skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but iLok especially, but Mac music-production software as a whole always has the stench of death about it. Even the Intel->Apple CPU transition was awful, with many (super performance-intensive, latency-sensitive) audio software packages running on Rosetta for years... many years.

iLok is, I think, an accidental monopolist like Adobe Flash in the era just before Steve's famous Thoughts on Flash. Terrible product, content to milk it to the end, no intention or capability of fixing it.

I have a couple iLok USB sticks (that are like $75) and the only purpose of them is so my music shit (from various vendors) keeps working when iLok servers are down.

But the flip side of this is this: I am just a hobbyist with no professional use of this stuff — I just love having all these (simulations/emulations of) retro guitar amps and various effectors and mixing consoles that to my (non-pro, non-audiophile) ear sound indistinguishable from the real thing, and would have cost a couple million dollars back in the 1990s.

But even in my case, the dollar value of this stuff is a lot more than the Mac I run it on. So most of the time, I've had a dedicated Mac for music, and another one for work and/or life.

Because historically, these music companies need more like 1-2 years, not months, to update their shit. (If they do at all; quite a lot of the music plugins and apps never make the transition — whether that is PPC to Intel, 32-bit to 64-bit, Intel to ARM, old kernel extensions to new blehpmpphblewhatev, pre-SIP to SIP, and so on and so on...)

For professional use (music studios, etc) waiting to upgrade isn't that insane — the music software is the main thing, and the OS version is a secondary concern.

(I wish it were otherwise.)
I think it's more like there's more surface area to forget when you have humans handling so many concerns, and it's not likely the part that's changed the most so it's a likely candidate for being "pushed out of the buffer" (of the human).

In a more typical model, backend devs focus more on security, while not needing to know the frontend, and vice versa.
I'm so old I remember the days before the web, when there were only mailing lists, USENET and gopher.
I really don't want to sound hyperbolic, but I think this gets the point across more easy:

"Why are you trying to make this about profit? Discipline is hard and Cocaine makes people happy. Companies responding to what people want isn’t evil"

The market environment is extremely creative (this isn't a bad thing) and players will always try to externalize everything but the profit. This is why regulation should put boundaries.
> really the benefit is 16k sampling rate instead of 8

Regular modems can't make use of that, since the actual phone lines they were designed for (whether analog or digital via G.711) didn't support more than 300-3400 kHz anyway, so anything beyond 8 kHz sampling (corresponding to a Nyquist frequency of 4 kHz) is wasted on them.

Maybe you could go crazy with a custom modem that knows how to exploit the additional high-frequency components of G.722 while dealing with the lossy/psychoacoustic compression across all bands, but I doubt it would yield any improvement over G.711:

> It is compressed, yes, but at higher bitrates it is actually usable for modems/faxes

No, they're both exactly 64 kbps (after compression/"compression"), so you wouldn't be able to fit any more signal in it from an information theoretical point of view.
Google workspace!
The idea is to eliminate the endless tabs we have opened in our browser when looking through job listings. Save them to your Notion database in a click, and manage them from their.

Currently works on a limited number of job portals:
- linkedin.com
- weworkremotely.com
- justremote.co
- nodesk.co
- remote.co
- remote.com
- workingnomads.com

Support for lever, workable, yc jobs coming this week
> pretty much every country implemented Austrian economics principles

Looking at history I’m seeing pretty much every country having a government controlled and manipulated currency, mercantilist restraint of trade, guilds and unions with government enforced monopolies fixing prices, central banks, pseudo-governmental corporations, and on and on. Those are all antithetical to Austrian economic principles. Can you point me to the overwhelming historical examples you were referring to?
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment
There is no Nobel Prize in Economics. 67 years after the Nobel Prizes were given out, the bank that Alfred Nobel entrusted his estate to started handing out prizes to Milton Friedman, Fredrick Hayek and so forth. Even the bank doesn't call it a Nobel Prize, it calls it the Bank Prize in Nobel's memory.

