skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now most platforms only allow posts to be visible if they initially get a vast amount of likes. This only favors artists and personalities that are already very popular or rich enough to run paid promotion.

It also explains why the actual best art and content for discovery has been at all time lows for a long time.

There is so much amazing music out there that will never see the light of day and it's appalling. I've been sharing rare new music finds, but I don't want to pay to promote content I'm already working hard to curate. Sharing indie artists and content from friends and family now is more important than ever. Buying music is more important than ever, we need to realize this because it's the reasons why our favorite artists haven't been releasing anything for years too, the playing field is skewed, and the reward for hard work is nonexistent in music right now...

Even popular and influencer-level artists are being ripped off by bad industry contracts, it threatens the entire future of the music industry, that's why they're pushing to make AI driven music popular... So they can hopefully eliminate needing artists.

The ugly truth is that the best musicians can't be emulated, so all we'll have if they succeed is derivative soulless computer generated music in our future, from computer keyboards... Bot music...
that's way too much clothes, travelled Asia for a year with 28L backpack and still had plenty of space, though without laptop, but even with laptop it would make no difference and I was not really missing anything, at that time it was just camera + charger, phone + charger, clothes, thick guide book, USB hub/card reader and some basic hygiene stuff

the guy has too many clothes and unnecessary things (electric shaver/toothbrush, though I'd still have space for these even in my smaller backpack)

the thing is to wear the big/thick clothes during transfers if you are limited with size of backpack plus anyway it seems he doesn't really travel in cold climate
Every concertgoer knows it: Most classical music written since 1945 ranges from boring to unendurable. What went wrong?

Shame its behind a paywall, this is an interesting sounding article.

Modern classical music needed to distinguish itself from popular music and the only way to do that was to go ultra snobbish.

Like fashion and modern art and other areas with a high bullshit ratio, 'distinction' remains very important and increasingly the only way to achieve that it to head categorically in the opposite direction to 'popular'. Fashion is able to achieve 'distinction' but just making really expensive stuff, but you can't do that for music. You could try charging £1000 for a ticket to a concert but then you'd look silly when no-one turned up. Fashion doesn't have that problem because it they dont actually sell any £10000 dresses nobody knows. Damien Hirst can cut a cow in half and put it in a tank (admittedly, an impressive concept and execution of an idea that genuinely feels like art to me) and because its a single artifact it has cachet and can sell for $5m. Music doesn't have that option.

The better way to do modern classical properly is to make music that sounds good, but only sounds good from about the third time you hear it. Experimental but still likeable. Thats really hard though so not many people try. Autechre can do this. Philip Glass also.
There's a lot wrong with it. People like to point out Israel as an example of successful desalination, but that ignores the fact that Israel is a quarter of the size of San Bernardino County and basically a narrow strip of land next to an ocean.

You would need to build 4-8 plants the size of the largest desal plant Israel has for each major population center in the Southwest, and you'd have to do it very very quickly.

But even that's not the problem. The problem is physics. The entire West, an area the size of Europe, is basically the Rockies sloping down to the Pacific, with a few inland coastal mountain ranges like the Cascades to break the flow. The rivers start in the mountains from snowmelt and flow downward and generally westward from there.

So you'd need to reverse the hydrology of the entire region and pump that water uphill thousands of feet and inland over hundreds - thousands - of miles of terrain that is often rough enough that people still don't really live there. A region in which many areas are regularly seeing temperatures approaching 120°F for much of the year.

And you'll have to do this in a matter of single digit years, not decades, in a country that's facing the worst political divisions since the Civil War, with an economy teetering on the edge of recession and possibly - almost certainly if he domino effect of this water crisis plays out the way a lot of people, myself included, think it will - actual collapse.

So it's fine in theory, but absolutely impossible in practice. The civilizational complexity of the American West is about to be reduced, and nothing short of a deus ex machina will stop it.
Why is it people with kids can handle a 2-3 hours long interview on-site + travel that probably required taking time off work but can't handle a 4 hours assignment that they can do whenever?
Why does the Unity spacecraft look transparent?
If you want to look at it that way, then it's already being put to the test. Successful companies succeed, unsuccessful companies do not.
Oral Tradition in Software Engineering[1] by Bryan Cantrill really helped me appreciate that long comments in code can be a treasured part of a software space.

