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> I wish for a world where musicians make music because they like it more so than to profit

Wish granted: that's the world you live in.

The vast majority of musicians don't profit from their art. Ed Sheehan was sued in part because he's part of the tiny, tiny percentage of musicians who do profit from their art.

The problem described here is so niche among musicians as to be irrelevant to most of them. It's only a problem for those at the very, very top of the musical earning scale.

I'd wager that less than a thousandth of a percent of the musicians on earth have to realistically worry about this.
Copyright prohibits copying. It doesn’t cover independent creation. Recording the creative process helps to show the songs we’re created independently.
I welcomed and enjoyed the author's deconstruction of the painting, but it almost seemed orthogonal to the point they were making. A near-complete tangent, heh.
Is it open source or are there plans to make it so? I'd be very interested how you do frame-accurate video annotations in the browser, as I found the currentTime attribute of HTML video elements to be too unreliable for this. (Context: I maintain a video annotation tool that is mostly used for marine imaging.)
Um, "Reduzirten Lange" isn't quite right. It was "Reduzirte Länge" (the modern spelling would be "Reduzierte Länge").

That translates to "reduced length" and was defined by Ohm as the length of a wire divided by it's cross section and specific conductivity.
I think the question is not really about avoiding voids (no pun intended), but what role they would/should/could play within residential spaces.

Do we want the interior (or the exterior) of our homes to be very awe inspiring? Obviously, there's more than one answer to that question.
I've been trying to decide if I should switch from GApps to Fastmail. This is the killer feature I wanted along with unlimited domains, looks like I'll be transferring over soon.
> the people who use spreadsheets treat operating the sheet as their job

Yes, observed the same. And "The new tool is faster and more reliable!" does not help either. They got their workflow and cope with it - for years.

Only time people adopted new tools - banking - when they could deliver their assignments way faster to their superiors. Personal advantages must be spotted.
Brilliant. I wonder if it'll be strong enough to make firearm components. That's the field driving a ton of innovation in 3d printing at the moment.
VCF East is in Wall, NJ,coming up on April 22nd this year ... https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/vcf-...
Why China’s Version of Email Marketing Is So Effective
I have lived and visited urban areas all over. The only place I was repeatedly robbed was in the Netherlands. I don’t really buy that there are more scammers in the US than anyplace else.
Understandable, my perspective is that most people simply don’t realize how much of a problem it is, because there are massive amounts of money and expertise keeping them from it.
Ciao, I had the same problem moving to Italy, specifically Bologna.. Super student rich town so apartments are gone fast, I setup a crawler of the usual sites but one or two had live updates for locations that would be published through their site's websocket, after a few hours I had the rasPi subscribed and could get notifications to me as soon as they were available, bypassing the need to sit on the website.

It was a pain after for bureaucracy but that was after landing an apartment.
of course, but the hungrier you get the less you have to loose so you act with far more fierce effort accepting more and more extreme consequences.

Honestly food issues will be spread all around the world in the near future: we are too much for the food quantity we can produce, it's just a matter of time. Probably the key most élites count on are a divided population between a mass of young kept a bit nourished and well indoctrinated just to live for work, a small extent of "new feudal class" to keep the system app and other poor to starve. When (not if, IMO) we will be there it will be too late to change the course but I do not know how much late is already...
> A lot of brokers work on commission that they get from the landlord.

It depends on the city. In NYC, the broker is pretty much always paid for by the person looking for an apartment, and it's quite a bit of money. I haven't looked for an apartment for 10 years, but I think it was 5-10% of the annual rent. (I imagine this gravy train is coming to its end, though. 10% was fine when your employer was paying for relocation, but in the All Remote future, this free money goes away.)
Ways the Chip Shortage Is Rewiring Tech
I Went Clubbing in Virtual Reality: Metaverse Raves
The original article that introduced the term unfortunately doesn't contain a clear definition of what "colored" functions are, so people endlessly argue about their particular interpretation of the article.

The original article contains an anecdote that describes a limitation specific to JS, and a couple of opinions that aren't universally applicable. Sometimes it's nice to have magic that sweeps away implementation details, sometimes it's good to have full explicit control.
I'm not sure how Luxembourg works, but in the US the "seller" or landlord in this case pays a fee. Obviously this may be drastically different in Europe, but it's worth having a conversation with an agent/broker.

My wife is a realtor here in TX and when she is in-between home sales she helps people find rent houses and apartments. The seller pays a pre-agreed amount of 30-40% of the first months rent as a type of compensation. The buyer doesn't pay her anything at all. She is incentivized to find the right property for her client so she can get paid, and she also is better positioned to talk to the listing agent/landlord about you and the current competition among applicants. She ends up being able to save people money on application fees that would never get approved.
economy doing well? are you telling me that cities that are completely unaffordable and overrun with crime, homelessness, and drug abuse - along with mass exodus - are signs of a healthy economy?

