skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but in effect the DMCA does require takedowns. In theory, it doesn't, but in practice the risks imposed are large enough that platforms can't viably choose to take them.

And exactly that could work in reverse too; a non-requirement strong incentive to leave content up, by tilting the liability scales the other way, or even by imposing additional civil liability by the platform to the poster (not the government!).

The point being not that that is likely to pass congress nor something to morally aim for, but rather that the first amendment won't prevent it either: i.e. if congress wants to intervene, it has the power to. I'm not saying the original article has it's details legally water-tight, but rather that it seems implausible that reasonable legislators couldn't come up with a sufficiently first-amendment proof construction.

And the point of that is that we shouldn't be distracted by first amendment issues. They're not going to matter for regulating platforms, as the DMCA kind of proves, if that's what congress wants. So what do we want? What should we as a society want? That's the hard question, and any (reasonable) answer to that is likely not going to impacted by the first amendment.
Sounds very similar to the stereotypical concept of American “freedom,” which has very little to do with maximizing the actual diversity of options one has to choose from.
USB4 should help somewhat here by effectively being a streamlined subset of the initial USB-C + Thunderbolt 3 specs, as well as finally giving a clear definition for how hubs should work (in my eyes, the one fatal flaw of USB-C so far).
I love that feature. Photos of the actual guitar under consideration are important if you're buying a clear coat electric guitar and you want to see the wood grain you're shopping for.
Spoken like a true believer!

I'm teasing you and I'm sorry if it is offensive. But your are right that a characteristic of scientific culture is relative flexibility. What I'm saying attention to is where that famous ability to reflect and change fails, and nowhere is that more evident than in confronting the evidence that scientific culture behaves a lot more like religious culture than otherwise. And nowhere is that similarity more evident than in the piles of scientfic cultural proponents who attack anyone who dares to point out the commonality.

In fact, to me the most radical characteristic of science as a cultural reality (a religion) and the most clear proof of it is science's ability to deny that it produces cultural realism. I can sum it up:

Science is the god that claims to not exists.

So when I say something like "your science produces monsters", which is a mythological type language, a science proponent will often freak the fuck out and hide behind the fact that science is only a method. Yet science has birthed multiple technologies with the power to obliviate the planet, and mythology predicted it.

All I'm saying is that it's time to call science what it is: a god.
Questioning science by offering a better hypothesis supported by evidence is good science.

Questioning science by offering a personal opinion supported by conjecture is anti-science.

It's really quite simple.
It seems like COVID-19 has been a killing blow for many companies.

One thing I would do if I were running a brick-and-mortar retailer is to figure out how to manage same-day deliveries, using the retail locations as distributors.

Buy a used UPS/FedEx truck for every retail location, and send a guy out in the morning to make onsite deliveries.

People can come back to the store for returns, and they can order large items that would otherwise be undeliverable or heavily delayed from the likes of Amazon.

The idea of blended warehouse/retail locations could make the logistics simpler and speed up delivery, even if you use a shipping carrier to do the delivery and/or serve areas that are not within ~100mi of a retail store.
Cool. I always wanted to boot from a SCSI scanner with the OS being stored on a series of paper print outs.
Totally agree about Sweetwater's service. I had trouble finding a peculiar A/C adapter for a Roland synth. The part costs like $60, so it was never going to be a high-margin sale for Sweetwater.

Not only the the CS rep get me a predicted availability date by talking to their internal supply guy, but he also checked back in with me about a month later to see if I was all set.

I'm now highly biased towards buying from them.

EDIT1: Credit where credit is due: The CS rep was Calvin H.

EDIT2: As an interim solution I had to build my own AC-DC converter to meet the unusual specs. It was surprisingly cheap and easy. I can post details if anyone is interested.
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I think what I would take from it is that it all though the laws are the same, they do not effect each person in the same way.

How likely is it for the rich to sleep I under a bridge, beg or steal bread? Those are crimes to punish those too poor to be able to afford anything else.

Or to put it another way, it’s a crime to be poor.
But you don't go from iPod earbuds to high end audio speakers in a jump (usually). I'd say most people buying high end stuff already have a solid pair of headphones at the very least, and monitor speakers are, by definition, fairly flat in response.

If you know what you want, you know why you want it, and you know what brands/models will give you the sound you want. If you don't know what you want, a fairly standard pair of monitor speakers will sound terrific.

Like I have a hard time believing someone who picks up set of HS series Yamaha monitor is going to be like "Oh wow, these sound too forward for me".

That being said, I do think speakers can make a big different. I have a buddy who has a set of Ohms speakers from 72, and listening to music from that era (like Led Zepplin) does sound better than listening to it on something more modern, because it was mixed with similar speakers.

