skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The music industry has always been a horrible nasty beast in my eyes. In the days of radio, playing music on the radio was first seen as "advertising" for a new record. Record companies paid to get their music on the radio for people to hear, so they'd go out and buy a record.

Then people wanted to hear more music on the radio, because 1) it was free, and 2) they wanted to learn about more new music. Record companies pushed for full time music radio stations.

Then there was a turning in the streams... commercialization of the music radio stations. Hey, all the kids are listening to music, let's play an ad. The music industry was still selling record (more than ever before), but oh no, people were listening to ads, and radio stations weren't sharing that profit with the music industry!

The music industry starts charging royalties to radio stations for playing their music. You know, the music that served as ads to the records they were selling. As a result less and less music and more and more ads were being played on the radio.

Consumers began to dislike radio, and cassettes and optical discs were becoming easier to get in cars, and in portable forms. The music industry jumps on both band wagons and all but stops producing vinyl records, and makes cassettes and compact discs available for the every day Joe.

CD pricing surges in the late 90s as the music industry is starting to realize that they can't keep doing things the way they always have, because CDs and cassettes are too easy to copy. As a result they head out to start making the government say it isn't fair to copy your CD or tape and give it to a friend. It isn't legal to copy your CD to your computer. It isn't legal to share music track by track.

The music industry spends millions on stopping piracy (notably losing the war for many many many years).

Streamers enter the scene. Piracy all but stops. Kids are no longer downloading, and owning the music they listen to. Instead they are streaming the music, and the music companies demand royalties. Streamers introduce ads to keep the streams free to consumers. Some consumers want to pay for music, but want it on their terms. The music industry instead of helping streamers is now basically forcing them into losing money.

Yes, there are the big players like Google, Amazon, and Apple streaming music, and taking the loss because they are retaining customers. However, I don't think even that can last forever.

I predict another rise in piracy is on the horizon. These types of shenanigans are the reason for it, but they won't learn, they won't change. It will continue this way, in a cycle, forever.
I beg to disagree. The quality post-Drepper certainly did not improve. Bugs are getting worse, needed features are still not implemented, needed performance improvements are sidelined (bsd libc still 20% faster with modern CPUs), crazy but useless ASM optimizations are being added, where e.g. proper loops written in C gain much more. Just not on gcc.

Same as with stdlib++ btw, where strings are now uselessly bloated and most data structures are getting useless also.

Where are utf8 strings? u8"" constants only is for nothing. Everybody needs an u8 api.

Where are the secure _s extensions? Pickering about callbacks and Microsoft is all they can do. But they rather add env hooks.
__bos/alloc_size support is getting better, but gcc still cannot do proper usable const expressions in C. It's a nightmare.

You still cannot compare strings, even not with the crazy wchar_t strings (size 2 or 4), nobody uses anymore. wcscmp only compares buffers, but not strings according to the unicode rules. I believe strings would be pretty important to support, not?

What about a fast malloc? Not even ptmalloc3 went in, there's still stone-age ptmalloc2.

double-close leads to crashes, really? Similar to freopen with NULL.

This is your great community consensus. BSD or even musl are far ahead.
Everything changed. We're not the generation they're catering to any more? An upbringing of burgers and fried food has brought a new generation to restaurants.
The concept of junk DNA was mostly taken apart a few years ago. Those sections often serve regulatory functions and other purposes related to controlling how genes are used and at what rates.
There is absolutely nuance to it, I’m certainly not a proponent of a sedentary lifestyle or not working out. But if people just start exercising without also switching to whole foods, they will never out-exercise their diet — in fact many people end up losing muscle (because they’re running a lot and not eating enough protein), which slows down your metabolism even further.

I great book for you to checkout is Wired to Eat by Robb Wolf — it talks about how different foods affect insulin differently while also including the nuance of differences between people, as well as a way to test your personal response to certain foods to determine your optimal macronutrient intake.
Digital Jukeboxes Are Eroding the Dive-Bar Experience
This looks somewhat interesting.

but I couldn't help but to point out that while healthy self promotion is good, the author needs to notch down a little on the "I".
You used several different analogies, that would result in very different outcomes for an online community. Which one do you think online communities should be classified as?

- TV makers?

- Telephone companies?

- Public squares?

- Private forums?
This is super fun and such good timing! Thanks for sharing this.
One of the first jobs I had after graduating with a culinary arts trade degree was at one of the big 5 chains of restaurants where they nail salvage items to the walls and play classic rock. After 2 years working the kitchen and bar, I can attest fully these are the equivalent of a Chuck-E-Cheez for adults.

"food" is slightly more than a step up from fast food. main course Items are delivered frozen and reconstituted in a high speed sous vide system. Fries or any fried finger food are frozen, and depending on the franchise owner there is a specified hold time of up to 2 hours. My location ignored this because 'we sell so much food!' when in reality we're ignoring it because wastage is logged and reported to corporate and the franchise owner wasnt interested in lectures from the suits.

