skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people are endlessly fascinating. I know nothing about your sister, or you, or anyone else on HN, yet here is a hive of tech oriented individuals trying to crack the nut of human nature. I guess it's something that resonates with many here, either by first hand experience or second like yourself.

What can be done? Does anything need to be done? Is she doing harm to herself and others, or is that just your perception? Maybe she doesn't share your values. Maybe she senses your judgement. Do you really have her best interest in mind, or are you projecting an idea of what a good sister should be? As in you can't be proud of who she is. But why not? And why do you want to be? To what extent are you responsible? Should you feel guilty if you fail to change her? Should you feel dread if she is unable to change? Does she owe it to you to change herself? But who knows what the next thing will be that you find disappointing about her. Must she walk the tight-rope of your approval? What is your true opinion anyway? Is it truly good, and should anyone truly care?

Everyone has an idea of how life is and how it should be. Oh the problem is so very clear. If only everything was exactly the way I imagine it, oh if only, then there would be peace, happiness, and harmony for all! right? And yet we're endlessly frustrated by the life that could be, the life that should be, perpetually occupying the space beyond our finger tips.
The two kind of feed into each other. The UI framework is conducive to polished UI, which results in more polished apps, which raises the bar of expectations for users. This then pressures developers to deliver more polished apps.

This is why I think that anybody looking to create a new platform with a similar culture of quality indie apps should put building an capable, pleasant native UI toolkit at the top of their list of priorities. UI toolkits are the lifeblood of platforms.
Sure, you are free to do what you want, but that doesn't mean the government shouldn't make it more sensible for people to NOT do bad things (like overspend unnecessarily).

This tax doesn't have anything to do with income or wealth. You are free to pay the toll and keep driving into the city.
Whenever someone invokes the "terms of service" I just get annoyed. I live in the US where we have absolutely no consumer rights and every company can put anything they want in the ToS or EULA, and if it violates the law they aren't punished (such as illegal warranty restrictions). Most EULAs even have a clause that says something like "if any part of this contract is illegal, ignore it and the rest is still enforced". If companies can put anything they want into it and aren't punished for breaking the law, it's 100% up to consumers to ignore the ToS and ignore the EULA as much as possible.

And if you're really paying for a limited license to use their property, they should have to call it that. Amazon calls it a "store" where you "buy" the books. They'd make a lot less sales if the "buy now with 1 click" button said "purchase a limited license to access this book for some period of time".
I suspect you're being sarcastic - but can confirm that being nearly two years out of Amazon, I still miss its in-house CD system nearly every day. I've actively looked around for OSS replacements and very few come anywhere close.

(I would be _delighted_ for someone to "Umm actually" me by providing a great product!)
A key indicator for early stage business is if the founder can convince others to join for zero money. Can you sell it to one devoted partner? That is: a co-founder ; typically with complementary skills eg: the hacker and the hustler.

If you want a one-man-show you need to do both, reasonably well until you can hire someone to do the other.

LevelsIO on Twitter is a good role model there.
What is Google Docs if not a perfectly acceptable Microsoft Word replacement?
Sure, but they have the personal responsibility to vote the way they want, and votes are secret.
> You might say, will they did eventually and recently fix that

The values and legal system of a democracy essentially reflect the will of the people, and fifty years ago people had a different attitude to these values than they do today. And we cannot expect each country to come to the same conclusions. The question is: do we know a better system than (direct) democracy to improve society in the long term? Likely not.

An ever-growing danger that is damaging society and democracy is the ever-increasing polarization and thus the reduction of pluralism of opinion and discussion culture, fuelled, for example, by lobby organizations that have very large financial resources at their disposal, or by the corruption of science through tendentious funding systems such as we have today. It is becoming increasingly difficult to form a sufficiently objective opinion on factual issues and to isolate the relevant facts from the many fake news and paid bogus experts. In Germany in the 1930s, for example, we saw how systematic misinformation and indoctrination can affect the will of voters. In relation to the present discussion, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39995558.
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You probably haven't worked with aging populations much. 2FA is an absolute nightmare when dealing with people who have learning or memory deficits.
If we just project current demographic trends into the future under the assumption they won't change (obviously a false assumption), then in a lot less than 5000 years (arguably even less than 500 years) the clear majority of people in the US will be either Amish or ultra-Orthodox Jewish or some other high-fertility ultra-conservative religious minority. Amish tend not to vote, but when they do they tend to skew Republican; ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to vote Republican at the national level. (Many vote Democratic at state/local levels, which seems to be mainly driven by the pragmatic awareness that in Democratic supermajority states such as NY and NJ, you get much more political mileage by playing the Democratic politics game than by voting GOP–however, by the time they become the state's demographic majority, they likely will have turned the state red, so that reason for them to vote Democratic wouldn't apply any more.)
It’s been 15 years since I took an accounting course. Why would my bank account be debited when the balance went up? Is a debit not negative? Is the cash balance presented as a negative?
Where are you going to find a young engineer who wants to build a dead-end career? I'm sure that if you pay them enough, someone will show up, but most people would rather build skills that will continue to be useful rather than skills that will be useless once an inevitable, sorely needed refresh happens.
Since you asked, there may be a few of us that remember this: https://www.ranker.com/list/dominos-30-minutes-or-less-lawsu...
Is there an artile explaining how this is done? Im more interested in the whole setup.
I like the webmail more. ProtonMail is slow and doesn't support text view. Also ProtonMail didn't exist yet, and back then FastMail was one of the few options for hosted non-crap email.
Peter Higgs: science mourns giant of particle physics
Integration with boost asio would be of interest to many - myself included. It is the defacto for anyone who’s got past Stephen’s Unix Network Programming.

