skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some places have worse service than booking.com - mostly cheaper and / or smaller places. Most real hotels indeed have quite good service on their own.
Ask HN: Seeking device to normalize audio output for consistent volume levels
Hello hn. I'm looking for a device that I can insert between the audio output and speaker to normalize the audio.

The goal is to ensure that sudden loud noises don't become overwhelming and quieter parts sound reasonably the same.

My reason for doing this is because it's so hard to watch movies these days because of the inconsistent volume levels (2x harder at night).

Any suggestions or recommendations on specific products or solutions would be greatly appreciated! Any DIY suggestions are also welcome too.
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I use both Mastodon and Bluesky.

I really like Bluesky's approach, where people build their own ranking models and publish them for others to use. I use a bunch of niche algorithms that are awesome (Quiet Posters).
Right, they would need to be unguessable to be used as capabilities.
We plan to work on city / region granularity and additional zoom levels. We just released this to gauge interest before going further.
Stocks are about expectations, not about how people feel. Big money generally doesn't invest in securities that they simply want to go up. They invest in securities which they expect to go up, or bet against securities they expect to go down. They specifically do not rely on how they feel—they rely on analysis.

Furthermore, a good fund will make money whether the market is going up or down, often aiming for stable returns over consistently positive alphas.

There are definitely some fractal feedback loops regarding expectations, sentiment and price changes, but generally speaking you're looking at projections of future value when supply or demand changes. If a rational investor thinks their portfolio is going to tank because of some event, they're going to sell off some or all of the affected securities, regardless of their desire for the security to continue rising in price.
> the UX has improved considerably.

Does the default web client respect `:prefers-color-scheme` yet?
Worth noting that ChatGPT et al. Are equally useless for debugging Nix. Frustrating that it’s so far behind. Error messages are often cryptic and misleading.
Own a small business, still cancer. Will never use and lo and behold, all runs fine.
> the cyclists will still ride on sidewalk instead of the bike lane

A lot of cyclists feel safer on the sidewalk because cars do not respect cyclists. It unfortunately does make it more dangerous for pedestrians.

> Cyclists and pedestrians should be considered two separate groups.

Yes, and they both rightfully expect safe infrastructure even if it is separate.
You seem to have dodged the larger point that right wing rage is a mainstream phenomenon and a dominant force across television, radio, podcasts and social media, whereas comparably hateful and violent language on the left is mostly only in the margins.
It doesn't matter what the incoming admin thinks, it just matters what makes the most economic sense. If interconnection queues are backed up and the grid is lacking the electricity required, offgrid might be the way to go: https://www.offgridai.us/

People assume gas plants are the fastest and easiest to build and power but you have to get the natural gas to the plant. Nat gas pipelines take years to build and also there are gas turbine supply issues. Offgrid solar + battery solves all of these.
I have a kid (5~8 range) and what we did was to limit PC consumption, avoid getting our kid a tablet and cellphone. It has been really good and my kid still has his/her innocence intact. Hopefully this will continue until adolescence. We're also trying to put the kid in different outdoor activities as well as playing with him/her (chess, uno, etc...). It's not easy, but is doable.
You misunderstand, it's more that I have a very limited knowledge of web programming : besides dumb HTML+CSS, only a small project using JQuery and (then bleeding edge) async JavaScript on the frontend, Python on the server, and... CGI for the communication between them.

So I was literally trying to know more. (And I understand a bit better now, thanks.)
Why not use the time to figure out what you actually want to do?

And if you actually want to do anything at all?

To put it another way, the best side businesses -- and indeed the best jobs -- are getting paid for things that are like the things you would do if you did not get paid.

Things that you are enthusiastic about...and if you are enthusiastic about the idea of making money, the simplest thing is to buy and sell physical goods. Good luck.
Warhol printings, right?
I doubt it would use DRAM. Maybe some sort of MRAM/FeRAM would be a better fit. Or maybe a tiny amount of memory (e.g. Josephson junction) in a quantum circuit at some point in the future.
Buck Knives at least, mostly manufacture in the U.S., and their 110 model at least still arrives shaving sharp and keeps a decent edge.
> Unfortunately housing is super overpriced, due to the Asian mentality resulting in high property ownership.

I have no clue what this means and in countries like Japan, housing is a depreciating asset vs. an investment, so…?
There are "very hard problems" that don't need to be solved, or are far lower priority than other problems. Hard doesn't imply being "productive, useful and beneficial to society."
The cards have a human-shaped shooting target on the back. The platforms did absolutely the right thing here.
My experience is the network typically fails, but it can sometimes work.

Remember with networking there is often only one person in your network of hundreds who can do anything so you need to find that person. Often it will be the guy you just barely talked to who won't think of you at all unless you remind them, but they then know enough to know you are good enough for some position and then they are not interviewing they are convincing you to take the job.