Other items like specials and anything that read 'grill' was placed in one of four high speed commercial microwaves, then sent to a 'finisher' which resembled a grill but simply imparted the markings on the food in about 20 seconds. Hamburgers didnt receive this treatment as they arrived fully cooked in many cases, with the exception of the angus burger, which was one of 2 items on the menu that was actually thawed and cooked on a real grill.

The bar isnt operated on a razor-thin margin of profit, its just flat out greed. items are chosen for hold time and markup. Frozen margaritas/anything can be held for up to 2 weeks, as the mix from corporate is largely preservatives. distributer orders do not specify a brand, only a negotiated price for a specific liquor. Beer provided almost for free, as corporate aggressively negotiates the terms and in some cases, owns major stake in distributors. all poured alcohol is underpoured partly because the establishment is cheap, and partly because the only thing that can shut down these shitty chains is an alcohol violation or poor customer experience because of an 'over-service event' at the bar. they just reopen in a week 'under new management' anyhow.

If you're wondering how franchise owners play into the restaurant, theyre basically nonexistent. Our franchise owners only visible presence was a plaque on the wall with their names, and occasional half-hearted sentiments from the managers on things the owners would like us to do which were basically restatements of what corporate wanted us to do. It wasnt until my last year of employment when I learned they were in their early eighties, and confined to a nursing home somewhere out of state. Power of attorney rested with their son, who had been in and out of drug treatment programs somewhere in california. We were eventually purchased as a franchise package by a venture holdings company in chicago.
I've been using an app called Contrast for a while now, it's really convenient.

https://usecontrast.com/

If anyone ends up using it, be sure to check the support page, there are some useful power tips

https://usecontrast.com/support
Just looking toward the future. I think bpf is cool but not aimed at production routing that most network techs can approach. nftables fixes so many issues of iptables and is generally viewed as it's replacement. nftables also has a smaller attack surface due to its youth mostly.

So I made the choice to go ahead and focus on learning nft. It's been enjoyable.
I would expect technical books would be great from a hiring perspective. In addition to the pros you mention (sustained work, etc) if the technology from the book lines up with the job, someone technical can review parts of the book and tell pretty quickly where the person was technically at the time they wrote it. The potential downside for the author being that if they've grown significantly that won't be borne out in the text.
Links to programming-challenges.com , which is down, as is the listed backup site. Is there any point in this without that?
Yes because it makes fixing the homeless issue prohibitively expensive both for public and private funds. San Francisco spends 20k a year per homeless person: they must waste most of what they do but it is clear that the two most expensive things for a homeless person is housing and health. Health is a national issue but housing is a local one.
I think there is a difference. Not so much because of political correctness, but because it is an inherently political joke.

Secondly, the joke is extremely US centric, and might make no sense to somebody now familiar on the US stance on abortion and its political impact.

I think it's misplaced for those reasons, and I am left-leaning and pro-choice. So while i agree with the political viewpoint in the joke, i don't think it should be in the software documentation.

That being said, i think easter eggs are fine, but this feels misplaced to me.
Book review: The puzzling empathy of debugging
The population of Australia is just a rounding error on a map like this. The map's creator had quite a bit of freedom to put it wherever they wanted. The divisions on the map follow political and cultural boundaries, so putting Australia in the same group as Canada is defensible, if arguable.
> The el-cheapo guitar I bought once just didn't hold the note very accurately over time

What do you think was moving on that guitar? Was the neck bending?
drywall is the only place where phillips still makes sense: you will never remove them anyway and the cam out feature cams out at the right place.

Note that drywall screws are brittle and worthless for anything other tan drywall even though people use them for almost anything. On the rare case you need to remove drywall you break it out, and then break the screws off.
If a mutation in a given gene leads to death 99.9999% of the time, but leads to oxygen transport the rest of the time, and the mutation happens many millions of times, then it is reasonable to think it could have been invented twice. Most of the time the mutation leads to death, but every once in a million times it leads to a happy result. Over the course of a few million years, the mutation happens many millions of times. In that scenario you would expect to happen at least twice, and probably much more often.

As an example, write a simple program that randomly generates strings of letters from 1 to 20 characters in length. Then include an English dictionary in the program. Compare the randomly generated strings with the words in the dictionary. How often does the random process generate actual words? Not often, but sometimes, and that is all that is needed.
> Convergent evolution is a thing, it occurs, but it's generally considered super-rare.

Not anymore - though it depends on what precisely you mean by convergence, of course. I highly recommend the new book Improbable Destinies by Jonathan Losos[0]

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Improbable-Destinies-Chance-Future-Ev...
You can cover your ears, and you can leave the AA and go somewhere else.

