skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Yes it is. People don't care enough to not use Amazon - suffering is simply priced into the market and people are fine with that."

So you say about them. Thinking you have the power to pass moral judgment on everyone else's internal processes, reasoning and decisions about where to place their attention and care is an error.

For example, what have you done about this- https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/2020/04/13/nigeria...

Should we conclude you don't care?

"That's just how the world works and has always worked and it's absurd to take issue with it" is only one of many excuses people use to reconcile their morality with the amount of suffering they benefit from. No point even thinking about it if it's simply the law of nature."

Never said it or implied it. Since you can't attack the fact, you attack the speaker. The fact remains, the universal existence of slavery does not imply most people in history were amoral. People buying from Amazon doesn't mean they are uncaring. Your thoughts and opinions don't determine facts about people you've never met. Sorry but you're displaying an ugly self indulgent narcissism in this post. Do better.
> I wish we could just all agree that there are some people who don't notice slight lag, and people who genuinely notice and are distracted by it.

This is literally the first time I've ever heard of framerate/latency being a concern in a text editor.

I mean, I get that it's annoying when your machine is chugging hard and there's a half-second delay on every keypress. But generally that means that something's gone wrong and is thrashing the processor, not that your text editor is insufficiently optimized.

I know some people are more sensitive to framerate than others, in games and videos. Maybe there really is someone in the world who craves a solid 144FPS/5ms latency when editing code. But it's news to me.
co-occurrence. It's the real backbone of almost all recommender systems.

This is the same way YT/TikTok does it btw. Co-occurrence is king in recommender systems in production. It's extremely cheap to calculate and by far the most effective method.
Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards
Do a search for it and find out. (The answer is no)
And as someone with that many hours too... Go check a 8k behavior score or below. The system is working. It's just that the depths of hell are deeper than people think.

It could be more aggressive at lowering score tho, true. Used to be. They "buffed" the gain per 20 matches last December, but it was great before (And even lowered the scores of streamers that had it coming).
The problem is you have to manage indexes in the database and keep that in sync with each application that queries it. Ecto is one of those applications.
I'm sure they really care about your opinion /s
I noticed that the original post was flagged and deleted.
I’m just surprised something nearly replaced google in my lifetime.
> I Made a Website for Problems

Nice. I already see a problem. It requires a Google account. I don't have a Google account and I do not want a Google account. So how do we solve that problem?
It's nice to chat to real people for 15 minutes sometimes? Such a short meeting shouldn't feel very disruptive.
It’s the mindset difference between DIY and outsourcing, essentially.

Denser populations are used to their biggest problem (and biggest help) being other people. So they tend to outsource more.

Less dense populations are used to their biggest problem being something they need to do themselves, because there aren’t a lot of people all up in their business/available when they have a problem. So they’re more comfortable doing DIY.

The issue in this case of course that outsourcing personal safety puts a lot of power in other people’s hands.

Typically, this results in people in dense areas being more manipulative and avoidant to compensate. You can have a good life by getting other people (readily available) to do things for you. Having certain people be mad at you can result in really bad outcomes if you can’t manage the people around you.

Folks in less dense areas being typically more direct, because they can/need to be. You can have a good life by doing things yourself, and you don’t need to worry if someone is going to be (moderately) unhappy with you. And even if they’re really mad at you, you can do something about it directly without needing someone’s help.

For exteme examples in either direction;

- less dense, say Siberia, Alaska, Sudan - ‘everyone’ is armed, ‘everyone’ knows how to jump their car and fix basic plumbing issues, how to do basic first aid, etc. (at least 50% of the population, anyway).

- more dense, say Mumbai, Tokyo, New York City - only the cops/military and extreme outliers in the population are armed (< 5%) and ‘no one’ (well under 10% of the population) knows how to jump their car, fix plumbing issues, basic first aid, etc.

This has always resulted in tension. Ghenghis Khan was on record for really hating ‘decadent city dwellers’ for instance, and made a habit of destroying any particularly decadent cities he ran across (and either slaughtering their populations or driving them out of the city) apparently out of spite. Large cities have always expended significant effort in controlling who is armed and when (including Rome, London, Paris, etc).

This is directly applicable to US politics, and shows up quite clearly in the gun control debate too, where gun control laws have a clear and nearly (but not completely) 100% correlation with population density.

It’s also something you can see as a clear trend in Europe, with West and South-West European countries being strictly controlled, and less dense Northern, Eastern, and Central European countries being looser.

South and Eastern Asia, being exceptionally population dense, has almost complete prohibition of firearms for civilians. Even air guns are strictly controlled in most countries.
Ask HN: Anyone Using Starlink for Small Business
I'm not looking forward to dealing with 'a very big cable company' to get Internet service at a new location for my startup. We expect to grow and move 2 or 3 times in the next 6 years. Should we look at Starlink for Business? My IT Service Bureau is concerned that latency will be too high.

