skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Sonos system at home, have for years. (I currently have to use the "Sonos S1" app because I have one older device that is not supported by the new app.) It sounds good (to me) when everything is working, but honestly the reliability has never been that great. After first buying it, I eventually learned that you really want to buy one of their 'hubs' (the one I have is the Sonos Boost) and have that plugged into your wired ethernet network. Otherwise, at least in my hands, things just don't work very reliably. (You can also, I am told, plug a single speaker into your wired network and achieve much the same effect, but for reasons it was easier for me to buy the Boost.) But even now when you select a new song/album/playlist, it seems to take a weirdly long time for it to start playing and have the album art show up on the phone, and sometimes it just fails and you have to try again (the 2nd time almost always works, FWIW). But it is really nice to have decent-sounding on-demand music throughout your home at the touch of a (few) button(s). I hear that bluOS and HEOS are decent alternatives, but they don't seem to be as popular as Sonos, and I've never seen a convincing demonstration that they would work better for me. And of cource there's the lock-in factor: Replacing all my Sonos equipment would be pricey at this point. I used to get really mad about lack of cross-manufacturer interop when I was younger and poorer, but nowadays I'm willing to stomach it if it means that stuff just works. But it's continually irksome that equipment at these prices isn't 100% glitch-free.
nope. you are comparing apples and oranges and everyone knows it.
What did you use to migrate posts? I'm going to move three WordPress sites (15yr+ running) off soon.
> Google’s search results are telling us to eat rocks

I can ignore the summary chat bot. What makes google impossible to use for finding information is that all results are "official" sources, such as CNN. I wonder if CNN wants to comment on that part of the enshittification of the internet.
How much of your career is down to 'luck'?
Unfortunate that's your experience. Personally, at least with my 3-4 speaker setup (multiple Sonos and 2nd gen AirPort Express feeding non-Sonos speakers), I've never really had issues (maybe out of sync once or twice a year). Your mileage may vary I guess.
Oh 100%. At the same time, it's a commercial - so even if they're targeting developers, there's only so much you can do in 30seconds. They're using a marketing technique of 'dreaming the possible' to get you hooked on the idea that the notion you have in the back of your mind - that seems as impossible as keeping McCaughnehey out of a dumb outfit - is just as possible as, well, keeping an overpriced celebrity who's never used (probably) Salesforce, out of the rain, without dedicating some human to follow around and pander to his whims.

They're trying to sell the idea, and for good or worse, you remembered ;)

Uncle B, is the single best marketer this side of P.T. Barnum, and his antics need to be seen through that lens. He's not directing HR to stop hiring engineers - that's the dream he's selling. (though, I'm certain it's also a lovely cover for slowing hiring).

One of these days I'm going to write up an Era's tour like review of all the various dreams Benihoff has sold. Starting with 1:1:1 to Business is the best vehicle for society change up through Agentforce. The underlying dream is almost always a variation on the theme: Salesforce will empower you (customer) to have a better relationship with your customers so that you make more $.
Let people be wrong
Having too much money is brain poison.
Causation and correlation.

The job market is different. Workers will take what they can, till they land a remote role. Remote jobs are in high demand.
> Didn’t see in the article what they define as “low income”

Believe it's these standards: https://www.lifelinesupport.org/do-i-qualify/
This is an interesting but wrong statement:

> "It’s not really enjoyable to make music now […] It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music."

I'm also a musician myself (see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1317) and I have many friends who are (professional) musicians. Learning an instrument is a lot of work and sometimes indeed tedous, but I think every (true) musician can confirm that nothing compares to the joy when the band "clicks" and the musicians toghether experience the moment when great music arises. The only reason that (professional) musicians occasionally lose the joy of making music is their existential dependence on their profession and the pressure to get a decent income with the mostly low-payed gigs (if any at all). But that has nothing to do with the music itself.

Tools like Suno are more suitable for and more likely to please people who have not learned the craft of music, and ultimately tend to lead to musicians having even more existential stress and thus losing the joy of music even more quickly. But we can't stop progress.

PS: I'm surprised that and I don't understand why the post was flagged; it is definitely a topic that's interesting for "hackers", and as engineers and technology enthusiasts, we should not close our minds to the implications of our work.
Indeed all I can think of now is Stewart Lee's bit about "political correctness gone mad"

(some strong language and racist words used so maybe not safe for work or around kids)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_JCBmY9NGM
Crazy, Wordpress hasn’t had the best 12 months…
If you're going to sneer in public at those you consider below you, you should do it correctly.