But you didn't answer my question: if you create a private forum which is open to the public, can you keep out people who don't abide by the community guidelines?
Yet, again: many, many businesses do just that (run Internet-facing Windows Server installations).

You're failing to account for the fact that using Windows everywhere allows firms to leverage their codebases and developer expertise throughout their organization.
Pittsburgh needs to do what we do in (some intersections in) California — ban left turns during rush hour on intersections with no left turn lane. Everyone still gets where they need to go and traffic moves much more smoothly.
KubeCon Impressions
Pianos are like that too. There is a LOT of string tension, and the soundboard warps. Raising the pitch requires carefully balancing by tiny adjustments in several passes.
I get errors on Safari (latest public version as of a few days ago):

First an alert: "It looks like Chrome audio autoplay is giving us troubles. Close this and tap the loading bar to continue loading audio."

Then "undefined is not an object (evaluating 'new Tone.FFT')" where I'm guessing some kind of media is supposed to go.
Opium Spray Obat Perangsang Semprot Paling Ampuh
It seems bizarre to me to define the standard 'size' of an item based on some aspect of the manufacturing process that is not part of the final product the user will ever see, or could measure.

Shoe sizes often measure the size of the last, not the foot. One shoe company I've bought from in the past had a warning on their webpage that they use different manufacturing processes for different models, so the same numbered size of two similar-looking shoes actually differ by quite a bit.
You are correct! Great observation.
Google: Today, we’re announcing a new policy to prohibit ads that promote bail bond services from our platforms. Studies show that for-profit bail bond providers make most of their revenue from communities of color and low income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable, including through opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years.

Well, you could extend that further: governments and their so called "justice systems" penalize communities of color and low income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable . . . . expensive defense attorneys, years of probation fees, court fees, supervisory fees, law enforcement budgets are among the highest costs for communities. Court appointed lawyers are almost a sure way these poor folks are going to serve time, while wealthy offenders do probation or walk.
Relative to the rise in the homeless population, there is no increase in arrests of homeless people. There's a decrease.
> I've had real truffle oil in Croatia and it is absolutely divine. A far cry from the synthetic stuff, which I can now smell a mile off. The real deal is incredibly expensive, mind.

There is no such thing as real truffle oil: take real truffles, put them in olive oil, the olive oil is going to just coat them and not extract anything. 2,4-Dithiapentane needs to be added anyway.
This is overly reductionist and places the blame on people attempting diets.

Most people I’ve found have simply been given terrible dietary advice (like eat high carb, low fat), which doesn’t work for the vast majority of people (because it elevates insulin levels, making them hungrier), and then they’re blamed later for not sticking to the program.

It’s completely ridiculous, it’s like putting a faithful man in a whorehouse and forcing him to ingest 4 doses of ecstasy. Sure it’s still his fault if he cheats, but are we going to pretend that the context doesn’t matter?

Ecstasy and whorehouses are a poor plan for fidelity, high-carb low-fat is a poor plan for fat loss.
To add to this, because the list is ordered, a multi-column list would create ambiguity in the order of ingredients.

The change in font to help legibility is the best option in this use case – and I was really surprised to see how effective it was!
This article is a sad reminder that the goopy atrocity that is PF Chang’s is the ONLY encounter swathes of Americans ever have with “Asian” food. What a shame.
Kind of late to the party: IMHO Stallman should not be the main decision point for GNU, as it stands. He should be in charge of an NGO which tries to raise awareness about Free Software, but he should not be involved in the day-to-day management of software projects, and definitely not ones with such huge visibility as GCC, Emacs, bash, etc.

Why not? GCC vs EGCS, Emacs vs XEmacs, etc. He has had a ton of huge contributions to the software world, but ask yourself this question: in today's networked world, where internet is widespread and cheap, where it is easy to organize software projects online and Open Source is quite well established, do you think that Richard Stallman would have the same visibility as he has now, as a sort of historical figure?

Also, before you answer, remember the FSF/GNU/Stallman were not the only authors of Open Source back in the day so even without him we'd have Open Source Software (MIT, Berkeley, etc.).
The statistics thrown around are 75-80% of new restaurants won't last the first two years.[1]

That day want terribly surprise me, as I spent a sizeable portion of my career travelling around fixing restaurants.

Biggest issue I've seen is people creating a restaurant because they think it will be fun, or high profit margin. (Spoiler: it is neither).

(Source: chef for 18 years).
[1] I don't have a source to back this up, it's just been repeated so many damn times. I think it would be closer to 60-70%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxN2VXPMLc
Yeah, because that's the Free Market at its finest. At least this batch of "zaps" is out in the opoen, and not classified, which I'm sure there's a bunch of those, too.
> but I do know people with strong SSH passwords that got owned up

By having their password brute forced, or some other means?
> I told the mom and pop Asian place at the local high-end mall to raise their soda can prices from $1

Did you at least try to educate these restaurant owning rubes on simple economic principles first?

