skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up thinking record companies were a confederacy of scumbags, and my attitude hasn't changed that much, but the question of what the fair price for a recorded song should be has been clouded by a mix of cynicism on the part of publishers, and magical thinking on the part of artists.

Tech VC is an analogy for the risk model of record companies, where you have money from investors that needs a productive asset, and your risk/return appetite is being willing to accept that most of your bets will return zero, with just 2% of your investments yielding huge (10x+) multiples and 80% of your returns.

Whether you are investing in bands making albums or entrepreneurs building startups, there seem to be direct similes for record sales, publishing rights, merch, side projects, and intellectual property. The point is artists make their money touring with shows, which is basically a job, where the record company/investor makes their big money because they get the benefit of having risked capital with leverage. A founder working for investors is analogous to a band touring in support of album sales. Your upside is probably a job with a lifestyle and a bonus.

Which comes to the question of what a good price for a recording could be. Musicians generally don't take very much risk or use leverage that would yield investor-size returns. 99.9% of music is crap. The distribution curve of quality is really steep and long tailed, so if you invest in a given band, you are taking a <1% chance of ever seeing your money again. That's why record companies and VC make money. They're the producers. They're creating a portfolio spread over a wide pool of risk. If you write some songs, arguably, you have ventured nothing of value until someone discovers it. The music platforms provide this discovery.
Sure, I wish I could earn the an equivalent living making music or writing as I do in tech, but since I'm not a superstar talent, I manage that expectation and accept comfortable mediocrity. As the amortized capital risked by a musician averaged across all the other musicians in their genre on a given song, the price of a stream above tiny fractions of a penny is generous. The missing feature seems to be a way to sell the licensing and publishing rights, where I can pay $100 to use it in a video.

I get the sense that organizing spotify artists to complain is yet another way to hustle and exploit them, but this time for political ends instead of financial ones.

edit: there is probably a producer/product-manager analogy to be made as well, but will leave it there.
> Stop. Buying. Stuff. Made. In. China.

This isn't possible to follow on the individual level, even if you wanted to. Those 'Made in America' labels on product boxes aren't even accurate either, the parts can be built in China but assembled here, and still have that american label attached.
Unlocking my iPhone with a mask on in 14.5
So you’re saying that in the past about 130k years ago Greenland ice sheets were much smaller and our hunter gatherer ancestors either weren’t disrupted by it or didn’t write down an account of their hunter gatherer lives being disrupted. And because of that, concerns about our modern built up and fixed in place infrastructure being disrupted by the sea level rise implied by returning to that state are overblown?

Where did I misinterpreted your point?
YouTube audio with phone screen locked
Listen to your favorites youtube songs or dj mixes with your phone screen locked.
Boris Johnson to ban protests that are noisy or cause 'annoyance'
For most people, no. I might work through it today and tomorrow but in a few days I'm going to give up and go back to Amazon.
The article claims it isn't economic to transport salt >150 miles over land.

So at the very least, you have to buy a salt mine in the right location. Maybe even start a new one, if the existing monopolists own them all.

Not exactly a low barrier to entry IMHO :)
"Trained Marxist" might as well mean college graduate these days.
> Baby sitting should not be part of any serious work. If you do that, better go into nursery and let the real engineers do the job.

Sorry but so much machismo, so little engineering culture here.

> Failure (in your words a "pointless work") is a part of the process.

No, failing when everyone knew for good reasons and experience you were going to fail is not part of the process. This is hubris. Anything you do which could have been avoided is a cost that shouldn't be there. It is the opposite of proper engineering.

> Baby sitting

Providing guidance is not baby sitting. If you can't properly deal with less experienced people including making them confident enough that they don't pester you, you have no business being a senior member of the team because that's what distinguish the job from just being a productive junior member.
I guess we can argue on what he meant to convey by this sentence, but would you agree this is not especially nuanced ? That one example was particularly bad, but I find it representative of the man. I fail to see the nuance or the depth.
sounds familiar too :D
I agree. Even though I'm a liberal, I'm sad to see the conservative intellectual tradition in such bad shape. I always felt it would be better for your opponents to rally around their best arguments/figures rather than their least savory arguments/figures. I think it has also made us (liberals) lazier--we don't need to bring coherent, reasoned arguments because we can settle for "well, at least we're better than Trump". We're all racing to the bottom.
And now a 500 database error too!
Records are a cool highlight for this version.
https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395
nah but if I were, I suspect the excessive amount of computers, ethernet cables, and guitars would be a bigger issue than the "stools" ;)

but seriously, there is an observation to be made here about social norms around vehicle safety. all-season tires are not safe for winter use in large swathes of north america. why do we scoff at people who prepare appropriately?
Not sure if this is the kind of thing you had in mind, but...

