skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who is interested in how they arrange their live sound should watch "Kraftwerk: Wellenfeldsynthese in der Kunstsammlung NRW"[0]. The concept they are using is called "Wave field synthesis"[1]. I was lucky enough to attend 7 of those 8 concerts and it was just amazing since i'm following KW for many years now and attended a lot of their concerts.

What others got wrong in this thread is that they never actually built something themselves but they had the ideas and the people surrounding them that could make those ideas reality (those guys in Bonn). They were students of Karlheinz Stockhausen and you could absolutely hear that. If you listen to some of their first recordings[2], imagine this would be played on a synth instead of traditional instruments... and now you got KW like you know it.

If you are interested in some of the history about the scene in Düsseldorf you should def. watch "Keine Atempause – Düsseldorf, der Ratinger Hof und die neue Musik"[3]. Ratinger Hof was a mixture of artists, musicians and all kinds of crazy people.
Funny (private) side note: When i was drinking wine with the dad of an old friend of mine, he told me that during his studies he was the driver for some of the now most famous artists (Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, etc.) and musicians back then. This guy had some crazy stories and since i know my friend for 20 years it was mind blowing that his dad drove some of my favorite artists/musicians and he never talked about it. ahhh.. so much memories.. Ralf and Florian are/were very kind persons and it always was nice to talk to them. They modeled much of the sound as we know it today.

This whole area (Cologne/Bonn/Düsseldorf) is very rich when it comes to modern music. There once was a "Studio für elektronische Musik" (Studio for Electronic Music)[4] by the WDR (german radio/television). In the later years there were only "private" tours (thanks to Volker Müller - the sound engineer of Stockhausen!) and it saddens me that it's not open to the public anymore. They moved all of it outside of Cologne and now it's rotting in some basement. Real history that's just abandoned...[5]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_bhcpE91A
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoFHdlMrtI
[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lrdFOHRxuE
[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(W...
[5] - https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/eingemottet-in-kellerra...
No, the rules for Einsteinian gravity are not simple. Absolutely not. The underlying rules are not simple either. Simply calculating the instantaneous change in trajectory of an idealized two body system under Einsteinian gravity is an ordeal, and idealized bodies are a lot less useful under Einsteinian gravity than under Newtonian gravity.

I agree, it is indeed a chaotic system, and is even worse than that because there is no simple rule any agent is following.

If it is the case that not renting a building will result in higher revenue because rents will be higher in the future, then that building will not be rented out and neither will similar buildings, which will continue increasing rent at increasing speeds; and at the end rent will increase towards infinity. The simpler explanation is that no, not renting a unit does not lead to higher revenue, as leases are at most YoY, the YoY increase in rent would have to be over 50% for this to make sense, which isn't the case, and in fact actors in the market simply do not act as one can accept in any way, which is why you can't use supply and demand, or any basic economics for that matter.

For rent, for instance, you could have supply completely equal or even significantly higher than demand, as in there are significantly more buildings than tenants and more empty buildings that tenants looking for landlords, and still see prices increase. Indeed, if the landlords are coordinated or if they know that their tenants will not act rationally in the economic sense, you can simply have a system where all landlords continuously increase rent every year. And there is nothing that any tenant can do, so they have to pay increasing amounts of rent every year. In such a system, because commodities are not perfectly fungible, because actors are very far from fully rational, because knowledge from every actor is imperfect and because there are hidden costs both monetary and non-monetary, you can have a system where supply is higher than demand, and yet prices rise. No matter how you dice it, no matter which definition of supply and demand you use, the laws of supply and demand aren't being followed. Rental markets tend to follow this pattern, in even more complex ways with other effects that lead to supply and demand breaking down even more.

This is why trying to use macro-economic laws such as supply and demand without carefully going through each assumption behind them is a very dangerous mistake.
If you're insulting my writing, we'd both be better off if you were more explicit (I have to admit that second sentence is a bit of a mess). Otherwise I have no idea what you're on about.
Hotel and flight companies do that, it’s a terrible user experience.
Got it, that checks out. You have a very strict definition of science that I'm not sure how I feel about, we're dangerously close to a no-true-scotsman problem, but I respect the idealism.
"According to his LinkedIn profile, he is now an analyst for the private equity firm Blackstone. He is 22."