If you have experience with under 20 people on one Starlink, how is it going?
You'd think it would too since apple openly advertises how good the newer hardware is at AI. No idea where the above user got the idea that they had no ability to do that.
But what about all those organizations that have "Do something with AI" as the goal for the quarter? All those bonuses driving people to somehow add AI to products. All the poor devs that have been told to replace features driven by deterministic code with AI good-enough-ness.
Dune home page: https://dune.build/
This is true also for books. Adding things like sprayed edges, pretty hardcovers, and higher quality materials turns the items into more collectibles, things to show off to friends or decorate a home with instead of hide away.
You still get it very wrong.

MVP focuses on developing a product with just enough features to satisfy early users and provide feedback for future iterations. This means that the full vision of the product is sacrificed in favor of speed and minimalism. Key word: sacrificed. You don't sacrifice in a system humans are reliant on to live.

You can find this described on Wikipedia in a similar manner [0].

Compare this to a Waterfall approach - an approach that has been used in developing rigor in critical systems for decades. Waterfall emphasizes a complete and well-documented design upfront, ensuring that the final product aligns with the original vision and objectives. The end result is a fully-featured product, even if (and it will) take longer to develop.

Again... Wikipedia [1].

So, no. You don't build a mission critical system by stacking MVPs like Lego block on top of each other and then calling them "objectives". It's clear you've never built or been involved with building systems that are classified as "Safety of Life Critical System". Feel free to go review some relevant standards (e.g., ISO 26262, IEC 61508, DO-178C) and then feel free to re-justify how MVPs could be used for space vehicles that transport humans.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model
Already seems to be HN Hugged to death.
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obviously not good if one falls off the plane????!! you are talking about major structural damage to the airplane, the center of mass will be completely off and the airplane will fall as hard as a rock.
But the Eiffel Tower is an art project, not something of actual utility...
ICE passenger vehicles have 10x the rate of fires as EVs, but the public perception is flipped (eg the general public has priors 2 orders of magnitude off).

Will semi’s follow the 1/10 ratio as well?
What is the reality of New Zealand's extradition status with the United States? My understanding was there was no treaty, but we just learned that Mr. Dotcom was to be extradited.
Don't forget about kicking up all the bathroom bacteria into the air, as well as leaving you nothing to open the door with.
Sourcegraph went dark
I would run headless chrome to fetch website and block all fetch requests from ublock origin list. This would give you a "remote" adblocker that works anywhere.

... but at that point just install pihole.
Not until we've seen a plethora of AI startups go public with no revenue.
Remember to keep a local offline mirror of your favorite content from ripped physical media, online archives and aggregators. Rotate every 5 years to larger, newer drives that can store higher-resolution versions. Nothing is infallible, including archive.org, infocon.org, flickr, github/gitlab/sourceforge, YT/peertube/rumble, kiwix/stackoverflow/wikipedia and long-tail niche websites.
this is awesome. how do you plan to monetize this?
You wouldn't think a single engine could be a single point of failure but the crash of AA 191 in 1979 was due to a cracked engine mount.
From a practical perspective I feel like we are right back in the 1990s in terms of how easy it is for me to obtain access to movies I want to watch.

The big streaming players just seem to get worse every day - it's probably not an exaggeration that 80% of movies I search for simply aren't available, at all.
Especially classics, double especially foreign. You just can't get them. But there's no video stores any more, and I'm not paying $30+ to order a physical disk from another country, wait a week, only to watch it once and put it in a pile to rot.

So I find myself, just like I did in the '90s, downloading and playing them off a computer. And saying the same things to anyone who'll listen - I'd pay to watch this, but no-one will sell it to me for a reasonable price, so I'll just pirate it and enjoy it with a clear conscience.
This is so useful! I just started learning blender and I wish I had this a week ago!
Every DVD I've ever owned I have ripped to a server. If I paid money for it, I have ripped it somehow. The concept of licensing and never owning the product you paid for must go. Especially video games.
Yeah and while the market can't seem to make up it's mind about crypto it appears to have a pretty solid grasp on the concept of a loaf of bread...
Primer Movie Review
Sounds similar to Bill Gates.
we're still making huge leaps forward in the quality of the base materials, until we stop making progress there, I don't think we're able to say that we're at the practical limit.
I've never even heard of a left wing farmer before, much less met one. They don't appear to be a thing on the east coast.
- Please make your buttons disabled after clicks while loading :( I couldn't realize at the beginning if I spend my credit or not.

- And, it still says "Generating...", I think HN guys broke the server :)

- Pricing: I cannot understand why these kind of services require monthly subscription, it look weird to subscribe a service that I use a few times in a year.