I live here. I'm fighting the good fight - and it isn't working. It's getting worse every day.
I read the article as being about the evolution of kitchen design (and other spaces) in the world of middle class Americans.

100 or 150 years ago, the kitchen in many parts of the USA would have looked more like the painting too.
My only experience with unionization is at private universities in Massachusetts, so I guess I am unfamiliar with how state law plays in for these public sector unions in California.
What I meant was, the set of OWFs includes the upper bound on inversion difficulty (for functions easy in the forward direction) -- that is, you cannot remove a function from the set of OWFs by making it harder to invert (while preserving forward-direction-easiness).
soon they'll be on par with the 3d coliseum from encarta 2002
OK, maybe I need to rephrase my question: if I do this in main, am I guaranteed to have "main" printed after "foo() is finished"

foo();
std.log.info("main", .{});
To practise honesty builds character, not just because of the rigour of knowing before speaking, but also because one must apply honesty maturely as it befits the situation. Character is necessary for social trust.

Unless you espouse the monetary model of trust. ^_^
It's not a game if you can't choose to stop playing it.

People just don't respect kids. Would you enjoy that game with other adults? Even if no matter the situation they wouldn't give a shit if you wanted to stop playing it or not?

Not being able to trust anyone ever to be acting in good faith and be honest is one of the reasons why we can't have nice things.
This website (CSS Tricks) has been more about general webdev for the better part of a decade.
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> But I'm definitely not going to convince you of anything in this HN thread

You'd be surprised :). I appreciate your response, it was an interesting read.
> You sweet summer child.

Suck my fat hog, cunt. None of those are ads. They are promotional marketing. I’m sorry you are so possessed by this need to hate and ridicule, but Tesla doesn’t advertise. That does not mean they do not promote their product. But — and here is what you are too willfully stupid to understand — advertising and marketing are not the same thing. Post all the YouTube links you want. Unless one of those is an ad that shows up before other videos on YT, it’s not an ad. It’s promotional marketing.

Cunt.
Looks to me like procrastination from doing what he actually needs to do. Which is to click on those links to find an apartment. Tech won't solve that.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/974/
The entire home doesn't need to follow a consistent theme. Different parts of a home serve different functions, and are often occupied by different members of the family who may have wildly different tastes. You can keep the old parts that still work while introducing new things. Life is full of fuzzy boundaries, and so do our homes. History and idiosyncrasy make things interesting. An excessively consistent look, on the other hand, feels to me like a carefully arranged snapshot with no context and no life.

I for one prefer a soft, cozy, woody and/or steampunk theme for the living, dining, and bedrooms; a sterile, industrial, ultra-modern theme for the kitchen and bathroom where sanitation matters; and a futuristic theme for the home office where all my Turing-complete gadgets live. Sadly I can't have all of them for the time being, but one day I hope to! :)
If someone is publicly compiling a database of other individuals, and hosts this on e.g. github, you can absolutely get it taken down.
Company I'm at moved headquarters from CA to TX. A bunch of execs left CA too with the relocation. Only people staying are the ones who love SF.
Ask HN: Is there an open API for upcoming French Presidential elections?
Hey!

I would like to try to do some predictions of the upcoming French Presidential elections. Unfortunately I do not speak French which makes it a bit hard for me to search trough the official Frech GOV websites.

I tried https://api.gouv.fr/ - yet it _seems_ that it is not there. Is there please:

- a dataset (API) of district-wise results of previous elections? (Presidential, Regional, ...)

- is there a live API during the vote counting which provides information from the districts which already finished the count?

I hope that there is a French crowd here as well :)

Thanks a lot!
Sounds more like it's going to be: browser, without the ease of use
Fortunately, the Grand Canyon is spectacularly impressive, every time you see it. Downplaying it the 'first' time was not any great mistake as their mother feared. It didn't matter. They will see it again for the 'first' time again and again in their lifetimes.

As she wisely pointed out at the end of the article, the kids don't need you to interpret awesome.
Sensible long term strategy though? I doubt it...
Where are those individuals going to host these lists? Probably using a business, such as github or some other hosting company. Just target them.
This yodeling station is an acquired taste: https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html?q=Yodel
You are really complaining about people "making presumptions" downthread, and then claiming to speak for literally all Americans in this one?
Open-source software aside—if I publish a paid app, and later someone else borrows my idea and publishes a differently-branded paid app that does the same thing, and it becomes popular enough for me to notice, can I sue them? IANAL but pretty sure it’s a loud “not unless you have a patent that they violated”.

In music business, if person A publishes a song, and person B borrows that idea[0] and publishes a song that uses it or even alludes to it, and that song becomes popular, there’s a clear lawsuit against B. It’s like there’s an implicit patent of sorts on every melody. Isn’t it at least somewhat mind-boggling?

