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Show HN: A Digital CD Shelf as the UI for Music Streaming Libraries
I realized that (re-)discovering albums in my Spotify library is challenging, so I started thinking on what might be a good alternative UI for the digital music libraries.

CD shelves provide a great overview of an entire collection and I thought it might be cool to see a digital adaptation of them, so I coded a quick demo with mock data using v0.dev.

The UI is optimised for mobile and allows you to view many albums on a single screen and you can click on single albums to bring up a detail page.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on whether this could be a better UI and how it could be improved.
An Embeddable PDP Boosts Continuous Mobile Authentication
To implement continuous authentication, mobile developers must support fine-grained enterprise security policies about the person, device state and authenticator. An embeddable Policy Decision Point (PDP) is essential for lightning fast policy evaluation, consistent decision logging, and advanced JWT validation.
Show HN: O Agentic Design CLI Framework with Support for 10 LLM Providers
Tech is a treadmill. New framework, new language version, new tool version. Many, maybe most of the "improvements"...aren't. They are changes for the sake of change. Stability is a completely unknown concept.

Eventually, you get tired of it. Doing something simple becomes ever more attractive. Me, I still teach tech, but I also build stone walls.
None of this seems to be evidence that the Wrights were first. But I won’t be so cynical to suggest the list is the kind of things that make second systems second systems.

The Wrights are giants in the history of aviation for reasons like those you describe whether or not they were first.

From the perspective of their patents and the multi-year monopoly that they exploited with everything from aircraft sales to the military to flying schools being first is certainly critical.

Don’t get me wrong, I have been taught the Wrights were first all my life. But I live in the US.
I think the dual interesting aspects for me are as follows:

Why is farming or woodworking seen as less alienating than being at a computer?

And why does it feel so impossible for us to form the communities that would give us the kind of meaning that we really seem to desire when we're working in these sorts of positions? It seems almost universal that working at a computer means we feel isolated, even when we talk in meetings all day.

I think the nature part makes sense, after all, being in a field is certainly more natural than an office, but I think lots of farming is actually pretty lonely from when I've done it, with the exception of animals. But when thinking about the profession, it just feels more social. There's something there about the way we view types of work and their importance, almost metaphysically speaking.
It’s important to bear in mind the distinction between slavery and indentured servitude. While both are terrible, projecting modern day morales onto scripture on this subject isn’t appropriate. It’s not like people could file for bankruptcy as we know it 2,000 years ago. You had to work it off.
Haha nice point of reference (LotR) - I ended up not storing user-agent/ip etc, only 8 bytes for the timestamp. I was initially going to dump the clicks on sqlite but it felt a bit OTT, so I just keep appending the 8 bytes to the end of a file.

I regret not keeping more details, would make for an interesting an analysis and as you said unlikely to hurt storage unless more people were clicking.
Fun fact: all airplanes take off into the wind as much as possible.
You are saying copyright is viewed as a human right?
Wait until the overproduction of code from AI and see how you feel then.

Every industry that has suffered from over production ends up cheapening and removing significant elements of artisanal beauty. If the AI hype is to be believed we are in the cusp of that for software engineering and just about any other knowledge work for that matter.

Fields -> factory -> office -> ?
In what way does it? I thought all that was because of a distinction bestowed by God, not because of anything material.
JavaScript has handled the concept of middleware for decades.
Yea user provided synth patches for a vintage synth like a Moog or something. Not sure how feasible it is but could also be cool as a web app
You ignored my point. If the rich side gets richer faster than the poorer side, it is not win-win, it just wide the inequality gap.
Sure, but anything is more fun as a retiree hobby. That goes for programming as well as farming - if you can work (or not) at your own pace on the projects you think are interesting, that doesn't really suck the life out of you.
Thank you for clicking!
Is it not for discussing topics of interest to the community?
You're misrepresenting what the link says, and it doesn't even apply to bananas.

What is does say is that certain fruits and vegetables don't benefit from "minimum marketing standards" and some misshapen products may be sold if labeled as intended for processing.

What all this is is reasonable efforts to define standards for marketing, but it misrepresented by "British propaganda" as something hysterical, just like you misrepresent the press release for the sake of your straw man argument.
Unbelievable that this was and is a thing and that I've never heard of it before.
My guess is that the "old dogs know all the tricks", when it comes to landing government contracts.
whats the product here exactly? 8 llm prompts? at least, according to the about page, they're using "Ethical" ai models. lol
Some are much closer and in LA county or parts adjacent.
You seem to be saying that religions are open to having their dogmas questioned and then growing from that, something that they are famously not open to (kind of the whole idea of a dogma).

