skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For music yes, largely because the music industry has been unable to resist the devaluation of their product in the modern era..

the Public simply is unwilling to pay $20 for a CD that maybe has 1 good song on it any more.

Other entertainment has been better able to resist this, those COVID has dealt a much needed blow to the value of Movies it is yet to be seen if this industry will recover.

Unauthorized distribution of non-music media is still very much alive and more popular than ever really. It is also becoming more popular since unlike the music industry the video industry is creating 10's even 100's of walled gardens, that are IP and Geographically locked to hold on to old outdated distribution models

I know many people that are growing tired of the "Which streaming service has the show or movie I want" which question that changes on a monthly basis, a Netflix may have it today, but Prime may have it tomorrow, then Hulu may get it later, as it leaves each of these platforms.

Most people subscribe to a single music service, however today you need to sign up to 3 or 4 or 5 Video services, that will drive more people back to unauthorized sources that are more convenient
Jeff Bezos' Amazon product reviews
I'm sure people who pay attention to cars and their performance would agree. And I think many cars will sell.

But I think "meaningfully improved" is in the eye of the beholder.

Steve Jobs' one more thing for iPod gen five included the exclamation "calendars never looked better!"

You look at the slide he has behind him and it looks ridiculous. How useful was that calendar, how silly does that look now? What is the meaning of 0 to 60 in 4 seconds when there's traffic anyway? Isn't there a safer, less expensive way to get a rush than pushing a pedal with a foot?

I'm not arguing that these features you're describing viewed through the lens of today aren't meaningful. Breakout on iPod Video was cool too. But these improvements do not change the fundamental experience of personal transportation. They make it marginally better at best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyblf2P_q5Q
Like this one. Wanna see a scared lion? https://youtu.be/a5V6gdu5ih8
> disengages any sense of purpose and practical utility and instead treats it like a badly worded test question.

Who are you to know the purpose and utility better than the person who asked the question ?
No they won’t... because I pay attention to what my kids consume. They’ll see it when they’re older, and when they’re are no longer at risk of sexual predators. My parents managed it. To assume it’s a forgone conclusion is just laziness and bad parenting.

There are age appropriateness for these things and ages when they’re introduced. If you don’t think that’s an issue, then you don’t understand how the world of sexual predation works in which kids are groomed.

I take my responsibility to protect my kids seriously. And I want media that makes that possible.

Go have your crap elsewhere, because it’s a matter of safety, not prudishness.
So what's your definition of a shortage then? We're in a situation where a lot of people who want microchips aren't able to buy them because the suppliers aren't able to produce enough of them. What is the difference between that and a shortage?

If we don't produce enough food for everyone to eat, we would be in a similar situation: the price would rise until only the people with the most money could afford food. We would call that a food shortage. Replace food with microchips and that's still a shortage, right? (Albeit a less dire one.)

Or do you follow an ideology where there is no such thing as a shortage, there is only the almighty supply and demand curve?

EDIT: To respond to the yacht thing: It's my understanding that the price of yacths aren't elevated because we're unable to produce enough of them. It is my understanding that yachts are expensive A) because producing them genuinely requires a lot of resources and B) because they're luxury goods which are priced according to their target market. If loads and loads of people suddenly started demanding yachts at their current price, and yacht factories weren't able to keep up with the demand, and the price of a yacht went up significantly due to supply constraints, I would certainly call that a "yacht shortage".
Well, yes, I have to agree that I don't see the link between allocations, abstractions and 1975 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Cars are too big and getting bigger every year.

/me waves from my tiny Corolla, slightly larger than my 2002 Prius, which a Camry has shrunk in size to meet relative to the 2009 model.
They obviously cooperate with subpoenas they receive, and I would not ve surprised if a data breach happens at some point

I wonder if there is an anonymous version of the service.
OK, I'm curious, how would this work out in practice?

The first reservation that comes to mind for me is concerns about crypto ledgers being more pseudonymous than anonymous. If I start using a cryptocurrency to tip exit node operators, that creates an immutable, publicly visible paper trail linking my presence on TOR back to me. Not exactly the kind of thing I'd be eager to sign up for if I'm trying to hide my tracks.

It also moves things toward a situation where digital privacy is reserved for people who can afford to pay for it, which strikes me as running directly counter to the principles the TOR project is supposed to be upholding.
What do you mean by “each tab stores it's path on the web”?
What do you do with them? I’ve never made or had anything with sardines in my life.
It is a new Bitcoin for Chinese businessmen and they buy up all stocks and stockpile. If you go on Chinese sites, you can buy any chips you want even thousands of them. Of course you'll pay 10x the price and have a high chance getting a counterfeit product.
Carvana etc are not full service though. You can't go test drive in advance. Also, dealerships are tightly linked to manufacturers, very similar to other franchises, and the incentives are in the manufacturers' favor for the existing model: there's relatively little profit, especially considering the overhead, in selling the car itself. The profit center is in servicing the cars at the dealership service center: The manufacturer has decent margins on parts and the dealership gets it's money on labor. Dealerships get a little extra in the points they take on financing, and higher margins selling used trade-in cars, but service is the key.

