skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Consider the possibility that they're fit for a purpose other than yours."

I have, and I'm not alone. With the possible exception of Apple, there's ample evidence that for decades many, many laptop owners have complained about the horrible and inadequate sound in laptops. As Apple hardly represents much competition to Windows, manufacturers of Windows PCs don't have enough incentive to fix the problem, if all their offerings are essentially the same then there's obviously no need.

"…a Chinese laptop"

…And a Dell, it's American if you recall (even if made in China it has to be made to Dell's specifications).

"Output clipping actually increases power at high frequencies."

Nitpicking over omissions in HN comments is unbecoming as most posters 'shortcut' comments out of necessity. Had I not limited my reply and I'd expanded it then my comment would have been considerably longer and much more detailed.

I'd have had to make mention that clipping done for the purposes of limiting output power often (but not always) involves 'soft clipping' circuity, as it's purposely designed to limit the energy contained within high frequency components generated by clipping.

Moreover, I could have gone even further and explained that (a) such circuitry is often done before the output stage to protect both it and the load (here, the speaker), (b) in addition I could have provided the Fourier math and related calcs to show the extent and effectiveness of said protection.

Oh, and there's even more: a comprehensive report would also require (c) knowledge of typical (nominal) audio signals inputted into the amplifier, and that would have to take into account distortions including intermodulation products introduced by compression and soft-clipping processes, as they significantly alter the power versus frequency spectrum of the output signal. If of a significant level we'd also have to include distortion products introduced by the output stage into our calculations.

There's even more, (d) we need to know the speaker's maximum power handling capacity (power versus frequency rating) to protect both the speaker, and (e) to determine whether the combined distortion/intermodulation products including those generated by speakers driven at or above their maximum rated output are tolerably acceptable to end users/listeners (listeners usually find HF intermodulation distortion artifacts produced under such conditions highly objectionable).

…And there's even more factors to consider but I'll dispense with them for now.

Having to provide such a detailed response to a general point to deter pointless nitpicking is simply madness, nevertheless it's the logical outcome if it's pursued. A question, have you ever designed and built any such circuits, or do your comments come from purely theoretical understandings?

Perhaps, just possibly, your continued hostility towards acknowledging the existence of a very common problem experienced by many PC users comes from the fact that you might be involved with an organization that—at least in part—is responsible for its creation.
Seeing the abysmal state of non-Android Linux on mobile really puts into perspective the sheer amount of skills and professionalism that it takes to create smartphone. It's 2024 and these phones do not have even 1/10th of the reliability, smoothness and features of the original 2007 iPhone. Heck, even a 2005 BlackBerry. Heck, even a 2003 Nokia.
This obvious Yandex astroturfing should stop already.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/us-income-growth-...

“Contrary to common perceptions, the CBO data indicate that: (1) income earned after taxes and transfers has increased over the past several decades for all income groups, (2) the federal tax system is progressive and has become more progressive over the past three decades, and (3) the federal system relies heavily on higher earners to raise revenue for government services and means-tested transfers.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/08/the-us-t...

I can’t find data before 1980.
>Visa and mastercard have been flexing their muscles in Japan recently deciding what people can and can not purchase.

Any links on what happened?
The word "criminal" has always been an overbroad term that conflates several different levels of harm without nuance, but at this point in history I don't even believe that the majority of people incarcerated are there from doing harm to someone, nor that the people doing the most harm ever see a jail cell

There's a whole body of complicated philosophy about what criminal law should do, whether it's about avenging victims or rehabilitating offenders or deterrance or profit motive, but I don't think we even need to get into that because a fundamental assumption even having that conversation requires is that the things the state locks people up for are legitimate and this is at this point the exception for me rather than the rule
Android is increasingly power user hostile. General users don't want root and don't want malware to obtain root access. This is an HN bubble where people talk about rooting their devices.

Years ago I would have argued for better education of users so that they can all become power users. These days I see that as a lost cause.
It’s largely to slow lending and credit creation. They’ve got a difficult balancing act to perform, especially since cheap money is a lot more politically popular than the alternative, partly because many people focus on the part where the higher rates makes their debt more expensive, or that it causes lowered employment, like you seem to be. And maintaining low rates also does things like raise asset prices, as people borrow more to pump up their leverage and returns, people spend more, companies make more, and they hire more, people make more, etc, and people generally feel a lot better about that than austerity/saving/laying low. Unfortunately, it also leads to a lot of malinvestment, where people work on a lot of ultimately useless stuff, and that tends to make countries long-term poorer than being more prudent.
Sure that’s why it’s plausible but it defies common sense to assume that judges are not managing their own hunger to the extent that it’s affecting their job performance.

Why wouldn’t surgeons or pilots have the same problem?