Obviously 'Not all religions,' etc. However the Catholic church is notoriously dogmatic. Usually the more you press a dogmatic group to change, the more they dig their heels in about it. It's only when the organization is wounded by a schism or massive loss of membership do they suddenly start getting word from heaven that God has changed his mind.
> The tiny 10px votearrow

When I increase the text size, those arrows get bigger as well.
Maybe they think it sounds better than it is because it's so common for them to believe they deeply understand a topic when they've really only confidently oversimplified it?
How does it compare with serde, which AFAIK uses the same approach
The fantastic element that explains the appeal of games to many developers is neither the fire-breathing monsters nor the milky-skinned, semi-clad sirens; it is the experience of carrying out a task from start to finish without any change in the user requirements.
I grew up in the Adventist church. I am still a Christian (although no longer Adventist). While I don’t agree with it at all, it is actually true that there are some weird pockets within the denomination that either overtly or tacitly approve abortion. It’s very bizarre.
This is true absolutely

One would hope indeed- I do wonder on that ......

There's another observation though- Salt Typhoon compromised wiretap infrastructure - before Signal, there's no doub't some stuff like this occured over text messages-
Because of everyone's efforts to go to Signal- even if it's for the message disappearing- with this, with military branches pushing it hard- with Sweden's Miltary pushing it, etc(for non sensitive stuff)- there's so much of that , that the attack surface overall is massively reduced. In short, if there's going to be stuff outside of vetted systems- running that sort of stuff Signal- likely still helps.
(I'm reminded again, of the JD Vance interviews where he let slip that he'd been targeted ,and was informed about it by agencies- but that he was good because of his Signal usage. Now, I don't know what measures he takes to avoid zero day exploits and whatnot- the TLAs would inform him of that- but from what he was saying, it sounds like they were sure he wasn't compromised by that.)

(I'm aware a serious targeted effort would be more intricate than Salt Typhoon/ Trying to use the country's own general Wire tapping capability to target the VP)

Edit: Also, this reveals a bit about psyche- J.D.Vance somewhat ribbed the president- there is probably pressure TO use Signal, so a record of him criticizing the President can't be found out by the President or those more allied with the President who could then start retribution- I imagine dynamics like that, which are human behavior- -ultimately are what absolutely drive all of this.
The goal of capitalism is not to get enough money to escape capitalism.

The goal of capitalism is to get enough money to live on the revenue of your own wisely-invested capital instead of providing the wage labor paid for by other people's capital.
> We haven't hit the wall yet.

The models are iterative improvements, but I haven't seen night and day differences since GPT3 and 3.5
> not exactly world war level apps.

And what is?
Knowingly keeping sensitive US national security data on a personal phone would be a very bad idea.
Government Negligence Sent Thousands to Prison [video]
Twenty-some years ago working 12am-6am overnight trying to fix production database issues and meet deadlines, I told myself I didn't want to be doing this in another 10 years.

"Plato saw Diogenes washing lettuces, came up to him and quietly said to him, 'Had you paid court to Dionysius, you wouldn't now be washing lettuces,' and that he with equal calmness made answer, 'If you had washed lettuces, you wouldn't have paid court to Dionysius."
No idea - audio just happens to be something I once looked into because claims about superiority of apple software solution on M-chip macbooks to the speaker quality made me look more in depth.
I went through a phase about 10 years ago of daydreaming about being a landscaper. The appeal of it was that digging a ditch is easier than the stress and responsibility of deciding where to dig it. Worst case, you fill it in and dig another. Dirt and gravity doesn't have breaking changes and people aren't about to stop caring how their lawns look. At the time I was working in pre-react post Flash UI development at a marketing firm. I could see how Flash had ended and could only see the other things I was doing as suffering the same fate. Add the typical deadline and technical debt stressors and I was ready to get out. Today, what's happening with AI and the message that even when it's not really viable businesses are lined up to replace me with it really doesn't foster loyalty or commitment to my profession. At least if I grow my own crops I'll have something to eat. The problem is subsistence farming is all but illegal now with agricorps owning the genomes of the seeds. So I guess I'll keep doing this until they kick me out on the street.
I grew up on a farm too, and now make a living programming while raising some chickens and pigs on the side and helping out on my parents' farm.

I wouldn't say it will suck the life out of you. I suppose that depends on your personality. But I'd agree that there's more physical labor involved, even today with modern machines, than most people fantasizing about the idea probably realize.

But even knowing how hard the work can be, there are days when I step away from the keyboard at 5pm and head out to shovel manure or harvest crops for a few hours with a lighter mood than I had all day, because there's something "real" about it that's refreshing after a day of working with the unreal.

