jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Scarcity is still there..even with digital content. Can anyone create Adobe Photoshop with a few mouse clicks (not a digital copy, but an original)? If not, then there is a scarcity: in the talent that creates such content.

Sure, anyone with a computer can start a blog..but only the people with quality, original, content will get continue to get the traffic.

What's changed is people's mindsets..which I predicted would happen back in '99. Piracy advocates claim there is no direct correlation between piracy and loss sales. This may be the case on a 1-1 case, but in the long-run, if you do nothing about pirated content, the value in people's minds slowly starts to approach $0. This is because all digital content is just like currency: it's value is only what people think it's worth. If know you can easily download something for free, why bother paying for it?

This is why I no longer write applications, only services. Any apps that I release are directly tied to a monthly service and are useless without it.
> It just so happens I was listening to some beautiful 1970s space music when I read this (Tangerine Dream, if you're interested).

The Pink years were the best.
Because everybody I know has my real phone number.
Until you can't/don't pay the monthly charge and you have to change all your URLs.
GNOME rejected the libappindicator code and approach (largely because it was irrelevant and badly timed), but not the StatusNotifier protocol (as defined mostly by KDE, then once modified, the basis for libappindicator).

The "not contributing to upstream" comment has a much broader context than that particular issue though. One late attempt to push something fairly irrelevant upstream does not define the entire context for their engagement. :-)
Exchange Server 2010 supports syncing SMS and sending SMS via your phone in Outlook. To send it goes Outlook > Exchange Server > Phone > Carrier > Recipient. However it is only supported in Windows Mobile 6.x. A little annoying that this isn't supported in Windows Phone 7. This is functionality that I have long desired!
(By the way, as stated on all of my posts about these issues, I am no longer involved in the GNOME project at all.)
Bit of a history here, but SIP had been around for a couple of years when Google Talk was released.

I spoke to Chris Sacca, who was part of the Google Talk team (if I'm not mistaken) at Startup School a couple of years ago, and he told me that the 'SIP gateways' would be coming online shortly. This must have been in 06/07'.

If memory serves well, the reasons why Google didn't go with SIP at the time had to do with federation and trust between different SIP domains. So it was mostly security and anti-SPAM related. They were meaning to do the right thing - i.e. being open - but found that SIP could not serve their needs.
He looks crazy, with the enormous beard, but his appearance belies an impressive amount of sanity.

I've been really impressed by listening to him. In particular, he's very up-front about what we don't know yet, and the uncertainty involved, and he's very careful not to promise more than he can scientifically justify. This sort of thing does not come through very well in sensationalist mass-media portrayals of him, though.
I recently bought a single speed, and I think I enjoy it a bit more than my stolen 24-speed. I've done hills several miles long and standing up while pedalling slowly works great. It's like walking up steps two at a time, very slowly. I'd like to get a child trailer though, and I suspect that will push the limits of this experiment.
Yes -- I hesitate even to use the term "intellectual property" because of the
possible misunderstandings. To be clear: I oppose the granting of
monopolies, maintained by force, as in the patent system. I view this exactly
as you do: as a restriction of your rights to use your own property.

To me, intellectual property has nothing to do with owning "ideas." I think
purely in terms of physics -- mere arrangements of atoms and electrons. For
example, when I publish computer source code, I think about that act in very primitive physical terms, as follows.

I publish my code on a server. The physical particles of that server
are now arranged in a different way. I have also physically configured
the server so that another individual somewhere in the universe can
observe its structure, up to a point.

When the other individual observes the state of the server, she alters
the physical structure of a device that she owns, for example a digital
computer or her own brain. That device is her property.

So, by publishing the code in that way, I have taken an explicit, deliberate,
and voluntary action which enabled the other individual to alter the physical
state of a device she owns in a specific way. That device was her property
before she altered it, and it remains her property after the she altered it.
If I did not want that individual to alter her property in that way,
I should not have made it possible. It was my choice.

I concur with your emphasis on the right of contract. After all, that is how people transfer property rights between each other. All I am saying that so-called "intellectual" property should be no different -- since it too is all about the configuration and movement of physical devices.
There is a similar trajectory in what you choose to build. In stage 1 you write programs that are conspicuously missing features; in stage 2 you write programs that have too many features (and yet may still be missing some important ones); in stage 3 you write programs that do exactly what's needed.

My experience suggests that one good way to speed the transition to stage 3 is to try to make your programs short. When I was writing On Lisp I spent a lot of time working on programs that had to be short enough to be reproduced in the book, and this cured me of the tendency to pile on features.

Rtm's example probably helped too. His source code is as laconic as he is in person.
thanks alot, i was going to check that out on monday probably.
You've put your finger on an important issue. For the person with a degree, there is an advantage in passing that barrier to entry. But why is that barrier to entry there?

