skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a mental block for me with VST/VSTis (... snip ...) they lack lots of the expressiveness and flexibility working in all samples used to offer.

It'd be neat to have the best of both worlds, ie. Give me VSTs but let me control time and playback as precisely as I can with sample based

Seems like it'd be technically feasible even with VST but it's just not done (emphasis is on realtime, with VSTs behaving as independent "pedals" rather than part of a whole)

You might have nerd sniped me.

nervous sideways glance at long neglected VST source code folder
> I can't imagine anything in a car that I'd want to spend that much money on.

Sounds like you have either imagination or money problem. Or both, lol.
> Being pro immigration does not mean you’re pro illegal immigration.

This distinction is mostly out the window with today's populists, see e.g. repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles.

> If they don’t have social security numbers, they’re not paying payroll taxes.

They're using SSNs, often false or not their own. Read about the Earnings Suspense File at the SSA in the second link I posted.
Having a scapegoat was crucial for the Nazis. Without the jews, who should have taken that role?

And without refugees and woke feminists who would the modern rightwings blame for all the misery in society?
I assume he's talking about:

prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE, fd, 0, 0)

Regarding the munmapping stuff, if you read the code for "replace_mm_exe_file" in the kernel source code, it should make sense.
> Being pro immigration does not mean you’re pro illegal immigration.

I can't really know what anyone believes in their heart, but I doubt that the oligarchs who extol the free market (including the market for labor) really care about any of the demographic details of those they would employee as long as they produce as expected.
Fake and reused social security numbers work just fine for withholding. Most companies are not doing E-Verify. The companies profiting from illegal labor are working with the system as designed.
It's obviously not that, as the article mentions, if you delete yourself, the /proc/$pid/exec link becomes:

/proc/5868/exe -> '/home/user/main (deleted)'

Since the author in the article acknowledged that, it seems clear to me that they weren't talking about deleting the exe, but instead something to do with PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE.
Maybe they would have been better off by simply trying to make it run on mobiles as is? It’s java, there is no reason why it couldn’t just work - some people do play the java version on ipads even.
It would make sense to increase exploration vs. exploitation when resources in a local area seem scarce
> The US interest bill is rising. In 2024, it is projected to exceed the entire military budget.

This is the one that is mind blowing. The military is fucking gigantically huge. And every single years a militray budget worth of stuff simple gets burned for 'nothing'.

The problem in the US is that most of the money is already commited. The future money is already promissed. And the rest is mostly military and debt service. And what is left over isnt enough to cut to be effective.

I really dont see a solution.

I'm happy that in my country we have strict limits in place and debt/gpd is only 40%. Not have the huge debt servicing ever year seems usuful to stabilze your budget long term.
Using consul for feature flag in my team. Basically any push/event based kv store will work.
Worth it, better if docker compose. Makes lift and shift easy.
The 256 color dos graphics were ok, I didn't notice the coldness until they went full color, but I agree that something about the constraints of the amiga color system produced a vibe that is hard to put into words, but you know it when you see it. I bet someone could come up with a shader that would amigafy normal pixel art. The pixels for certain colors would get longer amongst other things.
Show HN: App to Manage Multiple Projects (ADHD's Favorite)
Nah, this is a pretty good rate. Half the applicants can't FizzBuzz on paper to save their lives. If you ask them to actually write code, it would be closer to 1/80. Which is why interviewing sucks so hard... most of the time you're just filtering spam. Either you use a ATS or make them do an insultingly easy coding test before they can talk to anyone. People are happy to lie on their resume and cheat in tests to get their foot in the door, which is why smaller companies tend to do the latter.

However, this might also mean that OP is using a bad pipeline, probably craigslist or something similarly cheap/free where good devs don't hang around.
aren't you sorta talking besides the point? I don't see how immigration less or more reduces government debt meaningfully. I understand paying for social security (SS) is a decent fraction of the debt load for the US but solving SS does not plug the holes.

if I'm generous with your proposal; wouldn't you still find immigrants applying for citizenship and eventually pulling from SS? most immigrants are younger and we should both be able to agree, they'd likely want to stay if they could.

