skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MusicBee can import iTunes libraries. It's a solid player that provides a lot of customizability in its front end. It's especially good for tagging and organizing your music just how you like.
How many times must we have this same conversation?

There are three answers.

1. “I would totally switch to an iPad if it could run MacOS, making it a Mac instead of an iPad and therefore having little relevance to this conversation”

2. “My workflow includes things that iOS will likely never allow (installing whatever program you want, a real shell, etc) and therefore I cannot switch to an iPad and probably consider them to be an inferior device with no real purpose”

3. “I just do lightweight stuff like web browsing and email or things that have well respected native apps like photo editing, so yeah an iPad is fine”
In the end it won't matter if everyone loses confidence.
Iirc many do care; it’s tedious for them to spend so much time making phone calls sucking up and asking for money from donors. But apparently they don’t care enough or there is a coordination problem such that it doesn’t get fixed.
> there is a reason that a significant proportion of the startups in Germany were UK Ltd

The reason was that the GmbH required depositing 25k. But the UG already solved that problem and afterwards the UK Ldt didn't really make sense anymore.
If Twitter is using RPCs is for internal communication (i.e., among microservices), so how on earth would it make a difference depending on the country? Elon doesn't know what he's talking about.
I agree with this take, and I'd also add: the broader macroeconomic issue with SaaS concerns how quickly companies lose its utility from downsizing their expenses. If I, as a customer of Canva, stop paying for Canva; its safe to assume I was paying for it for a utilitarian, revenue-generating reason, and if I cancel it I immediately lose the ability to capitalize on that utility. This hurts my business, which then cascades further. In comparison, choosing not to upgrade to Office 2007 or whatever isn't an ideal choice, its one a healthy business may not make, but it is one that an unhealthy business attempting to survive a period of lowered revenue may make; Office 2003 works just fine.

In that sense, the cascade effect is actually bidirectional; canceling Canva immediately hurts Canva, but it also hurts my customers; more acutely than, say, waiting a year to upgrade to the latest version.

Additionally, many people talk about bullshit jobs, and it seems obvious to me that subscription based billing has been a driving factor in this phenomena. If, revisiting the previous example, Office 2007 doesn't deliver enough value to Me The Customer to convince me to upgrade; I won't. Under subscription based billing, I'm given no choice; it follows that we enter a pattern where companies are far less incentivized to deliver innovation. When speaking on a domain where there's little competition, this effect is heightened, but the move to subscription-based billing subtly removes even another competitor from the domain: your past product.

The other thing I think about when it comes to software companies: how little inherent value they have. While not the only area where it matters: think about bankruptcy liquidation. Their value (at insane valuations, to be clear) was in the service they provide, but when the rubber hits the road the code really doesn't have much value (its kind of like that old story about the guy who stole coke's secret formula and tried selling to pepsi; even if you could obtain it legally, why would you want it?). Maybe the data does, for some companies. Most of these companies don't have servers; they may buy their employees laptops. Many are moving to full-remote; so no real estate (which may have been rented anyway). When revenue starts plateauing and the veil is lifted, the reckoning will be so much harder.

Point being, I think the pricing, expense, and operational model in typical SV-style corporations is subtly unsustainable.
I can see where your friend's coming from - but I'd disagree up to a point. It's about which aspects you want to be in a state of flow.

If you've used a computer for any length of time, then when you type you're not thinking about the act of pressing each key - you're probably thinking several words ahead of your fingers. If you type half a dozen characters and nothing happens on-screen, then they all appear at once three or four seconds later that would be an intolerable break of flow. (And happens more frequently today than it did when computers were literally 0.1% of their current speed.)

If you're driving, you don't want to be thinking about the act of reaching for the gearstick or indicator stalk, but you do want to be thinking about what's happening on the road - so there you can indeed take "flow" too far.

On the other hand, if you're performing music, your fingers need to be in a state of flow in order to free you to concentrate on the emotion of the music - yet that, too, would ideally be in a state of flow...
Cryptocurrency Solana Collapses in FTX Scandal
Gah! I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis. I feel he could write a book about nothing and still make it a page turner.

But at the risk of coming across arrogant, I don’t care for crypto or anything related to its celebrity frontmen.

Crypto, it’s obsession, and entire culture, in my mind, is like “Keeping up with the Kardashians” meets tech culture.

The article says Michael Lewis hasn’t written a word of the book yet. Perhaps he’ll reconsider and write about something else entirely.
It's actually kinda not all that mysterious. Just game theory.

This book Nonzero by Robert write isbn:‎9780679758945 was pretty enlightening for me
I find it super normal that forms are in the official language of the country. That is whole point of official language - language in which you communicate officially.
Show HN: A Memcached client for modern Node.js
Shoegaze is known for lots of distortion, so I presume this would be pretty high?
DuoRhythmo
DuoRhythmo empowers anyone regardless of their physical abilities to collaboratively and remotely create music in real-time.
>Eventually you're gonna be signing off on stuff that could collapse or explode.

