skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, most people don't seem to understand the concept of noise cancelling headphones and will still try to talk to people who clearly can't hear them. I can't imagine it'd be any different for these AI headphones in practical use. Probably worse because the person you're actually trying to talk to might think you can't hear them.
Looking at Apple's Airpods Pro, they're starting to get some of the features of hearing aids. E.g. features to allow doorbells through the noise cancelling.

I don't think anyone would suggest them as a realistic choice today but I could see Apple going after that market and where Apple goes others follow.

Much like the market for prescription reading glasses has been eroded by off the self glasses.
You have an error in this calculation where you make the assumption that real estate prices keep rising over 30 years but rent prices remain stagnant. Both of these things can't obviously be true at the same time. A more realistic calculation would have both real estate and rent prices increasing over the 30 years.

Your calculation also obscures what is the interest rate on the loan, which is the most significant component affecting the result. Sure, if you assume a high interest rate (currently baked into the $4200 number I presume), then your result will be that home ownership will look very bad. Whereas if you assume a lower interest rate, you will get a result in the other direction.

I'm not claiming that homes are great investments. And I know that renting is currently cheaper than buying a home (with current interest rates). But I am saying that your calculation isn't making a fair comparison.
OracleJDK has LTS defined. OpenJDK doesn’t, but as changes made to forks have to be migrated back to the original codebase, it does tend to be a “de facto” LTS version.
Reminds me of notcurses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4lmMADP1lA

Mind you, this rendered entirely in a terminal. You can try it yourself on most systems by installing notcurses and then running `notcurses-demo`.
> I'm not in ML/AI/etc ... At all but my understanding is that none of that is actually impossible with current tech?

Over 4 years ago nvidia released a feature that lets you remove arbitrary background noise in real-time.

Here's a video where a guy put a fan, vacuum cleaner and leaf blower right next to his microphone: https://youtu.be/Q-mETIjcIV0?t=535

It definitely chopped out a bunch of his natural frequency but it was clear enough to hear him without issues. Earlier in the video he did more normal tests like removing the sound of his keyboard in which case his voice's frequencies were mostly left untouched. He also banged a hammer on his desk while talking.
Lombok has come up a bit in this discussion. Are there any other popular Java libraries or frameworks that are affected?
What gets forgotten is the thing you can't see.

Persistent refactoring is one of those things where the cost is clear and well known (expensive developer time) while the payoff is big, but very diffuse, very hard to explain and often gets attributed to something else - sometimes even by the developers who did it.

It's not the only thing like that. Plenty of companies skimp on cost centers and fail spectacularly as a result - sometimes without even ever realizing that skimping on the relevant cost centres was the reason why they failed.
Discussion ended up here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506582
This is likely more about reviews with affiliate links. 99.99% of those are people reviewing absolutely nothing, just copying reviews and putting their own affiliate link.
> "The CEO wants to be popular, so everyone sees his posts."

This is so insane to me. Some weeks ago I had to create a twitter account because I wanted to contact a developer for an app I'm using and the only contact information he had was his twitter account. I created a dumb account with my Google account and I was surprised that the first tweet I see is from Elon Musk. How small your ego has to be to request being featured first for every new account that is created? I remember I saw his face in the account creation process and I thought to myself "I would never follow this idiot" and still this guy is the first thing I see.

I wont be opening that cesspool anytime soon.
Reverse SSH – Have your SSH daemon connect back to you
Howdy folk!

After showing off my most recent project (Wag) I thought I'd pop reverse ssh (or RSSH) up here as well.

I've been tinkering with RSSH for 3 or so years. Starting with the incredibly dumb idea of going "I want ssh, but in reverse" i.e to connect back to me rather than me connecting to a port.

So lo' and behold RSSH came into being! Effectively, it allows you to deploy a single, statically compiled binary to pretty much any platform that go supports (including windows), and get all the nice features of SSH.
And bonus! No need to open ports, or fight service providers, just execute and connect.

This project has shown me what an awesome protocol SSH is, both from its flexibility and extensibility which I regularly (ab)use.