From the point of view of the employer, a degree indicates that the possessor has, among other things, a certain level of intelligence, literacy (not a small deal in a country where over half the country is functionally illiterate!), experience in learning, general background, work ethic, and socio-economic status. It is therefore a somewhat useful filter to apply for many professions.

Of course most of those traits have nothing to do with what you actually learned in university. And there certainly are plenty of successful people with all of those traits who did not bother with university. So even though I believe that for most people, education is worthwhile to that person, I'm far less certain that society as a whole benefits much from all of the money spent on higher education. (And I become even less certain when I look at how wasteful the process has become. Costs have been going up faster than inflation for decades, with no apparent reason than that everyone in the process knows that they are free to raise costs by that much, and it is always easier to spend more money than it is to spend less.)
Irish trad musicians go through similar stages:

Stage 1: Learning, perfecting skills with simpler music.

Stage 2: Discovering new techniques and musical ideas, stretching their skills, attempting to pull off dense and complex ornamentation as fast as possible.

Stage 3: Realizing that stage 2 may make for a good show, but can impede great music. Enter a zen like state where one plays deceptively simple but tasteful, clear, and highly effective expressions of fundamental musical ideas. (EDIT: Which enhance a given tune as a coherent whole.)

For the novice player, it's possible to mistake stage 3 for stage 1 and common to conclude the progression stops at stage 2.
We can compare transaction fees. Bitcoin transaction fees average $12 right now, which IIRC is comparable to bank fees for wiring cash. (Of course with bank wires you might have more security, at least in the developed world...)
In this example, there is only 1 child to support. That was the hypothetical that you proposed upthread.
The only way to get the original quality photos is by using Google Takeout. Before Google made changes to Drive, you could use rclone (https://rclone.org/) to sync originals. That no longer seems to be the case, unfortunately.
A fully speced Skoda enyak in Ireland comes to over 80K USD and most basic version with just a charging cable is over 50K USD, outside of the environment I don't see the motivation for moving to electric, I can have the 2/3 year old car with higher spec for less than half those costs and absorb the running costs and extra tax with money left over, I don't see how all of society is going to move to electric given the enormous cost s.
> Everyone else is just competing for supply from LG Chem and Panasonic, which is why no other manufacturer has come close to Tesla's volume or performance/price.

But LG Chem is spending billions to expand production capacity in Michigan specifically to supply the legacy brands.

This isn’t a sideshow. If Ford, GM, and VW follow through on their commitments Tesla will be 4th or 5th place in EV market share. Now... I’d be willing to believe that none of them will follow through, but I certainly wouldn’t assign a high probability to it.
This suggests airlines don't realize they are selling experiences to customers rather than just hauling potatoes around the country, otherwise they would understand that the passenger cares about when the flight leaves and when they must board it. They don't care if an hour is needed to service the plane between flights so than an hour spent boarding doesn't slow the fleet down, they care how long they need to stand in line.

So a clear win for the passenger is to be had that may not increase plane turnaround but still adds value to the flight experience.

This lack of consideration of the customer experience is why you feel like a potato being hauled around when you fly a plane in anything other than business class.

The first airline that figures out that the customer experience is part of what they are selling and thus should be optimized for is going to make a lot of money even as they manage to charge only a bit more than the average. People will line up to fly them for a more pleasant experience that doesn't require making the seats wider, the plane heavier, or carrying fewer passengers per flight.
My only experience with dual boarding was also in Tanzania with stair cars, though with KLM.
Should have looked for an industrial SLC SD card.
People seem to loose the ability for critical thinking when they become worshippers of a product/company or man.

Tesla's battery slideshow showing their new battery that supposedly has 50% more energy also happens to be that much larger. But for what ever reason their marketing people thought it would be ethical to make them the same size on the slides.
Off-topic: does anyone else here prefer to use "plaintext" as exclusively the opposite of richtext, while instead using "cleartext" as the opposite of ciphertext?

I realize that "plain" is acceptable here, but I never got into it.
I find it fascinating (in a very good way) that he does find time to code. Python is not a bad language, in all fairness, any programming language which picks your interest enough to spend time working with it is a good choice.

The added benefit of Python is the ease of using something like Jupyter notebooks, which make it trivial to iterate.

(disclaimer: I coded more in Ruby than in Python, but I still enjoy both)
Yeah, selling their US operations entirely
> and is able to generate energy on-demand

Last time i studied this topic one of the main drawback of nuclear energy was precisely that it required accurate forecasts of future demand, so not suitable for "on demand" production, because of how long it takes to cool down.
Had anything improved in this area?
Was a good sale on WD Easystore external drive from Bestbuy. Back up to MSRP now.
order supplements on Amazon? The uv index is very low this time of year anyway, so sun exposure doesn't do much.
Anecdote:

I recently found a 6 year old Android phone and tried to use it.

