skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started making music 10 years ago, I limited myself to using hardware only. Hardware synth, drum machine, mixer, effects etc. It was a great learning experience, which is why I did it. I wanted to understand the fundamentals.

5 years ago I finally took the dive into the digital realm with a mixer/soundcard combo and a DAW (logic X).

Forget 10x software, this was closer to 1000x faster.

I’m sure the early days of DAWs wasn’t like stepping into the game in 2015, but the software workflow was stupidly quicker than doing everything physically in real-time.

Now days we have heaps of choices for DAWs and soundcards and cross platform comparability. What an age to be a musician!
Assembly shouldn't be required (could be pre-configured from factory) but I don't see any reason why the top deck of a laptop couldn't be modular so the same model could support a more MacBook-like config with a centered keyboard + trackpad with no numpad and larger speakers OR an off-center keyboard and trackpad with numpad and smaller speakers.

Actually, thinking about it, it strikes me as slightly absurd that this isn't an option on at least a few mainstream laptops.
You know Microsoft runs windows repo with VFS right?
who cares? they are just dropping junk storage onto random blockchain enthusiast's computers for basically free instead of AWS and are clearly paying their talent with a token that trades on the Ethereum network via Uniswap. Would you even notice?

You aren't a developer for them so you don't have to worry about Erlang, their token doesn't need an Aeternity wallet if it trades on Ethereum, and even if you do earn their token on the Aeternity blockchain they could just offer a bridge on their own website.

Let me know if I missed something, how is this your problem?
Humans were also not at fault when the meteorite struck and wiped all dinosaurs.

It doesn’t mean we can’t stop it from happening again.
With all due respect, there are additional options to choose from. We are still very early in this, but I will "take the bait" since monetization seems to be an issue that people care about.

A percentage of revenue is I think a fair option. I am not referring to the previous comment about 30% [or even 10%]. I hate fees as much as the next person and taking a giant cut of your customers income is not the way to grow a business.

Also, as it relates to zero-cost, using your Visa card is free to you, but not the merchant. However, those fees are being included in the price you pay for the products/services.

A question for you: If you are making $100 per month from a service, what is a "fair" price for you to pay to continue having usage of that service?
- Are you OK to look at ads, so long as your cost is zero?
- Are you OK to pay $5.00 per month, so you do not have to look at ads?
- Or, do you prefer to have no ads and pay a % of your monthly income that you generate from using the service?
> 60% mechanical keyboard

What's that?
sourcekit-lsp is actually pretty light-weight implementation as it shares the same sourcekit code with Xcode. VSCode's sourcekit-lsp integration is OK to me.

The only issue for me is that I don't use Swift Package Manager, hence, the build system (Bazel) integration is simply not there (the BSP support from sourcekit-lsp is dead).
>Human needs are subjective to each and every human

After a certain point that's true but I think you miss the point of the parent. There are many, many hungry people in the world, many people without shelter and further millions who have no access to healthcare education or even clean water. These are not subjective needs.

Those people are in that position inspite of the fact that we could, with the wealth we have, feed, house and provide health care and education for each and every one of them.
> What are you using for GUI libraries? Or are these mostly accessed from the command line?

I'm not a Swift user, but the approach I've seen is people using it to run a localhost HTTP server for a HTML+JS frontend.
I believe opera had tabs for a while before Firefox. It was one of the main reasons I think I used opera for a good long while.
Was he really that bad for most if it though? If we ignore the cluster of bad Wesley episodes that only happened because of the 1988 writers' strike?
There are good frameworks that already work well with GraalVM native, including Quarkus and Micronaut. They avoid reflection altogether in most cases.
It looks more symbiotic in my experience. Apple now has the power to “create markets” because they have a reputation, a brand, and lots of money. Steve Jobs was once a nobody working on a startup, and nobodies working on startups are at the whim of the market. He rode the wave of dramatically increasing enthusiasm for consumer computing, which had been a hobby industry for years at that point and had began to take off. The market already wanted it, he didn’t create it.

Likewise, Elon Musk has been a big personality for years. Now he can start a company drilling holes and attract big partnerships and investments. When he started, he was just a nobody making maps software, then still nearly a nobody making internet money transmission software. Both relied on the massive wave of internet popularity in the 90s, with PayPal riding eBays wave. In hindsight, victory seems obvious, it looks like they created their markets. In their time, they rode a market wave. Markets are people, and you can’t make people want something they don’t want.
Macromedia Dreamweaver - It was 10x times better than Microsoft FrontPage (I was very young, please don't judge).

Mac OS X - Moving from Windows ME on my Packard Bell tower, to an iMac G3 with Mac OS X was quite a pivotal moment in my life - everything just felt smoother, it was actually nice to use an operating system, not a battle.