[0] Bonus points if person B actually wrote the song independently and/or earlier than person A, but wasn’t running cameras to film the process.
Yup as a manager you don’t do much, sort of like being a corporate lawyer. The company keeps you on payroll to delegate responsibility.

The best teams I’ve worked for were more self organizing. When you have great engineers this is very effective and a wonderful work environment.
Why are they signs of an unhealthy economy? Gentrification and bad zoning laws alone could explain many of your examples.
Ask HN: Migrate from G Suite, keep email addresses?
I just received an e-mail from Google yesterday that they are discontinuing G Suite Legacy Free edition (which I believe was called 'Google Apps For Your Domain' back in the day). Public info is at https://www.ghacks.net/2022/01/20/google-ends-the-g-suite-legacy-free-edition-leaving-users-worried/

They intend to have a free tier, but without the most important feature, e-mail at your existing e-mail address. I've set up my kids with e-mail addresses from this domain, and have a couple accounts myself, for ten accounts in all. The cheapest paid option is going to be $6 (USD, presumably) / month / account, or $720/year for the 10 accounts, which is a non-starter, as I'm not using this for a business.

If possible, I'd like to keep the e-mail accounts working. I am able to administer my DNS settings, so changing the, uh, MX records shouldn't be too hard.

What options should I look at? I gather that running your own e-mail server is horrible unless you want to spend your life running the server. Are there inexpensive services that will host e-mail with custom domains?
> If USA cannot sentence someone to death, they still can sentence him to 500 years in prison which is basically the same

It's not considered the same by countries which (for instance) have indefinite detention for the worst offenders, but do not have the death penalty.

> Obviously there is no such rules. The article mentions that if the owner of the server would get extradited from North Korea to USA he could get more strict punishment.

As I said, that's likely to come down to the individual treaties. But in this case it was considered a crime in his home nation, just not anywhere near as serious a crime.
Does it exist a good Microsoft Access replacement?
A major gap in my understanding is "what class of programs does structured concurrency solve?"

Put in other words, what is the Structured Programming Theorem equivalent for structured concurrency?
China is a highly politicised topic in the States and another example of tribe mentality.

Being in favour of China, downplaying Chinese actions, receiving Chinese money is what mainstream media and a certain political side does.

People trained to follow their party line no matter the content will criticise anything that show China's true colours.
Meh, depends on the data teams (and their chosen suite of tools)... Or on the Excel users

Both sides can either hack together horrible work-arounds (a matter of "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail...") as well as brilliantly thought through solutions.

Each tool should be used for it's best use cases, but not bent into what it wasn't designed for!

IMHO spreadsheets excel at intuitively manipulating the data ON the data itself.
While "modern data" tools (especially dbt) try to convert date teams to use developer best practices... At the expense of less intuitive/direct manipulation of the data.

That being said, I think there are also things we could explore in that space: how to make the modern data stack more intuitive?
> Spreadsheets.com, for example, lets users dump almost anything into a cell. Drop a photo or a PDF into a cell and the product will immediately create a thumbnail, which you can then expand, as if the spreadsheet were some sort of blog content-management system.

Yes please! Can I get this for Google Sheets? :/
You don't want to indentify as an Indian or a person of Indian origin. Yet you couldn't keep yourself from commenting on this thread.

> If you are a guy (or worse a girl) who insists it’s not that bad in india, then you grew up with extreme privilege or are extremely clueless about realities of life in this country.

What kind of argument is this even? "If you disagree with me, you're clueless"?

There's definitely some "I'll shit on my birth country to win Western approval" energy here..
>have this shitty ideology where the individual matters more than ... the collective

You do realize that the 20th century gave us very good reason to feel this way right?
You’re acting like the equivalent of patent trolls were trying to shake him down. But that’s not the case: it was other singer-songwriters. And if it really is a coincidence it’s quite the coincidence: https://youtu.be/8OrT52ZToUk

(Ignore the title of that video and just listen/watch the content).

Now there are obviously many common chord progressions in pop music, but that is a bit different than a much longer melody. Enough so that the courts agreed. You also have to wonder if the success of that melody was already imprinted on his subconscious.

What I don’t know is if him having original thought versus attempting to copy matters. If I publish a poem, and then you try to publish the same words even if you didn’t intend it to be a copy, then you’re still committing a copyright violation regardless of intent.
Let me correct that title for you: "Middle managers irrelevant, and now we know it with work from home"
People who have no experience with academia would think your story is false and outlandish.

People who have experience with academia would think your story is commonplace and borderline uninteresting.

This has been my experience with telling and hearing stories like this.
I think in NY specifically it's still structured this way. But for the US as a whole, it's much more common for it to come out of the seller's end.