This is the most annoying kind of backseat driving. Because it’s coming from someone who’s only ridden in a car and never driven.

I mean just imagine if some random customer came to your work and told you to raise your prices. Wouldn’t your immediate post-eye—roll reaction be to think, “well it’s a little more complicated than that, this person doesn’t know about...”
> Convergent evolution is a thing, it occurs, but it's generally considered super-rare

Not if you're a mossy frog -

http://fuckyeahconvergentevolution.tumblr.com/post/839362577...
fdupes is terrific, but I find that rdfind is an improved version. Can do useful things that fdupes can't.

Pdftk is a must. I use pdflatex also a lot of course. And R and psql.
No, you have to define if YT is a public forum like a public square, or if it is a private community that can set it's own rules.

You can't have it both ways, or pick the definition that you prefer each time. It has to be one or the other.
Ask a Total Prick from a Tesla Forum
Has anyone launched a product using the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) model?
Hey everyone! My name is Jessie and I run a number of travel blogging courses, and a number of my students are looking to launch their our products.

I've always done traditional launches for mine, but I'd love to provide them some insight into the MVP model.

I've taken a number of webinars/courses on it to learn more, but have never done it myself.

So, I'd love to hear from you who have!

What was the product/service?
What worked/what didnt'?
Any rookie mistakes people should be aware of?
Any favorite tools for the MVP launch, or for researching your idea before launch?
*Where did you see the most success promoting your MVP?

Any info you're willing to share would be great! You can also email me at jessie@jessieonajourney.com if you'd like to chat privately.
> It saddens me that this is a thing we want Javascript for.

It might be a small comfort, but Javascript is getting arbitrary precision integer support this year:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint
There is no latent energy. There is only potential. That energy could have been used to split water, build a city or electrified train near the hydro plant, etc, etc.

Moreover, you fail to account for human nature. I'd be shocked if bribes have not already passed hands, to allow for use of electricity for bitcoin mining near hydro power in remote areas.

Bitcoin as of now, is by volume a mechanism for letting privileged people in China shift their wealth (including Face) from resources in China to somewhere outside of China, with Bitcoin as a proxy. All the while ignoring externalities.

All the other rosy bitcoin has potential and so on, may be true, but please, look at what it is right now and say with a straight face that it's great. What is it, 90% of hash rate in China?

Edit: the bitcoin block reward is irrelevant. When more value is being parked in bitcoin, the transaction fees are going to go up to match the lost rewards. And people will pay.
Thank you. At the beginning (and even now, really) we didn't treat it as a start-up, more of a passion project. So during the first few months when I was building everything out I threw out all the standard advice and just focused on making the best thing possible for my siblings and my grandparents, no matter how long it took. I'm enjoying every moment working on this product, especially the moments with my own grandparents.

My grandpa Tirrell Cook, aka Grandpa Cook, passed away peacefully on April 9th after a tough month-long battle in the hospital. I was fortunate enough to have flexibility in my schedule to be by his side 4-5 days a week. He was truly a great man - I don't know anyone else like him - and I'll miss him dearly. I'm super grateful for all the crazy great times we had the past couple of years. I wrote more about my relationship with him here:
https://nanagram.co/blog/on-happiness-from-tirrell-cook

With his passing, I considered putting NanaGram on hold for a while but the feedback from customers has been tremendous, as well as the media:
https://mashable.com/2018/04/24/nanagrams-photo-printing-ser.... Plus my Mom, my Grandma, my future mother-in-law, and my Aunt all get a monthly NanaGram.
If it costs 2 or 3k a year your MSSP is probably not spending more than a few minutes a year understanding your logs. Realistically at that price the most likely number is zero minutes.

There is room in the industry for players that aggregate logs in interesting ways and can share threat intel and track attack patterns between customers, but a lot of the time with MSSPs you will just find yourself paying for a really expensive splunk instance.

Logs are fairly useless without occasional review (to at least verify you are collecting the things you think you are) and a decent understanding of the infrastructure they support.

I don't know your business model or capabilities though so this might not apply in your case. Hopefully not.

But there are plenty of MSSPs out there that will ingest logs, charge out the %]%{^{ for "monitoring" and add very little value. After the nth time you get alerts for PHP vulns on stuff which is clearly not running it, or something stopped sending logs months ago and no one noticed, or you find that firewalls logs from anything not in an unpublished support list don't really get parsed (yeah they will ingest it but just not tell you that nothing meaningful will happen with it..)...

To be fair, monitoring by third parties is one of those things that you can't "do and forget about it", you need shared responsibility and a clear understanding of who is doing what. None of this is cheap though.
That doesn't explain the link to Facebook at all though.