It's cork sniffing at a certain point to me, but people who are really into it can really hear it.
Nice stuff, but what's with ktlint?
For me anecdotally, it’s Sweetwater that’s been killing Guitar Center, not Amazon. Like many, I bought a ton of music gear during the pandemic. At first I split my purchases between GC and Sweetwater, but over time it became clear that SW shipped more reliably, had better inventory, was quicker to respond to questions, and sent candy in every order.
But what is causing the prices in US and EU to vary so much? Im a cyclist, and even with a race team discount, the EU prices are often 10% lower than through my LBS.

Are Shimano and others just gouging in the US market because they can (and damn the impact on local retailers)?
So waifus are weird, but feet and pony generators are not.

Talk about bias.
If other people use and debug your code please consider NOT using “#define” meta programming. They are a nightmare to debug.
We were certainly in the top 5% at the time. “Rich kids” would be a fair description in my opinion. But to me, “children of the wealthy” as used by the article carries a connotation of having enough wealth to have power and connections. My mom made over $100k/year as the top sales associate at her furniture store, but you don’t meet many Congressmen that way!
Amazon is still pretty second-tier when it comes to instrument sales. I'd imagine that Reverb.com has hurt GC's sales much more than Amazon has: especially since it gives both new and used options for anything GC might be selling at any given time. And although I don't know a lot about sellers' relations with reverb, it makes it much easier for me to buy from non-chain music stores from around the country.
What for me wasn't clear about the article is: Who is playing the tobacco industry now?
> Tipping is about waiving money around so other human beings literally cater to my every whim, on demand. IF I deem their service appropriate, and IF I'm in the right mood, I might give them some of my money.

The thing is, that’s isn’t even how it functions! It functions as a social norm with a very strong taboo against violating a customary minimum tip (often around 15-20% of the receipt).
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To the extent that epidemiology is an applied science, it does not on its own “herald the end of science.”

But even in that field, ludicrously simple and narrow-minded theories that are “tested” by running computer games, and then memory-holed as soon as they are no longer politically useful, are a big part of the problem.
What news is that?
I assume you mean reclocking support, it is possible to reclock the older Kepler architecture on open source drivers but it still underperforms

Kepler is anywhere from 2x to 10x faster on the proprietary driver here: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-n...
I thought manufacturers in at least some product categories would feel they had to step in to provide showrooming options. But with some minor exceptions e.g. camera manufacturer displays with an employee there to answer questions like at B&H, they really haven't. There are probably still enough physical chains to muddle through (Best Buy, Staples, Home Depot/Lowes, etc.) to cover a lot of the mainstream big ticket items people would buy.

As for Barnes and Noble, I'm not sure they provide a particularly valuable service. I can see previews of a lot of books online, read reviews as I browse, and get most things in print in a couple of days. I'm actually not sure the last time I was in a B&N.
Amusingly, I read the same as you did. Even knowing that was the wrong reading, it is hard to see correctly for some reason. Yay for reading issues! ;)
Not much of a point in running Linux on Apple hardware, macOS is still by far the better option here. Linux needs a lot of work to be able to compete with macOS.
Obligatory link to my list of alternative BEAM languages.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...
> relatively few children of affluence fall below the ranks of the upper-middle class

Everyone talks about upward mobility, but we rarely talk about downward mobility. It's not impossible to go from "rags to riches", but who ever goes from riches to rags? It's not a true "meritocracy" unless the system reliably impoverishes the idiot children of the wealthy, but that almost never happens. The wealthy are protected, regardless of merit, and they take up space at or near the top of the system, reducing the number of positions open to more qualified candidates.
A holistic design and programming curriculum
Sure but the amount of time you have to spend on cram school starts to make it not worth the points gain. The top schools all reject a bunch of 1600 scorers every year. If all you have going for you are good grades + good SAT you probably aren't going to get into an elite place. Sure it'll help you get into a tier 2 school, but at that point you're usually better off with a public option.
I completely agree. For those who haven't experienced Connections-style history, four episodes are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XetplHcM7aQ

My favorite is this one about proto-computers that came about due to the Black Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6yL0_sDnX0
If content is posted onto a site that is obviously hateful, the site has the choice to keep it up or take it down. The outcome of that choice is a political act (to not act is to act). The severity of the hate speech might matter, but ultimately regardless of which path they take, they've taken a path.

In your whiteboard analogy, if you were giving an interview to a candidate and walked into a meeting room that had a swastika on a whiteboard and opted not to erase it, as a candidate I would assume that was an endorsement.

Not taking a side is taking the side of whoever is being most aggressive. "I don't want to get involved" is getting involved.
The US invests more in education than it does in the military.

