skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Spotify is great, but it’s primarily a single-player experience. Music, on the other hand, is an inherently social experience.

NO.

For me, music is an intensely private experience. I do not want people around me when I'm listening to music. I don't share my music tastes with others. Music is part of my me-time.

I get where the author is coming from, but music is not social all the time. I agree with another comment here, this article just clashes with me in such a way that I want to throw my laptop in anger after reading it.

It's the same thing with games right now, they just pester me to keep connecting. I'd rather prefer playing with random people and then not see them again. The "social+ money" part is so scary that I hope that I am actively going to stay as far from it as I can.

Now I've essentially realized the value of subscriptions over free things powered by ads and "social" wizardry. I'll pay for the good stuff on subscription/donations if the good stuff keeps on being what it is and not some ad-infestation/"social+" injection which keeps ruining the experience.
Yes, the name is a bit cumbersome. I simply call my operating system "GNU", no need to specify the kernel.

Paired with a neat interface (black xterm on a solid black background without panel nor window decorations), people walk confusedly by my computer and ask: what's that wicked system of yours? And I say: "That's the GNU operating system, man!" It never ceases to cause a stir.
Industrial AI in the articles context regards the use of industrial products not the manufacturing of them, where the challenges around data are different again.
Depends if you view pervasive tracking as a security vulnerability.
> Sadly we never released the game on Linux to the public.

Do you know why? Linux is my primary OS and it always breaks my heart when companies decide to not support it.
There is no legal basis for the false distinction you're making between platform and publisher.

The law explicitly allows YouTube (or Twitter, or HackerNews, for that matter) to do exactly that.

You are operating under at least one misconception. Perhaps this[0] can help.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
The Thing Listening Device
Node.js module system (kinda like CommonJS) is what made Node.js popular. ES modules while taking away features like scoped module support and dynamic import, it's very complicated and allows bad practices like include files.

Promises are very complicated compared to first class functions. What makes JS/Node hard to grasp is that it's async.
Async is an (often unnecessary) optimization, with tradeoffs.

Loading modules from URL's is a cool concept! ES modules helps here, but you could also have a package-list file that lists all dependencies of dependencies as well as download mirrors, or hashes with peer-to-peer distribution.

A permission system is nice, modules should not have system access by default.

Not everyone wants to use TypeScript. It will probably become obsolete once optional type annotations gets added to JavaScript.

An opinionated toolchain is nice, but should be optional IMHO.
Ask HN: What are the best books on accounting/finance for CEOs?
I thought I knew accounting & finance reasonably well as a casual investor in public and private markets, but as with most things -- the deeper I dive, the more I realize how little I know.

I'm the CEO of an early-stage technology company in an industry with meaningful financial nuance, and I'm trying to learn more deeply about how other companies thought about their key financial metrics, where to apply which ones, and how different business models lend themselves to different forms of financing. (My question is particularly inspired by another thread on HN, The Games People Play with Cash Flow[0].)

I'd appreciate any book recommendations for accounting & finance in this direction, hopefully deep in detail and aimed at executives. Intermediate/advanced texts are fine.

[0] https://commoncog.com/blog/cash-flow-games/
I may need coffee, but what problem is entailed by what you state?
How will the flaps handle the heat from re-entry speeds? Especially from the Moon or Mars.

Those crevices between the flaps, seems like great places for the atmospheric re-entry heat to punch through and destroy the Starship.

I would assume that during the initial re-entrant speed, the flaps would be locked, to minimize errant heat from entering the inner mechanisms. Then after it’s bled off most of its speed, at the last few kilometers off the ground, would the flaps begin to actuate and adjust to the air speed of terminal velocity.

I wonder if atmospheric re-entry is the bigger test, should they succeed with SN9.
> This may be off topic and probably person specific, but what made you change your mind?

Too long to discuss here, but suffice it to say that my priorities are Earth based. I also realized that Mars is in good hands given what I've seen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict
Democracy is eroded by people not thinking uniformly? That's an interesting thought. I believe that was only required for totalitarian types of government like Fascism and Communism.
Only almost everything of the programs (ls, grep, bash, gcc, etc). Linux is just the kernel. Stallman lead development of most of the shell environment you use today.
Mixed feelings. On the one side, there's a similar brouhaha about Yahoo (?) being able to acquire Google back when. On the other, if it was bought at that time by Sony, it probably would not have gained the traction that it does nowadays.
The winner of the bet does not profit personally, so it's not really a bet. They use the term "bet" because it's easy for people to understand. And it makes it more interesting than alternatives like "prediction & rebuttal".

