Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Two days after his company’s downfall, Austen Allred wrote: I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that’s what’s happening. There’s not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they achieved what you wish you had. Austen co-founded Lambda […]
Arvind Mithal has died
Arvind Mithal, the Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, head of the faculty of computer science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and a pillar of the MIT community, died on June 17. Arvind, who went by the mononym, was 77 years old. A […]
Software design gets worse before it gets better
The price of improving structure Things always get worse before they get better —The Sad Truth of Software Design (also lots of other activities) You have a design. You need it to be better at supporting new features. How do you get from here to there? Here’s the Sad Truth of Software Design—it always gets […]
Mrs Perkins’s Quilt (2017)
Mrs Perkins’s Quilt Solution (numbering indicates the different patches, not their sizes) “For Christmas, Mrs. Potipher Perkins received a very pretty patchwork quilt constructed of 169 square pieces of silk material. The puzzle is to find the smallest number of square portions of which the quilt could be composed and show how they might be […]
Kernel CVE numbers are assigned
It has been four months since Greg Kroah-Hartman and MITRE announced that the Linux kernel project had become its own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). Since then, the Linux CNA Team has developed workflows and mechanisms to help manage the various tasks associated with this challenge. There does however, appear to be a lack of understanding […]
Recovering an Agilent 2000A/3000A Oscilloscope with Corrupt Firmware NAND Flash
Agilent 2000a / 3000a Oscilloscope NAND Recovery [06.04.24] I ran across an oscilloscope in need of love and attention on the Internet’s favorite online auction site. After some back and forth from the seller, I found out that the scope didn’t boot, one of the tell tale problems of the Agilent 2000a / 3000a / […]
Text-to-Music Editing for Music Language Models via Instruction Tuning
Dive into the fascinating world of musical audio representations with Instruct-MusicGen, a novel approach for text-to-music editing that efficiently follows editing instructions. Unlike previous methods that require training specific models from scratch or rely on large language models resulting in imprecise audio reconstruction, Instruct-MusicGen finetunes a pretrained MusicGen model. This innovative approach allows for the […]
Ribbon Health (YC S17) Is Hiring a Sales Eng Director for Enterprises
Customer and Product Deployment Engineering
Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)
1. Introduction We are exposed to a wide variety of external motion and movement on a daily basis. From driving a car to catching an elevator, our bodies are repeatedly exposed to external forces acting upon us, leading to acceleration. Being exposed to changes in motion and movement can have significant biomechanical effects on the human […]
Ask HN: What happens when I click “Request for quote” on your SaaS?
I’ve been part of the team that sets up this process at a few SaaS’s, and I’ve done SaaS procurement for a while, so I clicked that button often (if I didn’t know anyone at the company). 1. It gets added to a list of marketing website leads, which is owned by SDRs/BDRs who are […]