skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the internet is full of folks lamenting how little musicians make for their music. somebody suggests that they ought to be paid more and you subject them to rudeness?
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That partly comes from the liability / malpractice system of the USA. They are induced to jump on everything so they don't get sued by malpractice lawsuits. The amount of detrimental behavior in medical system driven by this stuff is extremely saddening and if you know doctors, how much they think / worry about this stuff is so fucking annoying and sad.
The military applications alone of something like Super Heavy/Starship would justify keeping the program going.

Now it's possible, it has to be done.

> To the extent that the SpaceX business model is about selling rockets and not about selling other products

SpaceX's business is selling launches to orbit. Its great achievement to date is changing the expensive first stage from being a consumable (used up at the time) to being a fixed asset (a machine) used for launches.
> do a 4K zoom call is not good enough

Not doing 4K zoom calls is also a productivity gain.
> Create a \Quicken directory in the root

Windows has an existing convention for this, like Linux's XDG. Imagine if you looked at your Linux filesystem root and saw /boot, /dev, /usr, /tmp, and /Quicken.
> Why would it matter?

Because that's the intuitive behavior in the terminal. The other programs you listed launch their own window and are obviously a different context.

Even things like vim and emacs (the foundational terminal editors) will give you a message that ctrl+c doesn't work the way you expect (admittedly in emacs you have to hit it repeatedly), because it's so expected that it's assumed that's what you're going to try.

You can have different behavior with ctrl + c, but it's going to be confusing enough that you're also going to have to print a message for everyone else.
The valley has no end
https://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY
Civet also fixes: `import x from "./x.ts"` and unifies `readonly` and `const`.

I'll get back to you when I fix the other 97 but until then there's no accounting for taste.
Could a digital twin of Tuvalu preserve the island nation before it’s lost?
This maybe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31673662
No, I merely argue that if you read them to be threats in that sense, they are pretty pointless threats. And it thus makes little sense to read them as such, because they would be such unimpressive threats.

Your US/Germany comparison doesn't work, since that's an entirely different situation. For starters, a state like the US can actually apply pressure or use force, because there isn't an established strong framework saying it can't nor anything directly enforcing what little there is. US enforced sanctions over the pipeline construction because it didn't like the pipeline, nothing Germany can do directly. (And if you want to assume the recent sabotage was the US, pretty much the same applies)

The commission is just not an independent state-level actor in that way. It's actually constrained by a state-like legal framework around it, granting it limited powers for specific purposes. Outside of those, it can and will be reigned in very quickly.
> did the right thing

That's optimistic naïveté speaking. Marrying someone you got pregnant just because it's the right thing to do, is in fact very much the wrong thing.

> The kids believe they are being raised in a warm, loving household

Maybe when they are very young. Kids aren't stupid, and you can't fake a warm, loving relationship accurately enough nor consistently enough to keep them fooled very long. At some point way before they become adults they realize exactly what is going on. At best they'll pity you. At worst they'll resent you for subjecting them to your inability to adult.
That’s me - that video summarized my dissertation work. I did some follow-on modeling work using neural ODEs that’s pretty neat, too: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0063624
> You can’t stop data collection from the tech industry altogether, but with a few simple steps you can make a dent in the amount of information that’s being collected.

> Use privacy-protecting browser extensions. You can add extensions to your browser that will do a lot to protect your privacy. One is Disconnect, made by the company that performed our TikTok investigation. The Disconnect extension shows you how websites are trying to track you and blocks a lot of that data collection. Privacy experts often recommend uBlock Origin, as well.

> Change your browser’s privacy settings. A lot of browsers have built-in controls you can use to block trackers, including cookies, pixels, and other technologies. Open your browser’s preferences or settings, and you’ll usually find the controls in the privacy section.

> Try a more private browser. Google Chrome collects a lot of data on behalf of Google. The Consumer Reports Security Planner recommends Firefox and Brave as more privacy-focused options.

Case closed when you use uBlock Origin preferably with Brave or Firefox. As an extra measure I disable JS Unless it's really needed, and surf in a private/incognito session to stop cookies building up.
I don't understand this argument at all. You think only essentials should attempt to have "fair" pricing? Luxury shouldn't ever try to be "fair"? Why?
> There's no such thing as "unlimited amount" of anything that involves the physical world.

I can believe that. Offhand, I can't think of any examples of artificial scarcity that don't involve digital goods.

> Everyone involved would be better-off. Except for the scalpers. Simple as that.

