Hacker News: Judson

New comment by Judson in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

Judson — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:01:07 +0000

Love Kokoro tts. I wrote https://github.com/Jud/kokoro-coreml to try pushing the limits a bit on speed & size. Such great quality at a given size. As others have mentioned short utterances are problematic, but solvable.

New comment by Judson in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

Judson — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:51:55 +0000

I always associate downtime like this with a new model rollout. Maybe we are getting Fable back.

Amazon EC2 Instance Attestation

Judson — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:02:38 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/nitrotpm-attestation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508833

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

Knowledge Institutions Can Build a Promethean Moment

Judson — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:44:28 +0000

Article URL: https://institutionaldatainitiative.org/hello-world.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42404577

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Judson in "Amazon allegedly resells damaged books"

Judson — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:52:02 +0000

Maybe it’s more apparent in the opposite case. Customers who say the item is totally fine, but have shipped back a box of rocks.

New comment by Judson in "Amazon allegedly resells damaged books"

Judson — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:46:32 +0000

This is almost exactly how it _does_ work in big box grocery except there are blanket policies re: disposal for food items. Fwiw, Amazon also has near identical policies for food items.

New comment by Judson in "Amazon allegedly resells damaged books"

Judson — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:53:53 +0000

The realities of a warehouse operation make this inevitable (I’ve run an 8-figure/yr online distributor). Amazon cannot take the customer’s word on return condition. Folks just click “damaged” to get a refund and Amazon has to have warehouse workers, not professional book inspectors, receive the returns and note their condition.

This is good enough since someone buying the used copy can also return it if they disagree.

New comment by Judson in "Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production"

Judson — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:45:28 +0000

Similarly as a kid, I was surprised to learn "One-hour Photo" was a brand and didn't necessarily mean your photos would be ready in one hour...

New comment by Judson in "MySQL Docker Image for Mac ARM M1"

Judson — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:21:08 +0000

That is the case, but there are no mysql-supplied arm64 packages for ubuntu/debian[0]. Ubuntu/Debian have packages, but maintain their own set of patches, which the docker team would like to avoid using[1].

[0]: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=103462 [1]: https://github.com/docker-library/mysql/issues/318

New comment by Judson in "An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking"

Judson — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:34:24 +0000

I see all her other devices, but not keys. Now that I know how it should work, going to see if re-registering the keys changes things.

New comment by Judson in "An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking"

Judson — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:12:36 +0000

Interesting. Just one data point, but my wife and I both have airtags on our keys. When I drive her car (and she's not in it), I get a notification about her keys traveling with me. We're on the same iCloud "family" account. I wonder if there’s something else that needs to happen?

New comment by Judson in "Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses"

Judson — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:13:12 +0000

Feel free to reach out (email in profile) if you want to chat. I grew an e-commerce distributor to 8-digit revenue with in-house fulfillment and software development.

Edit to add: It can be such an isolating experience. We had no clue what we were doing half the time. Hard to find anyone willing to talk that had been through it.

New comment by Judson in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)"

Judson — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:42:24 +0000

Soundstripe | Full Stack Software Engineer | Remote (US) | https://soundstripe.com

https://soundstripe.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=100

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My team is looking to hire a full stack software engineer to build the best platform to Keep Creators Creating.

You would ideally have some experience with Ruby/Rails/React, but we're firm believers that languages can be learned.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions, email is in my profile.

New comment by Judson in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

Judson — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:00:23 +0000

Soundstripe | Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React) | Remote US | Full-time | https://soundstripe.com Soundstripe provides an unlimited subscription service to tens of thousands of video creators, from YouTubers to freelance videographers, nonprofits, and Fortune 1000 companies. We've experienced significant growth and have been incredibly capital efficient with only one round of institutional investment.

My team is looking to for:

- Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React): We're looking for an experienced front end engineer to join our team of 10+ (mostly full-stack) software engineers. You'll be responsible for architectural decisions that shape the future of our React codebase, reviewing code, leading automated test implementation, and hacking on new features. https://soundstripe.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=76

Soundstripe has an awesome work environment, a "flexible" (unlimited) PTO policy (_we really take PTO_), and we're Remote-first, so work anywhere you like!

If you are interested, or have questions, reach out to me via email in my profile. Also if you are in Nashville, TN - ping me and we can grab socially distant coffee.

New comment by Judson in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"

Judson — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:38:51 +0000

My team is looking to for:

Soundstripe has an awesome work environment, a "flexible" (unlimited) PTO policy (_we really take PTO_), and we're Remote-first, so work anywhere you like!

If you are interested, or have questions, reach out to me via email in my profile. Also if you are in Nashville, TN - ping me and we can grab socially distant coffee.

New comment by Judson in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

Judson — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:21:52 +0000

Soundstripe | Lead Software Engineer (Frontend - React) | Remote US | Full-time | https://soundstripe.com

Soundstripe provides an unlimited subscription service to tens of thousands of video creators, from YouTubers to freelance videographers, nonprofits, and Fortune 1000 companies. We've experienced significant growth and have been incredibly capital efficient with only one round of institutional investment.

My team is looking to for:

Soundstripe has an awesome work environment, a "flexible" (unlimited) PTO policy (and we really take PTO), and we're Remote-first, so work anywhere you like!

If you are interested, or have questions, reach out to me via email in my profile. Also if you are in Nashville, TN - ping me and we can grab socially distant coffee.

New comment by Judson in "Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites"

Judson — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:38:55 +0000

I saw your comment and implemented the ability to connect a repository of static files and host them on our app platform (Uffizzi.com) -- we have a generous free tier! Email is in my profile if you have any questions or feature requests.

New comment by Judson in "FedEx and UPS hit companies with unexpected holiday shipping limits"

Judson — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:20:58 +0000

The cost of the rental truck may be the least important piece of this equation. Depending on the pickup shortfall, I could easily see the need for multiple trucks needing to go to each carrier's facility.

You're also going to multiple employees per truck, with at least one being more senior since there could be tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise.

They'll need to get to the carrier facility and make sure the boxes are scanned, because they are now a variable in the transport, and it would look bad if a box went missing and supposedly never made it to the carrier. At the warehouse we have cameras that make it unnecessary to watch the boxes being scanned. Not to mention customers check tracking like hawks and would call and take up support resources wondering about their box that "shipped" but the tracking page says "Fedex is waiting on your box to arrive".

On top of this, carrier pickups are typically scheduled as late as possible. We lobbied heavily for our UPS / Fedex pickups to be 6pm (or later during peak). So you're going to need to send employees to the carrier at 6:30pm or later, dropping the truck off at the warehouse at 7:30 (at the earliest) after loading/unloading/scanning (It was a 15 min drive to the carrier center).

So they're getting home at 8pm, and need to be back at the warehouse at 7am to pick all the orders for the next day.

New comment by Judson in "Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless"

Judson — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 04:15:28 +0000

Seems odd the reporter doesn’t verify the authenticity/quality of the submitted invoices.

Surely he could produce copies for the reporter?

New comment by Judson in "Palantir S-1"

Judson — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:59:06 +0000

Something like M1 Finance 'pies' could work, but still looks a lot like 'managing a whole bunch of individual stocks'