`clang-format` saves a non-trivial chunk of time during code reviews, eliding a very banal topic.
The CVE-2017-11882 Exploit Still Used by Hackers, Years After It Was Patched
Yeah. The current price of aluminum is about $2.00/kg. So, at today's prices, this would cost $1000 per dwelling. That's already pretty high--but maybe not completely infeasible. But then you have to consider what will happen to this price if every household in global north starts buying another 500kg of aluminum.
I did experiment with it to improve the startup times of one of my applications (Java Swing). The gain was quite small, nearly not noticeable.
I'm not in the US but to me Amazon is something I use maybe twice a year and I buy a lot online and abroad. I even order stuff from the US sometimes and I don't normally use Amazon (or eBay). I don't get why it is so hard to cut out the middleman (Amazon) when it isn't to me when I order from the US. If I find the product on Amazon I just click on to the retailers website and order there.
Doctors operate in an environment of extreme uncertainty, because human biology is so complex and so poorly understood.

At the same time, doctors are rewarded for acting as though they are certain.

Not unlike internet commenters rewarded with karma for condemning doctors across the board with certainty.

Humans crave certainty in an uncertain world.
Couple of potential users does not yet form a valid business case.

Cars are expensive to develop. If you want to offer an affordable car you must have a lot of potential customers.
How do you plan to compete against LinkedIn & monetise?
Without copyright, someone will just take their output, cut out the ad reads and repost their output with their own embedded ads.

This already happens today (Linus with his tech tips is only one example); without the ability for creators to fight back, it would only get worse.

EDIT: That this is unpopular doesn't make it wrong. Even beyond the (currently) illegal reposting, there are lots of rights aggregators who pay viral content creators, and re-sell their content to TV channels (Chive TV, anybody?). The "pay creators" part goes away if you take away copyright.
Well, having serious support in China (including from the CCCP) is one way. Epic wouldn’t matter here since China is an extremely important market for Apple.
Have you missed the last decade where companies from all around the globe do this exact thing all the time because gathering your information is their business?

Google and Facebook get caught doing it constantly. Just this week a lawsuit against Google was given the green light for gathering data when they were not supposed to. And isn't Facebook currently trying to illegally merge WhatsApp and Facebook data? Didn't the last US president complain about the EU stepping in to protect their citizens about this? Don't pretend this is some "evil China" problem.
>But it’s almost taboo in socially progressive circles to say that family structure matters (even though this is obvious to Asians).

You must hang in some especially woke circles
There's about 85.3 billion reasons a year for them to not stand up to the CCP and in the end Apple's interest in privacy is mostly a tool to differentiate its offerings from the competition so they can sell people stuff.
they make bags for wheels.
The "work" that the artist did once is producing a lifetime of revenue by taxing everyone else's work. The artist isn't lifting a finger in the work that Spotify (or any other music platform) is doing. Why are they expecting to get more?
- Internet

- fibre

- email

- Smartphones

- gpus

- starlink will be one

More personal:

- language servers/linters

- Package Management

- a mouse

- dictation
While I do agree for MtG and Pokemon Yellow (their main value as examples is that they are fun and inexpected), Peano arithmetic is simple.

It is fondamental but still probably the simplest way to implement natural integers : a natural number is either 0 or one plus a number.
It's a common pattern in embedded systems (for better or worse) when you have something like function pointers or computed go tos available. C, of course, has function pointers and I've seen dispatch tables like this before:

message_handler = {type_0, type_1, ..., type_999}; // imagine it being generated
message_handler[message.type](message);

In the case of computed go to in Fortran, it's similar. I had the "pleasure" of maintaining this once. It's been a while so I had to look up the syntax, IIRC it used something like a dispatch tree and dispatched off each digit in the type but I could be wrong:

go to (0, 100, 200, 300, ...), message_type / 100 -- integer division

0
go to ...
100
go to ...
200
go to ...
...
Got the same at first. Reloaded the URL and it came up correctly.
mtailor and their fancy body measurement algorithm.
Cultures are different from each other in almost any measurable respect. Cultures and races cluster together. Even if the genetic predispositions are identical, surely the cultural programs running on top of them are not. Shall we legislate away cultural predispositions?
Winter tires are completely serviceable on dry pavement. I'm actually pretty surprised to read that people in the midwest don't regularly switch tires in the winter. The importance of winter tires comes just as much from their behavior in cold temperatures as it does from the different tread pattern. All-season tires use harder rubber compounds that lose nearly all their grip in the cold.

