skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I hadn't really explored Collier's music until I read so many people panning his work on this thread.

One youtube rabbit hole later, and I have to strongly disagree. These threads are littered with Phrases like 'Doesn't score highly on either experimentation or taste', 'lack of emotion'. 'Seems overly clever but not nice sounding'.

Sorry, I'm not sure whether this is people hating on someone outside of your camp or what, but I think they're missing the point.

The way Collier brings ideas from Jazz, Classical, Synth culture, EDM, R&B into a modern a cappella multimedia collage is experimental, creative and I find quite emotional.

Granted it's not the emotion in traditional, analogue music forms coming from the voicing of the instrument - it's from the arrangement, the sampling, even the ebb and flow of precision.

And where most of the modern Glee-style a cappella are sanitized, overly produced and pretty pap (I'm not a fan of the genre, but my kids are), he's really pushing the boundaries of that genre. In ways that, from the handful of examples I've listened to, sound quite successful.

In particular I really enjoyed his arrangements of Stevie Wonder.

The music gate-keepers have always levelled these same criticisms electronic compositions, especially if the the composers are young and popular.
I went to the article hoping for more context, but it just leaves that statement about more than half of the crew dying without any explanation.
Exactly. Or, just buy an integrated system from people who support Linux

Example - Intel. I've never had a single hardware support problem with a NUC. Intel processor, Intel video, Intel wifi, Intel bluetooth. All supported right in the kernel, out of the box.

AMD is getting there, too. I currently run a 4x4 with ryzen and vega, and an Intel ax200. All peachy.
What motivation does your developer employee have to go hire another developer to continue once he is gone? Seems likely that he'd just go his whole life taking your money and keeping the website up, then let everything go down once he retires/dies.
Shakespeare and the KJV are both closer to 400 years old. Shakespeare wanted to be accessible, though modern readers still need annotations to understand some of the words and most of the references. The KJV was intentionally somewhat archaic. There's a big difference in how accessible KJV is vs Shakespeare

But otherwise yeah, the Norman Conquest did a number on the language
> It continues: “In primary schools, the use of face masks is recommended for teachers and other adults when physical distancing cannot be guaranteed, but it is not recommended for students.”

This quote is from the first version of the ECDC "COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in COVID-19 transmission" document from August 2020.

In the latest version (2nd update, July 2021), there is no mention of it anymore.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/children-and...
Gates Foundation commits up to $120M to support access to new Covid-19 pill
Create a foundation that ensures it is always copied to the latest media.

It should verify it’s on hosted on multiple sites and the current offline media is working.

Every few years this will have to change.

Every 20 years, annotations might have to be added as language drifts.
"unable to pay" is not the same as "should be illegal"

The perps don't give a shit about what is legal and illegal. They target preys that are vulnerable but have critical functions (e.g. a Hospital network). It is not just about individuals. If a Hospital Network gets attacked and has serious consequences, they won't do a board meeting to discuss "Gee, paying ransomware is illegal. We must say No. ".

I am not advocating that people should just pay but we cannot punish the victims even if the victims were careless (bad security practice etc).
All jobs on AngelList are potentially contract if you're outside the US. Unless they want to set up a subsidiary for you (they won't) or use a global PEO (some do want to do this but most are happy with a direct contract in my experience).
I don’t know why I can’t get money from the ATM with apple pay. Wouldn’t it be more secure? No card. No pin.

Alternatively maybe a TOTP with a seed via a QR code and entered on the pad? Surely there are better ways than a static pin…
For medium rare, what do you use for sous vide temps and for how long? Also is there an alternative to using plastic bags?
FTP support too.
That is an interesting link, thanks.
Astral codex is now the new Freakonomics
I'm guessing that where you live, guns have been effectively outlawed. Imagine arming your citizens to the teeth, what affect do you think that would have on your police?
I'm excited to see if NixOS will relieve some of the packaging problems. Still, that's just one distro.
The Chicago Fire Department training academy occupies the site where Mrs. O'Leary's barn stood.

Also, if you'd like a souvenir from the Great Chicago Fire, head over the 12th Street beach any time there a big storm out of the north. The south corner will have an accumulation of stuff washed up from the lake (which is where they pushed all the debris). Terra cotta, bricks, glass, porcelain, etc.
… are you under the impression liberals DON'T have that too?
This thread is full of smug dismissals of these issues, so the list will be as long or longer in 2025.

Ultimately it's a lack of resources. A company could produce a polished Linux desktop but nobody will pay for it so it won't happen.
That paper is fascinating. Have you read any of Putnam's books? Are there any you'd recommend?
Have you read the Security category?
State can't comment on your silence if you invoke the fifth amendment
Congratulations on getting your ports back!
Unlikely, in my courtroom experience. I would highly recommend making sure the police can't get to your data. It is unlikely you will be charged with anything. And what you get charged with if they get to your data might be 1000X worse than any minor obstruction of justice charge, depending on what sort of crime you are committing.
The age of machine learning as code has arrived
> Because republicans don't need or care for free anonymous speech, or social networks, since we typically have large networks of real-in-life friends.

