skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting points.
This isn't just about music, though.
Udio can do standup skits too, and elevenlabs can already replace NPC dialogue voice actors in games and audiobook narrators. Smaller music producers who make intros for big youtubers, or sound designers who make tunes like notification sounds and SFX for video game screens are going to have their lives severely impacted by AI audio generators.
Yes, the reactions to it were not very enthusiastic as you'd expect. Also it did have a11y issues.

There are a lot of interesting renderers for react, some of them are even maintained: https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer
> How do you know this?

I can't know for sure of course. But it seems reasonable to me to think that at least most of the dictators would want to have nukes to keep their hold on power. And there are many.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictators...
There is no discussion of how the employees are the last to be paid, after founder class shares and investor liquidation preferences are settled.

Borders on misinformation to tell people that owning x% in shares equals x% of liquidity event. Even many founders end up with very little to show from an acquisition.
I think it was hugged to death
A delivery driver who makes 30 deliveries per hour, with senders who pay the business $2 per parcel, is bringing in $60/hour of revenue. That revenue gets split with other workers who collected and sorted the parcels, the fuel bill and van insurance, and the investors who own the parcel-sorting machines and vans.

A software developer that saves $0.001 per delivery across 5,000 delivery drivers who make 30 deliveries per hour saves the company $1500 per hour. That gets split with the folks who maintain the CI servers, the Kubernetes cluster, the pen testers and so on. But it's still 25x as much.
That's because IPC is not low-latency.

No modern processor architecture has a proper message passing mechanism. All of them expect you to use interruptions; with it's inherent problems of losing cache, disrupting pipelines, and well, interrupting your process flow.

All the modern architectures are also so close to have a proper message passing mechanism that it's unsettling. You actually need this to have uniform memory in a multi-core CPU. They have all the mechanisms for zero copy sharing of memory, enforcing coherence, atomicity, etc. AFAIK, they just lack a userspace mechanism to signal other processes.
baby's first regex!
oh so cute, here let me feed you more periods
Unless you're talking about the PHP function[1], the generally-accepted spelling is 'Israel'.

1: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-real.php
In many countries poor people are being milked for money more than any other social class. Too poor to afford your own washing machine? Go to the laundromat, pay hundreds of dollars every year. Can’t afford to buy food in bulk? Buy small items at a premium. Can’t get good quality durable clothes / footwear? Buy lousy ones that you replace more often and that cost you more. Tons of other examples.

I know you probably want to say that rich people will not directly take advantage of poor people, but there are so many systems that are rigged against the poor.
It's hard to think about going back to the Windows ecosystem after spending time on a Mac. I would love to hear the justifications, because I can't think of any.
You’d be surprised how common it is for video crews to travel with gear like this in carry on to get it there for a shoot.
The Practical Engineering Youtube channel has a very interesting video on black starts of an electrical grid [0]. Are there any additional challenges in turning a grid off?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
Since the author mentioned rewriting it in Rust, I recently added support to my library extrasafe that allows you to sandbox your own code: https://harrystern.net/extrasafe-user-namespaces.html

So if you wanted to call ffmpeg or some other C library with complicated user-provided data, you can use extrasafe's Isolates (along with its seccomp and Landlock features) to sandbox the call. I'm not really sure how suited it is for rewriting something like bubblewrap or firejail, but it might be interesting to try.
"A classic example is your boss offering you a high-risk critical project without adequate resources or support and nothing more than an attaboy and a hearty slap on the back. This is called being set up to fail. If you are dumb, you charge forward with nothing but grit and optimism and join the pile of corpses of those that have died trying. If you are smart, you help your boss understand the risks and figure out a plan to mitigate them. If your boss is unwilling to face up to the challenges, then you figure out your plan to get out of that situation as quickly as possible. Thinking ahead is always a good way to anticipate and side step sucker games."

This characterization assumes that you are risk-averse or risk-neutral. There exist quite some people who are risk seekers.
This is what happens when you over-iterate on a specification.

Keep it simple. Be kind to your fellow automaton.
yes and no.

yes, authority is usually with CFO or line managers, how/when and for how much things are APPROVED depending on the company and its policies and NO as it's developers that come and (authoritatively) say "We need you purchase this and that, because ..." and are the ones that evaluate tools and make such requests. Also there's big difference whether we're talking some sw for $100 one time payment or SaaS service for 100K/month, imo.

And then there's of course freelancers and well-off devs that buy things for themselves that make their decisions on their own.

tl;dr; if you think that devs dont have authority, maybe its you or your sales skills/strategy/methods that fail you more? ;)
The AMA doesn't control the number of medical student slots either. They have no regulatory or accreditation authority. Medical schools are free to add more students, and several entire new medical schools have opened in the past few years.

https://www.deborahgutmanmd.com/blog/new-medical-schools-upd...

