skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would prefer a rural area with some land, but it's difficult to find a good job in those areas.

Ironically, that's because we restrict density in cities.

Suppose you have a city, San Francisco, ~17,000 people per square mile. About a quarter of what it is in Manhattan.

For the same number of people, if the density was higher, the city would cover less area. And then the number of miles away from the city center you would have to go before you were living with cows would go down.
Yeah no kidding. Is there a ratio of how many people it has to be working for to be in yellow rather than red? Some internal person going “it works on my machine” while 99% of customers are down.
I believe, but can't cite, for medium to large artists that streaming is <15% of revenue. Restated, selling merch at a show (back in the day) is so much powerful it overwhelms.

That's why Taylor Swift has such extensive and stadium sized concerts for example. Assuming she's a normal human being on the road for 9 months straight sounds pretty miserable. The financial return must outweigh it.

Edit: it's also shocking to see how large the song writing teams are for certain artists. I tried counting (across all verticals so songwriters, mixers, mastering engineering's, etc etc) how big the teams publicly acknowledged were for two vanilla pop artists: Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran. Now this is across multiple albums so perhaps overstated, but after a tedious tally I stopped after getting to 200 FTEs. For each. Music might be beautiful but it's borderline impossible to be "big" without a gigantic team behind you.
Ah, whew. That's what I thought. Thanks! I asked because we make warehouse and retail management systems and every vendor or customer seems to give every word their own meanings (e.g., we use "bin" in our discounts engine to be a collection of products eligible for discounts, and "barcode" has at least three meanings depending on to whom you're speaking).
yeah, the top comment in this thread is just utter nonsense and meaningless trash. try telling Skrillex that you can't make a living with music and all your revenue's going to come from your side hustles. side hustles are great, but revenue from live performance has gone up during the same era that revenue from recordings went down.

Skrillex is a dated example, maybe, but that fits, because this happened a while ago.

this whole discussion is just filled to the brim with people with no serious background in the topic, saying wildly inaccurate things. this is usually what happens when HN talks about any kind of show business, no offense.
My local newspaper is a notoriously worthless rag that has probably done more to harm humanity than to benefit it, including starting a major war.
You may find Konpeki no Kantai [0] interesting as a thought experiment.

Its quite a bit more broad-ranging than just a single question, and has a lot of Japanese nationalistic sentiment, but I don't think that detracts from it being an entertaining and thoughtful watch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeki_no_Kantai
In general, that's a good point. It's not as important as it used to be, you're right.

But I'd definitely not discount it entirely simply because not everyone has access or can afford to pay for the music apps, particularly in developing countries.
> It's not that it's not popular, it doesn't care about popularity or want to be popular, for one reason or another.

Right that's what I mean. Is http://danluu.com/ outside of the clearnet?

> This may seem strange if you come from the commercial web, but on independent web, it's a pretty common sentiment.

I've written Gemini software so I don't need the intro. I do get however that "smolweb" people really like talking about their values at the drop of a hat.
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From France, when I connect to "my personal health dashboard" in eu-west-3, it says several services are having "issues" in us-east-1.

To your point, for support center (which doesn't show a region) it says:

Description

Increased Error Rates

[09:01 AM PST] We are investigating increased error rates for the Support Center console and Support API in the US-EAST-1 Region.

[09:26 AM PST] We can confirm increased error rates for the Support Center console and Support API in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified the root cause of the issue and are working towards resolution.
Wait if you keep adding letters to your username I'll never recognize you!
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> What games do you play?

Who, me, or any and all HN commenters?

Answering for myself: Hardly any at all; certainly none of the ones mentioned in TFA. As Murtaugh, and IIRC in the end also Riggs, said: I'm too old for this shit. (Sometimes Android puzzle games on my phone; used to have 2048, for instance.)

Just posted it because it seems a lot of folks on here do, and I had a vague recollection of this issue having been discussed here before.
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My local paper was bought by USA Today. They shut down the printing press, and laid off everyone except a literally handful of reporters/staff. Printing is done at another paper they bought in another medium sized town 60 miles away.

They increased the cost of the paper subscription (even online) and force us view the ads, even with a online subscription. Last time I looked at a giant Sunday paper, 3 articles were local, and from the reporters, the rest was from the USA today pool reporters or AP. The other fun thing was cancelling, that requires a telephone call, only during east coast business hours (we are west coast) and then 20 min of them doing anything they could to keep me from actually cancelling.

they can F-ck off and die.
The outage dashboard is normally only updated if a certain $X percent of hosts / service is down. If the EC2 section were updated every time a rack in a datacenter went down, it would be red 24x7.

