skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, it's a stupid tool in Rust to keep my soundbar alive.

Turns out that JBL thought it's a good idea to completely cut sound when there's nothing playing and ramp it back up in a perceptible fraction of second so that you miss some part of whatever you're listening to. This is especially annoying when watching anything with people talking.

Here's the code for anyone interested, it also contains a more thorough rant in the README.md.
https://github.com/silvanocerza/orpheus
I worked at a new online betting/gambling company that launched in the US during the pandemic. I have worked at two other jobs since. I never had a problem getting my resume screened, so I don't think it prevents you from getting hired at the major tech companies out there. There are a lot of interesting problems that these gambling companies face. For example, they have requirements about which particular states their infrastructure can operate in. Since I am a Platform engineer / Cloud Admin / whatever you want to call it, this could be a good use for things like AWS Outposts that most companies aren't going to have a use for.

It might prevent you from getting hired at certain companies. I currently work at a company focused on the challenges faced by poor families, and gambling obviously is notorious for disproportionately affecting these families. I was honest with the CEO about why I left (which was in some part due to naivety about the wider impacts the company would have). I got the job without a problem. I'd like to think he was happy for my honesty, but I won't ask him as he's currently on holiday.
I'm hopeful and optimistic for AMD but if anything were to make me bearish on their prospects, it'd be this.
The clear and obvious solution to any ozone hole caused by this would be to use large planes to dump super fine particles of lead in the upper atmosphere.... And adding lead powder to sunscreen.

It is well known lead is a good radiation absorber.

/s if you can't tell
That is really cool. I haven't built a rig like you, but I have it on my bucket list to build a fully dressed rock crawler out of a Mitsubishi Montero 2dr (also sold as a Dodge Raider in the states). It'll be leaf sprung to start, but using your method of going 4 link would be preferable to the "build and pray" method that most people seem to take.
I've been self-hosting this https://github.com/dbgate/dbgate for a few years.

But I like some of the features in SQL Explorer interesting - like Pivot tables and exposing queries as JSON endpoints.
> Unless you're a proponent of panpsychism, we have to ask why living beings have it, but other natural processes do not.

No, we don't.

Because, while an individual may experience it, the conjecture that other things do or do not have it is without exception an unverifiable assumption, not an observed phenomenon which calls for an explanation.

> it's actually easier to conceive of a world like ours without subjective experience than one with it.

This is demonstrably false, because no experiencer can observe subjective experience other than their own, and, despite that, describing the world in terms of subjective experience occurring in a vast array of other beings beside the speaker is near-universal, to the point that we pathologize not viewing the universe that way.
What sort of compromises? I would speculate that performance would be a big issue for a project that hasn't had the sheer number of eyeball-hours on the code like Linux has had, but I really have no idea!
> This is a thought experiment, and what I suggest isn't ruled out by physics

It is actually ruled out by the uncertainty principle. A simulation with perfect fidelity is not a simulation, it's the thing itself.
Professional and business services seem to be down. So are temporary help services. I think chatgpt is "cutting the fat" of those jobs. This seems rough.

The average weekly wage is 1200$. Seems like what most master degrees can command. Oof. The median is probably much lower.
Bliss OS for PC: Android for Your PC
I’ve interviewed once with Google, didn’t make it so take that grain of salt in my comment:

Every time I’ve met with ex-FAANG types in the last decade (and I’ve got dozens of anecdotes) I felt like I was talking with a Wolf of Wallstreet bro stereotype. Complete lack of humility / big ego.

The big name and big money attracts a certain personality type.

I realize full well this is broad strokes and not all are bad, but there’s a bias in the population pool.
Maybe we have something like this going on:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bootstrap_paradox
Seat belts work. Use them. Those won't don't use decimate themselves over time. E.g in Austria of the 178 car occupants killed last year 42 didn't wear a seat belt[0]. Those 23% is far above the 8% that did not use a seat belt in observations[1]. Numbers for other countries are similar or worse.

