skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much everybody in the non-music industries saw what happened to music, and they want to avoid it. Music went from something you happily pay $10 each for semi-permanent access to 10-12 songs to a system where you pay $10/mo for nearly all music. Books also don't have the secondary income stream of live performance, so they're even more at risk of major loss. Recorded music revenues dropped by 40% between 2001 and 2014. It's coming back up, but those numbers are not inflation adjusted, and no one expects to get back to the heydays of the pre-streaming era.
But instead of hating scalpers, then customers would hate Sony and Nvidia.
Now that's some strong (dis)confirmation bias.
Someone said: traditions are solutions of forgotten problems.
> Purchase books. Please.

The people who download lots of books illegally are often also the biggest buyers of books.
I’m fine blaming the current genocidal maniac: Putin.
That doesn't sound like a good system. They should pay a fee each time a book is lent out, to reward the author for writing the book.
Interesting read for me. I've worked with lots of engineers that pad their resume by engaging in fruitless experiments. (Everything built with Rust, K8s) As orgs grow it's harder to draw the line between "side" projects and business priorities.
Unfortunately, foreign governments only care about their own strategic interests, not Iranians. Do you forget who flew in Khomeini?
Does Switzerland border Russia or another country that may invade if industrial production shuts down?
Uh, they will nuke us the moment they get on facebook
Yes - amazing - the reason prices are spiking is because supply is unstable and unable to support demand - and will be even more unstable in winter. Great for people selling electricity from renewables (although EU is capping their profit for 'fairness') but sucks for consumers.
Completely agree. I've moved to using proton mail for my main address purely because of the new calendar and migadu for all my other domains and side projects. If they had a calendar I'd go back to them for everything, they're great.
The 12h and 24h system is essentially the same thing, no? In my country we use a 24h system in writing, but mainly a 12h system in speech.
This has never been my experience, and Joel isn't an all-seeing oracle.

In just one notable example, a company I was at had a team develop an important platform in Node.js when the rest of the company was hired for and familiar with Java/Ruby. This app ran our 3rd party API gateway and was a central part of how our company was attempting to grow.

The Node.js team left wholesale to go found CockroachDB, which left nobody at the company who had the expertise to take over. You'd think that someone at a fairly large company would have Node.js experience, but it wasn't the case that we could staff the team back up easily.

There were several major production outages and the app lagged behind in development for the entirety of its life. We also had to port our protoc changes and traffic stack just to serve this one app. This despite being a central part of our upmarket strategy.

Ultimately it was completely rewritten. And nobody regretted that decision. We carefully weighed the pros and cons.

There's something to be said for a company that standardizes on one or two languages. Letting engineers have free reign leaves you with Haskell and Erlang littered in important places, with a very tiny bus factor.
I've been wondering about the "experts say" part of a headline like this. Qualified people lending their opinion is an important piece of information to the context of the article, absolutely, but it also seems exclusive. It's not the opinion of the editorial board of The Guardian, however I also know for a fact that other "experts" would vehemently disagree. Would qualifying this as "some experts say" erode the confidence of the title and thus how sensational it is? Is it maybe implied in the framework of news titles that this is not a universally held opinion by "experts" so much as at least that of several?
I am happy to complain that we as a society have limited ways to reward people who share knowledge that we all benefit from. The answer, if you ask me, is to levy a tax and let citizens decide where the money goes via quadratic voting.
> Sometimes, Chesterson's fence was erected by a shepherd who no longer uses the field that you'd rather play soccer on. It was useful in its day, but no longer.

I mean, that's the point of the metaphor: before knocking down the fence, figure out what purpose it served in the first place. It's not a question of "don't ever knock down a fence" or "always knock down fences".
And a lot of worst of modern day Linux & Open Source is those big tech corporations pushing their own agendas... Linux might even be better off being a hobby again.
I assume you find the "subsidized wind" prices attractive? Who pays the subsidies?
Retooling also has a cost. And the lower power with the precious heat sink and fan can make the console more reliable, reducing warranty expenses. This is all a guess, of course. I don’t have any of these numbers.
Seems like there's plenty, but a lot of em' are already gainfully employed by Google, MSFT, FB and co.
The point is, it wasn't immoral of them to "take the work of others" to begin with. This is how culture works: mythology, classic stories like the Arthurian cycle, fables, lots of classic literature etc. came to be by just taking the stories and characters people liked and doing whatever the next artist wanted. (Today's equivalents are all owned by Disney, for example.) This is also how science and philosophy functioned for ages.

The worldview holding the modern copyright system to be the moral reality is the elaborate rationalization, ingrained into people by the interested parties. You can research the history of copyright law if you want.