What does "he is 22" have to do with anything? He's joining as an analyst at the age that people join as analysts, right out of college. And the thing about his only experience being his family wealth fund is not correct - from his linkedin, he did a 3 month summer internship last year at blackrock and presumably got a full time offer at the end of it. I don't understand how a rich kid getting a job as an analyst as a PE firm after doing a summer internship there is the most compelling example of people "failing up," especially in the context of the examples the rest of the article brings up (nepotism in the white house). This article is just so poorly written. An analyst position is an example of everything wrong with american capitalism? The fact that a guy that went to USC (maybe we should focus on how he got into university), the fact that a guy who went to university and interned at a firm then got an entry level job at the firm - that's a "glass floor?" The article acts as if it's shocking that someone with "two failed ventures" ends up as an analyst. If you have a successful venture, you're not going to start as an analyst! That's the bottom of the ladder! That's like an 85k base salary in NY + bonus - that's not a glass floor for a billionare! People make more money in their first year coming out of state school in tech jobs in NY, you ahve to move up the ladder to make real money, and blackstone isn't going to move him up the ladder if he doesn't do a good job. Yes, he always has his wealth fund to fall back to, but "rich people have intergenerational wealth to stay not poor" is not as compelling a headline as "rich people are stealing our jobs" I guess.
Nobody implied this. Clearly stated was the concern of the majority of development being in the PRC impacting US government use of Keybase.
If I argued with everyone willing to argue with me, I would never stop typing. I explained how my comment wasn't a technical comment yet you still tried to talk technicalities with me, so I disengaged.

Btw if you take "nobody argued with me" as evidence that you're right, you're gonna end up with a warped worldview.
Even in places where population is decreasing, rent finds a way to increase.
Actually this was all released a couple of days ago, just took a bit of time for them to write the blog post.
Coronavirus found in semen of infected men, might be sexually transmitted
Elon Musk: Neuralink Will Do Human Brain Implant in “Less Than a Year”
Oh, and there is construct as well, not to be forgotten (C++ homeserver). It federates, and works with most clients, though it lacks a few features (link previews, a couple others). I've interacted with a few of its users over federation, though I haven't tried it myself.

Compared to synapse's resource use, it seems completely anemic (I've read that the lead developer makes it run on a 800 MHz pentium, though that could have been a joke).

https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/construct
>GIVE TROLL TO TROLL

The troll, who is not overly proud, graciously accepts the gift and not having the most discriminating tastes, gleefully eats it.
You what? Biden won because the public liked him more than Bernie, as you could see by the polls and the vote counts.
> There are plenty of opportunities to monetize once there are lots of users.

> never doing anything sketch with personal data.

Does not compute.
I don't have any direct insight into why the Atom people chose Chromium but I can see a few reasons that are more likely than "features":

-- Chromium was faster. (For Electron apps you don't really care about Web compat, where Firefox was ahead of Chromium for a while, but you do care about performance.)

-- Chromium was already multiprocess and had some other architectural advantages where Gecko was still catching up. So, less upcoming architectural churn.

-- Chromium had Google's resources committed to it. (Google's shine has worn off a bit since then but it's still a powerful effect.)
What does Etereum have to do with keybase?
Typically it's not make $3 and spend $4, it could even be, make $3 and spend $2.01. Labor rate going up $1 doesn't mean unit price goes up $1.
I've never had aspirin to my knowledge. I wonder how it's possible it's been gone for decades and it's still somehow a known product name.
It's a lot nicer to use on the GitHub side, and more organized (.github/workflows/foo.yaml vs a yaml in the root of the project for all "Actions")
The U.S. only has two parties with meaningful amounts of support -- Republican and Democrat -- and it has been this way (with few notable exceptions) since the 1800s. I've been told this seems very weird coming from countries with multi-party governments.

Ostensibly, the Democrats are the "party of the working people," but a lot of modern leftists (myself included) would argue that the vast majority are barely more worker-friendly than the Republican party.
>The fact is that they're not really comparable projects; they have different audiences and different goals.

Agree on the second part, but two messaging solutions can and should be compared. 1-to-1 (text/voice/video) messaging is entirely possible with both Signal and Matrix, and evaluating that narrow use case is a reasonable way to compare the two.
I'd be interested to understand how this works in practice, especially small claims court (which is probably where many credit card debts end up at). From my understanding, small claims judgments are very tough to actually enforce, no longer show up on your credit report, and the court system does nothing to help you collect. Without getting into moralizing and just from a pure P&L perspective- how can it make financial sense for a big company to have one of its attorneys spend the day in court, when you're probably not going to collect on the debt....?
No matter how risky it is, there's a price at which it's still profitable (in terms of risk-adjusted expected present value or whatever) to finance it. In this case, based on a sibling comment, that price was a ~8% credit spread - which, if there weren't a global pandemic, the creditors would happily be earning right now.
Code Samples from O’Reilly’s Programming Quantum Computers
Well, starting for no ads, lower price, and maybe much simpler. Wetransfer its a good alternative. For Sendfiles.online I checked the options available in many similar sites and combine them to get something small, fast and easy to use.
Touché! My parents aspired to be in the BBC Micro class so I ended up with a BBC B but I lacked the cash to buy me anything to go with it so I use my Dad's Hifi tape deck to copy and load games.