I can't use Google Play Store to install apps because I can't log into my Google Account, apparently because of old certificates or SSL versions, or something.

I can't use Google Chrome to download APKs. Downloads get stuck at 0%, apparently because Chrome doesn't trust the certificates. And when I browse, Chrome tells me that the site is not secure.

And I was unable to transfer APKs via USB. I don't really know why, I have developer mode and all of that enabled.

So, I guess it's bricked.
They might have fixed this. They switched to using plaid for external accounts this year, and I was able to add several banks which had 2FA earlier today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679106
There is some good discussion of synthetic car noises in Norman's "Design of everyday things". Sound is a hard to use interface that could still offer great usability advances if we work out to harness it properly.

I see people asking "why not rely on the horn to alert pedestrians". The horn is the equivalent of shouting "oi" but engine sound is hugely rich source of information. We get: speed, direction, distance, acceleration, attitude (e.g. distinguish aggressive acceleration, panicked deceleration) and type of car (e.g. racer vs. town-car).

Unlike a horn, we get this information at the times a horn would not be used i.e. the driver has not seen us and about to mow us down. Synthetic car noise must alert, orient but not annoy. Norman said the current United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration spec for synthetic car noise is 250 pages long.
I grew up watching my dad work his ass off day after day in a corporate setting. I always admired how passionate he was about his work. Hes 52 now and the CTO and supply-chain head for one of the large pharma giants.

He is gona quit the next month to launch his own venture because he doesn't feel a sense of satisfaction with what he has done.

I just graduated from college and this just reaffirms my thinking - I want to do more than walk the path other people have laid out for you. Just not satisfying enough!
Big share of 'fun' in programming comes from exploration (the other big thing, at least for me, is watching how something cool emerges from vast nothingness of void, even if my creature looks like Frankenstein's monster); be brave and courageous, try everything, have a look and feel of the bleeding edge of technology.

Other than that, avoid MUMPS :)
Because it may be that they are vulnerable to others copying concept and/or giving away hints about the direction they plan to take based on the types of positions they're hiring for.

Playing your cards close to your chest usually does not hurt.
Indeed. Chrome + uBlock Origin = 0 ads on Youtube over the past several years.
There is an nvidia dev apt repo that is great for installing and setting CUDA up because apt does all the heavy lifting for you. I've never had any problems with it.

First an optional prerequisite, for updated video drivers:

```
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common &&
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa && sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-driver-NNN
```
(Eg, nvidia-driver-435)

This is sometimes a required prerequisite, because these drivers have 32bit and 64bit binaries in them where the ones from nvidia's website or normal apt packages only have the 64bit drivers. (Eg, it's a requirement for Steam and many video games, which will suddenly stop working when CUDA is installed.)

Then there is CUDA itself:

```
sudo apt-get install -y gnupg2 curl ca-certificates &&
curl -fsSL https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubu... | sudo apt-key add - &&
sudo echo "deb https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learni... /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-ml.list &&
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-cuda-toolkit libcudnn7 libcudnn7-dev
```
(If also using cudnn.)

Also note: NVIDIA currently doesn't officially support Ubuntu 19, but their 18.04 repo works perfectly for 19. In the future you can always try grabbing from https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubu... instead.
This i do too with Quora too. It's too much
-site:pinterest.* (hmm, I have to put something here or else the asterisk disappears.)
Oddest downvotes to date.
OCaml and Haskell people are used to everything being strongly typed. So they dislike it when the languages we use to query things (XPath, SQL, etc) are basically string blobs embedded untyped in their programs. Hence the search for typed approaches, especially ones which safely cross between the programming language and the DSL. (For PostgreSQL I wrote a type safe OCaml extension called PG.OCaml which type-checks the SQL and integrates it into OCaml code). I'm not familiar with SwiftUI to talk about it.
I have high desk setup, to the point my elbows don't float and don't force my shoulders go up. The position is really confortable and I also have the monitors positioned at the leve of my face. Very confortable.
Part of search quality is serving nothing when there are no results. Putting a bunch of irrelevant Pinterest pages in the results, just because there are no good results, isn’t good for users.
I'm not sure the question is particularly well posed, but I think the most coherent answer you'd get from modern physics is symmetry. Restating Newton's law's slightly, you basically get two points:

1. Momentum is conserved

2. All interactions between objects are mediated by forces (i.e. interactions exchange momentum).

So you may ask, ok, but why do these two things happen, which is is where symmetry comes in. If you require that your theory is invariant under translations in space and time, your theory must conserve momentum and energy. Then you ask, ok, so what kind of long-range interactions can we have between particles in a theory where energy and momentum are conserved and the answer turns out to be, well those that exchange momentum. For example, in the hypothetical from the blog post where interactions are mediated by exchanges of acceleration (forces are proportional to jerks), you end up with a universe where absent interactions, acceleration is constant. Why is this inconsistent with symmetry? Well, in such a universe, the acceleration of particles would be constant in the absence of interaction, so their kinetic energy would keep growing and growing, violating conservation of energy.
What is distinction between an assertion and writing a book? You also realise that writing a book does not mean you are automatically right. Presumably you think Mein Kampf was a real triumph? The book is irrelevant, you are either wrong or right.