This is a separate issue from caring about compensating and nurturing the artists, which is often what people who are mindful about this stuff do. Just not necessarily inside the "traditional" framework.
Yep, I keep saying this.
Adobe is a tragedy because what they could be, given their market position.

Instead, they choose to be slumlords.
The single most complex component I have ever written in about 35 years of SW development was a scheduler to calculate the next instance in a set of overlaid periodic cycles, allowing for time zones, DST changes, leap year/centuries, etc, etc ... in Visual Basic no less!
Imagining a life of merely 15 minutes outside sounds miserable. It's also about the psychological benefits of sunlight exposure.
If you have plenty of flexibility, take a few journeys only and plan well ahead train travel in the UK is a bit pricey but generally fine.

If, on the other hand, you need to go somewhere at short notice or you need to commute by train, they will f*king gouge you.
Pensions are notoriously under/unfunded, particularly in local governments. I wouldn't count that as a guaranteed benefit. It may retroactively be cut in the future.

> Neither of those have to be properly accounted for in dollar terms today

They actually are, at least for pension contributions.
Both are making copies, probably multiple, mostly transitory, along with any number of intermediaries.
> let's go back to worshipping the sun

Did we ever stop? Praise the sun! solaire pose
> if people don't wanna write books anymore unless they already have financial stability

This is less about want and more about means (people wanting to write books but not having the freedom to invest their time in it if they don't have pre-existing financial stability).

But... this is currently the case. 50% of books published by the "big 5" publishing houses sell less than 12 copies (source: recent Penguin Random House antitrust case). The chances of any writer making any money on a book they write is close to zero even if they get a publishing deal with a major publisher.

The current system of copyright doesn't protect writers (nor motivate them to write); it only protects monopoly.
What mac address restriction is there? One sets them up on their robot interface so things will actually route. You get the assigned mac and use that in your virt ip or bridge settings.

Are we talking about something else?
Related:

Tradition Is Smarter (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22037749 - Jan 2020 (101 comments)

Also:

Chesterton's Fence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553665 - May 2022 (13 comments)

Chesterton’s Fence (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070757 - Jan 2022 (142 comments)

Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22533484 - March 2020 (85 comments)

The Fallacy of Chesterton’s Fence (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13063246 - Nov 2016 (26 comments)

The Fallacy of Chesterton’s Fence (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11743965 - May 2016 (2 comments)

Taking a Fence Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9745149 - June 2015 (42 comments)

Others?
Sweet! I'll keep an eye on the repo. Thank you for open sourcing DocQuery. I agree with your reasoning: my current attempts to find an NER model that covers all my use cases have come up short
You most likely did not descend from people who worshipped the sun, just people who used the sun in art and recognized its benefits to them.

There were deities associated with the sun. Sol Invictus is the most commonly known, but was a relatively late addition to the Roman pantheon, intentionally appropriated from traditions from Syria and elevated by the empire for what they perceived to be civic benefit. Hardly traditional, but perhaps an early example of bureaucrats recognizing the value of a tradition they did not personally respect.
> If the water pouring into the sink delivered more water in a second than the drain could handle, that'd be more than 100% utilization.

this is where the sink bit comes in. For small amounts, queues are great at absorbing load. for example, you can dump two or three who glasses at once into a sink, and the drain will be fully utilised. (try doing that by pouring the glasses concurrently into the drain pipe at once.)

> fewer than N events per second, on average, are occurring

average is doing a lot of work here! unless you are very lucky, an average can hide a lot of variance. If we go back to the sink analogy, pure water flows away more or less at a constant rate (if we ignore whatever the spinny whirlpool effect is) The variance in processing time is very little.

However, if we start dumping washing up water in there, lumps of food will start to clog the drain. on average, assuming no blockages, processing time increases a little bit. but when we get close to peak capacity, a blockage will cause an overflow thats very difficult to clear. This is because there is no extra capacity to get through the backlog.

the rule of thumb is that as you get close to 80-90% of your consuming capcity, your queues will begin to expand.

when you are designing your stuff two things might save you: expiring keys, and bounded queues.

The first one means dataloss that you need to handle yourself. the worst part is, you might not get informed that your message is lost. So that needs careful thought

the second one means that things pushing into the queue need to check the state of it before pushing. Back pressure is always good. At least the client knows _before_ the data is sent.
The thing that progressivism has gotten wrong is that tradition isn't completely arbitrary and lacking in utility. The thing that conservatism has gotten wrong is that tradition isn't simply defensible for its own sake.

Modern progressivism feels like going into a house to remodel, with a sledgehammer, without bothering to give any consideration to which walls might be load bearing. Conservatism feels like keeping a claustrophobic ugly kitchen in lieu of an open floorplan, simply because the walls should be assumed to be load bearing.
I'm quite certain that that information is not public.
That's a very funny dialog.

