skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does exactly what you think it does. You can cut parts of the original file without having to edit the waveform (like you would in Audacity). Instead, select the parts directly just like you would in a text editor.

What it does not do is generate new words (ie you type a sentence and it adds that to your file as voice).
Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?
Discussion (158 points, 13 hours ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036526
Hybrid. I’ll show up at the office 1-2 days a week. We’ll agree on a weekday.
Discussions

(75 points, 10 hours ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038586

(58 points, 9 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039606
Which huge companies were spawned from the last few decades of startups raising VC? I think almost all the biggest companies today?

Here's a list I grabbed of the highest market-cap companies:
1. Apple
2. Microsoft
3. NVIDIA
4. Alphabet (Google)
5. Amazon
6. Saudi Aramco
7. Meta Platforms (Facebook)
8. Berkshire Hathaway
9. TSMC
10. Tesla

Of this list, here are "startups" that raised VC money:
1. Apple
2. Microsoft
3. NVIDIA
4. Alphabet (Google)
5. Amazon
6. Meta Platforms (Facebook)
7. Tesla

So more than half of the top-10 biggest companies today were these kinds of startup "experiments".

And of course, these are just the biggest companies, and don't include many things I interact with on a day-to-day basis, which are incredibly valuable to me, e.g. Netflix, ChatGPT, YouTube (part of Alphabet but important enough to warrant mentioning), etc.
> We are now in permanent layoff culture. Some of us still believe this is companies trimming the fat. It is not. It is wage suppression.

Speaking in games, they pretty much trimmed as much fat as they could with every loophole in the book. But they still want to make bigger games that compete with Fortnite instead of more focused reelases.

There's no fat left to trim so they are in fact shutting down studios and cancelling projects. I'm sure the trillionaire companies will survive no matter what, but games are genuinely in a bad spot right now.

>As a tech worker, you are just like any other worker. You are not immune. The only effective counter is to act collectively with your fellow employees.

fundamentally, the very reason companies kept hoarding tech workers is because in fact, yesterday's employee can be come toorrow's competitor. Gabe newell walked away from Microsoft and made a gaming empire Microsoft could only dream of. Jobs walked away from apple more than once and helped found an industry disrupting company that forever transformed a medium of movies ruled by Disney for decades prior. And likewise, a dispute in Disney animation created their biggest competitor in that new space, a competitor very clearly fueled by spite. Dozens of stories like that

In the 00's, the biggest fear of the big tech companies was poaching. Clearly in the 2020's past critical mass they care more about making number go up. The cycle will repeat and those companies will remember why hey at one point colluded among one another to make anti-poaching clauses.
I take the disarmament claims with some degree of skepticism. Alot of these weapons provide substantial flexibility and destructive capability, which superpowers are generally not fond of relinquishing. A lot of the nuclear disarmament stuff hit its peak in the years following the collapse of the USSR, at which point US and Russian relations looked very positive and optimistic moving forward. We're now back to lows not seen since the Cold War.

In any case, for the specifics - Wiki gives 2004 [1] as the date the US reportedly dismantled its nuclear artillery, and in 2000 Russia reported that "nearly all" of its nuclear artillery had been dismantled. Nuclear landmines [2] fall under 'atomic demolition munitions' which are basically any sort of small/mobile nuke, so you get everything from landmines to the suitcase nuke weirdness.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition
For Python tasks you can check Prefect, among others..
I’m not believing cynical rubbish.
I take many handwritten notes throughout the day like you, but found that reviewing them for 2 minutes at the start of the next day has high return on investment.
Not only decent performance but the highest head capacity of all liquids, and it’s boiling point can be easily adjusted by lowering pressure if required.
All of these are very significant at a FAANG and generally not as great elsewhere.
No, the poster is "overemployed". That's when people commit fraud against their employers by accepting multiple concurrent full time salaried positions and then phoning in their jobs until they're fired or the employer folds.
>Perhaps as effective as Rogaine

Sounds like a long shot to have something that's as good as something you can pay $50 for for a three month supply.
I think email today "just works," esp. since spam filtering became decent and auto-categorization. I don't think being a new email host is where the win could be but at the client end. That's what recent successes like Superhuman, Hey have been.
You will better cross shop Taycan with a Kia as these are at similar level of battery technology.
Show me the average startup engineer who has the time to be overemployed please...
> ALSA is the core layer of the Linux audio stack. It provides low-level audio hardware control, including drivers for sound cards and basic audio functionality.

> ...

> Ulike PuleAudio and JACK, PipeWire does not require ALSA on a system, in fact if ALSA is installed the output of ALSA is very likely pushed through PipeWire

I don't get this part. If ALSA represents the kernel level hardware drivers for audio, how does Pipewire bypass it? Does it implement an alternative set of kernel drivers? I assumed Pipewire still relies on ALSA base.
Archive: https://archive.ph/Lsb6x
How do you write a noun that is not meant to be capitalized but happens to be place just after a full stop?
More to the point, it's a gendered difference, in mice and likely in humans also.