Feel free to ask questions or ask for features!
ICEs can run on pretty much anything, and there are a number of easy-to-make fuels that are carbon neutral or even carbon negative. Case in point: the global shipping industry is in the early stages of transitioning to green methanol as a fuel. They have trials of the fuel underway, new engine designs being made, and every indication is that they're serious about the transition. Modern cars are perfectly capable of running on methanol with minor modifications, and it's certainly more cost effective than buying a brand new vehicle. If we're going to be running the whole shipping industry on green fuels, I don't see any reason why we can't do the same for cars. Doing so is almost certainly a lower emissions path than replacing the whole fleet with EVs, and would still be necessary even if we did electrify most of the fleet, because battery electric just isn't suitable for some tasks. Long haul trucking, for example, won't be electrified any time soon.
I spent most of the pandemic working from my dining room table. Now when I work from home it is from table in the basement. Neither is particularly in anybody's way.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506582
Obviously. They were just waiting for an excuse to fire him, and by chance they accused him of the same "errors" the had him fired before.
Yes. It's important to have the ability to listen to all sides, that's the only way truth prevails. Even if one side is full of lies, some bureaucrat deciding that for you is not okay, that is generally what a government full of lies does.
Amen to that.
That's why the key is NOT FORCING RTO. If you want go to the office because reasons, do it. If you prefer WFH because reasons, do it.
You are either a goal-oriented workplace, where this would be natural, or you are a classical "show me you are committed to work by being there many hours" place, where then it's just WFO.
This is 100 percent doable. Building something like this at scale might be a pain but locally it's fairly easy.
Starlink is designed to specularly reflect away from the ground. If the orientation isn't right (early mission) then they can maybe reflect to the ground instead. May also be more visible from aircraft at cruise.
Struggling with personal finance/budget to read insights and build charts?
SpaceX, naturally.

But being run better than NASA is not exactly a high bar. I would actually amend it to most US federal agencies, even. It's just that Americans, for some reason, assume that the way their government works is exemplar of governments in general. That is not true, to put it mildly - US is just particularly dysfunctional in that regard.

I should also note that my original point was not about a public/private dichotomy, but specifically about the "capitalist hero" cult of personality and the associated management style. You can have private companies that aren't run in this manner, where decisions are collegial or otherwise checked. You can even have private co-ops. And, of course, in many - indeed, most - cases you don't actually need megacorps to do things that need to be done, and a bunch of much smaller competing entities will do just fine without all the undesired political and economical effects.
Do you have custom prompts for improving writing?
> Why don’t [I] install the Fedora Asahi Remix on [my] ARM64 machine? Because it doesn’t support USB-C display nor the microphone or Touch ID.

Yes, those are the few things left that still don't work. I bet they will in another year.
No offence taken! As far as my (shallow!) understanding goes, the main challenge is the need for many GPUs with huge amounts of memory, and it still takes ages to train the model. So regarding the use of consumer GPUs, some work has been done already, and I've seen some setups where people combine of these and are successful. As for the the other aspects, maybe at some point we distill what is really needed to a smaller but excellent dataset that would give similar results in the final models.
Not entirely true, Native Interop is pretty good with DotNet https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-int...

Though I believe it has regressed at least a bit with the introduction of DotNet Core.
Oh, we missed this new standard. Our first version must have been implemented before its release. We should definitely consider it now.
Ask HN: Do you use LinkedIn and are active on it?
I am a Senior Software Engineer and in my career so far I have been fine without using LinkedIn when applying for a job.

There are some downsides to not being on the platform though:

- Lack of alternative networking options at conferences. Keeping in touch with cool presenters or people you meet (email is ok, but requires pro-active messaging).

- Perhaps missing more lucrative job offers?

- FOMO

However the negatives I see are:

- Shallow and egotistical content being posted by "high flyers" etc.

- Cold messaging or soliciting / spam

- Data privacy concerns (as with any social media platform)

Interested to know what people think as a whole of LinkedIn.
In software, all that is hidden from the end customer. How do you look for the smart choices in code made by the team who implemented any of the software you download and install?
> I don't think recording an audiobook with human-level quality is "simple"

It is, though, I've just done it a few days back. Once you have a clean text extracted from the book (this is actually the difficult part, removing headers, footers, footnote references, etc.), you can feed it into edge-tts (I recommend the Ava voice) and you get something that is, in my opinion, better than most human performers. Not perfect, but humans aren't either (I'm currently listening to a book performed by a human who pronounces GNU like G-N-U).
If we're going for obscure, I'm going to recommend Armitage 3, which is a Ghost in the Shell-esque cyberpunk action adventure. Same energy, and definitely better than a simple clone.

Also a mention to Wolf's Rain. It's a post apocalyptic dystopia where wolves can pretend to have human form, and try to survive. It sounds bonkers but it's charming and it works.
in other words, "office space provides him with negative utility"
I doubt you can even get a hybrid position in this market if you clearly prefer remote work but can't find a remote job. Companies generally aren't going to hire somebody who clearly doesn't want to be there so the only people who have a choice are those who are capable of lying.

I suspect those "job offers" you're getting are probably just recruiters who'd waste your time if you told them you were interested then you'd never hear from them again. That's my experience with most of that "profession" anyway.
Yes, I pay for that - and I do it gladly. It's roughly 7% of my salary.
Benjamin Netenyahu has consistently been winning elections. It took a coalition of 11 parties last time to keep him away from the PM seat.