[0] https://www.bmi.gv.at/202/Verkehrsangelegenheiten/unfallstat...
[1] https://www.oeamtc.at/presse/oeamtc-erhebung-jeder-13-pkw-in...
bookmarking system, made for me by me

https://bookerics.com
Not at all.

But don't tell me I'm entering an ecological dead zone right before some ecology attempts to eat me.
I was selling an apartment in a developing country. I wanted to know, given the constantly updating property sales tax and rapidly worsening exchange rate, how much I’d end up pocketing in USD, if I sold for X vs X - 5% vs X - 10%, etc

That would inform my “I’m willing to go as low as” selling price.

So I built myself an app to scrape the current tax from the government’s online calculator and assemble a dozen what-if scenarios, given the current exchange rate.

When I found one that would let me break even, cash in hand after all fees and taxes, that became my price floor.

It worked. Now I don’t need my app anymore.
That would be pretty cool actually.

There is hn.algolia.com which can be used to (kind of, at least) achieve that but it's not a perfect fit.

This is a result if you search "JAXA" and sort by All for the Last Year so it's just kinda there

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864364
I've done this for over a decade, I've never been issued a desktop.
Very interesting. A TL-15 is an excellent container, but I'm not familiar with a 5 wheel combination lock in commercial service in the US. I have a S&G vault lock which has 4 wheels. I don't doubt 5 wheel locks exist though, especially if the safe was possibly installed for a US Senator. Would definitely be interesting to see some photos of the lock (both outside and inside) if you still have any.

Reminds me of this: https://blackbag.toool.nl/?p=31
Text gets indexed in another database every time a note gets saved/deleted/created. There might be better solutions with AWS Athena but using a simple MySQL database was by far the easiest (and quickest in terms of querying) way to add full text search. My database is paid via usage so I don't have to spend much money, if any, to index my notes.
This post doesn't cover why someone would want to do this. If this is to reduce file size, using JPEG (or more modern AVIF or JPEG XL) directly will likely produce better looking images at smaller sizes. However, for lossless image compression, like PNG or GIF, reducing colors might be worth doing.
Is there an org that tracks tech employment more closely than the BLS? I still don’t know what to make of the gulf between my observed experience and the larger job market.

Anecdotally, more people I know have been laid off in the past year than I’ve ever seen before. I’ve been laid off twice in under 18 months, and am currently going on three months without a job.

And with the caveat that they are both echo chambers, the consistent sentiment I’ve seen here and on LinkedIn is that this is the worst tech job market since the Great Recession. Is tech really that uniquely sensitive to interest rates while the rest of the economy doesn’t care?
It's a hint. It is shown every 4 seconds if you're not clicking on anything.

Do you think it would be better if hints were a separate button?
I can't think of any country that limits registration of older cars, can you?
But look how much a >4TB SSD is compared to a HDD.
> All depends

came to say the same. even ignoring the almighty budget issue, there are too many different use cases, even scoped strictly to software development.

backend dev juggling a number of microservices? mobile dev needing to run iOS and Android emulators? web dev needing to run multiple browsers? principal eng who spends more time reading, diagramming, and experimenting than writing production code? embedded dev who needs to test on custom hardware?
I use "alarm clock xtreme" on Android that is similar; it has math and "type these random characters" puzzle as well as snooze detection so you hit "I'm awake" but also includes snoozing/stopping via number of steps detected or by scanning a barcode etc. Definitely recommend it.

But even so, I wish it would force me to key in the current time to disable, that way my sleepy brain would better understand "it's time to wake up now, because it is x time".
I have a 3-letter domain that I use as my personal playground (think "xyz.com"). It features:

- One-click anonymous upload of text, clipboard, and files. So from any computer, I can visit xyz.com + ctrl+v to upload the clipboard, write notes to myself, drag and drop a file, etc. It's a risky feature, but there's nothing to attract attention and you don't even get a URL back.