I feel like your biases are coming through with a lot of this, the answer to our debt problems will not factor heavily with immigration.
I have a sizeable PDF with one. But mostly because I did freelancing. Larger companies are dismissive of them; they don't want you build a whole site, they just want you to add buttons to an existing one.

I'm not sure if it's the wrong approach, though. Some like doing things end to end, and these will find their place in small companies.
Ask HN: Security standards requiring fired employees leave immediately
I'm wondering if there are any security standards maintained by standards bodies, like ISO, that a company might pay to be certified as upholding that require a fired employee lose network access and leave the workplace immediately?
well your methane calculation might be out a bit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41075095

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-24/tree-bark...
Funny enough, the US government is in a large part in debt to... the US government. So for that part at least, it feels more like an accounting mechanism than anything.
>This distinction is mostly out the window with today's populists, see e.g. repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles.

your enemies aren't all dumb. the smart ones aren't likely to talk to you based on your attitudes towards them.
This approach does appeal to me in some ways, one of the things that excites me most about the current government is seeing people with experience being appointed to position in cabinet.

I’m pretty sure you’re not serious in suggesting a technocrat class who are sheltered from the real world, but let’s assume you weren’t. The end result of this is likely to be stagnation because you lack the introduction of new people and new views into positions of power. I’d also add that in a functional government we already have that class of people who are purely focused on implementation and looking at options in the Civil Service. Rarely is a cabinet minister themselves really coming up with ideas, they’re waving their arms and describing vibes to the Civil Service, who then go and work how they’re meant to achieve it.

Unfortunately for the last 14 years we’ve had a government asking them to do ever more unhinged things, with predictable results.
If our bodies were peak, we wouldn't need to use hundred(s) of hours of exercise per year to force muscular and cardiovascular improvements, it would just happen.

Then what would be the point of living if you had nothing to do but wait for updates? How boring.

Even a self-improving machine is spending time, not exercising but “designing a better version of itself”. Which is an “exercise”.

I hate to say this but I think your comment misunderstands the beauty of life and the challenge behind the struggle to improve. It is a blessed journey.

I personally think being fallable and not having full control of my destiny, while scary, is a feature and not a bug. It seems to make existence exciting.
Why the greatest athletes don't get paid like it
That totally ignores they systematic mismanagment and greece. Having 300% debt to gdp doesnt just happen.

Despite EU bonds not existing the EU unified bond yields, and the had a greek government that did take full advantage of this.

There was a reason the EU had rules, and then those rules were ignored in favor of an idiological political project.
A fork doesn't count, that isn't how the Plan 9 => Inferno evolution took place.

Otherwise we could also go back to Windows NT with POSIX subsystem, fork it to a version where the UNIX experience was first class like on NeXTSTEP and macOS, and then praise Windows NT UNIX qualities, that weren't there in first place. (Naturally ignoring the access to source code issue).
the paulg tweet isnt encouraging :(
Assuming it's the SideFX product - https://www.sidefx.com/ - it's simply the best in it's class.
Reminds me of this famous rant on deep dish pizza

https://youtu.be/jCgYMFtxUUw?si=LHRGYNptgJMzg3Qq
Your comment resonates with me!
I'll stay on X with openbox for as long as I can, it works very well for me and I've collected a number of tools and scripts over the years which have no equivalent on Wayland. The most painful thing to miss would be openbox itself, that and fluxbox have been my window managers for more than 2 decades now...
The original definition of inflation was literally an increase in the money supply. Economists only changed the term to mean an increase in prices when they also latched onto the idea that they can print new money and inject it into the system without consequence.
> The whole idea of figured bass is chords.

