skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in California, the water supply is obviously a concern as well. The grower I regularly deal with was very concerned at the start of the year, and I doubt last week’s atmospheric river storm did much to calm him down. After all, this is harvest season right now, not replanting season.

All hay is irrigation intensive, but my understanding has long been that premium quality alfalfa hay is especially so. The fields around here used to be flood-irrigated, but as the cost of water has risen over the past 10-15 years, I have seen that practice curtailed drastically. You lose too much water to evaporation. That implies heavy investment in more precise irrigation systems.
I miss the old internet too!
Farming is an excellent example. But the farming we know today has been subject to relentless pressures of capitalism, and it has been industrialized to support economies of scale. Mom and pop farms are vestiges of the past.

So I'm not sure your comparison holds, maybe a better analogy would be a hobby farm? Usually those involve people who have primary jobs and choose this as a lifestyle. My guess would the the farming hours in that context cannot be too many; it would interfere with their day jobs.
Unfortunately it's just a blank page with js disabled/noscript.
What’s sad is that most of the developing world is already locked in to a version of the internet that is essential just facebook
My firs modem was an Atari 835 300 baud modem, but the second was a Zoom 300baud, in a smoked black transparent case. I loved that thing.
Doesn't this already apply to eating? We don't forcefully commit unhealthy eaters into institutions where they are conditioned to avoid unhealthy foods.
True...but the USN can make it humanly impossible for a Captain to actually do his job. Imagine that you were a WWII submarine captain sent into battle with these lovely torpedoes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo Or made the scapegoat for the USN's wretched incompetence killing most of your crew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)#Court... Or...

I've not heard much good about the USN on this front.
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It is a shame OSC didn't specify a minimum standard set of message names to use. I'm looking up and found a proposal for a standard namespace [1] though I'm not sure that even caught on.

[1] https://github.com/fabb/SynOSCopy/wiki
> As long as it's 100% backwards compatible, including the 5-pin DIN connectors, I'd be on board. No 5-pin, no game.

According to the specs which can be downloaded from midi.org there is no 5 pin DIN socket or 31kbit/s current loop anymore; the new Midi instead uses Ethernet and Wifi to connect "instruments". Apparently the protocol runs on UDP.

> As for latency, jitter, granularity ...

Well, maybe I play too fast or too many notes in a chord, but it happens quite often that I get an arpeggio instead of a chord.
There are a lot of different genres within guitar, and a lot of different variations in instruments, and ways of playing the instrument (fingers, pick, hybrid, tapping, legato, slide, combination thereof), heck even within picking there's also "economy", "sweep", "downstroke", and "alternate" picking, so you'd need to narrow it down by a lot.

For rock/prog I think Rock Discipline by John Petrucci is the best book available if you're prepared to put in a lot of work and, well, discipline. The name is not accidental: it's hard AF, so if someone is looking for a silver bullet, keep looking.

But at least for guitar a book is not a replacement for a good teacher, and it can't be: there's too much nuance and too many ways to screw things up. Screw up your right wrist movement, and you won't be able to play fast. Screw up your left hand position, and you won't be able to do legato (hammer-ons and pull-offs) and chords will be difficult as well. Synchronization is hard too, especially in hybrid styles, where not every note is picked. Screw up muting and you won't be able to play clean. And the worst part is, you don't even hear yourself as you're playing, if you aren't recording, because your mind is struggling to control and synchronize your hands, which takes more effort than it does on a piano because the left hand does something completely different from the right. That's not even considering that music theory is much harder to learn on the guitar than it is on the piano.

Even some established guitarists don't really know how to play properly (Kirk Hammett or Slash are perennial examples), and a lot of those that do know how to play don't know the theory. They've just learned the technique and a few licks, and that's enough if you don't have to learn someone else's music and don't need Petrucci's levels of sophistication. But knowing theory really opens up the instrument and makes it a lot easier to learn pieces, since you get to see the "grammar" of the thing.
Going the other way from mkl, I wonder if you don't really need beam search. Approximate as a finite state space, use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm
I don't know where you're getting this from but most userspace projects are very open to patches and change especially if it brings objective improvements. The only project I know of that is more conservative is GNOME. In that case I could always fork if I wanted to introduce something that wasn't accepted upstream.
Note that your source does not argue the point you make directly after it. The graph explicitly covers only "non-agricultural activities". As for non-agricultural activities, 1870 marks the early peak of industrialization before unions and worker parties forced schedules down to the now-established 40-hour-per-week mark.