At what point will people accept that he is the rule, not the exception?
This appears to be a Llava model which was then fine-tuned using outputs from Llama 3. If I understand correctly, that would make it Llama-2-based.
Automerge Binary Format Spec
I feel sorry for anybody living close to the equator. At least the Mercator map chops an ocean, not land where people live (but people living on islands close to that line could have something to complain.)
A note regarding your last point:

- Google Play is sandboxed [1], you have (important) privacy advantages
- with a second account for banking apps (or in your example) uber, lyft, one can nicely separate "google-play-apps" from free apps, account switching is fast

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play
I don't think that Greenplum's closed source means your product has a chance! In fact, most Greenplum derivatives follow the changes in Greenplum's upstream code. Now that it is closed source, it also means that it is not so easy to refer to Greenplum's code.
Real estate agents are fleeing the field. Is that good for homebuyers?
Seeing how web browsers haven't added support for SRV in decades, I'm not holding my breath.

I'm guessing there's some (?) advantage of SVCB and HTTPS records that can't be achieved with SRV[1] and TXT records, but I haven't read the RFC yet to know what that advantage is.

[1]: `_https._tcp` or `_http3._udp` or whatever.
My point was different, the parent was saying "pick the right GPU then". But if I pick AMD I don't have Cuda, and if I use NVidia I have CUDA but buggy graphics. Some other features might or not be well supported by Linux depending on your GPU and the driver (e.g. You might be force to used Xorg). So yeah it's kind of a mess and you have to have everything aligned (Driver, GPU and use cases) to have a flawless experience.
> Meanwhile, I hope the trend of playing louder and louder music in cafes, restaurants and bars dies out. It's an accessibility nightmare, especially (but not only) for people with hearing loss.

I thought it's well established that they're doing it entirely on purpose. Restaurants, cafes and bars don't make money on you chilling out and having a good time with friends; they make money on you buying food and drinks. They want you to order and consume ASAP until you're full and leave, freeing the table for the next group of customers. Loud music that prevents you from having conversations is how they make this happen.
Algebraic Structure That Allows for a True Division by Zero (2019)
It's depressing to think of the different ways people are treated like livestock on a factory farm.
> That's my point: Binder got merged before kdbus started development.

It didn't, it was merged in 2015, a year after or so. No, staging doesn't count, it's a dumping ground for all sort of things that do not see the light of day.

> Also, I still don't see what kind of races

Just because you don't see it, it doesn't mean it's not there. Do some research and you'll see it.
I agree and I do support companies that allow WFH, as it allows for the situation I mentioned - via coworking in my case. But I was replying to the idea of working at home specifically.
The question at its core is a whataboutism and I don't have time for those. It doesn't change the core tenet of the point being made, which is that this prevents publishers from monetizing something they tend to charge money for.

And given that most publishers are small and just scraping by and this directly harms them, I think that sucks.

Stop free-riding on absolutely everyone like they're a Hollywood studio.
I would go with something like sift features (or a non patented variant thereof if you plan commercial usage).
You analyze a first picture and extract the center part. You run a feature detector on each image and the can cheaply match (scale and rotation invariant) against each other - this gives rotation and scaling.
You think an app was a silly choice?
Why isn’t Microsoft Azure’s TTS on here? (or am I missing something and it’s called something else)
I think it is important to discuss the notion of accidental complexity and essential complexity here. If your organization's strength is that you have world class engineering essential complexity is your friend: a problem domain with big essential complexity is really a moat: it keeps the barrier to entry into the market high. If there were less essential complexity in the world there would be much less money in software engineering and much less software engineer jobs would exist. Case in point: markets where barrier to entry regarding technical complexity become too low degrade into a race for the bottom. (like the flood of indie games that do not make money.) On the other hand accidental complexity is not our friend: if you maintain a system with too much accidental complexity there is a great risk that a smarter competitor could create something at least as good with less resources.
It's not whether it works, but whom it appeals.

Trickle down economics is music to the ears of the rich. Despite people thinking that everyone's vote weigh the same, the rich has more influence than others, in the form of lobbying, or even through the sheer "legitimacy" that comes with wealth and fame, whether or not it's deserved. E.g. celebrities.

Politicians have more incentive to appeal to the rich and powerful, since those people hold the key to power. The vast majority of the populace are mere sheep who will fall in line.
Google used to have Googlegeist when most everybody in the company would answer survey questions such as (rate 1-5):

* I am excited about my Product Area's strategic direction

* My Senior VP takes feedback seriously

* I plan to stay with the company for the next 3 years

The results would be summarized across Product Areas (e.g. Google Cloud, Youtube), and numbers compared year over year.

Then HR forced everyone to RTO, and mostly canceled this feedback outright to hide the wide discontent.
Also I don't want to depend on anyone's cloud service to get my work on and off an iPad.
Thanks a lot for all the links. Fascinating stuff.
I've been to quite empty restaurants doing the same thing though. The thing is, a lot of people seem to love it, even though they're struggling to talk to the people next to them. I don't understand it at all personally
"Section 1091 of Title 18, United States Code, prohibits genocide whether committed in time of peace or time of war. Genocide is defined in § 1091 and includes violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group"
> If you are unsure, over-speccing a system slightly at the start won't hurt on the long run.