So I get why people dream about it. I'd just warn them to spend a week or two's vacation as an "intern" on a farm to see what it's like before quitting the keyboard job and buying 40 acres.
> But I guess he did get excommunicated for it, didn't he?

This is wildly underselling the consequences of challenging the church: two centuries of unrest and war that would eventually result in millions dead, amounting to a significant fraction of Europe's population.
Yeah, but you can see why that's desirable right?
No quite obviously cutting costs increases profit which goes into reinvestment to then generate more profit and so on. It has no relation to prices unless the business happens to be losing customers to competition which is unrelated. Prices are lowered only as much as it can increase the rate of profit. Increasing affordability past that point for the good of the consumer is strictly against the incentives of the business since it prevents the growth of capital and thereby hampers them in competition.

Also quantitatively cutting costs qualitatively looks like enshittification of goods and services in practice, and unlike in undergrad economics textbooks consumers rarely have recourse in the form of switching brands since basically all "markets" for necessities are oligopolies (thanks often to government contracts for public works in an increasingly privatized world, if not simply the natural global minimum of any market).

On a basic level the point of putting a commodity on the market is to sell it to the highest bidder. Why is this the preferred way to distribute necessities? It certainly "aligns" with one particular incentive - that of the seller - not that of most people. Doesn't everyone need access to healthcare, housing, energy, etc.? Are poor people to compete with people who can outspend them several times over for food and housing? As the cost of living continues to increase does it make sense to hand over an increasing portion of our wages for the same - or worse - standard of living?

If you want freedom of choice in what you consume and have the means to do so then go ahead and turn to a market to buy a penthouse or gourmet food or whatever. But why is it such an offense to the current hegemonic ideology to ensure that there is basic universal access to essential resources?
This is really cool, now I'm tempted to add some kind of interactive element like this to my website. reminds me of the 2000s internet online user/views counters
Linux 6.14 Release Changelog
Includes a NT synchronization primitive driver for faster games, new read balancing methods for Btrfs RAID1, support of uncached buffered I/O, a file pre-access notification event, a cgroup for controlling GPU memory, io_uring-based FUSE, and a driver for AMD NPUs
this is so great! out of curiosity how long did it take to develop this app? what was the process like?
>The US paid by far the most for defense and so had by far the most influence and power in the world

That's the thing, Americans have become very skeptical of our own influence and power, for good reason. Look what we did to the Middle East. Look at the shenanigans we were funding with USAID. There isn't actually a constituency for this imperialism stuff in the US. US voters don't like it.

In any case -- if we had so much influence, why were previous presidents like Bush and Obama unsuccessful in influencing the EU to fund its own defense?

>forcing the EU to become a competing military power

It's not about competition, it's about Europe taking responsibility for itself.

You want a global cop? How about you do it yourself for a bit? It's a terrible job. Maybe you should take a turn at it.
I think there are a few reasons.

- Simplify (whether or not this is misguided, it's part of the appeal).

- Autonomy. Being able to, even partially, move off-grid decreases your reliance on society.

- Physical / nature. Sitting at a desk all day definitely has a toll.

There's several No true Scotsman comments here, but IMO there's nothing wrong with attempting this lifestyle. If someone decides (and can afford) to live more simply, it doesn't bother me any. Good for them!

I think the negativity might be because every frikin' one of them tries to turn into a snake oil selling influencer, and we're just seeing influencer fatigue setting in.
This was around before jira and agile, I think you're only partially right.

It's the people we work with and for that turn the job into a dismal grind.
What are you doing to prevent the test set being leaked? Will you still be offering API access to the semi private test set to the big model providers who presumably train on their API?
A face to face meeting in a bunker. But seriously, we pondered the psychological damage of those who are drone operators. How is this different? There should be more ceremony when making decisions like this, not an afternoon group chat. Dress for it, look yourself in the face for it. Be present.

I’ll just say one thing about this administration. It is often true that when one thing is wrong with a man, then it’s possible all things are wrong with the man. We keep adding to the list, but I’m suggesting the inductive proof here. All things may be wrong with these men, which is scary.
Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds
> Why not let others do them and you do you?

Debt affects everyone, not just the borrower and the lender. When lenders make one bad loan, society can bear that burden and especially so if many of the loans are good loans that serve mutual interest. When most of the loans are bad, taxpayers pay to enforce loan terms (not the lender), then they pay again when the economy melts down (the lender just reincorporates under some other business name). So it is a big deal when someone is proposing an entirely new class of lending, and it does warrant this level of discussion. If anything, it warrants a much more intense level of discussion than what we've seen so far or what we are likely to see.