Long Bets and the Long Now Foundation try to get people thinking about the future so we can make it better.
It seems to me, that the problem lies with understanding. You can watch 300 chart and do not understand anything, though, you understand watching people dying. It's not emoution or visual, it's understanding. People don't jump into a hole they know it can kill them, but they will walk into a mortal gas room without noticing, because they don't know it. So yes, there is a huge lack of education and relevant information in society
They already get multi-room audio sync from snapcast.
Zoning is a police power.
So true, Industry wants AI!
Do they collect data already?
Well…
The magic word is “giclée”. For widest choice of quality, paper, finish, sizes, etc., DIY through one of many print shops.
Out of cycle promotions/raises did not exist and as we had Martlesham aka the British version of bell labs where we had you know one of the Inventors of ethernet working a cat 1 was realistically out of reach for the ordinary plebes
Good! Country officials should understand they're in the same boat with ordinary citizens and won't be able to escape if they fail to prevent a nuclear attack.
I think you are making some rather large assumptions. It's possible that you and 'techsupporter went to similar colleges in similar cities and around the same time, and the only difference is between your perspectives. But if those conditions aren't true, especially the last one, then your experiences may have been objectively very different.
I've actually noticed Netflix adding more 'big' anime titles to their offerings. Mind you, that's in NL where Funimation is not available and Crunchyroll has limited offerings, so license wise it may be a different thing.
I'm not sure you decided to use weasel words on purpose. There's a colossal difference between "being forced to watch" propaganda and being exposed to it.

I'm not forced to open phishing emails but sometimes I do by accident or carelessness. I'm also not forced to open links someone close or not happen to send my way. I'm not forced to read weird facts-denying delusional rants on social media but sometimes I stumble upon it while scrolling around a main page.

Given the unlimited torrent of propaganda and manipulated content that we are exposed constantly and is designed precisely to control you to serve the manipulator's goals, what should we do?

Hell, just open a tab with any of the facts-denying extremist media channels that currently plague the US. Do you believe they are preaching to fishes, or that there are people exposed and manipulated by it?
Impressive work! Nit on design: in first ~3 attempts to scan through the page to see if it is worth reading, i found myself stopping very early when the black background started given it usually signals a footer and end of useful content. The only reason I ended up discovering there is more content was the sanity check that if it is HN front news there has to be more to it :)
It’s exposed a fundamental flaw in US culture. Americans aren’t capable of dealing with a problem where their actions impact others more than themselves.

Individualism breaks down when you have to do something more for everyone else than yourself.
edit: just realised i replied to a comment i didn't intend to..!

RTX2080Ti, ryzen 3800X, 32gb RAM, uninteresting vanilla ubuntu 20.04 install.

i bought the game at midnight not thinking it’d work straight away, and it “just worked”. completely unexpected.

that said:

* frame rate is.. less than ideal (managing 20-40fps). i can hear the GPU isn’t too stressed because there’s basically no coil whine, so i expect this will improve over time. i set it to highest settings, though.

* the character selection step had the player model under-illuminated. not impossible to use, but a lot more challenging. also the colour selectors didn’t look right.

edit: some more infos,

- i'm _not_ using the experimental proton build, rather GloriousEggroll[1]'s custom proton build. it's usually a bit ahead of proton in terms of support, and, most importantly for me, allows raw mouse input for games.

- i have ran on both nvidia driver 450.80.02 and 455.45.01, and i've not really noticed a difference.

[1]: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases
Bucharest to host new EU cyber research hub
Super cubes: inside the surprisingly big business of packaged ice
> We learn it to know who were are.

It can be very much about telling you who you're supposed to be rather than the other way around.

Israel and Hebrew is actually a good example. Modern Hebrew was created pretty much solely for nation-building purposes (and with great success).

Jewish people are also pretty unique in having maintained a strong identity throughout the millennia without speaking a common language.

I wonder how many national identities would survive without one. I'd posit not that many.
Most water in the region isn't used for drinking -- there's plenty for that.

Example use case: almond farmer buys 0.5% of the current capacity of the reservoir at the now liquid market price, with delivery 6 months from now. Instead of having cyclical "rushes on the reservoir" for the remaining farming allotment of water in the reservoir whenever capacity gets low (or just unexpected bouts of no water coming out of the faucet, when transparency into reservoir levels is poor), resulting in less efficient water practices/ruined crops, liquid futures provide farmers with stability and actionable planning. If an almond farmer buys futures delivering a million gallons of water each quarter, he can expect that water to be saved and available when the crops need it, and can plan crops around that.

