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You have already made it abundantly clear that you disagree with me. Restating that you disagree with me adds nothing to this discussion. We already know you disagree with me. Your personal opinion and my personal opinion differing here is of no real importance to me.

What does bother me is that this article is generating so many grayed out and downvoted comments because of the manner in which it was written. If you think there is something useful to be gained from the piece, you know a helluva lot more about programming than I do. You are in a much better position than I am to leave a top level comment that will help turn this pile of manure (by which I mean the comments on HN) into something thought provoking and interesting.

I'm in no position to do that.

My goal is to see better discussion here. As someone who has studied things like Social Psychology, I'm only qualified to comment on the defects in this and why it's generating such lousy comments. I'm not qualified to tell people where to look for some meat here and help them focus on that. You are.
I've been dabbling with emacs for a number of years now, and I felt that my init/config file was pretty hefty at (currently an all-time high of) 186 lines. Then a few years ago I encountered Sacha's and my mouth literally dropped. I've always wanted to ask, and here's as good a place as any. Is her config an outlier in its size and breadth? I feel like it almost has to be.
Feeling quite justified in making this post 4 years ago:
https://reddit.com/r/css/comments/5zcvzc/hdr_in_css/
Std: Any – comparison with void* and motivating examples
It is a nice complement, as compressed air from a turbo or super charger is very hot. The nitrous cools it down. People also use a water or alcohol spray for a similar reason.
off topic, I've enjoyed the talk referred to

https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin...
Learn about crypto in language you can understand
I have a 2 yr old and I want him to have a brilliant childhood.

But we're not having a pine tree taking up space (we live a in 2bdr apartment), dying and making a mess for no good reason.

But then, there are so many Xmas things that don't make sense in Australia.
> So even by your "accidental overdose" criteria, water would be a "hard drug".

smh...what a load of nonsense. you really put so much effort into misunderstanding what I said.

I specifically said "how easy is it too overdose accidentally" meaning depending on the DEGREE it could be labeled a hard drug or not. point is that from the very beginning I basically said that "I always thought: X, but don't quote me on that - i.e. enlighten me about what's the correct classification". It's as if you are just trying to actively misunderstand me so you can have someone to argue with...
Docker still very simple to use, wish i could do the same with some systemd/containerd integration.
As a desktop support person I have removed so many of this companies toolbars and adware over the years all I can say is thank you.
They sure do a lot of disparate things. Is the issue with only one or a few of the areas in which they are involved? Surely vimeo, the daily beast are uninvolved in this?
Excel query language is now turing complete, so I think WASM runtime can now be emulated in Excel.

I think Excel can now run QEMU, come to think of it.

(without macros. With macros, Excel can run anything.)
Racism, sexism, personal attacks in intellectual circles -- such things all tend to work more or less the same way. Attack them in a way that has plausible deniability and is socially acceptable for some reason.

But if you look at the overall pattern of behavior, the real point is to attack or exclude a particular person or particular group of people.

Among other things I've had a college class in Social Psychology. I object to a gossipy piece of garbage getting so many upvotes on HN while bringing down the quality of discussion here.

If you find something meaty in his analysis of pg's work, then why don't you comment on that instead of arguing with me?

If my comments here are so off the mark, why do they have so much attention? This piece is failing to generate meaty discussion. It's mostly generating hot takes about Paul Graham and not commentary on the criticism of his work because the framing of the piece doesn't really fit with the idea that it's about criticizing his work.

If it were really about criticizing his work, what we should see here is debate about whether or not that criticism holds water. And I'm not really seeing that.
>explaining in painful detail that the soundtrack to Fart Chalice IV actually takes advantage of phrygian pentameter and post-modern phrasing to create artificial dissonance between the fourth and sixteenth notes in an alternating jazz-inspired progression.

> I can just barely read music. I can’t deal with that!

Sadly, the author has this backwards. Reading music has almost nothing whatsoever to do with the music theory (admittedly gobbledy-gook) in the first paragraph.

If you're a coder, you can do music theory. You might choose not to, and that's OK. But don't make it out to be harder than it is. There are lots of places to start.

The problem with not reading music is not that you won't be able to understand music theory. It's that it is very hard to find anyone who will explain it you (in person or in writing) without the terminology (and conceptual skeleton) of western notation and 18th century western tonal harmony. Neither of these things are actually central at all, but good luck avoiding it if you were ever to try.
Which solution do you think of as simple?
It cost more to complete and has less content than GTA III. It's not one of the most complex by any metric.

I don't know people bother to defend billion dollar corporations in the habit of lying and misrepresenting their products. People paid them money for a product that was misrepresented in false advertising, I don't know it could be clearer than that as to why they're justifiably outraged.

