skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The perils of unlimited money: culture collapse and technologicical groupthink that stifles true innovation.

It's kind of unrealistic to expect a human being to somehow rigorously partition their creative process to respect a myriad of complex legal restrictions.

Imagine your profession is to envision the future. Now imagine the companies you've worked for all have very restrictive NDAs. You can't reason out the future very well when pieces of this thought tree have veritable locks on them; their presence alone jarring to creativity itself.
I have two external monitors, and it works. It must be some weird fringe scenario. They still should have caught it, but it’s not impacting every single user.
You have to remember the incredible amount of data that is in a video signal. Here’s an article that describes the choices available (and the trade-offs) in video over USB-C:

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-...
This is the exact reason I switched back as well (next to Lightroom). It just works.

But it is extremely sad to ditch an entire OS for lack of what seems a manageable issue, fractional scaling. I wish it wouldn't be necessary.
> On the C++ side we have Rust, Zig, maybe Nim, Haskell

Don't forget Crystal, which is a compiled Ruby-like language with static typing and type inference.
And that was the mistake.
very curious to know about this - what kind of code doesnt run on mac mini and windows computers ?
What about linux. where is the complexity coming from ?

is it because of the synthesizer software makers write very bad code,etc ?

i would have thought that a modern iphone 12 pro would be sufficient to run synthesizer libraries
I do 2x scaling on a 4K monitor (on Windows).
It’s a lot harder to change the personal income tax rate than it is to decide whether you donate to a charity or not. Tax is a social contract, but it is fair in the sense that those who are able should support those in need.
Well, the 2016 referendum doesn't seem very decisive, but you're right that the later election amounted to the population saying "yes we really mean it".
Git just works most of the time, and any issues that arise tend to have to do with the complexity of the codebase rather than git (e.g., rebasing a large feature-branch over dozens of commits).

Besides, auxiliary tools aside (I use git shell and a bunch of aliases), the git executable too is still improving. It will be a long time before anything that might replace it reaches both the maturity and the tipping point of having enough extra features to make it worthwhile to consider switching.
However electric seat heaters are obviously not something that should be a "thing". Cars and software have been leased for ages. It's the same thing as "a subscription"
I agree,
Git will be replaced when there’s a general limitation affecting many developers and something comes along that solves that. It won’t be replaced for the sheer sake of it or because we’re “bored” of it.

It’s also still actively developed so it’s not like some “stale” software we use because of inertia.
Just be a creditor (let me mark that statement with a heavy /s sarcasm tag).

Most people might be losing their fair share of the pie in the current economic strategy but the creditor class has made out like bandits over the past 30+ years with no end in sight.

Talk about free market ideals but socialise all losses with corporate bailouts. It’s just win win win.

The only game in town today is “maximise shareholder value”. The pre-70s concepts of keep wages growing in lock step with capital’s gains (since the theory goes that boosts consumption and that keeps the world turning) has gone out the window.

Capital takes 100% of the growth. Labour is easy to keep distracted - divide and conquer: “Hey, gay people/single mothers/people from other countries/people with brown eyes are taking free stuff at your expense...”
Your map of the article is partially wrong because the article, at least part of it, is wrong.

In order to make the "boring" parts of Taíno genetic research interesting to your casual reader some magazines sell this false romanticized narrative about Puerto Ricans using DNA to learn the Taíno history that was denied to them.

But in reality every Puerto Rican gets taught in school that they are a mix of Taíno, Spaniard, and African. It's a gross oversimplification but that's how Puerto Rican identity is built by the school system. And this isn't something new. I learned this story in school in the 80s. My parents learned it in the 40s. Our colloquial demonyms Boricua, Borinqueño, and Borincano are derived from Taíno words.

What we are told that went extinct is the direct cultural lineage of the Taíno, and this is true. Taíno women were taken as "wives" by the conquerors, and this was confirmed by DNA research, and their children were raised in Spanish culture and traditions. Virtually all that we know about Taíno culture comes from Spanish historians, Taíno remains, and a few artifacts. Throughout most of our history we were raised without Taíno elders or teachers.