It's only updated when a large percentage of customers are impacted, and most of the time this number is less than what the HN echo chamber makes it appear to be.
Such is the beauty of America, if you don't like a place, you can go somewhere else with relative ease. People like dense urban places, they like suburban cul-de-sac, they also like quiet country living.

I personally really like a hub and spoke styled system for cities and towns, we have a little of that here in my neck of the woods (south-east Michigan). I can choose to live in a fast(ish) growing city or it's burbs, the small cozy town 15 minutes north of the city, or 20 minutes west in the rural country. To your point about biking trails, I'm in total favor of these types of developments and have been absolutely elated about the growth of it in my region.

[0] This is a recent map of the built and in-progress routes, it uses Ann Arbor, a small city with ~120k pop, as the hub, and connects it's to its various sister cities. It's got a long way to go, but having ridden some of these stretches, it's been an awesome experience to say the least. Part of this has been that, yes, it connects up small towns such as Chelsea, Dexter, and Ypsilanti, but it also connects up with various parks and recreation areas.

I've been planning a move from the city into the country, and these paths are part of the reason why. It doesn't really allow me to bike in on the daily, but it does make it a LOT more reasonable to spend an afternoon biking into the city, grabbing coffee, hitting the theater, grabbing dinner, and then grabbing groceries before heading back. Pair this with a remote job, and I don't think I would actually end up using my car very often, this is a huge win in my opinion.

[0] https://www.washtenaw.org/DocumentCenter/View/1258/B2B-Overv...
You mention being puzzled. Could you elaborate on why? What do you see as the natural way of doing it instead?
Check out Django Ninja: https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/

It's like a FastAPI inspired Django Rest Framework. In comparison to DRF it feels very lightweight and modern, but it's still Django underneath so you get to keep the ORM, admin, etc.

Speaking of the ORM, once Django's is async Ninja will really be amazing.
Does anyone know why Google is showing the same spike on down detector as everything else? How does Google depend on AWS?
https://downdetector.com/status/google/
The following Swift code gives me a "Bad Access", already for 100000. Wouldn't it be nice if that could execute without problems on my 64GB RAM iMac Pro?

import Foundation

typealias T = ()

typealias ChurchNum = ((T) -> T, T) -> T

func zero() -> ChurchNum {
return { (f, x) in x }
}

func succ(_ g : @escaping ChurchNum) -> ChurchNum {
return { (f, x) in f(g(f, x)) }
}

func add(_ g : @escaping ChurchNum, _ h : @escaping ChurchNum) -> ChurchNum {
return { (f, x) in h(f, g(f, x)) }
}

func numeral(_ n : Int) -> ChurchNum {
var z : ChurchNum = zero()
for _ in 0 ..< n {
z = succ(z)
}
return z
}

func realise(_ g : ChurchNum) -> Int {
var n : Int = 0
func f(_ x : T) -> T {
n += 1
return x
}
g(f, ())
return n
}

let x : ChurchNum = add(numeral(100000), numeral(100000))

print("x = \(realise(x))")
I can Google and see how many apps, games, or other services are down. So them not "pushing some buttons" to confirm it isn't fooling anyone.
I don't thing that is true.

The client obtains the network prefix from the RA, and then the client tries to generate unique host address.

""
The IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration mechanism requires no manual
configuration of hosts, minimal (if any) configuration of routers,
and no additional servers. The stateless mechanism allows a host to
generate its own addresses using a combination of locally available
information and information advertised by routers. Routers advertise
prefixes that identify the subnet(s) associated with a link, while
hosts generate an "interface identifier" that uniquely identifies an
interface on a subnet. An address is formed by combining the two.
In the absence of routers, a host can only generate link-local
addresses. However, link-local addresses are sufficient for allowing
communication among nodes attached to the same link.
""

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4862
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474112

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465005
I live in a similar setting and this has been my experience as well. New HD housing is approved, the developer pays the impact fees, but the city doesn't build the improvements for years and years.
I do. I mean, you do need to be in a good place to be able to connect, mentally and emotionally speaking. I can barely keep existing friendships these days.
Cars are only convenient when there's infrastructure everywhere for cars, including parking spots.
You can always Shazam when you are at your friend's place.
In areas where supply is restricted by law, monoplex equity gains are 10-50x greater than developer profits. If you're attacking someone because of greed, the lion's share of the blame belongs with land speculators extracting ever-increasing unearned rents.

You're mad because a business is making money? Developers increase the supply of housing. It's a net good that housing supply increases rather than stagnates.
The algorithmic recommendation is broken, because it makes wrong assumptions. Every recommendation engine I've encountered appear to be based on the idea that I care about artists or genres, rather than the sound profile of individual tracks.

