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> This made the SRR people angry because they were finding fewer bugs and felt the development team was focusing on competition over bug numbers rather than the code itself.

This reminds me of the Quality culture, at my last job, which was a famous Japanese optical corporation.

It was deliberately set up, so there was an adversarial relationship between QA, and Development, with QA holding the aces.

As a Development manager, it used to drive me nuts (Ed. Well, it wasn’t much of a “drive.” More like a short putt). It did result in very high-Quality software, but at the cost of agility.

It reflected their hardware development methodology, which regularly resulted in stunningly high-Quality kit, but I think caused a lot of issues with the usability and effectiveness of their software.
I'm beginning to think that Substack the new Medium, and this cannot and will never be solved.

It would be better and respectful of the readers time to get to the point of the article rather than stuff the article with more words wasting the readers time.

When I come across articles which are needlessly long, I either skip them or I use a summarizer and leave the page.

There will always be clickbait elaborate content like this, (clickbait title, actual answer at the end of the article 90% of the time) but it just trains the reader to just scroll to the end of the article for the answer most of the time, achieving the opposite of what the article writer wants.
I'm only mildly and peripherally interested in music making but this looks _like so much fun_.
Cold calling still works today.

People are gullible and want to believe the best in others. Cynics don’t make good victims.
I love the blackletter style 7-seg display.

Seems like the people at TE have fun over-designing gadgets that are more aesthetic than usable. Good for them that they've managed to make a viable business out of it.
Structured outputs seem like an important step forward for LLMs to make them more useful (this includes intermediate "outputs" that are internal to the model, e.g. producing code and then running it without AI, producing mathematical/logical statements and then proving them without AI, etc). Basically, once you have structure, you can use non-AI tools that are far more efficient and don't hallucinate. These tools can either be external, or embedded in the model itself (think RAG, reasoning, etc.).

I wonder if JSON is just a first step, and eventually this will be generalized to any formal grammar...
It doesn't even cover the barest of organisational root cause. How are they planning to do defense in depth and prevent any internal threat actor from wedging every machine in the world?
Sweden here, using a Husqvarna in the forest and - when it works - a McCulloch on the farm. Lately it doesn't so the Husqvarna gets to see use there as well. Both are petrol saws, the McCulloch is about 15 years old, the Husqvarna 10. With these two I cut enough wood - only dead or storm-damaged trees - to heat the house and cook food. Apart from cleaning air filters, sharpening chains and replacing the fuel line every 3d or 4th year due to weakening (stock fuel line) or hardening (aftermarket fuel line) caused by ethanol in fuel I don't have to do much in the way of maintenance on these saws. The problems you describe - working on carburators and having to change fuel lines "every time" are often caused by leaving fuel in the tank after using the saw. This leads to gummed-up carburetors, if there is ethanol in the fuel it will damage gaskets and the fuel pump membrane, etc. When you're done using the saw for a while - a week or more? - empty out the fuel tank and run the saw until all fuel in the lines and carburettor is gone, that way it will probably just work next season. The same can not be said about battery-powered equipment which needs to be stored with a partly-charged battery to survive and which would probably need new batteries after 5-6 years (1/3 to 1/2 of the age of my saws).
"you should feel good about that because my life has been much worse"
_Although this line is taught by many sales trainers, it’s becoming overused and immediately lets prospects know it’s a sales call._
_Instead, try opening with something like:_
_(...)_

_This opener feels less salesy, and is actually the reason why you called._

I wonder what does it feel to work in an industry where your main goal is to convince other people you are not a part of it.
> 1) General relativity is just a model.

Yes, but it is the currently accepted model.

Whereas, for the other 3 fundamental interactions, the currently accepted model is in the form of a quantum field theory. For these 3 interactions, the models suggest force carrier particles, and these particles have been observed (electromagnetism: photon, weak interaction: bosons, strong interaction: gluons).

People have tried to construct a quantum field theory -like model for gravity, which would include gravitons as the force carrier particles. But all these attempts have failed to produce a consistent theory, and also nobody has ever measured or observed gravitons, so this is all hypothetical.

But if we get philosophical about this, gravity is not like other forces because the currently accepted model for gravity is not like the models for the other forces. Gravity is not a field with force carrier particles because we have not been successful at modelling it as such.
A Pocket Operator was my entry drug to hardware music making. Having only dabbled with DAWs which never felt quite right (still sitting in front of a computer, having nearly infinite choices between plugins and sounds).

