skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying employees more works wonders when you're making them pick up slack.

Maybe I was too subtle in implying that the path to success in such a situation is to pay the SME more and crack the whip and refuse raises on the ones dragging things down until they quit. I'm pretty sure they have been with the company too long and/or have managed to avoid work thus far only hurting themselves and the company long term. Treating them well won't do anything if they take it for granted. The next round of hires should keep these lessons in mind.

You can absolutely have a great workplace full of happy people, but you need to build that on a foundation of competence and respect. Happiness is a lot of little things done right. It's the result, not the cause.

> Happy employees do better work and produce more.

Employees who do better work and produce more are happy when they're working with peers who do the same.
I'd think of it as a smart move considering how entitled, aggressive and demanding open source software users have become over maintainers.
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I'd gladly give up Rc and Arc if it meant the borrow checker treated spawn() like a normal function call.

All the code I write is async, so the borrow checker is effectively broken for me. (Wrapping everything in Arc creates weird false sharing at runtime, and I don't want to spend time debugging that class of performance nonsense.)
Alright let's do that. Is disallowing children from driving vehicles or purchasing and consuming alcohol a bad idea?

My conclusion: No. Children should not be able to do those things. Therefore, there are likely other things they should not be allowed to do.

I honestly can't believe we're even having this discussion.
Almost agree, but submitting research information as an image, and not selectable/copyable text is kind of unacceptable these days.
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Check puzzle archive or Zen mode. Infinite number of puzzles are waiting for you.
Transmitting and receiving antennas work the same way. Flip the sign of time in Maxwell’s equations, and radio waves will run perfectly backwards.
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original 1977 Paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3629752
If they don't want to have kids and are happy, good for them. If they are unhappy later, I am sorry. Perhaps volunteer to work with youth or adopt.

But please don't get an animal, treat it like it is a kid and not properly train it.
His parents were very likely very much a part and aware of the fraud. They had a house in the Bahamas purchased by the company. Joseph Bankman was part of the day to day. Barbara Fried was handling all the political donations. The trial had several parts that showed just how involved they were. They weren't just parents on the sidelines and unaware.
That's fair. If you don't live in a major port city you likely don't understand.

Maybe we should reframe it to a more familiar territory. It could be the equivalent of a second tier unsophisticated, unsuspecting, dated website with a relatively small amount of traffic hitting it being hit by a state sponsored actor DDoS attack and expecting the website to survive.
This used to be the case but in my experience Adobe runs better in Apple Silicon than Affinity does.
In the absence of a manual available online I am not sure what the required capabilities would be. A very lightweight option is to use mass storage. If the file system (like some sort of flash-friendly FS) can't be block-accessed by common OSes there are some emulation workarounds (e.g. mbed on STM32 boards emulates FAT even though it's just a flashing tool)

But otherwise if there's going to be a commandline Linux tool, that's most bang for a buck. Others can build upon it.
This is exactly what we all do every time we

cargo update

without reviewing the code changes in each dep (and their deps) wrt how they impact our compiled artifact. Ultimately we're each individually responsible for what we ship, and there's no amount of bureaucracy that will absolve us of the responsibility.
For the opposing view, "the standard library is where code goes to die".
YouTube isn't comparable - YouTube revenue is roughly 30B/year, while Search revenue is roughly 175B/year.

Advertisers are willing to pay far more than $20/mo per user, combined with the fact that search costs way less per query than inference.
There is also Graphite (https://graphite.rs/) which, unlike Gimp, has a modern architecture and very ambitious goals (Blender for 2D basically).
So cool!

I just tried it with a song with a fairly complicated chord progression - yesterday by the beatles. It did pretty well! But it got a couple parts wrong.

Is there support for modifying the results of the chords/lyrics? I don't see it immediately.
Well, from the PoV of someone who tries to learn how to play the guitar I must say that all this AI frenzy managed to produce some useful tools ;-)

I checked https://lamucal.ai/ with some example MP3:

- lyrics are OK (although I've seen tools that managed to do better),

- chords recognition wasn't bad,

- the UI is a bit rough around the edges (and I managed to get some Unity-related errors),

- pitch-aware speed adjustments is always a great tool when someone tries to learn how to play the song,

- transposing can be useful as well (although the web application does not support it).

I'm using (and paid for) some other similar application, although I primarily use that for tracks separation. Later I import tracks into Ardour and then record my own guitar lines. I use just a miniscule percentage features of the DAW, so if someone could provide an application with all that AI goodies coupled with recording ability that would be wonderful.

