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I’ve tried several live audio programming languages (though not to any great extent), and have found Extempore to be easily the best. It’s the only language I’ve found which lets me control both the low-level details of synthesis and the high-level details of musical structure, and — more importantly — edit them both live. The low-level language is C-like and statically typed with all the advantages that brings, and as a Haskeller I find it intuitive to structure the high-level details around recursion (in Scheme in this case). My only real frustration with it is the lack of documentation, though the source seems pretty readable. (That, and the fact I haven’t found anything to use it for yet!)
Typical BS vendor. I will guarantee that Mr. Stephen Fry does not live his life as if he has no free will, in which case he is just another fraud promoting ideas that he himself does not believe to be true.
Yes, I don’t know why, but Microsoft doesn’t want spend the money to compete in the face to face customer service space. No big company except Apple does. And I like rewarding that.

I can’t believe Microsoft even opened a whole bunch of stores. They just keep quitting after a couple years. If they were willing to plow some money into it for a decade and keep supporting windows phone and clean Windows laptops, maybe we’d have some competition.
Dumping a bucket of ice water over your head doesn’t cause severe environmental damage. This does.

Also, everyone likes weird videos of bad things happening to people. NFTs don’t have widespread public interest, nor do they have an viral sharing feature. Videos do.
yeah, it's a weird complete lack of ambition from google which I kinda didn't expect. Like, can they not see the potential of building this type of gaming tech into youtube? Maybe even behind youtube premium to begin with.

There's a ton of fascinating things they could've done with it that they certainly have the money to do but instead they launched what they did which was compelling to no one at all?
> Q: How do you explain to a non-native speaker how to pronounce the word 'read' when you say it aloud...

Easy! just give them some latitude and longitude coordinates and tell them to match it up on what3words.com.
Except this particular social signal was entirely made up by a corporation. Social signals that cost significant resources for something worthless are stupid.
I remember when Facebook bought Oculus, some joked that they'll have to login to FB to use it, and hardcore VR fans scoffed at it and called them paranoid.

And then FB did exactly that couple years later...
I'm not sure why everyone is tripping here. He's about to save some fucking lives and you suddenly care about the enviroment for sending a mere 100 ETH?

Even if we are to look at the big picture, don't tell me you believe PG will be the sole reason everyone is going to pick up NFT donations now? It was going to happen regardless.
Do you love Apple products? Not a trick question. I think they are the best, but I don’t feel great about them.
My (admittedly limited) experience is that systems aren't maintainable except by people that are very familiar with them. The basic principles of the SRE don't ignore that, they embrace it. Rather than trying to manage a system from the top, they encourage the admin to delve in and craft it themselves. By bringing infrastructure close to the users of that infrastructure, everyone gets a chance to gain hands on knowledge. Is that how it actually turns out? Maybe, maybe not.
Except that there are more power-efficient ways to build a blockchain than the Bitcoin approach. There's nothing inherent about NFTs that means they must destroy the earth.
I am not a stickler about privacy and am willing to give my data to most apps/companies. Facebook, however, is a different story
To be clear, we did not really “chose”.

We love YC and TS. TinySeed invited us first, and we accepted.

After that, we could not also accept YC. We’re proud to be invited.

If we had both at the same time, we’d still go to TS (most likely). However, I cannot say for sure.

Anyway, accelerators are great, but they do not make you successful. You still have to work hard.
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>This is peak absurdism. Why not simply donate the money?

You must not have heard of TITS coin.

https://titscoin.io/
> Your startup advice is decent, I just don't have the stomach for it anymore. Been there, done that, have 600,000 worthless stock options to prove it. I feel like I have better odds at the poker table.

I understand. I'm just saying I did it and got $1m+/yr out of it. I've done startups before that lead nowhere - so I understand the feeling... It's not like joining startups at seed stage or something - I'd only join one with a $XXXm dollar valuation or greater. (And one that has gotten that valuation very quickly hopefully - not over 10 years) I left because of the horrible environment before I vested everything. I decided if I can find a job at $350-400k/yr with some minor upside and a much better culture then I'd probably be happier in the end. (I have about 8 YOE)
That's a funny thread. Plato distinguishes the world of ideas from the world of matter. The latter is all about magnetic fields, while the former has none of them, as it's the world of archetypes, hilbert spaces and fourier transforms. So mp3 belongs to the world of ideas, it's a concept that expresses a projection of an abstract waveform to a specific basis of functions. Sound represents a particular embodiment (aka a mechanical wave) of an abstract waveform in the world of matter. The fact that this mechanical wave is driven by magnetic fields is irrelevant and is also a tautology, because in the world of matter everything is driven by magnetic fields.
Belgium has such a place of its own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

However India-Bangladesh has enclaves of a higher nesting order.
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> Each kilogram of fish sticks produces about 1.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which “rivals the climate impact of tofu,” she says. Beef, by comparison, produces over 100 times that amount of carbon dioxide per kilogram.