After playing with the PO-33 for a few weeks I quickly reached its limits and bought a groove box (not from TE). Still have the PO-33 lying around, ready to be played by me or guests that find it intriguing.
If you read the other reply to my comment, you probably saw that in fact, the measure does nothing related to what you claimed it did. Most likely because recall provisions already existed.

https://www.lavote.gov/docs/rrcc/documents/guide-to-recall.p...
The problem of TE and self admitted by their CEO (in Figma's Config talk) is that they won't listen to users feedback. They are really good in design and terrible in compromising. They make toys, which can be used as musical instruments (like anything else that makes sound), the reason I call them toys is because they have the most glaring blind spots which prevent them to just be called "music instruments". Even their flagship OP-1 suffers from this and it has a ridiculous price tag. Till they get down from their high horse and start implementing basic functionality for musicians, these machines will never reach their potential.
You should look into leaks, what has leaked tells about the cabal's plan, that includes Bitcoin and its relation with the CBDC, US Steel, its relation with the collapse of BoJ/SoftBank, and that also includes the purpose of Musk's persona

It also mentions a strategy to cooperate with China for that specific goal

But something tells me you are not interested in leaks and instead work to push the current dogma

Must seemed happy he met with Breton to discsus the DSA, under the hood; he agreed on everything! Was he trolling?

Perhaps I am trolling? How to tell?
A lot of careful thought and planning went into choosing the hardware for the basis of our cloud infrastructure in Singapore. One of the important factors was the reliability of the hardware. This allows us to provide a very reliable product to a very competitive price, which fits in most use-cases. However, we are still developing and testing new platforms. But as always: We can not share details about a roadmap. --Katie
i'd definitely prefer to buy an mc-101 over an OP-Z personally if you want something in the same sort of price range. if you can spend a bit more, i'd look into the dirtywave m8 if the workflow appeals to you. i have one and it's my favourite piece of audio hardware that i own.

of course virtually any computer with a DAW is the real best answer in terms of features and price, but i understand the urge to want to be away from a computer while creating.
Sequoia-PGP in the Sovereign Tech Fund's Resilience Program
It's not surprising when you think that design is all that matters to TE. Functionality is a byproduct not the end goal.
Controlling your employees' day like that is still not allowed in a lot of places with strong worker rights.
How does that contradict with the headline? They’re being successful in their mission
the question was if it is self hosting or not, and eg slack and discord are not. so regardless of how many humans are still alive to use it, on the only server still running, the survivors could use something self hosting whereas they could not use one that required a system that was down.
Not really. Apple has recently implemented comprehensive encryption measures. They themselves cannot access your data, so there is nothing for them to disclose. It's hard to understand why anyone would choose anything other than Apple these days tbh.
Sure, but that's essentially the same as using explicit jumps through raw assembly instructions to go around C++'s destructor guarantees. That is, when your Java process runs non-Java code, of course this can defeat certain Java guarantees. No programming language can make promises for semantics of external code like this.
In my 20s I also lost a job and had to go work at a Mcdonalds. Regardless of all the other things.. most fun job ever!

I'm in my 40s now and run a small dev agency. (if that matters)
So just two days ago the market crashed because apparently a yen carry trade unwound.

Japan had a 0% interest rate for very long time. That made yen weak against other currencies. So people were borrowing Yen and investing in better performing assets. That's leverage.

Japan raised interest rate every so slightly which made Yen jump comparatively to other currencies which meant all those people who over-leveraged had paper losses, margin calls and had to emergency sell other assets hence the market crash.

There's a lot of "gambling" in financial markets. There's a lot of "gambling" in business.

You can't eat gold. Buying gold is a gamble that the value of gold will go up in the future.

You can't eat a Picasso. Buying a Picasso is a gamble that the value of paintings by dead people will go up in the future.

A business loan is a gamble that you can build a business that generates a profit.

A mortgage is a gamble that the value of the house will go up and value of the dollar will go down. In deflation people with mortgages will be screwed.

I could go on. I don't get why people think that singling out Bitcoin as speculative asset is some sort of "end of discussion" revelation. Ultimately, even the safe, cash flow generating S&P 500 can permanently crash given a black swan event.

As someone in finance you should know that the fundamental law driving prices of assets is supply and demand.

The supply of Bitcoin is fixed. There will never be more land in Manhattan and there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins.

So the only question you should be asking yourself is: will there be more demand for Bitcoin in the future?

And as of today the answer is: hell yeah.

First US Bitcoin ETFs were approved this year. They generated inflows of over 30 billion USD to Bitcoin market cap. They were the most successful ETFs EVER.

That was followed by ETFs in other countries and there are even more.

And we're just at the beginning. Pension funds, banks, hedge funds, companies and other large holders of financial assets only begun converting some of those assets into Bitcoin. Barely wetting their beaks. Sips will follow, heavy drinking will follow.