“One of the remarkable things about these findings is that if we hadn’t been studying female mice, which unfortunately is the norm in biomedical research, then we could have completely missed out on this finding,”

Many people understand that results in mice indicate similar results in humans, those that don't are likely to misunderstand or dismiss work in other ways in any case.
Ha, you might enjoy The Drowned World
There are various forms of HRT and not all cause an increase in cancer. It’s a shame that notion has stuck around when it could be so helpful for so many women: bone density, hot flashes, vaginal atrophy, etc.

They do tend to cause an increase in blood clots though. The risk is manageable in relatively fit women. In overweight/sedentary women that gets a bit harder to balance out.
Maybe this was about advertising after all ;). I now know there is a company named Wiz.
Good artists copy, great artists steal

- Pablo Picasso
So his legs (or at least his ankles) are supporting more than 800kg between them
Wiz does not do endpoint security. Different products entirely.
Whenever somebody says to you "it's not about the money" or "i'm not doing this for the money"

It's (entirely) about the money.
Misconceptions about entropy are misconceptions about physics. You can’t dispell them focusing on the maths and ignoring the physics entirely - especially if you just write an equation without any conceptual discussion, not even mathematical.
Why though? I started taking Finasteride, and so far with zero side effects my hair loss completely stopped.

Costs basically nothing and I like my hair? I wish there wasn’t this stigma associated with it and I would have started sooner.
> An eBPF probe is not a kernel module.

But if it runs on the same privilege level as the rest of the kernel, then isn't it, for the purposes of this discussion, in effect "a kernel module"?
Do they have CS degrees?
> You are acting deranged and I ask that you just calm down.

You got all that from my one post here? Is that an admission that you are behind gossim and all the other accounts? Eg granibran.

I will agree with DonHopkins. In your post you are basically spreading misinfo and comparing GD to schizophrenia while using your gay status as a shield. Ironically some of the most transphobic people that I know are gay men, and this is not a revent phenomenon either.

A bit of empathy, an attempt to get informed about what is going on, and trying to talk to trans people about their experiences would go a long way.

Edit: I just saw your post where you said that autism is a terrible disease, I will be withdrawing from the discussion as I don't think any reasoning is going to be had.
This is the app version of a phishing email. Give us access to everything on every website you visit, just for some eye candy.
It's like the perfect conterexample, a good DJ needs to have really good taste and constantly listen to new tracks and think about where they can be used.

Designers everyone thinks are more creative than they are. DJs most people think are less creative than they need to be.
From ChatGPT:
Normalcy bias is when people underestimate the possibility and impact of a disaster, believing things will always stay the same. It leads to inaction and unpreparedness during emergencies.
Don't worry, Pipewire is a very good development.
Story time: About 6 years ago a close friend with years of software experience was bored with her job and decided to look for another. She received plenty of solid job offers, all with excellent pay, but one of them stood out. It was a company that made back-end software for credit unions. Not sexy work, but what stood out to my friend was the how genuine the people she talked to during the "interview" process seemed. They asked about her life experience more than her work experience. When she met with execs they never even talked about actual work. She said they were very upfront about the fact that they couldn't compete with "the big guys" on pay, but they take their supportive company culture very seriously - the average length-of-employment was over 10 years. She said they offered her access to the office, where she could freely "interview" anyone rando she wanted about the company. She did, and everyone she talked to raved about working there.

She decided to accept the offer from the not-sexy credit union software company, knowing she could've earned at least 30% more elsewhere. She kept using the word "genuine" when she talked about the people she met during the "interview" process, and that's what attracted her.

Well, about 2 years after accepting the offer she was diagnosed with breast cancer. (tl;dr = dealing with cancer sucks. constant doctor appointments. chemo treatments. pain. vomiting. life/death uncertainty. and so on.) She said her company was unbelievable during her cancer battle. She didn't work for almost a year (her bosses wouldn't let her), and they never even talked about sick leave or FMLA or disability - nothing. They just kept her on the payroll like normal, for almost a full year! She said her bosses would call all the time, asking about the latest test results, how she was feeling, did she need anything, etc. And, to her surprise, after about 2 years of treatments, almost the entire company showed up to watch her ring the bell.

Moral of the story: Money is great, but it's really not everything.
> but I don't know is there any major consumer usage requires such performance.

Gaming.

There are some games that will benefit from greater single-core performance.
There was a deleted comment saying that it helps if you learn your domain and bring skills/knowledge aside from just programming. I agree, although I think it also helps if you have a non-CS background relevant to this sort of thing, as it implies some base level of knowledge too. I've met people that have been in one domain for a long time but still don't understand it, so it's not a given.