That's fascinating. I wish they'd explain why.
I’m conflicted: HN frowns on humor, but this really is a brilliant reply.
Yes. PG essays reliably hit the front page. I can’t think of a single exception.

Obviously he can’t constantly ask for donations but the first ask certainly would have hit the front page.

As far as I can tell, no one has added more to the NFT. Maybe that will change with time.
I think airstrike is referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013880
Kubernetes is, unfortunately, not typical Go code. It uses a Makefile, which is never encouraged in Go, and it has a bunch of custom build scripts managed by that Makefile. I was looking at the Kubernetes issue tracker for other reasons, and came across one ticket open right now that mentions "fix excessive `go list` use in build scripts causing extremely long build times", so they know their build times are awful compared to what they should be. They don't even use Go Modules in the main Kubernetes code base, relying instead on $GOPATH which has been soft deprecated for years now, and hard deprecated possibly by the end of this year.

Plus, Kubernetes is sitting at 5 million lines of Go code, by my count. Try compiling a 5 million LoC Rust code base... I won't wait around.

I would assume that a controller written in Rust bypasses all the complex legacy of the Kubernetes code base, and that's why it can compile faster. If someone made a similar project in Go[0] to write Kubernetes controllers in Go without depending on the mega-Kubernetes code base, I'm sure it would be incredibly faster at compiling than the Rust version.

Beyond that, I've heard that the Kubernetes codebase is internally just a nightmare of basically untyped `interface{}` stuff floating around everywhere, which would make the development experience subpar. I don't know how much this is exposed to custom controllers.

So, if Kubernetes is your only experience with Go... I'm sorry you've had to experience that. It's a product that people seem to agree is functional and works most of the time, but I can't remember hearing any positive experience from people working on it. From what I understand, it was originally prototyped in Java, and then hastily rewritten into Go before public release, and I'm sure that didn't help things.

[0]: conceptually, maybe something like this? https://github.com/ericchiang/k8s or an updated fork of it like this: https://github.com/karlmutch/k8s No idea how well either works, if at all.
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It's not clear from the article, but my reading is that while the bug was introduced 12 years ago, it was discovered and fixed only now.

Which is different from knowing about it but ignoring it for 12 years.
If you mint an NFT and fail to sell it, you'll lose the minting fee. You'd do better to hold off on minting it until it has already been sold. And to actually sell some, you need to market them as something that people would want (like "saving lives") or, if you're short on ideas, crowdsource that task. At which point you're basically running an NFT platform. And you'll make more money the longer the NFT craze runs, which isn't really opposite to the bulls...

The proper way to bet on NFTs being passé soon is probably to invest in something that's not an NFT.
I think a lot of the culture of Microsoft remains the same as it was when Balmer left. As much as it’s fun to laugh at his “developers, developers, developers” sort of thing, his real legacy should probably how Microsoft formed its Business-2-Enterprise strategy under his rule.

When AWS first blew up they sort of struggled in European Enterprise because they originally went Google route or automating everything while taking a “our way or the high-way” attitude toward legalisation and localised agreements. This is basically why Azure was capable to fill the void that AWS was struggling to fill. Modern AWS has learned a lot from Kim that though, and are now ahead of Microsoft in many areas. I still can’t get a guarantee that only European citizens working in the EU will be the only people who work on my Azure cloud like I can from Amazon.

But as a whole, the sort of setup where I can call Redmond directly when shits hit the fan, and they will even give me hourly updates via phone until the issue has been resolved. That’s a Balmer sort of thing. And so is the financial aspect of how much more sense it makes to chose the Microsoft option once you’re already in bed with them. If anything that last hit has only grown under the new Microsoft.

I mean, how can I justify to my political leadership that I need to buy a Microsoft Teams competitor when it’s already included in our office365 setup? I can’t, and this just snowballs over time.

I’m not unhappy about this by the way. Through the past many decades Microsoft has been one of our best business partners as far as Tech goes. Which is very likely why AWS has adopted the approach.
Would that $220M have gone somewhere else equally valuable is Ice Bucket didn't become a trend?

Attention is a finite resource.
With the NFT minting, several bids, sale, and transfer of ownership, it's an average of 340 kWh for a successful NFT, according to https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cos... which has sources and methodology etc. That seems pretty high even for a fundraising dinner, and at least that includes food.
I would argue that part of this was execution. I signed and then cancelled 20 minutes later as their catalog didn't have anything I wanted to play.