Unfortunately, the primary source for the graph (https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours) does not say anything about agricultural working hours pre-industrialization. They note efficiency increases in agriculture through automation, but since the agricultural workforce declined at the same time, there is no clear answer at least from this source.
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How we define value is a great question. To your point I'm, and my kids, the answer varies. I guess personally I do not value buying the latest outfit for my avatar in the same way I value Excel.
Taibbi, Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Andrew Sullivan--they're the same lot. They've managed to turn a corner from constructive critique of government to profound Anti-Americanism of the type invoked by our adversaries. The quality of their "change" has a strikingly similar feel, as if they were transformed by a similar process.

The tell-tale sign with these types is the rank hypocrisy. They reserve the harshest criticism for some, while giving others a pass or even endorsement for similar behavior.

They preen as if they are objectively above it all, while revealing their agenda with every word from their pens and mouths.
One responder replied with one possible reason, I will give another based off my time on a rather new LHD. The Navy, to cut cost on construction, uses a lot of hand-me downs. I believe if I remember correctly, some of our engineering gear was repurposed from the USS Kitty Hawk. I dealt specifically with aviation fuels, while carriers often have limitorque values (think automated if unfamiliar), the ship I was on had none, all valves in the Av fuels system was manually operated. Keep in mind, I think construction completed in 2009 (so limitorques were definitely around).
If I had a dollar for every time some guy banged on about what is required for strong AI...

Nobody should believe this kind of article even if someone really clever wrote it
Duplicate that I shared last night:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29045277
I would have tried to arrange it so that whatever method comes to the mind of the average person for publishing a document on the internet publishes a static document.

The situation today of course is that the method that usually comes to mind when a person decides that something he or she has written should be put on the internet publishes what is essentially an executable for a very complex execution environment, and (except for a single non-profit with steadily decreasing mind share) the only parties maintaining versions of this execution environment with non-negligible mind share are corporations with stock-market capitalizations in the trillions.
You'll probably want to verify yourself any important stats (revenue, etc). In many cases, it can be good to have the creator stay on for a short period if you can negotiate that. Be careful to not buy a declining project but with your budget I'm not actually sure you'll be able to find something decent.
All nostalgia is just a longing for youth.
At least MySpace was more customizable.
> A lot of the products and services that were build using Blockchain could just have used a normal RDBMS.

That's how you dismiss the value and can't understand
Basically every single site hosted on any CDN or other cloud host. What's the percentage of people that host their site on dedicated links? Probably a decent percentage, and probably the big 10 sites, but maybe not as many of the others..?

Though as mentioned this is moot due to SNI, in most cases :(

> Also, I remember reading something like HTTPS was leaking URLs...

Yep, that's SNI
Personally. I'm targeting the browser. Web applications have evolved so much that we now need access to more hardware to further improve our web apps. Imagine having direct access to GPU and other things, we can then be running full apps in the browser, think Photoshop/Final Cut Pro, even games that required full 3D rendering. To an extent, this also requires us to remove the shackles from only having JavaScript as the only allowed scripting language in the browser.
Vintage Fisher Price toys are an absolute marvel of engineering. We have a few of the "little people" sets - my favorite is still the garage with an elevator that still works, including raising and lowering "stop" gates and a floor that raises on an incline only when the elevator reaches the top and the gate opens. My second favorite is the "sesame street play house" featuring a pathway where the little people can "walk". As you turn a crank the pathway moves slowly forward, and then jerks suddenly back. The result is your toy slowly steps forward, and then the track jerks back too fast for the toy to follow, so the toy "walks" and then goes down the slide. It's just a complete joy to operate.
Another option is wiby, which filters out anything with JS in it. I go there when I want to pretend it's still 1999.

https://wiby.me/
I'd modify that to be "a longing to be younger" or just in general an earlier time. You can be young and have nostalgia for when you were really young.
That's a preface by the individual who found this book only after years of research and then decided to post it online. This is not the author of the book talking about their own book.
Not sure. I am nostalgic about a lot of things, but don't feel like I'm longing for youth. Like, I want the world to be about like it was as a teenager, but I don't want to be a teenager again. I want to be me now in that world, if that makes sense.
Site down for anyone or just me?

https://archive.md/2sOOm
> According to 5.5 years of data from 2.3 million players and 450 million games, most beginners will improve their rating by 100 lichess elo points in 3-6 months. Most "experienced" chess players in the 1400-1800 rating range will take 3-4 years to improve their rating by 100 lichess elo points. There's no strong evidence that playing more games makes you improve quicker.

There is obviously some minimum number of games required. I haven't played chess for 6 months, should I expect to be 100 points higher next time I play? Probably not, but I have watched some streamers and thought about the game a bit, so maybe. I have a goal to improve to at least 1400 in chess, and I'd like more analysis of how many games I'll have to play.