I would be interested in seeing data to back up these assertions.

Given how frequently some conservative news sources complain about things like cancel culture and how many conservative social networks have sprung up in the past few years, I'd guess that you're wrong. It seems like some conservatives really do care about social networks, whether those networks are anonymous or not.
Patent portfolios aren't typically used as a defense against trolls. Since they're overwhelmingly non practicing entities, they're typically not infringing on anything.
I think I stopped using them when the browsers inexplicably lost their menus.

I don't really understand why the menus went away from the top of web browser, since desktop screen space hasn't been an issue since the late '90s, even on laptops.
I think HN is pretty diverse. I, for instance, am a big fan of SDV. I've only ever played it on my android phone though.
Is it really moving the goalposts? Tor being used to buy drugs came into the discussion because of the moral implications of developing a tool that can be used for bad things. There are two things in that discussion: what are the usage statistics of Tor (for example: 20% drugs, 10% child pornography, 50% oppressed people, 20% "noise". This is a pure invention and I have no idea if this reflects or not the actual usage of Tor), and are those things morally good or bad.

The discussion turned around "Tor is used a lot to buy drugs, which is bad". At least that's how I interpreted this part of your comment:

> Personally, I have a suspicion, that despite my love of freedom, Tor usage is probably primarily paranoid people and drugs, and a small percentage facilities anonymous exploitation of children in a way that no other technology can. I would love to be proved wrong and see some facts that Tor is actually a net good for the world.

You didn't directly said that buying drugs on Tor is bad, that's my assumption, but I think that it's a fair assumption considering what you wrote. So my point was a refutation that Tor being used to buy drugs is necessarly a bad thing.

> Are we arguing about the fundamental facts of how Tor is used, or the fundamental morals we should have?

I think both are important if you want to determine whether Tor is a net plus or minus. I don't have any statistics to contribute and don't want to pretend that I have any. I think that if you take a point of view close to "drugs users will buy drugs anyway" and "drugs users shouldn't be exposed to more dangers just because they want to buy drugs", drugs on Tor can be seen as a positive. Of course you're free to disagree on those two views.
The trooper lied to "the court", twice. It was a bench trial. Both lies took place in front of the magistrate with no jury present. I have documentation that shows the statement were factually incorrect and that for one of those statements he said the opposite a few minutes beforehand and the evidence supports the out-of-court statement.
How precisely did the supposed defunding lead to an increase in crime?
> It's hard to argue this is the case, especially for businesses that require a significant amount of upfront capital.

There is plenty of capital to be had these days, and a lot of competition in many capital-intensive industries. For example, we have multiple competitors in cloud computing space, despite it requiring ten of billions of dollars in capital to enter.

The ISPs, and utilities in general are different not because they are simply capital intensive, but rather because they have low marginal return for marginal unit of capital spent, and because competition damages these return even higher. Launching a few satellites to provide service globally is a different sort of capital expense than painstakingly building out utilities every street and every block.

> The $1B number is a red herring. It cost them $1B to maintain the system. The costs of acquiring rockets and designing satellites, as a private company, is likely far greater.

Sure, which is why there has been no competition to GPS so far. However, SpaceX, now that it already has rocket and satellite expertise, could provide competition to Government GPS relatively easily.

> The question you should ask would if a company like Waze (pre-acquisition of course) could have built the infrastructure for GPS. The answer is likely no.

No, but they would simply buy license to use GPS, just like they bought license to use maps. No reason to pass these costs to users directly as a line item in a bill. That’s my point: there is no reason to believe that privately owned GPS would diminish the user experience. As I already mentioned, instead of subscription fees that people lacking business imagination keep bringing up, you could for example charge royalties per GPS receiver sold, you know, the way Android phones already pay dozens of dollars in royalties.
2 years' worth of Christmas ornaments? 10 years' worth?

The amount of crap that we consume is astounding. And in many cases, each specific type of crap requires a bunch of smaller crap (components).

There is literally no way for a consumption-driven society as broad and deep as ours to stockpile years' worth of everything.
What is "This" which you refer to?

The article is really a rather random list of issues that different demographics might or will encounter. Is there any specific issue on there that made you glad you switched?
> I'm surprised you can't see that this counter-article is just plain old FUD.

Content-less emotional manipulation - just the kind of thing that I hate to see on HN.

You answered none of the points in the article itself, dismissing the entire thing out of hand with an acronym describing a concept that you provided no evidence actually applied to any of the arguments.

