skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Music has been a cash cow that seems to just keep on giving. I mean how much money does the Beatles catalogue make and will likely continue to make?

As a consumer, this can be pretty annoying. Often TF shows (as one example) might only get music rights for the inital broadcast and not reruns. I've come across a few shows that are never released on DVD because th emusic rights would just be prohibitively expensive to do that.

But what I'll be interested to see is in the coming years if Western governments will "allow" such catalogues to enter the public domain. They should but we're all familiar with the repeated and unjustified mouse-related copyright extensions.

I mean up until Happy Birthday entered the public domain (which came down to a century-old song book and a court case [1]) it was stil generating ~$1m/year in royalties.

Aren't we well beyond the point where this sort of thing is justifiable?

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/old-songbook-could...
I don't agree. That's an overly-simplified, idealistic view.

Real people suffer real harms from the unintended consequences of poorly written laws. Our courts should help serve as a last line of defense against that, when appropriate.
THank you!!

We need a 101 on DDoS on HN.
Probably. There are a lot of people, which means you need a lot of performance art spaces.
have you seen Afghanistan before US helped Taliban with arms to fight USSR? and before USSR invaded? they didn't need your "educational opportunities" they need invaders not to invade.
In my opinion it is much more whether the critique was solicited and in what context it was given. I don’t think I would call someone a friend, if I couldn’t trust them to give me their honest opinion and challenge me with questions. Not specifically about startups, everything in live. But there is a right time and place for things. So, yea emotional support is also important.
The outcome of the study of IQ was that it was not predictive of success

https://nautil.us/your-iq-matters-less-than-you-think-7708/
I dislike them to be honest. I’m quite used to the current pylons and really don’t see them - they are just part of the landscape.

The new design seems kind of gangly.
All of this could be moot if China pursues/completes its plan of putting artificial "moons" up to provide 8 times the light of a full moon. Then it would be relatively light all the time.
I don't change the clocks either. I just add or subtract an hour for half of the year, depending on when I first set the clock.
It's such a sign of these tribal times that the perfect is the enemy of the great ... the "if I can't get exactly I want, nobody else should get anything either" behavior.
Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus
And the sun will set at 5pm instead of 4pm. So what? It's not changing the relative positions of the Earth and the Sun. There's going to be a certain amount of daylight at a given time of year no matter what. How we label the hours is irrelevant.
I don't know what part of the country you're in, but some of us are already making this tradeoff with the current setup. In NYC, a typical winter sunrise is shortly after 7am - before many people are riding to work, myself included. A typical winter sunset is well before 5pm, so the entire evening commute is dark.

When the days are very short in winter to begin with, and you spend a third of them out and about, someone somewhere is going to be out and about before or after dark.
I wrote this in the comments below, but - asking why it's not done in software is like asking a painter why they don't just use a camera and take a photograph.
Yes - but how many houses could you tear down and build something like that with CURRENT building codes?

IIUC, you need 6 ft of space on each side of the lot for fire code. That takes away the majority of available floor space. You could build something 4-storeys, but after stairs, you'd be left with half as much leasable floor space...
Why is your preference more relevant than mine?
But the new law explicitly contemplates these types of lawsuits. It doesn't say you can't sue this way. It says colleges and universities who are sued this way can't be compelled to do anything for 18 months. (Which invalidates the court judgment ordering UC Berkeley to stop enrolling students.) It is logically necessary, for this law to exist at all, that the original lawsuit was valid, and that the "remedy" was also valid. It's just that the remedy can't be imposed yet.
I am a morning person, I'm up at 430-5am every day, and I welcome this change 100%

I take my dogs for a walk and go for a jog after in the dark and I love it. I want as much sun for after work/social activities as possible.

I also love coding in the morning and can't stand afternoon glare. This will allow me more time with windows open before the afternoon glare creeps in (I realize this is house dependent, but still)
Well then to be fair you’d have had the same problem if they just changed the start date again. And the last time the start date was changed we only had 18 months to adjust.

It’s not like these changes are rare edge cases — it happens all the time.

So hopefully as you replace the system you find a vendor who writes good time code!
I think the meaning behind this sentence is not as black and white as you might interpret it. And it's also probably hard to impossible to actually quantify exactly.

How do you really equate your 'output' (value) with the money you are being paid? There's no direct 1:1 relation or easy formula. Even if you try to come up with an elaborate scheme of metrics, there really isn't a perfect way for it.

That said let's assume you could measure that somehow. Even then the underlying meaning of "bare minimum not to get fired" is not that you provide the exact 1:1 match of value you provide to the money you are getting paid (including benefits etc). There exists some X < 1, where you aren't getting fired but the value you provide is definitely smaller than the money you get paid. Is it 0.8:1? 0.5:1? 0.1:1?