Prizes are given to people like Fleming for discovering penicillin, then over a half century later it's accolades are diverted to these fabulists.
This is a pretty nice way to think about it.
tldr; # changes ~ # fixes.
Change failure rate = # failures / # changes
Change fix rate = # fixes / # changes
So the latter is a proxy for the former
You are assuming that all real estate owners are paying taxes.

Also, in blighted areas buying improved land may actually be discouraged by LVT because of demolition costs. Thus vacant land should be more valuable than improved land. Can you resolve the paradox?
>Tap water. I can't stop marveling at the fact that we have (mostly) unlimited, clean, drinkable water on demand and virtually for free.

Somewhat unfortunately a lot of Tab Water in even developed countries today aren't drinkable without going through a very decent filter.
Optery cancelation is 100% self-service from inside the app per the instructions on the Help Desk. And if you can’t figure out how to do it yourself, just send us an email and we’ll do it for you.
> almost untarnished record of making incredible long-term bets that seem irrational at the time (Instagram acquisition, Whatsapp acquisition, arguably the Oculus acquisition).

how's the metaverse going?
Chronic lyme patient here, been bit twice. The first time a deer tick was attached to me for roughly 6-8 hours. I got really sick.

Here's a couple pictures next to a ruler and a penny to show how tiny the tick was:

https://imgur.com/7YpvzRb.jpg

https://imgur.com/b5sUUO3.jpg
Michael Stonebraker

oh no...

run away...

Working with companies to try and recover after they bought one of the databases that are incredibly overhyped and under-delivering has been a constant in my career.
Odd, that has never happened to me.

As far as I know, Google don’t push Chrome on websites that aren’t theirs.
Note that the adversaries don't have to be foreign. The same dynamics happen within domestic markets unless enforcement is ramped up to constrain the worst actors.
It will become mainstream in a few years when every laptop, cellphone, web browser or operating system will sport local LLMs. For now it is a bit hard, but only a bit.
and does even AGI change the bigger picture? we have 26.3 million AGIs currently working in this space [1]. I've never seen a single one take all the work of the others away...

[1] https://www.griddynamics.com/blog/number-software-developers....
Shows for me - https://i.imgur.com/c8c3MDk.png
NVIDIA chips are better for training due to the sheer prevalence of CUDA and NVIDIA being ahead of the curve in providing data centre hardware to scale up. They’re also not keeping stuff for just themselves.

When it comes to inference, most of that isn’t really relevant. TPUs or any other specialized hardware will have a higher ROI. But Google aren’t giving them to others either

I know you’re asking for a link, but it’s not really something other than Google can prove. However it is a reasonable extrapolation for anyone familiar with the product space to make.
Ok, MichaelZuo - am I not supposed to be thinking that all of you are some randos on the Internet??

Bc that's exactly what I think about everyone on the Internet - do you actually just take some people's opinions or statements as bonafide truth just bc "they seem credible"

Think for yourself and just assume everyone is a fake identity bc 99% of the time that's going to be true - that's one of them "safe" assumptions where you actually look more like an ass if you don't make it.
Humans are environment-changers. That’s why dogs teamed up with humans. Humans seem to spend a lot of time doing strange and seemingly useless things, like banging rocks together and looking at shiny boxes, but at the end of the day there is always extra food and the environment around humans is full of mysteriously comfortable objects.
They could raise rates but also run the risk of losing customers at the margin. Uber and Lyft are publicly traded companies and, as such, are required by their stockholders to maximize profit - which means raising rates, lowing costs (labor), or some mix of that (and more).

The problem here, as I see it, is that the model changed from being highly accurate (payment per mile, which can happen in a minute) to something more broad (payment per 15 minutes according to FLSA rules as I understand them).
TBH, that's still better than most of my interactions with customer support when I tried to report bugs. In most cases, they just don't have a script for this and have no idea what to do about it, even if I manage to convince them it's the app that's wrong, not me.
Do you always click in paid ads before the organic results? No? Oh because you personally don't prefer them? Oh you mean they're preferred by the minority that does click ads, over alternative paid ads?