What these articles reveal are specifics about genetic composition, distribution, migration paths, etc. And all of that is wonderful. I just wish that these magazines published those discoveries without lying about how Puerto Ricans are ignorant of their past and genetic composition to make the articles more appealing. It's appalling.
> Kit-Kat Xclock

Title is wrong!

It should be: «Kit-Cat xclock»[0]

> ... The graphics were inspired by the famous, indeed iconic, Kit-Cat (R) clock, one of which still hangs in my kitchen.

[0] https://github.com/BarkyTheDog/catclock#catclock
Ruby started as a shell scripting language so I agree that it is good for that purpose. However the question is how much time one spends writing shell scripting code for personal use. If someone already knows Python and only occasionally writes shell scripting code then in my opinion learning a new language only for that purpose isn't a good investment. I would say Python is good enough for that tasks.

In other words if someone has a good enough tool in their tool-belt for a certain area, then learning another slightly better tool in that area is not a must.

In my opinion it is better to be proficient in a one language than mediocre in two similar languages. If someone is bored and has time to learn both Python and Ruby then why not.
PowerRename has worked fine for me, can also recommend it.

However, when there's directories and many, many files involved, I just use Python with pathlib. It's a couple lines of code anyone can learn to do, with all the flexibility of Python. PowerShell would maybe also be suitable.
Git lfs is what you want.
Okay. Have to buy one.
I've been a dopus user since the Amiga days. Love it
Why would they trust the people I tell them to ask about me any more than they would trust me myself?
Perhaps a bit harsh?
The refugees feeding a nation [video]
Author here. Most Broadway shows have live keyboard players. There are a variety of things that can go wrong during a live show, and a live band is extremely useful in those situations. Some shows do have tracks for certain sections of the show, but most of it is played live with VSTs.
Why East Germany is a map zombie
Did you try the recent v0.3.x series? It fixed a lot of Windows specific bugs.

I have been running the official Windows version for a while now, using it almost 8h/day and it's working flawlessly for me.
Yes, this is a major reason.
Überzug: A CLI utility for drawing images on terminals
Seems about right. Luckily, if performance becomes an issue, you can probably scale out horizontally, or perhaps if you don't care much about sticking to the reference implementations, you can consider using alternative ones.

For example, there are benchmarks of some of the Ruby implementations here: https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/the-great-rubykon-b...

And here's a paper from 2016 comparing some of the Python implementations: http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:912464/FULLTEXT01

Of course, performance in real world scenarios and when using larger frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails or Django) may differ from synthetic benchmarks, but it's nice that at least there's work done in creating these alternative implementations. A bit like how we have Hotspot and OpenJ9 for Java as well or even how there's glibc and musl - that way you can choose which implementation is the most suited for your needs, be it for performance reasons or others...
Yes of course we do, poverty has been consistently driven down over the last 100 years. It's driven down by increase economic activity, would imagine that's pretty obvious by now.
If they are different products for different markets they could already do that.
Yeah, this is the main reason. We use MainStage for all shows. Also, Mac minis are quickly replaceable. If we’re in a city and a computer breaks, we can grab a new computer from the Apple Store right away.
^ I've installed IrfanView through Scoop, but for some reason, Windows restores "Photos" as default app for opening pictures a few times a week, this was not the case when I installed IrfanView with an installer.