Whatever that actual number is though, at most companies I've been at that number that lets you stay on is so low that nobody can argue that you're "just" doing your duty to extract as much value from the company for as little work as you can get away with (after all, in most cases the company is definitely trying to do that in reverse). It's so low that anybody that isn't doing the same thing gets severely demotivated. If I do my 1:1 or even a 0.8:1 or whatever and I like my job, then watching a 0.1:1 not being fired and even actively protected in some cases is awful.
> DST has a high cost to anyone who is responsible for creatures that do not understand it - children and pets.

In addition, people who don't think it's a big deal because other people have dealt with the problems is causes for them or they have been statistically lucky in never having had a related problem.
Both standard time and daylight saving time are arbitrary. Sunrise and sunset times shift throughout the year based on multiple factors. It would be unreasonable to try and mandate a time system that always made 12:00 exactly when the sun is directly overhead.

Timekeeping systems are meant to coordinate human activity, yes, but if you're calling daylight saving time a lie... then so is standard time, and all other timekeeping systems, for that matter.
Firefox removes Yandex search, will auto-switch affected users to Google
> In fact kotlin/java has better peak performance than Go.

Not really no.
If your theorem provers never prove a contradiction, they are all too weak.
I guarantee 20 years from now most of the popular music we'll hear in franchise movies will still be from the late '50s to the early '2000s.

We'll still be putting The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Zeppelin etc. as the soundtrack to these movies.

I think they are worth the money.
The post I read was a person defensively justifying their choice to not design for Gen-Z aesthetics.
Sounds very much Uber’s fault, although there is not quiet enough information. It’s perfectly reasonable for a payments API to return “error: not enough funds” on the first call and “error: rate limit exceeded” on the second. This just reads as a desperate attempt to pass on the blame
Since it's anyway going to get dark way before dinner (5:30pm in NY), does it really matter?
Cook once in the weekend in a big batch, and eat the leftovers during the week. Most of the effort of cooking is prep, heating up the pan, etc., and that doesn’t change much if you double a recipe.
You have a very unusual sense of humor. "The Money Pit" is a terrible film, and is widely considered as a sleep aid for insomniacs.
Get a timer for your lamp.
Why does it have to be a centrally coordinated shift? This is a decision that can be done in a decentralized way.

Outdoor venues already have seasonally shifting time tables. Schools in some places have successfully shifted from starting at 8:00 to 7:30 or 8:30. Shops adjust their opening hours all the time as well.
Scala is on its way to die actually, I worked couple of years with lot of services in Scala, they were all replaced by regular Java or C# over the years, Scala missed the train and it's more and more difficult to find people that want to work with that language.

It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked.
distinguishing `Some(null)` and `None` is often considered a feature of Optional ;)

to use a tired example: when getting a value out of a map via some `myMap.get(key)`, you may want to distinguish
"not present" = `None`
and
"present, with value null" = `Some(null)`

the right solution is to just not have nulls in the first place, then there's no problem ;)
You can get many open source soft cpus to run on FPGAs. The interesting bit is that RISCV is supposed to be extensible ie. it's easy to modify these cpus to provide interesting designs eg. Tagged memory to allow fast hybrid software/ hardware GCs, asynchronous cpus, rump cpus for DMA etc.

These new designs can then be used commercially- that's a big win for computing in general.
I always reply with something like "Sure, 4 pm Pacific Time tomorrow works for me!"

Then the ball is in their court to make sure they meant the same thing.
Wrong move (again). The correct move would have been to make standard time permanent.

We tried permanent DST in the 70's and it was all well and good until people realized it meant complete darkness at 9am in winter.

I guess an extra 45 minutes of walking their dog in the park after work wasn't worth trudging through the cold black before their morning coffee kicked in.

Let's see if people will feel differently this time around (they won't).
Sorry for the late reply - and thank you for responding! That makes perfect sense.

I share your thought about this. I hope my comment wasn’t too unclear. I was just considering that a more diverse ecosystem of algorithms doesn’t necessarily imply a more diverse ecosystem of companies. Hence my thought experiment about a marketplace of algorithms within one search provider.

But of course I’m not wedded to that, and I have no reason to be. Both situations seem equally improbable to me: (a) Google’s losing dominance, or (b) Google’s providing a marketplace of different algorithms.

I’d be interested to hear any more thoughts you might have! Thanks again for your reply.
> I'm not at all a morning person and I'd rather have that sunlight after work

Same here - I'm a zombie on autopilot in the morning, and I usually start the day with the mindset of "let's see what kind of problems are waiting for me" (e.g. nasty compliance emails with the subject "ACTION REQUIRED!!!", processes that have crashed or are stuck since X hours, etc..) therefore I have anyway a permanent negative association with the first hours of the day independently if it's dark or sunny or rainy etc... .

