jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Only if you have a good contract. It's pretty common for an artist to sign an overly restrictive contract early in their career which lasts for a certain number of releases, and they're stuck with it for a long, long time.

An example would be the band Streetlight Manifesto, who have had a lengthy and rough relationship with their label, Victory Records. For years they've told fans to not pay for their music because of fights with their label, and instead buy merchandise from the band and pirate the music. Despite this, they've still been chained to Victory (and still are, I believe) and have to release music entirely through them.

Most recently, with their newest album[0], Victory refused to send physical copies of the album to fans who pre-ordered through the band's website, leaving the band to deal with refunding their fans. And when the singer tried to independently release a solo album of acoustic covers of that same album (which he has successfully done in the past), Victory had it removed from Youtube, Amazon, etc.

There's a reason many independent artists seems so scared of labels. While YouTube is definitely taking things too far, it doesn't compare to what some labels have been doing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_That_Thieve
Great, closer to not having to explain to friends and family that I’m not a tinfoil hat person.
True, but that suggest an obvious solution: demand that each ballot initiative demanding spending includes the method by which the spending should be covered.
I have a different experience. Our heating broke on two (unrelated) occasions.

In the first case, the repairman came, fixed the thing in 20 minutes, seemed competent, and I gladly payed him.

In the second case, the company sent an inexperienced employee, who couldn't figure out the problem, and spent 2 hours trying everything before finally deciding the most expensive component needed to be replaced. I was very unsatisfied, especially since they charged me for all the seemingly pointless troubleshooting time.

So maybe it's not only important to make a lot of effort, but to also appear competent while working?
Why is videoconferencing so great? What does it add to the meeting to be able to see someone's face? Does it really add so much information that it is worth the hassle of having to stare at your damn phone while calling someone?
Anyone during childhood have to study a particular state? I was given Pennsylvania in grade school. Basically a poster everyone does about state birds, flowers.

All I remember about this poster which I had forgotten about until now is the state bird, cardinal. I think it is also the only red bird of this size?
It's called the internet. The things you describe are still happening across a thousand IRC servers you've never been invited to.
Thanks for this concise explanation.
200 miles is well in range of most mid range EVs at this point. Vans exist on the market that can do that already. It's just a matter of putting in a bigger battery. Most companies buying vans buy the range they need rather than giving into range anxiety. There are loads of cheap options with limited range that are simply good enough.

Anyway, if that's more than even 1% of the market, I'd be very surprised. It certainly does not justify spending half a billion on inventing a vehicle with an option to have ICE capability (and the inherent design compromises that come with that) just as this market is being eaten up by basically most manufacturers launching specially designed EV only transport solutions.

A simple solution for this problem would be to simply keep on driving ICE vans on these longer routes until technology catches up. No need to sink money into R&D for this. It's completely redundant.

Replacing battery packs is just not a thing with EVs. Certainly not every year. There are enough first generation EVs still on their first battery pack to prove this. Besides, most vendors provide pretty nice warranties on their batteries because they know that they will rarely have to do any battery replacements. This is not a wait and we'll see kind of thing; companies buying these vehicles in large volumes tend to do their homework when it comes to cost.

All of this is not really something that needs researching, study, etc. US Post is technically kind of late to this. Besides, there are loads of electrical delivery vans in service across most delivery companies. Most of those are pretty much all switching as fast as they can to get some nice cost savings. The business case is long past needing a more evidence or proof. As a consequence, electrical vans are selling as fast as they can be built.
Touche. It’s so hard to get past the buzz in crypto because people are making way too much money on the price of tokens. It’s so distracting. I think we’ll get there eventually.
It's also #1 in total cases and #1 in tests....

But it's the most populous state.

It's 30th in deaths per capita, 26th in cases per capita, and 15th in tests per capita, per https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ .
Is this legal to deploy on the Mac app store? Not sure if the Mac app store has the same license incompatibility issues as the iOS app store.
I do this except the Linux is on a separate box and the dev envs are docker containers.

Decided to spend my money on decent, upgradeable hardware instead of shelling out 5k for another MB Pro. My next MacBook will probably be the most low-end I can get.

VSCode's remote/docker support is a godsend. Seems like we're heading back to the dumb terminal paradigm.
The linked thread about their security for app icons displayed on your password list is fascinating, and is a perfect example for people (on forums like HN) who routinely go "why does service XYZ need more than 10 engineers?!"