In 2019 the US spent roughly 720 billion on the military.

Public spending on elementary and secondary (high schools) was about 740 billion. That doesn't count all spending on public colleges or any spending on private schools both of which are substantial.
Not really.

All launches of Mercury era rockets had non-crewed test flights of the spacecraft. And they were on proven boosters. One benefit of using ICBMs is they start out autonomous.

Both launch vehicles for Gemini (Atlas and Titan) were again completely autonomous because they were ICBMs. They were tested and proven before astronauts flew them.

The first Saturn V launch was not crewed.

As I understand all US spacecraft were largely autonomous, especially in the boost phase.

SpaceX has refined that to automate docking but it’s not new.
Investment per se is not the reason the US does not have enough good schools. The US spends more on K-12 education than almost any nation, including South Korea. The reasons are more complicated and (probably) far less politically pleasing.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
So, the answer is, blue.
Ironically, also posted on HN this morning - "Fender sales boom as guitar playing surges during the pandemic (cnbc.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25179031
GC/sam ash have been pretty lackluster for quite some time - other than maybe some traditional instruments. don't feel like paying out the nose for some patch cables? want some actual pro-audio level monitors? good luck finding them there. places like sweetwater/vintage king/etc fill that need for the most part, but good luck living in the radius of the actual stores...so in this case, online ordering is paramount.
Very cool. The way of adding dependencies is a little janky, but it gets the job done and I'm not sure how else to do it.
to parlay her fame into promoting a podcast about her by abumrad

Citation needed.

It's not "making the rounds," which suggests that it is a planned media campaign. He was interviewed on one show and other media companies are relating what happened on that show. Her donation was back in the spring, unrelated to the attention she is now drawing. According to the New York Times, the recent notoriety was fueled by her fans, and started when the results of the vaccine testing were revealed.
> E.g., if your effect is writing to stdout, you could rewrite all those changes

Could you? Once you write something into stdout, as far as your program knows it could already be sent across the world and turned into a set of bank transactions, or missiles fired.
Counterpoint:

An IPO is a sale of equity. DoorDash and AirBnB wouldn't be going public if they really believed this rush to suburbs and smaller urban areas were sustainable and accretive to long-term profit.

Either the pandemic goes away and they go back to business as usual, or it doesn't and the economy gets a lot worse. In both cases, this moment is potentially the best it's gonna get for DoorDash and AirBnB, and an IPO is a way to hedge against that.
> It seems like COVID-19 has been a killing blow for many companies.

Yes, but it is worth pointing out that COVID is killing already-sick businesses. Guitar Center was doomed from the moment that Bain Capital bought it in the early-2000s and started raiding it.

COVID will be listed as the immediate cause-of-death for many, many businesses, but what made them susceptible to a shock is the private equity vampire.
It would be sold to the public as a spinoff IPO. But if it were to be sold to another company, it would be an all or partly stock deal to avoid the need for a large cash transfer. Stock deals allow these large valuations.
Maybe Usenet can have a comeback.
Interesting, it looks like you see it in different light. Really, my point was that, first, the problem of automatic mapping doesn't need to be solved - its ok to do it manually IMO, second, I'm even unsure that OO is more efficient in data processing. This is definitely subjective, but in my experience in most cases OO didn't add up much to the clarity of my intentions.

To be honest the incentive for me to post this was mostly accumulated irritatation by the fact that a mere side effect of the mapping turned to countless attempts to model SQL in the host language. Really, IMO, all of them are worse than SQL, all of them waste your time spent learning them, with all of them sooner or later you find yourself in a position when you figure how to express the SQL you want with the DSL at hand (again, it is hard to qualify this other than wasting time).
Reminds me of the prestige low-digit Slashdot user IDs (used to?) hold.

(I'm /. 309880!) ;-)
Sure, but doesn’t make it a (completely) false statement.
If you're doing automation of some kind in the bay, embedded has roughly comparable payscales to other dev jobs. Beyond that, no. You'll generally be paid slightly less than webdevs (but still far more than most engineers make).
Mark Zuckerberg's Ponzi Scheme (2019)
Which works questionable well in an infinite scrolling situation.

Previously you'd get a token in the URL that was some type of state that hopefully let you resume, but it didn't work if you spent too long reading comments and then pressed the back button.

The new reddit UI solved this problem by simply not having users ever "leave" the home page.
Suggestion: Drive-by downvotes should be weighted differently from downvotes accompanying replies.