That is an extremely tight linkage between manufacturer, sales, financing, and service that will be very difficult to break.
Steve Jobs didn't want people to watch porn on iPhones either. So that makes be believe he would have been conflicted to see how people are addicted to phones nowadays. I also believe he would have wanted to make privacy a priority for the company, which they have.
I'm not even arguing against git, what are you talking about?

I'm only pointing out how the Linux kernel development is the only project (except maybe some GNU projects) that still insists on using archaic stuff, like sending email with patches.

And if fact I remember reading about a maintainer of a GNU project which I don't remember the name renting about how he's pretty much the only maintaining the project. There's also a project to get people up and running to contribute the kernel code base, most people stops at the email stuff. It's not like those things do not have tangible consequences.

And so far I've never seen good counterarguments except snark and logical fallacies in the form of "it always been that way" and "just start your own" which only reinforces my point about toxic leaders.
I pronounce it "squeal like a pig". "Squeal" is as good a pronunciation for SQL as "sequel", and indeed better because it saves a syllable. But after "squeal", who can resist adding "like a pig"?
What percentage are you talking about as being abysmal. 0.1% offered at some shitty brick and mortar bank is terrible but nearly all the online first banks offer (or offered before covid) what I thought was a decent 1-3%
News story with video of the dragon moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RS5alv6QA

Looks like this isn't the first time it's happened, back in 2014 there was another based on Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfJ1gby8_Y
I'd agree that mechanical mechanisms may break more easily than microprocessor equivalents, but I'm not sure about the argument that they are more difficult to repair.

With microprocessor-driven systems, the solutions seems to be to replace the entire PCB, which is often completely custom to the manufacturer or even the specific model of machine. Trying to source a reasonably priced replacement is often difficult, and there's no easy way to diagnose and repair a broken PCB.
We seem to think politicians should spring fully formed into existence, like Athena.
Indeed. That's why it is a hard question to answer which is fundamental.
What are the consequences of considering viruses to be alive vs not alive?
Are the 1000+ tabs related? Is this for research (or workflow, or just preferred routine...)?
Taproot is a decent improvement, but hardly a dramatic one. Dramatic improvement requires hiding amounts, such as the Liquid sidechain does.
Arguably it makes it more clear what's really going on. With tau, the identity can be formulated either:

- e^(iτ) = 1, meaning that taking a full revolution around the complex plane brings you back to 1, where you started

- e^(iτ/2) = -1, meaning that taking a half revolution takes you to the opposite of where you started, -1.

If you insist on the "contains the additive identity" formulation (which IMO is gratuitous because e^(ix) is all about the complex plane, not regular addition and multiplication), you can do either e^(iτ) + 0 = 1, or e^(iτ) - 1 = 0.
Ask HN: Where to find contract work as a developer?
Either here or on reddit I've seen plenty of people mention the option of working as a contractor as a viable option.

I have been working as a developer for 12 years. For the first six years of my career I wrote C++ / Python for a finance-adjacent firm.

The second half of my career has been the typical full-stack developer stuff. Django / Pyramid / SQLAlchemy backend and several different front-end frameworks like Vue and React.

It's enough to say that I'm a generalist and a decent enough programmer.

I'd love the ability to work a contract for 6 months to a year and then take a few months off between gigs. But when I search for contract opportunities they seem somewhat rare. Additionally, the contract gigs I find seem to be seeking people who would prefer full-time employment but would settle for the contract as a sort of 'probationary' measure. I never seem to find opportunities where it is seen by all parties as a temporary placement.

Am I looking in the wrong place? Are there certain employment agencies that I am not aware of that have these in abundance? Am I lacking in experience? If so, what do I need to do?

I live in NYC. I would think that would be helpful but I'm not sure.
My work x86 Mac laptop that they gave me last year - from the well known tech company that believes in “frugality” - has 8GB of RAM. As a developer[1], I was at first shocked seeing that I came from a 60 person startup that at least gave me a 16GB Dell.

Then I realized that since I have the ability to spin up any imaginable resources I need at the click of a button - or by writing a shit ton of yaml - without having to worry about the company getting a large bill from our cloud provider like I did before, I don’t need to run everything locally. I can just open my own AWS account.

That being said, I was shocked I only occasionally experience slowness with VSCode, Slack, Outlook, and Chrome running. Occasionally I will have to use PowerPoint or Word. On the rare occasions that I do need a beefier Linux or Windows environment, I use Cloud9 or WorkSpaces.