If I'm the CTO/CIO of a company that spends millions on security, I want to use an app which places this much attention to detail over such seemingly minor aspects vs something a couple bucks cheaper.
You have a point, but your supporting assumptions don't make it. "In the long term things don't matter" doesn't matter unless you're going to be around in the long term to see them matter.

Either way, I wholeheartedly disagree with you. "Have fun, do what makes you happy" helps ensure that what you do doesn't even matter now -- never-mind it not mattering later. You are basically saying "since you can't be a god, you might as well not even try hard." It's black-and-white thinking at its worst.

You should do what you know matters; what your experiences are telling you is important. And even if 'you' die, the you that is a generic human with basic human needs and social identity will not die. It will live on in other people. You're not that different from humans that lived 50,000 years ago. The important parts of what you were then haven't died in that time. Make the world a better place for those who would live 50,000 years in the future -- because someone very much like you might want to know what you had to teach.

That person might even be an exact replica of you. Surely someone will generally want what you want and feel what you feel. Care for that person: they are your second chance.
Eventually, you realize life is just a fucked up series of events that, once in a while, have no meaning, are cruel, or don't happen in a logical or fair way!

For example, the people behind the Yo app spent a few hours on the weekend building it as a side project, reaped tons of press and attention, and eventually landed themselves a boatload of VC money.

Is that fair to the people out there like yourself and myself, who are slaving away to make Real Change happen in this world? No!

But, that's life. Life is cruel, it's weird, sometimes it doesn't make sense, and sometimes it just comes down to a little bit (or alot) of dumb luck. It's shitty and raw to think about, but it's reality.

My advice is to use your jealousy as a motivator, but don't allow it get to you. Seek your own happiness and your own success, according to your own benchmarks for both.

Keep pushing, keep hustling, and keep hoping that, one day, luck swings in your favor and you land that massive success and or payday, too. And, all the while, remember in the back of your head that you may die before that day ever comes.

No matter what though: retain your sanity and defend your own happiness... forget all else.

EDIT - Your perception of 'success' may also have little, or transient meaning. For example, lots of people think the current 'success' of the tech industry is a facade, and we're due for a bubble-like collapse (er, 'contraction'). If that happens, all of those successful acquaintances you currently look up to don't sound so successful now, do they?
Ha, joke's on you: I've learned NOTHING!
I found it terribly repetitive.
Nice work :)

Although I think you should emphasize that the input should be in English. When I tried it out, I did not know it and hence put in an article name in some other language hoping to see its English name. (maybe you can do the reverse of what has been done too :) )
LG TV + Apple TV here too. I don't touch the remote control unless I need to adjust volume for my PS4/Xbox or turn the TV off.

For AppleTV it turns itself on when I tap the ATV remote, volume is adjusted using the same remote.
I am a random nobody and I was able to waltz in to my congresswoman's office. Obviously I wasn't digging through the desk drawers, but it's not like I was closely observed while I waited for my congresswoman's secretary to get off her phone call
I generally agree with this sentiment, but sometimes I think mandating cooperation between walled gardens is the only way to help consumers. Take healthcare for example: Epic, Cerner, Athena, etc all have NO incentive to build any interoperability into their products. It greatly benefits them to create walled gardens and wall-off hospitals and healthcare institutions from other institutions that use their competitors' software.

It took Congress to mandate open standards and to spell out that healthcare institutions must offer a public APIs to patients. We are only now starting to be able to download health records from hospitals as a result of this despite it being technically possible for decades. In fact there are still many patients that are required to request stacks of DVDs containing their health records, and this is their only option.

Obviously this is more a commentary on how shitty healthcare in the US can be, but also a good example IMO of how sometimes government intervention in technical standards requirements can greatly benefit consumers.
I've actually found most CEOs I know have beat to crap old smartphones.

I tend to look down on the classist assignment of folks' motivations for buying things. It's almost always projection. How many years did we have to hear about the "status symbol" of a starbucks cup? If only $2 for a cup of black coffee could buy you status, right?
What's stopping Mercury or Brex's partner bank from pulling the carpet out from under them too? The bank I switched away from to join Azlo is archaic and frustrating to deal with but I'm having second thoughts creating an account with another banking startup if it might close a few years later. I now have to inconvenience my clients and ask them to update the ACH information they have on file. I have no idea if there will be problems getting my money out either. I never expected this from a bank.
It's interesting that Roblox features in Matt Levine's post for today (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-07/the-ip...) in the IPO Pops section. The story seems to be based on slightly older reports from December.
Oh interesting. I was curious and found [1], which mentions aerial deployment is actually preferred when poles are available.