The immediate bottleneck really is in residency programs. Every year, some students graduate with an MD/DO degree but are unable to practice medicine because they don't get matched to a residency program.
>The problem is more obvious in reverse: profit is money extracted from community wealth.

On the contrary, profit is the part of the wealth generated by the company that remains with those who generated it!
My choice (manual): Markdown clipper

https://github.com/deathau/markdown-clipper

I guess there are dozens of alternative extensions available out there …
Because the loan forgiveness is not contingent on voting for Biden.
Write a scene in which a family is watching the results of the 2024 US presidential election. The family is staying up late into the night as the news corporation is "calling" state by state. Describe the scene culminating in the TV anchor "calling" the presidential race in favor of one of the candidates.

---

In the dim glow of the living room, the Thompson family huddled together on an assortment of couches and armchairs, eyes fixed on the television screen.

...

"The votes have been counted in key battleground states, and with the latest results in from Pennsylvania, we can now project that Senator Jane Doe has won the necessary 270 electoral votes to claim the presidency of the United States."

---

Kind of disappointing.
I hate Microsoft. No. Would be nice for work tho.
If all it takes is 3 smart motivated post-docs with no experience, then wouldn't the brain drain need to be 100% for it to be the reason?
I wonder if that's a typo though. 200G ethernet does exist, as part of the "Terabit Ethernet" standard, but it's extremely rare and you'd have trouble finding anything to connect it to that could negotiate that fast.
Exactly. Other use case is just more modular even if dependencies are sometimes tangled unnecessarily.
I believe in 1963, black people were still second class citizens.

Hard to believe this example is worth it's weight in freedom units per capitalist product.

The reality is the economy and government were weaponized to enforce the lost of freedom to discriminate.
Some years ago I compared those boilerplate removal tools and I remember that jusText was giving me the best results out of the box (tried readability and few other libraries too). I wonder what is the state of the art today?
I ping 1.1 all the time. But I guess it truly depends on what kind of tool you are building.
> When to use a personal VPN?

> - Geofence bypass

> - Piracy

> - Soft network block/censorship

Among all the people I know who use the kind of VPN services talked about here, these are exactly their reasons for using them. Obviously advertisements are going to shy away from these angles.
Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
> Is this related to something that's been said so far?

Are you considering what all of this is supposed to be an analogy for?

Suppose autism has different components, something like this:

https://getgoally.com/blog/autism-spectrum-wheel/

You rate someone on each factor using the same scale, e.g. a real number from 0 to 1, or a scale of 1 to 10. The scale is arbitrary but consistent.

Then someone whose "average" rating is 0.5 on a scale of 0 to 1 can be farther away from someone else whose "average" rating is 0.5 when there are more factors. On a linear scale two people both at 0.5 have distance zero. On a two dimensional scale, you could have one at (0, 1) and one at (1, 0) and then each of their averages is still 0.5 but their distance is ~1.4.

That's what we're talking about.
Why would they pay the HDMI licensing fees and waste time routing the PCB traces for HDMI signals just for this? The video port is only for diagnostics, not watching Netflix on it, and for that it's perfect.
Should We Change Species to Save Them?
first they came for the marmosets
and I did not speak out
because I was not a marmoset

then thet came for the baboons
and I did not speak out
because I was not a baboon.

Then they came for the children
and I did not speak out
because I was not a child

Then they came for the rest of us
and there was no one left to speak out.
BBC radio plays some cool music late at night.
It's a solution, not a part. Plug this into the LAN, copy data. It manages everything about the file storage internally, etc. With this much storage (the sheer number of drives) you need a dedicated server to keep the data moving.
The problem is that they are sold as a security/privacy product, because they can’t mention the more illicit uses (which the author mentions under “when to use a VPN”), which are the real use cases people buy them for.

It’s kind of like when shops selling bongs would market them as “tobacco accessories”, but there was a wink-and-nudge understanding about how they would really be used.
I've never seen a whole lot of value in personal VPNs; it's basically trading one network that can observe you for another. Often with unverifiable claims about not observing you.