Heroku.com - The ease of getting a Rails site live was 10x better than setting up your own server.

Git - I was always messing up SVN systems, as soon as I switched to Git it just didn't seem possible to mess it up.
I think it's interesting how over time, prices for goods have gone through the floor for many things (food, electronics, clothing, even automobiles, etc...) but prices for services have gone parabolic.

Construction, education, and healthcare costs have risen well above CPI for several decades, not just in the US, but in most developed countries.
this is plain awesome, I've been looking for such platform with decent bc related jobs, I see there are quite a few, are there any restrictions to becoming a freelancer on the platform? geographical or otherwise?
Battery life is a proxy for somethings you do care about: how often does the fan come on and when does thermal throttling impact performance notably? If you don't travel, a desktop will cost less, last longer, and do more than a laptop — in part because the system won't be throttling. I spent about 20 years being laptop-only and went back to a desktop recently after realizing that it'd literally been years since I'd had any significant amount of on-the-go work which I couldn't do on my phone.
Power query for Excel. It trivialized data transformation for admin/operations users, who would have spent 50x the time on a VBA solution or (more likely) not bothered.
It is possible to obtain the tools and skills prior to the accident.
>we used to have a thing called SCSI (pronounced "scuzzy", and that's how it felt) which allowed you to connect to exactly one serial device.

No, SCSI was worse than that... you had 5 or so different types, about 5 different connectors, and you had to terminate things, set the dip-switches just right, have the right Adaptec card, with the right drivers, and if you didn't look at things too hard... you might be able to take a $5 CD blank and get a good burn on it... otherwise you had a $5 coaster.

I hate SCSI because I always had the SCSI Blues.
I'm not a huge fan of the way it was stated - my response shows how I tend to frame the discussion - but at a certain point you do have to be an activist about other people's usage of language.

While I would not say someone using blacklist or whitelist today is the same as someone using a racial slur, it took people actively admonishing others for using racial slurs to push them further and further out of common use.

I think it is totally fair to say that using them is backwards, and that we should progress to using terms that don't place negative connotations around words that are the color of peoples' skin. I wouldn't say that someone doing something that is backwards makes them as an individual backwards, however - I've got plenty of habits that are backwards. I try to rectify them - sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't. I don't feel personally attacked by someone commenting on those things when they happen, however, and instead take it as further reinforcement that there's always room for personal growth.
Get the winter set mounted on a second set of steel rims. It's a 45 minute job with the scissor jack that came with the car, less with anything better.

It's a nice excuse to spend a little time outside on a pleasant spring or fall afternoon.
As you pointed out there has been high demand for toilets even during recent years, and yet unemployment is a thing that still exists in the world.

Where are all the toilet-manufacturing and toilet-installing jobs? We certainly have the technology to produce billions of toilets if we as a society decided to. We know there are billions of humans who need toilets, why isn't this demand creating jobs? Where are the toilets?

A big part of the answer to that question is that the billions of people who need toilets can't afford them, because they don't have jobs that would enable them to pay for toilets.

Toilets are so easy to manufacture at our technological level that toilet factories don't require many workers. Certainly not billions of workers, but we have billions of humans who need toilets.

Maybe the same problem affects all products. Will technology advance until 10000 or 10 or zero human workers will be required to run all the factories in the entire world for every imaginable product? Where then will billions of unemployed humans get money to buy the products from those factories?
Maybe they did? Quoting from the PDF:

> "It is unclear to what extent union labor is a problem outside New York, but within New York it has contributed to rampant overstaffing and wages in the building trades that are well above market rates."

Don't shoot the messenger, that's a direct excerpt.

[EDIT] For the curious, the full list of reasons is overdesign, poor procurement practices, poor project management, labor, NIMBYism, politicization of projects.
Generator Pages in Constexpr.js
As I recall, Ray Kurzweil wrote extensively about this - minus the tax aspect - in his book The Singularity is Near.
... That still isn't an improvement of elisp speed. It might improve the performance of Emacs, but it's not improving the performance of elisp.
This doesn't make sense to me: why don't they simply price their cards 3x higher and sell them all to miners? Selling to the highest bidder is kind of "Capitalism 101". Their profits would skyrocket.

And what about gamers? Well... they can buy used previous gen cards from miners.
Multiple issues and its actually not labor.
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
> bureaucracies in East Asia and Continental Europe tend to be better-staffed and more empowered to make professional decisions

The key word here is "more empowered." If the state could just say "okay we're transplanting all of the people that live here out of the way so that we can put up a hyperloop, and these are the people who are going to do it, and we'll pay them this much..." infrastructure would move a lot faster, for much less money.

