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I don't listen to Ed Sheeran's music, but think he is completely right in this case. It's ridiculous he was accused of plagiarism in the first place.

Musicians and composers have always been influenced by other music artists. This is particularly true for orchestral music (classical works or soundtracks).

Here's a 1941 film soundtrack. Can you guess which other film soundtrack was probably influenced by this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf47W9rXzRM

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Another famous music dispute (in the UK) was between British band The Verve and their 1997 hit 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' and The Rolling Stones.

From a 2019 BBC report:

> For the last 22 years, The Verve haven't made a penny from Bitter Sweet Symphony, after forfeiting the royalties to The Rolling Stones.

> The song was embroiled in a legal battle shortly after its release, as it samples an orchestral version of The Stones' song 'The Last Time'.

>...the royalty dispute arose in 1997 when The Verve sought permission to sample a short, staccato string sequence from the symphonic version of The Last Time, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra.

The dispute was resolved in 2019: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48380600

Compare both pieces

- The Last Time - The Andrew Oldham Orchestra (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrllfAMwHI

- Bitter Sweet Symphony (1997): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74
No one, including the original scientists IIUC, needed to be convinced the FTL-neutrino result was wrong. It was just a matter of what went wrong.
I looked up Bourbaki, my first go was at Algebra (chapters 1 to 3). Seems pretty decent, a bunch of things are obvious (has an introductory section which describes some of the motivation and historical context.

Then starts by defining a law of composition using a function from E x E -> E: all pretty obvious. It even uses the common operators + and . (or no sign) to indicate addition and multiplication, all of which are intuitively clear and easy to make a parallel with what is already familiar. It even explicitely brings up a law of composition not everywhere defined on E for anyone who has not caught that composition needs to be a function on E x E -> E, or rather that it works for all values from E x E. For instance, subtraction on natural numbers is not a law of composition according to this definition.

And straight up on the first page, there are examples of what compositions are available on the set of natural numbers and on subsets of sets.

I am sure it gets hairer as you go along, but this is roughly the type of books I've used decades ago while studying mathematics, and roughly the type of books I enjoyed when properly interested and motivated.

It's only obvious that one needs to go through the Set Theory first as they rely on the terminology introduced there for precise handling of whatever comes here (I still remember most of the terminology, but I don't trust my memory to get all the specifics right).

It is not completely devoid of context and historical perspective, though it presents it in a slightly backwards way (introduction is clear to highlight how parts between asterisks are not necessary for purely logical reading of the text).

Again, and I've said this before, formal mathematics is hard mostly because you have to memorize so much of the new language, and you can't really grasp the context without having grasped the context for what you are building on (eg. if you don't have understanding of functions/mappings, tough luck getting to the grips of algebraic structures).
UCLA Wants to Hire an Adjunct. But the Pay Is Zero
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You broke almost every guideline with that post. Please knock it off.
Yes. That is every Supreme Court nominee. I am not understanding how this conversation devolved into a discussion about Donald Trump and his nominees when we are discussing Biden and Kentaji Brown.

I have 0 interest in discussing Donald Trump anymore.
I’ve been a 41-year-old single dad ever since I was a nine year old.
Uhhh I did this back when I was an infant (probably 12 or something I'd play games with cheats) and to this day I can't derive any enjoyment from most games. Cheats really do ruin it for some.
Google's 540B language model (PaLM) training costs $9M to $17M
Mostly a variety of web based science education simulations. Usually boiling down to some kind of miniature specialist physics engine or procedural animation.

Beyond that, it's more of a personal philosophy than a requirement (I could easily have done all those things more carelessly, but the result wouldn't be so nice, some people's laps would be hotter, and some people would end up with a slow or jerky simulation). I like things to be efficient, I enjoy finding a balance between "efficient" and "minimal". That doesn't mean I avoid GC all over the place adding unnecessary complexity and over optimizing, it just means being considerate where it matters and "idiomatic" where it doesn't - in a physics engine (or any kind of posteriori simulation) it matters because it's running on an interval and will constantly cause perceptible GC hiccups if you don't be considerate with memory.
The COVID emergency use vaccines should prevent passing a flight physical. This is being widely ignored, apparently.

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

'The FAA generally requires at least one-year of post-marketing experience with a new drug before consideration for aeromedical certification purposes.'
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You can do this in the settings. Top right hamburger menu > Settings > Uncheck "Ask to open in app."