'trailpark' should be 'trailerpark' or maybe 'trailer-park'
He has investors to answer to. He has an over evaluation that unless he grows the value of his company he’s screwed. He’s trying to pull in revenue and he’s destroying a competitor to take their customers.
He also started Sentry, so must know a thing or two on the topic.
Agreed. I also think that being an autocratic leader makes it worse, because you get used to yes-sayers around you and the power in general.
I just picked this one at random today; took about a minute to find something: https://www.startribune.com/mom-ids-son-as-teen-left-with-br...

I’m relieved to read that racism isn’t as bad as I think it is.
I've heard assessments like "probably October 24", which may be true or false, but the fact that they are being made says that the peak is roughly now. Who cares about exactly when?

I care more about how steep the curve downwards will be how soon.
some good news for a change
Oh god why is pg even writing about this? Why does every aging, decrepit Silicon Valley oligarch think the world needs to hear their opinion on political correctness? It's all becoming too much. Please buy a diary and write your important thoughts there.
The VP famously used it half a dozen times in this short clip. [1] It was apparently well-known enough of a term that she didn't define it.

IIRC usage didn't really drop off until 2020 or after. That was when conservatives started using the term in a negative way and progressives abandoned it.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53A6wcgbxEM
Do you know an economic system in the real world that doesn't have this problem?
I don't think you're wrong.

I do want to 'tweak' your statement a bit.

It's no more - or less - BS than any other Agenic system on the market.
when people say 4 day week, do they mean 4 10 hour days or work 32 hours a week?
> The New York law requiring Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people with low incomes will take effect on Wednesday this week following a multi-year court battle in which the state defeated broadband industry lobby groups.

I don't like these types of mandates because it distorts the market. Politicians get to say "we provided X people with internet service and we didn't use a dollar of tax payers' money". Which sounds nice, but you can't really get something for nothing. This will increase costs for ISPs and likely increase prices for others. How much? Who knows!

If politicians feel that low income New Yorkers deserve reduced cost or free internet, give them a voucher for internet. Better yet, figure out how much of a voucher they would need and give them a check. Let them decide whether they want to buy internet, or better food or housing or whatever else. Or if you go the voucher router, giving them options lets ISPs compete for this. Don't think taxpayers should pay? Make a special ISP tax and give it to these people to make it budget neutral.

Not to mention the red tape and abuse this will create. I really don't want me ISP to track my income.

What they decided on is the worst possible option as it results in hidden costs and bad incentives. The only people its good for (compared to the alternatives), is politicians who can by dictate just seemingly create free things for people for no cost.
and /sbin was full
Blamed for putting boundaries at work, What to do?
I'm a software engineer working in a big corporation that's an absolute mess. When I first joined my team, I had an optimistic "I can change things for the better" mindset, having successfully done it before. However, the situation here has been challenging. What we work on is riddled with functional and technical debt, while also lacking documentation.

Despite this, I was able to overhaul the documentation, finish tasks earlier than their deadlines, help teammates who were stuck, take on additional tasks that weren't originally assigned to me, and even refactor our codebase to help the team deliver value. Whenever there's a bug or a huge issue, I'm always the person people turn to for a fix.

In every retrospective, I try to highlight the issues, offer solutions, and even implement some of them. But the people actually responsible for doing the majority of that work—like maintaining documentation or fixing systemic issues—don't follow through. Whenever I highlight a problem and we create an action item for it, it usually goes nowhere, and nothing changes.

On top of that, people now just throw work at me, expecting me to go above and beyond because it's become the norm for me. I haven't been able to stop myself from doing the extra work because I genuinely care, but it was driving me crazy.

After reading some threads here on Reddit, especially this one How do you stop caring about your job to prevent it from consuming your life I decided to set boundaries and be more vocal about the issues. I started declining extra work, citing a lack of capacity. I also pushed for major bugs to be properly reported so they wouldn't go unnoticed and continued to be vocal during retrospectives.

Unfortunately, this led to a 1-on-1 meeting with my manager. He blamed me for "not helping others," "not working like I used to," and "not caring enough." He said that highlighting issues in retrospectives was the wrong approach and that I should report them directly to him. He felt I was overstepping him, which isn't the case, as were different entities inside the team with different functions and he's just the tech lead. He also added that "people" had complained about me highlighting issues, calling it "complaining."

I stood my ground. I explained that doing 100% of my work instead of 400% is just me setting healthy boundaries and learning to say no. Even at 100%, I’m already doing way more than the people causing the issues and not doing their jobs. I also pointed out that if I didn’t care, I wouldn’t be highlighting issues—it would be much easier to slack off and fake doing 400%.

Now, I’m beyond disappointed. I don’t know how to navigate this situation. I feel like I don’t even want to give 1% anymore. My colleagues tell me that not caring would hurt my "top performer who always helps" reputation, but I disagree with their take.