At home with a 1GB up/down connection it isn’t too bad. I don’t know how inconvenient this will be if we ever start traveling. I was hired post Covid.

[1] While I spend most of my time developing, I’m officially a consultant in ProServe. I would hope that the SDEs get something beefier.
Then NYT is diluting their brand and they deserve some of the blowback anyway.
i don't see anything there that accommodates bikes. and in either case it would not be an example of GP's point.

if someone gave me a fork to eat soup with, then i would invent the spoon because the fork is inadequate for that purpose; not because forks had some unforeseen spoon ecosystems grow around them. if doctors started using forks as medical instruments, then sure.
RAM/resource usage has been steadily decreasing for Plasma for a while, and has basically reached XFCE levels, so I suspect your information may be out of date. On my system it's currently using 250MB. Xubuntu is a great DE recommendation, though.
I the old Presto Opera browser if you entered just /. in the URL bar it would go to slashdot.org
I thought it was just me that did that.

On a more serious note, I just tried this excellent sardines recipe this week; Fisherman's Eggs [0]. Great for a high protein breakfast...

[0] https://www.thesophisticatedcaveman.com/fishermans-eggs/
The not-so-drastic truth behind climate change
If I step off a bridge, why does the distance between me and the very large nearby spherical mass begin decreasing at an, umm, accelerating rate?
Ask HN: Ideas either implemented or proposed historically to level playing field
I had an idea the other day which I'm sure is not totally unique, but I thought was at least worth discussing in terms of relatively simple / organic ways a government could level the playing field in a (mostly) capitalist economy.

I'm not saying the economy isn't already a "hybrid" of many ideas. In no way do I think the economy is purely capitalist (nor has any probably ever been).

The idea is based on revenue. How much money has "passed through" a business / entity. These numbers could be tracked by a government, and published in "tiers" (so as not to disclose precise information). These tiers wouldn't dictate how a government "taxes" the entity, but would dictate how the rest of the economy was (by law) required to treat these entities. Specifically around raw material consumption and/or other commodities such as energy prices, and even human resources, etc. I would imagine the formula would be based on how many standard deviations from the mean or median a given company was, which would exponentially affect commodity prices for those entities as the entity's revenue grew / shrank.

The question then becomes well how do you track the honesty of these entities? Technically it could be impossible, but based on statistical polling of consumers and/or other businesses it's likely the wealth would be distributed "evenly enough" that there would be no way to collude on a grand scale. This idea would likely require different human beings to be registered as the "controlling interests" in said entity so a company couldn't just spawn many companies all controlled by the same person.

This would also potentially make room to sway conservative viewpoints on issues since conservatives are generally against higher taxes. But if the tax was "transferred" into the economy directly there wouldn't be a middle man for some of this wealth distribution that we (almost all of us) seem to agree should happen in the US.

Also, would be interested (if a discussion occurs on this thread) what other promising ideas have been attempted / proposed historically and how did they pan out?
The value of reducing Omega-6 is over-hyped. The issue here is that when you eat a can of sardines, you tend to not eat them with a big load of carbohydrates, like white bread, rice, pasta, fries...
Although eating cheese with that can kill you, so is there not an R-MAOI like moclobemide but for MAO-B?
There are a lot of car enthusiasts here who can explain what makes new cars cool. You'll have to make your own comparison to iPod features from 2005.
Its the whole JIT inventories stuff they preach in business school. Toyota actually stocked enough chips to handle something like this.
Honestly, web development has been exponentially worse than any other field of software development I have exposure to, including games. 90% of the time when I open task manager to figure out why things are so slow the answer is some Chrome tab. gMail is actually the culprit a shocking amount of the time. According to Chrome, my gMail tab is using more memory than Slack and Outlook combined and is an order of magnitude less responsive and reliable than either of those apps from my experience.
I don’t know, I’ve been rather pleased not to have to talk to a salesman when buying car insurance for example.

If I was buying a new car the same would apply.
I change a car every few years and this year is the time. So while I have been looking at what can I get now, I found that my current car is worth more now than when I bought it used 3 years ago. Crazy...
Python Software Foundation Scores PPP Loans as It Works on Google, FB Interests
VS Code gets a pass, it is a quasi-IDE, Electron or not, it is a heavyweight. Tough I still use Sublime Text for performance reasons.

Discord and Slack: no excuses. These are chat apps running in the background. There could be a client taking just kilobytes it there was a will for it.
Funny.. because people vote for this stuff and support it. And if you poll the vast majority of Americans they support it too. So that constitutes “we”.

And I think swear words should be banned from general TV where kids can see it. You may not have a problem with it but I do and so do the majority at the moment. I have an issue with it because to me it’s about respect for other people. Children soak up everything, they’re sponges. I want a world where they see other people respecting each other.

And “we” get to decide that. If you want different then vote and campaign. Pretending you don’t have a voice when you do is just laziness.
Apache is an awkward one, because it's a Spanish loanword from Nahuatl, which is further distorted by English speakers.

