skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite things I've ever found on the internet is the "Reverb Subculture" thread on GearSpace.
https://gearspace.com/board/geekzone/380233-reverb-subcultur...

It's a discussion of some of the finer (and coarser) parts of reverb design and includes comments from Casey Dowdell (Bricasti), Sean Costello (Valhalla DSP), Matt from LiquidSonics, Urs Heckmann (u-he), Chris from Airwindows, Stian (Acon Digital) and other top-notch audio DSP gurus. They're not giving away trade secrets but there are fascinating discussions around reverb design, topology, theory, and of course perception.
Numerous Manufacturers Use Insecure Android Kernels
The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
I mean you can antagonizing advertisers or users as much as you want as long as your service works.

Elon's airplane tracker is on twitter despite elon sueing the guy [1].

Advertisers don't come back to twitter because it's just doesn't have the functionality they want. There are many other large social media platforms out there they can advertise on and when those platforms have better tracking and targeting those are the platforms they use. It's nothing personal; just business.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/23/23524060/twitter-elon-mu...
I did not like this. This is why:

* Embedded example video doesn't work on Firefox.

* Reasoning reads more like post-hoc justifications to me.

* Last and most important: does not explain what "toasts" are.

Aside: The word in its default English usage is not countable. Making a plural means it must be the usage of clinking glasses of alcoholic drink, to indicate a salutation to a person or thing.

They seem to mean "toaster notifications". I only know this as an option in Pidgin. I Googled it and found this:

https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/toast-notifications-how-to-make...

That page suggests that this bad, broken English is a standard usage in some niche community or communities. IMHO that doesn't excuse it.
> Musk's reasonableness as a businessman doesn't matter. The tens of billions of dollars of potential business he represents is everything.

Aren't these two statements contradictory? Musk's potential business is merely a fantasy once people realize he's emotional and has a tendency to pop-off at inopportune times and that he can't deliver. Early Tesla and early SpaceX made Musk look like a genius. But his years late delivery of FSD, which isn't even FSD, and the fiasco that is Cybertruck have put Tesla on rocky ground. We've learned that SpaceX has a team in place to manage Musk's worst impulses. Even so, they're under increased scrutiny for violating environmental policies during their launches - but I'd argue they still have an overall positive image. What was Twitter is now a shit show and has revealed the worst of Musk's tendencies. His reputation has taken a huge hit, and since Tesla and X are cult-of-personality companies, they appear to be taking a hit right along with Musk. Would you want to throw more money after that? Maybe - but I'm going to challenge your analysis pretty hard to make sure it makes sense.
For performance sensitive code memory bandwidth is very often the limiting factor, thus compressing values tends to make a lot of sense. The number of CPU cores is increasing much faster than memory bandwidth.

So not necessarily completely unnecessary.
You mean pay for your own tools and then get fired for circumventing the corporate security policies on what tools you can use?
I've been on my end of plenty of operational outages. I don't want to be harsh but this could have been written by one of my colleagues, the type of colleagues that I really wish I didn't work with. Console logging for hours? Randomly disabling things? Sometimes when you feel "imposter syndrome" you shouldn't ignore it and maybe up your game a bit.

In fact, I have dealt with an extremely similar situation where a bunch of calls for one of our APIs were failing silently but only after they had taken card payment transactions. Dealing with the developers of this system was like pulling teeth, after we got them to stop stammering and stop chipping in with their ideas (after half a day with this issue ongoing) it took 10 minutes to find the culprit by simply going through the system task by task until we got to the failing task (confirmation emails were unable to send so the API server failed for the entire order despite payments being taken etc.).

This only required 2 things: knowledge of the system, and systematic process to fault finding. You would think that developers who have at least the first, being the ones who wrote it, but sometimes even that is a big ask.