Only if you want to. Going full PE and signing off is not required to have a pretty good career as an engineer as part of a larger firm.
I stopped caffeine for a few months a couple times in the past. I came to the conclusion that I am not my best self when I don't have caffeine.

Every single thing I would do that required attention was harder, even intently listening to an audio book while taking a walk. I'm honestly not convinced that taking powerful prescribed stimulants has an advantage over simply enjoying a cup of coffee and/or tea.

The way I think of my caffeine addiction is that I take a daily loan out against my evening energy and focus in exchange for the additional focus during the day.
Complexity is relative.

Go is a language for high-level application development. It has a runtime, garbage collection, and a sophisticated M:N threading scheduler that are all designed to help the programmer express themselves in terms of the problem domain. It competes with Java, C#, and (in some cases) Python or Ruby.

Rust is a language for low-level systems programming. It needs far more complexity than Go because the programmer might need to make extremely specific guarantees about performance or memory layout. It competes with C++ and C.

Is Rust a more complex language than C++? It's not obvious to me that this is true when you add in the third-party tooling (linters, static analysis) required to provide Rust's correctness properties in a C++ codebase.

Is Rust a more complex language than Go or Java? Sure. Obviously. Anyone who says it's not is lying or foolish. But that's not the comparison being made.
Python-OMEMO 1.0.2 out – Open Python implementation of OMEMO Encryption
Curious timing of this article, possibly related to the plot of Enola Holmes 2, recently released on Netflix.
me neither, actually

https://www.musingmind.org/podcasts/collective-intelligence-...
There is no point putting in any effort to this goal because C/++ are already on their way out.
The US market for laptops is 21 billion [1], for desktops 11 billion [2], and tablets 11bn [3].

With 123 million households in the US, the mean spending on laptops, desktops and tablets together is $350/year per household.

Smartphone sales were $74 billion [4] or $600/household/year.

That's a total of $950/year, per household.

The average American household isn't spending $11,000+ every 2 years.

[1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/co...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/722371/united-states-des...
[3] https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/co...
[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191985/sales-of-smartpho...
> Whenever you meet someone promoting free love, look at whether they struggle with sex addiction or guilt over having done something sexually illicit.

What a heap of tosh.

Thankfully it’s the twenty first century, adults are free to enjoy their sex lives how they want without having to endure these puritanical cliches.
Don't know if this is what OP means by it, but I interpret that to mean the cycle of avoiding something that triggers a fear, thus establishing that fear even more.
This is equivalent to asserting that they have a much shorter useful lifetime and low reliability. If you have to build as many reactors as you already have every 10 years in order to keep the old ones then you're going to run out of concrete or wires to hook them to fairly quickly.

It also has little to do with the shutdowns which skew towards newer plants.
I have a GmbH, and I'm German. The process is more complicated than in other countries because of the notary. The notary doesn't really add value in this process, he/she just costs a lot of money.

The German Standards Setting Institute, a private organization which provides lots of standard template documents for startups, actually make it a focus to minimize the notary costs in many of their docs (and ironically, they have notaries helping them because some notaries also think it's ridiculous).

It is much simpler to set up a limited company in the UK, for comparison (which I've also done). And everything the author describes, about the IHK for example, and the Bundesanzeiger Verlag, appears completely stupid to me, too. What value exactly does the IHK provide me? I asked my tax consultant that, too, and he gave me a vague answer along the lines of "they do stuff for you and it's good", and I still have no clue what the IHK does for me.

The official letter for the Bundesanzeiger Verlag states "we know that you probably received a lot of fraudulent mail asking you to wire money to other bank accounts. Do not trust them, only trust this letter and send money to the following bank account." Really? Your word on your letter vs their word on theirs? WTF?!?

Yes, it is ridiculous.
That's true, but also very much independent from whether a once-free software went non-free or not. Log4j was absolutely a free software when that event happened. The same thing would happen if the maintainer don't see any more value in maintaining an FOSS software (including but not limited to monetary reasons) and stops doing so.
Has he lost his fortune faster than anyone in history too?
Worm is legitimately one of the best pieces of webfiction and probably the best piece of superhero fiction (certainly better than pop fiction like the MCU, though perhaps works like Watchmen can rival it).
It is wrong because people are being underpaid for not participating in silly upper class rituals that are not relevant to productivity. Apart from the evident injustice of being poorer because your parents could afford polo lessons, it produces a system of perverse incentives, whereby wearing cufflinks is more important than knowing how to do your job.

There are a few industries in the UK were you’d be better off being a foreigner than a lower class local.