99.99% of the criticism did not include intimidation, death threats or anything along those lines. CDPR used it as a deflectionary tactic from their own business practices.

And no, delays like this are not common. Games get delayed when they're many months away from release (it's obvious then that it's not done). Less than a month? They're either lying or so incompetent they don't know their own progress. Neither excuse the false claims.

It's a billion dollar publicly listed corporation. This isn't some indie studio.
Why do most top performers have the highest count of commits and pull requests?
What an awful format. We couldn't have just had a centralized site?
https://www.instapaper.com/

Mainly for the function to send to my kindle for less eye strain.

(Shameless Plug):
I am developing a sharable bookmarking app that allows sharing of bookmarks:

http://axomark.herokuapp.com/
It's a chicken and egg problem where there is not much point in building your own whizbang streaming platform and have no one come to it.

Twitch is getting increasingly ad-nnoying and you can _ad_ barely _ad_ watch _ad_ it _ad_ an _ad_ ymore.

That said that's still where you get the viewers and that's what people will pick. The ad-revenue sharing being the carrot here which will probably mean it's going to be successful for a lot longer.
> every employee/team gets their own mini-fridge

That's not startup normal. Maybe having beer and liquor bottles in the kitchen or snack room or whatever but half empty bottles littering the CEO's desk and every employee or even every team having their own mini-fridge is odd.

I've worked at startups with a "drinking culture" and startups with a "board game culture" and I'll take the board game culture every time. Doesn't mean you can't let loose and drink, too - but drinking as the central activity quickly turns a business into a frat house. I do have some great memories celebrating milestones, new hires, etc with early stage coworkers :D
f = O(n) makes no sense either. It should be f ∈ O(n). However, notation serves us and we don't serve the notation. People say "Big O" when they mean "Big Theta".
If anyone finds this especially interesting, you should read 4000 Days by Warren Fellows. It’s an Australian man’s own self account of his time spent in horrific conditions while incarcerated within a Bangkok prison after getting caught smuggling in heroin. Very easy and engrossing read.
> Hindsight is 20-20, but looking back it seems clear they were credible and correct,

As far as I can tell, they were correct but not credible: they did not provide sources in the comment, and it was basically left to be evaluated in a vacuum.

(For context: I did not down vote or flag that comment.)
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I would like to agree, as bringing pro worker rethoric, pushing against delocalization, a change of EEUU foreign policy, and not really being entrenched on the career politician POV were actually the parts of Trump I did like when he was running on 2016. But unfortunately I think he failed to deliver, and ultimately the positive changes were few and outnumbered by the negative ones.
Docker is an abstraction over containerd and others. Docker became what Xerox became
It's distasteful/unethical to attach "a spiral of alcohol, drugs and extreme behaviour" to someone's name after their death.

Some may argue that doing so will result in "positive change" for others but the same is possible without attaching the identity of a person that died by alcohol, drugs and extreme behaviour as the title puts it.

People oddly value anonymity & privacy but disregard it when a person dies.

edit: ah yes, the downvotes without comments for why you disagree is the evolution of hackernews (another echo chamber).
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As someone who's worked on this a lot, this article resonated but I disagree with the conclusions. (Or at any rate I feel like my procedural stuff is listenable, though I can't read or compose music.)

I think the author's biggest problem is the bottom-up approach of creating lots of raw clips and then at a higher level trying to assemble them. I've found music generation to consistently be a very similar task to text generation, and to me the author's approach seems analogous to generating lots of random sentences and then trying to assemble them into a short story.

Everything I've done that's worked has been completely top down - the core of the engine determines the state of the song (we're in the A section, bar 7, the current chord is V/V, etc.) and the low level parts generate something to match all that. E.g. the melody part might decide to play the root tone of the current chord, but it has to ask the core what note that would be.

The hard thing about this approach is that you need an environment where you can dynamically play notes of an arbitrary pitch/length/instrument, which either means lots of sound fonts or realtime audio gen. I've been doing this with WebAudio, and while it works it's been very painful - for me the "play sounds" part of procedural music has more difficult than the "compose music" part.
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> I'd think of being at two places over several years being either complacent or lucky.

What's your lower bound on 'several years', in this context? Taken literally it's 'three or more', but not everyone uses the word that way.

> Unless the person is hopping from FAANG to FAANG (hopping for pay bumps)

I wasn't thinking of pay bumps per-se, but of promotions for increased responsibility.

> They had to go from one shitty job to another because they couldn't get the right one.

Sure, but employers are often insecure. The thought that follows that is "what if they think this job is shitty and then leave?"