On the other hand usually by the end of the day I have stabilized the situation and if I'm lucky I can still go out and enjoy a little bit the sun(set), so the longer that lasts the better for me.

I wonder if HN-people in general (doing mostly IT work?) tend to push working hours towards the evenings/nights and are therefore more in favour of daylight savings?
You’re never gonna convince the world to remove time zones. Switch to UTC and now the idea of the sun rising between 5-7 AMish is ruined because it would be 2 AM where I am now. Since the invention of the sundial, time zones have existed in some form or another. Programmers just have deal with it.
Most users on this site would cut off their own thumbs before saying something about Google that isn't negative; it's just one of the hallmarks of the HN community.

To everyone complaining about the possibility of you google account getting false flagged as TOS violation: do you actively use this reason to avoid all other domain providers like GoDaddy who can terminate your account?

Just make a separate email account that exists solely to manage your domains, and this advice goes for using ANY domain registrar/provider.
I’m amazed a group of politicians that can’t agree on basic stuff managed to agree on this. This thread is evidence of the issues at play, the strongly held opinions.
Right, UTC all of the things!
While you perhaps would not want to write the verbose version, I certainly would have much more fun reading and debugging the verbose version.
> Maybe it's an operationnal failure on Russian's side - but if so, they carved themselves a situation where they can't really _lose_, even if they can't win quickly

They could very well lose and are likely to, according to most experts. Even if they do take Kyiv before they run out of money, materiel, and political support - which is uncertain - they are very unlikely to sustain an occupation and defeat an insurgency. Invaders often lose to insurgencies - look at the US in the last 20 years.
I believe he mentioned that when citing the delay until 2023 to give these industries time to update their systems
Sunup and sundown are subjective. At "sunset" it's not pitch black out. Is sundown earlier if I'm in a neighborhood behind a hill?

I don't want to have to guess if a business will still open by the time I get there. I know that it's 6:15, it's a 22 minute drive, and the business closes at 7. I have no idea if "sundown" will have happened by the time I get there.
Ah that makes a bit more sense. Could you possibly point me in a more specific direction, eg a current system design guide aimed at developers just trying to get their feet wet with things more complex than an SPA? Yeah, that issue is one I've noticed; you're expected to sort of pick this knowledge up from a job but to get the job where you become acquainted with it you're likely gonna need at least some relevant experience with it.
SOCKS explicitly supports DNS but no other UDP.
Yes, it is much easier to build a holistic picture of a topic when you can see connections like this. I think many people are not interested in viewing data in this way as they prefer to drill down into the details.
Not sure how much Vimeo cares to keep their most expensive loss leaders. The algorithm seems like it would work well though if there's some retention. You lose 0.75% off the top. Then again, and again a few times, but after a few iterations you've identified a top 1% that's willing to pay, and still have the other 99% for word of mouth advertising.
> the switch statement is really just an “if” statement in disguise

If the switch is over a fixed set of strings, then can't the backend generate a perfect hash function ala gperf and then proceed to use the computed hash value to implement a jump table?

Also, FWIW, the only compiler backends I've ever seen blindly emit a jump table all died in the '80s. Jump tables aren't always the fastest choice: https://www.cipht.net/2017/10/03/are-jump-tables-always-fast...
Can you elaborate what is improper secret handling in your opinion.
I personally use sealed secrets, but I think generation of them is sometimes tricky (tied to the namespace etc
This is fun. Well done!
The problem is there's so much money to be made by driving up prices. You also have to contend with people who got in at this high price that will be angry if they ever crash significantly.

Sadly there's too much actual capital and political capital in play.
Won't this have all the same problems of the current DST switch? During the week of the schedule change, employees will be less productive and more susceptible to health problems.

The inherent problem is that we're switching the time by a full hour all at once. We could make the change more gradually, perhaps by a few minutes each week—but nobody wants to coordinate that!
> People who believe that it should be possible for a society to agree on things just starting an hour earlier (or later) where it makes sense, all without literally touching a single clock.

To be fair, isn’t that essentially what DST systems are? Literally the way that a society arranges to have everything start an hour earlier or later at different times of year is to designate dates where everyone sets their clocks back or forward an hour.