- Some examples could be nice before signing up.
Alas, I have external drives from 2015, 2010, etc. that I've never filled up completely. Should I consolidate on a newer one and junk them? Some I haven't accessed in years.
A Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves
For VC funded startups, this is exactly the business model. Each company is a different lottery ticket for them.
Thieves in Orange County likely jammed Wi-Fi during computer store break-in
I got to see him play in Vegas last year, but it never occurred to me that he might show up at defcon. I really wish I had gone this year.
If you truly need that kind of perf (and at Amazon, we had plenty of dev desktops running on ebs without that kind of performance) then you should really opt for an instance type with local storage.
Especially remote otherwise async teams.
You're saying both of those no longer exist on streaming services? That's a goddamned tragedy (though I have local copies of both).

Side note, I first watched Strange Days on a VR headset (the Gear VR) while on a 6hr flight, having no idea the movie would be about virtual reality. That felt pretty damn special.
While I don't like the blog title, many things said in there rang true for my company (MoveAI.com). We are building an AI-powered moving concierge that can orchestrate your relocation experience end-to-end.

We initially were developing a system that we had hoped could handle everything and eject any workflow issues to a human so the operations team could kick the machine. We were hoping to avoid an interface all together on the customer side.

After a few versions and attempts at building this system, we moved towards a traditional app where we focused on building a product people wanted and automate parts of it over time. But even the parts we automated needed an interface for customers to spot check our work. So we found a great designer.

...Before we knew it, we were building a traditional company, with some AI. The company is doing well and people love what we're building, but it's different than we imagined.

We still believe in the long term vision and promise of the technology, but the article is right, this isn't going to be an overnight process unless some new architecture emerges.

In the mean time, we're focused on helping people get from A to B easily using whatever means necessary, because moving f**ing sucks. If you're moving soon or know anybody who is, we'd be happy to help them. -P
I was in the same boat. I've been a software engineer for as long as I can remember and always wanted to do more than just build B2B SaaS.

Max, the first engineer at Urban Sky, hit me up and asked if I wanted to build their mission control. At the time, Urban Sky was just a four-person team, so they couldn’t pay me as much, but I jumped at the chance, even though it meant taking about half my usual salary.

Funny enough, my SaaS background actually helped me create mission control software that was way ahead of the curve!

I guess my advice is, find a small company you're passionate about, where you can make a big impact, and be open to taking a pay cut. It helps the company take less of a risk on you, and you get to work on something that really matters. Plus, when you’re solving real problems, things tend to work out, and eventually, you’ll end up making what you should in salary.
Why do you believe that the Stockholm Syndrome is not testable?
Yea. Maybe it's an age thing. But at this point I just can't be bothered to sign up for accounts of sites that don't even let me use and sample it once.
Aesthetic aside, I am under the impression that people start programming, by and large, with imperative for/if style => so the imperative style is readable by more people. Even for more experienced programmers, reading imperative probably cost less energy, since it is more internalised?

Futhermore, in JS, the functionnal style is less performant (nearly twice on my machine, i assume because it do less useless memory allocations)

So, same functionnality, readable by more people, more performant? The imperative example seems like the better code.
You should make the text input field focus when the page loads.
> [Kagan] tried to use his role at Facebook to make a name for himself

> frequently wrote blog posts on his personal site about Facebook's business

He's still doing it lol
This supposed “cycle” has been crazy it’s been about 1.5 years since gpt4 came out, which is really the first generally capable model. I think a lot of this “cycle” is media’s wishful thinking. Humans, especially humans in large bureaucracies, just don't move this quickly. Enterprises have barely had time to dip their toes in.

For what it’s worth hype doesn’t mean sustainability anyway. If all the jokers go onto a new fad it’s hardly the skin off the back of anyone taking this seriously, they’ve been through worse times.
There was a 747 crash in (poland or the netherlands) where the bolts broke off the engine and the failed engine managed to hit the other engine on the wing. The plane fell straight out of the sky and cut an apartment building in two killing at least 40 on the ground. Engines falling off a plane are very very bad and cause a lot of secondary damage.
Yes, please!

Bare metal web components with Lit are fantastic. If we add Lit itself to the browser, it's even closer to metal.
I don't think it was thought to be extinct, just no longer present in AZ.
Agreed. I did the same thing and immediately closed the tab
There is a treaty in place: https://www.treaties.mfat.govt.nz/search/details/t/2487/c_2
I’ve always wanted a TypeScript-based Jupyter notebook, thanks for building this!
Hmmm, maybe you're only familiar with the Visual Studio SDK's?

The Azure SDK's aren't charged for access: https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk/

The SDK's for modern MS products generally seem to be freely available. Maybe it's only their legacy offerings that have some charge to it?