Employers hate turnover and tend to like having evidence that you will stick around. No matter what the reason is that you didn't stick around somewhere else, however justified or understandable, that reason can't provide the evidence they want.
> You assume that government is good and prohibited uses are bad.

Not quite. We assume that government is controlled by the people and thus I have some influence in its operation. The state often does truly horrible things, but so do plenty of organizations that I cannot control at all. I'll take the one that I have some degree of influence on.
Are there any sites that are a complete alternative to reddit instead of just a different frontend? I found https://dev.lemmy.ml/, but they don't seem at all concerned about privacy. They have no privacy policy, so I found a site that generates a privacy policy for them, & they still haven't added a privacy policy.
It’s been 9 months... they still have to pay rent and equipment costs and staff
That reminds me of GNU/Net (or GNUNet? I don't remember.)

An attempt to make all layers of the internet again, on GNU software or something.

And it is a forever vaporware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet

https://gnunet.org/en/index.html
The comment is correct. The "thing" is the variable that holds the "entry". The entry is removed by updating the "thing".
Use the One-Joke Mensa Test:

"Did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed his friend in the street?"
Most of the music that most people enjoy doesn't follow the rules of math, but subversions of it that collectively we call a musical culture.

In fact, most of the music ever created (not all, but a majority) was written to dance to, and typically as part of a co-evolutionary process that connected the music and the dance together.

Western art music in the 20th century made a good effort at creating music without reference to existing musical cultures, and although there have been some interesting developments along the way, for the most part (minimalism being a principal exception), it didn't really succeed at generating much music that was enjoyed by a lot of people.
To be fair, if you remember 2007, the first generation was lacking in many areas. You couldn't send MMS messages. Receiving MMS was awkward and was done through an AT&T web site. You couldn't install apps. You couldn't take videos, only photos. It was slow, etc.

My first iPhone was a 3G, but felt the iPhone really started taking off with the iPhone 4. It felt like a huge leap.
Australia as a destination specifically is sounding pretty attractive right about now.
Interesting how this is not very much like the petroleum value chain, where the primary producers (oil+gas exploration companies) reap nearly all of the net profit.

I wonder if it's because retailers hold a lot of pricing power, and it's a quickly expiring asset, and many producers, and localized markets.
About once a year a story hits the news about people who’ve climbed up into the landing gear of planes and proceed to die from hypothermia and/or lack of oxygen. Though apparently about one-in-four survive.
A notorious market bear reiterates that the S&P 500 will suffer a 70% crash
Will they come across as polished in 10 years, when they haven't had an update in 9 years, and yet the TV itself is still perfectly useful?

I doubt it.
Money is not digital entertainment. That analogy makes zero sense and doesn't make your point at all.
I wish I'd find it curious the extreme negativity toward the essay, but unfortunately it fits with my world view of people in general: they'll approve of things that concord with their own opinions and interpret everything through the prism of what they already believe.

The essay is labelled ad-hominem by many, even though it provides a cogent argument and multiple supporting facts. Of course, to take an example, the question of the enterpreneur as a luminary and an exploiter depends greatly on what you already believe. I happen to already think that Facebook, Google and co are exerting bad influence, holding and using information they collect about everyone to their own advantage. Others, like Uber, are easy to be thought as direct exploiters.

The attacks on Arc and Bel and succinctness are also argued with factual arguments. (Arguments that I happen to agree with; bias, bias...).

In the end, the essay posits a simple thing: that behind all the pseudo-theoretical posturing underlying PG essays, they are mere opinions pieces.
It's not so much that history is a living force that has ideas of its own irrespective of people; but that history is going to be written by people into books and the majority of people living today are going to impose their interpretation of the now into the eventual "then" that kids 20 years from now are going to be forced to read.
Wouldn't this one-layer network be a lot less "compressive" than the multi-layer net, and in some sense "duplicate" subnetworks in earlier layers?
Wow. This is so cool. Sometimes you come across concepts that makes total sense once you know it, but then keep asking yourself why wasn't it discovered way before. This a great example of that.
I can’t believe people make money writing about this bs.
This is really needed right now, thank you for making this!

More self hosted solutions people! Less centralized things.
Pew seems to indicate that the democratic party (or at least the electorate) has moved significantly leftward, particularly after the 2016 election. It doesn't seem that polarization is unique to a particular party. Moreover, I would argue that a self described socialist becoming one of the most important voices in the party is actually evidence of this leftward movement.

[1]
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-...
Sometimes I think Bitcoin is the best way for us to learn why we have rules and the systems we have.
Correct. It doesn't have to be fake. It could be a very real breakthrough. Then the possibilities branch out. Taking the next step might require huge resources. Will the enemy take that on? If so, can you just watch and spy, saving your own resources to apply to other or more promising efforts?