I think this might be missing the point a little bit - the bassline in figured bass has more primacy than any of the sonorities above it. The most relevant feature of "chord"-based approaches to music (as found historically, e.g. in performance methods for the Baroque guitar, and to a far lesser extent in repertoire for the lute) is that the vertical sonority (such as "Cmaj7") is all that matters; individual "voices" or "parts" are of secondary importance at best. This maps well enough to how lute- or guitar-like instruments might be played in an accompaniment role (since these instruments obscure the sense of a "melodic line" or a "part" the most, for a variety of reasons) but music includes a whole lot more than that.
> The first clinical studies that showed it was toxic were in 1969.

We knew it was dangerous within a year of it being introduced, even if we didn't publish widespread clinical studies before the 60s. Its creator, Thomas Midgley Jr, was diagnosed with lead poisoning multiple times.

> Warnings about the toxicity of tetraethyllead came to Midgley from various sources. The letter of Erich Krause concerning its toxic effects, quoted in part in part 1,2 written on November 30, 1922, to George Calingaert (then at M.I.T.) was forwarded to Midgley in December 1922 by W. G. Whitman, Assistant Director of the M.I.T. Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry. However, despite his own health problems and these early warnings, Midgley did not appear to be overly concerned about the health issues associated with the handling and use of tetraethyllead.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/om030621b

There's also some discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Initial_controv... suggesting that early studies may have been suppressed by the lead industry.

> In the years that followed, research was heavily funded by the lead industry; in 1943, Randolph Byers found children with lead poisoning had behavior problems, but the Lead Industries Association threatened him with a lawsuit and the research ended.
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a couple days ago hiding irc ddos perl bot process was required modified string length only in a simple way like a
>"/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL" . " " x 100
which has allowed critical info to be displayed(?) out of visible tty/stdout
Why do people work on such projects? I mean specifically the engineers. You're still paid the same engineer salary, except now you expose yourself to criminal prosecution. The corpo is at least getting some extra returns for the risk, you as an engineer are not. So dumb.
> Most modern attacks start from an internal host exactly because NAT makes external attacks infeasible for the majority of scenarios.

Or, you know, because firewalls block stuff.

I've had hosts with public IPv4 addresses attacked on (e.g.) tcp/80 and tcp/443 because that's what the firewall allowed through so the web service was available to the public. I've had hosts with internal IPv4 addresses attacked on web ports because they were behind a (reverse proxy) load balancer for serving traffic: the fact that they had a 10/8 and were behind a NAT did not protect them from attack.

Before recently switching ISPs, my last one had IPv6 (new one does not). They activated IPv6 at some point, and I enabled it on my Asus, and suddenly all my internal devices got an IPv6 address (via RA), including things like my printer.

I had SSH enabled on my macOS laptop and desktop, but could not SSH into them from an outside source. My printer has a web interface on port 80 that I could connect to internally, but not externally. Even though all the devices had IPv6 addresses.

Just because a device is globally addressable does not mean it is globally reachable.

> What about I don't do it, and the system is still _automatically_ secure, because NAT does exactly that while being _required_ for the system to work.

Because NAT is doing that I describe, so you are doing it. The firewall is checking state on incoming packets and rejecting those that are not in its state table. The firewall is also coïncidentally just happening to also be fiddling some bits in the address field.

It is the stateful inspection that is protecting you.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall
With each new version it has become increasingly hostile to installing new software, particularly open-source software that hasn't been "signed" by a commercial developer, throwing up huge warning windows suggesting that anyone daring to run such stuff is taking a huge risk. And many of the standard UNIX locations have become locked down making it impossible to install stuff there. It's clear that Apple would like to see a world where everything is installed on a Mac via their App Store and everyone writing Mac software are official paid developers as with their phones.
There's a very simple fix to both issues you raise, change the immigration system to allow more legal immigration.