> It should be a no-brainer that an operative system that is free, open, democratic, well documented and consisting of over 50,000 quality software packages---Debian, for example---is better than an OS which isn't any of those things.

No. I've been using Linux as my daily driver for over a decade (and have spent far more time using it than Windows), and gotten a few other people on it, so I can say that, for actually getting things done and software just working, Windows is far better than Linux. An operating system where you have to struggle to get things done is a bad operating system.

Linux isn't "democratic", either - Linus Torvalds controls kernel development, and the userspace components have wildly differing development practices.

Nor is it "well documented" - Linux-related documentation is generally terrible to read. Technically correct? Sure - but that's not "well documented", that's an encyclopedia.

Neither can you say that those "50,000" software packages are "quality" - the vast majority of open-source software that I've seen is buggy, under-documented, incomplete, and difficult to use. (I mean, so is the vast majority of proprietary software - but that software being "also bad" doesn't make OSS software "good")

> Of course software is (also) about ideology. [...] well then obviously you have picked sides.

Please leave your manipulative speech out of HN, and don't try to drag me (or anyone) into your idealistic flamewar.

Microsoft is a company that is predatory towards its users, and that's why I recommend Linux despite all of its problems. Pretending that it has no problems, or is technically superior to Windows, and then piling on inflammatory dialog, does nobody any good.
Oh wow, you really didn't know?

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ex...

https://books.google.com/books?id=B1MzEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA259#v=on...

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/re...

https://www.google.com/search?&q=trump+executive+order+twitt...
Oh I understand the motivation. I also know it caused a lot of pain, for very little gain.
I'm going to give this a try later. One small fly in the ointment is that if like me you do not have and do not want to ever have a Facebook account, it will not be possible to load this onto the device after 2022.

This is because loading the ADB requires putting the device in developer mode, which in turn requires an internet connection and an active login to your Oculus developer account. Oculus developer accounts have been deprecated and will stop working in 2023, after which time a Facebook account is required.
I think they just made the call this week. I last checked not long ago and there was no info on the site yet.
This. People on this thread seem to think you'll have time to do something clever with your phone. If someone puts a loaded gun to you, like they did to us, then you're inclined to do as they say.
If there's no link to the order (EOs being publicly available), then exactly what is the claim? The two things stated in the article about new rules around section 230, which does not match your original claim of

> Trump signed an executive order to allow people to "silence and cancel" Twitter users after Twitter added a fact check to a single Tweet of his.

Which 'people' did the EO allow to 'silence and cancel' Twitter users? Can you please explain yourself? Who was canceled? Can you name one person? Which person canceled them that was not allowed to before this EO?

You've made quite the claim. Can you substantiate it?
This doesn't really apply to me as I'm not a US Citizen or a Green Card holder, but out of curiosity. Are you on a payroll in your home state and pay state + federal taxes or are you paid as a contractor similar to what I do?
Love Moby Dick. One thing I've wanted to do for a few years is make the trip to New Bedford Whaling Museum for the annual marathon reading.

It's also streamed every year.

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/the-moby-dick-marathon...
I must apologize if I made you feel like it is a criticism. I think national/cultural pride is a pretty positive thing, at least in China.
There needs to be ways ensuring that content remains a commodity and does not enable rent-seeking. Imagine where we would be today if each television station had it's own antenna and encoding just to seek more profit.
Ideally the printer would only run a few times, I imagine when the internet finally goes down there's no reason to keep printing new copies of the book.
Not Mark, but I'm one of the original leads on Google's Knowledge Graph.

KGs are great for data integration because they are naturally composable. If you have two data sources represented as graphs, and their node identifiers are in the same range (ie, they have been reconciled), and their edge labels are mapped to the same schema, then you can combine them just by taking the union of all their triples.

This works across different vertical domains -- for instance, you can create a joint film + music KG just by unioning all the triples from a film KG and a music KG, as long as you've mapped the node identifiers to a common namespace (eg Wikipedia). You can then do cross-vertical queries like soundtracks for Will Smith movies, etc.
Contractual Disappointment in C++
Until you try to compile your Qt-4 software and… dang!
You've quoted the "non-source forms" clause, which is an optional clause that extends your obligations under the source clause. Your own quote says exactly this:

> You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License [...]

Emphasis mine.

Put another way: this section has no impact on TRUTH's legal obligations, which consist primarily of the sections I've quoted above[1]. They're merely additional things that TRUTH could do to be a good member of the OSS community.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28959468
By “backend” I mean the compiler logic backing traced tensors in JAX.

torch.fx seems different in that it’s primarily aimed at being a platform for users, rather than JAX which (as far as I know) hides the logic behind @jit annotations.