I'm saying that the seller in your example is a scalper.
The article does exactly that under the subheading “The Substance”, and in the first sentence thereof also links to earlier articles expanding on the contents of the bill.
> their diameter changes

To be clear they are not cylinders, but cones (truncated). Do depending on how the train wobbles they will spin differently to travel the same distance even if they don't slip. So you definitely need some method of regular correction if you want accurate measurements.
Our Food System Could Have Been So Different Without the Reign of Corn
Ask HN: Founder to product management role at FAANG?
with the pandemic having brought a number of changes in my hardware company and plans, i've contemplated throwing in the towel and joining a FAANG in a product management role. i primarily have an engineering background but have worn pretty much every hat there is in a company over the years. has anyone here made that move and has any words of advice on levels or roles to aim for and how to prepare?
I practiced calligraphy for a bit

Few tips :

- Analyze what you need to improve

- Trace examples (if you google for example "writing practice sheets" you'll find tons)

- Slow it down, as slow as you can, only speed up slowly later

- Practice things you struggle with in isolation, for example certain letters, or letter combinations

- Try to find joy in your practice; for example setting goals, maybe get creative and try some calligraphy? maybe combine it with journaling? something to motivate you

- Prefer shorter daily practice sessions over longer spaced out sessions

- Be patient and be mindful that it takes time, especially the beginning, don't give up too early

Not that different from learning an instrument btw!
This is the biggest misconception. I have literally reverse my hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and been able to get off all of my meds for my schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder because of what I have learned from my genetics and changing my diet/lifestyle to suit what my body needs.

Just because doctors do not know what to do with it (they are decades behind most research) it does not mean you cannot learn about this and take action on your own.

Just knowing my FADS1, FADS2 genetics was enough to change my diet to seafood only and raise my HDL from a consistent 35 to over 55 in three weeks. Doctors put me on a statin which lowered my HDL to 25.
The whole video is worth watching, but it is revealed in the end that the following are selected as winners, and many more are honorable mentions.

The first item in the list is a non-video contribution - an interactive story.

- Clear Crystal Conundrums https://explanaria.github.io/crystalgroups/

- This Is the Calculus They Won't Teach You https://youtu.be/5M2RWtD4EzI

- How Realistic CGI Works https://youtu.be/gsZiJeaMO48

- Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition https://youtu.be/a-767WnbaCQ

- The Coolest Hat Puzzle You've Probably Never Heard https://youtu.be/6hVPNONm7xw
And you will be correct.

Also, I am not sure why a future robot will have only 2 legs and 2 hands ?

Isn't the whole point is the be productive, why not 4 legs and 4 hands?

I am sure that if you run RL experiments in a human house, you would find much more efficient design (I.e. the human design is based on human living in nature).
I quoted a single phrase to disagree with, not the entire post.

If musicians want more money, great, get that bread.

If a musician thinks they have plenty, and wants to let fans in for cheaper, it's horrible to call that objectively wrong and a misguided sense of loyalty.

And we're talking about sold out venues going for very high prices; if those particular musicians say a certain price is high enough I will believe them.
Were you trying to submit this query to a search engine?

Jeeves is here to help..

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9201832/how-do-you-renam...
I think you're taking the wrong approach here.

The artists are not interested in "price discovery" above all else. They do not, in general, want their concerts to be attended only by those who were willing to pay the most money, but rather by their fans. The goal of a band is not to provide a return on investment, or to most efficiently extract money from the value of the band's brand or music rights or whatever, it is to entertain and be artists.

This is the reason that tickets are generally priced well below what each ticket could earn in a blind auction or whatever, not because the bands are bad at "price discovery."
They don't increase demand. They only increase prices because they buy in a matter of minutes ALL of the supply. Then the only way to get a ticket is through the scalpers.

And OFC, they will charge you way ABOVE what would be the free market price of the ticket, i.e. the amount you would have to offer to find an individual willing to sell you their ticket, if the direct sales ended up to fans instead of the scalpers.
> And they sell keyboards that only use the written names, and not the symbols.

Do they? I thought all Apple-branded keyboards used the symbols (except, as bin_bash points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036804), for shift).

> Plus make common keyboard shortcuts require multiple modifier keys.

You can also change keyboard shortcuts system-wide. It's not an argument against good defaults, but it does allow you to relieve the pain.
I'm not seeing anything here that makes me think "this is good design", but maybe I'd need to sign up for each product. I saw some cute landing pages and some Typeforms. Were you directing to me to something specific?
Here: https://github.com/Marus/cortex-debug/blob/master/src/gdb.ts...

Though I'm not 100% sure it is using the DAP.
Funny thing is, there were a string of "Bruceploitation[0]" movies that came out of Asia to capitalize on his death.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruceploitation
> "Every child should be able to cycle to school on car-free paths"

That implies every house should be connected to a car-free path. I don’t see that as feasible. I would aim for having all houses in 30km/hour zones and requiring any crossings of higher-speed car lanes to be on segregated cycle paths. That’s doable.
That just means the laws don't have teeth. Often if they do, they straight out say it's illegal to even get 'authorization' or anything approaching it. It would be a straight out ban vs. an "ok with consent" which is what authorization is about.