It would gain a level of trust with developers.
I’m not even for or against this specific regulation as I haven’t read enough about the technology or the field to come to a determination. However the poster I responded to was basically arguing that regulations are definitionally bad things and that is comically incorrect even if I give some benefit of doubt to the statement
People who write code are much more useful in a modern war than people who throw punches. Missiles don't run on martial art.
Edit: they're called Luneburg Lenses
This is genuinely awesome. As others have said, I didn't expect AI music to get so far this quick. You guys have even done a nice job on the interface, though the tags are a little warped (Firefox on Mac).

I expect this to be a global phenomenon by next week, so, slightly premature congrats!
First of all I never had that privilege; I did the other things after work or middle of the night.

Second of all, please recognize that you're in an amazing position. You're getting paid to plan your next move! Take advantage of it because you may not always have this luxury. If you get laid off or take on a much less pleasant job, try to imagine how you'd feel if you didn't use this time well.

Anyway I always recommend studying for your next job or position. When I was a tech writer I studied programming. When I was a programmer I studied business. When I started my own business I studied the parts of it I didn't understand well.
I have a pair of noname Bluetooth headphones with the wrap around your ear thing, and that works really well. I prefer the wireless aspect because I use it for exercise and hate having the phone dangling from the other end. The around the ear bit is useful to stop it falling out - I've never found earbuds that stay in my ears without staying completely still.
I was expecting an actual tiny car like the Renault Twizzy but it’s a full size car.
I don't think anyone is questioning the correctness of what you are saying, just the aggressive tone and assumption of malice over mistake. Maybe take this as an opportunity to educate licensees rather than ridicule them.
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We haven't regressed, the code those systems used to generate was a nightmare

We're way better off without them
Shoot Out Between the Udio, Sonauto and Suno AI Music Makers
Maybe real security people training the most security-aware person on a given marketing/dev team, and giving them some level of authority? If orgs won't/can't hire enough infosec folks, maybe some of the basic knowledge needs to be spread to other roles?

I may be grasping at straws here. It just feels ridiculous that my national security is being risked by these obviously super-dumb moves made by trillion dollar corporations.
The king is dead, long live the king!
idk, if you think of it as two groups of people joining together to work together it's not so weird. people first vs business first maybe.
> you would then have to make a distinction based on the types of the accounts involved in a journal entry

That's right. The distinction is based on whether the account represents an asset or a liability.

> increase bank

> increase receivables

You would have to define what you mean by "bank" in order for this to make sense. But in general, receivables represent money that a company is owed from orders that have not yet been paid for, i.e. they are a effectively a loan from the company to its customer, and like all loans they are an asset to the creditor, which in this case is the company. When a payment is made against an outstanding receivable, the receivable is debited (the loan balance is reduced) and the company's cash balance is credited. Because cash and receivables are both assets, these add together and cancel out just as you would expect.

The rules under my system are still very simple:

1. Every financial asset is someone else's liability, and vice versa. Cash is an asset to its owner and a liability to society at large. Loans are assets to the creditor and a liability to the debtor. Purchase orders are a liability to the purchaser and an asset to the supplier. Etc. etc.

2. Every financial transaction is a change in someone's liability coupled with a change of equal magnitude in someone else's assets.

3. The absolute value of your assets minus the absolute value of your liabilities is your net worth.

A completely equivalent formulation is that liabilities have negative signs attached to them, and then your net worth is the sum of your assets and liabilities, but this is just a question of where you hide the negative sign. A - B is the same as A + (- B). It really doesn't matter except insofar as one convention might make it easier to think about things. Most people are used to seeing their liabilities expressed as positive numbers, i.e. if you owe money on your credit card bill, the balance due is positive, and if you have a credit balance, the balance due is negative. But it's all just a shell game with where you hide the signs.
I've found that adding prompt elements such as "hi-fi", "sharp imaging" and "clear soundstage" have helped create a less compressed and generally cleaner sound.
Linux kernel isn't supposed to run in the browser.

