Say you are a US lawful permanent resident. CBP has the power to deem your LPR status as having been abandoned (e.g., if you've been spending too much of your time outside the US, or established sufficient ties==primary residence in another country) or revoked (e.g., if you've committed one of a variety of crimes, which include any conceivable threat to national security). That determination depends only on the CBP officer having reason to believe that's the case; there's no need for any judge to get involved. Incidentally, many [0] believe that refusing to give CBP full access to the data stored on your personal computing device(s) can constitute sufficient grounds.

Once that happens, CBP can initiate expedited removal proceedings: you are forced into some cell in the airport, without access to legal counsel or any possibility of communicating with the outside world, in some cases without access to the medications you need to take... until it's time for the next flight to the country that issued your passport. Since you've effectively been deported, you can get hit with a 5-yr ban on reentering the US. And you'll have a lot of explaining to do every time you apply for a visa for any country for the rest of your life, because the "Have you ever been deported?" little question is everywhere.

All this could happen, and has happened. (Not going into the side issues of what it takes for visas in various categories to be revoked, or why Trump's travel ban got watered down: which actually happened for a different reason)

[0] https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-r...
Near as I can tell, it works like this:

a manufacturer has to meet certain MPG standards for its cars and trucks; the aggregate calculation is their CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) score. To the degree their model year vehicles fail to meet the standard, the company will owe civil penalties (cash).

To the degree a company can beat the standard, by say, making a "compliance" car that runs at 30MPG, they receive a credit. They can offset the suckiness of their truck line that didn't meet the standard with credits from their other models. There are credit multipliers for putting in certain energy saving technologies, and a huge multiplier for producing an EV.

If you run a surplus of credits, they're as good as gold - you can sell your credits to other manufacturers that need them. And you can store up these credits y/y as well.

So Toyota or Tesla, which run a habitual surplus of credits, make a boat load of money selling their excess credits to the likes of VW.

So who really pays for that?? The credit is kind of fiat, right? The government endows you with the credit for beating a goal, but it has cash value. The buying company pays real money for it, and that certainly gets baked into the cost of the vehicles they produce (passed on to the buyer).
github post Microsoft was also a major pain to add code review for groups that were not a per-project, manually curated list of users.

there were some "addons" like panda something that made it less worse, but still a crap fest in terms of usability and compliance.

not to mention that now you can barely use it without being logged in. im overall glad to have moved to gitlab and codeberg. do not miss github AT ALL.
To be fair, .dev TLD seems to imply developer or development. .internal is a broader name and even if .dev was an option it probably wouldn't be selected.
If I'm reading you right, I'd say post-chaos maths and post-computing revolution it's much easier for us to see process, not state, as the crucial element (see Ted Chiang's Exhalation). Whether that process requires QM... that's so far above my pay grade I don't even have an opinion.
Even if it all grinds to a halt tomorrow, at this point it won’t make a difference anymore. It’s the end of an era, possibly of civilization too, at least this particular flavor of it.
We also hitched a large portion of government spending and the economy to the population pyramid. If we don't have growth then we're in trouble.
nobody specifically wants shitty us style suburban planning with shitty us style houses. Plus it would hard to replicate that because its an artifact of historical cultural and political developments. In short it would be harder to replicate that instead of doing better.

But yes they want a better life for themselves.
I suspect that phrase may be a oblique reference to the absolutely lovely UI testing book "Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems" by Steve Krug.
Since they operated directly under the wires, I think this is clearly a near field.

Generating power from far fields does not seem likely to get any meaningful yield. I remember my father showing me how to build a passive radio receiver using a strong sender nearby and it worked. No other power source involved but you could listen to the (weak) output. So in theory possible, but not really useful.
so using those 10 million air pollution deaths/year figure without the context of the deaths that would've occurred had we not have good fuel for transportation etc, means it's just a piece of statistic meant to misinform you about the argument.
Which war? Or wars?
exponential growth with power < 1 is still exponential /s
I'm sorry, I don't find a junior not knowing what terms to google to be a compelling argument. Nor do I find "proprietary workplace tools" to be a compelling arguement. Either the on-boarding sucked, or they didn't pay attention to it, either way that "is definitely not the" seniors fault.

If you can't expend the basic effort, don't expect someone else to bail you out...
The toggle is supposed to convey immediateness, like a light switch turning on bluetooth is immediate.

A checkbox is like filling a form, it requires submission for the action to take place.
Even with a decent IQ, failure to finish high school usually indicates very low commitment / time preference / overall “with it” ness. It’s not a good thing that this is the future of our military but not at all surprised that the military is having recruiting problems.
you can put your fingers in your ears and say "la la la" all you want, it doesn't change the undeniable and objective truth.

everybody knows the solution, *you* know the solution, it's just a hard pill to swallow so mental gymnastics are preferable.

as a species we know that the overconsumption of resources is the problem. there are exactly zero valid arguments against that. anybody who claims that consuming less resources *isn't* the solution is either ignorant or lying.
Alright. And if you like your walled garden, please stay there and don’t link to it from other sites.
New VC in Town: "MANG" AI cloud vendors invested 25B future revenue in startups
I responded to a similar comment there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163623

> DENY doesn't provide you stateful tracking.

Yes, but I wrote that for the usual "but NAT doesn't let attackers get in my network!!1" in mind. Not the first time here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

sigh I probably should just make a blog post on it or something and just point people there.