That said in personally I've found that one way or another I need to listen a lot to the song I'm trying to learn, make notes, break down the song structure (sections, strumming patterns, chords etc.). And a good video on YouTube that starts with a simple version of the song and then adds more and more feature are often the best help to start with, at least at my current level.
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yes, consider not using amazon. please consider using bookshop. see https://www.forbes.com/sites/meimeifox/2024/01/26/bookshopor...
He still thinks he never did any wrongdoing.
The issue with this sort of gatekeeping definition is: why stop there? There are a billion people living on less than a dollar a day, now they're the "really poor people", you were just lower-middle class.

The concept of the poverty line is somewhat artificial but it avoids this sort of pointless digression.
Don't forget Virtual Hydlide, if you ignore the absymal framerate
yeah, noted. But it does seem like the heading change was so dramatic and the smoke pouring out after power recovery that something happened with the prop. And while it may have been currents, the lack of heading change before the smoke seems to suggest there was an intervention that caused heading change.

Ship travel, much like orbital mechanics, are so often non-intuitive if you're not familiar with how much effort it takes to make significant speed changes vs. heading changes. And speed changes often affect the heading as well if you're not careful.
You don't discuss why they do it or the downsides. "Google does this" is not good enough of an argument.

For the why, could be that the build would be dog slow if a network requests was made for every one of a bajillion dependencies. Or to avoid breaking the build if something is janked externally. Could be because C++ has no modules/libraries. Could be for the lawyer's sake.

Is any of that applicable? There are also other ways of vendoring Rust crates, e.g. mirroring them to an internal registry. That can have fewer downsides.
> when you can always pay cash in person

One might wish that were true, but I am seeing a disturbing proliferation of "no cash accepted" signs here in Seattle.
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https://lamucal.ai/songs/john-coltrane/john-coltrane-giant-s...

It's definitely on to something. I wonder how would it perform if it was trained on Jazz.
Doesn't really matter. You can drown in 1 meter.
"Small government" doesn't mean what you imply, it means that government exists to fill the gaps and clean up some of the "messiness" created by free markets.

Reasonable regulation and public safety is part of that.
Rules for Vessels Not Under Command
What are some potential attack vectors and impacts for this one?
I thought they were different tools. GIMP == Photoshop, Krita == Illustrator.
that collapsed almost 40 years ago, which really emphasizes it's flat out uncommon, no "buts" needed.
The author makes a distinction between two different modeling approaches:

1. Representing music as a series of notes (with additional information about dynamics, etc.), and then building a model that transforms this musical score into sound.

2. Modeling the waveform itself directly, without reference to a score. This waveform could presumably be in either the frequency or the time domain, but the author chooses to use the time domain.

The author's terminology is a bit confusing, but I think that they mean option 2 when they say "the waveform domain."
Great work and great write-up! I especially love the MAINFRAME BREACH PROTOCOL that comes with it.
Why do you need my phone number?
It will always be easy to make 3D games that look bad, but on the N64 games tend to look more stable than PS1 or Saturn games. Less polygon jittering[0], aliasing isn't as bad, no texture warping, higher polygon counts overall, etc.

If you took the same animated scene and rendered it on the PS1 and the N64 side by side, the N64 would look better hands down just because it has an FPU and perspective texture mapping.

[0] Polygon jittering caused by the PS1 only being capable of integer math, so there is no subpixel rendering and vertices effectively snap to a grid.
The title omits a crucial word.

Cwerg aims to be the best c-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
Obviously, best is highly subjective but I want to improve on C not just re-implement it.
This should apply to online transactions, which my employer does. My employer is pursuing this and are expecting to get a lot of money back as a result.

Edit: "our company" -> "my employer" for clarity.
isn't MA57 just a standard good sparse linear solver? For sparse problems, NonlinearSolve.jl (via LinearSolve.jl) will either use KLU or Cholmod both of which are also quite fast. Also, even if the linear solver is the bottleneck, that doesn't mean different algorithms won't make a differenc.e Different nonlinear solve algorithms can lead to needing fewer iterations (e.g. fewer linear solves).
The likes of Swipe, Venmo, Revolut, Wise etc. should get together and establish a new online payment standard they control, completely outside the reach of the credit card companies. The fees could be near zero and they would still cover the actual costs of running the infrastructure.

It's incredible this day and age I have a more intuitive, user friendly and secure payment workflow for crypto - just scan a QR code - while for fiat payments I have to jump through hoops, manually copy static numbers and worry that someone else might steal and abuse the static password that secures access to my own money.
seems like they should have turned left and tried to go under the middle section there instead of cranking all the way around right. I imagine they were under task saturation with the power outages though.
FYI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828765

Fixing this asap. Thanks for reporting ddejohn!
> App market places where you have no option but to use, when you can always pay cash in person.

Try renting a car or hotel without a credit card.
or "life is meaningless" or "existential dread" etc
Are the testimonials also AI?
> And, it lost power at almost exactly the worst moment. What are the odds?