Edit: These graphs are nice: https://github.com/jcw024/lichess_database_ETL/blob/main/REA...

Total number of games played has more correlation with rank than games per month it seems.
Me too, it was personal, whimsical, and serendipitous.

It was also a lot of work, and visions of “success” were different. On the work side, creators had to work to produce the content, but consumers had to work harder to find it. I had a physical “yellow pages of the internet” book in the mid 90s. You’d look up the subject then go to a site and surf around till you found what you were looking for (or not.)

The expectations were also different, especially for creators. If you put content up and got 100 page hits that was really cool. 10,000 was amazing. Reaching an audience that big would have required pre-internet would have required formally publishing something, which wasn’t easy. The sheer novelty of being a “normal” person and connecting with / influencing 100 or 10,000 strangers was a huge selling point.

I think the massive scale and reach of the biggest properties/stars has devalued the type of content creation the author talks about in the eyes of the creators. It’s just harder to get excited about 100 or even 1000 page views when you know people are getting millions or billions, and when your low quality Facebook post can get 100s of likes.

I really miss the old internet, but I also know I don’t have the time or capacity to consistently go back to the old “surfing” metaphor- search is too good and convenient, and I don’t think others are going to be willing to pour their time and souls into passion projects like they used to. Perhaps it’ll be a new frontier (VR?) that captures that sense of newness and whimsy next.
Check out Marginalia[1]:

>The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

I have found some excellent websites using this which I would have never found via Google or elsewhere on the modern web. Very reminiscent of exploring the “Old Internet.”

[1]: https://search.marginalia.nu/
As somebody who has been trying to play harpsichord for many decades on and off, I immediately jumped to the chapter on tuning. My longstanding opinion on ET is that any key is simply a shift of x semitones above and below C.

Since publication when electronic aids were expensive, there's apps you can put on your phone for little or no money. Pitchlab Pro is excellent, but there may be patent issues in your jurisdiction. Also you now have to go through Amazon.

These days YouTube offers different interpretations of just about everything. It gives you something to aim for.
I love chatting about Kernel :D Here's my most recent post: https://lobste.rs/s/d0hogq/problem_with_macros#c_nozcrm

Thanks for showing me Oh! It really has f-exprs?! I didn't immediately see it in https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh/blob/main/doc/manual.m...
Thanks, interesting! However I can't help but notice that the in/out/inout stuff wouldn't do much for a modern dynamic language like Python or Ruby... are there features of Ada that those languages could do well to adopt?
Death by Bureaucracy
Quillette not projecting at all with that title.
so that you can create a better future.
Disagree here. The leadership problem is because the navy has introduced a crazy promotion scheme where a sailor gets promoted based on how well they look on paper and not how they actually do their job. I got out 4 years ago and it was sad to see, sailors hitting higher tenure because they couldn't promote. They couldnt promote because they put a priority on making sure their division got it's job done, but were punished with P or MP evals. Meanwhile the dipshit who doesn't know the first thing about their rate, and escaped learning about their rate by collecting pins, got EPs and promoted. Then a few years later, they put on anchors and are expected to lead a division of junior sailors to perform a job, but don't know the first thing about performing the job other than what was needed out of a book to score high enough on exams. Big reason why I got out.
I mean why not dream bigger. IPv6 is a mess, the absolute definition of second system syndrome.

If I could fix anything, it would be IPv6 itself. The biggest thing preventing it's widespread adoption is it's complicated nature.

An IPv4 with an extra octet or two would have seen complete adoption years ago.
Walt Disney's head wants to be reanimated.
I made https://www.nanojob.com, which is a job board for devs focusing on, well, nano jobs. I struggled to get people to use it. My advice to you is don't waste your time. Getting a marketplace off the ground is notoriously difficult due to the chicken and egg problem. Secondly, competition in this space is fierce. Unless you have some next level product differentiation, it'll most likely fail to achieve critical mass.
identity as a core layer. having been in the wrong end of a large service that was relentlessly attacked and spam. i understand the value of anonymity but it probably should not have been the default.
That would make sense only if the UBI functions exclusively as a tax credit against income taxes or land taxes.

It could pair with a UBI for children, giving families a competitive advantage against investors for housing.

The USA essentially has open borders with Central and South America right now, and a Democratic party itching to give tens of millions of people citizenship as part of a country-wide gerrymandering idea.

UBI with cash handouts would not be a good idea in those circumstances. There will be a huge amount of fraud, at least.
The best writing advice I ever heard was “Don’t write unless you can’t not write”

For 99% of writers there is never going to be any other reward than the writing itself. If the writing itself isn’t rewarding to you, you will never stay with it long enough to get to a level where you may have a chance at joining the 1% who get external rewards for it.
How do the fibers being introduced in PHP 8.1 compare with Ruby's?

https://php.watch/versions/8.1/fibers
September never ended.