Maybe I'm just burnt out from this industry and incompetent people but... come on... no excuses really.
I see this same problem in the search engine space: upstarts need both long-tail sites indexed, and need the ratelimit/compute to actually follow those long tail sites

I wish Presearch <https://nodes.presearch.com/> all the best because that's the world I want to live in, although their current implementation is why I'm just clapping for them and not running nodes:

> This software is currently not open source and you are relying on our assurances that nothing malicious is happening underneath the hood.

Anyway, I mention this because if (e.g.) Sourcegraph supported federated queries, you could actually run a source code indexer to help offset some of the compute, ratelimit, and storage that is presumably jamming up their board members
They do support mutual recursion, but you have to make it explicit.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
Very cool. Why is the ai so fast? (Impressive)
Wow! Vinegar, either 2 tblsp raw or diluted 2 tblsp/cup, is vile.

Which makes me wonder: 2 tblsp = 30 grams @ 5% = 1.5 grams acetic acid = 2 grams sodium acetate. Assuming sodium acetate instantly dissociates when it hits stomach acid, what are the chances that would do the same as pouring acid down my throat? That might make LOTS more people compliant. Anyone find any information related to this? I think I have some vague memory of a pharmacist telling me something like this for a completely different compound many many years ago.
if you're only getting 3% with dividends, can I interest you with an HYSA paying 5%?
Regardless of the employment counts, it's smart policy to require domestic manufacturing capability, both knowledge, personnel, and equipment; given world events in Russia and China pulling away from the west.
maybe I can offset your disappointment by sharing a very cool nail exhibit I saw a few years back :)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/writhing-sculptures-j...
Like I was saying for the past few years, the mass transition from ICEs to EVs is no free lunch in terms of planetary environmental damage necessary to extract the resources needed for a transition at this scale.

There's a hidden cost to it that the person flaunting his Tesla around as being greener than the peasants driving their 20 year old cars, doesn't see, because the damage done to the planet to get his EV to his driveway is not in his back yard, but in a country he most likely wouldn't be able to find on the map.

The problem is those externalities are rarely factored into the company's profits or the price of product, but most often are socialized to the people and governments in those areas to deal with and clean up.
BMW recalling more than 720k vehicles due to water pump issue
Second Google's offering which can reasonably read my chicken scratch
One thing I did not expect about working in enterprise tech companies was the amount of coworkers who popped Xanax regularly.

I've been an anxiety basket case my whole life and the idea that an addictive pill could take it all away terrifies me - I'd be hooked for life.
flying condom /s

the idea sounds great tho!
>There's nothing mealy-mouthed about trying to provide insight into their decision-making process. They don't owe anyone other than their employees, customers, and investors (in that order) a justification for their decision making on something like this, and certainly after spilling a few paragraphs of text off the cuff can't be called disingenuous.

When you say things like "we did it for the devs" thats mealy-mouthed and disingenuous. They don't owe anyone but their employees, customers, and investors an explanation, but then they start making public statements-- even if they are a few paragraphs and text off the cuff-- acting like they're doing it for _alutristic_ reasons.

Rug pull your open source once you've gotten what business ends you desire out of it and when it conflicts with your open source goals; like you said its your you own it.
Agreed. What's your point?

I've watched some brilliantly produced independent documentaries where the filmmakers procured funding, went on the ground and did the hard work. MY point was that you don't need the backing of some biased mega-corp to greenlit these types of things.
Not every hour of your life needs to be utilitarian. They're using their nails as another form of creative expression. The article is light but lots of interesting nails here that I haven't seen or thought about.
Sertraline is an SSRI. Tapering SSRIs can suck, but if you're unlucky, benzodiazapine (like Xanax) tapers can be really, really bad, and really long:

https://wapo.st/4fV2b2Y

> A safe taper typically takes much longer than a week-long detox or 28-day stay in rehab — an average of six to 12 months, experts say.