- Authenticated sessions see a list of uploaded files, with buttons to copy link, download, delete, or generate QR code. There's also real-time notifications for each upload.

- Simplified RSS feed reader[1]. It scans my feeds every 10 minutes, and displays the URLs of new items. It has one button, that opens all URLs in new tabs and marks them as read.

- A Server-sent-events channel[2], and a UI that displays visitors in real time. The channel allows me to send redirects/file downloads to any visitor, so I'm constantly asking people to visit xyz.com when I need to hand them something digitally. Visitors are color coded with randomized backgrounds for identification.

- Youtube video downloader (powered by yt-dlp), along with audio extractor and pitch+speed correction for songs.

- Authentication is by approval from an already authenticated session (usually my phone). In the worst case I can edit the text file via SSH.

I add or remove widgets according to my needs. At one point I had chat integration with Facebook+WhatsApp+Telegram (got me banned from WhatsApp), radio player (replaced with Spotify), and even balances by scraping my bank accounts, credit cards, and Steam (removed after a bank started asking questions).

The whole thing runs in custom pair of Go and Python servers, developed slowly over the last ten years, and I use it multiple times a day. Feels like a digital tree house, messy but fun and useful.

[1]: https://github.com/boppreh/feeder

[2]: https://github.com/boppreh/server-sent-events

Edit: people have found it and started spamming uploads of "HELLO FROM HN". One IP looks Swedish. Well, Hi! But I'm taking it down for a few days to avoid tempting more people.

And shoutout to the Go team, that server has been rock solid and 100% backwards compatible over the past ten years.
Yeah, that's a hilarious situation :)

Chad and Romania don't want to change their flags!
What's your privacy concern with a recursive resolver? If you're not using DoH or DoT, your ISP can see everything anyways.
That's quite a reversal when you are steel-manning your argument by pretending that the large majority of politicians and legalists in Wales are so much uneducated that they did
not notice this obvious misuse that you, you have noticed.

Just to be clear: there are grey areas in the question of "what is the truth", but this is not new, as "what is the truth" is the job of the judicial system since forever. The judicial system is built around that, around the fact that what is true for someone is not always true for someone else and how to find a good balance.
I use paperless-ngx but the concept is the same.

It is hard to understand how much easier this makes dealing with all of the paper in your life until you have it.
Ssd prices went back up in the last 9-12 months or so due to manufacturers restricting productions.
Hum... People investing in renewables and batteries do not use predictions. Those have at most some 3 years of building time, usually a few months.

People investing in fossil fuel plants need predictions, and despite they wanting to see conservative numbers, that bias means complete doom for them. They need the opposite bias if they want to survive.

Things get a lot more complex once you start to look at components industries. But then, it's not clear they use predictions for anything.
> Seat belts work. Use them. Those won't don't use decimate themselves over time. E.g in Austria of the 178 car occupants killed last year 42 didn't wear a seat belt[0]. Those 23% is far above the 8% that did not use a seat belt in observations[1]. Numbers for other countries are similar or worse.

Why not let these people decimate themselves?
The feature lag wasn't the problem, the bugs were the problem: the only reliable OpenCL implementation was the one from Nvidia, but this meant it tended to drive people towards Nvidia rather than steal them away.
Google has powerful TPUs. The real question is, why isn't Meta building their own?
Or "fewer left turns". I can handle the right turns.
> don't work with binary libraries,

None of the edition changes that Rust has made have any effect on the ABI. It also has no stable Rust ABI, so there wasn't an effort to formalize that, but 1) ABIs should always be versioned (to avoid getting stuck with a bad ABI) and 2) you can use editions for other kinds of change in the meantime.

> across compilers,

This is almost tautological. Yes, having two C++ compilers agree to their support of editions is the same as them agreeing to their support of concepts. I don't see how this is a critique of the strategy.

> template code across editions, with semantic differences.