I saw many similar comments on HN back then.

It inspired me to setup my own EC2 Windows GPU box and buy some games on steam. Neat, but a PITA so I didn't continue with my DIY setup.

Lastly Shadow cloud gaming PC has a lot of users (filed bankruptcy and recently acquired). https://shadow.tech/
Check out Ploygon(MATIC) they have an Ethereum L2 PoS network that is fully functional and works.

At this point people are voluntarily using an expensive and wasteful mainnet on Ethereum, and it is better to promote the the existing solutions rather than spread FUD that they do not exist.
And if someone else bids more, is that the only money that goes to Noora? i.e. PG’s bid is voided
Software doesn't favor decentralization at all... at least not the current software and Internet ecosystem.

The complexity of software coupled with its absolute rigidity makes it hard to build systems that talk to each other even when specifications are public. When things are proprietary take the difficulty of making software interoperable and add a total lack of documentation and a possibly adversarial relationship with the vendor where they'll try to deliberately shift things to keep you out. (There could also be legal barriers, but I'm just talking about technical ones.)

Then consider the added difficulty of opening systems to interoperability with other systems while maintaining security. If you allow connections from untrusted systems, now you have to be particularly meticulous in the design of your software to ensure there are no exploitable bugs, undefined behaviors, or holes in your permission system. We still mostly program in language that are "insecure by default" and make this hard.

Then there's the Internet itself which is intrinsically hierarchical. DNS, BGP, and the hierarchy enforced by NATs and firewalls that separate endpoints from the "real" Internet all make the network favor a "feudal" client-server model. We shouldn't be surprised that the Internet produces a lot of monopolies and closed silos; software built around the Internet takes on its shape.

Last but not least there's the use of cryptography to enforce walled gardens: certificates, code signature requirements, closed app stores, etc. This adds an artificial barrier on top of everything I mentioned above.

Compare this with older mechanical and analog systems. Even complex mechanical and analog electronic systems are straightforward to examine, measure, characterize, and understand. Ignoring patents and other legal restrictions it's straightforward to build replacement parts or interoperate with physical systems.
I thought they were going to talk about Canada's RADARSAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADARSAT_Constellation), a new constellation that was launched for exactly this purpose. Apparently we've been having issues with foreign fishing vessels depleting the stocks in our territorial waters.
Because doing this as an NFT is utterly nonsensical. The NFT is involved for absolutely no reason. The only results of involving an NFT are (1) legitimizing a ridiculous scam and (2) causing extra environmental damage alongside the donation.

Just donate the money, using a fraction of the carbon cost, and if you want to generate hype, do a match.

What a waste of time and energy.
One thing when considering effective giving is that cost-effectiveness does not scale linearly with the investment - this figure may well be accurate for the investments they've received, but that doesn't mean that additional investments will be effective to the same degree.

For example, in this case, educating mothers about how to take care of their babies will be very effective until most of the population is educated - from that point on, there may only need to be ongoing low investment to keep that level of education.

In general, effective giving would try to keep highly-effective charities well-funded, but not have them store excess investments - if not all of the donations can be "activated", the charity becomes less effective per dollar.
The stuff looks super cool, but it still looks kinda beta. When will it be available?
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I don't know if I'd call the Microsoft competing "well" against Sony when the PS4 outsold the Xbox One more than 2:1. I think it was this that MS finally realized they need to leverage PC gaming (after neglecting it for years) if they want to rule gaming. I do believe they now are poised to win this generation though with the unification of Xbox and PC.
There are reasons why I would mask in a vehicle: expecting passengers, returning from shared spaces and want to prevent hand-face contact.

I've puzzled about outdoor use, but I'm not getting off my bike to ask anybody. Best guess is they're subject to early (mis-)information about virus spread or they're at risk and taking all precautions. They may have allergies and are just avoiding pollen. What should I do about it? I did some extra research and confirmed wearing a mask outdoors probably isn't beneficial to myself or others so I don't. There is no harm from them choosing to wear one.

It's a practical tool to prevent spread of a respiratory virus. Trying to ascribe political motivations to every non-sensical example of mask wearing probably says more about your concerns than whatever motivated them to wear a mask.
FIDO2 supports "PINs" (can be a passphrase) but it's opt-in because you have to distribute devices to users - if you put a default PIN, it's like having no PIN.