Because the US government tends to have far less authority over its citizens than Europe, and especially Asia, it has many free-marketish half measures that create the worst of all possible outcomes. Because the US has to pretend to be market-driven, by allowing private companies and unions to bid on projects, as well as offer people fair market values for their properties in the way of infrastructure, you get all sorts of problems. The main one is that the government is not a normal buyer, and completely throws most markets out of whack. Just look at the "cost plus" sort of funding schemes that have existed in aerospace contracts for decades, a concept that would never in a million years have existed in the free market.

I'm not saying that the European or Asian models are better, there are definite benefits to the liberties afforded to Americans...but it is without question far worse if the objective is timely and affordable infrastructure.
Their token trades on Uniswap so what difference does that make for you? Who cares where they dump their junk data?
VIM and VIM key bindings on other software (e.g., Vimium extension for Firefox and Chrome)
I think most Americans are incapable of telling me what a right is, let alone a specific one. This is intentionally left out of public education.
I feel this one is growing fast, most of the good jobs get filled in 10 minutes, I've been following the activity for the past few hours...
Idenati – #2 on product hunt today
A really simple and lightweight approach to digital organization & productivity.
> The idea wasn't to be _insulting_

Sure, I didn't really interpret it as you attempting to be insulting, more that you were accidentally insulting through your explanation of what you found.

> but rather to accurately and vividly describe the state of the code, as a motivating factor for the rewrite

Sure, but is any of that really needed beyond "there were numerous security problems we had to address"? When talking about shipping crypto, I think most involved would agree not shipping it is better than shipping something possibly exploitable.

I think the core of what I was trying to express is that words should be crafted with care when expected to be read in a public forum like this, just like any code expected to be used by many should be crafted with care. For the same reason it's useful to remove quadratic algorithms from places where the input is somewhat not entirely vetted, it's useful to take care with words to reduce the chance of misinterpretation.

That doesn't mean scour your statements for the smallest possible misinterpretation, but there's a lot of room to improve things like "I imagined strange Internet voices jeering, “this is what gives C a bad name!”" while still expressing your point constructively. The low hanging fruit is easy to pick, so you might as well pick it.

To be clear, I feel for you with regards to this situation. Nobody really expects weird accusations like you got from simple emails, and that's on Netgate, but a less extreme response that also publicly notes the soured relationship would also be a negative outcome from this in my opinion, if one of lower magnitude.
Developers are routinely breaking stuff and users have to sit and wait for the fix. It is like tracking HEAD. Not every user wants to do that.

Not only do we see an assumption that newer equals better but we see developers who believe the more activity on a project the better. To them, no activity means the project is "dead". These developers have no concept of a finished, working version that fulfills the user's needs. Perhaps they are incapable of producing such a finished product, or derive some benefit from keeping a user dependant on them for "updates". This is a purely developer perspective, not a user perspective. Not all software exists merely to give developers something to do. Not every user wants every update.
you have the idea right , but it isnt a stop codon its a signal sequence on the mRNA that would give it a hall pass.

no cytoplasmic nucleotide transport signal and it gets degraded quickly.
If a house is all I needed I could just move out to some 20km away location and get one for 60k€. You would have to do your own renovations but isn't that part of the deal when you buy a house? But I will concede that automation increases productivity and gives us access to more goods and services. It's absolutely necessary.
Speak for yourself. Los Angeles ran a profitable Olympics in 1984 and we look forward to doing so again in 2028. And nationalism is at a low ebb here, given our last four years fighting His Nibs on everything. It’s all about competition and entertainment for us. And infrastructure that can be reused for more entertainment.
They're just expressing curiosity. Jeeze.
A small modular reactor can generate 77 megawatts:

https://www.nuscalepower.com/about-us

A big wind turbine generates up to 6 megawatts [1]. A big solar panel generates up to 0.00067 megawatts [2]. If nuclear reactors can't progress much faster per iteration, that's another way to say that they won't catch up at all.

[1] https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/onshore-wind/...

[2] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/03/11/trina-launches-670-w-...
I would bet money on you being wrong at 2-3 feet away
Sadly, this isn’t even snark.
That hardly makes it an accurate summation of the article, though! If the reading process is "open report, Ctrl-F, union", then I'd say the result has already been decided.
> Can you imagine if your bank charged you to write a check?

My bank charges me to use an ATM, and to send international transfers, so it doesn't take a lot of imagination.
If they could make gpt-4 more coherent than gpt3 and could show understanding on causality than this blog will be more agreeable for me
The lower rungs of society have access to better jobs because they were needed by the ruling class as a workforce, and because technology advanced. As a result of the above two, they were able to negotiate economic power and better working conditions.