I’m not sure what the right thing to do is, and I’d love to get some feedback on this.
I've been dabbling in Hifi for most of my life, a hobby inherited from my father. I have some awareness of consumer Hifi over the last 50 years.

Speaker and amplifier design are vastly better than even 15 years ago, partially because of better engineering and mostly because of advances in electronics. An entry level receiver today would wipe the floor with consumer level equipment from the 80s.

Still, traditional Hifi is dying to the "crap tiny speaker" folks. The company that owns Denon and Marantz may go out business this year.

It is ironic because traditional Hifi is in an amazing place in terms of value. I recently bought a budget (<$300) setup for my PC and I'm blown away by what a couple of modest bookshelf speakers, a modern mini-amp and a compact subwoofer can accomplish.
Looking for thoughtful disagreement for a treatise on digital info systems
Hi HN! Over the last three months I've written a treatise (fancy noun!) with a view to understand computation systematically. My goal was to create, at least for myself, a coherent picture of what's essential about all this bit pushing we do individually and societally. I intend to write something empowering and actionable to those of us trying to make sense of systems, as well as build (much) better systems.

It's about 40-50 pages long, so it's not short, and probably quite dense, despite me trying to make it as conversational as possible. I have a visual summary of it linked at the top but it's yet incomplete (still working on it).

My goal in posting it here is to get some feedback. I'm especially looking for thoughtful disagreement, particularly concerning my main points. Something quite at the top of Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy. I'm really open to challenge to my main points; if what I wrote is any good, it should be anti-fragile and get better with a good critique. And if it doesn't, hey, at least I learned something!

A couple of days ago I posted it on the Future of Coding slack (very cool community, you should join us!) and got already feedback. Now I'm daring to put it here to see what happens.

Here it goes: https://github.com/altocodenl/todis

Thanks for reading!
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That's the good answer https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/19/starling-ba...

AND not alone, it's time to prepare a mass resign for all companies pushing RTO stating clear that they are against human evolution, so harmful for humanity AND their heads must resign to end the strike.
Moreover, I think the topic of discussion is important. Arguing about how important an issue is almost always is a waste of time and a distraction.

Issues aren't in a que where the most important get done first, and there is rarely a master calculation weighing them against eachother. When there is, it is called a budget, and that come into play after people have agreed upon what they would like to do.

We dont have to fix global racical justice before a pothole in the street just because the former is more important. If you want to talk about racial justice, policy proposals are concrete. Should we have job and education quotas, should we have race based criminal sentencing, how about diversion programs? Now these are topics with some meat on the bones.
You’ve just proven the point of the author you’re responding to. The left isn’t talking about “wokeness”. But there are endless folks who are mad about someone being mean to them once who won’t shut up about how the “woke left” is destroying social cohesion. Just because some people are obnoxious doesn’t mean you’re under the thumb of a conspiracy to shut you up. Sheesh.
For real.

I've been writing software most of my life. Teaching others to write software almost as long. And for the love of god, Excel is the perfect place for a damn openAI interface. That shit is arcane. Give me a database over excel, any day. Excel is a Swiss army chainsaw wielded by a meth head 3 days past his last fix just itching for an opportunity to take your wonderful idea and make it die.
For 279 days, GM has failed to deliver Cadillac EV Lyriq bumper to customer
When r/thedonald was around, I would debate misconceptions americans had about politics in Denmark from time to time (no we're not socialist). And of course I would get banned left and right (but mostly left), and would get the "you post in thedonald, ergo I win"-line regularly.

Reddit was a trash heap then, and it's gotten exponentially worse since. Why anyone go there voluntarily is beyond me. It contains nothing of value.
you can change the payload sent to users, static or not. If you serve javascript you're serving dynamic, runtime dependency injecting code.
> Linus doesn't actually realize what 'hard r' means

I don't either. What does it mean?
It never happened. I used a 6 and a 6S Plus, fully updated, for many years after my I got my wife an XS. Not that it proves nothing happened to the 7 the year before the XS came out, but,

A) it would have been huge news if Apple bricked all iPhone 7, and

B) it makes no sense to brick iPhone 7, but not the ones before it.
Basically the UK is in the way when a sizable chunk of the Atlantic wants to move north-east to follow the tides. The water squeezes into whatever openings it can find and creates really high tides in the process
> As long as you have decent utilisation then buying and running your own hardware is typically a lot cheaper than using AWS etc al.

The cynic in me suspects that some government consultant (I used to be one) is making a lot of money from peddling AWS/Azure.
PG says

>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one.