I started my career in a pretty low-comment Ruby codebase, but now count myself as a person partial to adding lengthy 'why not how' commentary in programs.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw
I welcome them. Perhaps these outages stop all people rushing to host their single HTML page blog through them.
"""
I am also surprised by the meanness with
which two of these writers refer to my wife. In
order to imply that I am a tyrant, they suggest
by both direct statement and innuendo that she
is subservient, characterless, and stupid - a mere
"device" easily forced to provide meaningless
"free labor." I understand that it is impossible to
make an adequate public defense of one's private
life, and so I will only point out that there are
a number of kinder possibilities that my critics
have disdained to imagine: that my wife may
do this work because she wants to and likes to;
that she may find some use and some meaning
in it; that she may not work for nothing. These
gentlemen obviously think themselves femin-
ists of the most correct and principled sort,
and yet they do not hesitate to stereotype and
insult, on the basis of one fact, a woman they
do not know. They are audacious and irrespon-
sible gossips.
"""

Things change but they stay the same.
There are other approaches like https://github.com/wheybags/glibc_version_header or sysroots with older glibc, e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Crossdev - you don't need your whole XP, just the the system libs to link against.

Sure, having a nice SDK where you can just specify the minimum vesion you want to support would be nice but who do you expect to develop such an SDK? GNU/glibc maintainers? They would rather you ship as source. Red Hat / SUSE / Canonical? They want you to target only their distro. Valve? They decided its easier to just provide an unchaning set of libraries since they need to support existing games that got things wrong anyway and already have a distribution platform to distribute such a base system along with the games without bundling it into every single one.
What about Rtings? For tech stuff, I found the reviews to be of good quality and it does not seem like it’s biased or sponsored.

> googling "reviews of X"

DDG produces somewhat better results, or at least does not rank the seo spam, generated garbage up to the first page. Also, I do not have ads following me everywhere for the next week.
I don't quite get why people are so hyped about VR. A novel experience, sure. Something to be "in" everyday, I'm not sure. And what about R [0], which we already have, and way better than VR, anyone?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI
Imagine having to pay for a service
I'm not a classical music aficionado, but Jonny Greenwood's Phantom Thread soundtrack is pretty great as background music to write some code to.

Anyway, music changes. To me, someone very obviously classically influenced like Igorrr (Gautier Serre) is a genius. Classical music has morphed into something new and interesting, which is the way it should be.
> I still don't understand how that message escaped being fixed. It wasn't rare.

Might have to do with why nowadays Windows 10 blue screens show a sideways ":(" smiley instead of a face despite being in graphics mode.

Back when i first encountered smileys (and that was at the cover of an "internet magazine" - i was already into computers and programming for years at the time and even used the internet and IRC) i didn't understood what they were, i thought they were some sort of code like the :// or @ in addresses.

My guess is that whoever added that sideways smiley is as blind to how it looks to people who don't know about them as whoever who wrote "illegal" was to people back in Win95 times.
> Along with this ruling is a decision to examine the creation of an open (third) category for everyone, which I think makes sense.

The general public are unlikely to take this seriously. Who is going to compete in this third category? Women are unlikely to compete in it because they stand to be outclassed by any men entering the category. Men will be similarly unlikely to compete because there is likely to be higher prestige in men-only competitions.

The whole thing will revolve around game theory, where every potential participant will weigh up the likelihood of winning, personal pride, and monetary or publicity rewards.

What you'll end up with is a bunch of transgenders participating with a minute niche following. Then they'll start complaining about "cis privilege", or whatever, because nobody (and hence lucrative sponsorship deals) will take them seriously.
Same here. I was fairly active on my Instagram and used it directly from the app on my phone. One day, while using the search function, I suddenly got locked out.

I sent in the selfie and haven't heard back in over 6 months.
> So in that case would a drug cartel that excludes the government from enforcing its sovereignty over a piece of land be recognizable as a state?

It ain't a matter of recognizability. It's a matter of function and action - and in both of those senses, a drug cartel is a state.

> not all fiefdoms were states

All landed fiefdoms entailed a monopoly on violence over their geographic territories a.k.a. land, be it directly (by raising their own armies) or indirectly (by relying on a superior lord to whom they swore fealty). All such fiefdoms were either states outright or parts of larger states. You're literally the first person I've encountered who claims otherwise - and I've met a lot of people with very diverse perspectives on European medieval history.

> Well you dropped the due process provision I put in there.

Because it's irrelevant. That the State has constrained its own powers to revoke land deeds does not change the rather basic fact that private ownership of land is fundamentally derived from and dependent upon the state and its monopoly on violence.

You still haven't answered my question: in the absence of the state, who enforces your piece of paper claiming some portion of land to be yours? By what obligation do I have to respect it?

> there isn’t a step where the State steps in and says “I approve this transfer”.

There are actually many such steps. At the bare minimum, the local courthouse usually needs to sign and notarize the new deed. There's also typically a rather hefty stack of documents for (among other things) various state and local requirements.

> Maybe it was originally a State grant, but the State forfeited it’s rights with the transfer.

No, the State pinky-promised that it wouldn't revoke the privilege of land "ownership" except under certain conditions. Laws can and do change.
> Yes they are because I didn't give them my consent.