We write the rules on what is and isn't legal. Writing the rules and then using them to say immigration is great unless it's illegal is very circular logic.
The Aesthete in a Moral Age
I don't think it's hubristic to describe what philosophy it hews to. The opposite of "pragmatic" here would be "without compromise"/"principled". They know they are willing to make compromises in the name of expediency, so calling it pragmatic is just a declaration of intent, not a boast in front of the Olympian gods.
Did anyone get figure out what this is and its purpose?
Why is the Paris Olympics running track purple? (It's just a choice)
I often see this sort of thing and wonder a lot about the individuals involved. Things change, shit happens, people move on etc. Often fascinating, sometimes sad to hear about deaths or bereavements etc, but even in those cases it feels somehow "right" to enjoy their work after they've gone.
Even the UNIX philosophy is something that gets praised all around on UNIX FOSS circles, which I seldom saw anyone carying about on commercial UNIX systems, starting with my introduction to Xenix in 1993.

It kind of feels a bit of cargo cult, praising it all the time.
Sure: retail payments or international remittance - find the cheapest tradfi provider and we’ll go from there.
Can't wait to get this & have TrueNAS+Jellyfin up & running on it, certainly beats having to buy so many addons for the Pi & still not have a super reliable build.
The model of a word to a vector breaks down really quickly one you introduce the context and complexity of human language. That's why we went to contextual embeddings, but even they have issues.

Curious would it handle negation of trained keywords, e.g "not urgent"?
I really like how simple the implementation is!
There were plenty of ActiveX lego components to build Photoshop like applications on Windows during the 1990's, back when buying libraries was a thing professionals would care about.
Oops, buffered of course, you're right.
As an engineer and entrepreneur not residing in the US, the value for me here would be to get into the tech scene without having to be in SV meetups or other events, because it’s obviously very expensive and I’m very busy. The problem I see is there are many people that claim to actually be legit professionals or entrepreneurs but basically just want to spam, so being able to separate that is hard. Manual vetting is important. But my question is, what would such a match look like across countries?
This surprises me. Are you speaking from a US point of view?

In many west european countries it is forbidden to consume alcohol in work hours, except at company-arranged events etc. and/or to be intoxicated.

For a comparative overview of the practical differences: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9779578/
Ah, I think you are correct, my mistake. However, some lenders will take salary sacrifice into account when doing affordability checks, and won't lend as much. I guess if they don't ask, there's no problem.
Use of ⟹ and = when stricter conditions are true
The referenced article states the alarmist view presented in An Inconvenient Truth is scientifically valid.

The claim made by Al Gore, well over a decade ago, was that all arctic ice would be gone within five years. If you can't reason about how that much could claim to happen in five years and now fifteen's elapsed, I'm not sure what to say.
Show HN: Unhurried: the game about motivation
Note: this is a voice-controlled game (so needs microphone access) and it uses OpenAI API under the hood, so I ask for your email to login. Any email will suffice including various temp email services.

The idea is to guide the character to complete levels with voice commands. And the challenge here is that these characters are not always willing to just do what you say;).

The game page with description and video can be found here: https://unhurriedgame.com
And here you can see a demo play: https://unhurried.live/?gameId=a7123759-3d82-4dd1-86de-fe39c...
Any game you play yourself can be shared in the same way.

It's a BETA version with 5 levels only for now.
Funnily, I had a backend function that used `window`, which was then sent to frontend in this way. I think the project's tsconfig `lib` included `dom` for it to work.

Overall a nice technique!
> Thumb-2, [...] are mandatory instruction extension sets for ARM64

Isn't Thumb-2 for 32-bit ARM only? AFAIK, having 32-bit ARM is optional, you can have 64-bit only ARM nowadays.