The paper is sensational because of the implications it has for the social justice causes certain people are obsessed about.
Local library has decades old server running,and they don't know what it's doing
Sure! Supabase is great, though their authentication is really just authN and doesn't have authZ or anything more advanced like impersonation, connected accounts, orgs, etc. We are more focussed on building the entire package.

We have some stuff planned that'll let you use Supabase RLS with Stack Auth, so you can get the benefits of both. That way, you could do fancy stuff like checking for org membership or permissions inside an RLS rule. I think Supabase DB + Stack Auth could be quite powerful in the future.

If you don't use RLS, then we are pretty much a drop-in replacement.
Bitcoin could have been a strong contender to Visa/MC's dominance for online payments if it wasn't for it's pesky insistence to keep block sizes small and enable "Replace By Fee" making it essentially impossible to trust unconfirmed transactions.

How convenient.
Advertising standards and the malpractice of unruly social media influencers
Full time minimum wage work is probably netting you close to 40k in high cost of living areas these days. It’s not nothing.
As @meiraleal pointed out, there is no free API

And the only model I would recommend to use is Sonnet 3.5
I would still recommend adding OpenAI API key - for embeddings so code search and google search work
> Basically nobody is hiring, and those who are, aren't paying anything worthwhile.

Your mistake is that you expect the job to pay for housing, and that the housing is available in the surroundings of the job. There needs to be some brutal EU-wide legislation preventing hoarding of real state and making it a miserable investment.

Overall I agree, nobody is hiring right now.
I think what make minecraft special is the game don't make much rules of how should you play it and it give you almost unlimited power to change the environment.

There is no game except minecraft allow you to make another game in it without third party tools. And there are no game except minecraft allow you to change the whole map.

Want a castle on the cliff? you just build it. Don't like that mountain that block your viewpoint? You just bulldoze it. The game don't judge you. Want to make a mini game and make the rule? The game have tools build in for you. Redstone and command block are here to allow you to make your desired creation.

And it's just the base game, we haven't talk about mods yet. There are countless of mods that make content impossible in original base game possible. And each give you new experience about this game.

To me. minecraft don't feel like a game. It's more like a creation platform that allow people to prototype all kinds of thoughts and play around it no matter you know how to code or not.
> “I'm not sure how they did it”

Perhaps by creating a great app?
This is worse than a ghost job. HR running the hiring process when no team has a position. Even worse for the person applying as they are wasting more time than just sending their resume and cover letter to /dev/null @ corp.
We both agree that negotiating well is a good idea for everyone, whether employee or consultant.

I'm merely saying that negotiating based on a value that doesn't apply to your market will probably not be an effective strategy.

Take all the risk you want, just don't take them based on evidence that doesn't apply to you.
Adopted US man gains Irish citizenship based on DNA test
Sure, and assault is a crime so you’d likely be charged in addition to that. But not all misbehavior that would earn nutraloaf is a crime.
Nasruddin is asked to judge a village dispute:

Accuser — tells a tale of woe

Nasruddin — "You're right!"

Accused — mounts a defense

Nasruddin — "You're right, too!"

Village elder — "But Mullah, they can't both be right..."

Nasruddin — "All three of you are right!"
Good summary overall, although seemed a little muddled in places.

Would love to know some of the tricks of the trade from insiders (not relating to security at least)
Do as yet unfucked animals exist in some kind of sober ennui not knowing what it is they yearn for?
I partly agree, the RPi Zero W is my ideal small physical computer with a full OS. Running it only from the overlay filesystem (to keep those terrible SD cards from becoming corrupted). Pi-Hole I run from a docker container on a fanless NUC-a-like. But for anything that needs GPIO, the Zero W is great (nice that this Radxz has a RP2040 built in to cover that).
Open-Source Apple GPU Vulkan Driver Merged for Mesa 24.3
BNPL is often free to the customer [1], to whom it amounts to a free loan. The merchant, however, is soaked for the interest/fees. So merchant prices will rise slightly, for everyone, to cover those costs..... much like credit cards do now. Cash and debit users subsidize this scheme without getting the free loan.

The downside for the customer is that it promotes overspending, which could be argued as a net negative on the whole. A careful consumer could make use of the free loan, investing the cash elsewhere during the loan period.

[1] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/buy-now-pay-later/
There Will Come Soft Rains Poem
Oh sure, I bet the six-transactions-per-second and $20-equivalent transaction fee and the fact that most people use it for speculation and illegal crap had nothing to do with it.
And in places like academia there are rules where you have to post a job opening even if the job already has a candidate picked (say a lab manager for an incoming scientist who wants to hire their spouse for the job). People who don't know the situation apply and are interviewed even though there is no real possibility that they will get the job.
I have had mixed experiences with using depth pre-pass. When I tried it a few times, I didn’t see any significant performance improvements on midrange to high end desktop GPUs. I'm not entirely sure why, but I suspect it was due to early Z rejection saving pixel shader invocations. Typically, I render my opaque meshes in front-to-back order.