My background is in Physics but I've worked on software in the Engineering industry now for 10 years nearly. My most recent project at work drew on maths I used in my doctorate (various bits of Fourier analysis applied to mechanical systems). Not that someone who hadn't got my background couldn't do it but I could jump on that project and finish it in 2 months and I doubt anyone else in my team could have picked it up and done it in less than 6-9 months just because of the research and needing to understand the maths + algorithms.

I regularly get contacted by companies working in the same or adjacent domains, whereas some of my more 'pure' software friends are hearing nothing at the moment.
I think that adopting ASCII as the general purpose text encoding was one of the great mistakes of early computing. It originated as control interface for teletypes and such, and that's arguably where it should have remained. For storing and processing (plain) text ASCII doesn't really fit that well, control characters are a hindrance and the code space would have been useful for additional characters. The ASCII set of printables was definitely a compromise formed by the limited code space.
I now have flashbacks to when I tried to get sound working on my Gentoo install 15 years ago. It seems that now everything has changed (wtf is pipewire) and still requires arcane knowledge to get everything working smoothly...
This is the way. Software devs can make so much money and have so much more control over their lives, instead of grinding FAANG.
And finance companies offer better pensions and benefits than anywhere else I've seen in the UK. Plus real life useful domain knowledge. Now I'm older I prefer working with older staff, seems to be less bullshit.
While I don‘t write much, my website is directly associated with my real name. As a result, friends regularly stumble upon it.

Most of them don’t care for the topics I write about. However, they usually get a little excited, as if they found a real-life Easter egg.
Man that was a long time ago.
Agreed that backend email service is at its mature state, and agreed too on improving the user journey. I wonder how Hey is doing.
We pledged not to eat each other
“Civilization destruction” isn’t a realistic scenario and I think people need to get over that. It’s not the 1980s. It’s almost certain what would actually happen is one or two pop off in a conflict zone like Ukraine and then nukes start getting used tactically like conventional weapons.

The larger issue is once the “nuclear taboo” is broken nation states will start using them. Nukes aren’t magic, they’re just really big bombs. Most likely the smaller ones are more practical to deliver and will be used on military targets (Bunker busting, destroying fortifications, etc). It wouldn’t play out like Mad Max but basically WWII but with small nukes and regional missile defense systems playing a huge role.
Some do, mostly when the problem they are trying to solve is somewhere in my blog past. I've learned over the years not to advertise the blog/page, due to weird questions I get, for example: Q: How costly is this? (A: it's free, minus my time), Q: Why is it so ugly? (A: When you write your perfect jekyll skin, I will use it, you know it's about my future self searching for the info, not about beauty), Q: Why? (A: I always find something interesting to read in my blog, unlike your corporate page). p.s. The long-tail effect has been predicted at least 20 years ago, so I understand that views will be low or none: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail

My blog: https://brontosaurusrex.github.io/
But many people are claiming that chatgpt increases their productivity by 50-100%. Doesn't it mean we need less programmers now?
I made $4 million profit last financial year with my own software businesses.
Show HN: Made a Little Script to Add 'Edit Message' Btn to Slack's Quick Actions
I often find myself editing Slack messages to fix typos or rephrase them. However, editing a message requires two steps: clicking on the three dots in the quick actions menu and then selecting the 'Edit' option. To save my precious clicks, I made a script that adds an 'Edit Message' button directly to Slack's quick actions.

To use this script, install the Violentmonkey browser extension and then install this script:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/500127-slack-quick-edit-bu...
I’m no expert but I don’t believe it’s similar to testosterone in that it could be suppressed for life after doing replacement therapy.
Finasteride is scary bro, too many firsthand accounts of issues for me.
The difference is that while the dark matter halo almost certainly has has net angular momentum, individual DM particles would not be coupled to the galaxy’s rotation to any meaningful degree, and would have essentially random velocities relative to a local corotating frame.

The entire reason that spiral galaxies exist is that baryonic matter interacts electromagnetically and can dissipate kinetic energy via heat (photons). That causes matter to eventually flatten into a disc rotating more-or-less uniformly.

In this sense a DM halo is similar to elliptical galaxies which certainly have net angular momentum, but their stars have essentially random orbital planes.
Perhaps the majority of Taiwanese want to remain independent, but many reasonable Taiwanese would like to rejoin China.
Yes, There are 2 posts from 2007.
WHY WHY WHY did I get downvoted for this????
Pipewire is a major development that's especially important for Wayland desktop. It was hard to miss unless you haven't used Linux in a long time.
The Republican aversion to "trans" is the type that's built around promoting conservative gender roles, and is only a small part of the bigger picture of opposition.