Some people might think this is all just being too imaginative. But that is what the spooks are constantly doing, creating layer upon layer of misdirection and obfuscation. To wit, a sibling comment[1] about the Star Wars program.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25329030
To be fair, many programmers who do use C have that character flaw as well.
Look up 'raspberry pi 4 heat sink case' and you'll find that a couple companies have already made these.
I'd be surprised if data science was ran on the chrome web store/extensions in any medium/large capacity. The report abuse feature doesn't seem to work, maybe unless X% downloads report it triggering some internal alarm for an intern to go try out the extension (maybe on an airgapped chromebook).
Strangely, no entry for IsItYet or HowLongUntil - which deal with such timeless popular topics as Christmas and Burning Man.
It would be nice if you could send two end-entity certs, with the same public key, and different intermediates, and the other side would pick which ever one it liked.

Otherwise, you have to figure out which one root CA all your clients like, because it's probably hard to figure out which clients need which certs.
Not all but too much of that description applies only to western popular music.

Indian classical music (probably among the most melodically advanced in the world) doesn't use anything like the song structures you're referring to (it also doesn't use harmony).

The ease of certain kinds of music production has led to us to living in a decade (or two) of huge amounts of what I can only call "audio candy for ears trained on western popular music". There's nothing wrong with this music, but it's like eating cookies all the time, not realizing there are other delicious kinds of food out there.
Have your tried multi-stage builds? We use them almost everywhere to slim down images to only have what they need in production.

https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...
Maybe you underestimate just how hot "Your life in plain text" is.
Fortunately it is being factored into these decisions, and has been publicly discussed for about nine months now as a consideration. What makes you think it's getting lost? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/health/coronavirus-alcoho...
While the logging issue might be solved on LibreELEC, writes to the Kodi database can be just as bad in the near long-term.
I see two people with this viewpoint, and I would be interested in knowing more. Is the thought here that a company that offers unlimited vacation would see people take none?

I have never worked in such an environment, and I also don't tend to take all of my allotted vacation anyways, but at first glance, I'm not sure how:

"take off as much as you like"

could possibly be more restrictive than:

"take off as much as you like, but no more that 2 weeks."

Assuming of course we are not talking about mandatory vacation policies (that some companies/countries) effectively have.
My experience, i don't program java, i learned there was a way to compile dlang apps for android. Download android sdk, download android ndk, try and build program to no avail. Study android sdk and ndk, realize it's probably not worth the effort without learning java. Play around with the android scripting layer and termux get disheartened at the lack of actual lower level device access. Go back to programming things for actual computers.
Heart disease is not contagious and spreading exponentially.
Because of their COVID response, or something else?
> something that gets lost in the concern about COVID

I don't know if I'd describe it as passively as "getting lost". Very visible people have been talking about it, including the outgoing President, who mentioned the mental health costs of lockdown multiple times. Leaving aside the fact that even true things that Trump says are discounted due to his lunacy, most people are too dim to understand the concept of trade-offs, so anything that gives "aid and comfort to the enemy" is systematically downplayed among most of those that are pro-Covid-restrictions (I say all of this as someone who think that restrictions have tragic costs but are necessary).

That is to say, the problem isn't that no one has thought of factoring this into decisions, it's that the discourse upstream of policy is driven largely by the majority of voters that don't actually care about pandemic policy as anything other than another wedge issue to fight pre-existing cultural/religious wars over.
Does Google have people looking at Chrome extension data? It seems almost like a zombie project for them. It carries on, but next to no resources seem to be allocated to it.
Nice, same!
I think we are doomed to this forever by human nature.

As a thought experiment ask yourself what you think would happen in the following scenario:

We enshrine the two party system into law but allow all Americans to chose their party freely each year. You no longer pay taxes or receive services from the government but from your party instead.

Do you think this would lead to harmony where the half of the country that wants high taxes and many services would join the D party and the half that wants low taxes and few services would join the R party, all living side by side in harmony?

Or do you think this would lead to total chaos where the people with money to take (IE money to spend on services for themselves) all join the R party and the people without money to take all join the D party looking for services they can’t provide to themselves.

I would say it’s pretty obvious what would happen but then again my world view is a bit cynical and of course not the only one. I would say it’s exactly what has happened to our system without needing the thought experiment to make the incentives obvious.
This comment is peak piqued'ness.
I was meant more with regard to keeping 'that much' on him in the first place than not being able to replace it.

That too of course, just not making assumptions of other means I suppose, and it was the 'life's savings' being carried about that stood out.