Gee I wonder what's wrong with that argument.
SQL streaming engines really seem to be having a moment.

As someone who is less familiar with all the players in the space, how should I think about Arroyo vs. streaming databases like Materialize or caching tools like Readyset?
The security rules where I fell off my love with Firebase, not that there is anything wrong with the security, but until the point of having to write those security rules, the product experience felt magical, so easy to use, only one app to maintain pretty much.

But with the firebase security rules, I now pretty much have half of a server implemented to get the rules working properly, especially for more complex lookups. And for those rules, the tooling simply wasn't as great as using typescript or the likes.

I haven't used firebase in years tho, so I don't know if it has gotten easier.
> appears the drivers are choosing to lobby their city government for this increase

Not challenging you, but do you have evidence?

I remember in California drivers being famously against reform.
OpenStreetMap links¹ this longer article: <https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/notebooks-hancock-h...>

1. <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11740525250#map=16/30.370...>
But you also were much more likely to farm and hunt and do manual labor. All much more dangerous than office chair
Perhaps you should consider the possibility that the reason why libertarians assume a default "gubmint bad!" reaction to new policy interventions is that they are sensitized due to decades of experience seeing multitudes of government interventions both (a) to achieve their intended outcomes and (b) create unintended consequences, often worse than the problems they are meant to solve, instead.

Personally, I find it very very strange that many of the people who call for regulation as a remedy to perverse incentives manifest in commercial markets seem unwilling to recognize the existence of even more perverse incentives in the political realm. If people seeking profit sometimes do bad things to get it, why would people seeking political power be expected to behave differently?
If Uber and Lyft drivers were employees the Uber and Lyft could mandate which times of day drivers need to work, as well as prohibiting them from working for competing ride share companies.

Like it or not, Uber and Lyft drivers are indeed contractors. They set their own hours, and are free to work for competing ride share apps. There's nothing dishonest about this, people are
just salty that the "Ride share driver are actually employees" meme is not true.
Most of us physicists would probably prefer a theory without a mathematical singularity in the middle of it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is basically what I do, so it was cool to read. For others who do this, I'm curious to hear what you've done or built since taking this approach.

Also to add to the Atomic Habits recommendation, I'm partial to this William James chapter on habits that was first published in 1897: https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin4.htm
Unconstructive and mean comment.

You seem to be new to HN, but this kind of tone is frowned upon on this forum.
If a rando from hn sent me a 14-page letter, I'd probably read it. I might give it to the police afterwards.
Haha, touché!

AFAIK JB are quite conservative when it comes to bumping up JVM (or .NET for that matter) versions for their tooling. Rider aside, I do most input in VS Code and occasionally Visual Studio (when not using laptop) because it has really nice extension Disasmo which helps a lot to iterate on methods quickly for low-level optimization.
The expanded pie argument only works when there is something that cannot be done - or more cost effectively done - by the machine.

The argument in the article is that that something for SW developers is increasingly going to be to feed the machine with requirements.

I have no idea how this will pan out, but from where I am sitting the ability to converse and understand business users, even if they stay human ones, better than current sw devs do doesn't feel like much of a moat, especially with the machine's evolving io modalities.
Especially factoring in the streaming capabilities an arrow based SQL database is an exciting prospect!