I stumbled upon this when looking for the dark mode toggle and was very happy.
More that Amazon can take away your books. Don't need to burn them, just remotely remove them.
How to make sure they are not cheaters? pretty easy to setup a suggestion bot at home playing online browser/javascript based boards
>EDIT: I meant to post this one:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzkRHFl2ppw

Thanks! That is quite amusing and definitely fits the criteria for a meme.

And I knew Bill O'Reilly was an ignorant jerk, but damn!
That sounds interesting. Do you have an article or something about that?
> most people are becoming “sign blind”

It's to the point now that I sometime miss content that I skipped over because I thought it was an ad. The worst case of this is opening a news article about something that happened on video and all I want to do is watch the video. Is it the top video? Rarely, I scroll right past that and look for something in the body. More than half the time it's a video that's in a tweet (thankfully easy enough to pick out) but sometimes I have to look closer at what I dismissed as an ad to find out if it's what I'm looking for. What's infuriating is when I go back to the top video, hit play, sit through an ad, then I get some generic news or computer-generated-type reading/text of the article in video form.
> The financial crisis was about companies making money, which they love to do. Advertising ad spend is about companies spending money, which they hate to do. Unless someone can explain why everyone wants to subsidize advertising agencies and ad platforms.

Advertising is certainly in the interest of the ad agencies, and the employees of companies whose job is to either manage outside advertising or develop/execute advertising in-house. It's possible there could be a company with a lean team of advertisers, doing just the type of work that makes sense. But within any organization, leaders want to have larger teams because it is seen as a marker of respect. It also allows a leader to command a higher salary.

I don't know if these forces are sufficient to have spun the entire advertising industry out of nothing. But I do know that there are significant forces looking to build up advertising both inside and outside of companies.
Not really because none of his commits have any context on what the purpose any of his changes are actually for. He never describes why he does anything, just that he is changing something (which is obvious from the code).

It's the git equivalent of "useless comments" like `int x = 10; // set x to 10`
Heard (anecdotally on reddit) that its one of the advantages of having hot launch VLS as opposed to cold launch like the Russian style.

That way if there is a failure to launch its contained inside the VLS cell instead of potentially covering the decks in missile components.

Although I suppose a cold launch has a good chance of throwing a failed missile off the deck and into the sea if its at any angle.
Microsoft is the new HOA, and Google the new building commission.
Because he says things that are true and less well known than they should be, and then gives a clearly written argument that shows you that they are true using logic and empirical evidence.

So far that just describes any good science paper or math textbook; the difference is that he's writing about questions of great interest to HN, like in this case "how to build a web service", "how to do software version tracking" (https://danluu.com/monorepo/), "how to do statistics" (https://danluu.com/linear-hammer/), "why hardware development is hard" (https://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/), "why everything is broken" (https://danluu.com/nothing-works/), and "how to hire talented people" (https://danluu.com/talent/). These are topics where there is an enormous amount of hot air out there on the web, but very little that is epistemologically justifiable.
I once managed a thoroughly non-critical server that lived in a closet. In the couple years I managed it, we had quite a few failures due to the UPS tripping and no unscheduled downtime at all from any other reason.

I’ve had massive problems with fancy (HPE, IIRC, but it wasn’t called HPE then) raid arrays caused by the controller being a POS. Using plain mdraid would have been far more reliable.

Sometimes I wonder if all the effort people put into protocols that run Paxos and Raft could be better spent running a small number of coordinator servers with manual failover. I’m suspicious that, in many use cases, leader elections cause failures more often than the leaders themselves fail.
Apples ideal customer.
Nobody needs a bigger bomb though, it wouldn't be any more of a threat. We can already destroy a whole city with a single weapon or trigger a mass extinction event in somewhere between an hour and a day, being better than that isn't really any more scary.

No, the "better" superweapon would be about precision and speed of destruction... like the ability to resolve the whole surface of the planet at sub cm resolution and pick out and destroy any target in moments... imagine a starlink-type constellation but spy satellites with space lasers instead backed by enormous AI facial-and-other recognition to identify where anybody or anything was. Or maybe something like being able to read thoughts at a distance or even influence them.

A bigger bomb though is just about doing something we can already do slightly more quickly. We can also already build bigger bombs than we have but there's no strategic advantage.
First: you are not alone, that's normal.

Second: I think they are leaning into the surprising and sometimes pleasing juxtaposition of conversations that can be happening "close" to each other. Like, I'll click into a tweet, and generally the first "thread" is the one where the OP replies to themselves - but that's not always the case! Sometimes another reply is more popular and they will swap it.