Rust defines editions at the compilation unit level: the crate. But it has macros (which are akin to templates) and editions are handled at that boundary (you can have code in one edition invoke macros in another) because the compiler tracks editions at the token level (the information is attached to their Span). There's no reason editions in C++ can't work with templates. You would have to specify the edition of the template, and given C++ semantics you might have to have an opt-in scope to say "use this edition here, override the rest of the file", but it would be possible.
I think the large earth monuments were part of successful agricultural projects. The stone work was to keep the cultural organized and focused. The most successful left large stone constructions.
Yes. My task tracker works better for me than anything else I've tried over the years (decades, even), including every single one showcased on HN.

It's quick to start, non-laggy to use and matches my thought process exactly. Has both a CLI and a GUI.
VSCode Extension that displays shortcut hints?
To help memorize shortcuts, I'm wondering if there's a vscode extension that displays a shortcut hint whenever the dev:
- uses the GUI instead of the shortcut
- manually types a command in the command bar instead of using the shortcut

Of course it should be limit-able to only the most used shortcuts.
You're welcome! I am especially pleased to know that your daughter liked it :)

My 2-year-old daughter can't appreciate it yet.
> A automatic visual scraper that can get arbitray information from any website (e.g go to target and get the top 3 milk prices or get the licensing information from this opensource project)

Sounds interesting. How does this work exactly? How do I input that I want the top 3 milk prices, and how does it retrieve that data?
The ryzen 1700 is also from 2017. Intel’s cpus still dominated at the time for anything single-threaded, they were just bad at multithreaded workloads. I’m not saying i/o die power consumption isn’t higher, it is for sure. And I agree, it doesn’t go down at idle because it can’t turn off or do power gating.

What I’m saying is that a computer with a cpu that is 65W TDP (from a time when amd’s TDP was close to being accurate as ~ max power consumption under load), the i/o die (which is part of that 65w TDP; which is for load) cannot possibly be the main reason his computer is idling at 80W. Especially when I linked an instance of a system also with a ryzen 1700 that was idling for 57W and with a similar configuration as an intel contemporary only being 7W greater at idle.
I think the analyst's take in the article is just based on short-term financials. Intel is facing stiff competition from amd, nvidia, ARM but as you said they are moving into a strong posture, at least tech-wise.

I'd assume these bad financials are a hangover from the eternal 14nm process node.
From previous Hacker News comments, there is a perception that even though Hurd is a microkernel, it wasn’t a very good attempt at one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320648
To Be or Not to Be? That Is the Obsession: Existential and Philosophical OCD
At least we know the PET (privacy enhacing technology) is working as advertised. Whoever managed to prevent its backdooring deserves [good] publicity
Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy
I wanted to say my Figma plugins that I made for myself, but I published them so it doesn't count.

When I was around 15 I wanted to try out Win Forms. I also used to play a lot of Dota 2 so I created this app to calculate how many Techies mines would to take down a hero with X HP. Complete with sliders, input field, radio buttons and checkboxes to select ability levels and items. Pretty sure it will never get published, but the .exe is still sitting on my desktop.

https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Techies
When we refer to heat we refer to the increase in entropy that has specific effects to things in our world. We can also describe a generic "disordered" state, which doesn't imply a similar kind of causal compatibility. A simulation of entropy is equally disordered with no caveats despite not being exactly entropy due to the causal compatibility issue. Why think consciousness is like entropy rather than like disorder?

In other words, why think consciousness is a physical property of some specific kind of matter rather than an abstract property that can supervene on any sufficiently robust physical substrate?
I don't think it should be a question of fairness. Not everyone is a producer. Everyone is a consumer, including producers. Therefore, it is socially optimal that, wherever welfare surplus exists in price levels, more of it should be consumer surplus than producer surplus.
My industry was last analyzed by bls.gov in 2023. It seems that tech was last analyzed in 2018.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/high-tech-industries-a...