I run winter tires until lows in my area are mostly above freezing, regardless of whether there's any snow on the ground.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
Apple allows Russia to pre-install apps on iPhones as part of device setup
The ISS has to regularly perform station keeping, i.e. it has to expand fuel to raise its continuously decaying orbit. Any additional weight would increase the fuel required for this.
If the explanation of intended behavior left out the corner case, then it would be much more likely that the author hadn't considered the corner case. More insight into the author's thought process gives you more confidence in your assessment.
You're slightly wrong: copies of copyrighted works are abundant. The actual works themselves are scarce.
It isn't an indenture in the sense that you can leave the country. But society definitely makes a large speculative investment in every individual. Encouraging women to have children, parental leave, public hospitals, childcare, school, arts and science for public enjoyment and edification...

Back in the pre-Victorian era this was certainly not the norm. All these costs were self funded, and unsurprisingly people were uneducated, but parents still invested for their future by educating their children.

It reminds me of the thought: if you're a hunter-gatherer and you hunt and kill a deer, you can only eat so much. You have no preservation system. What is the best way to store it? In someone else's belly.

So society begins with a community, where by cooperation we achieve more together than we could individually. I feel that this is where these isolationist/survivalist ideas break down. Even the young man building the cabin is relying on years of education, knowledge about tools and construction, and of course food and medicine. I'm also not sure I would consider this sustainable if it can only be accessed by a fraction of the world's population.

The irony is that this image of off grid living is funded by the >30 million hours of screen time from people in high income, high carbon economies. My computer is using 130W just watching it, though lower on mobile I guess. So should we ban entertainment? No, because it sparks the imagination and cooperation, the force multipliers of society.
I know Oracle has a bad rep and is generally perceived as a corporate monstrosity, but honestly what is actually so bad about their business model? Sure they make a ton of cash fleecing other enterprises but at least it doesn't seem like they're mistreating workers or tracking users. Honestly, it always seemed kind of old-fashioned but not necessarily bad compared to the 'new era' internet giants
I will repost a comment I made about Apple and China in another post like 1.5 years ago:

"Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won’t have anything to sell, anywhere! I’m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they’re quickly planning to reduce, if not remove this dependency."
Again you keep referencing British media that it's clearly doing a bad job reporting this - if they are doing this on purpose that's to be discussed.

The problem isn't the blood clots. That's the spin British media is giving to this, and that's what EMA is addressing.
Yes, a heat pump would be better. I was thinking of what most renters have available - baseboards and portable heaters.

Cover the costs, maybe not. Offset, certainly.
I’ve had colleagues in Silicon Valley who were members of their home countries’ Communist Party student organizations.
Overall you seem to be saying you don't know anything about the actual organization or people at the helm of BLM, or what they've done with the money they've collected, but you hope it's all good.

I guess I agree with all of that, but I don't feel like it's a strong argument.
With decent LTE coverage in national forest and BLM areas I could see people sitting in the desert for a week and then moving onto another location while they work remotely out of their van, though it’s pretty cheap to buy square 200W panels. I didn’t read about the efficiency of this technology.
The 24 hour news media has created a world where the only public faces for politics on either side will be loud, obnoxious, or controversial.
SPDK on Windows, including NVMe-oF initiator and target
There's a lot to unpack here.

I agree with your critique of the "curriculum" gatekeeping setup that a lot of theaters have, and it does give off a weird moneygrabbing vibe. _However_,

- space costs money

- shows are almost always absurdly cheap (and btw, it's not like you can just take two classes and do a show sponsored by the theater. Magnet had a particularly arduous process to get on a house team.)

- don't know about UCB but Magnet held free open improv sessions. PIT charged something small to participate

- it's not heavily advertised but Magnet/PIT will come up with scholarships/volunteer opportunities in exchange for tuition.

I also think it's ridiculous to gatekeep software engineers out of improv (one of the most accepting communities I've been a part of btw), as if we're only allowed to churn out code 8 hours a day, go home, and do nothing that could possibly allow ourselves a creative outlet. While I enjoy some aspects of my job, I don't find it totally stimulating, and I like having creative outlets of expression such as improv. To some end, yes, the money I make as an engineer does fuel my ability to participate in my hobby. I'm not "trashing a local economy". I'm enjoying my fucking hobby. A hobby I have some higher aspirations in, granted, but I'm not expecting to quit my job tomorrow and pivot to comedy.

For all this guff you're making about software engineers being unfunny, I find it incredibly _unfunny_ that you're just declaring who can and can't participate in what is effectively two people telling a story on the fly.
I think the reaction has been more to Kotlin than Scala.
Let’s hope so. As an old farm boy and a do-it-yourselfer that grew up in the farm shop fixing equipment, few things get my blood boiling as much as the current machinery software lock-downs.
I hope they're subsidizing the Scala project, and Kotlin too. Nothing better for a dominant player than having other people scout the territory for you.
Sorry, but that one is 4x at best.
TBD on TR Pro using Zen 3, but TR Pro on Zen 2 appears to be a bit better than Epyc currently. I'd guess because optimizing idle power draw on TR Pro is a more worthwhile use of time vs. servers, where your fans are running at a bajillion RPM always anyway and you're not idle as much.
Window switching in OS X is so unintuitive it drives me MAD when you are remoting into a Mac.