It's different in other countries. In the UK, for instance, most of the pushback has been from grassroots feminist organizations who point to the misogyny and sexism that's been enabled and promoted by "gender identity" beliefs being woven into policy and law.

We do see it being challenged in this way the US too, from the left, e.g.

- https://karadansky.substack.com/p/why-i-think-were-much-furt...

> Ideology of trans?

The regressive belief that women and men are defined as "gender identities" rather than based upon the material biological reality of sex.

> And speaking of mutations, bravo on twisting my statement on homophobia into some squirrelly critique that justifies your fears.

It's not fear, this is reality. A couple of examples of this homophobia:

- https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/03/trans-activists-shu...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385

> but is ultimately on the wrong side of history.

I doubt it. The right side of history surely cannot be one that destroys every female space and erases homosexuality in the name of "progress".
As a former designer with a broad background (graphics, typography, print, web, product design) whenever I read something like this I get the feeling people generally have a misguided idea of what design is.

Many (bad) designers confuse what I would call styling with design. Design is a lot about functionality and how information is organized visually. These two core design points can only be copied if the underlying project is exactly the same in terms of underlying information. But even for two blogs about different topics the question which information needs to be presented how would be different — even if both blogs were using the browser's default CSS. This is the core of design.

Styling is finding colors, shapes proportions etc. All of this of course overlaps with the functional question and the question of organization of information — bigger buttons get more attention and all that — but ultimately you can slap more or less any style on any content. Whether it makes sense is a different question.
Hmm the article says it is believed to be "as effective as Minoxidil" - which really doesn't cure baldness, more like prevents its onset. So if you're already bald - tough luck.

So far I think the reality of it is:
- to slow down baldness - drugs like minoxidil
- to stop baldness - PRP sessions once every few years
- to reverse it - hair transplants

I wonder if they would be able to not only get into "slow down" territory but to "stop" with a drug based on this sugar.

I was balding from 25 years onward and had made peace with it by just shaving my head. But recently I had an extended sabbatical and thought to myself - what the hell, let me try the "Elon Musk" way and just did some hair implants. It was rather painful, and took almost a month to fully recover, but it was soo worth it. Had forgotten how satisfying it was to have hair through your fingers plus walking out in the sun is much simpler now, no hats required.
> run multithreaded algorithms that are aware of the different performance and split the work unevenly to compensate.

This is what the Intel Thread Director [0] solves.

For high-intensity workloads, it will prioritize assigning them to P-cores.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Next, an additional step is required: the victim must enable the installation of unknown apps from the device settings, allowing the malicious APK file to install on the device.

Ya it is not an "exploit". It is more a bug.
Except Apple recruited GUI engineers from PARC to work on the Lisa and Macintosh itself. I don't think you can steal any better than that.
Thanks - it is rather funny.
A cure for androgenic alopecia. (+20 Trust)
The NSPCC has a dog in the race

So have those guardians of our privacy who want to remove encryption from the internet.

This seems to be an attack on Apple for not imposing the the iCloud photo-scanning tool.

All US-based tech companies are obligated to report all cases of CSAM they detect on their platforms to NCMEC. The Virginia-headquartered organization acts as a clearinghouse for reports of child abuse from around the world, viewing them and sending them to the relevant law enforcement agencies. iMessage is an encrypted messaging service, meaning Apple is unable to see the contents of users’ messages, but so is Meta’s WhatsApp, which made roughly 1.4m reports of suspected CSAM to NCMEC in 2023.

I thought that Meta’s WhatsApp was not actually encrypted because if you "flag" a message Meta can then go ahead and read that message.

Its not encrypted then!

Its is much more fun using groups on Signal.
try out the multi phone call between everyone in the group
Its hilarious
>When parallax scrolling was cool and different, I designed an architecture site for a local architect using the effect.

A friend of mine designed such a site with his web design company. I instantly thought, amazing but horrendous.

On that note, why is Apple still successful with this? Everything is moving on their website.
There are more major issues I would hope the article authors would correct. I know, not likely to happen. Here's a few notes to think about -

> The analysed star cluster IRS 13 is located 0.1 light years from the centre of our galaxy. This is very close in astronomical terms, but would still require travelling from one end of our solar system to the other twenty times to cover the distance.

If the "one end to the other" metric, at best, is 2 x 100,000 AU [1] if it means the edge of the Oort cloud. That's about 3.16 light-years.

But GCIRS 13E appears to be 26,000 light-years away. Hint: 3.16 light-years x 20 is not even close to 26,000 light-years.

The article never mentions any theories on the formation of these intermediate-mass black holes, or why confirming the existence of one in our own galaxy would be meaningful science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCIRS_13E
I met a dude at a bachelor party who was working for three startups simultaneously.

I don’t recommend it.