This is not to downplay SSRI tapers, which can be plenty awful if you are on them for a long time, but quitting benzos too abruptly can give you seizures. You have to be very careful to taper them safely.
Seems like it could live among these:

> We currently demand that users internalize several metaphors when interacting with Homebrew. These include:

> Formula (how to build a bit of software)

> Bottle (pre-built software)

> Cask (pre-built software on macOS)

> Tap (a collection of software)

> Keg (where software installs itself)

> Cellar (where all my software install themselves)

> As well as an additional number of less-common metaphors that contributors and maintainers need to know, like Rack, Tab, and Formulary.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10798
I dunno the underlying tone to this message, but given the absolutely staggering number of MIT licensed repos under github.com/Microsoft I don't know that such a thing would be as bad as you envision

Now that GitLab is public, that's who I'd want to buy them, and there's precedent since (a) GitLab has already swallowed quite a few open source dev-tooling companies and (b) they already have a Sourcegraph integration so it would be very low drama to just fold it into the core offering and get rid of that stupid Elasticsearch dep
I bought a few items at a drugstore yesterday, and noticed the cashier had very elaborate nails.

She used the second knuckles on her inverted hands (i.e. palm facing up) to operate the touchscreen PoS system, and was very efficient. Tool usage can sometimes be adapted.
VS Code you can have different Theme per Workspace.
Great point. I honestly can't remember the last time that I've had a smooth experience with any kind of business or commercial thing, even when I'm the one paying for services. Bank declines transactions randomly when balance is sufficient, on vendors that have been used before. Orders of equipment over $10k are days late, no explanation provided, no number to speak to a human, just ineffective support robots. Planning days or weeks around other people's problems is pretty normal, but really, that just means that I get to postpone going to the DMV and getting the run-around from them.

Not sure if it's quiet-quitting or what, but the last few years (basically since covid) my consumer experiences in the US are feeling a lot more.. shall we say, European? And I guess that's fine, pretty much everything really can wait. But it's hard to maintain one's own sense of professional urgency to keep things smooth for others when literally nothing is smooth for you.
For the projects I've done, we're not usually particularly space constrained, but we are usually at least one of:

* Cost constrained so RAM constrained
* Need fast boot times
* For a niche processor architecture

Starting with very little apart from an init system and busybox and then building up from there has been a good approach to get the performant (by whatever metric) platform that I need.

That said, I'm not a fan of Yocto at all. I find it painful and slow to work with. I experimented with using Nix (as in NixOS) as my build platform which had some great advantages (e.g. great caching of build steps), but also some pain.
> Functional code is more readable.

There is no way that

name: R.pipe(R.prop('name'), R.toUpper),
age: R.prop('age'),
isAdult: R.always(true)

is more readable than

name: user.name.toUpperCase(),
age: user.age,
isAdult: true
Ask HN: Are there any companies that moved away from Clojure?
Hello all. As the title says, just want to know if there are any companies that moved away from Clojure due to any reasons and if yes, what was the reason and what was the new choice?
not saying you're wrong, because you absolutely aren't, but there's one key difference - usually freakouts are when it's client-facing related in combination with no control and/or information on what's going on and 'they' have to answer customer calls. That's when panic mode is activated.
YouTube Music is an exception regarding “some media library”, because basically everything is on YouTube thanks to user uploads.
The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
Strong agree. A resilient supply chain is a national security issue. The US is learning this the hard way, which is arguably the best way. Makes the lesson stick.
I shouldn't have to drug myself to cope with the stress of constantly half-assed released, features getting pushed in without thought, and 3AM pagerduty alarms because of these things.

We will likely see a large cohort of people who got into tech in the mid 2000s dying off from stress related disease.
Filter tip only, I hope.
> Browsers that support JavaScript typically implement the Notification API. This API asks for user confirmation to allow popups and give the programmer the opportunity to display notifications with a text (body) along with an descriptive icon and header.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_notification#JavaScript
I hang around the KVR DSP forums and indeed, it's always impressive to see mystran answer questions posed by world-class commercial plugin devs who are stumped or stuck somewhere. mystran appears to have one of the best understanding of both DSP theory and the tricks required to implement efficient C++ algorithms.
Are you saying this from personal experience? Because it sounds like you’re spreading an urban legend. Parents aren’t being investigated for kids biking around. CPS is way too busy for that.