Finder is just god awful and does all it can to obscure your actual filesystem location but the go to folder (cmd+g?) can get you where you need to go.
What jobs have natural job security? Either you’re protected by a union, a professional association, or having a rare and valuable skill set. The unions have been busted, professional associations are exclusive by their nature and most people definitionally do not have rare and marketable skills. As a result, an increasingly large fraction of jobs are gig work, part-time, or on contract. That includes work in law and software engineering. Precarity is the natural state of an unregulated, de-unionized job market and it is not a bug but a feature. It has little to do with our public schools.
Automated racism: How tech can entrench bias
I wrote up a long article on a number of ways to do MFA. https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/authentication/mul...

In looking around, a few things became clear:

* the tech industry hates SMS
* there are some common social engineering and a few network level attacks that SMS allows
* it's widely deployed and supported
* it's a heck of a lot better than nothing

I think the title of the original article is a bit absurd. That's like saying "It's time to stop using passwords for security." Sure, you can say that, but your grandma will still have a sticky note of passwords next to her computer.

Defense in depth without relying entirely on the user to secure their systems makes a lot of sense to me.

Ban SMS if you aren't worried about adoption of MFA (for example, because you are a corporation and can mandate TOTP). Otherwise find ways to work with it.
Turning personal trust in others into what looks like a stock market game strikes me as quite odd.

Because it feels like turning the individual into a commodity?
Comment Soulager Le Stress Avec Le Yoga?
that's precisely my point. Even if most of the $2/W cost of commercial PV isn't the cell cost, the cells still cost around US$ 0.4 - 0.6 each and this is for mass produced cells.

Is it fair to claim that a speciality cell such as those on this car can be had for even cheaper? Unlikely.
I have this feeling Sowell isn’t liked/respected by AOC/Pelosi because of how hard he disagrees with them. Can anybody tell me how he is perceived by liberals? Not trying to get political. Genuinely curious if he is an outcast to the left because a ton of what he says seems to fall into “conservative views”.
Doesn't seem that extreme to me. Even saying that divorce should be avoided at all costs and a two parent household is vastly superior to a single parent one is enough to get labeled as a conservative by many.
I do not see what it would not be cost effective for the amount of power it would be used. To power entire world with solar we would need solar installation size of Spain or bit less in Sahara, and to connect about 2000km cable over Algeria–Morocco i really do not see the issue, and that does not include current wind solar installations.
So now you generalize that these devs are terrible? They do this one thing I don't like. That doesn't say anything about the quality of their work overall.
probably as small as the money they would get if i was watching ads. but instead of watching them with an adblocker, i just use yt premium.

as i said, i do pay for my fav creators on patreons, because if i started paying for all of them, i wouldn't have money to do anything else.
Storage combinators [1] Which are my own, so shameless plug, I guess. When I wrote the paper, I asked colleagues if they could say something about the productivity increase. They wrote back that it was a 2x improvement, which I put in the paper. When I bumped into them at a meet-up, they confided it was actually more like 10x, but they didn't say that because they felt it sounded unrealistic.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] http://objective.st/Publications/
A sliding car doesn't have to be an uncontrollable car. When it's only snow on the road, it's just a bit of sliding here and there, but most drivers can still drive safely.

I consider myself a highly skilled driver but I agree that when there's a mirror-like icy spot hidden under the nice fluffy snow on top, and you hit it at the wrong moment, you're just going.
I see Europe is still drooling over the chance to strip-mine Africa.
I don't think I've heard of that team, sadly
Reminds me of Pratchett: “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
Culture goes very deep, most of the time you don't need to bring up genes to explain differences.
for 4. ...as best can tell, no easy way to navigate to that folder's parent

You can add a button to the toolbar in Finder (customize it from options) that when dropped down will show the complete path to the current folder as a list. You can use that to move up the tree.
PHP Inspections (EA Extended)[1] by Vladimir Reznichenko, a PHP language static analysis plugin for PHPStorm / JetBrains. I've coded in PHP for many years now, but there are many helpful reminders and checks that come standard with it. Some of the small performance quirks are game changers in long running processes, or intensive methods.

[1]: https://github.com/kalessil/phpinspectionsea
Exactly.

All this pervasive whinging about "white males" is getting really tiring, like when the Smithsonian described traits like hard work, objective thinking, etc. as aspects of "whiteness"[0]. I mean yeah, if you erroneously associate all of these positive traits that drive success with "whiteness" or "white males", then I can see how you would conclude that "white males" have some sort of unfair advantage.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...
Darkmode for the web.
yeah I'm confused too, so its because Java 9 officially came out September 2017 and they've been releasing very fast but have completely ditched semantic versioning

chart here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history