Around me, you might see aerial to neighborhood cabinets, but everything past that (cabinet -> pedestal, pedestal -> premise) is always buried. Considering how much of a pain buried lines are around here, I had presumed that there was some value to this. But looks like it might just be a constraint imposed by local regulations.

[1] https://www.ofsoptics.com/fiber-optic-solutions-for-the-home...
Smile is available on the iOS Amazon mobile app, but only if you allow Amazon to send you promotional notifications.
I would offer Terry Tao as a counterexample. The only thing strange about him is how, well, not-strange he is!
30k€/year would be more than enough.
Some unpaid volunteers "maintain" an extremely outdated tech stack that hosts the most used programming language that literally runs the entire eCommerce world, moving unimaginable amounts of money every day. Totally insane. We should rethink programming languages from an economical standpoint.
You still work in sprints and deliver features to the user regularly, and iterate to the right solution. I'm not suggesting you design all the code in the entire app and write all the necessary tests for every feature at the beginning; you still only design the bits that are needed right now. The development process just has a lot more upfront thought time, more upfront test writing time, and less coding time because if your code passes the tests you know it's correct (based on the assumptions about what 'correct' is right now.) There's always going to be a requirement to go back and improve things, pay down technical debt, fix design issues, etc no matter what your development approach is.
Lobbying is a red herring. If it were really so powerful, companies would spend more money like it when lobbying for competing interests. Amazon spends in the order of millions on lobbying and in the order of billions on marketing.
Why this post disappeared from the home page?
The trouble is that one generation ago we as people of the free world abhorred the idea of punishing individuals for their beliefs. Now that has changed.

It's not the first time this happened, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's always ended badly in the past.
>Do you have sources for the "well documented" views that pedophilia is not harmful and that children can give consent and should be allowed to engage in sexual intercourse? Because the blurb above certainly does not say any of that.

Apart from the appendix linked to in the open letter being critiqued in the OP, there is this often mentioned quote by the man himself:

“I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[1]https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

[2]https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...

[3]http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
The loopholes aren't accidents.
That inline Python is the closest thing to black magic I've seen in a while. I guess I have to find an excuse to play around with Rust some time soon, it seems like such a cool ecosystem.
>You will do well to note that I said statins

I did note that, and in my reply said that they (statins) don't treat the root cause.

However, I used the example of torcetrapib and clofibrate merely to point out that "reduction in cholesterol" is done most efficaciously by other compounds too. (I don't know if the overall mortality was because of alternate toxicities of the compounds in question, other fibrates are still under consideration).

I did not mean to imply that you endorsed either T or C, and I hope I didn't sound like I did. I may as well have accused you of promoting thalidomide...

The intent was to show that treating lipoprotein numbers was unproductive... ie that the lipoprotein numbers are merely a symptom [2]. More on this below in the coronary calcification note below..

> statins have the clearest risk-benefit profile of just about any drugs ever invented

I do not believe this to be true. For example, statins have well known effects in "worsening"[1] the lipoprotein profile (especially VLDL or Lp(A) -- can't find the reference at this moment)

If dyslipidemia is a symptom, what accounts for Coronary arterial disease? What about coronary calcification? For example look at this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=S...

From the abstract: We did not observe a relationship between on-treatment LDL cholesterol levels and the progression of calcified coronary atherosclerosis.

>Finally, it is natural for medical textbooks to change

Of course I agree, with the proviso that the change is "as our knowledge changes". But what if the medical advice changes for political or commercial (drug company) reasons?

So, if (let's assume) lipoproteins aren't the problem, what is? Here's an intriguing possiblity:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17606264?ordinalpos=1&...

[1] worsening = causing a lipoprotein profile that is positively correlated with cardiac death (correlation is not causation, there could be an underlying common factor etc. disclaimer goes here).
[2] an attempt to answer your question about where it is that people think medicine treats only the symptoms
I am really unsympathetic to the idea that programming has gotten harder to get into. It has, but only because of the sheer explosion of alternatives drowning out programming, which is not the point people try to make. In absolutely terms it is still easy, and actually easier than ever. It was never easy, it was just one of a much smaller set of choices.

Further edit: It occurs to me I have a relevant anecdote. I was never able to get into assembler on the Commodore 64, having gotten as far as I really could with Basic. I actually had an assembler, but no documentation. I had no ability to get documentation, no idea where to find it, nobody to even ask, hardly any clue that I should be asking. I managed to wedge my computer a few times just typing some vaguely assemblish stuff into it, but no more. Today, www.google.com -> "Commodore 64 assembly" (no quotes) yields http://www.c64.ch/programming/ as the first hit.