Other side effects: prices will be more transparent, liquid, and consistent across the region. Possible bonus: the financial incentive will potentially improve the quality of drought modeling in the region. Imagine future weather computers that use the futures price as an input.
Maybe this is why laws like those in Scandinavia or France, etc. were invented: to motivate managers to try harder to do their job of managing people.
I'm only curious. I don't actually care if I ever find out. Never hurts to ask.
>Fresh, clean water exists in plenty in nature.

Except in the places/times it isn't, which is much of the world for some of the time, and some of the world for much of the time.

Water rights exist, and who gets to exercise them in times of shortage can be very contentious, and even a cause for war.
Although I knew most of technical aspect described having immersed myself in Photography several years ago, I cannot express properly how GOOD this article is. The sliders and diagrams are brilliant for helping a layperson understand how it all works. Kudos!
File under: #WhyNotBoth?

Yes, the confiscation in itself is an attack on free speech rights.

But don’t think the high-stress weapons-drawn raid against a prominent whistleblower isn’t meant to send its own message clear and loud: keep your heads down or you could be next. Especially when combined with the twitchy trigger finger that US law enforcers are reputed to possess.

This is only a couple steps up from a banana republic death squad. And that too is no accident.
I see that nobody here (currently: czep, froasty, throwaway0b1, chaganated, core-questions) has any contact info in their Hacker News profile. Usually for political stuff that means a conservative working in the Bay Area, hiding in fear, though czep claims to be liberal.

Plain old phone numbers might be best for this.

It could be too scary with all the hostility. Given how the tech industry is, not many conservatives will be willing to reveal themselves. Performance reviews could suddenly turn sour for no apparent reason, and lots of conservatives have family to support.
When the other commenter said:

"You can't publish copyrighted work."

I thought it was very obviously implied that they meant "You can't publish copyrighted work that you don't have distribution rights to."

I find it hard to believe that you didn't actually know this and took a strong stance against an incorrect understanding of the comment because you want to be pedantic.
>What stops Youtube from marking all content associated with a particular religion/political party/national origin "otherwise objectionable"?

Market forces? Advertiser pressure? Bad hair day?

They are under no obligation to host anything they choose not to host.

And that's a good thing too. If Google can be forced to host content they don't wish to host, then so can you, and so can I and so can HackerNews or Bernadette's Knitting website.
The pangolin intermediate host theory, which has been heavily promoted by Chinese state media, has been invalidated.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7405773/

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200708/Research-sheds-do...
I run Linux, and play games, but all in all, I strongly believe that Wine ports are the only realistic, less-worse, alternative. I'm not the only one - Carmack expressed the same (although, to be fair, I've never read other high-profile devs discussing this idea).

This is a real-world Linux game production story: https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760. Note that the developers tried hard to release the native Linux port.

Crucial excerpt (from https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080214424474906624):

> We eventually laid out a guide with known good versions of Linux and graphics drivers, but it didn't matter. Part of the allure of Linux is the customizability, so few actually stuck to it, and generally wanted to run the game on older hardware we didn't support.

In order for Linux games production to be economically viable, there should be a Linux gaming standard, but because of the Linux culture, there will never be (there's nothing wrong; it's just its nature). Even if somebody came up with a gaming standard... xkcd explains what would happen: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/927:_Standards.

I'm not considering adhoc Linux gaming distributions like SteamOS, as they would have to be treated as an independently installed, separate, operating system.
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1 litre of water = 1 kilo.

Difficult to extract, store and transport while maintaining quality.
The thing with censorship is they aren't going to censor the clickbait. Google knows exactly what clickbait looks like and they could have purged it years ago with a few algorithm tweaks that nobody would have minded. They're going to censor stuff that makes people ask hard-to-answer questions and/or challenge consensus positions.

That sounds like a good idea until it clicks that good scientists ask hard to answer questions and challenge consensus positions. Censorship is fundamentally anti-evidence. People can't present evidence that the channel owners don't like, and people can't model how to handle untrue opinions in conversation because they never come up.
Critical reading in the german curriculum is far from unbiased in the selection of topics: Should we have the death penalty? Of course not, arguing otherwise will get you a bad grade. What about the yellow-press? Universally bad of course, Katharina Blum is required reading. Religion? All are nice and equally fine, criticizing religion is a nono and "fear of god" is an aim of all education mandated by the constitution. So please read Nathan der Weise critically and regurgitate what the official comment says. Do we need a military? Of course not, why would you want to invade Poland again? Workers rights? Good and well, but compromise is necessary for the good of the economy and society. Except in the case of teachers, as state officials they always get a bad deal supposedly...