To be fair, my experimentation was within the context of a CAD/CAM application rather than a game. The scenes were quite different from typical game environments, with minimal textures and very high-poly geometry.
is the problem Android, for you, or is the problem "Google Android", "Samsung Android", "Motorola Android, by Verizon"?
Maybe stating the obvious but took me an embarrassingly long time to clock this:

SwimOS is an existing streaming framework (Java-based) targeted at full stack / app development.

This announcement is a new Rust SDK for the above - not a new framework.
I feel the opposite. Morse code was a major barrier into HF for many different people. Folks who are musically challenged would fail to copy. People with hand disabilities faced major hurdles. Hearing disabilities made it impractical, even though there are plenty of visual-only modes (sstv, digital tty modes, etc).

Removal of morse has allowed far more people to reach more technical levels of ham radio. And, in my anedotcial experience, dropping the requirement hasn't impacted the popularity of morse code. I'd wager its more popular than ever because of how many more hams have HF access compared to limiting access to folks who learned code just to pass a test and to promptly throw away their key.
I had a similar reaction, and assumed I'm not the target audience. (Including skimming the examples folder and not being sure where I would use one of them) I have a hard time understanding the purpose of these abstract libraries; I assume people who have had the problems they solve recognize their utility.

As a reference point for rust libs I've worked with recently: I see things like EGUI: This clearly is a library that allows you to add a GUI to programs. Or Bio: This lets you read and write FASTA format DNA etc sequences, find matches in sequences etc. Bincode: Provides a "derive" that allows you to easily serialize data to and from binary formats. Or the various embedded infrastructure libs that provide high-level APIs for performing hardware options. (I/O, ADCs, send a packet over USB or a radio etc) By contrast to these and every other lib I've worked with, Swim is abstract.

I start wondering if I'm too dumb or otherwise incapable of reasoning abstracting to understand the Async part of Rust's ecosystem.
And you can always use your cards online, except for things Visa and Mastercard don't like! Yay!
'induct' and 'induce' are the same pairing, both are induction, and they mean different things. Saying someone was induced into the Army means something rather different from saying they were inducted.
When “low-income” starts at 100k, though, 40k might feel very close to nothing.
If a private company did this, it would be a form of fraud. Either breach of contract, embezzlement or both. At least in that case you would be entitled to a civil remedy.

As it stands you can only lament the status quo, which appears to be a form of wrong-think at HN, a site for entrepreneurs and innovators...
I would like to suggest that the mind has a holographic property, which means the more neurons in a cluster the more resolution they exhibit, at the same time as different parts of the minds specialize, and are dominant in various behavior loops, and these do raffle for consensus.

The illusion that is the singular self can run separate perspectives concurrently (sic., driving while self assembling a story narrative in the mind)

The random layperson's mind is a hodgepodge of their development. A well trained mind can compartmentalize, become sensitive to the slightest internal cognitive dispositions, and self specialize in ways you will accuse of being science fiction.
It'd also be nice if car mechanics were trained to shoe horses and fix wagon wheels so I can feel some connection to the old West.
I have noticed a correlation where the smartest tech people I know are also Ham operators.
> one of the first lessons you learn on day one is how one-factor-at-a-time testing is one of the most inefficient ways you can test something

Isn't that just called unit testing?
Tangent: Ever since I became familiar with Erlang and the impressive BEAM, any other async method seems subpar and contrived, and that includes Python, Go, Rust, etc.

It's just weird how there's a correct way to do async and parallelism (which erlang does) and literally no other language does it.
So if the job marketplaces are flooded, where does one find a job anymore?

It seems like one should spend maybe 20% of their work time just maintaining professional connections to make sure they can find a job when they inevitably need one.
Uh oh. You swung for the king, now you must pay! (With Visa or Mastercard, of course.)
Not everyone is keen on all digital payments being stored in a permanent public ledger, even assuming the data storage could be scaled.
Of course I am fragile, I'm just a single individual thrown into the society of 8 billion people, what are you expecting
> Are you advocating that it’s ok to stab a prison guard if you feel that your incarceration was unfair?

There are many different levels of feeling that something is “unfair,” but in the limit of being incarcerated with no crime, it’s indistinguishable by the incarcerated individual from kidnapping by a large, organized gang. Are you advocating that self defense against kidnappers is inappropriate?
I still use Workflowy. Never wanted anything else. I know a lot of people keep migrating tools. I wonder how much increase in productivity they actually get.
I would've summarized it for you for half the cost.
It's fine to speculate what could have been, but historically the record for regional "nation building" of this sort has been mixed at best, given the examples of former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
…on iOS you can use the “Working Copy” app to sync Obsidian with Git:

https://meganesulli.com/blog/sync-obsidian-vault-iphone-ipad...
> I don't even believe that the majority of people incarcerated are there from doing harm to someone

Would evidence change your belief?

