skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the demand is concentrated over such a short period I guess the simplest solution would be to have one price for all?

This would encourage people to shop early as they would get the pick of the crop - so to speak. Latecomers to the party would have less choice, obviously, but would still be incentivised to buy anyway since there are not that many alternative pathches to choose from in a given area.

The price could also be reduced as time goes by so the day before halloween you're almost certain to sell the most amount possible.
Ableton is really two softwares in one, for composing and for performing
Sorry, doesn’t count. If it’s not a full time job that you pay taxes on, I don’t care.

This hard line stance is necessary because the line is being blurred constantly in this profession. You’ll have bootcampers come out in 3 months, claim all kinds of experience. Now you got these kids thinking they have 10 years of experience at 25. Just recently I saw a secretary on LinkedIn that took a data science bootcamp, and went from secretary to data scientist in a few months. Wtf?

I don’t believe any of you anymore quite frankly.

For what it’s worth, I also started “working” around 14. I had actually paying clients that wrote me actual checks for decent money. I never claim the years of teenage experience as professional experience, that’s quite lame.
Just curious what you expected to show for doing something for 10 years? Progress? Improvement? CEO of MAANG?

You repeatedly say "I am stuck". What does that mean to you?

What does "being proud of" something you've worked on, look like to you? I've been in this business for 26+ years and NOTHING I've done in my career, would qualify for being "proud of". What I AM proud of, is the person I've become, the relationships I've fostered, the children I've raised.

I get that this career choice can seem overwhelming at times. I've tried to specialize more than a few times, but it didn't work out. Primarily because I was chasing the money. In other words, doing what paid me and paid me well because I have a family to support.

Honestly what you've posted above, sounds so much larger than your career.
No great insight from me here, but you make it sound like you would much prefer to work on backend/server stuff.
A gateway to that might be full-stack, if it's not possible to directly transition to back-end developer.
Some people may view full-stack as "holding two jobs instead of one", but it doesn't necessarily have to feel like that.
The matchbox-sized pack in her head is always "on" but only delivers an impulse when it senses she may need it.

And so you’re walking around like a happy-go-lucky fool all the time?

No thanks, that crosses too much into Black Mirror territory. I’d rather just go for good old-fashioned therapy.

There are too many things wrong with this. What if she’s in a situation where it would be better for her to feel sad?
I'm not a Google fan, but good for them. If they're able to produce value without invasive tracking, then it's a good thing for everyone who is interested in privacy. Apple's (official) intent was never to cripple companies, but rather to give users choice.

> "As a result of the data drought, many brands have shifted their ad spending to Google because its flagship search-ad business relies on customer intent"

This also goes directly against all the doomsayers who said there was no money in context-based advertisement.
Wish that HN would ban comments that start with "I". So tired of hearing random nerd's anecdotes of why their particular use case is so much more important.

Seriously. If you're about to tell us your individual "I" story just stop. No one cares.
The Tesla anecdote is a poor example. Of course the US government benefits from its loan to Tesla - Tesla is an American company. By virtue of that fact, all benefit created by Tesla in advancing the state of the electric car industry is, vicariously, experienced by the US government and anyone who identifies as American.
> (3.) carbon capture, and one gets to 75% emissions reduction with less than one percent of cost increase

Carbon capture and less than one percent cost increase looks suspect to me
I'm an organist, and I think these problems become even more severe when playing the organ. Every instrument is different, both because the organ itself is usually unique and because the room will be different. Some organs are large enough that it's best to think of the instrument as the organ plus the room (the strings and the hollow body, respectively, if we thought of it like a violin).

Anyway, if the acoustic is dry and you want to play legato, for example, you can end up choosing to use a fair number of finger substitutions and to use thumbing [1] in order to avoid some gaps between notes – which goes to show that the choice is both a function of artistic interpretation as well as locale, on top of comfort or efficiency.

I believe (but I may be misremembering) that in some historical practices, as well, there are fingering practices deliberately chosen so as to naturally create phrasing (e.g. try playing a scale as evenly as possible with just fingers 2 and 3 and you will inescapably get some rhythm).

[1] A technique where you smoothly move to an adjacent note with your thumb by see-sawing between the knuckle and fingertip, which works because key velocity matters much less than on a piano (and for electric action, not at all). In fact, you can smoothly play an entire scale this way with just your thumb. "Thumbing down" can also refer to playing notes on a lower manual (keyboard) with your thumb while the rest of your fingers play on an upper manual.
When it was launched, in October 1977, VAX supported only the "D" double-precision floating-point format, which was the same as in the previous DEC computers, like PDP-11, and which had a too small exponent range.

