skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That move destroyed the fledgling network. Armstrongs network was an eclectic bunch of radio stations, talk radio etc. The new fm band was at a higher frequency and equipment was more expensive so it drove the Indy operators out of business. Radio became a Cesspool of corporate radio stations pumping out music and ads.

AM talk radio revived that old spirit in the 1990s.

We see similar things happening nowadays. After the corporate takeover of Twitter, the old guard has been dispersed. The Twitter of years past will be remembered as a creative and diverse place…going forward it will not be the same.
There's always room at the bottom in logistics and scheduling. Find a local business that currently depends on guesswork, intuition and experience in managing their inventory or supplies or other shipments. Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out? Even better if it looks back at previous years and suggests appropriate increases for holidays, school graduations and similar periodic events.

Once you've got the structure and interface right, start customizing according to requirements. Does a rural area run on delivered kerosene and propane? Schedule deliveries to customers according to the local temperatures and a per-client adjustment reflecting their historical usage.

Most of all, make it easy and obvious for your clients to use every day. Talk to them about their professional networks -- is there a forum or a mailing list where they discuss the business side? Get mentioned, get recommended. Be easy to talk to.
> Then I tried installing Arch in a VM… and it took me several days and several attempts, but when I finally got it working I felt, for the first time ever, like I actually understood the system I was using.

Honest question: why days?

I have installed arch multiple times in the past decade and I don’t remember anything exceptionally out of the ordinary. You just follow the step-by-step instruction and you are good to go.

It’s all fairly standard: boot on a live cd, get internet, format the disk, mount, arch provides a script to install the base and another to change the root and it’s vanilla Linux config from there.

Edit: Hmm, I guess how to configure a vanilla Linux might be quite complex for someone who has no idea of how to do that. I might have answered my own question actually.
I would like to see an actual AI music generator with an interface based on text prompts. Soundraw seems to be algorithmic - nothing wrong with that, but they could make it clearer on their site.

By the way, this is a limitation of the paid plan:

> Sorry, you can only save 30 songs.

Edit: after trying this out for a bit, it seems like all the music is just a roughly randomized mix of the exact same loops and themes. Is anyone working on a Midjourney or Stable Diffusion for music?
Not to mention GitHub and GitLab either!
Based on sample images I’ve seen, “Greg Rutkowski” doesn’t work anymore for example.
I honestly don't understand why Elixir and the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem haven't taken over the software world more completely. It is inconceivable to me to begin a new web app using Ruby on Rails when I could use Elixir and Phoenix.
Indeed Shifts Pricing to Pay-per-Application
A 160MM+ DAU social network “crashing and burning” doesn’t mean “poof” one night and it’s gone.

The biggest self-own in the industry will be if Elon is successful and then the whole software industry suddenly is inspired not by (yes, perhaps excessive) kindness/comfort/generosity of a good work life but by cut throat PE-style management with an added layer of emotional manchild tantrums.

There’s a reason VCs are cheering this on and it’s because lower standards in the software industry will save them all money.
Slow cookers are good for people who plan ahead. Pressure cookers are better for people who like to put things off until the last minute.

Low and slow yields better results for dishes like a pot-roast, but for many other things, a pressure cooker is a must have. I never buy canned beans anymore.
Or this will save hundreds of thousands of people. No deaths yet despite millions of miles on FSD.
It has search functionality?

At work we have a search field, sure, but I've never encountered a successful search in our Confluence. It's all browser bookmarks and "can someone tell me where x is?" in Teams channels.

Our Confluence guru still swears to God that Confluence used to have search problems, but now it's perfect. Fortunately, Atlassian has made us move with their stupid "you can't host on premises, would you like to pay tenfold" move.

Jokes on us, we're moving to Sharepoint…
I've misread. Apologies for that. My main response still stands.
His point is that history was pretty brutal and in most cases worse than today.
Google Has a Secret Project That Is Using AI to Write and Fix Code
Very nice! Is the AI singing directly (producing sound waves) or does it generate MIDI that's then fed to a synth?
> Baking at least you can open the oven to take a quick look,

I find that baking falls into two categories:

1) Pie or roast - No closed cast-iron pot in use, so you don't need to open the oven, you can see in through the glass.

2) Baking bread in the closed cast-iron pot with the lid on, do not open the oven or raise the lid during this phase!

In neither case do you "open the oven and take a quick look"
Genomics for Engineers
If your company is paying you $100,000 a year, then whatever it is you're working on this year is worth $100,000 to your company.
A more recent update that required some work was switching to PipeWire for audio. But it was mainly about knowing which packages to remove and replace, and now audio works without a hitch for me, better than PulseAudio ever did.
never in my 30-year career have I witnessed a single non-game developer give a damn about the latency or responsiveness of any application they've written.

never in my 30-year career have I witnessed a single game or emulator developer STOP caring about these things.