Your inability to grasp this is disturbing and should come across as some sort of profound warning to everyone.
Ah yeah you're right. Does the "Audio MIDI Setup" Mac utility app help you here at all?
I can simultaneously like and dislike parts of my career/job/company/coworkers.
It depends on the job for sure, but you're certainly not wrong that many technical jobs have a negative societal impact. I had a hard time finding jobs I actually wanted to apply to after college because I strongly disliked the idea of working for a company where the sum total of my contribution was making people more likely to click an advertisement or something like that. Felt pretty awful in terms of "meaning" in that way.

But there are a lot of tech jobs that aren't like that as well, and I think people have similar feelings about wanting to escape into a more natural world in those ones too. The sum total of which are positive and which are negative is certainly up for debate though. I actually have another post I started writing about the negative second-order effects of certain outcomes of software development in the last decade or so.
ISBN Visualization
Many are commenting on why they don't like jobs, but the article has a very good analysis of the other side of this trope: People fantasize about homesteading or farming because they don't know how much work it really is. To many, homesteading is an escapist fantasy:

> so few Americans are familiar with the actual work behind jobs in the agricultural sector or related ones, I would argue that for many Americans the reality of this type of work is almost indistinguishable from fables or myth in their psychological context, due to lack of exposure. Due to that seeming separation from their mental context of what work is, it enhances the feeling of escapism which this work-fantasy provides

These fantasies always seem perplexing to those of us who grew up with exposure to actual farming life. Running a modern farm is hard work. Taking it a step further to the idea of homesteading would bring unthinkable amounts of labor, difficulty, and a realization that the old office job wasn't so bad after all.

Of the few people who actually pursue these fantasies, it usually takes the form of a hobby farm or some backyard gardening with ample injections of cash to keep things moving.
Goldberg wrote an influential-at-the-time article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg#Views_on_Iraq

I feel it's a stretch to say 'he lied us into the Iraq war' as if everyone based their decisions on that. There's an very unfortunate tendency in political discussions to rely on fallacies of composition, where an instance of some phenomenon is taken as equivalent to a whole. Throwing that out with no further context or discussion looks like a genetic fallacy as well. The White House has already acknowledged the reported conversation appears to be authentic.
Grey hair sysadmin story time...

I came to understand the "purposelessness" of my career very early on; when I decommissioned a bare metal server from a datacenter after finishing the deploy of it's replacement and realised that the old server was the first unit I'd racked when I started in the position 4 years ago.

That was ~20 years ago. Nothing I've had a hand in building / maintaining has "survived" for more than ~7 years.

My Dad worked to build houses. Prior to my IT career I'd laboured for him and played my small part in the creation of many homes around where I grew up. They'll be there for a hundred years maybe.

Quitting the ephemeral world of IT to work on building a homestead and creating tangible things that directly keep humans alive seems like an obvious calling to me.

The constant evolution of "tech" is a blessing and a curse.
> My understanding is that HTTP 2 pipelining was supposed to make requesting lots of ESM modules from the same site fast enough that bundling could be consigned to history, but for various reasons it didn't work as intended and it was ultimately removed from most browsers.

HTTP/2+ Pipelining works pretty well. (As others mentioned, it was HTTP/2 Server Push that didn't quite survive in the wild, which could have helped additional scenarios.)

I've been personally moving towards Vite's dev approach for Production (just external deps and big libraries with esbuild) and little to no bundling in dev (only external deps that don't run out-of-the-box as ESM with an importmap). A handful of small "local" files and couple big shared libraries works very well in Production in my experience.
Luckily my uncle and aunt had a large farm, where my mother used to send me and my sister for a couple of weeks, every summer - at least for me that pretty much killed any romantic idea of what farm life is like.

In fact, I'm also very grateful that I got to try a wide range of shitty manual labor job as a student. So many people would kill for a cushy office job.

EDIT: Might I also add, I think some engineers - especially those that have reached FIRE, enjoy the idea of LARPing a homestead / farming life. If you have enough money to not feel the stress, you can have a smaller farm.

The harsh reality is that operating a small farm can be brutal. You're at the very bottom of the food-chain, as far as the agricultural business goes.
This is very prudent.
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170688...
https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... - kragen has posted this before in relation to the five digit years.
Generally, unquantized - double the number and that's the amount of VRAM in GB you need + some extra, because most models use fp16 weights so it's 2 bytes per parameter -> 32B parameters = 64GB

typical quantization to 4bit will cut 32B model into 16GB of weights plus some of the runtime data, which makes it possibly usable (if slow) on 16GB GPU. You can sometimes viably use smaller quantizations, which will reduce memory use even more.
I would advise urgency.
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170688...
Did you pull this out of my consciousness? For me, I’d add that I’m very tired of fighting endless DevOps culture wars but I would support anyone who wants to progress that.
I don't think true FSD is possible without lidar.
That's a no then.