I don't know, but I suspect we don't hear much about all the times power is lost at moments that are less than the worst.
How common are power outages on ships? I get that the captain might not have responded to it correctly but that seems like a thing that shouldn't happen, at least in my completely uneducated opinion.
Compare it to the Playstation, which could not manage proper texture projection and also had such poor precision in rasterization that you could watch polygons shimmer as you moved around.

The N64 in comparison had an accurate and essentially modern (well, "modern" before shaders) graphics pipeline. The deficiencies in it's graphics were not nearly enough graphics specific RAM (you only had 4kb total as a texture cache, half that if you were using some features! Though crazy people figured out you could swap in more graphics from the CARTRIDGE if you were careful) and a god awful bilinear filtering on all output.
"suicided"
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> Basically feels impossible for to ever fully catch up.

Feels this way whether you're a native English speaker or not, unfortunately — growing old is universal.
Side question to anyone working in this field. Aren't you afraid that the next wave of AI (generic robot that can be taught to do anything) will destroy your business model?
Yes, $1/captcha is clearly infeasible - it'd be far too slow, first of all.

I don't have any knowledge of what spammers' financials are like, but it's possible that even 0.01c/captcha would still be impactful if the click rate is low enough.

Probably the best way to start tuning the PoW difficulty is just by starting out with what users are willing to tolerate - e.g. 3s solve time on the median mobile device. The gap between mobile and desktop devices has significantly lessened over the past decade, so desktop-grade equipment won't have that much of an advantage - say 1s per captcha, which is a lot for a spammer who would otherwise be able to send out dozens of spam per second.

It's not about making spam impossible, but about making it unprofitable enough that the criminals go elsewhere. Economic warfare.
It's also tangentially related to the app archiving feature of Android 15, which in order to retain backward-compatibility, replaces the full APK by a shim that you can simply open to initiate the app redownload. This allows to keep the existing local app storage in place. You cannot replace the original APK by another one unless the signatures of both matches.

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-app-archiving-de...
I'm with you on this one, I grew up around boats and remember the dread of even getting near a containership in a 16 foot Boston Whaler. That fear was more primal and daunting than sailing home during a tornado watch.
> I wish audit tools and corporate policies are smart

The ball is in the court of the enterprise purchaser mandating the auditing company and they don’t give a ** if your dev team has to hot swap a yaml parsing library
The title omits a crucial word.

Cwerg aims to be the best c-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC. Obviously, best is highly subjective but I want to improve on C not just re-implement it.
Security is one big reason. Avoiding link time or runtime conflicts is another. And, yes, having outgoing network calls for builds is a problem. Not because of performance concerns, but because it's a security and reliability nightmare. But consistency across the whole codebase is drastically important.

There are many many reasons but overall sanity and security concerns are paramount.

But also, read the original article referred to here... and the pain points seen there. Be careful about what you depend on.
Thanks for the notice. I will immediately fix it.
"Permanently" what? the harbor will be cleared, probably sooner than later, and there will be a new bridge/tunnel built in a few years. Like that's not permanent.
Yes, I got the classical econ education in college and bought into it for some time, but increasingly it just doesn't seem to jive with reality. I'm even really starting to disbelieve that productivity has actually increased that much in the last few decades.
Congrats and keep up the good work! Can you describe your tech stack and challenges you faced in your first 6 months - we love to learn from your experiences.
I'm not sure if you are alluding to this or not but the most obvious correlation between the marshmallow test in poverty is that people who grow up in poverty do not believe in future rewards. Their experience is that if someone tells you that you will get a marshmallow later, that marshmallow will never arrive.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" accurately describes the experience of many people who grew up in poverty. It's a proverb for a reason.
Go abandoned split stacks years ago due to the "hot split problem", and is now using contiguous stacks that are grown when necessary via stack copying. Go switches to the system stack when calling C code. There is some overhead (a few tens of ns) due to that switch, compared to languages like Rust or Zig which don't need to switch the stack.
It's good advice sure. But downgrading their work, no. Unless you have explicit requirements that aren't met like your text being selectable, downgrading work because you have a prejudice against an authoring tool isn't cool. What if another educator has an issue with Power Point, and another with Sheets. Should students have to match their authoring tool with their educators for each lesson?

Students are there to learn, no to cater to your preferences.
According to https://gcaptain.com/ship-lost-control-before-hitting-baltim... they were going 7.6kn so your figures are “optimistic” by a factor of two. I really don’t know how much an engineer could have done to stop 600M N/s - that’s just an enormous amount of energy.
I don't accept your premise. People who want kids have kids. This is obvious as I am pretty sure poorer people have more kids than wealthier people.

I have never heard anyone say "I really want kids but I can't afford them" - I hear people say generically "oh kids are expensive" but I've never heard of anyone use that for their own decision.