Indeed WASM is nothing like yet bytecode being capitalised by startups, in search of the next Java goldmine, by folks that enjoy bashing about it. /s

App servers bad, Kubernetes with WASM, "oh boy that is soooo cool!".
This is a dumb question, but is there a way for folks outside the EU to register an iOS device as if it was in a eurozone country? Is a VPN enough?
You have some evidence that government is not incompetent ?
Check out this AI vocals plugin. It's pretty impressive already.

https://youtu.be/PCYTqDSUbvU
You'll want to look for a "sports medicine specialist" as mentioned
Sports medicine is the name of the specialty.
To be fair in a world of good LSP impls, grep/find are really primative tools to be using.
Not saying this isn't better then
a more sophisicated editor setup, just that grep and find are a _really_ low bar
Java behavior is in general/abstract similar to .net - there are types & APIs to pin memeory for ffi and aliasing use cases but normal references are abstracted enabling the gc to perform compaction/moves for non pinned objects. The behavior I described in the parent post was go, which exposes pointers directly, rather than references.

It is still possible to end up with fragmentation challenges with both the jvm and .net under specific circumstances- but there are also a lot of tunable parameters and so on to help address the problem without substantially modifying the program design to fit an under specified contract with the memory subsystem. In go there are few tunables, and an even less specified behavior of the gc and its interaction with application code at this level of concern.
When Suno came out I spent literally hours/days playing around with it to generate music, and came out with some that's really close to good, and good enough I've gone back to listen to a few. I'd love the tooling to take a premise and be able to tweak it to my liking without spending 1000 hours learning specific software and without thousands of hours learning to play an instrument or learning to sing.
They certainly didn't steal it. But Intel didn't second-source pentiums, or any chip with SIMD extension. AMD reverse-engineered those fair and square.
EXIF metadata accounts for so little of the overall file size it isn't even worth mentioning...
I fully agree! I'm also disappointed (but not surprised) that kobo (or some other 3rd party epub seller) hasn't created an API where you register a key pair (or whatever) and can decrypt books on your devices. I suspect it's based on publisher demands. Ironically, this is one place where a blockchain might be useful - sales are recorded on it, contracts are written with respect to it, and if the publisher goes belly up users can run nodes to maintain it.
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> solar panels, wind turbines and batteries being material-heavy and requiring a non-diminishing amount of labour per installation.

This is not correct, a good chunk of the lowering costs comes from lowering both the amount of material used and in further decreases in the amount of labor to install. That's the fundamental source of innovation driving down prices.

To assume that there's going to be a sudden stoppage of all these improvements, without at least some sort of slowdown first, requires an astonishing strong belief not backed by any sort of inspection into the actual reality of these things.

It's rather remarkable how absolutely pessimistic people are about renewables in spite of the evidence, and how people are proven wrong year after year with their bad assumptions, but there's so little learning.

Go and find the most optimistic person about the potential of solar and batteries, and there's a 90% chance that solar and batteries will outperform their expectations. Go and find the most pessimistic person's estimates about nuclear, and there's a 50% chance that nuclear will underperform their already low expectations.

Just read through the tragedy of the original article to see how overly optimistic the nuclear folks are.
Eternal September problem.

Those on Mastondon are a self-selected group who have opted out of Xitter and Reddit.

Any new social media platform is always better than the previous by self-selection. And then it gets popular and becomes just as bad as the previoius. Lather, rinse, repeat.
>There used to be some pretty wild published advice on how to use a radial arm saw including ripping full sheets of plywood by walking the sheet across the cutting plane with the saw pointed at your stomach.

So, similar to ripping plywood on a table saw, then? What makes one worse than the other here?

>They also travel towards the operator in the event of a catch because of the direction of the blade and the floating arbor.

So, like a modern sliding miter saw, then? What makes one worse than the other?
And floppy floppies wasn't "cutting edge technology [in 1998]", either.

The OG floppy disks were 8 inches, though, 5 inch floppies were the small ones (hence why 3.5" disks were "microfloppies"):

https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/12/floppy_di...
You're in luck. One is the prerequisite for the other
Duolingo distracted with music, Netflix and OpenAI invest in language learning
I'm very surprised there's not more coverage on this matter. While both Netflix (acquired language learning app THINKIN in March) and OpenAI (lead investor in language learning app Speak) believe there is money to make in language learning, Duolingo puts all their R&D into music, apparently with little success.
Farey Numbers and Linked Lists
There is always stable "Go work as consultant at company that does a ton of business with former agency. This position is in no way related to any agency work they did. :wink:"
A once a generation refresh seems okay in my book. The Breda trains that came in 1996 were being phased out about twenty years into their tenure, most generally seem to think that is about reasonable a time to do something like that. I don’t see software related regimes as inherently that different.