I have relatives who work for CPS and if anything they are extremely lenient. And even if they take kids (when both parents can’t take care of the kid for example if they’re both heroin addicts) CPS will try to place with a relative, even out of state.
That's the Android widget, not material design which is used for YouTube's UI
How does the fare pricing compare between Waymo and Uber or Lyft? It is generally less expensive or more expensive, or about the same? Or are the ride prices highly volatile, as they try to A/B test things, or have down times related to upgrades, etc.?
>Before paying up, keep in mind the bait-and-switch played on people with version one. Anyone without a Steam account is stuck with an old version when it required a Steam account after launch.

I'm not sure what the problem is that you're describing.
> EVs require less humans to manufacture

Absolutely, and I've pointed this out a bunch as well.

Yet why should host country accept foreign imports that are subsidized?

Either put CapEx in the host country (and this stimulate the broader economy) or don't participate.

The jobs aspect is rhetoric, but the real issue is CapEx and taxation.

South Korean, Japanese, and Western manufacturers have gladly built domestic manufacturing capabilities in host countries, and even become critical players in those countries (eg. Honda, Toyota, VW, Hyundai in America; Suzuki and Hyundai in India; Ford and Tesla across the EU).

Why should Chinese companies get a pass? This is why Geely (via Volvo and Polestar) and now BYD have been investing in European capacity, and this is why most countries are now forcing Chinese companies to transfer IP to domestic players (just like China did 20 years ago).
This looks cool. Current company uses Metabase extensively and this could be handy. What LLM is being used?
Given we are talking about nuclear missiles, I’d like to think that while unmanned and housing decades-old tech, that the sites themselves have state of the art top secret levels of security. Then again I grew up in northern VA and we all used to assume as kids that the pentagon had missiles to protect from attack, then 9/11 happens, things like Jan 6, and you lose that confidence..
I haven't moved any goal posts. I've kept my replies civil and on topic. If you read the conversation back, you engaged me to fight the idea that providing information on the law and asking for a supervisor can be beneficial. From that point on you have consistently make illogical and unsupported blanket statements such as any cop who makes a mistake of law is considered to be corrupt or abusive.
That's right but "the Bode plot of an integrator is a line with a -20 dB/decade slope" doesn't really roll off the tongue ;)
We've done a bunch of work to strip down the context and minimise the output tokens (which tends to be 100x as slow as input tokens). GPT-4o is pretty fast too :)
I've heard "catch a falling knife" for this.
Opinion: Blocking AI from training on your user's data should be the de facto standard for every application. Here's a guide that tells you how to do that without writing a bunch of new complex features from scratch or generating code with ChatGPT. Learn how to protect user data from AI crawlers with Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) by Identifying bots, classifying data, and giving users control over it.
> For a niche processor architecture

It's been ages since I've last seen something else than ARM and x86 - are people still bringing up new designs for MIPS CPUs?!
I expect it will have some effect given that we anticipate having ~1000 instances of that data structure alive at worst case, at least dozens at any given time.
Seconding this, YouTube Music is uncannily good at making radios from songs. It's always what I'm looking for, and when it does branch out, it's usually introducing me to a new jam.
Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video]
Same as the rest of the ML family then.
I went and checked their funding, and only a quarter of it is from corporate interests. Governments actually fund them more.
Light bulbs. Glary points of light, when it's more possible to have stripes or panels of diffuse light.
For something like input field validation, a request per keystroke might be a bit much, but the update rate of feedback users expect.