I've come to see "critical reading" to be just a furtherance of the teachers' and the states' biases and aims by means of a more sophisticated cloak. You are supposed to be able to fake a little critical thinking, but arrive at the predetermined conclusions. Don't rock the boat, stay inside the lines, but do this little hand-wringing ritual so you don't seem like an unsophisticated sheep.
Solved? Um. why then are there droughts currently, and why are they projected to increase under all plausible climate change scenarios?

Like you though I'm uncomfortable with the idea of a futures market
...and 1 user who asks for the bulb to remain broken as it was previously casting light on their poorly optimised code.
> There's no way to provide access to the social graph in a privacy preserving way. It's not okay to allow a third party to access the data your friends have shared with you without your friends consenting.

If the API is open and there's forced interoperability, the client device can call the service's API directly with the user's own credentials. No need for a third-party middleman, so no need to give a third-party access to the data.

It can work the same way IM applications like Pidgin work: one app, multiple accounts.
A variation of that question is: in the event of a hard landing like the one today, will there be some means for humans to survive?

(Googling the question led me to an article about how Starship does not have a crew abort system, which seems like an unfortunate limitation. I suppose in theory maybe the landing is slow enough that if you know, say, a minute or in advance that something is wrong you could possibly just exit the vehicle out a door and parachute down. I'd guess that's easier said than done...)
You either buy the upgrade up-front, or prepare to struggle in your device's lifetime.
HentaiHaven never died
> For now we can still kind of run ad blockers, even though Chrome is working hard on stealthily removing them.

You're using a browser build by a giant privacy abusing ad company, and you wonder why it isn't so friendly to ad-blocking/privacy-protecting plugins?

COLOUR ME SURPRISED.
> especially if we ever get to a point where some people can 'afford' water while others can't.

If we do get to a point where this is true, it will primarily be because of decreasing amounts of water sources, increasing population, etc. Banning water futures won't magically solve these problems.
May be worth reading this article about Harvard's endowment consolidating water rights in California as well. https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-quietly-amasses-califor...
This line of reasoning is seemingly missing the idea that we were prepared and informed about the epidemic before relevant groups were disbanded and it spread so widely. Also, gross incompetence with handling public policy is almost indistinguishable from malice. ie: The origin of the virus might not matter if the bioerror is considered to be the incompetent handling of the event. Given how many people are dying everyday in the US, I think we have definitely reached Rees’s bioerror definition.
On the other hand, moving water is certainly the product of human activity, such as California Aqueduct moving water from Northern California to Southern California.
> They're building models of the world, and testing and challenging a few of their beliefs at a time, to gradually come closer to the truth.

Absolutely. Science is about using mathematics and logic to abductively reason about and tease out underlying facts. In fact I see provaility in science and causation as orthogonal issues:

Consider a stable supplied voltage and a variable voltage divider (potentiometer). Suppose measuring the voltage once has intrinsic RMS voltage noise associated with it. So while we can never prove experimentally the exact value of the voltage at the voltage divider with zero error, we can drive the error arbitrarily low by oversampling, which means repeating the experiment over and over. In the general case we never actually reach the true value, but that doesn't mean "voltage can not be measured". Trying to measure this voltage inappropriately (say outside the reference range of an ADC, or with an ADC with too low a resolution such that the noise is systematically rounded in the same direction doesn't mean it's impossible to measure voltage, just that the measurement attempt is flawed.

Similar with causation. Of course caution is always advised with naive correlation. The problem is not propagation of such caution, but the pretense that no techniques exist to gather evidence of causation, and the omission of such techniques when sharing such a rant.
Definitely not a miss. They got telemetry data (3000 signals) covering the entire flight from start to landing -- which would've been impossible if it went RUD mid-flight. Plus they've located the bug (low pressure in the header fuel tanks) -- and the bug is plain and clear, with no uncertainty.

I'd definitely call that a success.
You'd like their other work :

https://ciechanow.ski/lights-and-shadows/

https://ciechanow.ski/gears/

https://ciechanow.ski/tesseract/

Etc.

Check out the whole blog! It's amazing.

These are some of the most intuitive explanations coupled with the slickest animation / demo work I've ever seen. All of that put together into crystal clear educational material is such a rare gem and requires incredible talent.

Impressive as hell.

I hope someone is paying them to do this full time. I'd pay for this.
The difference is that Google has a well-known reputation for killing products.