Both trace eager code to a graph, which is then rewritten. JAX @jit is notably going eager -> graph -> XLA https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/How_JAX_primi...

So (to me) it seems that they are similar backends/library primitives with different front-ends. There doesn’t seem to be a difference in representational power, since both hit a graph representation. The main exception I could see would be something like timers, which would perhaps require a graph-mode equivalent for JAX.
Take a look at https://siasky.net

It's a blockchain (Sia) and they focus on data storing.
> The #1 skill I am always hoping to find someone with that I vibe with is design. No matter what you build, both UX design and a consistent visual aesthetic are very important

Is it surprising? Design is cheap, and outsourced. You can go very far with a single contractor designer picked up from dribbble.com (think ~1-5k USD max for the entire MVP and marketing site). The quality is excellent and will last you well into later funding rounds.

Another thing to consider is products that differentiate on UX are much harder to launch. And when they do, it's more engineering than design that ensures it succeeds. I think about SnapChat. It's great to say X would be a great user experience, but boy, good luck finding a skilled iOS dev to make that happen.
A foundation of sorts?
FBI, others crush REvil using ransomware gang’s favorite tactic against it
The Seven Rules of the Metaverse
Society as we knew it definitely took a hit in 2020 though.

Collapse is not a singular event at a fixed point in time like the start of a war would be, it's a process.
Pointing out deficiencies in other OS's does not make one an MS bot.
This post is 100% accurate, one thing that people won't beleive is that it's almost 2022 and there is no hardware acceleration when playing video on your browser in Linux, yup CPU is pegging like crazy to play some stuff that is trivial to decode with a GPU. I have a laptop from 2021 and yet somehow VLC is not able to use the GPU for video decoding.

Something that windows has been doing for the last 15 years. So you have slow video rendering, high CPU / battery usage.

Other crazy stuff: have you tried to install that version of x11 to get the latest opengl, then have you tried to put that firmware in the folder etc etc ... Does your kernel has the backport from version 5.10.x no? well when you get back from sleep have a black screen etc ... same problems as 20 years ago on Linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromium#Force_GPU_accelera...
Firefox has menus on the top, unless the user hides them.
Wow this is a new level of Git hell I haven’t even heard about!
One of the most common arguments I see repeated here when unions come up is the idea (not sure if it can be backed by evidence or not) that unions protect underperformers and stifle top performers. Combine this with the fact that most Americans believe they're above average intelligence [0] and you end up where a situation where most people believe that they personally would be worse off under a union.

I suspect that the HN demographic (and I include myself in this) is particularly prone to this sense of illusory superiority [1]. We're a demographic that is more likely than most to have grown up constantly receiving external validation that we're exceptional via good performance in school, getting into elite universities, occupying extremely high paying jobs, and so on.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029792/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
Yes the last bit was just a little joke - orbital decay is subject to too much uncertainty.

Although I guess if you had propulsion you could deorbit in a specific place at a specific time. SpaceX and icbms deorbit precisely so we have the technology nowadays to do so. Maybe an ion drive could last that long?
This is fascinating.

Where were they cancelled? I know about Larrabee and Itanium of course. But the others? Would they have succeeded in the market if pushed?

Or was Intel just going in all directions a bit randomly without strong purpose?
Linux runs on a Nintendo Wii.

Windows does not run a Nintendo Wii.

Windows hardware support sucks.
When i share my Linux desktop in a Teams call with developers and they see how I can run multiple ssh sessions in tmux running in a drop down Tilda terminal, connecting to 5 or 6 servers and running commands within a few seconds, and then those same developers try to do the same on windows, using mobaxterm and they get lost in sub menu hell and modal prompts i just cry a little inside. so much time wasted clicking through pointless menus, not just theirs but everyone in the meeting
And powdered milk:
https://www.channel3000.com/homeless-man-told-court-powdered...
Yeah, I wasn't trying to suggest that the quotes were from the judge, just that they imply the issue that was actually being argued over in the case.
Gecko is riddled with technical debt. People may have an emotional attachment to it, but technically it's a dead end. Sorry but that is the truth.
blockchain, ipfs, it needs to live inside something else that other people care about enough to maintain and keep alive
I've used linux daily for the last ~4 years and I would not say mac osx is better. Every OS has issues, but with linux I understand what's going on and can configure it to my liking.
I have done this from 2015-2020 for two different US based startups. The most recent one got acquired by an entity that has a German HQ and I'm now attached to that.

Both startups were Bay area based, around 50-100 people in size. Comp was about five to ten percent below bay area standards but I was making north of $180k/yr in the end.

Setup was similar to yours. I was treated as a contractor. There were a few things I had to do to make this legal on the German side but not overly complicated.

Got to travel a lot (including a round the world trip in 2017 while working remotely) and frequent visits to the US were the norm.