Since I experienced 5.25 inch floppy disk era...and even the occasional bernoulli disk...we could simply say: the system had its run, replacement is reasonable. A lot of stuff had changed since then, and not just in storage media.
A big fear I have is that the folks who want to do away with anonymity finally win. Most of the negative effects and hostility of social media (youtube, twitter, facebook, etc.) come from named and publicly-identifiable individuals.
Any plans to support stem export, or at least do instrumentals without the vocals?
Can you import from Mexico instead of directly from China? Would this help overcome the tariffs/other obstacles?

Although this article was previously linked on HN, regarding importing 4 wheel loaders directly from China:

https://electrek.co/2023/11/30/i-bought-container-full-of-el...
NYC is grabbed by the balls plenty. They still don't have OPTO for example.
> What damages would Apple claim?

They don't need to claim any damages, this is not a legal question, they can just close the loopholes.

> the only thing they did "wrong" was sell a solution to an Apple-designed problem.

No, the issue is not that they are "solving an Apple-designed problem" (whatever that problem may be), it's that they did it by leeching off of Apple's infrastructure.
Look, I know I am coming across a bit of a prick.

"Plenty of people have been enjoying this category of software." Really? I ask sincerely. Because it seems to me that this category of software is mostly a curiosity / novelty. Are there actual publishing musicians who have used text-to-music as part of their workflow?

My perception is that no one actually uses these tools for real music creation. Hence my point that they are novelty and not actually impactful.
A question for you and anyone else in security:

Given that many data engineers have a data science, data analytics, BI, or software engineering background, I'm curious if you've noticed any trends in their approach to data security?
I think you're being perfectly clear, but I also think you're missing my point. "If you already have the music collection" is the deal breaker. If I want to listen to my own music library, there has always been plenty of solutions for that. Long before any modern music streaming service existed, I was making streamable radio stations of my personal music library available with software like IceCast. But these days I don't want to listen just to music I've already discovered myself, or even just to music that me and a collection of friends have discovered ourselves. I want exposure to essentially all music, whether I or anyone I know has ever heard of it before. I don't seem to be able to get that with services like FunkWhale, and I'm not willing to go back to limiting my music exposure to only songs that me or a select few others have personally discovered and added to our libraries on our own. Mass discovery is the killer feature, while being able to listen to music I own (in whatever presentation) is unimpressive table stakes. And I want that discovery to be happening while I'm listening to music normally, not have to set aside time to discover new music before adding it to my library so my normal "music listening" sessions can pull from it.
Shouldn't you use "we" instead of "these people"?
Now that you mention it, I do remember hearing the spoken message every Tuesday.

Still, a big loudspeaker is even simpler than a classical motorized siren. No moving parts!
It's always funny to see people touting the virtues of de-escalation and soft talk. What happens when that fails? I started martial arts long ago because soft talk and de-escalation failed.

I started training martial arts years ago. Of the brawls I've been in since then, usually with the homeless or drug addled while out on the town, de-escalation has never worked. I've been in bars where you can't talk someone down. Do you know how long it took for the police to arrive when a homeless guy started a fight with me for no reason? After giving the guy what he deserved I escaped to safety to call the police/medical. They never arrived. Sobering. He ran off eventually. Which, frankly is a testament to the power of street drugs.

You can't de-escalate someone who is determined to harm you. This is a fallacy promoted by people who have never had to fight. You are universally safer by knowing how to fight and never using it than not knowing how to fight at all.

The correct answer is understanding the escalation of force spectrum. Always start by trying to talk some sense into them. Then, based on their next move you either escalate to physical violence to defend yourself, or lethal force if they use a weapon. FWIW BJJ and Muay Thai are the only martial arts you should ever do.

Life is not a video game. The police aren't there to help you. There are bad people everywhere. It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
Indeed. For those of us without an account, the decline has long-ago reached the point where it's unusable. I assume, and hear, that for those with an account, the usability continues to decline.
Consistency >for portability
Im sure they are.
I suppose that's kinder than Britain flooding China with Opium to stop the heavy drain of Silver to China for the Tea Trade in an earlier act of 'economic warfare'.
The Mac SE had a 20 MB hard disk in 1987! And there was no way Windows 95--which everyone had by 1998--was fitting on a floppy of any size.