My assumption is that throughput could be increased quite a bit for loading data into arrow based libaries like polars or pandas since data doesn't have to be converted. Any idea if that works out?
The Piech era VW "supercars" were pretty awesome: W12 and twin-turbo V10 Touaregs with adjustable ride height and lockers, W12 Phateon, R32 Golf, etc. Maybe not super practical, but really neither was the Syncro with its quirky water cooled boxer engine.
And lots of other wildlife. https://theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/flea-mergency-pet-t...
But companies have stopped tracking (or they've started lying). I can now opt out. I could not before.
If it's your first time in a new city, you probably just want to get to your hotel as fast as possible instead of learning the transit system.
Database vs. File system storage (2016)
not quite whole data centers, but close.

their Atom half-step servers were very, very effective for building out call center routing and VM nodes. Atom has/had some problems with one-off issues like race conditions, but they worked quite well.

data center vendor also let us do some non-traditional airflow steps as long as it didn't screw with the hot aisle, so we packed racks with these things front and back
just in case anyone think this is serious, the literal translation is of course "National bank" (Riks refering to Riket / "Reich" in German, meaning the nation).
I'm in the UK and our privatised water companies seem to mostly just pump stuff into the nearest river or coastline, untreated. Treating the sewage or building infrastructure would eat into their dividends and bonuses. Trebles all round!
Apple May Join Forces with Google in Unprecedented Collaboration in AI
“They had time” is such an amusing, and inaccurate, assertion. Toil was a very real, everyday thing. The only way to avoid toil was to be on one’s deathbed.
It's also important to note that Paul, whom is the founder of Christianity as we understand it, never ever mentions anything about Jesus' life, Jesus' lived experience in his authentic letters; he is strictly concerned with, strictly extrapolates from, Jesus' death by crucifixion and the meaning of his resurrection. The books in the Bible that describe Jesus as a historical figure are written after Paul has died.
And the labor market is overall very hot right now. Unemployment is 3.9%.
Please don't post kink fantasies on the hacker news forums.
While this article does seem a bit clickbait-y, it's worth pointing out that lossy perceptual audio coding has been getting better; research in this area continues specifically BECAUSE there is a perceptual difference, especially when using different bit rates on the same codec.
Isoxazoline class drugs still come with a lot of risks for pets.

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy...
Have they? The linked article did not make this claim. I'd be very interested in sources studying what percentage of ride share driver's supported this law.
It's now magically made it to page 6, seems a bit odd
Only ( or mostly ) when the Object is Physical or Atoms.

It is however completely opposite for anything "bits" such as software.
How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
Apple's in-house map stumbled badly at the beginning. Apple has been using Google search since the very beginning. It's reasonable that if we can't run a gpt-3.5 level model on a macbook air for 20 hours without charging, it's much better to use existing infrastructure and existing models.

The most important question is what kind of product Apple is creating.
Is that true? Maybe it's different on Mac OS, but for me (on a Mac), Zoom wants to update every time I open it, and often fails. It's very annoying.
You could either do away with the model of the frontend writing to the DB and ask customers to implement a small backend with a serverless component like AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions.

Barring that, perhaps Firestore could introduce the concept of a "lightweight database function hook" akin to Cloudflare workers that runs in the lifecycle of a DB request, thus formalizing the security requirements specific to the business requirement and causing the development organization to allocate resources to its upkeep.

So while a security rule usually gets tested very lightly, you'd see far more testing in a code component like the one I'm suggesting.
One person's reform is another person's job loss.
Revel isn’t in Minneapolis and has been shitting the bed in terms of service in New York. Kaptyn appears to be only in Las Vegas.

Hadn’t heard of Alto; looks neat. But the website seems to ambitiously evade disclosing their area of operation.

That said, it does look like ride-sharing in Minneapolis is headed for a members-only model [1].

[1] https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2024/03/14/uber-lyft...
I was under the understanding that any animal with fur or feathers can carry ticks. It's probably also an issue that smaller animals that eat ticks, like possums, are getting squeezed out.

Ever since I found out that ticks carry a disease that makes you allergic to meat, I became extra worried about them. However, despite living in a major tick area, I've luckily never seen one. I just make it a point to wear long pants and sleeves when working in the yard and then immediately shower afterwards.
That's why it's important to ground your vision of your future self in your values. I personally write a lot to myself (zettelkasten style), and I have two macros for notes that I regularly take: "what do I value?" and "what is my trajectory?" I hope in making these explicit I can have an easier time aligning them.