This may not be Scoops fault. I installed Irfanview with choco and have to reset my default programs setting every so often, presumably since Windows 10 takes user settings as suggestions for the Microsoft PM to ignore every few weeks when the OKRs get thin :).
Yup. Form factor plays a huge role. All our machines are racked and space is precious. Being able to fit two Mac minis in a 1U rack space is great.
I always thought that was "walk-on part".
Lol :)

By output format, do you mean, .mp4/.avi and the like? If so, clearly on export is where it makes sense (which is where I have it)

> I use found-footage a lot and web video comes in formats that make e.g. premiere struggle

I see. If you download it as .mp4, it's easy. Other formats (.mkv, for instance) are much harder to interpret. I will try to strike a balance between what people want and how easy I can support them ;)
Software we use is only available for macOS. Also, Mac mini availability across the world is important. Lastly Mac mini form factor is perfect for the use case.
26y/o depressed kickboxer reporting. I'd like to add on this with my own experience.

4 years ago I joined a gym and that is hands down the best choice I made in my life.

While I agree on/confirm all other points, 6, 7 and 8 aren't that easy: everytime I talk about my hobby, I usually get one of these feedbacks:

- "he's dangerous, better stay away before a brawl starts"

- "nah, you don't looke like a fighter" (my body is slim type)

- general ignorant remarks about kickboxing vs muahy thai, or this gym vs that gym. Or my sport is better than yours.

The issue is two fold:

On one side, people are generally ignorant regarding martial arts (mechanics, techniques, mindset, morality).

On the other side, training usually gives you enough muscles to practice the art (and you'll notice that), but it might not be enough to give you "visible" muscles: for that you need a diet and training tailor suited to your body parameters.

(EDIT: formatting)
The money is not going into productive use in the hands of most recipients. Its being used to pay down debts owed to the creditors in large scale. Debt loads have decreased significantly with the money distribution. Those who end up with the money struggle to find assets to invest it in, which is why the stock market, private equity markets, and all other asset markets are heavily inflated now. The money had to go somewhere.
To respond to this distinction and stay on topic, a book I'd recommend is Atheism: The Case against god by George H Smith.
> That does not mean some assholes wont try.

At the scale of Wistron and Foxconn we're not talking about "some assholes", we're talking about the companies' leadership.

Apple (and other companies) specifically source stuff out to have that "liability shield" while being able to extract as low prices as possible. If their "labor rules" were worth the paper they are written on they'd hire the people themselves.
This is a very badly written article and I'm not sure why it has so many comments and points.

There is no real content. No real impact is mentioned.

It says they used Mac Minis which they had to reduce the sound quality to use. OK.

"Apple Silicon changes everything for Broadway electronic music designers. The new M1 Mac mini is capable of running high-end sample libraries and virtual instruments in a stable manner".

That's an output. What is the impact then?
magit is grand. but editor specific.
Could you expand upon the ethical implications of this?
Draw.io and Terraform = Brainboard, Graphical Way to Do Terraform
Anything he invents becomes IP of Apple in perpetuity. This is smart
The year is 2020 and people think a terminal that crashes a few times is "amazing".

That is amazing.
> (...) but this model of charging premium prices for domains, as long as it’s not exorbitant, works better for both end users and registrants.

I don't understand how it can be argued that arbitrary price hikes works better for those who have to pay those arbitrary price hikes, specially if it's under a scheme where anyone can swipe your domain out of your hands regardless of how much you've invested in it without you being fairly compensated for it if their pockets run deeper.
> if any of your plug-ins are not ARM compatible, you have to run the whole plug-in host and all plug-ins under Rosetta, with the performance drop and stability compromises that that entails

Is this your personal experience or are you speculating? I haven’t noticed performance drops or stability issues under Rosetta so far. A truly impressive feat of software engineering.
Reminds me a quote of Naval Ravikant -
"Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It's desire to learn that's scarce."
Put them in an artefact repository and pull them down at build time?
> things in many dynamic languages are way too slow

"No matter how fast or slow your language might be, there will always be some applications for which your language is fast enough and some for which it's not."