Those cases where the network ensures you are the only candidate are one of the reasons why they work well. My current company doesn't work that way, it doesn't matter how good you are, all I can do is put your resume in the HR stack (unless it is for my department in which case my boss might ask me about a couple resumes). I'd be considered a conflict of interest so I couldn't interview you.
What works for me: Goal setting (e.g. OKR), taking baby steps and autopiloting. Can't manage to do X for 30mins a day? I'll go down to as low as 5mins to do thing X if that is required to still do it consistently. If I manage to go to work for 8hrs every day, I'll manage to wake up 5mins earlier and do X as well. Granted, you need to be reasonably convinced that it's a good investment of your time.

Edit: Just saw your other response. Now is certainly not the right time to push yourself, which is fine. Hope you'll get out of that hole soon, best of luck!
AI does not commit code; people do. The origin of the code does not matter, processes remain the same. So:

1. We never catch AI trying to make breaking changes, but we catch developers who do. Since using AI tools we haven’t seen a huge change in those patterns.

2. Prior to opening a PR; developers are now spending more time reviewing code instead of writing it. During the code review process, we use AI to highlight potential issues faster.

3. Human in the middle
Medium individual income in AZ is ~37k. I'm not sure how many Americans would give up a 40hour/week job for a 996 that pays 13k more.
If I'm anything like the trend, I just move on. If a posting comes up and it's been more than a few weeks I apply anyway. All such a spreadsheet would show for 90% of my apps is "applied, never got a response". In both good and bad markets.

If anything I'd only remember postings I actually interviewed and was rejected for. Which is sadly a small enough number to keep in my head.
In my fairly large UK firm we have about 900 software engineers. Internally salaries are transparent, and tend to be in the region of

Junior (34k) / Normal (49k) / Senior (62k) / Principal (71k) / Team Lead (73k) / Senior Principal (89k) / Engineering Manager (104k)

(Throwaway obviously)

About 100 Junior, 300 Normal, 300 Senior, 100 Principal, 100 Team leads, 30 Engineering Managers, and under a dozen Senior Principals.
Best of luck. I actually hope it works, but I'm not optimistic.
Longest context up to 4M, MiniMax-01 hybrid 456B Open source model
Like a lot of things, it was a joke until people who were not in on the joke started adopting it seriously, and then it somehow kind of merged under the broad "conservative-adjacent" political umbrella. Just like anti-vaxxers, anti-public schoolers, flat earthers, QAnon, and so on. They start out as tongue in cheek jokes, then a few people start saying "Wait, I believe this!" and inevitably they're welcomed into the funny farm with open arms.
This was exactly what a large and vocal contingent was arguing for when they were complaining about Twitter bans and stuff. It cuts both ways though. Big companies cause the same problems big governments do.
Is the issue that the suggestions from the AI tool are not good, or is that bad code is making it into the repo?

The latter problem should be prevent by code review (first by the developer using the AI tool and then their teammates on a PR.) Code generated by AI should be reviewed no differently than code written by a human. If you wouldn't approve the PR if a person wrote this code, why would you approve it because an LLM wrote it? If your PR process is not catching these issues, you have a PR process problem, not an AI problem.

The former problem I have no idea.
It's interesting to see the federal government taking a strong industrial policy approach to AI through this executive order as well as physical computing via the CHIPS act.

Couple concerns:

- I loath to believe in silver bullets. The executive branch seems to believe that investing in AI (note: the order, despite the extensive definitions, leaves Artificial Intelligence undefined) is the solution to US global leadership, clean energy, national defense and better jobs. Rarely if ever is one policy a panacea for so many objectives.

- I am skeptical of government "picking the winners". Markets do best when competitive forces reward innovation. By enforcing an industrial policy on a nascent industry, the executive may just as well be stifling innovation from unlikely firms.

- I am always worried about inducing a _subsidy race_ whereby countries race to subsidize firms to gain a competitive advantage. Other countries do the same, leading to a glut of stimulus with little advantage to any country.

- Finally, government bureaucracy moves slowly (some say that's the point). What happens if a breakthrough innovation in AI radically changes our needs for the type, size or other characteristic of these data centers? Worse still, what happens if we hit another AI winter? Are we left with an enormous pork barrel project? It's hard to envision the federal government industrial policy perfectly capturing future market needs, especially in such a fast moving industry as tech.
I've been on the fence about Nix. I've wanted to love it (and do love the concept), but between the Waiting-for-Godot situation for flakes, the weird language, and the occasional political infighting I've seen pop up about the community, I still haven't switched.

I'm no language expert, but I genuinely don't understand why it wouldn't have been better to build some equivalent DSL in Haskell to do this given the similar lazy nature of the language. DSL for most things, then open the hood and do actual Haskell for crazier use cases. I get that Nix started before Haskell became less academic and slightly more usable in the mainstream and has built up momentum, but the lack of tooling for understanding what is going wrong when incrementally building up a config is very confusing.