Yeah, it's gotten a lot easier.
Because it's taken out of the context. Original text says:

"We even observed that ngx_drizzle + ngx_rds_json achieved 128MB/sec (Yes, 1024Mbit/sec!) for a 380KB data-set query while connecting to a simple mysql server, about 3 ~ 4 times as fast as php + libmysql in this setting."

As you can imagine in such scenario (380KB result), MySQL engine is taking the most of the time.
Great find! Similar in style to http://101cookbooks.com/ They both encourage you to work with what you already have in your pantry, making substitutions when necessary.
The optimal time to switch would be after Apple announces OS X Evil Empire Edition, but before they ship it. Switching earlier (as Gillmor is doing) has no benefit.
It doesn't, but it's also not a non-violent threat. The police were out to lock him in a cage for decades.
You mean, objects aren't really about objects, since every programming paradigm has them? Well yah, that is kind of the point: it is hard to not think in terms of them, that is what 100k years of evolved linguistic capabilities have given us.

If you want to focus on unique features, then do that instead; Stepanov's argument was focused on thinking, not checkmarks.
Thank you for your work. As a heads-up, I do not see any reference to -quant-table option as mentioned in the linked blog in cjepg.1 on GH.

Also, I have a little script that uses imagemagick to watermark an image and then create a resized image smaller image for web. Does mozjpeg's cjpeg support 48bpp png or is there some better way to no lose some detail due to rounding by avoiding going from 24-bit RGB out of imagemagick to YCbCr?
I like this quote (from Joan Didion):

"I don't know what I think until I try to write it down."
Your probability calculations are... non standard. Although you get the right answer, it's not correct to treat a discrete probability distribution like it's continuous. A more standard approach would be to calculate, for an appropriate time unit, the single time event probability and apply a geometric distribution.

Edit: you're also seeming to mix up the time to event with the number of events in an hour. Did you actually use your derivation to get to your time estimates, or did you do a simulation?
Not planning for 2015. I didn't save money as I should have and now I'm spending an indefinite amount of time (minimum 3 months) starting in March with no income (due to attending a bootcamp). I didn't expect that I would be doing this and now I'm trying to survive on nothing so that I can have some breathing room for months while I'm learning and looking for a job.

It's some added stress that I don't need and I'm working as much overtime as I can now when instead I should be spending my time studying/preparing for this class.

And the apex seals in my RX-7's engine finally went and it needs a rebuild. :( That's probably not going to get done till at least next year, but now I'm regretting dumping so much money into this car.
Cannot wait for Rule 34 to come into effect.

edit: I mean that it would be interesting to see this technology getting used for creative purposes. I hope Tesla will be permissive in people adapting their technology and not - if it is real - put it behind a massive patent and licensing wall before anyone can put their hands on it.
Check out mercury bank and hasura
EBS probably wouldn't lose those customers if there were a government regulation about it. Or are they going overseas?

I'd like to read more about those attempts, if you have some pointers.
If you're single, you have flexible hours at your work and you want to meet girls, move to San Francisco. Period.

Once you get married and have kid, move to the Peninsula and wonder how anyone could ever enjoy living in the City.

All the single girls are either in SF or work for Google, so you know what to do.
I was ignorantly assuming they meant gross. You're right.
Hunchentoot is a bit odd, but works well. In particular, the fact that handlers (think, like prefix-matching dispatch functions) are global, rather than per-listener. There is, in general, an apparent tendency to use var globals for expediency's sake, but they tend to infiltrate code, and make things harder to debug.

I concur with other commentators that PostgreSQL is worth looking at. I wrote the postgres bindings for what is now CL-SQL many years ago (hi stringbot!), and postgres is fast and reliable (aside from SBCL having interrupt hander sensitivities during ffi calls), though again, the CL-SQL interface is littered with globals, the connection pooling is a bit .. unusual .. and the reader macro syntax probably a pretty bad idea, all in all. If hunchentoot and cl-sql were mildly rewritten with an eye towards looking more like, for example, Java's JDBC and Servlet interfaces, you would have a simple base environment where you could reap most of the big CL wins immediately (DSLs, CLOS, coding closer to the speed of thought, etc.)

The 'IMHO' sources are kicking around here: they suffered a bit from WebObjects envy (hey, it was the 90's..) and do somewhat suboptimal handling of session state. It's still not clear to me how OO you really want to get with the server-side representation of a page, especially in light of all the nice JS client-side component kits that are around.

Mull.
I don't know why you first got down-voted. I have never worked on a project where a testing environment could access the production db.