If that's actually the distinction, then my guess is that it's simply "no cost access means higher numbers of developers using them" for the new stuff.

Whereas the legacy stuff probably would cause internal bun-fight's to happen if they changed their licensing model. ;)
can someone please post an archive link to this article ? thank you !
Specifically, AT&T predicted/promised it in 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will (directed by Fincher before people knew who he was)
Is this wrapping Suno? Not going to make an account with only generic marketing copy and no samples.
I hope that one day metal 3D printing becomes cheap, advanced, reliable and widespread. I hope you design an amazing epic car, the best ever, which everyone suddenly begins downloading, 3D printing, and driving around here or there. Only then would you know the pain of having your car downloaded, I put that pain on you.
HTTP Error 500 - Server Error upon Google login.
heads up, wasted my time on a rhyme, just for it to get deleted by "You need to be logged in"
The only song generator I like is https://sonauto.ai because you can upload clips of real songs and change the lyrics like a Weird Al parody. I suspect that's all most people would like to do with these apps, and I also suspect that they don't let you do it for legal reasons, not technical reasons.

Here's one I did, "Can You Feel the AGI" to the tune of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": https://x.com/modeless/status/1792058258523668702
Once we've amassed a volume of artistic media so large that it would take hundreds of human lifetimes to make use of, what is the point?

Movies like the matrix have already had an eternal effect on the Zeitgeist of a generation, forever altering human culture in some small way, at the very least. Why worry about it still being on a drive somewhere in 200 years?
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse and Colleges Don't Have a Plan
Maybe we should have talent tariffs. Hiring overseas? 50% tariff. Watch employers “suddenly” find qualified talent at home.
Depends where in the country, but in a huge number of places in the US we still have a housing shortage that's been occurring for decades now and extremely high costs. We need millions more units to catch up.
I often make the same criticism about services like this, but personally, discovering good new music greatly enriches my life.

Sometimes I'll bounce off of a given artist several times, over years or decades, until the right track catches me when I'm "ready" for it, and then I'll enjoy discovering their whole catalog. At that point, the affinity is durable. I would love to find whoever is my next (e.g.) Steely Dan.
That depends on the work and how it has been chunked down. Even longer projects that may take a couple weeks can have some milestones.

When I worked on a team of only senior, experienced engineers, we never had a problem keeping each other updated during daily standups. The exception I have seen might be very complex refactors, or trying to solve problems with no clear approaches.

With a team of junior engineers, it's great engaging with people and help with mentoring.

Lastly, I have found that true uninterrupted deep work lasts no more than a max of 3 hours a day, maybe 4. I've done full 8 hours daily like that, and I burned out. In hindsight, I realized that most people can't really do a full 8 hours like that.
Emacs: 'ef-eagle' and 'ef-owl' are added to the 'ef-themes'
For reverb I don't see much practical use, mainly because you can capture a pretty-much-perfect recreation of a real space with an impulse response. No need for thousands or millions of rounds of training a network. For unrealistic reverbs, you have the problem that to get training data you'd have to invent several unrealistic reverb effects to apply to sounds. And once you've made those effects, there's not really any reason to neural-netify them.

For NeuralDSP it's a bit different because they use NN's to simulate a guitar amp circuit which is a nonlinear system and so there's no simple way to "capture" the effect the way that you can for reverb sims or speaker sims. And while you can make a very accurate model using something like SPICE, that won't run in realtime. With traditional amp modeling you basically take the SPICE version and try to optimize and cheat as much as you can so it can run in realtime, at the cost of accuracy.

So that's what NeuralDSP's goal is, a system that approximates the amplifier but can also be computed in real-time, except done using a trained NN instead of a human-optimized variant of the SPICE circuit.

They have a couple whitepapers on their website, though none of them go deep enough to really give away their secret sauce. But basically according to them, making a NN model of an amplifier at a fixed setting is fairly simple. Where they had to get novel with it is adjustable settings/parameters. E.g. turning the drive up, or turning the treble down. Just capturing a few hundred or thousand models based on adjusting parameters and cross-fading between them doesn't sound realistic. So they had to come up with a larger model architecture that can "learn" those parameter changes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08559
https://archive.ph/PFmWw
It may be helpful to consider the matter from the lens of 'what is my core competency'. I had similar existential questions recently, and pursued an MBA to that end (after realising that I enjoyed analysing people behaviour in companies and thought that might translate into a management career). By the end of it, I realised that I was simply able to 'do' the job of a dev much more naturally than becoming a manager. At that stage, the problem changed from 'what do I want to do' to 'what can I actually do'.

I'm sure you are capable of switching careers and skillsets more successfully than I was, but for me, metaphorically speaking, after peering over the hedge, I came to be content with the color of the grass on my own side.