Altho I would rather disable all drive-by downvotes if it were upto me.
It used as a religious proxy when joined with "believe in science". It's plain as day right in front of everyone that a "belief" in science is directly responsible for people to not believe science "deniers".
I suspect YouTube would predict the popularity of videos and only cache where it matters (low anticipated popularity videos would be pushed to CDN if they performed better than expected). YouTube-dl in some cases gets my full pipe speed, in others I see it as low as 100kb/s which is evidence to my theory.

That being said the data storage problem they have is insurmountable. I don’t think they ever delete low view-count content, so I’d be curious to know about their storage tradecraft.
Interesting -- which compilers accept this? gcc and clang reject it in C and C++ modes with a message like "error: pasting formed '//', an invalid preprocessing token".
The article used a lot of words to not really say anything.

The biggest thing is knowing your customer and your market. Product-market fit. Get it thru analytics, experience or customer interaction... but that’s job #1. The best product managers know their market terribly well by experience but also trust the analytics to know when to veto their gut.
If this next page is accurate, then Apple is not the only one offering an expensive light laptop without a fan:

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/6520-fanless-ultrabooks/
My issue with SBC is they often under deliver in expectations much less exceed. Most of that has to do with arm/half baked encoders and software compatibility especially long-term.

This makes me question what ARM will look like in the traditional compute environment such as desktop/laptops. With the exception of Apple because of their complete vertical integration how will platforms handle and developers changing ARM architectures?

Please correct me if I'm wrong but it means if you purchased software that works with one architecture it'll have to be updated/compiled. From the end user perspective repurchased...

Coming from a Windows background we will no longer enjoy the backwards compatibility like we have with x86 if ARM becomes more mainstream. Just look at the horrible fragmentation of Android as a precursor and a glimpse at what development could look like which is through an app store.
You can use almost the same description for Brazil. Reading it made me relate 90% to even the small issues (honking, respecting pedestrians on pedestrian crossings and so on).

I think it's more of a common theme to unequal and impoverished countries where enforcement of law is tenuous at best and people don't trust others. If trust collapses everyone only cares about themselves and their loved ones, if bribing a police officer will help your kid to get out of a DUI... So be it, you will be considered an idiot if you don't do what the rest of society does, whatever small corruption or abuse that is. Because people know they will get away with it so why hinder yourself for such a thing as moral and values?

I know it's a very broad generalisation of huge societies, unfortunately it's my experience growing up in Brazil and why I can't ever live there again.
I believe that the author of this paper paints a simplified view of the world, and the examples they draw on do not imply the conclusion they are proposing.

For example, in the case of big tobacco, the stance that "smoking is safe" may have more similarities to the "Covid-19 is an existential threat and we must do everything possible to minimize death". Why do I claim this? Well, both positions rely on dogma in the guise of science, both positions are the commonly accepted cannon of the time, and both positions are propped up by bureaucrats masquerading and scientists to further their own self interest.

I would advise readers to not see the world in such a black and white fashion. We should actively be discussing the scientific literature, disseminating facts and figures, and discussing how to prevent public health risk without infringing upon individual freedoms and causing economic (economic factors have a downstream health and human cost too, particularly those in lower socioeconomic strata) damage.

So in summary, science is not dogma. Science is a toolkit we use to investigate the natural world. Caricaturing those holding different worldviews as "science deniers" is not constructive to public discourse.

Be compassionate in your world-view, open-minded to new evidence, pragmatic about solutions, but do not yield your faculties for rational thought and skepticism to the "expert class".
american musical supply and zzounds are pretty good as well with the finance options. just don't usually get as much boutique stuff as sweetwater does
It's sad that so much well-written code is proprietary.

I'm currently doing a masters in CS as a career change from mechanical engineering and what surprises me is how little time we spend learning to read code. It would be nice to have a Great Works type program for code bases
I'm not sure people realize how cheap small chips are that aren't on the bleeding edge of the process.
I think this article is a pretty good description of good pm. I’ve both been pm myself and managed teams og pms, and anyone fitting this description would be a great hire.
Thank you! I never thought to look for that option.

I've actually reduced my gimp usage because I find myself hovering over ever tool, repeatedly, because the new icons are too cryptic and low-information. I switched back to "Legacy", though "Color" might work as well (they just don't seem as understandable at first glance, though perhaps I'm biased towards the familiar here.)
“Permissive Security” Option Removed from Apple Silicon Recovery Guide
I feel that's what community colleges should be.. I went in high school in Virginia, and I know smart people, that wanted to stay close to home, for family reasons, and they went to community college. The mix of a community college is mix of very smart students, average folks, to straight up dummies.... but at least they have a second chance to perform well.

Some one that does well, in a community college, should be transfered into a proper 4 year college. I know a lot of state schools do this, but it should be more common/normalized.

Plus community colleges tend to be much cheaper.