So it seems to me that what you're asking is there already. Just maybe not advertised as it should. Am I missing something?
In the case of maritime travel, this is actually the law of the seas, as discussed in the article. Whether it's true or not that you have "nothing to hide", you are not allowed to sail "under the radar". Same as how you are mostly not allowed to fly without a transponder.
"Real diamond" as opposed to zirconia, or did you mean natural diamond (as opposed to a real artificial diamond)?
Stadia and Geforce now were the only platforms that Cyberpunk ran great on when the game launched. Geforce customers had to wait in queue for a server so Stadia came out on top.

Unfortunately, very few people know about it and Stadia didn't capitalize on marketing on the situation.
cool, can you add an audio equalizer ? :)
The only compulsory licensing for public performance of music in the US is if the work is represented by ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, according to Wikipedia[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_Stat...
> I had hoped PG would write an essay on crypto/NFTs, as he seems enthused by them and is good at explaining things.

What is there to explain? People who are invested in cryptocurrencies are hyping the equivalent of digital trading cards because it has the downstream effect of increasing the hype on cryptocurrency.
Note that I did not claim that I did my best work because of my kids. Only that my work is an existence proof that the presence of kids does not prevent intense work.
VAT and employee income tax are always conveniently ignored in these articles
I don't think they got big through acquisitions. They simply got big due to first mover advantages, favorable sentiment among investors (which gives them lots of capital), network effects that prevent competition, massive patent portfolios (which let them copy smaller company's innovations without consequence), running around regulations (like avoiding sales taxes in US for a long time, or avoiding taxes in Europe), and so on.

Yes, there are some acquisitions that added a lot to these companies and took away competition (YouTube, Instagram, Doubleclick, etc.). But the majority of the market share in these companies is not driven by just those pieces. The reality is that we do not have sufficiently modern anti-trust laws to capture the ways in which these companies hurt customers. It doesn't take a 90% market share in some segment or explicit abuse of market position to create harm. Their mere existence is enough, soaking up talent from the market, creating massive centralization of power and influence, and so on. I'm not sure what the best way to address this is, but rather than wasting time proving consumer harm, I think it's better to just treat giant companies differently to limit their size and growth - perhaps graduated corporate income taxes, or automatic splitting up above a certain market cap, or whatever else.
> nor do they have an viral sharing feature.

yet here we are...
In biology we understand fairly well that environmental complexity leads to greater biodiversity. If the Earth's environment were entirely uniform there would probably be only a few species and nothing would ever change.

Global highly efficient markets are like a polished flat globe with a uniform climate everywhere. Evolution would produce only one or two species in permanent equilibrium.
It's not a "JavaScript library" it's an entire toolchain. In the same way that `git` generated billions of dollars worth of value in the form of companies and productivity, Rome will do the same. Possibly even bigger.
What do you mean by "manipulating the language"?
You'll certainly find far fewer operating stations in most areas "soon", but you are right that the stations themselves will likely stand as historic monuments of an earlier time far into the future under current US regulations, because dismantling/cleaning/repurposing them is extremely expensive.

(I've got a couple old unused stations in my neighborhood already and watching the various ways they are reused, left to rot/wild, signed and resigned and signed again for sale/lease is an odd past time. I can't imagine what things are going to be feeling like when this is an even far more common phenomenon out in the suburbs and exurbs.)
Another thing British and Americans have a different name for. We call them fish fingers. If you ask for fish sticks in the UK you will probably get the pinkish crab sticks that don’t have breadcrumbs
Counterpoint (kinda): https://efficiencyiseverything.com/
Interesting that Watson is cited in the article so heavily, because I strongly believe that the reason Watson failed was because of MBA's and Management Consultants. I could have told them (in fact, as an IBM customer, I did) that going for healthcare was deranged, but they went after the $$$ in complete denial of the difficulties (heavy regulation, safety critical, deeply powerful complex network of stakeholders, super complex badly understood domain). Also they went far to fast, if they had tempered the effort with some patience then they could have got some really decent progress on a simpler domain (like customer service for telco's).

But the beast needed feeding.
I see posts saying Sony as having better sound and similar of not better active noice cancelling for about an the same price. Haven't tried Sony first hand but my Bose qc35 are extremely comfortable.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge wasn't the ALS Light A Tire On Fire challenge.
Yeah, I just enjoy the logic of:

"How dare you spend what at the end of the day is a trivial amount of money on something that your significant other appreciates and enjoys. You should be eating soylent green and living in a 400 square foot home!"

If I were struggling to get by, it would be a fair discussion. However the audience on HN I presume to be middle class, if not upper middle class it seems like an odd argument to make.
+1 Just tried Hookdeck yesterday, and it is amazing how easy they make webhook development. From local testing to production deployments with reliability, they've really thought this out. Worth a look for any developer in this space