> I think I’ve never heard someone romanticize a profession as hard as what you’ve done here.

Go fuck yourself. it isn't me romanticizing, it's you thinking you know more than others by default, and outright dismissing the viewpoint of others. go away from me and stay away.
I like the way you think.

Imagine if today the oil trade stopped completely. In a matter of months, the civilization as we know it would collapse. Even with this current crisis, we are seeing a sharp decline in the standard of living.

Well the grain was as important or even more important to the ancient societies than oil is to us. Without it, the civilization would revert to tribal hunting and gathering of food.

We can argue about the role of religion for the lack of prosperity but without cultural and spiritual connection provided by organized religion, people would not band together as they were. Grain alone was not enough.

Only when science allowed for more comfort and easier transportation (railroads, ships, roads, sturdy homes, etc.), did people start putting religion aside.

I would argue that some ancient civilizations were more advanced when compared to some medieval nations.

Trade disruption was not the only reason why those civilizations fell. The lack of a reliable way to preserve knowledge was another.

Now, imagine what would happen if modern humans lost access to Internet for a couple of years. It was about several orders of magnitude worse when ancients lost written knowledge that was kept, most of the time, in a well renowned place.

One such example was the Library of Alexandria. Imagine all the secrets and ancient technologies that were lost when they burned it.
Hoverboards are dead. Some people riding them are dead too.

Scooters are neither new nor innovative. They’ve just been monetized. on the verge of being banned in France, while Bird’s market cap is $50.

A rent a bike kiosk is a technical innovation?

The Oculus Rift was a great MVP that fleeced Zuckerberg for $3B and is now potentially killing Facebook. No one actually uses these things.

Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010.
This reminds me of a quite Mac centric[1] BBS system called Firstclass[2]. Its client felt almost like a normal Mac OS Classic Finder windows and it was so intuitive compared to normal text based BBSes which I also used at the time.

[1] I remember seeing it working with Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 but it felt more kludgy and slow compared to the Mac version
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FirstClass
> Honest question: why days?

Because I was a total novice. I barely even knew what a partition was, let alone anything else. Now, of course, I find it much simpler.
It may not be a bad idea in a country in which the police can be trusted, but that country would not be the United States.
Oh I don't believe that compulsive liar for a second, I'm just saying that it triggered some people once he started talking about maybe "moderating" (censoring by any other name) less of it
I appreciate the straightforward install and wide availability available of packages, but in practice always using the latest packages system wide can be annoying.

For example right now the latest gdb is broken on both my machines, and since i’m not as keen to participate in troubleshooting new software I think I’ll be moving to a more stable distro pretty soon

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274056
Give slow cooker pulled pork a try one weekend. The results are stupendous.

I follow this recipe and cook for eight hours in the crock pot on low.

https://www.kcet.org/food-discovery/food/weekend-recipe-pull...
It also depends on the cuts of the meat. Pressure cooking is good for those that you would anyway simmer for long time. Thus shortening this time.

Workable alternative would be Sous-Vide which allows lower temps but much longer times. Even up to days.

One meat I have sometimes done as apartment dweller is ribs and then oven for glacing.
Ask HN: How to litigate a big company over IP
Hi all!
Ten years ago me and my friend helped a very small startup create an MVP of their product. I worked on this for half a year and I've basically set up and architectured the product from scratch.

After we worked on it for half a year the company ran out of money and stopped working with us. Some time later my friend continued working with them from time to time but I did not. Product gained some traction and 3 years later was sold to a very big company, basically and industry leader. Founders made a lot of money and my friend was asked to sign the release documents for this big company which he did. I was not asked and didn't sign anything.
The big company turned out to be a little bit crazy over IP and non-solicitation and later sued the founders of our product over some bullshit, but this isn't related to my case. They killed the product development last year, immediately firing around 20 people working on it leaving only a couple of developers and a manager to support existing clients.

Anyway, the big company is still using the product based on the code I wrote (they still have my commits in their repository) and since I never signed away any intellectual property rights I believe I have a claim to IP in the product. I come from a country where litigation over IP is very uncommon and I have absolutely no idea how to proceed with this case. The big company is based in US, I'm currently in Europe. What are my options here? Is there any lawyer companies that specialize in cases like this and they can look into it?

I would appreciate any suggestions.
I'm a deb-based user but I constantly refer to the Arch wiki to understand best practices and solve problems. No other distro has this level of self-serve documentation that's actually updated and easy to understand.
You can check what I was saying a 2 year and 1.5 years ago:

I want from 50% chance after Sep 2024 to 50% chance after Aug 2027.