I'd be curious if anyone has go to or from NixOS compared to declarative distros compared to the atomic distros like ublue [0] and has any thoughts. I'm a bit split about what to move to next (though my >5 year Tumbleweed install on most of my machines is holding up no problem).

[0] https://universal-blue.org/
Do we know why the US government did not promise to buy chips but to give tax breaks (or investment thereof)? Wouldn't promise to buy create a better incentive to the manufacturers?
Release blog:https://www.minimaxi.com/en/news/minimax-01-series-2
Report: https://filecdn.minimax.chat/_Arxiv_MiniMax_01_Report.pdf
Flint's Paper Battery Technology Secures US$2M in Seed Funding
Interesting take. As a hobbyist, I get special characters and escapes wrong in systemd all the time, because they try to look like regular shell but aren't. And systemd-escape (or whatever it's called) just makes an ugly mess that makes it hard for me to read.

I don't know lisp, but the idea of having each argument be part of a list (kind of like launchd's xml format) resonates with me.
This also applies to businesses.

I’m free to refuse to do business with a company for racial reasons but a company is not feee to refuse to do business with me due to my race.

EDIT: I’m pointing out one of the ways that “free association” for corporations is different than for people.
996..? doesn't fit into weeks, months or years
They slow down to look at the mound, turns out it helps noticing pedestrians
It's also highly-skilled, yet very boring work. The way it was described to me is that every major piece of equipment has a PhD assigned to it and their job is basically to babysit the machine and troubleshoot when things go wrong.

US PhDs typically have other options and would consider this sort of work a waste of their time.
I suspect part of it may be due to resources. The far right commentator has a pretty solid career path ahead of them, and support from large backers who find that far right beliefs don't threaten their profits. As a result, someone on the right who gets into this sort of content can get funding from both a certain percentage of billionaires/large companies, plus the right wing media machine and potentially foreign adversaries like Russia.

On the other hand a lot of far left beliefs are very unfriendly to capitalism/large companies/billionaires/foreign adversaries, to the 'abolish capitalism' or 'eat the rich' degree. So the far right folks can more easily afford to make it their full time job, since they have other sources of funding rather than just their fans.

I suspect that left wing audiences are also more skeptical of these types of figures, and more prone to infighting. So it's harder to bring together a large audience of fanatics for left wing content, since they're divided over 50 ways to 'solve' a problem.
Hi, someone pointed me at your comment, so I thought I'd reply.

First, the circuit techniques that aren't reversible aren't truly, fully adiabatic either -- they're only quasi-adiabatic. In fact, if you strictly follow the switching rules required for fully adiabatic operation, then (ignoring leakage) you cannot erase information -- none of the allowed operations achieve that.

Second, to say reversible operation "only saves an extra 20%" over quasi-adiabatic techniques is misleading. Suppose a given quasi-adiabatic technique saves 79% of the energy, and a fully adiabatic, reversible version saves you "an extra 20%" -- well, then now that's 99%. But, if you're dissipating 1% of the energy of a conventional circuit, and the quasi-adiabatic technique is dissipating 21%, that's 21x more energy efficient! And so you can achieve 21x greater performance within a given power budget.

Next, to say "resistive losses dominate the losses" is also misleading. The resistive losses scale down arbitrarily as the transition time is increased. We can actually operate adiabatic circuits all the way down to the regime where resistive losses are about as low as the losses due to leakage. The max energy savings factor is on the order of the square root of the on/off ratio of the devices.

Regarding "adiabatic circuits can typically only provide an order of magnitude power savings" -- this isn't true for reversible CMOS! Also, "power" is not even the right number to look at -- you want to look at power per unit performance, or in other words energy per operation. Reducing operating frequency reduces the power of conventional CMOS, but does not directly reduce energy per operation or improve energy efficiency. (It can allow you to indirectly reduce it though, by using a lower switching voltage.)

You are correct that adiabatic circuits can benefit from frequency scaling more than traditional CMOS -- since lowering the frequency actually directly lowers energy dissipation per operation in adiabatic circuits. The specific 4000x number (which includes some benefits from scaling) comes from the analysis outlined in this talk -- see links below - but we have also confirmed energy savings of about this magnitude in detailed (Cadence/Spectre) simulations of test circuits in various processes. Of course, in practice the energy savings is limited by the resonator Q value. And a switched-capacitor design (like a stepped voltage supply) would do much worse, due to the energy required to control the switches.

https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/210/2023/11/Comet23...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vALCJJs9Dtw

Happy to answer any questions.
I agree, I don't think this is a problem with Google's Oauth implementation, it's a problem with the service providers who authenticate users via the mere existence of an email address ending in @company.com without checking if the email address actually belongs to an active employee.