Some countries began buying Bitcoin as banking reserves, similar to how they buy gold. There are talks about US doing so.

All this might change so in that sense buying Bitcoin is a gamble but for the next few years the prognosis is clear: up and to the right.
They should've read "parse, not validate": https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
"The body is complex"

Yet here you are on hacker news pretending that you understand it without giving any evidence to backup your assumptions.
Compilers are allowed to and do diagnose defined but undesirable behavior though, even more so if that's only enabled with an option.
You don't say that 2020-2022 proves that remote work definitely is ok for a lot of people and they want it to stay that way. And recently there have been multiple reports showing that more flexible working options help lowering attribution. Well, what a surprise. /s It is clear that CEOs force people back to office mostly to cut headcounts.
“Regular people use their speakers to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their speakers.” — Alan Parsons
I played for years, on a cheap, short-scale, Univox bass, and getting a used Rick[0] (don’t judge the hair. It was in style, back then) made a huge difference.

I no longer play, but did get get pretty good. In that case, the tool made the difference (and a buttload of daily practice. I felt I needed to earn the right to play that thing).

But I think everyone knows some rich bastard, that has a handmade bespoke axe, and is absolutely terrible.

[0] https://cmarshall.com/MulletMan.jpg (I still have that guitar, and the neck is still true.)
"Google is redefining Chromecast as Google Cast".
> Europeans want to drive in cities/suburbs

No, I don't. Thank you.
> that's literally all you need for remote work.

Effective remote work is as much, if not more, a social and collaboration problem, as it is a technological problem.
Where do you draw the distinction between the two? Where do you fit things like pop art into this continuum, or objets d'art?
H1B is nothing compared to those who need to file a new PERM due to work location change. Going to be rough.
I will state here that 99% of these financial prediction articles are garbage. Anyone who could reliably predict market movements would be putting their money in the market rather than losing their advantage by broadcasting the prediction to the rest of the world
> However, I do think there is a case to be made for falling into the trap of being more interested in the gear than the thing you're meant to do with the gear.

that is literally the intention behind all modern music hardware (eurorack especially) i think. i've been a producer for nearly 20 years and i've still never seen anybody make genuinely good music with any of these things. not even once.

these 30-40 year old "enthusiast" types getting 17 views on their 28 minute "generative ambient jam #236" videos are basically an unlimited cash cow.
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What are the plans with GNUnet development? Some years ago there was an active p2p network, but it seems there have been multiple backward incompatible changes. I don't know it the network is still active now.
This is actually one of the more important developments of the web platform I think in a long time as it’s the first genuine competitor to advertising and the surveillance capitalism nonsense that brings when it comes to monetisation.

It now becomes a genuinely viable alternative to consider for things like journalism and any other kind of content creation.

I really hope this does succeed as it’s sorely needed.
Soccer moms disagree with you. In my area they actually removed bike lanes to make way for more traffic.
I saw a post trending on here a few days ago about how a developer had to quit their plan to build a Restaurants app as Yelp restricted their API account. I've built a tool to help with such a scenario. It helps scrape public data from platforms like Yelp quickly and reliably. It needs no config whatsoever and can be used to get all Yelp reviews for any listing as a CSV or JSON.

I have been working on this for a long 3 years. I have paying customers, they are mostly brands or agencies that are looking to collect data for a business intelligence use case. Sometimes university professors use it too. I have been serious about improving it over the last 1 year as demand is surging since the popularity of AI. Bootstrapping a niche business has been a rollercoaster ride for me as a software programmer but I've been fortunate to receive support from customers and it has been fun to learn by doing different things along the way.

I never shared my project on HN because I know that many developers here don't appreciate web scraping projects and honestly I understand their point of view. However, imho public data (especially UGC) should be accessible by machines for permitted use cases like research and analysis tools that attribute the source and don’t engage in malpractices like plagiarism or publishing duplicated copyrighted information. I've gotten good at bypassing bot detection tech along the way and plan to release a general purpose HTML and MD API that works with almost any source including sites like LinkedIn. They're currently in a alpha. If you are interested in using either, please feel free to reach out to me at raunaq@unwrangle.com and I'll be happy to send an API key and docs your way.

I've been thinking a bit about building useful agents or a service around making agents undetectable as well but I haven't started yet because I think agents are still at a very experimental stage and monetising them would be a challenge for me as a solo bootstrapper.

The page linked is a reviews scraper, it scrapes all reviews a for any Yelp listing and makes it available as a CSV to download or as a JSON sent to a web hook. The product also offers a way to scrape search results from Yelp, here's a link to that API: https://docs.unwrangle.com/yelp-search-api/
That model is still supported by the current and next OS versions. In the end we're talking about having ~7 years of updates vs ~10.