-- Mark Twain
Aha! A folder full of .ps1’s (that were .ahk’s) begs to differ on this point :-)

Some random examples i use all the time:

* i have a bunch of apps (i think of it like a workspace) that i open for specific tasks - e.g. when playing ham radio i’ll open a tool that lets me duplicate traffic to/from a serial port (com0com) so that multiple apps can share 1 physical port, a tool that lets me control my radio (flrig), a tool that lets me route audio between devices and software without a mess of cables doing it in hardware (voicemeeter banana), a tool that encodes/decodes messages (wsjtx), a tool that shows what grid squares i’m hearing (gridtracker) and a tool for logging (home brew). They all need to be arranged in fairly bespoke ways across a couple of screens to let me work effectively - bind the shortcut to the .ps1 to a keyboard shortcut and i’m done.

The same idea exists for my other workspaces (dev work - there’s different flavours for this one by task, photo editing, researching, presenting, etc. Etc.)

Things like sending “PS1;” CAT control command to my radio (this turns it on) are actually less lines of code in .ps1 than .ahk. My .ps1’s are about 2/3 the size of the .ahk’s in practice.

Before .ahk i was using python2 with the win32 module, .ps1 is comparably expressive to python2 - which surprises me.

Other .ahk’s i use all the time are basically glorifed macros for common actions i perform. Again shorter to express in powershell.
There's far crazier out there.
https://englishelectric.uk
I read that rapidly darting eye movements are characteristic of cluster A personality disorders (schizotypal, ...)

Wonder if it reflects something in the eyes.
Did he..really create those games?
Very interesting - Piano Maestro is the advanced learning app by the same company that does the beginner "gamey" app called SimplyPiano (which I use).

Cubasis works on mobile - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steinberg.... as well as other options like ntrack 8 . There is also latency comparisons for android devices here https://ntrack.com/android-latency/devices
>Apple has even stricter policy regarding their (even personal) opinions

Which is increasingly important in the current political climate. Apple doesn't want their employees to be associated with any political views.
Ham radio has something for everyone, there are many hobbies within the hobby!

For me personally it is Morse code on the shortwave frequency bands, often with very low power, with battery driven gear operated from the nature. Morse is still very much alive and - most of all - fun. I like to compare it to playing and listening to music.

There are many active mountaineers (https://www.sota.org.uk/) and nature lovers (https://wwff.co/) who take their radios with them and have fun "activating" summits or nature reserves, and on the other side there are many guys hunting/collecting these activations.

There is a great feeling of community between those pursuing similar goals and many life long friendships have been formed through ham radio.

As I said, this is only a tiny fraction of what ham radio is all about, but the one that I personally love.
Ruby played a big role in helping me rediscover my love of programming, and it also acted as a bit of a gateway drug to think much more about language design and to explore a lot of other languages. I don't use Ruby much anymore, but it will always have a big place in my heart.
SM sites with relevant customer base, are sometimes targeted by pr teams.
I think the phenomenon you're describing is definitely real, and definitely worth thinking about. There is signal in your poll about parity, but there's a lot of noise there too. Figuring our what the signal is is very hard.

You're writing isn't elitist here, but I think it moves very quickly up the ladder of stasis in an unjustified way (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_proce...).

At my school we've been trying to sort out this phenomenon for about five years, and we're still wrangling at the stasis of definition, with understanding the nature of what we see in our students. An example:

After I teach imaginary numbers, I give my students an (ungraded) assessment with these questions:

1. Please circle the imaginary numbers in this list. (about half imaginary)

2. Please perform the following multiplications. (mixed; about half imaginary x imaginary)

3. What is the definition of an imaginary number?

4. In your answers to question two, please circle all the products that are themselves imaginary numbers.

5. Is the product of two imaginary numbers imaginary? Why or why not?

We've never explicitly discussed #5, but its answers flows necessarily from the previous answers. What I'm really interested in is whether the answer to #5 is coherent with the answers to the previous four questions. I'd say for about a third of students it is not. For example, a student correctly wrote that i * i = -1, and correctly identified -1 as not imaginary, but then said for #5, "Yes. Because when you multiply two imaginary numbers it doesn't become unimaginary."