Hey, this is what the Apple haters are complaining about :)

Seems to be coming on Wintel too.

> unused pages are still pushed to your swap

On Windows? Pretty sure that both on Mac OS and Linux I can have the swap mostly unused. Or even run without swap on Linux.
so, a statically linked Dynamically Linked Library ?
If "beats GPT 4" is in the title it's almost a guarantee that it's a bold faced lie that includes benchmark overfitting.

The first time a model that actually matched GPT 4 launched (i.e. Command-R+) there was no mention of it at all. If your results speak for themselves, there's no need to shout.
I wonder how this would behave with the two different speed versions of the Beatles song revolution
What kind of systems programming are you interested in? A sibling comment already mentioned Windows Internals, but that's really about the architecture of the Windows kernel. If you want to write applications, you probably want to read something about the Windows API?
There are plugins which do this already. Bring your own openai license.
I clearly wasn’t surveyed. I don’t even like Java but I would need a an extender to my ten foot pole before touching Go. (Unless we are talking microcontroller embedded software, and I only could choose between Java and Go.)
This is going to vary based on geography and circumstance, but some home office expenses are eligible for tax deductions.
Having the experience of both working remotely and in office recently, you'd have to pay me a minimum of 50k per year more to RTO.

I don't want to commute. Above 150k or so I'm only keeping 50% of every dollar above that . So we're taking another 25k a year, or about 2k a month. I'm spending 2 hours a day on my commute. That's around 160 hours a month. That means I'm only making 12.5$ an hour commuting.

I also have to give up being able to shower mid day, cook, lay on my couch, etc.

I live in a high cost of living city right now, but I could just move to anywhere in the US tomorrow without issue.
How long have you got?

• The tiling is clunky, and underneath it's still GNOME, my #1 most hated Linux desktop.

• systemd-boot is clunky, does not play well with others, does not dual boot well at all, and it needs a huge ESP yet does not supply tooling to resize the ESP -- and Gparted can't resize FAT32 partitions as small as the typical ESP.

• It replaces Snap with Flatpak, which is not an improvement in any meaningful way: the only advocates who bleat that it's more open don't understand what the word means, and architecturally, OStree is a Lovecraftian horror.

• The installer is poor and could not handle using an existing `/home` partition when I first tried it (although that did get fixed). It is co-developed with Elementary, which is remarkable because the Elementary one worked better. They'd be better off learning what openness really means and working with Calamares instead.

• In summary, it shows many of the defects you'd expect from a distro designed by a hardware manufacturer: poor installation, poor handling of dual boot, poor handling of existing partitions, and poor handling of being put on an existing machine, especially an older one.

I find its advocates don't dual boot, don't use older kit, don't do complex partitioning, and so don't notice its defects and are unmoved because the problems do not affect them.

Gracefully handling interop and existing tech is one of the things Linux does best, far better than the BSDs for instance, and it is exactly where Pop OS falls down.
> It's very unusual to vote to fire a CEO without all members being present.

It's not unusual to exclude people with conflicts from a decision. That's a typical part of a corporate conflict of interest policy, and for a charity nonprofit board (as the OpenAI board is) it's even more critical, since failute to do so risks the tax-exempt status.
Probably. But they still write “On a side note, Oracle's ZGC Generational—GenZGC—is not supported in production yet.”

GenZGC is supported on OpenJDK 21 onwards [1].

[1]: https://inside.java/2023/11/28/gen-zgc-explainer/
This assumes a level of fungibility that's just not there. Apart from the discussions elsewhere in this thread about why spare bedrooms might not be suitable to rent, even for those that are, splitting a family of 4 across 4 spare bedrooms in 4 different properties is suboptimal at best and legally child neglect at worst.

Equally, houses in Cornwall are of little use when the jobs are in London.
D-Bus will never be removed. Varlink was added because the kernel refused to provide usable IPC primitives, like other OSes have, so a brokered IPC is simply unfeasible in early userspace. So now we have two IPCs that will work in parallel, forever, because such is life on Linux.
Refactoring only matters if decision makers care about long term consequences and value. One thing that makes it difficult to make these kinds of decisions wisely is that no one knows how long a piece of software will live in production.

If I could know for sure that a piece of software would exist for 50 years in production I could make a better case for refactoring. Likewise, if I knew for sure that a piece of software would get completely replaced in 1 year I would not bother with refactoring.

Never in my career have I been able to accurately predict how long software would live in production. I have had throwaway code live for years and things I thought would last forever get replaced almost instantly.
[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808 2 days ago | 999 points