(Sent from my Intel NUC that stopped getting GPU drivers after a year.)
putting their money in the market rather than losing their advantage by broadcasting the prediction to the rest of the world

I think you're missing the point. You first put your money in the market and then broadcast your prediction to make the market move in the direction you want it to move. They're not trying to predict the market, they're trying to influence it.
Scientists Have Developed the First Anode-Free Sodium Battery
You shouldn't take 'Illusion' too strongly here. Ms Hossenfelder is saying that conceptually time can't really be separated from 'change' so the only way to measure time is to have some constantly changing but steady ticker like a pendulum. This has always been a problem in quantum mechanics because you can't study the a system independently of its clock, you have to add the clock to the system. The video is discussing a paper where they use entanglement and a tiny ticker to get around this problem. Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13386

So don't worry everyone time still exists.
No one ever claimed that throwing exceptions is fast and quite honestly you should not care about the performance of that too much and instead make sure that exceptions are supposed to be exceptional.

What is interesting though is the impact of exceptions when they are not being thrown. This includes setup code (mostly avoided by good exception handling implementations) but also inhbited optimization opportunities and executable size bloat.
Yes, all data stored in data centers administered by US companies like Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft should be considered available to the US Government and US competitors. There are known examples of the US government doing industrial espionage for US businesses in the past.

This is an extremely uncomfortable truth that European businesses really don't want to acknowledge and just keep pretending it's not true, not a big deal, and even if it was there is nothing they can do about it.

Instead they focus on complying with endless security check lists with unlikely scenarios while ignoring the elephant in the room.
I am curious whether this theory can explain some phenomena of large language models.
Where I live in London there are football (soccer) pitches in most local parks, school grounds, etc, which kids tend to use. Most people have such a park in a 5-10 minute walk from their home. No need to drive for such short distances. It's better for kids to walk around and experience their neighbourhood, use the time walking to chat with their friends, etc.
Hmm... 1.98 pounds for a 12.5 inch tablet. I was hoping for something more lightweight.

The is new iPads are 1.3 pounds at 13 inch.
Implying that npm wasn’t garbage before AI was mainstream?
- Classical mechanics: Basically views time as another spacial axis. In classical mechanics bodies can be viewed as being a 4D extrusion of their 3D shape along a 1D time path. High precision simulation of classical mechanics does not model time as steps / frames in a movie, but as a continuous 4D geometry.

- Relativity: Builds on classical mechanics idea that time is a geometric axis and using a 4D coordinate system. What is further added is the possible distortion of that 4D spacetime.

- Quantum mechanics: Strictly speaking quantum mechanics does not model time at all. It is more like algebra. It only describes equivalences / transformations which can occur. When we reformulate some algebraic expressions we don't think of the steps we take as time steps. It wouldn't work anyway because there are many possible paths not one. It is not a 1D sequence but a graph, which can even contain cycles.

- Thermodynamics: None of the other areas of physics make time "pass", because to them time is symmetric and past and future might as well be swapped. Only thermodynamics introduces an asymmetry by coupling it to information theory: On the macroscopic average, entropy can not decrease, only increase. Thus, we get a global gradient form low to high entropy, which is what makes time irreversible on a large scale.
Wrong thread, this is Elon's company we are talking about
The Great Open Source Shake-Up (2019)
First USGS supercomputer decommissioning makes way for successors
> or if you're leveraging a third party SMTP, they will ban you.

Not if you are paying them for the service.

There are ommercial email services that aren't google/microsoft/aws. My former company used to use one (can't remember the name) that provided you with smtp servers and a set of dedicated IPs per customers that were preused by them to build a good reputation beforehand.

I think the point is not necessary that you have to selfhost email (although it can be done, some people do), but depending on a single vendor through a proprietary service/API.
The answer given was:

> If the bombs drop and civilization is over and me, and my home lab are the only survivors, can I still use that software?

which rules out any software used to connect to non existant other servers or people.

Sure, the software "works" .. it just doesn't do anything .. ie. it can't be "used".
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41179737

Comms software can't be used if there is nothing to Comm with.
That (and anything else relying on the lockfile) won't take effect for users who install the package from the npm registry, unlike changes in package.json.
Look at what clients have stated as their hourly range or project budget and decide if it's reasonable for the work involved. Then look at what they've paid others in the past to get an idea of what they are willing to pay. Apply only if it looks worth it because we now have to buy connects to apply. Expect that most of the time you won't hear back because they got 50+ applicants and won't take the time to contact all of them.