Back on topic, few data points:

Matthew Smith wrote Manic Miner for the Speccy on a Model III Tandy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Smith_(games_programme...

In 1987 the Oliver Twins were writing Spectrum games on an Amstrad: http://www.olivertwins.com/history/page/7 - I would think the cross-compiler and cable arrangement would have been pretty common.

Imagine were developing C64 games on something that wasn't a C64: https://youtu.be/ZoDh61sgCOg?t=155 and also a lot of detail about the Speccy specifically: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/3314/how-...

There's quite a long discussion about the options available here: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9006/back...
The problems were identified early on but the NTSB, FAA, and their own engineers were overruled by the business people: see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/business/boeing-737-max-c...
The Changing Value of Money
That's not my assumption, as I explicitly stated. I wanted to show the possibility of a union-favorable explanation of the OPs premise.

In case you are curious about my actual assumption; I think there are a lot of externalities that are not priced-in in the contract, which will naturally favor the more organized side, which happens to be capital than labor most of the time. I don't know if exploitation is necessarily the right adjective for every case, but I believe there is a large potential for asymmetry in untracked disutility an individual can get out a transaction with their employer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23105060
A modern code editor (or better yet, an IDE) is going to also have a file browser next to the editor proper, and usually some other panes like embedded terminal etc. You can also use whitespace to provide a minimap of the code on the margin - the larger it is, the more useful it is for quick navigation.

I run VSCode maximized on a 27" monitor, and the editor field is just about wide enough for 150 columns, with all this other stuff.
How to write CHANGELOGs for companies and Open Source
Meanwhile, how many non-union software developers do you know who don't have medical benefits or sick time? It's the nature of the occupation rather than the presence of a union that determines those things in the long term.

And if you go and unionize workers in an industry where the workers can't command that kind of premium, the next thing that happens is the company goes out of business or moves its operations to Mexico or similar, and then how are the unionized workers doing on the unemployment line?
There are initiatives to provide reproducibke builds - you build the code youself and get a binary identical to the one being distributed.

This is mainly taking place in Linux distros at the moment, bit Fdroid is doing something related on Android, building all the apps they host on their own infrastructure.
There is also the insertion loss and physical size of the filter to consider. It's a four variable problem where you can only optimize for any two.
It’s pretty simple to reverse engineer an Android binary. While most Android apps ship with code obfuscation, it’s relatively easy to get around. Using that method, one could determine if the publicly available app came from the same source code (it would at least allow you to determine no extra nasty bits had been added).

iOS is a little harder. If you have the dsym files it’s pretty trivial to the same exercise as Android. NHSX could choose to release them so people could again verify it more or less matches.
People don't get disappeared for actively disagreeing with the government.
People dress very cheaply now. I'm always amazed from historic photos, it seems the further back you go the more money they spent on appearance.

These days it just looks like no one cares. I'm surprised upmarket stores lasted this long.
> How do you get rid of renormalization?

First, why do you need to?

Second, renormalization only has to be done at all in perturbation theory, and perturbation theory is just an approximation anyway. There is plenty of work done in non-perturbative QFT, in which renormalization doesn't even arise at all.

> Are those not incompatible paradigms to the best of our knowledge?

I'm not sure what you mean. Different approximations to the same underlying theory don't have to be compatible unless their domains of validity overlap, and even then the only compatibility they have to have is that they have to make predictions that are consistent with each other.

More generally, s/approximations/models/ in the above, since approximations are one kind of model.

> "really not any different" and "strings instead of point particles" don't seem compatible

Why not? There's nothing about the fundamentals of QFT that says it can only apply to point particles, or that applying it to point particles and applying it to strings are inconsistent. They're different models.

> it is in conflict with other paradigms that attempt to "complete" the Standard Model in other ways.

To the extent that the different attempts at a fundamental theory are inconsistent with each other (e.g., string theory vs. loop quantum gravity, which AFAICT are not consistent with each other), yes, I suppose they could be considered different paradigms. But there will never be a transition from one of them to the other. The most that could happen is that we transition from our current theories as the best we have, to our current theories being approximations to whichever more fundamental theory wins out. (Or it's possible that none of the current candidates will win out.)
Sure, Bowie was right that the industry overall would swiftly move to a situation where many people are getting music for free (or for next to free on streaming) and artists tour to actually make money. Yet he himself was still able to spend nearly a decade from 2004–2012 not actively working, living entirely off his royalties that persisted thanks to those copyright laws, so things didn’t develop as suddenly and drastically as he suggested.
I think you’re underestimating their strategy.