Rate of improvement IMO seems to be around 2x better every 6 months. But there is still a long long way from driving millions of miles without disengagement to meet their internal benchmark.

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11608/self-driving-taxis...
To be fair, I am speaking as a user of that instance
They have been quite ok[1] about the trademark aspect, but they do have a point about the namespace grab. I'm actually at a point where I do consider opting out of the git integration[2], as the introduction of new entities (project board, pr ...) do make things confusing (or even conflicting) as a series of git sub-commands. I haven't came up with a really satisfying solution though.

[1]: https://marc.info/?l=git&m=153457109619678&w=2

[2]: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/issues/530
Science is an approach to epistemology.

My conjecture is that all truths must be experienced. This aligns with the notion of “nullius in verba”, the original motto of the Royal Society, arguably the birthplace of modern science.

Science takes place in a laboratory. Whether or not ink on a page is true depends on nothing other than replicating the methods for oneself.

That the current environment is for printing ink on paper and calling it a day tells me that we’ve moved on from science as an epistemological solution to the notion of truth and regressed to an era of truth emanating from privileged authorities.
This is a bit weird to me.

It's Git's own convention to add subcommands by placing a binary on the $PATH with the prefix `git-`. In this case, the subcommands becomes `git bug ...`.

How would one name this differently?

I tend to think this is more about commercial projects.
I seriously doubt that the Reddit admins have any grudge against asking “is the rest of the world gradually dumping USD?” or many others of those questions. Maybe it’s the way you ask it?

There are definitely things that you can’t say on Reddit. But these questions are quite tame.
Mozilla bundles its VPN and email relay services for $7 per month
My bet is that big corporations won’t risk suing anyone over a supposed copyright on generated images,as there is a good chance that a court ends up stating that all AI generated images are in fact public domain (no author, not from the original intent and idea of a human)

You can already see the quite strange and toned down language they use on their sites. (And for some the revealing reversal from we licence to you to you licence to us)

Some smaller AI companies might believe they own a clear cut copyright and sue, but it would make sense that they would either be thrown out or loose
No, because I've since discovered SvelteKit.
Do you do regular cardio workouts?

For comparison: I (male, 45 yrs/old, 100kg, BMI too high) train 5-7 times a week for strength/hypertrophy and 2-3 times a week I do hard cardio for an hour (HR 145-160 average, max HR 170-187).

7-day average RHR: 43

After writing some text in this here textarea: 50

Moving about (likely close to driving a car): 70-80

Look at percentages, not the actual numbers. My heart-rate is too low (bradycardia).
> a lot of engineering managers don't really understand simplicity

What’s this alluding to?
Is the Universe a simulation? Let’s test it Crowdfunding for experiment
twitter was my favorite next to reddit. Now it's dying and that sucks. The controlled chaos is what made it strong, kind of like reddit. Now that Musk is trying to put it into a straight jacket of his ego, brings in the worst of the worst banned twitter accounts, it's doomed, or will become so diminished it doesn't matter any more like digg.
If I asked someone whether they wanted to go into a field where they would never feel able to criticize people, do you think they would want to join?

Suppose, for instance, that somebody in HCI proposed a new system that would be horribly inaccessible to people with disabilities, to the point that widespread adoption would cause actual harm. Wouldn't it be best for society if the rest of the field felt empowered to criticize their work?

Furthermore, people often feel pressured to praise the works of their friends and colleagues; in doing so, they elevate the most connected members of the field above those doing breakthrough research.
Nope.

It was quite clear from the GP's comment that no time has been spent on thinking through nuances and trying to reconcile the apparent contradiction. It was posted as a "gotcha" which added nothing of value.

So my criticism was aimed at that in particular and as a caution to others in general. Hence the use of the word "People" as a rhetorical device.
This post confirm that silencing and blocking moderated instances is more about pushing an agenda than protecting their users. They silenced .social/.online because they federate with mstdn.io, an instance banned on mastodon.art, so silencing these instances will make no difference in protecting their users and quote: "I am, of course, hoping that maybe by us silencing them, we can initiate some kind of change in the moderation there.". The pressure against instances with an open federation policy or in general against instances that dare to even federate to instances blocked on .art for political reasons is quite clear. I think people don't like the term "agenda," which is misused many times, but I think it describes the situation in this case quite well.
10k idea at best:

I am the creator of 2bored2wait [0], a proxy that does stuff that is useful if you are a regular player on the minecraft server 2b2t.org. the current implementation is buggy, slow, in javascript and has a lot of tech debt.

An interesting fact about 2b2t is that because it is an anarchy server, it has not rules against using cheats and players won't get banned for using them. This means that there is a subset of players with too much money that likes to spend it on some flavor of paid hacked clients, some with monthly subscription.