In 1977 there was the first publication about the Intel floating-point format and the standardization work started soon after that.

The first devices that supported in hardware the Intel FP formats, which were later adopted as IEEE 754, were AMD Am9512 in 1979 (second sourced by Intel as 8232), then Intel 8087 in 1980. (At that time Intel and AMD were frequently partners, only several years later, when Intel began to gain tons of money from the IBM PC, they no longer wanted to share that money with anyone, so they severed the links with AMD)

Meanwhile the debates about the future standard continued and DEC acknowledged that their "D" format had a too small exponent range, so they introduced the "G" format in VAX, which was similar, but not identical (different exponent bias) with the format proposed by Intel.

In 1978 DEC VAX did not have the "G" format and in 1982 it had the "G" format, so it was introduced between 1979 and 1981, possibly at about the same time as Intel 8087, but in any case it was not completely compliant with the proposed standard and DEC still hoped that they might succeed to impose their own FP formats.
> Having said that, as someone who tinkered a bit with production some twenty many years ago before lapsing, and tinkering and lapsing once again a couple of years ago, I would argue that some form of shared community outlet is essential in persisting and making something of greater merit.

Still most of your time with music will be solitary. If you accept that, anything social is just a bonus.

> Music that is not performed and shared, ever, is somehow stillborn. Fun and enjoyment come from the attribution of meaning, and to me, meaning ultimately comes from real human context. I feel that the lack of this killed my desire to keep making it and improving. It was just an expensive way of shouting into the void.

Well you basically just proved my whole point here. You stopped making music because you weren't happy doing it alone. Learn to be totally content doing it alone, and you won't have this issue. It is possible, because I was stuck in your situation for a long time, and thought myself that music was pointless if not socially shared. I realise now that it just isn't true, and in fact that mindset puts huge pressure on yourself and indeed on the community around you. It is possible to enjoy making music without the need for social reinforcement.
It’s frustrating that the anti-nuclear folks (perhaps not you specifically, parent) worked to drain western societies of nuclear experience and advancement, and then use that inexperience and associated costs as a reason not to invest in nuclear.

Yes, nuclear has a long lead time, but so does economics grid-scale storage for renewables. “Long lead time” isn’t an excuse to forestall investment, it’s a reason to start now.

Moreover, nuclear has promising solutions for criticisms of cost, safety, and experience: Small Nuclear Reactors. A relatively small number of nuclear engineers can design blueprints for nuclear facilities which can be mass produced and shipped to site. The cost projections seem very favorable and certainly worth looking into more, but the biggest obstacle is anti-nuclear FUD. I’m not asking the anti-nuclear folks to help, but I do wish they would get out of the way so everyone else can save our planet.
Yes, I'm attributing the later successes to the early efforts. I did a quick google search when I posted the original comment and got the dates for the start of the program, which started as a mess, not much later when they finally introduced effective measures.

The aspects of the Swiss approach I wish the US would take the most are the willingness to try something fundamentally different. For the Swiss, it took a few tries to ultimately work out, but I don't see why the current solutions to the problem they use wouldn't work in the US.
Git? Perforce? Pijul? Source control choice for a monorepo in 2021
Mediocre HN coder - checking in!
Front ends also have back ends and not everything has to be developed by a full stack developer. A lot of back end work is going to involve APIs and data management, so consider work in those areas.
> When people say a video game has a good story, they mean that it has a story.

The standard is so low is not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the games are bad, but people will try random things to improve storytelling, and we'll see games with great stories like Planescape: Torment or Disco Elysium in the future, or even better.

Movies, on the other hand, where there are so many established patterns - people tend to abuse them because 1) they don't want to take the risk to make something subpar 2) it's easier. They were so many terrible movies in the last centuries, but there are so many great movies as well. The golden era of movies has passed, but for games, it's yet to come.

There are in fact patterns that could be found in great games, but not as widespread as Hollywood cliches, for example:

1. Planescape: Torment, Witcher 1/2: Amnesia. It allows no assumption of prior knowledge of the protagonist, making the player discover the world, the past, and even the protagonist himself/herself incrementally with himself/herself. Witcher 3 on the contrary, makes me feel less connected because the protagonist knows many characters that I don't know like Dijkstra even though I played through the first two games.

2. Baldur's Gate 2, Pillar of Eternity: Meet the villain in EVERY chapter, and make it feel like watching Steve Jobs at Apple launch events. This gives the player a clear goal, and a villain that can keep all the game plots together instead of being too random and sloppy.