Ridiculously naive. Do you have whatsapp installed on your phone? That's all Facebook needs to keep tabs on you and build your profile.

And if you don't? Then you can join my club. I'm pretty sure that Facebook really is missing all 16 of us...

> Or at least explain why capitalism is ok but regulation is not.

First, I am not saying that all regulation is bad. What I am saying is that GDPR is completely and utterly ineffective in what is "meant to do".

Second, it's not about being "anti-capitalist" but "anti-corporativist":

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764137

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31766144

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317641
Apologies for the delay, I missed this somehow.

> I can't speak to the political will, but in terms of complexity the inverse is true: a universally-applicable LVT and universally-applicable UBI is far less complex for everyone involved than trying to navigate a bunch of ad hoc taxes and exemptions.

OK, so I agree that from nothing they would be simpler setups. What I mean to state is that right now, given the current world we live in, changing existing tax rates is easier than introducing and feeling out two entirely new concepts.

> It leads to inflation when
>
>1. it's funded through government moneyprinting instead of a solid tax system, and/or
>
>2. it gets captured by landlords who jack up rents in response to the new demand
>
> LVT rather explicitly and directly fixes both of these problems; it provides a maximally-fair and maximally-efficient tax revenue, and it feeds land value increases back into the tax revenue (and therefore UBI disbursements) instead of letting landlords capture it. It's a self-balancing system with no room for inflation to happen (at least not through either LVT or UBI).

It's not that I'm against LVT or don't think it could be good. My point is that attempting to add LVT and/or UBI are just not practical. They may be theoretically great, but there are other options on the table.

> Which is yet another thing which LVT explicitly and directly addresses. Specifically:
> The behaviors we want to disincentivize are land speculation and rentseeking. LVT is the most direct disincentive to both, and we Georgists ain't exactly shy about that being the key reason why we believe LVT to be necessary for a free and equitable society; the economic properties are just a nice bonus :)

I agree! I just think that LVT is a bigger lift than "just" raising taxes on the behavior we want to disincentivize specifically.
Windows 11 on a Surface 3 2GB
That's interesting. It was nearly instant on my iphone.
Your reply made me read DDG privacy policy.

> > Similarly, we may add an affiliate code to some eCommerce sites (e.g. Amazon & eBay) that results in small commissions being paid back to DuckDuckGo when you make purchases at those sites.

Why was there a big backlash against brave for doing this but no one bats an eye when DDG does it?
I agree. Local facebook and whatsapp groups are the worst for this sort of thing.

I solved it by becoming the benevolent dictator of a handful of my local online groups and swiftly delete messages like this.

It's not perfect, but it'll do.
You say that, but there's tons of automated attempts doing the rounds on everything directly connected to the internet; centralized providers like Cloudflare can detect and prevent these patterns, whereas you need to be on the ball yourself if you have a service directly open to the internet. Exploits are exploited quickly, and while I make no assumptions about your particular website / application, a lot cannot push an update on short notice.
I would venture that most high school students have probably never had $500 in cash in their entire lives, especially those who are at risk of dropping out.
I mean why not go commando unless you travel in cold climate.

And yeah, that electric shaver he is packing is next to useless, I'd understand packing decent mini shaver, but that thing can't shave anything.
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No, we're talking about a colocation provider, or a leased dedicated server provider. I went with OVHcloud US for my latest deployment. HN is at m5hosting.com.
Music being always a child of its time needs to connect to the average people in order to be popular.

The "classical" orchestra (if there is even such a thing) was the instrument of its day, nowadays the instruments changed.

Music split into a gazillion genres ranging from gabber to black metal, from jazz to hiphop and so on...

All of which have their audience.

I would assume the average christian zealot of the renaissance just connects to Bach and his strict and highly religious music. So while Bach made stupidly awesome music the people of today are just not living in the renaissance anymore.

The world being much more diverse and culturally fragmented is represented in the music as well and the "classical" music is just a fragment like everything else.

Nobody cares about the snobbish critic and their idiotic views, lots of art derided by critics became a classic and a lot they praised got forgotten.

As someone who grew up with techno i could listen to Venetian Snares or Aphex Twin all day but i think the likes of Stockhausen are just annoying and dull.
It's not unprofessional, it's setting expectations.

I wasn't saying that I got paid consulting rates to do tech tests. I have never had to do a tech test, and never will. But I've been approached by recruiters, and I always respond with my current top-tier hourly consulting rate, with a minimum half-day charge. Usually that's the end of that conversation, but twice such an unsolicited inbound request has resulted in the recruiter saying "okay, when can you come out?" Once was a certain large asian phone manufacturer, who flew me out to their headquarters halfway around the world for a week of consulting, which also acted as a sort of interview. I decided not to pursue a longer-term job with them for $REASONS. The second instance was my current non-FAANG job. Told them my rate, they again flew me out for 3 days, and on the last day we negotiated salary.