You can't sign a contract to sign yourself into slavery, it's just straight out illegal. And thus you don't see anybody being signed into slavery via contract in the USA, and there many other things that act this way in law.
$20k Longevity Hypothesis Idea Prize
What is the most promising but underappreciated or obscure area of longevity science we should pursue?

Over a century ago, many questionable experiments and surgical procedures were performed – heterochronic parabiosis (HCP) being one of them. This technique was revived by Irina Conboy at Stanford/Berkeley in the 200’s. Today, it’s one of the hottest (and most difficult to perform) models of aging research.

Over a century of all the world’s biological knowledge is available to anyone taking the time to read the literature. There are cases where key discoveries are made in the past, but forgotten for long periods of time – only to be rediscovered. The hypothesis prize aims to resurface such discoveries and research areas, focusing our attention on the most promising directions.
Why drugs? These GWAS studies should be looking at nutrition.
> Flutter does all is own rendering so you don't get the html stuff like Ctrl f,

Do you know if that is also true for the html renderer? That would definitely be a deal breaker for my use case.
>I was frankly astonished that Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience.

There is warnings...
Now the Win7 one is just the notification baloon and easy to miss but the 10 one is pretty "in your face"

Windows 7:
https://imgur.com/a/ao5AtO6

Windows 10:
https://imgur.com/a/Hl9XnZV
Why PM rather than SWE or Director of Engineering?

Aim higher.

Start by interviewing at non-FAANGs to get some practice and build familiarity and confidence with the experience of being an applicant.

You can re-apply to most FAANGs every six months, and they either don't punish you for it or even appreciate that you are so passionate about wanting to work there.

Come to grips with and acclimate to the idea that in your new reality you won't be the top of the totem pole anymore, and your existence will be to serve your new manager and help them look good.
I don't understand.

The parent comment said: "The best engineers and people I know with PhDs in computer security who can't reveal their employer really don't give a toss about games."

As a person who is a member of the very group you are speaking about, I find this statement to be completely non-factual.

Do CTFs identify the very best security minds? No. They are fun hobbies. But you didn't say that CTFs aren't useful for finding the very best hires. Instead you said that the very best hires do not enjoy CTFs at all. This is just straight up wrong. Both in academic and industrial circles.
Deduplication is a hairy problem, and was my first priority to solve when trying to get my own mess of photos together when I started writing PhotoStructure.

I'm on the fifth major iteration of image hashing at this point, using a L*a*b mean hash, along with a kmeans-gathered set of dominant colors, along with dynamic thresholds that take into account differing mimetypes, fuzzy captured at times, and monochromatic images.

This explains a bunch of the issues and tradeoffs I made while assembling the heuristics in PhotoStructure : https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplica...
For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is What We Expected
I think the problem for the artist is that the demand for tickets far exceeds supply. Imagine if the only way to see Bad Bunny is to pay $5000/ticket. I’m fairly confident large artists could sell out at these prices. The problem is you exclude/alienate your fan base so it’s net negative for the artist’s reach. Ticket prices are kept artificially low to be accessible to broader audiences.
I like the idea of typescript.

I tried to port a vanilla js browser game to typescript and I found it introduced a lot of complexity to the project. It sucked me into the npm ecosystem and forced me to rewrite every file to use js modules import/export syntax and a bundler like webpack to resolve all the modules business for browsers when none of those were needed before.

Of course I could set TS modules to none but then I lose access to typing of any third party libraries I'm using like PixiJS.

And my CI pipelines are like 10x slower now because I need npm to install and compile and bundle stuff which is really slow compared to my previous CI pipeline which simply concatenated the js files together with `cat`.

Does this sound right or an I missing something? What I want:

To be able to just type annotate my existing JS without needing modules, but also have TS be able to pull in type information of 3rd party libraries by pointing it to the appropriate .d.ts file. I suppose that's having your cake and eating it too in this case.
> It is not ‘just because’, it’s because there are more people who want to go than there are tickets.

No, it's Viagogo artificially limiting the ticket supply. Then price gouging.
Build your fanbase using the K-pop method
Scale is relative. I'm impressed by e.g. these Scandinavian apps: Postnord (!), Avanza, Hemnet, NRK TV, Instabox. There are perhaps 300-400 more of roughly equal quality in Scandinavia. For most of these: the maximum adressable audience (the population) is 5-10M and they still they reach a super high level of polish.
SNP changes in genes are not usually mutations that cause "defects". Most usually they increase or decrease risk for a disorder based on more of a polygenic profile.
> A lottery?