The ideal situation is one where people are judged by the value of their work and not by the socioeconomic background of their parents.
Very nice hack. Knowing all the random stuff that basically has an SBC inside makes me wish it were easier to get at least that piece out and use once the device is toast. Especially since many Raspberry Pis wind up in end products anyway!
>What's the equivalent of that in the US right now?

Pick one of those large projects in Japan, France, Germany, or Spain and some big US based company (or international company with a US presence) will have a major piece in it.

The top US engineers get to work on major challenging projects all of the time. They are just not taking place in the US.
is that from the glycemic index being suboptimal, in the ingested carbs?
Infuse is great, but they have a subscription if you want to play some media format. Quite cheap IMO and they have great apps for all Apple devices.
Hopefully both! More precisely PDF, and bitmap with an option to encode as JPEG, PNG or WebP. I'll have to find a new name..
Would the UX concept of a 'next page' even make sense if the content doesn't get read by the end user? What would an app that's mindful of the unavoidable technical limitations look like I wonder? I'm not familiar with the specifics at hand or what Musk can see, but from my perspective he has first hand knowledge of web dev and is smart enough to not be blinded by buzzwords and dogma. He seems to have earned a decent living from his approach don't you think?
a german company probably wouldn't be listed on the fortune 500, a list of american companies
Which diseases?
> This is not compatible with the statement "developers should be paid". As a developer who would like to make a living, I obviously strongly disagree with this.

If everything is free, then no one has to pay for anything. But everything isn't free. Maybe a bunch of libraries are, but do the suits know how to stitch them together (or even read the documentation)?

And even if it was all free, do you think most people would have the background or patience to sift through it all and turn it into something productive?

Public library cards are free, do you see most people going to libraries and making the most of them?

Even if all software happened to be free, most people don't have the patience to read it. Hence we have people who get paid to read it and figure out what the fuck is going on
I meant FOSS as in "Free and Open Source Software". Which I would interpret as software licensed under FOSS-compatible licenses, while at the same time not making any statement wrt subscribing to FSF or RMS politics (or RMS opinions on what constitutes rape of a teenager).

So yeah, "Open Source won" is one way of saying it, I suppose.
Actually, I just usually write a usage example, and Copilot does the code including "rationalization", because that's how my codebase looks - an example, then a description and then the implementation. It's using comments and written English language just like any other dev to explain what it does (again, it picked up that from my own code style).

> It's a very advanced auto-complete that just happens to have been specialised on auto-completing code.

It's not just an autocomplete. It's an intelligent autocomplete. As long as you need to generate text, it's practically generally intelligent.

I really wonder what will happen when somebody runs a text generator like Copilot in a loop with a simulated work-memory and longterm-memory and realtime I/O interface.
I definitely hear you on the product/project distinction. It's sort of adjacent, it's sort of a subset. To me, project management is the cat-herding part of execution. And that's exactly the part where trying to get other functions to log work in the "catch-all PM system" falls apart, whether you're a project manager or a product manager juggling tickets.

You can either run it out of JIRA and only manage the work of software engineers, or you can run it out of something else and be out of sync. Probably the biggest mental trap PMs of both kinds fall into is running all status checks out of JIRA and ignoring everything about their product/project/career that isn't accomplished by pushing code to prod.

I find the people do get value out of what Product brings to the table, and absolutely buy into the vision (especially if they help define it). That doesn't make them motivated to maintain an additional project tracker for a status meeting. They also don't like flossing, even though they hate cavities.

And that's what we're talking about at the end of the day, because JIRA IS really good at what it does - either everyone gets aboard the JIRA train, or the engineers track all their tickets in something less powerful, or you ask the engineers to use JIRA AND something else.

Most established places go with the first option and then their only muscle is "ship code," many startups go with the second option until they realize they actually need JIRA after all. Then some PM (of one kind or the other) has to make the third option work so that they stop getting blindsided by the compliance work or the marketing campaign.
Que? We don't compile to a virtual machine, we compile to plain 6502 assembly. We do use 32 bytes of the zero page as a de-facto register file, but that's not at all uncommon in hand-written assembly either, it's just usually less explicit.

The prevalence of self-modifying code also heavily depends on what community of 6502 developers you're part of. It's relatively niche on platforms where most code is in ROM, e.g. most game consoles. For example, the NES only has 2KiB of RAM, but can support upwards of 512KiB of ROM, so it's downright wasteful to place code in RAM.

As for 2 and 3, LLVM-MOS lifts local variables to global memory or the zero page wherever possible, and is able to use function aliasing information to allow the globalised versions of local variables in different functions to share the same memory.
Years ago I found the perfect tool for managing anything from small personal projects to large complex software development teams:

A prioritised to-do list.

It’s simple. It works.
I disagree.