But, it can be helpful to trade one network's routes for another, in cases where direct routing between you and your desired peers is poor for whatever reason. And it's clearly useful for circumventing geographic restrictions (as long as those imposing the restrictions dont' care to identify and restrict access through VPNs)
My b, I misread and noprocrast kicked in before I could edit.
Gedit with lots of plugins did the same for me in the early gnome 2 days.
In general I agree about it not providing security benefit, but they can reduce the exposure of eavesdropping like DNS leaking browsing patterns, and so on. Sure, you’re now leaking your DNS traffic to the VPN server, but in my opinion it’s better to leak that to somewhere external than somewhere close by (e.g. to companies or individuals directly related to your network that will use it for monitoring and monetisation)

https downgrade attacks and the like (html injection on http pages) can also be thwarted (unless they are done on the vpn->service path ofc),
This is an interview from 2010 and covers Crumb's illustration of the Book of Genesis. I don't own Crumb's book but have seen it reviewed (RIP Ed Piskor) and it looked wonderful. I can't read the article unfortunately due to the paywall (and the "archive" links don't work for me in general anymore) but I am also reminded that his wife Aline died in late 2022, so I hope Crumb's doing OK.
I personally loved CSS3PIE for times like that. Of course then there would sometimes be complaints about rendering performance, and my answer was usually, "You can have working, pretty, and fast, but for IE you'll have to choose two out of the three."

http://css3pie.com/documentation/supported-css3-features/#pi...
It’s not that deep. People want to download shit and watch Netflix
Even if the battery is safe. I would be worried about all the cabling and whatever might be attempted to be connected at one time...
Chinese Word for "Crisis"
this isn't about politics but basic ownership of personal financial decisions.

nobody forced you to go and take out a student loan. you did it. politics shouldn't even be a factor here.

we are arguing for basic responsibility that all adults in society must respect not at the whims of populist Presidents who only cares about votes.

if tomorrow Biden told young people to start taking drugs because we will socialize the cost, you would justify it too.
You may not even need a VPN to get around censorship, ISPs implementing legally mandated site blocks often only bother to enforce them at the DNS level so you can trivially bypass them by using an encrypted DNS resolver.
Probably still in some places, but not in the world I live in.
Depends on the definition of "effective", of course. They're certainly more prolific, but "provably satisfies a specification" (from the first line of the Wikipedia page) is kind of the opposite of what they do.
"Either the URL is invalid or the server is too busy".

Aw, tell the user which it is.
It's quite funny to have so many laws around dogs, considering that eating dogs in legal in Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws .
Another fun fact - any developed country X (and you cant get much more developed than Switzerland currently globally, when ignoring some tax haven micronations) emits more bad ABCD than developing country Y having population N-times greater than population of X.

What you say is true, but useless on its own. Whole world knows that, its perfectly logical, but thats about it.
How Photos Were Transmitted by Wire in 1937: The Innovative Tech a Century Ago
It's pretty good - mostly become my daily driver for my Akkoma instance (and occasional use of GotoSocial accounts.) Doesn't understand posting the Markdown content type which means I have to keep Mangane around for now. Occasionally loses connection to the backend but I'm putting that down to Apple Private Relay shenanigans (which causes other weirdness for me and Safari.)
Pushing plebs to buy faster gpus requires limiting consumer options
This is an important topic, but I think this website is doing a bit of a bad job communicating it. It also at no point (as far as I can tell) provides a timeframe for when these essays were written? So statements like "in the last twenty years" or "now" have no meaning. Judging by the content my guess would be this website is maybe a decade old? This lack of verifiability is ironically one of the other problems journalism faces today.

I think a lot of the problems with news/journalism today are worsened by how ads work online. My hypothesis is that ads, as many news sites use them, degrade trust. And some of the most reputable news sources are paywalled anyways: "The lies are free and the truth is paywalled." This undermines journalism since people now get their news from other, less journalistically rigorous places like Facebook or Twitter, which link to these free "lies".

Furthermore, the attention-based economics of ads create a huge conflict of interest with what news sites are trying to achieve. I'm so tired of meaningless headlines meant just to draw me in, in an endless stream of news articles all doing the same thing.

I would love to see essays on these problems, but I think this site was created before the problems had seriously gained root like they have today.
Yep.

These are poor mans hacks since they lack ”root access” to the model.

It’s super weird for parties outside of openai using chatgpt for anything research-like. Like starting from ”how do you control the experiment parameters”.
You are jumping on a private plane with one of these devices because of some emergency in a data center...

Who are you? What's your job? What kind of choices in life brought you to this point?

I really wonder, it's so alien.
The loans being forgiven were issued by the department of education.

If your mortgage lender wants to forgive part of your mortgage, they can.