And my exact point is that there is a distinction between saying:

1. The public sector played a huge part in the genesis of the Internet.

2. The public sector can make wise investments, and we can definitely control this.

Point 1 is true but point 2 does not follow logically from it. And, again, there is a lot of evidence that point 2 is definitely not true.

I am not particularly sure there is any need for quibbling over definitions. It is just about incentives. To take the UK as an example: stuff like ICFC/3i, which was publicly funded but run on a commercial basis (another example is NEB/BTG, this failed...until Thatcher), worked and pretty much all of the nationalised industries failed because there were no budget constraints (the purpose of the 1975 Industry Act was to ensure nationalised companies employed a lot of people who would then vote for the govt...it didn't matter if a private sector manager was employed i.e. British Leyland).

Again: the distinction between what works and what doesn't is fairly well understood. The issue is that Mazucutto looks at something like ICFC (btw, I know she looked at this because I have talked to people who she has advised) and says: look the public sector can get things right (i.e. confirmation bias). When the point is that how you design things matter massively (a point which is often made less explicitly). Ownership is basically irrelevant but for someone who wants to grow the state, i.e. most of the people she advises, that seems like the most relevant point.
Write a target that greps the Makefile itself and extracts the targets.
Good question :) not sure I have a good answer for that one, although I'd like to point out that many people elect to expend mental energy on otherwise unproductive minutia (aka. hobbies) so perhaps the task of carrying on a spoken tradition is less onerous to some than one might expect.

Language contributing to group segregation is a very strong claim, however, and if you have any case studies (or, like, newspaper articles, this isn't academia) I'd be interested in seeing them.
You mean the time FedEx towed
one of its airplanes to the other
side of a hanger to keep it out
of sight of a sheriff with a
lock and a chain sent to
lock down the airplane as
collateral for unpaid fuel bills?

You mean when some angry union
people showed up objecting to
FedEx pilots handling packages?

You mean the time two barrels of
liquids in the shop got confused
and maybe some bad stuff got
pumped by mistake into the
hydraulic systems of some
unknown number of airplanes?

The time I used the differential
equation

y'(t) = k y(t) ( b - y(t) )

to please our two representatives
of Board Member General Dynamics,
have them unpack their bags and
stay after all, and, thus, saved
the company?

The time after midnight
in my office I was practicing
violin and, as I left, noticed
that Fred, in the next office,
had been working late?

The time at a top employee basketball
game, in the locker room
with Fred I asked him if
he would do it again and
got his answer, a
more colorful version of
investors don't like risk.

The time Fred, in the Dassault DA-20
Fanjet Falcon he saved
as the company executive jet,
was flying, kept finding
airports closed, kept flying,
and finally landed but
flamed out from no fuel on the runway --
cutting it close.

How the planning had said that
we could fly the airplanes
half full and print money
but actually flew the airplanes
packed solid, doubled the rates,
and still were losing money --
not good planning.

How Fred wanted to have containers
to fit the inside of the plane,
like regarding the inside of the
cargo part of the
plane as a big sausage and
cutting it into a few identical
slices. Then have ball rollers on
the floor of the plane
for moving the containers.

Then to move the containers
on/off the plane, have a truck
with a platform in front,
about the right size for one container,
able to be raised and lowered
with hydraulics, drive up,
next to the opening for the
cargo door, and on/off the
containers.

Well, Fred
described all this on the phone
to a guy in CA who got a
truck chassis, did the welding
and hydraulics,
and drove the thing, chassis, no body,
to Memphis.

Actually, at least as a prototype,
it was okay. And the basic
idea was important in production.
Still, that the thing had been
designed in a phone conversation
upset some on the Board.

There were a lot of such war stories.
But, in total the experience
was a good lesson in
doing a startup.
On the other hand, being fully open source means if you've got a good development team you may be able to hack Godot itself to work around whatever limitations are currently biting you the hardest, and your shipped product doesn't lock you into any sort of revenue share or subscription fees because of the engine choice. This seems to be the approach done for the Sonic Colors: Ultimate remaster and as Godot gets better it may get even more attention from teams developing an "almost certain success" like a new big-IP game.

But I agree that they're still the underdog, and people who were holding out until 3.0 might continue holding out until 4.0 if they're planning on doing a demanding 3D game. I'm rooting for them still too though.