3. Original Sin 2, Baldur's Gate 3: Lock the protagonist with a magical shackle, put a parasite in the protagonist's head, this also gives the player a clear goal, but without spoiling who the villain is (DoS2 is THAT surprising, I bet it might be the same in BG3).

Actually, good games can be established on these patterns, until everyone started to abuse them.
Did it? The earliest recollection I have of Roku is of the SoundBridge, a music player released before Netflix streaming was even a thing. It seems the company was reincorporated after they hooked up with Netflix.
> The only AAA game that I bought was "The Witcher 3" precisely for the back story, but after 5-10h of playing it just felt so repetitive that I gave up on it.

I went through the same thing with Witcher 3, but I tried again and once I got past the initial Baron storyline the game really hit its stride. That game has so many mini-stories that you can play for 100 hours and still have some interesting stories to engage with. I don't think I've played any game before or since with that many storylines.
> how the medium can elevate a story

I agree that it can, but many (especially AAA) video games try to imitate film, rather than using the strengths of the medium.

This is why I hate cutscenes. I'm sitting here with a controller in my hands, ready to do something fun, and you're going to make me sit and watch some expository dialog instead? Where the voice acting, animation and writing are all below movie standards?
Skin in the game is the start. Don’t read, don’t research first. This will give you about a year of procrastination being an intellectual and probably textbook overthinker.

But some stock, start there then answer your own questions.

Don’t start backward. Don’t even read or “follow the legend”. How many who have read Buffet and have become rich like him? None. Forge your own path.

Or join wallstreetbet, superstonk, etc. Don’t look down on them. They probably teach you more than a finance college degree does. Don’t want cnbc, bloomberg tv. Skip all that.

I think I will be mostly downvoted but it’s important to skip the extra steps that end up being a strap. Then you waste 5 years of your life while some kid getting rich in a year because they reject dogmas and all the unnecessary talking.

Long story short, just start investing.
There are other skilled entrepreneurs than Musk.

He’s already got his hands full running two companies. Its hard to be sufficiently attentive when you are doing multiple things at the same time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58807212
Maybe I'm not using the proper FP function term. I don't mean functions as objects that you can store or pass around or higher order functions. Just take some arguments from stack, and return some values.

What I mean is that FORTH words seem to be functions taking stuff from stack and pushing stuff back. The composition is done by chaining them together.

This probably works fine with repl driven development(same as in lisp), you find out during development that your words cannot be composed. But as mentioned by others it may make the code hard to read, having to keep the state id the stack at all times in your head.

I was thinking just adding a light syntax, ex:

let add a b =
a b +

// optional type annotation

let square a =
a a *

let add-square =
add square

Maybe add some type inference, support for structs, match expressions. But at the core keep the low level FORTH nature, with an interpreter and compiler.

It remains to be seen if it's possible to reach a balance here. FP programmers may be disappointed this is not a proper FP language, while FORTH programers may say it's a syntax ridden abomination.

I would say with some tooling (editor support, test framework, god forbid package manager), it can be an interesting option for embedded development.
> ...the deeper explanation, still taboo, is the perception that the Obama administration’s handling of the 2008 crash was both corrupt and profoundly disillusioning.

Is this true? At least partially true? As in "also true".

My impression of today's average voter is a general purpose anger towards power and institutions. Are "low information" voters specifically blaming Obama, or Bush, or whomever?

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I haven't read Taibbi for a long time. It just becomes too much. Ditto Chris Hayes, Ralph Nader, Mike Malice, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Bill Maher, and so many others.

Ya, ya, ya, we know everything's fscked.

Now please skip to the money shot: How do we fix things?

I'm fine with criticizing Obama, DC, Wall St, whomever. Power corrupts, establishment hierarchy sucks, humans are fallible.

But at some point, it'd be helpful to make suggestions, convert some of that outrage into (constructive) action.

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But two omissions continue to bug me with all these "enlightened centrist" criticisms.

First: you know, everyone else has agency too. Obama and the Clintons and the Democrats aren't operating in a vacuum.

Second: per the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics, why blame the people who are trying to do some good more than the people who are actively making things worse? Few people go to work every day to do a bad job. Obama Admin made plenty of mistakes. But they also prevented a complete collapse. Overcoming a great deal of opposition to make it happen.

"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster. I don’t subscribe to this school of thought, but it seems pretty popular."