If the federal government directly held nearly every mortgage in the country, politicians would be tripping over themselves to promise relief every election season.
For what it's worth, you can still have an impact on youth without being a parent yourself. There's gradations from adoption and fostering to teaching and mentoring. Empathetic inter-generational experiences are beautiful for everyone involved in them. As you age, it literally keeps you young.
and instead the differences were caused by 'incomplete' netlist simulation code which worked fine for the 6502 but required some tweaks for the Z80

That was very interesting to read. This is a nearly 50-year-old CPU, and yet many people are still discovering things about how it works in detail; or perhaps more precisely, discovering edge-cases in simulation and fixing the latter to more closely correspond with the actual physical processes it models.
No price mentioned. How much does this fetch? Quarter of a million bucks?
It’s a good call. One thing I struggle with, especially given recent times, is that the trades seem like they’ll only be getting more expensive so even though the material costs may drop the tradespeople will eat up that savings. It’s great for those professionals, of course, but as of late you would’ve been better off doing any project “yesterday” that requires a tradesperson rather than waiting until “tomorrow” (perhaps with the exception of when lumber prices were insane a couple of years back).
For comparison, I live in Washington State 50km away from Seattle, and I get 1200 Mbps down and 200 Mbps up (in practice more like 900/100) for $115/month. This is just pure Internet, no TV or anything else.

The ISP that I currently use - Comcast Xfinity - is also the only cable provider in this area. I can get some mobile and satellite options, but they are all more expensive for lower speed and higher latency.
You can tun sqlite in memory by using the filename

:memory:
The author calls it snake oil then lists legitimate reasons to use a VPN at the end
looks like it made everything darker
As a data hoarder, this turns me on.
Rent is determined by a private contract, like GP said. It doesn’t even have to be a formal contract in most countries. It’s essentially a civil concern and not a criminal one, unlike theft or kidnapping.
There are IMO two points in time where joining a startup makes sense.

One is very early, iff the startup supports early exercise. Join, immediately do an early exercise of all your options and file an 83(b). This only makes sense if you join so early that you can afford to exercise all those options for an amount of money that you won't mind losing if the company goes nowhere. Typically this only makes sense if the exercise price is in the few pennies range (but depends on your finances). So before a series A at the very latest.

This is good because you can now work there are long as you want but you are also free to leave if things become unpleasant. As long as you spent at least a year there, any shares you vested prior to leaving are yours for good. If the company IPOs many years after you leave, you still get something.

The other good time is when the company is already large and well-known and clearly on the path to an IPO. You'll get far less ownership obviously, but probabily of success is much higher.

The worst time to join a startup is anywhere in between. The exercise price of your options is too high on day 1 you can't afford to buy them, then you work there for years and become vested on paper but can't do anything about it, then you leave prior to an IPO and you still can't afford to buy the options so they cancel and you are left with nothing.

I've done each of these scenarios, some more than once.
This was roughly the dream of DBus. However, outside of desktop-shaped niches it proved to be extremely difficult to secure, standardize, and debug.

Process-level/address-space-level dependency sharing remains both easier to think about and simpler to implement (and capabilities are taking bites out of the security risks entailed by this model as time goes on).
That is not dead which can eternal spam,
And with strange aeons death gives not a damn.
"The president hopes to begin forgiving student debt before the November election."

So, two issues:

1) The door is still wide open for it to not be passed before the election, and requiring him to be re-elected for it to finish being pushed through.

2) Even if it is actually passed before the election, it's still dubious behavior when right before he needs votes, he sprays (taxpayer) money on a subset of the population that he wants votes from.
> There’s a lot of hidden time costs if you’re not well off.

Of course and that's my point.
> You borrow someone's money you must pay it back.

Why? Unsecured loans are servitude. And it just inflates the cost of the thing lended for.

I don't think one can argue for usury from some sort of moral angle.
Pretty funny to say they're snake oil, and then list 3 very good reasons to have one.
They already are. But the future will probably not look like this if the current trend continues. It's just not efficient enough when you look at the whole design process.
Argument is based on the assumption that "probably only one percent of users correctly use a kill switch", and in general shows a low level of understanding of threat models and the swiss cheese security model. Author assumes to know the intentions of VPN users and asserts users are dumb, also throwing unnecessary barbs at "wannabe hackers". Unprofessional article, bad advice, no differentiation between nonlogging services and services like nordvpn that bundle google analytics and tracking into their application.

My take? Do a threat assessment, build a threat model, know your adversary be it your own ISP selling your data or protection against hostile state entities when traveling overseas. There are many valid uses for the various types of commercial VPN and instead of an objective look at these services the author walks in with an assumption that they are all the same and never provide value to their customers, then bends over backwards to attempt to make weak arguments against a vast category of service.
Aggressive regulation of large businesses, and local government-run non-profit ISPs to provide a sensible baseline that can be relied upon without being at the whims of private companies.
Susceptibility to Treatment-Resistant Depression Within Families
but a large chunk of his voter base are people with student loans that cannot/will not accept the responsibility of your own financial decisions.

just like trumps voter base were business owners. neither come with contingencies or conditions but they are clearly are populist policies aimed securing their voter base.