I think they are trying to give you a sense of how the conversation has gone - when they break the thread they are showing you that, based on activity, other people are ignoring the thread and paying attention to this other thread. It messes you up if all you want to do is see what the OP said, but if you are there to see "why people care about this tweet" (also common) it's important to understand where things fell apart.
I buy that as society becomes more accepting, the prevalence of non-heterosexual and trans people should be expected to increase, but this is a huge confounding variable in figuring out what the natural prevalence of these traits in society is. A Gallup poll this year [0] broke it down by generational cohort, and I was surprised at the increase in LGBT identification from Millennials (10.5%) to Gen Z (20.8%), and I am part of Gen Z. I don’t know what explains an increase of that size, simply because while society in general has become more accepting, my feeling is that it hasn’t become that much more accepting between Millennials and Gen Z. But maybe it has and I’m just underestimating it.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-tick...
There are so many things that make it an unpleasant ordeal.

Having to hit 'see more replies' over and over.

Having to click on individual tweets to see their replies.

Pressing back and having your window reset to the top of the replies page, and now you have to click 'see more replies' all over again.

Having your history completely broken somehow so pressing back doesn't even take you to the right place.

etc etc
Actually, Germany ran a very successful public housing program after the 70s. It's pretty recent that the government basically sold their properties for pennies and now everything is getting more expensive because nobody is building anymore.
I agree about the message. I found the ending to be the one of the most cliche ideas one can encounter in all of new media art.
1979 Land Rover Defender Series 3 'Blacked Out'
Propaganda surged on social media after invasion of Ukraine, Meta reports
>it's not new, and it's certainly not functionality.

For GTK? Yes it is new and it is functionality, full recoloring of the theme was not previously supported. You can just look at the screenshots, the recoloring in the new text editor is an obvious improvement over the limited theme support that was in gedit. Maybe you don't want this functionality, and that's fine, but either of us can go open these apps up in a VM right now and compare them and note for a fact that the functionality has been added.
I really enjoyed this video when I first saw it, especially learning and recognizing that burnout includes cynicism and is often triggered by feeling unrewarded. Makes a great deal of sense.

Dr K has been such a gem to discover on YouTube (I know he was pretty famous on Twitch for awhile). I ended up paying for his mental health guide where he'll teaches a lot of different types of meditation beyond the typical mindfulness flavor.

This is my favorite of his lectures: how to effectively communicate (by reflective listening): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIATzLf-y04

I also get a lot out of his 2-hour long deep interviews with various internet celebrities, insofar as I can spot similarities between our struggles and apply lessons to my own life.
I have to imagine they were all stepping on each other and/or reinventing slightly different shaped wheels too.

My experience has been that companies who will customize integrations for you have poorly designed products. By that, I mean, when we ask for a feature, and they bring on an engineer who does some requirements gathering then comes back with some invisible solution. That's a major redflag.

The success of an integration, in my experience, is directly proportional to the amount of the work I'm able to handle as a client.
I gave one away several years back to a high school art department. The other one is in my garage under two inches of dust.
Dating from the 1940s!

> The ACM was founded in 1947 under the name Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, which was changed the following year to the Association for Computing Machinery. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Mach...

Actually, Google Scholar pointed me to a 1933 example (!) at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1167450

> In the computing field, a number of technics have been reported (346, 348, 413) whereby correlations and other computations may be computed by means of standard computing machinery. Hull (373) described the most elaborate computing machine for making the almost interminable calculations utilized in the partial and multiple correlation technics for combining tests according to optimum weights.

along with other citations from the 1930s.
If houses are so expensive vs labor, you could always buy some land and have one built?
The central valley city I was talking about is Tracy, CA. Without traffic, it's takes 1 hour driving to get to the tech companies. Monday to Friday at rush hour it would take 2 hours. 90 minutes offpeak at 9am instead of 7am. Virtually zero tech workers are willing to make that drive.

Also, quality of life in Tracy is pretty poor. Property crime is pretty big. Virtually nothing for children to do. Young adults go to the same 5-6 average restaurants and that's it. I'd much prefer to live in a town near a nice city in Austria.
This is going to sound weird, but is your wifes phone set to a non US english (even something like australian/british english) language ?