If, when you logged into Slack via Google Oauth with the email address user@company.com, Slack checked with company.com whether user@company.com was a valid user that should be allowed to login, then this problem would be avoided entirely because the defunct company would no longer report any valid users.

This would also avoid further problems with attackers being able to login with unattended email addresses like support@company.com, as was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818459 (There's a lot of discussion below about whether the "sub" claim is stable or not but it's a red herring because of this IMO, also the proposed fix in the article wouldn't address it either.)
I disagree

There is good and bad advertising.

I'd want to receive ads for things that I'm really interested in.
1. Don't use Devin or OpenDevin or whatever

2. Use LLM for code auto complete or ask LLM to code specific functions that you weave together to deliver a feature.

3. Or use it to explain your code. I concatenate all my code and shove it into Gemini and ask it to explain how the legacy stuff works
I wrote a SWE bench solver. The SWE bench issues are on mature projects like Django.

The objective of my solver was to get good solutions using only RAG (no embeddings) and with minimal cost (low token count).

Three techniques, combined, yielded good results. The first was to take a TDD approach, first generating a test and then requiring the LLM to pass the test (without failing others). It can also trace the test execution to see exactly what code participates in the feature.

The second technique was to separate “planning” from “coding”. The planner is freed from implementation details, and can worry more about figuring out which files to change, following existing code conventions, not duplicating code, etc. In the coding phase, the LLM is working from a predefined plan, and has little freedom to deviate. It just needs to create a working, lint-free implementation.

The third technique was a gentle pressure on the solver to make small changes in a minimum number of files (ideally, one).

AI coding tools today generally don’t incorporate any of this. They don’t favor TDD, they don’t have a bias towards making minimal changes, and they don’t work from a pre-approved design.

Good human developers do these things, and this is a pretty wide gap between adept human coders and AI.
On the topic of EVs I personally don't have an interest. I know the torque on electric beats ICE but man driving something like a pantera f yeah.
Hate to break it to you but this trend of selling people a system to make money where the seller is actually enacting the system they’re selling is older than the internet.

I can recall online versions in 2012 - that I’m ashamed to say took me for some money - were not just in existence but popular and fashionable the way indie hackers is now. Nothing new.
Things like this is why I've been telling (less tech-savvy) friends to get off the internet for 5+ years now. There is just no way to stay clear of corporate control for the average person, regardless of your political opinions.
Yes, but the user had to go through the process of "wait do I still have that email address? Did I receive it?"

Like, let's say I have an email address pxtl@example.net, and I used that to register an account on service.com, and example.net goes under.

In theory I know that this event has occurred, I no longer have access to my email address at pxtl@example.net.

So I log into my service.com account and get told "hey your email was pxtl@example.net - example.net has changed ownership. Is that still your email?" and I'll say "no" and put in a new email.

Or maybe I don't realize that example.net is gone. So I try to verify the account, find that I'm not receiving the email, and realize my mistake and set up a new email account, and click the button that says "I did not receive the email". The authentication server can prevent this window of time being an attack vector by forcing a delay between email validation and password reset, and by de-validating the email address (and treating it as a red flag on the whole domain) if the user clicks "I did not receive the email" a few minutes after the email address has been verified.

And if I forget my password and try to reset password on service.com using my unverified pxtl@example.net? "example.net had an ownership change since this email address was registered, please use another means to reset your password like SMS". Which is the main benefit of this process. Which I know doesn't require full verification.

Now, obviously the WHOIS updateddate is a noisy signal. Ideally the DNS system would expose a more granular ownership-change date - for example, gmail.com lists a WHOIS updateddate of July 11th 2024. UpdatedDate isn't supposed to change with every renewal but lots of things aren't supposed to happen.
Have you or anyone you work with trained a model for code base familiarity?
This headline is incredibly clickbait
US is a big one, CA maybe secondary.
sup

That story shows something that even "network aware" people didn't realize for awhile - you could have MORE than just a LAN, it was possible to have routers and they could forward broadcasts....
Israel, Hamas Are Finalizing a Gaza Cease-Fire Agreement
Notice how you tried to force your opinion by insinuating that the person feeling this way is mentally ill? A large chunk of the comments in this thread are saying that’s part of the problem.
OpenAI launches 4o with scheduled tasks
But earning 'only' £100k would be on the lower end in Cali.
If you remove this they'll simply substitute it with something else. Some people don't mind "melting" their brains as they didn't have a primary use for it anyways.
I know how much I'm willing to accept after doing my own diligence, and I'd rather not shell out tens of thousands of dollars to an agent. There are also jurisdictions where the salary must be disclosed. Hiring an agent introduces the principal-agent problem, so they cost more than just their fees.