1. There is no founder directing the project (big plus). "Dear leader" doesnt direct development which is unique compared to almost 100% of the shitcoins in the space.

1b. You think adoption rate and the decentralized movement that pushes/promotes adoption is irrelevant? I'm sure all the centralized shitcoin (aka unregistered security) founders would find your view on this hilarious.

2. Non mining nodes ensure transactions/blocks followed certain rules. When attached to wallets and services, that means much more than "just relaying blocks".

3. Layer 1 scaling is poor design. Larger blockchain = less nodes due to more expensive hardware requirements = more centralization. BSV and BCH are mostly dead because of getting this wrong, no debate about it.

The original poster is more right than wrong in his view.
There's really nothing to reword: it's a genuine question.

Perhaps downvoted since the downvoter wasn't aware of Mathematica notebooks.

Citation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica#Notebook_i...
> against a private citizen who happened to be in /your/ political tribe?

I'd cheer because the first cause of defeat in politics is assholes in your team. You want to weed them out ASAP.

The electoral college is the best opium to make people forget that quality of candidates matters.

When the Electoral College is not involved bad quality candidates are hammered and humbled, especially assholes (on both sides)
Louisiana man tells joke online, gets arrested by swat
I think 5150 is also a penal code in California.
This sounds weirdly similar to my job.

Expectations like that aren’t only around speed - a while ago I was asked to investigate a certain hardware/software platform combination, and with the constraints given, text came out perpetually blurry, so my answer was just “it’s unusable”, but then some non-devs had a look and were like “eh, it’s legible, we can make this work.”
I love what companies like CineGrain have done with this type of thing in the movie space. Most movies use their added grain now.

http://www.cinegrain.com/
Occasionally I have to physically sign, scan and email a form. However, I don't have a printer or scanner.

I just paste my signature into the PDF then use ImageMagick to add grain and slightly rotate the pages so that it looks printed and scanned. Works every time.
Better yet, pick up a Kobo. You drop a zip file on the SD card and get a full Linux environment.

I picked up a few of them for $10 each (used)
This view is crazy to me, at a time where the government just massively mismanaged almost every aspect of a pandemic, decimating the economy in the process, you want them to control every aspect of your life, to the point where they are responsible for providing food and shelter for you while you do art. Surely they can’t mess that up in any way.
You can start a business in Germany too for 15€ (Gewerbeanmeldung). The more "complicated" stuff (as I founded my UG in Germany it was a few clicks and one personal appointment) is required if you want the limited liablity part. So the trust establishment that it IS a real company behind.
Baby boomers can’t stop staring at their phones
So the highest growth projections put them at a small fraction of today's monocrystalline market a few years after it's fairly likely that there'll be yet another technology dominating because it lowers resource requirements?

If you're that worried about a few grams of Cd per kW, please ban them or implement a version of WIEEE. You'll have to ban nuclear control rods and a few other things too.
> and it [...] is increasingly lagging behind the US

Nothing new, that was also the case in the 90s. It's actually surprisingly robust. It does not create Fortune 500 companies, because it instead creates a very large number of medium size businesses (a few hundred or a few thousand employees only) that specialise and often become global market leaders. Because there are many different ones that model is robust and the work is labour intensive and creates both white collar and blue collar jobs.

So not just bad.
And let's not forget that it's a small country. The US has 4x the population, even Japan has 50% more. To say nothing of China, India, etc. Yet Germany is still #4 in terms of GDP.
What makes you think masculanity == no emotion?

Men wanting propagation of life by desiring offspring makes them not men?
Speed and responsiveness are two very different things, and the latter is, I think, by far the more important where desktop computing is concerned.

My complaint with modern systems (by which I basically mean anything less than 30 years old) is that I rarely feel like I have the computer's full attention.
Mentioned in this trending post:

Fast Software, the Best Software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33584958 -> https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/
>> I try to make it clean and simple, without all the bells and whistles.

>> Apart from team collaboration, I added many personal productivity features, including Weekly/Daily planner, Time blocking, Pomodoro Timer, Daily Journal, etc.

I'm having a hard time understanding how both statements can be compatible together. Open-minded to an explanation.
More old people than young so it doesn’t even matter if the young do organise.
But that’s an empty gesture when the size is so irrelevant.

>You can't reasonably say that e.g. USB is a standard and CCS is not

CCS is “a standard” but Tesla is “the standard” from a consumer perspective.

The same thing happened with apple lightning early on. It was far better and dominated micro usb. If they had opened it early during usb-c it would have just killed usb-c and been the new standard.
How to Not Get Hacked
Blogspam but getting back into writing again after almost 10 years off. Hopefully it is a decent start, let me know any feedback please.
Yes. Avoidance behavior seem to play a big role.
No. This saying about TVTropes definitely exists outside of any influence that Minecraft may or may not have had.