Anyone who has read Atomic Habits will surely find this exercise familiar. It's basically what the whole book is about (plus a mental framework to try to control your trajectory that the title eludes to).
There was a vaccine on the market but was discontinued in 2002 by its manufacturer. I don't know reasons why.

Pfizer currently has a Lymes vaccine study that I have some personal knowledge on that should be wrapped up in 2025:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

> About the VALOR trial
VALOR is an ongoing randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 trial which has enrolled 9,437* participants 5 years of age and older to receive VLA15 or a saline placebo (1:1 ratio). As part of the primary series, participants receive three doses of VLA15 within the first year at months 0, 2 and 5-9, and one booster dose 9-12 months after completion of the primary immunization.5 The final primary series vaccination for participants occurs just before the peak Lyme disease season for the region. Participants will be followed for the occurrence of Lyme disease. The trial is conducted at sites located in areas where Lyme disease is highly endemic across the U.S., Canada and Europe and has enrolled volunteers with a cleared past infection with Borrelia burgdorferi as well as Borrelia burgdorferi naïve volunteers.
It all depends on what you mean by "view". In my understanding it does not immediately follow that it must be "viewed" by making use of collision experiments.

This picture in my opinion "views" dark matter just as much as you would "view" neutrinos: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/1e... (the bullet cluster)

Regardless, I find the discussion on the meaning of ill-defined laymen language tiring while we probably agree on the actual facts.
When I started my first dev job in 2006 (I’d been developing websites for fun since the late 90s), Dreamweaver Templates were still very much a thing.

Later our designer would pass us a design built in Dreamweaver Templates and tables, and we’d spend a couple hours converting it into divs, floats and PHP.

Later still, we cut the middle man. The designer would hand us the Fireworks file he’d used to design the site, and we’d break the template into individual images and backgrounds.

What a world. I frankly kind of miss the highly textured, skeuomorphic sites. They could be a fun challenge to figure out the best way to slice and build, unlike these solid color beasts today that for some reason require css frameworks to pull off (har har).
No one only needs to be familiar with lawyers themselves to speculate about what they might do. They are a cautious bunch. This is distinct from dispensing legal advice.
How many times do you think somebody’s penis has to be attacked by insects before preventing that becomes the main “figure of merit” for evaluating sleeping positions? I think it is not very far from 1 time.
I don't see any reason why taxi drivers should not be able to charge same that say lawyers or software consultants. And really these platforms should allow exactly that drivers to set their own prices even above government set minimum.
Extremely envious of this! I don't own a copy of Art of Computer Programming, so I did spend a not-insignificant amount of reading through some of Knuth's other writings trying to find mistakes that no one else has found, and I came up empty handed. There might be mistakes ripe for the picking in there, but I'm afraid I'm not quite smart enough to find them.

Still, a guy can dream. If I ever pick up Art of Computer Programming I might give it a go again.
But presumably at least some of the land owners are already paying more through paying for the presumably private amenities. Hence the fairness argument falls at least partially.

Taxation is not about fairness, it's about raising revenue for the rather discretionary spending of the government.
Hugging Face Grok Weights
The vibe I got from the book was not one of inevitability, more "if Hammond had actually spared no expense on any single one of these dominos, the lot of them would not have fallen together." Admittedly it's been a while, but I specifically remember being miffed at the whole "chaos theory dictates that dinosaurs will find a way to escape every zoo" thing, which turned a morality story about cutting corners into a mash of nonsense. Chaos dictates no such thing, of course, but the nature of entertainment dictates that if the dinos don't get out then you and I won't pay to see the movie, so yeah, at the end of the day we really ought to be careful about what inferences we draw from entertainment where the conclusion is fixed.
Sure, but if the drivers are lobbying for it that risk is their right.