I think there is a business somewhere to rewrite 2bored2wait in a faster language, integrate it well in a hacked client and/or as a service and sell that for a monthly fee or whatever, but i haven't even had the drive to do it for the sake of open source, even less so for creating a saas product that at most 100 people would use.
Excellent suggestion. I'm doing exactly this now for a one-off client in consumer packaged goods and I'd like to productize this service.

If anybody non-technical is interested in partnering with me (technical) on this, my forwarding email's in my profile.
This is one of the best pieces of advice on designing library error types in Rust I've come across so far.
Even if you follow a guide exactly as stated, you will often find when done that you now know more about the steps you took and want to immediately start over so it's closer to what you want.

The same thing happened to me the first few times I installed Gentoo. Could I have migrated the first install to what I wanted at and had at the end? Sure, if I had the knowledge I didn't have at the time.
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Fair point, but FSD hasn't been widely available, so the lack of accidents involving FSD specifically doesn't mean much.

Basically, FSD has virtually no safety record, not a good safety record.
I've been runing arch for 7 years,
I had to reinstall once to fix something I broke with deleting python packages but I never had problems with just updating the system ...
That was someone else.
Why is tax payer money used to badmouth the Iranian government?

What is anyone in the USA gaining from this?
My point about Chrome is not that it can’t do DoH but by default it doesn’t so relies on the system settings which for the vast majority of users (not us geeks who explicitly opt in) never change and use ISP supplied values so DNS snooping is still a thing for the majority.

Should a browser override system settings? That’s another question, because doing so can impact other things for the avg Joe. For example my mobile providers self serve website plays up when I use custom DNS, free hotspots with captive portals also can be an issue when you override the DNS provided by the access point.
> I've also been to a cardiologist for a thorough examination and was told that there was nothing wrong with my heart and it's job is to beat and I should accept it.

Have you tried going to different cardiologists until you find one willing to tell you there’s something wrong with your heart? I think this will make you feel better.
Brushing teeth doesn't require focus. There is definitely more than ADHD going on here. Extreme depression often isn't feeling down/sad, it's a complete lack of energy or motivation to do even the most simple tasks such as brushing ones teeth.
Kind of. Some people, when they perceive a problem, are compelled to do anything, regardless of whether it helps or not.
I don't disagree, but with politicians pointing out Bitcoin is a waste of energy whilst also doing nothing about climate change is the world we live in. As gross and demotivating and radicalising as that fact is, they're the boundaries society has chosen to judge: 1kw paid for is no better or worse than any other 1kw paid for.

Anything beyond that and you're literally picking winners and losers - which wouldn't necessarily be wrong either, but it's politically suicidal and so it will not happen.

Make non-renewable power prices higher. I'm for that, but Bitcoin and proof of work cryptocurrency mining will adapt to whatever new rules are put in place, and people will still complain that it's a waste because there's no direct benefit to them individually.

I agree, however, that the popular understanding of the end result of cryptocurrencies could be something incredibly boring and potential anathema to the core reason for existence of Bitcoin such as central bank digital currencies.

However, there will always be groups working against the interests of the establishment, creating new avenues of alternatives (here, direct proof of me being utopian).
I think asking people why people have respect for "X" is acting like it's not okay to have an opinion? There are tons of people that like(d) Elon Musk for various reasons. It's just an opinion, not something that has to be validated to a random internet person.
- Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin

- Infinite Powers and The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz

- Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter

(Avoiding text books as one's mileage might vary, and having fun depends on the readers' levels as well.)
In response to someone who is explicitly uninterested in billion and million dollars ideas, you share a site about people making roughly 20 million a year?

I’m not singling you out, since this happens allllllll the time, but I truly wish you or anyone could articulate why you thought it would be helpful to share something that was by definition unhelpful or “off topic”.

Truly breaks my brain trying to fathom this behavior.
Gene therapy at $3.5M a dose approved for US adults with hemophilia B
There is a difference between people using platform as propaganda machine and platform itself picking a side and deprioritizing anything that they don't like, especially with reach it has.

First one is de facto popularity contest and each side is free to call on other's bullshit, if control comes from company running it the detractors from "right" vision gets silenced,either explicitly, or by just modifying algorithm to deprioritize their content
>the way that the art of memory talks about tables and charts as mnemonic devices

Is this the same book by Frances Yates mentioned by the GP? If so, can you point me to the relevant chapter? I just downloaded the book.
To be fair I don't think it will be robotaxi level in 2 or 3 years. I agree that robotaxi level is probably more like 2027.

In 2 or 3 years by successful I mean that your average Tesla owner will use it in their every day, and will be able to handle their daily commute fully. But they'll still be behind the steering wheel.
How does Puma help with the libraries that are not thread safe?