Disney does a lot to segment visitors with both after hours events and even ultra premium packages. However, they are also making money from food, merchandise, and hotel’s so they want attendance to be near maximum capacity year round and adjust prices weekly to get people in the doors. Further they want long lines at major attractions to get people to spend money at gift shops rather than do free rides all day.
Clear Command – History
Holy-moley - you know I’d never thought very hard about how alloca would work if it skipped a stack guard. Here’s a question though - wouldn’t you have the same problem if you just had a really really big stack frame in your function? If you enter the function and then call another function before touching any locals, you could jump past stack guards pushing arguments on to the stack, no? Presumably the compiler needs to anticipate this and grab those pages like in the alloca case?
> Look at tax rates between WW2 & Reagan and the growth in the wealth of the middle class during the same period

Are you talking about income taxes? Because, yes you're right that Federal income taxes are nowhere near what they were post-WW2, but...

> and the growth in the wealth of the middle class during the same period

...the wealth of the upper class has grown to historic levels because the vast VAST majority of upper-class wealth right now (top 0.1%) is 1) in unrealized capital gains, and 2) once capital gains are realized, they are taxed at the same rate that they were all the way up until the 70's, where it spent a brief decade moderately higher than it is today.

Bezos doesn't have $100B+ sitting around in a checking account, and a WW2-era marginal tax rate wouldn't really raise as much as you think it would. Most of the richest billionaires have a salary of $1.
Except for "full alphabet", all of that applies to the English alphabet as much as it does for the Greek alphabet. But both of you seem to disagree on what "literate", "very familiar" and "historically" really mean. Which is fine, language is not made to be precise - luckily we can use precise symbols where precise meaning matters, not English phrases. For example in math and physics.
I would recommend Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series . I’ve read them all. Additionally, you don’t have to start at the beginning either, as they were not translated in order. My favorite was the Leopard.
A Case Study of Complex Table Design
I dislike articles like this. They take a situation that isn't representative of the workplace everywhere, generalize it, and come up with a universal "never do X!" headline that grabs attention.

There's nothing wrong with deadlines, even arbitrary deadlines. Without them it's easy to get lost down a side path of "oh, it would be nice if we could do X". They serve to focus attention. The thing is not deadlines, but how you work within them. If it's arbitrary, Work backwards from the deadline to what can reasonably done, and present a detailed account of those estimates. If you have a hard-charging "just get it done" boss, part of your responsibilities is to manage upwards, educating your leadership on what your job entails so they can have reasonable expectations. Most managers are not actually pointy-haired bosses, but you have to work towards that relationship: if you treat them like a PHB, you'll give them no way to evaluate your work except their own faulty metrics.

Will this work in every situation? No. But that isn't representative of some universal problem with deadlines, it's representative of poor management.

here's nothing wrong with setting dates. There's nothing wrong with setting arbitrary dates
Yeah, but what does it really mean to "fit the content", if it doesn't fit the window at any size, but can reflow horizontally - as in e.g. most webpages? Mac apps seem to prefer increasing the vertical size until the window is as tall as it can be, but for horizontal, they usually stop before they reach full screen width - even if this would fit more content on the screen.

It's supposed to be "smart", in a sense that it gives you the largest window size that it considers usable. But that's too subjective an assessment to enable it by default, and even more so to not make it configurable at all.
2038 is diabolically awful - the UK already goes thousands of hours a year without any coal power online, with a right-wing government that has no particular focus on climate issues.

Issues with storing nuclear waste are almost entirely (as far as I'm aware) idiot policy from past rushes to generate weapons material and NIMBY-ism.

Nuclear waste isn't harmless, but coal power stations kill people every day.
> the next thing that happens is the company goes out of business

As long as the company pays its owners more than their lowest-paid employees, it can afford to pay their employees more, without going out of business.

There's plenty of profitable firms that can't just pack up and move to Mexico.
> Or I see people pulling them down and only pulling them back up when they walk by someone or go into a store

Where a surgical mask is 95% effective at preventing transmission; This is reasonable use.

*If only pulled up before interaction and taken off only after interaction, and treating hands that touched the mask as contaminated after taking it off, you maintain the 30% reduction in contracting the virus.

> or to be just standing around on their front porch/stoop aimlessly

If they're not within 6' of another person; there is nothing inherently bad about being outside.
0.021 usd per kwh. Farmer are sparsely located, so linking them to the main grid is costly as they need to pay for it by themselves.
I'm glad someone else sees this the way I do. What the blog writer did was tinker with something. They didn't engineer it.

I was a mechanical engineer prior to switching to software. As a general rule, the things we do in software are very distant from engineering.
> I think the reason LBOs are so hated

It feels like economic strip mining to me.

p.s. thank you for the clear explanations