60% of women aged 35 or younger have kids. That doesn't sound like a "luxury". And I doubt that these are the strictly richest 60% of women...
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i think what people memorize has been made optional, but that people still memorize a lot. sure not phone mumbers, but the amount of lore they can recite from some fandom seems to be of similar depth
As long as the virus is either very deadly XOR treated in a quarantined environment, not much changes for widespread infection. Part of the way deadly viruses limit their own spread is by informing our own active countermeasures.
Not to original person you replied to here, but I usually don't like sound effects or music for web gsmes. Having both muted to start would be ideal.
The Navy has long required that the sea lanes from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Newport News Shipbuilding to the ocean have a deep-draft passage with no bridge, for just that reason.
This is local privilege escalation only right?
anyone trusting QR codes as the sole gatekeeper to financial transactions is just not being honest with the real world
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> There is not room in the 10% for every law abiding, intelligent, ambitious, hard working individual.

While this is true as a simple matter of distribution, it conflates two very different things.

In terms of relative wealth, yes, there's no way everybody can be in the top 10%.

But in terms of absolute wealth, there is lots of room to make even the bottom 10% wealthier than they are today. Indeed, the bottom 10% in the US are already wealthier than most humans who ever lived. But they could be much wealthier still, even if their relative wealth stays the same.

Focusing kids on "getting out of the bad situation" doesn't have to mean "shoot for being in the top 10%" (and if the GP was implying that it does, I think the GP is wrong on that point). It just has to mean "go out and create wealth instead of staying stuck in this place". And doing that will make those kids better off--not to mention society as a whole--even if their relative wealth never makes it anywhere near the top 10%.

To the extent that our society has "structural problems", I think they are about preventing people from creating wealth, by imposing all manner of nanny state micromanagement and by allowing people in power to bully others.
Affluenza is a hell of a disease.
The investigations yielded evidence on most of it, which neither party denies. What was inconclusive was whether or not Trump (and his immediate family) were aware enough to qualify for "conspiracy" or "coordination" charges. That Russia interfered is not disputed. They indicted 34 people.
Don’t worry, they’ll hit you on the code reviews and ask you to refactor your working to-the-point code into some sort of factory-like nonsense soon enough.
> The software itself is a lot better than Adobe in many fundamentals. It’s faster, crashes less, supports a lot more file formats, connection between the individual programs is perfect, they add new quite innovative features at constant pace.

I disagree with all your points.

I've been using Adobe for 20 years and Affinity Design and Photo since they released in 2013 or so.

Adobe apps are faster on Apple Silicon than Affinity.

I haven't experienced a crash in years with Adobe and I have experienced crashes with Affinity quite recently.

Adobe has complete integration between programs. Eg: You can use AE timelines into Premiere, import Photoshop files into AE, edit vector objects from Photoshop in Illustrator, etc.

Affinity innovation pace is just glacial. V2 introduced some new features but it Serif what... like 10 years? And personally I didn't see any value in the new features. Design is still missing a lot from Illustrator.
Planes and rockets are two sides of the same coin, an engineer can pretty much work at either if they want

Well I guess there are some plane startups like Boom, companies working on green powered planes, and companies working on plane style drones but it’s a lot less common IMO
Anyone working in this field is likely to be aware how woeful current actuators and power sources can be in a machine designed solely for one purpose, let alone how they might be in a machine designed for every single purpose.
> show us your results

Not GP but here’s an example where intrinsics outperformed assembly by an order of magnitude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624240

They were AVX2 SIMD intrinsics versus scalar assembly, but I doubt AVX2 assembly gonna substantially improve performance of my C++. The compiler did a decent job allocating these vector registers and the assembly code is not too bad, not much to improve.

It’s interesting how close your 800% to my 1000%. For this reason, I have a suspicion you tested the opposite, naïve C or C++ versus SIMD assembly. Or maybe you have tested automatically vectorized C or C++ code, automatic vectorizers often fail to deliver anything good.
So you just need a robotics company large enough to have some industry clout.

https://www.deere.com/en/sprayers/see-spray-ultimate/
Ever heard of banking apps?
Pulling cash out of your wallet and putting change back in it isn't something I'd describe as "hoops".

manually copy static numbers and worry that someone else might steal and abuse the static password that secures access to my own money.

I'm not sure what this has to do with fiat currency.
A heroic, and ultimately unnecessary considering the mundane reasons that slowed the N64 down, attempt to consumerize exotic hardware.

The hardware was actually pretty great in the end. The unreleased N64 version of Dinosaur Planet holds up well considering how much more powerful the GameCube was.

/edit

Nintendo were largely the architects of their own misery. First, they set expectations sky high with their “Ultra 64” arcade games, then were actively hostile to developers in multiple ways.
<checks terminal> "current draft is 12.2m with 116851 t DWT" and last reported speed was 6.7kt.

Good estimation! :)