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
I think there's a big difference between home ownership and house ownership, no? The quintessential American Dream usually involves owning a house with a lawn and a garage. This is the type of living with I think is less accessible to the middle class in the rest of the world, even countries with high home (apartments, typically) ownership rates like Romania, but Americans and Canadians like myself grew up believing was expected with a middle class income.
Type the application number into Global Dossier if it's published, and take a look at the "file wrapper" (term for all the documents listed). You'll get a better idea of what the examiner did. https://globaldossier.uspto.gov/

In the US at least, they typically put time stamped search logs in the patent file wrapper, so you can get a fairly good idea of what was searched and how long that took. It seems to me, however, that few patent attorneys will look at anything other than the "office actions", and they will look only at parts of those. Other jurisdictions don't seem to put anywhere near as many documents in patent file wrappers as the US does.
The problem is not "media firms" that provide {mis,dis}information. The problem is that there is demand for the stuff in the first place.

It is not possible to stamp out people talking about (e.g.) Flat Earth if there are folks that believe it to be true.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Modern_flat-Earther...

IMHO it's necessary to take a step or two back and ask why people get into this stuff in the first place.
Google is still doing plenty of invasive tracking. It’s just less affected by this specific change.
For OS X: Little Snitch. For Linux: Open Snitch.
The other option: Offline first, air-gapped.
There is no way that I run a computer without host-based application firewall.
Scammers Injected Fake Students into Harvard.edu and Used Them to Post SEO Spam
I feel like this crowd would be more interested in Pure Data: https://puredata.info/

It's an open source visual programming language for music (with some plug ins for visualizations, too). Years ago, I had fun with it, taking Rock Band guitars and turning them into synths, or "scratching" wav files with a DJ Hero controller.
“Too late” relative to what? We don’t have an alternative. It will similarly take decades to scale up renewables (we need some combination of economical grid-scale storage and massive over-provisioning).
I don't think my music is bad enough that it will make people braindead
> With such attitude you either should switch away from dev completely or suck it up

Talk about attitude!

You talk like the front end web quagmire is the only kind of dev there is.

And you talk like it's easy to just up and leave your country.

And you talk like your politicians aren't just as corrupt. As if they weren't responsible for the state Iraq is in.

but...

There is one kernel of good advice there, though: remote work is awesome and there's lots of it out there, particularly if you're skilled. If you're struggling to find local work that you like, maybe try to find something remote?

OP: I think based on what you've said, you should forget front end web dev, it's horrible in every way. Find something you like. Backend and devops is good, IMO. I saw someone else suggest native android, you might enjoy that. The trick is to find something that's in demand that's enjoyable (or at least tolerable) and be awesome at it. If you've got a keyboard and an internet connection you have everything you need to be a dev.

I remember being your age. It felt like I had been working hard and getting nowhere for ages. But the truth is that I had been taking small steps the whole time. Gradually learning stuff and improving my skills (and there's more to a career than just technical skills). Things change constantly, but they just never quite seem to change exactly how we'd like or as fast as we'd like. I think you just have to learn to be chill with that to some extent. And to stick at it.
After a flurry of activity in the last decade, I haven't heard anyone mention adult coloring books even once in the past two or three years. As long as we're all baselessly speculating, I will baselessly speculate that they were just an ordinary fad. My own anecdote is that disillusionment with internet content and electronic consumption in general has caused me to buy and read more books recently than at any point in my life.
It‘s such a tragedy that he died so young. Prof Mackay was a role model who impacted our world in many positive ways (e.g. his work in information theory, Bayesian statistics, environmental science). I recommend his lecture on information theory which is available on youtube [1]. He also documented the progress of his cancer very detailed on his blog [2], which is a very interesting (and sad) read.

[1] https://youtu.be/BCiZc0n6COY

[2] http://itila.blogspot.com/?m=1
Nationalization Kills Innovation
The most promising geoengineering proposal I've seen is spreading "green sand" on beaches which is being researched by project vesta[1]. One of the outputs is calcium carbonate which also has the added benefit acting as a pH buffer.

1. https://www.projectvesta.org/
> the nuclear energy, sorry to say, honestly doesn’t care.

I’m perplexed where you get this idea. Certainly they are failing, but that does not mean they don’t care.
> Moksha Desktop

Hadn't heard of this one, so looked it up, and all I can say is... Not again. GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment - is it the fate of every DE to make a release so bad that a chunk of the users fork an old version and run with it?
really awesome sounding!

yesterday i’ve had some fun replicating Nightcall by Ravinsky, really recommend that if you’re looking for something (easy) to reproduce next, it also helps, that originals stems are made available by author

i’d also suggest using side-chain compression, which basically gives the synths the ducking effect (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fOlOAqgBNM0)
No but OP is the one setting up the field in an incredibly negative way

Also the title ("truths") implies there is no room for negotiation