I can't find a website that does the Nahuatl pronunciation, but my guess is that it's closer to the Spanish than English

https://www.spanishdict.com/pronunciation/apache
But then you have Lenovo who only ships 32GB with the latest X1 Carbon if you also choose an i7 CPU...
>I'm not saying that tech is bad I'm saying that saying any insinuation of presenting Tech as neutral from a moral (not legal) pov is problematic. Because if we use this by looking into the past then we must also acknowledge all the medical breakthroughs that were created during WWII

(I totally understand your point, but my understanding is that actually very little of medical significance happened to be learned from the human experimentation conducted by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during WWII, if that's what you're referring to. But for the sake of argument we can assume it did result in medical breakthroughs. Or if you're just referring to all the breakthroughs that occurred due to the pressure of the war, then that works, too.)

You're right, it's difficult to consider all technology as objectively neutral. If someone invents a device that lets any random teenager easily and cheaply release an aerosolized neurotoxin into a city center and kill thousands of people, it's hard to steelman the "it's the people, not the technology" argument in that case.

Philosophically, my post wasn't too rigorous or accurate. I think in the case of cryptocurrencies, though, there's enough of a balance of positive and negative that it's foolish to discard and vilify the entire concept, even if there are many uses (e.g. scams) that do deserve the critical reaction. If something has some positive utility to it, those always need to be kept in mind. Otherwise, all the politicians arguing in favor of banning encryption would have a much easier time, for example.
They're mostly untraceable, but not completely. That's why Monero devs keep trying to increase the ring size.
Yeah. While there are plenty of things to criticize, in general, it works. And a number of different approaches to a crowdsourced encyclopedia, e.g. Google Knol, have clearly not worked. There are big incentives to game anything like this--see also Quora.
I'm worried someone will remove it in future not realising that it was the backbone of some monitor

It's for this reason that defining a separate method for monitors might be a good idea. Then it's clear this isn't just someone's overeager noise, and the method could be changed to send data directly to a monitoring system in the future if the logging and monitoring stack changes.
Musk bought Tesla from someone else, he didn't found it (though he now calls himself founder).
Kinda sad that he stopped.

I'm imagine a young Jeff looking for a SciFi novel, not finding it anywhere and then coming up with the idea for Amazon.
Worth noting that the whole "can it be trusted" mainly revolves around political or otherwise controversial topics. Where entire pages can switch from "freedom fighter helping the world" to "literally Hitler" overnight with news articles/interviews being blacklisted for not being reliable while sourcing random blog-posts. For a good example, check the edit history of the Gamergate page, well known editors even got banned for wanting accuracy rather than pushing narratives.
Supplements don't cure diabetes.

The sardines are a very high-fat food item that will satiate you and potentially replace a big load of carbohydrates. Which would affect the prediabetes.
I run ML for side hustles. 64GB is a nice stopping point, along with reasonable GPU.
Model Interpretation: Shapley Values at Scale (Spark)
I've been supplementing with NR for the past couple of years and I've experienced a lot less inflammation-related problems in that time. For example, I used to wake up occasionally with sore joints (especially hands, wrists, and knees) and swelling in my hands to the point where the thumb on one hand could only bend about half as much as the thumb on my other hand.

I haven't had that problem at all since I added more vitamin D and NR to my usual multivitamin. I don't know if the NR or the additional D is responsible, but it coincides 100%. Nothing else has really changed.
uhh?

just because you can doesn't mean you should

just take a look at proposed regex

>(

> # match all tags in XHTML but capture only opening tags

> <!-- .? --> # comment

> | <!\[CDATA\[ .? \]\]> # CData section

> | <!DOCTYPE ( "" [^""]* "" | ' [^']* ' | [^>/'""] )* >

> | <\? .? \?> # xml declaration or processing instruction

> | < \w+ ( "" [^""] "" | ' [^']* ' | [^>/'""] )* /> # self-closing tag

> | < (?<tag> \w+ ) ( "" [^""]* "" | ' [^']* ' | [^>/'""] )* > # opening tag - captured

> | </ \w+ \s* > # end tag

> )

it's ugly as hell

>Parsing typically uses (at least) two steps: Tokenization which uses regular expressions to splits the input string into a sequence of syntax elements

I don't use regex for tokenization, I'm doing something wrong?

But overall I think this is important post, even despite I believe that regex is the best example of "good idea, shitty API"
Most of operators are more or less well-known. But Russia lacks incentive to go after its own citizen who damage American companies.
you should also be concerned about pests riding along with your fruit, ready to destroy your country's ecosystem. there's boring yet legitimate stuff to scan for.
Indeed, it's no Yahoo Answers (RIP)
you forgot the most important thing. cas, one system (aeb) is required in european in 2022.