But ... the sexagesimal system made sense and I guess that, in ancient times, time periods that don't have patterns would always be divided arbitrarily (years can be marked with seasons, days with night, but how to divide the time between, say, mid-day and sunset?).
I can easily earn a huge profit by trade 3-5x energy at one point in time, to get 1x energy at an other.

As an example, in my zone, if someone provided 1x energy at 7pm, and I repaid that by providing 3x of that energy at 3am, I would still earn a profit of about 25%.

The price prognosis for tonight is even lower, so I could trade 1x for 6x and still make a nice profit from the price difference.
May I ask for links to the research that shows this? Not arguing, just curious.
It's not specific to rrl, it's pretty much what webnovels are - it's the same at the other platforms too. And there are also some really successful writers that just do it on their own pages.

There is also another source of revenue for them you've omitted: Amazon unlimited.

But besides that I think you're overstating the quality issues.
Most successful webnovel authors write really well and have proofreaders before the chapters get released to the general public.
Sure, there are extremely bad works too, but they're not really getting money either.
How recent is relatively recent in your mind?
And travelling around with the sort of budget that can consider first class and a willingness to book tickets at suitable times (and comparing prices with international sleeper trains in the rest of Europe!) completely misses why British commuters paying 20%+ of their after tax income for an annual rail pass into London consider it expensive.
The soccer player knows why he can do it, the fence is no longer useful. That was exactly Chesterton's point.
Why is that the null hypothesis? For one thing, the only experience we have is existing as bodies in a real world, so that should be the default with any other claims being supported by evidence. For another thing, simulating a bridge falling down is not a bridge falling down, and it's not proven that simulated thinking is thinking (or even, possible).
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1572260363764400129.html
Pick up any book on Quantum Mechanics.
It's that it's a pain for precise exceptions. Handling how you get a page fault for ldm/stm and then restart them once the relevant page is loaded is non trivial.
Well, let's go back to worshipping the sun, then. Who knows, if we don't, it might not rise tomorrow...

I think we'd be much better off being un-ironic sun-worshipers than hollowed-out atomised atheists.

And I see that as someone who is sadly in the latter category.
It doesn’t in a really moist layer. Ice condensation nuclei are relatively rare (thus the silver nitride seeding idea), so a lot of times ice clouds form when a parcel of air gets supersaturated. This is pretty common.
I've read the Pinker book. There were some useful takeaways. However, in general I found it long winded which is ironic as most writing tips include a recommendation of brevity.

Read it if you feel you must, but lower your expectations.
Where did the original ideas come from, if every author is just compiling pre-existing ideas from other authors?
It's a very good language. I learned it graduate school in the mid 1990s. I personally think the learning curve is not particularly steep. But it seems like most developers and the industry would rather enforce coding standards to nerf the foot-guns in C/C++ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628746). With Ada there would still be coding standards but I would wager that it wouldn't be as much about inherent problems in the language.

They might both have a rule like:
AV Rule 1
Any one function (or method) will contain no more than 200 logical source lines of code (L- SLOCs).

But Ada would probably not have something like:
AV Rule 59 (MISRA Rule 59, Revised)
The statements forming the body of an if, else if, else, while, do...while or for statement shall always be enclosed in braces, even if the braces form an empty block.

Or:
AV Rule 193 (MISRA Rule 61)
Every non-empty case clause in a switch statement shall be terminated with a break
statement.

Those two arise from deficiencies in the basic C/C++ syntax. They are probably not fixable in a future revision of the spec because they would break too much code. So we create a coding standard, configure a linter to check for it, wire up our source repository to scan for it on checkin, and make all the leads code review for it.

Ada might have different language specific standards. For example, around not allowing breaks out of infinite loops. Requiring, instead, a loop construct with a testable condition. But even then, you can pragma things out of the compiler to help you enforce behavior. That's "built in."

My comment with Rust is not that Ada is bad or too hard, but rather even a small amount of additional work might be enough for developers and organizations to avoid Rust. There's a lot of Rust advocacy, which is a good thing. However, there was also a lot of activity on comp.lang.ada.advocacy (if I remember the newsgroup correctly). One good thing is that Ada felt "imposed" by a number of people and that automatically stimulates a kind of rejection response. Rust's introduction is definitely more "bottom up."
Because ProtonMail doesn't offer SMTP and IMAP except by running a local proxy server on your own machine. When people say they want an "email service", they usually mean they want SMTP and IMAP.
Why even use images to display text tables?
I saw when i was in Japan a various billboards marking a 25 hour service I thought it was some kind of mistake but apparently they call 1 am the hour 25...I think I saw it in Okinawa
I agree pressure can play a part, but thinking clearly under pressure can be a very important skill to assess in a candidate depending on your company. For a high growth startup, there is often a lot of pressure to deliver effective code quickly. I also think retention of knowledge plays a large part.
Tradition was a mean to preserve knowledge over decades, I don't think it's relevant now where we can actually do that directly and also attach the research about whether it works, how it works, and how to employ a given technique directly.