Yes, that’s the fair solution. A lottery with some mechanic for friends to enter as a group.
This is a bafflingly casual regard to safety, with not even a token based system to grant access to a particular section of track. The problem that caused this accident was solved in the 1800’s.
But if it’s a random collection of people then you don’t really have a sense of belonging, unless there’s fixed people over the long term. Which is unlikely in a random work space. Certainly you don’t have a sense of shared work experience, or even people you can usefully talk trash about your bosses.
>Losing connection to an online Microsoft account can also result in a user ending up with a temporary account.

Not on Windows 7
I was using food as a hyperbole, the same argument can be applied to anything. Should X be priced in such a way to extract the most money possible from a certain top of the wealthiest, leaving effectively everyone else without it?

Substitute X for whatever you want, and any affirmative response would be equivalent to saying "nobody should have X except the rich". If you agree with that sentence, then that's no other argument I can bring to the table.
Thank you for that. :-)
The Fall of an Empire, Fate of America, and Why Nations Fail
It can (depending on which features you're using), but the comment that started this thread claimed that the produced code was much slower than handwritten js. I was just pointing out that the examples you gave (enums and namespaces), don't change the performance of your code.
Or with the toy programming language from Crafting Interpreters - https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html
> If I want to go to an event bad enough, I can pay more and get a ticket.

You might be able to, but lots of people can't afford to do that. You seem to be assuming that the people who want to go the most will pay the most, thus leading to meritocratic distribution of tickets. In reality, it will just skew concert attendance towards the wealthy who can afford to pay even if they're not that fussed about going.
Rammstein really doesn't do shows in North America very often, so that motivates people (such as myself) to pay extra for the best tickets, even if it means getting those tickets from somewhere else when Ticketmaster is sold out. The last time they toured here was over a decade ago, with maybe a few shows here and there that weren't part of a tour. Given that some of the members are pushing their 60s, I'm not sure I care where my ticket comes from as long as I can see them before they retire.
Exactly - pocket is only one source of ads at this point. They keep adding them from different sources. I've actually compiled Firefox without Pocket for years now, and I still got ads in the browser after an update.
Wasn't fate of ActionScript strongly tied to Flash? As much as some open source community try, they can't beat the full force of the investment done and talent assembled by Microsoft.
Well, I’m no expert. But a center piece of Matt Stoller’s argument has been that this problem has been solved before in the US. There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to reach for the same solutions. It doesn’t mean commerce or corporations should be torn down. Merely making certain maneuvers and strategies unacceptable, punishable, criminal (in extreme cases) would be enough to deflate the outsize power monopolies have. And I agree with this - Stoller convincingly writes about how the US was amazingly good at enforcing antitrust. Business communities simply did not reach for monopolistic strategies in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. And the US economy of that time was amazingly strong at that time, delivering prosperity, innovation and consumer choice.

The reason why it seems to be unachievable is that it seems too complicated/hard. But monopolies like Standard Oil were complicated too.
'The Magic Tree air freshener: where it came from, and why it’s so successful':

https://www.arnoldclark.com/newsroom/510-the-magic-tree-air-...
The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (Ca. 1902)
I’ll cop that, though I’m fairly confident in saying it’s the exception that proves the rule, in that those ones end up knowing the problem space so well that they sort of horseshoe around to seeing new insights others miss.
I never used Rails other than doing it's tutorial, etc. And I only know hotwire by their docs, so I can't do a real life / production code comparison.

But from my understanding, Unpoly manages to achieve almost the same thing that Turbo + turbo frames can do, plus some other extra goodies such as modals (now layers), forms validation, etc. I honestly like Unpoly a lot more, and it also works with any backend framework "as is", given it does not require any special behaviour from the backend. That's a big win in my opinion...learning a tool that can be used everywhere can't be a bad thing.

The only thing I miss in Unpoly, is something equivalent to Stimulus. You do have "compilers" which allow you to attach custom JavaScript to any Dom element, but everything you do there is pretty manual and imperative. For these use cases I also use Alpine.
MMC and Group policy do way more than user accounts.

But yes it is a mess and only as an IT person I can somewhat make sense of when to use the modern Settings - Accounts, Control Panel users, MMC or sysdm.cpl
The ability to survive as a species is a powerful driver and not easily removed. It might for some, but the majority of boys will become men.
I was forced to use one to set up my new laptop
It could also create better proximity bonds with neighbors, increasing the cohesion in the local social fabric. Personally I know my neighbors better since the pandemic, and we are helping eachothers more now.
Tagging doesn't solve inheritance problems - object oriented inheritance needs to follow liskov substitution principles, support variance correctly.

Tagging is good for making sum types out of union types, but that's not enough for class inheritance.

Flow does it better by having first class opaque type aliases btw (and having nominal types with oo inheritance support on classes of course).