(And 64-bit ARM no longer has what is IMO the least RISC instructions from 32-bit ARM: the "load multiple" and "store multiple" instructions, which had a built-in loop doing memory accesses to an arbitrary set of registers, were replaced by "load pair" and "store pair", which do a single memory access and work with a fixed number of registers. If you look at https://www.righto.com/2016/01/more-arm1-processor-reverse-e... you can see that the circuitry dedicated for these instructions took a lot of space in the original 32-bit ARM core.)
Time to dust off the old machines then; in my shed I have a working A1200 and cd32, so I should be good.
It's far worse than that. People using numbers as supportive arguments often generated said numbers themselves, from scratch (meaning, they also collected the data). I'm currently redoing a study from an old prof. The old study was of a more trusted design, and found a massively positive effect. The new study (including old data) has an effect firmly grounded on zero. Those people aren't even always dishonest. They're just incompetent.
That's interesting, where do you get that from? I have a hard time seeing people creating a new money system purposely building one that they expect from the beginning to fail.
There are plenty of games where the main feature is emergent gameplay resulting from a world simulator and the interplay of basic or complex rules. Dwarf Fortress is the OG here but also Sim City and Elite. Single player experiences are a huge segment and these will get better with LLM integration for world building and NPC agents. Fine tuned or custom models that operate on some basic state and rules could also be explored. You could train BERT family models to choose interesting state changes or actions based on the current game state for simple things like a dog NPC that would seem more intelligent by choosing the next action it should take e.g. deciding to chase a squirrel or growl at a new NPC you encountered based on its awareness of the context rather than following some rule system plus RNG. You could get rid of a lot of the stupid seeming game AI behaviour.
but but but what if I just want a whale as part of my workflow so when I finish I can pat myself on the back for a job whale done
Sounds like the Rump is grabbing at straws at this point to find new fans... Catholics, Billionaires, Crypto Bros... All such highly redeemed groups of jerks. It's his wheelhouse.
Catfishing – the Wikipedia category guessing game
Here is one about economics: https://positivemoney.org/archive/mp-poll/

Here is one about very simple stats: https://rss.org.uk/news-publication/news-publications/2022/g...
whalefail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_7BjpA4sw
Former NASA Scientist Doing Experiment to Prove We Live in a Simulation
I very much agree with your distaste for simulations and modelling. How, though, are you coming up with predictions for such specific future failures in everything from fracking to Netflix to gold without modelling?
First, check compensation and job description. Are you paying too little? If you don't tell them how much you're paying, it's almost always certain that it's too little. If you can't pay well, consider something like 4 day work weeks. Corporations need 5 because they spend 3 days in meetings, code review, writing docs, commenting on docs, etc, etc.

Second, is the job description a turn off? I've had friends ask me why they can't get applicants. They showed me the job desc, which sounded a lot like looking for a part for a machine. I pointed out everything I didn't like about it and she said that everyone else does the same so they'll keep it to not seem weird.

You can't do this at a startup. Be weird. VCs expect you to be building things OpenAI can't and won't; you're already insane by definition. There's hundreds of founders out there in this era of AI who are looking for adventure and you have to stand out to the applicants as well.

I actually checked out your product and sorry to say, it's not something I want to be doing either. If I wanted to do finance & AI research, I'm well funded and well salaried where I am. Try to make it seem attractive. There are also people who are happy to work 6 day weeks, but you have to prove that you're a winner.

Third, check that you're not fishing in a puddle. Job sites are absolutely terrible, 1 in 200 can't do basic things. LinkedIn is okay, but you're fishing next to the biggest companies in the world. There's indie sites that prioritise remote or 4 day jobs, try those. HN will have a Who is Hiring thread every month; the quality is very high on both sides here.
The question was Which models told us we'd be underwater by now?

You claimed knowledge and have yet to name a single one.

Al Gore is not a geophysical scientist and has published no peer reviewed papers in any GeoPhys | Climate journals so whatever a second rate US VP may have claimed in a film I certainly haven't watched is hardly relevant.

Can you back your claim or not?

Can you even name one climate model used in an IPCC report?