In systems with frontend UX validation and backend functional validation, errors from the backend tend to be aimed at devs.
I.e. might expose the reflex that's known good over having nice words for the approximate test done in the frontend.
I was once the primary party responsible for an accounting bug that would have cost Amazon around 100 million dollars in unselable inventory. I stayed up for two nights writing the most heinous regexes to scrape logs(1) and fix the months-long discrepancies. Ended up fixing the problem by writing a script that re-submitted an event for every inbounded shipment to every Amazon warehouse for the last few months. I took the next week off to recover physically and mentally.

Afterward I made a promise to myself to never get into such a panic again. But funny enough, when I feel like panic is immanent I just remind myself that whatever problem I have is absolute peanuts compared to that event. So for me at least having one truly bad event helps me put things into context.

(1) the logs had JSON-escaped JSON and I am slightly proud of those regexes because it is the only time I hopefully ever have to use 8 backslashes in a row https://xkcd.com/1638/
Currently, we're using GPT-4o. We've tested it with Claude as well and plan to roll out support soon!
They really are.

The lack of such contributions -in general- or the speed at which they appear, is what leads me to conclude that the Ruby community is slowing down.

In this case, suddenly there's an awesome library for Ruby. Which is fantastic. An achievement to be very thankful for.
But "the community" "produced" this months or years after such libs landed for Python, JS, TS, Rust, Go and so on.

Not just ML/AI, same happens for "gems" (Ruby libs) that deal with any new tech. It used to be that any SAAS or startup would offer official Rubygems from the get-go. Often before offering other platforms or languages. Today, when I want or need to integrate something, from notion to slack to cloudflare: no Ruby option or at least no official one.

This saddens me. Ruby is so much more than Rails (for which I can understand the reluctance or "hate"). Ruby is so much nicer to work in than Python and certainly than JavaScript. Ruby could easily have been what Python is today and tens of thousands of developers would be just a little happier than they are now, I am certain.
True. Seems like many parents want the government to do the parenting for them.

I had internet access from a young age and turned out okay anyway.
What someone likes also doesn’t correlate solely with genres. While I like certain genres more than others, I only really like a small fraction of pieces in each genre, so the statistical correlation between what I like and genre affiliation is probably not very high.
Single pass compilation can support backreferences, i.e. referencing a symbol and then defining it later, efficiently with a technique called "backpatching". All single-pass compilers I know of use backpatching for computing jumps--I'm not even aware of any other way to compute jumps. For symbols, the implementation of backpatching is a bit more complex, but it's a pretty well-known solution and I don't think it would be a significant barrier for any competent compiler developer. That is to say, if they've chosen to not support backreferences, it's not because it's hard to do in a single-pass compiler.

EDIT: The wonderful book Crafting Interpreters has an implementation of backpatching jumps to implement loops. Before anyone says "this is an interpreter, not a compiler", be aware that most modern interpreters contain a compiler. https://craftinginterpreters.com/jumping-back-and-forth.html
A variation: I used to take the bus instead of a 15 minute walk (it was late in the day, I was tired, etc). Sometimes the bus would take more than 15 minutes to arrive, so I questioned my decision to continue waiting. When I finally walked home, the bus would catch up with me a couple of blocks before I got home.
I completely agree on all accounts. Heavy vehicles such as pickup trucks should require a CDL... and drivers should lose it when they are found driving recklessly.

I have no interest in unproven high-tech approaches when we haven't even implemented very basic proven pedestrian safety measures like eliminating street-level parking around pedestrian crossings to increase visibility, or mandating pedestrian safety tests for motor vehicles.
What you are describing is essentially an urban legend. Parents are not being investigated for letting kids bike around.

Also, the most common source of child abuse is a family member, which unfortunately is a common reason for CPS to get involved.
> corporations are fundamentally sociopathic entities in society

Corporations are not sociopathic (they are not even sentient), people are.

> even beloved ones like Disney

Depends a lot on the social group. I know quite some people for who have about the same love for Disney as for genital herpes.