I have no idea, but my take is that streaming services are trying to find other artists within the same genre, or using the listing patterns of other users to match you up with new music.

This makes a weird assumption that I actually like everything a band makes, which is rare, or that because I like an artists or a few songs within a given genre, then I must like all music with in that genre. Mostly I listen to music from a wide number of artists, across generes. There a musicians where I like most of their work and some where I just like the sound of one particular track.

What I want, is button, when I press that, "The Almighty Algorithm" will analyse the sound, the beats per second, the vocals, the instruments, the lyrics, anything that affect the sound and locate other songs with similar profiles. Bonus points for letting me input stuff like: higher tempo, less bagpipes, the singer has a high pitch voice which hurt my ears.

The social stuff is easy and the streaming platforms can quickly implement something similar and put you out of business. Actually analyzing the sound profiles and using that to help you create playlists and discover new artists, that not something I've seen done and I bet it's because it's will require actual work.
> I get that Python may be your favorite language, and that's fine, and that alone doesn't immediately qualify it as a good choice for anything, if you're being objective

Actually I believe you are incorrect here. From my reads, I think the research shows that factors that depends on the programmer still contribute more heavily to code correctness and success than static vs dynamic typing.

So I'd hypothesize that how much the programmer enjoys themselves when working and programming in a language on a given code base plays a significant role to the code quality, correctness and overall success.
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I agree. Any time I see daydreamy claims like "treble damages", I feel confident that someone is getting scammed.

Either newspapers are trying to extort the runaway success of Google and Facebook or lawyers are trying to loot what remains of the newspaper industry. Given the lack of legal basis here, I'm inclined to believe the latter.
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I always find myself turning Tolstoy around.

In this case, "Every creative person is creative in a different way but every schizophrenic person is schizophrenic in the same way."

There was a dangerous school of thought that came out of the 1960s that held that there was something noble about Schizophrenia. It was popular with both L. Ron Hubbard and Ronald Reagan. The first because he wanted to put psychiatrists out of business, the second because he believed in freedom so much that he wanted set schizophrenic people "free" by closing asylums and turning them loose on the streets. (e.g. people used to be committed to mental hospitals for bad reasons, now it is almost impossible to get into a mental hospital even if you are in acute crisis.)

I knew a very pretty girl who had schizoaffective disorder who was still very much a 'girl' in her 30's. She got a lot of appreciation because she was a pretty girl, but she found it hard to wake up in the morning and smoke a cigarette, never mind anything else. We took her into our house when she had nowhere to go and she lived with us for a year and half before the time she freaked out, threatened my wife with a knife, then disappeared into the darkness.

Someone who saw a little bit of her might have thought she was a free spirit, she had some craft/artistic talent as well. But it was clear she had a "broken brain" that just didn't process information correctly.
This discussion from my perspective is more like you're the guy arguing for the use of armored bicycles, when I'm already aware of the development of Tanks.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/97/05/b497058ef6f0a0af5a30...

Just because some people thought it was a good idea, doesn't mean it was in fact... a good idea.

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Large-masses of suicide explosives work. We just call them cruise missiles. There's a particular strategy: you fly low to the ground so that radar don't pick you up, you fly as fast as possible (500mph / subsonic is one cutoff), and you throw a bunch of sensors onto it to auto-aim / home into the target.

Deciding to go from 500mph down to 200mph (or slower) just so that you can make it work with quadcopter technology has the big issue that you're suddenly easier to shoot down. Our guns / AI systems are designed to shoot down 500mph missiles. Letting your mass of bots get shot down on purpose is... a strikingly odd strategy to say the least.

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Similarly: the armored bicycle might have worked in WW1. But it turns out that the Armored Tank was a better weapon more suited for invading no-man's land.

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The best argument you have against the CIWS is "hope the Aimbot-Gatling Gun runs out of ammo", ignoring the fact that it reloads in 4 minutes and that a typical Cruiser has two of them, and you're facing a fleet not just a single gun.

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And you haven't even told me how the drones know where to go yet. How did the drones find the ships to begin with?

> The state-of-the-art for drones has moved forward immensely in the last few years. F-18s don't always hit enemy fighters, let alone uncrewed much smaller targets able to do extremely high-G maneuvers.

That's not a $5000 drone anymore and you know it.

In any case, no quadcopter drone is going to have the high-G maneuverability of a jet or rocket.