What is the incentive for "wasting resources on the lower rungs of society" when you don't need them as workers anymore?
They can just revoke the signature, right?
It all depends of course on what you do. When you try to ship stuff for various Linux distros, having to figure out how SuSE, Red Hat and Ubuntu like doing their init scripts is a pain.

Admin-wise it's nice not to ever have to look at a 3-way merge of stuff in /etc/init.d if somebody touched anything, and then the system was upgraded.

But besides that there's lots of cool benefits. Like not needing to deal with PID files, the fact that you always know what a random process belongs to, and that if you want to stop something, nothing will be left behind. Plus all the nice resource limits, auto-restart and other useful parameters that can be applied to anything.
Oh, it's super late! In the short term, China will definitely be the largest economy (it's just about demographics + GDP).

The only thing that could challenge that is:

1) World war (please no)

2) China is chopped up (but that's why they crack down on Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc)

So I think we might see another rebranding about what it means to be the n1 economy. Or they might come up with a new metric hehe.

The fact of the matter is that China's rule won't last long because:

1) It's governed by a bunch of hand picked corrupt and ignorant bunch called the CCP (although they've done propaganda and brainwashing far better than the USSR, I'll give them that)

2) There's a demographic bomb incoming for China (not enough children).
I've no use for a hidpi display. I've a use for lower power usage though. If I don't care about power usage, I'll be using a desktop anyway. Plus the price is probably pretty different. I know decent external budget 4k monitors are non existant.
The vast majority of people do just that. The small number of people who actually attend the Olympics in person are 1) journalists covering it 2) relatives of the athletes 3) people living near the venue who attend a few events out of curiosity and maybe have discounted tickets because of where they live 4) wealthy people who can afford the high cost of decent tickets with a clear view of the athletes.
So 1/4 to 3/4 of a million per year in salary.

Plus disrupting all the developers.

So far every large scale implementation i have seen has cost the developers a year in productivity.
This article explains perfectly why some "modern" approach to pixel art may fail on delivering the right retro feel:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/doing-an-hd-remake-the-right...

Also it's about the best rpg ever released: ffvi <3
https://www.stitchdata.com/

A happy user. It helps you connect data from multiple places and write to a single source. Anyone know a smiliar open source project like that?
I already use a separate keyboard for each hand when I'm at my desk (external magic keyboard for left hand, right hand on laptop, with the unused half of the external keyboard underneath my propped-up laptop). Works great!

I don't usually do a lot of numerical stuff so rarely need the number pad... it'd just be nice to have a wider laptop keyboard when I'm roaming about (though tbf I'm not sure I'd want a laptop that large...)
Imagine if LinkedIn was administered like Wikipedia : non-profit, and ultra-optimized to cost $0.007/active_monthly_user (vs ~1$ for FB)

It's hard for successful founders to turn down a multi-million acquisition offer, but they should never forget the cost for society.
Why bother? You tell me who funds Niskanen Center and I'll tell you what the article's conclusions are.
Absolutely! I find people are good about over reporting their gains and under reporting their losses myself. He mentioned some numbers in the multiple tens of thousands for the month (for whatever it was worth). If thats true he's easily making more than my software dev salary if he's able to do it regularly. But why would such a thing be so hard? These markets are volatile and it's there if you know how to take it.

It's a hard game to make it in long term. Ive always told people "Making money on winning trades is almost hilariously easy - its holding on to it thats the hard part".

1 - Generate signals that end up working out 50% of the time.

2 - Structure the game such that your winners are 3-7x your losers (depending on conditions here).

3 - Automate daily back testing on real bid/ask prices and arrive at a moving average of your stop/exit thresholds - allow your thresholds to flex a bit with market conditions.

4 - Keep at least 1.5x margin requirements as reserves and never bend from this no matter how many contracts you might trade if you leveraged your entire account.

5 - I find it immensely helpful to only evaluate how many contracts to trade 1x/month. Longer is fine but whatever you do, don't take a windfall profit and immediately pile on more contracts for the next trade.

Give me ^ES and ^NQ any day of the week personally.
Patterns in application-layer protocol design
No. Because

1) it won't take off
2) punycode
3) other reasons
That’s not what TomatoDash was asking for though
>Having things be better for horses was never the point of the economy

Neither was making things better for humans. The point of the economy is for capital to reproduce itself, humans being taken care of is an accidental side effect because capital doesn't like a torch mob very much.
Giant arctic walrus washes up on rocks on Ireland's Valentia Island
Firebug was the same speed, but Chrome got faster and websites felt comfortable piling on more JS as a result.
Who remembers the Millenium Dome? It was a self-conscious emulation of the 1951s Festival of Britain, that ended up being characteristically Blairite bland.
It’s just as dynamic, but its typing is stronger.