Nowadays it's just a convenient method to make people do something without questioning it or asking why.
Next time you want to argue in bad faith, maybe don't be so blatant about it?

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
It must indeed be very frustrating to work for IBM and want to cover different markets and being unable to do it.

I see, however, IBM can migrate a lot of those products from item sales to cloud subscriptions and, in that case, there would be little space for entry level hardware.
The point is not to exploit inelastic demand, but to separate inelastic demand from elastic demand when there isn't enough supply to fit both needs.

With food, it's possible to manage supply through stockpiling. With electricity, storage is tricky, so when there's a change to supply, demand has to be changed to match. You can do that with blackouts or economics. Many large customers have contracts where they pay a lower rate in exchange for disconnecting their load when needed to reduce demand. Anything essential would be on another meter that has a higher rate.

Why is it a problem to apply the same principle to residential connections?

Of course, in my area, most of my utility outages are a result of interrupted lines and not supply issues, both essential and non-essential would be equally disrupted. And, it's not feasible to switch a significant number of residences to a two-meter system in any reasonable amount of time, so this is firmly in the thought expirement category.
What is a "professional font"?
Don't even go to those idiots over there who uses these weird units for measuring temperature, distance, weight and ugh volume...

When we actually have this well designed system where everything fits beautifully together...
Only if you don't know its purpose, which is self-aggrandizement.
> Don't you want to restrict people from sharing their files - even if that's what they want to do - when those files are things like your banking documents or medical records?

Yeah, I'm not strongly arguing for this view, merely arguing that it genuinely does represent a restriction on freedom (sometimes restrictions on freedom are sensible, although in this case I think it'd be better to try to find other ways to solve the problems of recompensing creators).

If I have to take a stance on it, I'd probably say that people sharing personal and private information on me without my permission (and by the way credit agencies, governments, friends with facebook accounts and advertising companies do in fact do this) should be treated as a separate issue, and considered much more under laws against harassment or libel (which are themselves restrictions on freedom of speech too!) or perhaps breach of contract.

I'm not even sure banking documents or medical records actually fall under copyright - and if they do, I don't think the copyright belongs to the patient, so I don't think it's copyright that is used in these cases anyway.
They also provide a virtual bridge for dedicated servers.

Me I could not get it to work reliably so I added another bridge on my servers which link via wireguard. It works like a lan for both the physical servers and VMs.
Probably, though external frame packs mostly don’t exist any more. At least not in the normal consumer outdoor gear market (REI, etc).

A fair chunk of the UL market forgoes a frame completely, and just uses some foam to add rigidity and padding. That’s usually for people going with a truly minimal base weight… Tarp tent, minimal quilt, possibly no stove (living off overnight oats and other things that can be consumed after soaking).
A lot of the cloud is based on iSCSI, which, although “random access” time is relatively constant, still has an increased latency compared to local storage. As such, you definitely do want to benefit from things such as read-ahead, and designing your storage structures around these types of mechanisms yields significantly better results.
> Books also don't have the secondary income stream of live performance

Funny, I was just thinking of this.

In this current world of copyright, the secondary income stream for books seems to be selling rights to make movies & television shows for the larger audience.

Only works for bestsellers, but that's true of anything in book finances; only a small handful of bestsellers make money.
> overwhelming evidence

Well yes, of course it would look overwhelming if all the contradictory evidence and testimony was buried. Not to mention any evidence they fabricated to support their cover-up.

You're really missing the main point of the lawsuit.
Do you mean "flair"?

You're right that people can disagree about what to value, but I'd think that given a set of values, maximizing them is better than not. If you're a writer who does care about using all the colors of a rainbow, doesn't learning how to use indigo and orange make you better than when you only knew black, white, red, and green?
“And once a year we have a 23 hour day and half a year later we have 25 hour day, but not all of us.”
I agree. IIRC AirBnB and Uber started as a peer to peer service, but soon fall into professionalization, and it would be difficult to avoid.

Also, the price of the meal and quality may cause big discussions. Are they natural smashed potatoes or the mix that comes dehydrated in bags? Jam of just slides of pink food made of pork[1]?

@OP: Are you panning a vegan / organic option?

[1] Here it's illegal to call something jam unless it meet a few criteria. So supermarkets also sell some jam replacement without a clear name and that in tiny letter says something like "food made of pork and other ingredients".