We see that play out in essentially every subject, and it's gotten much more prevalent in the last, say, ten years. It's especially noticeable in our 8th grade formal logic class, where a meaningful fraction of students appear unable to reason propositionally or syllogistically at all.

We have some ideas about what's driving the change, but are still trying to figure out which of them are correct and what we can do about it. My personal theory is it's something to do with syntax and semantics, with some students not associating meaning with words in the way that one would expect. It's so hard to extract signal from the noise about that though.
> 4) Our digital infrastructure for remote work was tested — and passed

This is pretty funny because ISPs have been using the excuse of "protecting their infrastructure" to justify data caps for years. Now that we've all seen that it's total BS, they just say they want to be "fair" and just charge people who "use more" and go over the cap.
meh. the order should be chronological instead of by category. Given the multitude of content online, the likelihood that someone an curate a list that does not miss stuff I may be interested in, is tiny. People have tired to create aggregators, and with the exceptions of Hacker News and Drudge, they tend to fail.
Interestingly (for UK readers), Dominic Cummings is obsessed with Bret Victor (the author of this article).
Regarding acid attacks, a 2013 report says that 45% of victims are men. Some stories from recent times:

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2018/apr/30/k...

https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/wom...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/woman-threw-acid-o...

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/aligarh-19-year-old-gi...

https://zeenews.india.com/india/woman-throws-acid-on-ex-boyf...
> It's extremely anthropocentric reasoning, like "the cost is too large"

I'm not sure certain.

Cost is, at its core, based on physics- energy, resources and time are the true values all money is based on. Those constraints will exist everywhere in the universe, however they may be treated by an ETI. No matter where you go or who you are, you still need a massive amount of energy to move matter from one star to another.
Saying that synth makers need to 'get their act together' is a bit unfair. Nobody asked Apple to invalidate all binaries, they just went ahead and did it.
> Doesn't Logic Pro already support this?

It didn't support it during the 32/64 bit transition, don't know about Intel to ARM. Of course even if Logic does it, there's the other DAWs.
There were a few tweets about HomePod and AirPod Max's NDA being signed around 5 years ago from ex-employees.

It was deleted within hours if not minutes.
Most useless comment ever lmfao ><.
Could you give some examples of actually 'worthwhile' right-wing/conservative perspectives? I'm genuinely curious, because it's quite hard to tell whether these views get suppressed in my filter bubble, or if there just aren't many worth examining.
Nothing about windows audio APIs actually stops them being good enough to do a production on.

Obviously it's not Broadway but I ran the sound for school productions for years, and we were able to quite happily do (increasingly DSP based as the years went on) live audio I/O on literally the worst windows machines you could imagine.

The whole idea that the OS really makes any difference - especially for being "creative" is just a placebo.
Apple killed flash. If they will be able to kill x86 remains to be seen. I don't think web users won out because flash is dead though. Web games never recovered. Video making switched from animation to people filming themselves talking to the camera. What will we loose with x86, I wonder?
with 17 minutes a day you definitely are not the median case. i think you're more of an outlier these days (probably outside 3 sigma that people actually care about). I can see why you wouldn't want any subscription services.
It doesn't require everything to be on the same process, it's just how DAWs are implemented today.

There are alternatives, like the bridges mentioned by the sibling post, but it's clunky and manual to setup and slows down your workflow.
This is anecdotal, but I've noticed that prepubescent kids under a lot of stress and anxiety often wear glasses at a young age - either they have very strict parents with lots of rules (and sometimes anger issues) or parents who are having marital issues that make the child feel very insecure.
I'd say Ruby's edge for shell scripting is considerable, but I agree with that strategy and recorded a whole video on the idea: https://youtu.be/bIpgUmn5yK8

tldw; Pick tools that complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Also it's interesting that some languages like C or JavaScript make a good complement to almost anything.
105 degrees here today, at least one shower is required to get the sweat off, otherwise sweat eating fungi etc can get a hold and there is skin problems.