I found the same problem with my phone a long time ago for a non US english account. Once i had that configured differently than what my setting was on the app store it would do all kinds of stupid things with the artwork.
No I'm saying the average level of adequate programming for a software engineering job. The average for the job is higher than the average skill level for the population.

This is obvious. Your diving into technicalities of language, which is unnecessary.

My claim is that most of the population can achieve the average skill level held by an average developer.
If it’s worth learning, it’s worth dedicated teaching resources. Otherwise, it’s not worth clogging up the tutorial with unnecessary bookkeeping.
I don’t think any of the irreplaceable uses of plastics are really major contributors to the problem. eg if syringes were the only plastic item around, this would not be an issue simply because there aren’t that many syringes and they aren’t generally reused (and so don’t shed plastics as much as water bottles with tops being screwed on and off frequently). It’s the common, day-to-day plastic items like food containers and synthetic clothes. Those are hardly irreplaceable use cases, although obviously other solutions are going to be more expensive than plastics.
Eclipse too iirc
Take a glass of water and shine a light through it in a dark room. Look into it and you should see tiny white filaments that look like tiny hairs floating around. I think that's what they mean.

If that doesn't work, leave it for a few hours and check the top surface or bottom of the glass. You can also try with urine.

Also, if you leave it for a few days, these filaments may grow... that is beyond microplastics and moving into synthetic biology.
> do you have the subject line?

The email I received had subject line: Notice Regarding Your Access to O'Reilly Content
Twitter has reached that "party's over" phase. Till now it's been focused on growth, but... "At the end of the day, we must moooooooonetize our assets..."
I thought Netflix had spun off https://fast.com
I tend to append or prepend site:forum.* to my searches to emulate this missing feature. Not every forum is set up with this url but it's better than nothing
That wasn't my point. I think that would be part of an honest critique.

The other commenter basically said focusing outrage was not problematic. I don't have any issue with honesty and transparency around hiring practices. However, I do think the appropriate place to do something like that would be on a site like glassdoor, and not a platform like twitter. I think as a country we have way more than enough "outrage" at the moment, I don't see any benefit to adding fuel to fire and communicating it a way that is likely going stir up hashtag vomit.
You are singing my song here...
> We spent a relatively large portion of our revenue running very expensive servers to respond instantly to searches that no-one ever performed.

The last 7 years of my life as an SRE. It's maddening.
I agree. More/alternative details:

We discovered one Higgs boson that has a mass of ~126GeV, but no one is sure that it's the only one. There are plenty of alternative models that have more Higgs bosons yet to be discovered. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Alternative_models It's a very obscure paragraph so if you (GP) don't understand the details don't worry, me neither. But the important part is that there are many models and each one has a different number of Higgs bosons with different properties. Until other(s) Higgs bosons are discovered it's very difficult to know which model is correct.

For example there is a recent preprint about another Higgs boson with ~95GeV https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30807022 (88 points | 12 days ago | 26 comments) The idea is that there are two weird results in CMS and Atlas that "show" something with ~95GeV, but they only have 3 sigmas. So it may be a fluke, but it's unusual enough to keep an eye in those experiments. In the post I linked they interpret this as a family of 3 Higgs bosons, the old ~126GeV, the new dubious ~95GeV one, and a third one yet to be discovered. (Just to be super clear, the ~95GeV and the proposed family are unconfirmed.)
I think you have answered your own first post's question with the second paragraph of this post. I also gave pretty concrete examples in my original, downvoted post of how a using a laptop that was designed to run well with linux more or less out of the box based on hardware choices still falls short. I'm happy your transition was smoother than mine!
> Once you've reached even 25% coverage, it's really dubious whether more coverage than that is actually telling you anything.

For sure there's diminishing returns on test coverage and I share your frustration with the myopic focus on coverage but there's no way it's anywhere close to 25%. Perhaps 25% is sufficient (or way more than enough) for new, small projects using languages with good compilers and type checkers. But it's no where near enough even under those ideal conditions when you have several generations of developers working on big multi-year projects.

Tests do reduce bugs. That's why automated testing was invented in the first place. Number of bugs vs company revenue isn't ignored because it'd make people look bad, but because it's an incredibly difficult metric to calculate.
It's sad that this comment got downvoted. There's hundreds of millions of years of evolution that codifies "you should have children" into our genes, and it's not hard to see that this has something to do with how middle age can feel meaningless if you don't. Just because it's difficult and/or not fashionable to have kids these days, doesn't mean those biological imperatives aren't still there, subtly affecting your thoughts.
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