> Violent offenses account for over 3 in 5 people (62%) in state prisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
Thanks for the feedback. These are minor adjustments to make to the final landing, as some stuff was due to be replaced. Not a big deal. I will highlight those testimonial reactions to seeing the platform in action are real.

Do you have any further feedback? I’m thinking of a more clean/white space landing with much less text and more graphics to enforce key points. Kinda like Figma/creative tools.
Can you publish details (or a link thereto) to solidify the prior art? IIRC, not only the fact of success but also the methods used must be published to establish prior art.

One of the best ways to do this may be to file a Provisional Patent application. It costs $100, and is a write-up of the outline and methods/technology used. The patent office does nothing but leave it in a drawer. If you file a proper patent application referencing it within 365 days, then it becomes part of the new patent and holds your priority date. If you don't then the contents of the Provisional Patent app becomes public domain - now fully and authoritatively documented public domain.
"Just test against visual regressions" sounds to me like "just look twice at the code you indented". Did I misunderstand?
"Sure, the situation sucks, but imagine how much worse it _could_ suck!" That, uh, is not where I hoped we'd be as a society in 2024. Sure, I guess I could be getting kicked in the nards every hour, and it's great that I'm not, but surely we can demand better.
Great question.

By privacy focused - I mean there is no backend servers that log chat or store embeddings. All data is stored locally.

And OpenAI API, doesn't use data from API for training.

Local models are on the roadmap.
So far they just don't perform good enough to get anything meaningful done.
Highly recommend Sonnet 3.5!
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What's even your point?

> How about online gamers? What percent of the 1,021,282 players current online for Counter Strike 2 (7/28/2024, 1:22 PM EST) [1] can even implement the first steps of the shaders necessary for the game they're playing?

It's like asking what percent of the drivers can build a diesel engine. And call it "the entire problem with automobile industry".

Sorry, but this is just nonsense. Of course few users can build the thing they use.
If the only purpose of this project is to create windows in Bash one might easily replace it with tmux panes.
I think you mean faux pas
Or that the discussion was about information on and being transmitted through the devices and I was limiting my opinion on "there being nothing wrong with corporations tracking use of their hardware" to that scope, and not extending it to include spying on people in their homes using the device peripherals.

No, they shouldn't be flicking on your laptop camera or mic remotely, as these are pretty obviously violations of your privacy.
To illustrate the absurdity of the situation. Virtually everything, good or bad, is only done by a small subset of the population.
The article seems to have one of the most stupidest takes of all.

> In other words, were they using early forms of what could now be considered management AI to automatically re-submit ghost listings

Surely you don't need an AI to automate a job resubmission, but somehow the author needed to grab attention by mentioning AI. No one asked the hiring managers if they were doing this. Workable is mentioned, but then this gem arises:

> what’s called “job post scraping,”

Yeah, AI writing job postings allright.

We finally get to the AI part:

> Armed with AI-driven interactive voice emulators, domain name spoofing, Python-powered web crawlers, the ability to post a fake job while posing as a real company, and some basic 3rd-grade distraction skills, scammers are winning in ways that would’ve seemed like science fiction just a few years ago.

Ok fine, but automated voice chatbots are not seamless yet.

The article is connecting random things and claiming it's AI
Link?

Not in the list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_Operation_Endu...
Hugging Face SMOL lets you run LLMs on Phone
People selling and using drugs aren’t the “majority of prisoners in America.” It’s about 1/5:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html
How does this compare to Erlang?
> these phones do not have even 1/10th of the reliability, smoothness and features of the original 2007 iPhone

As someone daily driving Librem 5, I completely disagree. Yes, it's somewhat less smooth and reliable, but the amount of available features is much more than in 2007 iPhone. Some features aren't available anywhere else, like desktop mode with desktop apps.
Back in January I wrote a blogpost about this exact issue and people treated it as ramblings.
I discussed it with over 30 people in the meantime each saying theres no way ghost jobs are a thing, theres no way it’s that bad, or that they have a job so surely this is exaggerated.

It’s not, it really is that bad, and more than a dozen of them since lost their job and messaged me saying that the blogpost is much more real than they could’ve ever imagined.

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/jobhunting/
Ah okay. Didn’t know that. I’ve only crossed the border by plain or car
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> I bet the six-transactions-per-second and $20-equivalent transaction fee

They had everything to do with it, that's my point.
attempting to push basic job queue. here goes nothing
https://archive.ph/3TQrR