What he does not explain is how big a problem of scale this is, but based on the way the rest of the essay goes, I'm going to guess that he thinks racism is not a problem that currently demands any policy changes whatsoever, except perhaps to roll back prior policy changes to address the real, measurable damage of historic racism.
That is allowed use, Germans actually have fairy sane laws. Swastika is heavily regulated and that regulation allows this particular use.
https://x.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
Show HN: Load Balancer for Jito APIs
These are your
> spontaneous social chats often lead to work-related brainstorming. Being in the office next to co-workers leads to more spontaneous discussions.

I submit that this isn’t my reality.I never spontaneously break out a whiteboard., the same way I dont spontaneously break out into a dance routine.

I do hope I’m in the majority, otherwise I’m really unsure of what to make of all the work places I’ve been at.
Pedantic but important distinction - most DJing is really more comparable to "performative art" then it is to creation.

And the answer is, while Suno/Udio does make it easier to create music, it does not make it easier to express oneself through music. The disconnect between the input medium (text) and the output medium (music) is simply too vast to allow for much individual control.
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Email: luca@baldesi.ovh

I am a software engineer focused on embedded systems. My background is in computer networks, with a PhD. in distributed real-time systems. I have worked in the medical industry on the connectivity of embedded devices and on 5G/WiFi smart antennas.
I had friends who used this technique when they were living in NYC for a contract gig and one of the devs showed him.

Apparently the catch was you had to have a "two-trip" card. The other catch was these were not that readily available and were only distributed by specific social agencies. My buddy got one when he applied for SNAP benefits and said he needed the card for transport to his gig.

Once he had the card, he had his co-worker bend it for him and he said in the year he was working there, he never had to buy a metro card and saved quite a bit with the hack. Apparently it was still working as late as 2017 (The MTA never fixed the issue) but Metrocards were completely phased out last year as OMNY took over completely after starting in 2019.
I will say that by using ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot I have been able to spin up from basically nothing and little to no understanding of the tech to a FastAPI and SQLModle BE, a React Native FE with working API calls, log in/out authentication and a bunch of app features in 5 weeks. Learning and growing, reading documentation and asking the LLM's for help and input. I again feel super productive but also feel a little like a sham as I did maybe 40% of the actual coding. I feel that the prompt engineering part is true but if the person prompting the LLM can't understand the code then eventually the LLM will break things and the dev will have to fill in. I feel that things will get more like this as time passes. Soon it will be engineers prompting LLM's for the actual code and preforming minor fixes to the code spat out.
The guy's name is "Hock Tan", it goes all the way to the top. Greedy billionaire trying to squeeze the entire on-prem datacenter industry. Every single one of my VMware customers is either in the process of migrating off or developing the plan to do so. At least one of them would be in Broadcom's list of 600 key accounts that Broadcom thought they could turn the screws on. They somehow seem to have forgotten that MS had just bought a chunk of that org and instead of paying VMware, they are now exiting a few dozen datacenters to move everything to the cloud. This org was highly cloud-resistant (for a handful of good reasons), but VMware forced their hand at exactly the wrong time.

I believe this course of action for VMware is going to be taught in business schools in the future.
Breaking out in hives, mostly. Throwing up a couple times. I forget how we determined it was maltodextrin, but for the first year I was also off wheat and milk while they worked it out.
You can tell who a person does and doesn't talk with when reading something like this. To write an essay of this length, on this topic, and not bring up (at a minimum) Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority suggests you shouldn't be writing about it.

I was a college student in the 1990s. Not only that, I was a member and even leader of evangelical Christian groups in college. Outrage, us versus them, claims of being persecuted, and imposing standards of morality on others was the reason those groups existed. The bigger the fight you started, the better.

This is like writing an essay criticizing WalMart for paying low wages when every competing business pays the same or lower wages. Not false, but definitely not the whole truth, and obviously misleading.
If you go to work and deliberately call "Bob" by the wrong name "Joe" all the time, and it upsets them and they ask you to stop, you'll get fired eventually if you continue.
If someone is named Jimmy and you keep referring to him as Jimbo despite them politely asking you not to, what do you think will happen?
Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as fiends abuse Aviatrix Controller bug
DJing is not a form of music creation, it's a form of music playing.

If you mean free-form mixing and music creation based on samples and synth some DJs do on stage, then yes that's music creation, and it involves skill.
He's doing it in a way that feels suspiciously like a breakdown to me. The latest "we're restricting our contributions to 45 hours a week to match WPEngine" is the the reaction of a college student who is mad at their lab partner, not of an establish business that helped build the internet as we know it.
I never really use the app other than when building system which was hit or miss. But pleas make it work accross vlans without having to run seperate services to handle it!