If you make a "rocket drone with an explosive payload", that's just a cruise missile. And yes, I'm aware that cruise missiles are a good idea. They also cost nearly $2 million each.
And that is why my lighting automation has a baseline req that it works 100% without the internet and preferably without a central controller.
Quill had some big-time investors like Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Sam Altman. Often such failing companies are bought out as a special favor to them to maintain good industry relations.
Has it been working for you?

I've read the paper and am very curious.
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I'm seeing outages across several regions for certain services (SNS), so cross-region failover doesn't necessarily help here.

Additionally, for complex apps, automatic cross-region disaster recovery can take tens or even hundreds of dev years, something most small to midsized companies can't afford.
What? Respecting people's wives is a religious thing? Her point is valid, it is crass. Some people may like crass jokes, but I don't understand when some people refuse to admit they're crass
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>"Case in point people who are asexual."

Whole 2 of them (relatively speaking of course)
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I'd imagine these lawsuits' chance of success will very strongly hinge on where they are impaneled. A jury in a conservative, working class or populist area will probably be pretty sympathetic to striking back at Big Tech, regardless of how weak the merits of the case are. An appeals court may later throw the verdict out. To my understanding, the US is the only developed democracy to still use juries for civil matters (and even for criminal cases it's relatively rare). I am personally anti-populism, and think that civil cases with large financial stakes should be decided by an (appointed not elected) judge- not a random group of folks who can afford to skip work for two to four weeks.

The standard explanation we all learn in business school is that newspapers had geographic monopolies pre-Internet, so they were able to rake in astonishing profit margins via advertising (like 30-40% margins). Their lunch was mostly eaten by Craigslist, years before Google and Facebook- plus the fact that the effectively infinite number of websites out there drove advertising prices down a ton
> Most movies make most of their money week one.

Most movies are fixed in a tangeble medium months before week one. Sometimes years. Component parts (principle filming, scripts, original music, if any) are routinely finished at least a year before release. A rush to get everything out to enjoy the full 3 years of income potential would further push out the couple of films a year made where people actually cared to do things right.

20-30 years might be right, though. Or one of the escalating fees for renewal after a reasonable period, preferably with a required deposit of the work so when it becomes public domain it can be easily distributed.
Yes a previous version was built on canvas2D. For simple things such as a couple of objects moving across the screen it works great. As soon as you start to do fullscreen "camera" movements performance starts to suffer. All images and paths need to be uploaded to the gpu every frame. Maybe the browser optimizes some things but in my tests it was not enough.

The WEBGL renderer in this project is built from scratch because none were available that support SVG and were small enough for regular web pages. It allows me to upload paths and images to the gpu making fullscreen animations a lot more smooth.
Why don't you tell me first what would make it possible since you seem to be privy to information no one else is. How are you going to change that?
Hi! This is a very interesting area, and I agree with you that the future of ML depends on this kind of division of work between what people are good at and ML is good at. I work in a very similar space, albeit as a consultant. See e.g. https://www.willows.ai/blog/moving-into-production-faster Would love to chat some time if you're interested.
The sad thing is that newspapers allow that themselves. They can block out google and FB but they don't want to. It's a similar tragic fate to that of a drug addict. However if content-makers want to overcome this they need to cut off big tech access to their content, at least temporarily.

The frontpage of HN is mostly news articles and some blogs. They get a lot of exposure, a lot of readership. Yet somehow google + FB end up making the money.
I think local papers give lots of value, but at the same time if I am a for-profit business, my goal isn't to help out the local newspaper, it's to make (and possibly save) as much money as possible. I don't know the success numbers of job classified ads, but I doubt it comes anywhere near the success numbers of places like Indeed or StackOverflow Jobs or Dice, all of which charge substantially less money and reach a larger audience.
> But this middle of the road, cake and eat it too, cities designed for cars, urban sprawl by ordinance just makes things suck for everyone involved, it's the worst of both worlds.

It probably seems nice to these people at first.

Their property values go up, undesirable (a.k.a. poor) neighbors get pushed away to the outskirts of town, gridlock traffic is kept at bay, the town maintains its low-rise charm (whatever that means), etc.

But longer term, it causes strange distortions. In San Francisco, the people working the customer services jobs are sometimes homeless because there is nowhere affordable within commuting distance. Artists and musicians just straight-up leave, causing the city to become a cultural wasteland. And in the past year or two we're finally starting to see talent flight due to the out-of-control rent spirals and the rise of remote work.

Nobody's really benefitting from this; it's just lousy regulatory capture by landowners that's begun to backfire on them. You can't encase a tree in a glass box and expect it to magically stop growing. Ultimately, you just have to let people build what they want on their land, or your city will not only stop growing, it will begin to wither.