Granted, it doesn’t fulfill your “all without literally touching a single clock” requirement, because a few types of common clocks still require manual adjustment, but the complaints about DST aren’t about the hassle of literally adjusting the clock on your microwave, right? The complaints are about the sudden disruptions to one’s schedule, especially the amount of sleep one gets on two specific nights every year—and your proposal doesn’t solve that problem. And if we instead agreed to change, for instance, the operating hours of every business twice a year, surely the physical changing of signage would be similarly costly.
Just tried it and it works really amazing.

In the past I used Logitech mouse and keyboard that both support fast switching between 3 devices. And it was not as convenient as this.

Although, I was not able to place it as precisely as when I used iPad as an external display. But I hope they will fix that. I have really weird T-shape monitor setup and would like to put an iPad in the left bottom corner.
You’re playing fuck-fuck games with your arguments and not being honest.

I could just as easily turn that argument around and say “why would the US want to sign onto an agreement that include countries like Jordan and Cambodia that have no rule of law”?
> Why is it hard to find even 1 person?

I’m going to paste from another reply I made in this thread:

“Knowledge documentation and transfer in reality is hard. Very few people read docs, even when they are told to and those docs are critical to their job and the business as a whole. If you do it face-to-face, it’s almost always the case that the person learning politely listens and is already making a mental list of changes (often catastrophic) that they are going to make.”

I will add that hiring competent people is hard if the company is focused on keeping compensation relatively low (as in this example) rather than rewarding their champions.

I realize that as an org gets larger, pay bands have to be a thing because mediocre-but-functional people (i.e., most “good” employees) get butthurt when a champion makes more than they do. That said, I think that many SMBs can have substantial salary variation within the employees, have those variations be reasonable, and frame it in a way that makes sense to everyone involved. That said, many chose not to do so.
That idea has some quite surprising and arguably inconvenient consequences: https://qntm.org/abolish

Most notably, the concepts of "today" and "tomorrow" stop making sense!
.... says the person comparing Tibet to Saudi Arabia.
She objected to Google's military contract. Google told her to move to Brazil
Oh, bless your heart. Do you think that if you buy a piece of property in downtown SF or NYC, that you can just declare independence from the US and not be subject to US law?
Thanks, I see you had the same username on Devzat
Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics
thanks for the feedback, just curious how you know our app "works fine on mobile as is"?
I love stuffing things into one-liners. Not hard to see what is happening if you understand it enough

Reason is I prefer to move my eye balls than scroll the screen. Too many lines and you forget what preceded what you're seeing or have to keep scrolling to make sense of everything
There are many such studies, both inside and outside the defense industry. It's one of the more common predictions of the impacts of climate change. I think the IPCC includes it in their reports, which is probably the best starting place - the IPCC's job is to integrate research into one periodic report.
> I'm sorry, but that makes absolutely zero sense.

Not to you, perhaps, but it looks to me like this is because you have a weird definition of gaslighting.

> Gaslighting your audience means you, as a publisher of information, openly states to your viewers that they aren't capable of finding credible information themselves, and discerning what's true or false.

No. As I've understood it, the whole idea is not to say that openly, but only to imply it, so your audience (=victim) comes to the erroneous conclusion that yours is the only "truth" they can trust on their own.

> It's also the process of declaring information as "misinformation" and having your audience prove you wrong over and over again — or through more official processes like Congressional hearings, courts, etc. finding that swaths of information shared by the corporate media was largely false after all.

Huh? That's "the process of" gaslighting?!? No, that has absolutely fuck-all to do with it, AFAIK. Pretty sure Hitchcock wouldn't have the faintest idea WTF you're on about. I, OTOH, (unfortunately) do have all too good an idea of what this rant means: That you are yourself thoroughly gaslighted -- or fully brainwashed -- by stark raving MAGAhats.
Now, let’s just all switch to UTC time and my life will be much easier.
Finally! Couldn’t be happier. Still can’t believe this really happened.
Zooming in and out seems to be their approach for that problem, the more you zoom out the most specific nodes lose their labels; for a music graph I would guess that would be the songs, and even further out maybe join artists by genre (or decade)

But yeah that approach may be limited as well for such an ambitious project, in the long term I think they should have a list of categories you may check (or uncheck) to show only the subjects you are interested at the moment, e.g. health, money and education.
The if-else form, although longer, is unquestionably clearer.

I disagree:

- The variable name is repeated three times, increasing visual clutter and the chance of typos.

- The variable can't declared immutable. In Java/JS/Dart/etc it's nice to know that after "const x = foo ? bar : baz", x won't change.

And you don't even have to add a new operator, Rust and Kotlin get these benefits with an expression form of if/else.
You could force schools and daycare to open and close early. Also do this with public companies. Offer a tax discount on the first hour for companies. I'm sure we can find other solutions.
As mentioned by another commenter, the NixOS project does have a similar little program called patchelf, which may be a bit better known?