Honestly here in Austin, unless you're walking into an apartment leasing office -- you're going to waste so much on rejected application fees by not utilizing an agent to rent a single family home.
In my experience finding a broker who actually does broker work is hard enough for housing you’ll buy. Even harder for just renting. The money isn’t there for them to do much more than setup a few saved searches.

Half the houses we looked at fit the profile we wanted but we found ourselves.
Would there be a better way to implement P2P payments without a cryptocurrency?

The fact they're using Bitcoin, instead of Ethereum or another altcoin, is a positive for me.
Much better to play "2 truths, 1 lie" games as it is then explicit when there is a lie and when the kids can trust you.
Folks have to pay the rent somehow. Careers of passion are ripe for exploitation and burnout. Look at (American) teachers and game developers. That's not the model I want everyone to follow.
The ability to email a spreadsheet and have it just work on the other side (and become the recipients copy they can fork a version and "own") is huge. In a SaaS situation, you have to solve IAM and security vs. leveraging what users already have as a sunk cost in email and windows.

When we think of document based workflows as a problem (vs. say just the data/info), we tend to think of them as inefficient and prone to duplication, forking, editing, versioning problems - but I'd argue these are valuable features because they create levers for managing. Maybe I've spent too much time staring into the enterprise abyss and this is the inner deadness of a consultant speaking, but what documents facilitate (e.g. MS Office) is flexibility of ownership, provenance, authenticity, sources of truth, authority, and other qualities.

When you solve a problem, it becomes inert, there is nothing about it to manage anymore, which means someone can't extract value from it, and that's value destruction to them. SaaS problematizes these document features and then "solves," them, which in fact just constrains managers by concretizing data and workflows instead of being a tool that provides some data that ultimately supports a narrative conversation without being a forcing function on a dynamic of ongoing "problems" that is producing value for the business.

I'd suggest this is the quiet part your SaaS prospect customers can't say out loud, because managing isn't solving problems, it's extracting value from them, and using tech to collapse dynamics that are producing value is anti-value from that perspective.
So? Read my comment again.

P.S. - Racism bad. When it comes to dog whistles and political parties, well... Reagan used to be a democrat. Throwing that card at everybody who votes differently from you is just childish.
Jimmy Carter rocked -- the image of him as weak or mealy-mouthed is the complete opposite of correct. Read about how he dealt with the Iranian hostage crisis, he had iron principles and nerves of steel. Reagan, on the other hand, got utterly played by the Iranians.

The fact that Carter was a genius is pretty cool too.
Thanks. I told my iPad and asked it to not change my typing so much :-).
Thanks! It's less about those that consume and more about the creation process, giving feedback/thoughts while working on a video or a song.

Also we use it internally to share looms with our eng team, where we leverage timestamped comments and annotations to enhance the sharing and discussion of ideas
The basic needs of everyone on earth can already be met with today’s technology and resources. We would however need a rational and equitable allocation, which is impossible with production motivated by profit.
You just missed the Trenton Computer Festival which has been going on since 76. It's usually in mid March.
Eeh, not sure that question is relevant to the points of anything described in this comment-chain. For context, here it is again:

> > > > I’ve needed to send off an HTTP request with some data to log when a user does something like navigate to a different page or submit a form.

> > > No need for that. Stop hoarding data!

> > What's wrong with doing something like this? If it contains PII, then I agree, [...]

> How can you tell?

The context is from the perspective of the application developers who wants to log some data (unclear what exactly, hence my comment differentiates between PII or not) when user is leaving. The comment I'm replying to states "stop hoarding data!" but I'm pretty clear that's referring to hoarding PII, not any data. As you're the developer setting up this "send off an HTTP request with some data", it's clear to you if it's PII or not.

Obviously, as a user with JavaScript turned on, visiting a random website, have little to no control over what data exactly is collected and sent. That's basically the point of the web today, where application developers can write arbitrary JS applications that gets executed in the browser sandbox, and hence why it's so popular in the first place.
You're objecting to the metaphor, not the substance or the reference. The metaphor has no bearing on whether Michael Levin (who I am not familiar with) is right or wrong. I can't decode anything in your objection to the metaphor that seems to have a bearing on that, either; it just seems like a copypasta extolling expertise and showing frustration at naive internet amateurs. It takes a single google search to find that Levin is not a naive internet amateur.

Biology is not programming, except when it is like programming, or when it involves programming. But that could also be said about golf.
> I wish for a world where musicians make music because they like it more so than to profit

Plenty of people still do this. Probably more than ever before. Megastars like Ed Sheeran are outliers.
Ask HN: Why do Americans speak about family by their names, like we know them?
Happens all the time at work, specifically from US colleagues.

Instead of saying “my girlfriend wouldn’t like that”, they say “Emma wouldn’t like that”.

Instead of saying “I had to watch my son for two hours”, they say “I had to watch Jake for two hours”.