Perhaps they will analyze the tech employment soon?
hr likes to box people based on what they have done before. don't work in gambling if you don't want other gambling company recruiters trying to hire you.
My understanding is that the unique hash is really the true identifier of the implementation. So when you change the implementation, the two functions will have two different hashes? I am not sure if this is exactly your problem.
Im going to make play devils advocate here, but I think LLMs are the closest we can get to AGI, because AGI is a silly concept. Literally nobody on earth has “General Intelligence,” nobody is generally capable in all things, so why do we expect software to be?

Still, the average cutting edge LLM does a hell of a lot better at a great many things than a great many humans. I know, it’s just computer, but what is the average skill level? We just keep moving the goal posts.
I will give an anecdote from someone I worked with. Years ago he worked for an online poker site before they were under any scrutiny. At some point the company was being regulated and moved offshore. He was told that he had a choice at that point to quit or never set foot in the US again.

I have no idea how much the details of my coworker’s situation was due to the industry or the specific company circumstances, but from other rumors I’ve heard around gambling, it might be wise to do some research around other potential ramifications of being assiciated with the industry.

Also, as to your question. I’ve worked now with 3 people with who’ve worked with various gambling resume points, and I didn’t get the impression that it effected their job searches. And, for what it’s worth, they all happened to be better than average coworkers.
vibration does something, secret tip for migraines is massage wand to the face, almost as good as using it in other places
I would totally use this no matter how bad the code is.
The real problem with the p-zombies thing is why do p-zombies talk about consciousness?.

You and I have the experience of talking about being conscious because we have the experience of being conscious in the first place. But for a p-zombie to behave exactly the same as us, it would have to have some other mechanism for talking about being conscious that is not dependent on being conscious. So that would mean that our talking about consciousness can be explained by some mechanism other than our being conscious in the first place! Our experience of consciousness, and our talking about experiencing consciousness, could just happen to be one massive coincidence rather than being causally linked! Doesn't seem likely, ergo no p-zombies.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kYAuNJX2ecH2uFqZ9/the-genera...
Yep, having sales makes a fair number of people wait until there is a sale. Without sales you're pushed back to a (more) binary decision, do I want the game or not, rather than do I want the game at $X price.

Also with sales you get some portion of people that buy things because they are on sale rather than knowing if they really want the game or not, which can lead to complaints on forums.
Agreed.

As a long time Firefox user, I replaced FF with Vivaldi on Android and haven't looked back, since FF has failed to address the battery drain issues that so many people are experiencing:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-for-andro...

No way bundling a LLM is going to help that matter.

I am pleasantly surprised how snappy Vivaldi feels.
If I have a hybrid role, I absolutely want a laptop. Don’t want to be lugging a desktop between home and the office, don’t want separate desktops in each location, don’t want to have work stuff on my personal machine.
I wrote a desktop client for an IPTV service. They have a mobile app and Apple TV app that are good, but there was not a good way to watch on the computer.

I threw together a Python QT app that parses the show listings, displays them, allows filtering, and has some short cuts for searching IMDB and trailers on Youtube. The best part is that the media opens in VLC instead of some custom player.

Anyway, I will never publish it because of the whole facilitating copyright infringement thing.
I vaguely remember an Eclipse plugin that would refuse to execute a mouse operation that had a keyboard shortcut. Pretty much forced one to learn the keyboard commands. And there was something similar for Excel. VS Code really needs this if it doesn't exist yet.
Text of the Quantum Computer Export Control (UK)
It's not Ardunino cheap but I've been a fan of Automation Direct, they've got a couple fairly capable PLCs and they don't try and charge you on the software and/or support.
Why would an old profile cause it to be scanned hundreds of thousands of times? (Yeah, I'm resetting it next time just in case... 10 years is amateur's numbers :) )

Anyway, there are a lot of people reporting the same thing on the internet. I've found 3 different bugs opened for the same thing.

But yeah, as far as I remember, Iceweasel doesn't do it either. Maybe I should change my browser.