It really was qualitatively different before and it’s impossible to explain to those who weren’t there in the before times.

There was so much more to the ‘net than the web.
I'm dubious about "properly". As she said, I found lots of instruction similar to hers, including the books she herself cited. The music stores are full of them.

The one thing about piano teaching, similar to dog training, playing golf, and so many other areas, is:

Every teacher thinks every other teacher is full of it.
We're starting a new one. https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-for-normies
There's a fun podcast episode from 2012 where Siracusa flogs HFS+ and praises ZFS, for two hours: https://5by5.tv/hypercritical/56

With a thorough explanation that filesystems shouldn't ever lose track of intact and corrupted data, in the 2010s—i.e. should have checksums of the data. Plus some discussion of WinFS/ReFS on top, and a story of how ZFS almost landed in OSX.

I listened to it a few years later, but before APFS properly arrived on my Macbook. Was just the right mix of indignation with fascination that someone can go on about it for two hours straight.

Which reminds me: perhaps I should look into receiving further rants about computing in audio format. Sitting on my ass before the screen does me no good.
>Is lack of interest a solvable problem? This is a question I continually revisit.

I guess if you really don't like writing and put it off at every opportunity, it's reasonable to ask whether--assuming it's not your primary job--this is something you really need to do, at least on a regular basis.

(And others really try but in spite of editors putting a lot of work into it, they just don't get better.) I've had a couple jobs that involved a lot of writing for the past 20 years and writing has been good for me. But I wouldn't really advise a developer or other engineer to start writing as a path to riches over and above clear, effective day to day communications.

Books and a regular blog likely won't make you much money to speak of directly. And while there are a variety of benefits, you need to think about what you're not doing if you're spending a lot of time.
Be careful what you wish for. JS and HTML5 is why we don't have Adobe Flash anymore. There was a whole period in the noughties when web interactivity sucked and so external plugins like Flash, Silverlight and Java applets took up the slack.

The alternative to JS is not "no scripting", it's websites that only function with proprietary plugins installed.
I don't understand this obsession with text-heavy content.
> The idea of a CI/server for Apple software is a Mac mini... Not exactly production grade. Apples hardware/software lock in is disgusting.

while obviously not applicable to all circumstances, and no idea what state it's in, but they are addressing this with Xcode Cloud...
The default seems to be yellow though, like original Lego minifigs (which I assume was one of the original plastic brick colors, and a nod to the bright yellow makeup that was popular at the time in Denmark.)
Hmm, the "air shower" I got from a Thaddeus Russell's podcast about famous dissolute men, in which he covered Churchill, Franklin, and others. You can ping him on Twitter or elsewhere for a source.

For Franklin's schmoozing and relationships with Allen and other notables, a short online monograph is here:
https://scholarshare.temple.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.1261...

Isaacson's biography is also great:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YFJ3ZQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
All well and good, but notice that you moved from "I need real estate to appreciate faster than inflation or my family will suffer" to "I'd prefer to have real estate as part of an optimal investment portfolio because I believe it will produce better risk-adjusted returns". We're not really talking about actual desperation here. We're talking about your desire to maximize your family's well-being.

If that's what you care about, it would be wise to consider the impact on society as well. Society doesn't do well when resources are only accessible to a wealthy elite, and a stunted society will hurt your childrens' future. So maybe it's not such a good idea for real estate to be a scarce, rapidly appreciating asset, if it leads to unaffordable housing and economic desperation for the masses, political instability, etc.

I'm not saying don't invest in real estate, only that the political conditions that make real estate a good investment may be bad for society at large.
> However, there does seem to be a sweet spot in the elo gain rate where a large portion of the players who have gained the most elo per month seem to cluster around 100-300 games per month, which comes out to a handful of games per day. That may be evidence that playing at least a few games here and there on a consistent basis will give the best chances at improving, but that could also be due to the fact that there are just more data points for players playing at that rate.
It's a decentralised personal server platform, for those that don't want to read the recipe-webpage style back story to understand what it is.
> The government's job is to defend individual liberties.

You must find data coming from the real world very hard to analyze through this lense. You might want to try these popular alternatives:

"The government's job is to defend the privileges of the few"

or the latest trend:

"The government's job is to defend itself"
Just as an aside: a couple years ago I was hanging with a professional French Horn player at the dog park, and never having played one, I thought it would be amusing to try it. I had no aspirations of really being good. I was honest with him about my lack of ambition and he was fine with it.

So I got one for cheap, and took a couple lessons from him. Damn, that thing is hard!