To be clear, my negotiated salary from this job is much, much less than $5000/day I charged them for that interview. It's actually on the lower end for my industry, although I'm still one of the higher paid members on my team. I took it because I like the team, I like the work, and I'm given a fair amount of freedom. It was also 100% work-from-home, prior to COVID. The $15000 I invoiced for 3 days of consulting? They considered it a signing bonus.

But yeah, some companies are willing to pay to get the attention of senior talent, and since I'm charging hourly they respect my time. I have my pick of places to work, so why not filter based on that?
Devil's advocate: the "state of the art" tech will always be what's fastest to implementation for high-travel use cases, and that's not a totally bad thing. If you got good at machining or injection molds, would that prevent you from buying a 3d printer? No. You wouldn't stop practicing the other tools after learning the 3d printer either.

Why I pull the devil's advocate here is because I completely feel your sentiment in my bones, but I rationalize it against a stack that's later and in opposition to yours. I began 10 years ago from Objective-C and Ruby on Rails on Heroku. I was slinging early iOS apps and websites like a mofo. My shit was air tight inside and out. Then suddenly everyone wanted Swift. And Node. On AWS. For no fucking reason, they didn't even code. So I kinda took a break and flew planes.

Then a side project app of mine got some public attention and I had to suddenly become an growth eng, data eng, web dev, Chrome Extension dev, and make quick changes to my site and app to have a chance at capturing the traffic that was giving me an opportunity for success. I brought on 2 friends who just got a CS degree but didn't know what git was, and we worked 14 hours a day "squeezing the rock" trying to keep shit on the rails as we got more traffic. Saving time meant we'd allow ourselves out of the house for a moment. By the end, we had a spaghetti trail of Reacts and Reduxes, Swift, Kotlin, Firebase databases and Cloud Functions, Python Notebooks, paying a ton for simple analytics visuals... but we got the job done, and on time, which usually never happens. We've since learned how to write it more affordably to scale the Firebase backend on budget, and it's pretty easy to hire devs to service it.

Now I'll probably never rebuild that tech stack, ever. But on my most recent project where I needed to have a rich web app and mobile apps like ASAP, I StackOverflow'd a bunch of NextJS, Vercel, and React Native stuff. I'm using some CSS thing called Tailwind because it's easier to look up than plain CSS. I jammed that into some other thing called Styled Components so I can just put CSS/HTML in the same file. I'm hair-on-fire productive. I can whip up a fully featured multi-platform app in 72 hours by myself (that's free until a like 100+ users), then spend the next few months iteratively widening bottlenecks. I know this might not work for 100k+ requests/sec (although it definitely does) or legacy businesses, but the point is: if your tech is getting replaced it's because something else has a faster 0-60. Your skillset is still totally necessary for so many applications, but if you want to stick with your tools, you will stick with companies from the time that tech had the fastest iteration speed.
If you're part of a union, you don't gain negotiating power, you trade away individual negotiating power for collective negotiating power. Sometimes this is a good trade. It depends on the context, on the industry, on the sort of work you do.
> sometimes via the expectation that you commit to the git repository from start to finish

Just rewrite your git history and fudge the commit timestamps. It's not even dishonest, it's just demonstrating your experience with Git.

Of course, that doesn't work if they expect you to push to Github/lab as you go.
That's just the usual NGO and charity crowd. You know why nobody solves anything? Because there's no solutions to be had. It's far too late for solutioneering, there's no sprints here, no hackathons, absolutely nothing that can be done because the only solutions require global consensus and we still can't even all agree that wars are bad and gay marriage is good.

So no, save your money and put it into hookers and blow or whatever makes you happy, as long as you can, because we're about to go off a very steep cliff and there's nothing the very smartest people on earth could do about it at this point.
I had the same and found out that my router was messing with the connection. I had to deactivate the Malicious Content Filter from Trend Micro to be able to connect.
I can already tell I'm going to hate the next 30 years of technology.
> Example here, from the Star Trek pilot: https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/star-trek-pi...

If you have enough zoom, you can place the camera far enough and take such a photo of our moon. With a large telescope, I guess you can even do the same thing with Venus (on a very clear afternoon). So this is by no means "impossible", this is already the planet that we live in!
now try withdrawing it to a bank.
Instead of allowing 24 hours, I prefer to agree on a start time with the candidate, schedule the email to go out at that time and expect to receive the reply two hours later. That way everyone has the same amount of time.
Kind of like DNS over Wikipedia

whereisscihub.now.sh (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409674)

https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790425)
I think what he is trying to say is, that different companies experiment with a concept (for example, what business phone or touch screen phone were 20 years ago) Apple is observing that and when the moment is right will launch it's own product (iPhone).