skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it used to be impossible to buy a (new) high quality tape player for less than $500, let alone a portable one, while they were still being mass-produced.
Pisses me off more that grown ups can't put their carts back.
My abiding memories of cassettes are:

* Tape getting caught in cassette players, potentially ruining the recording

* Unspooled tape littering the side of motorways.

* Pitch variations, presumably due to the tape stretching, making songs fairly unlistenable.

I have positive memories of things I listened to on cassette, but I don't really associate them with the format itself.
This brings up a question for me. Does brain size always correlate to intelligence? I see a dolphin brain that looks very human and I think that it does, but then I see how smart crows are and I'd honestly say that they're smarter than my dog in most ways.
> Documentation and written processes for everything.

There are upsides and downsides to this. Foster a culture of 'document everything', and you'll quickly end up with a corporation which runs like molasses as everyone has to spend time writing up meeting minutes and spends 90% of their time updating documentation and arguing over if something is allowed within the XYZ procedure.

In my orgs, I generally say "a 1 pager quickstart guide on how each subsystem works, and everything else is docstrings and comments in the code".

If the system is too complex for that to be enough for a new engineer to understand whats going on, then your system should be redesigned to be simpler. We're designing apps and web services. If it's complicated, then you're doing it wrong.
"The person who uploaded the code lied about their permissions" won't be a valid defense in a copyright lawsuit by the actual copyright owner, at least in the case where there is no other copy of that code also on GitHub that was uploaded by the copyright holder.

In the US what it will be is good evidence to support a claim by GitHub that they were an "innocent infringer"--someone who did not know they were infringing and had no reason to believe that they were.

What that does is in the case where the plaintiff seeks statutory damages (which they almost certainly will¹) is lower the lower limit. Statutory damages are normally $750-30000 (amount determined by the court). If a defendant proves they are an innocent infringer that lower limit drops to $200. If the plaintiff can prove that the infringement was "willful" the upper limit goes up to $150000.

Statutory damages are per work infringed, not per infringement, so we aren't talking $200 or so multiplied by the number of copies GitHub distributed. We are talking of a likely award of $200 or so total (plus maybe attorney fees).

¹It is usually way too hard to determine actual monetary damages in cases like this, and actual damages are likely to be quite low anyway, so plaintiffs almost certainly will go for statutory damages.
Even today a big chunk of the music indie scene is still selling tapes as they are way cheaper to produce than other medias and they have that "cool" factor you don't have with CDs or vinyls (portability, format easy to share).

Unfortunately portable tape players are becoming quite hard to find: Stranger Things and Guardians of the Galaxy have create a huge demand for some Sony walkmans, whose prices are now in the triple-digits.
I certainly won’t take it the wrong way. Pointing out how one end of the spectrum have inferiority complexes is not an out right attack on their credentials. It’s more of a ‘I know you are trying to overcompensate’, which is fine for a bit, but if it goes on too long it can be tiring.

Self loathing is not an issue I have with who I am today. I absolutely hated who I was before, and get annoyed at anyone that reminds me of me from then. In other words, I have no love or empathy for that version of me.

Whether that’s healthy (it isn’t) is a whole other can of psycho mumbo jumbo.

My general abrasive disposition is something I want to work on though.

Edit:

I do think it’s worth examining the types of personalities involved because this is not as simple as saying X company has X culture and therefore people act like shitheads. I want to know more about the individual shitheads and what makes them vulnerable to this type of archetype.
Ask HN: A programming co-op game?
I know of a couple of “code writing games” on Steam, mainly the ones produced by Zachtronics. But they are all single player games, maybe competitive in some sense.

How would a co-op “programming game” work? Does any such game exist?
Well, for example the libs/container/src/linked_vector.rs is very overcomplicated and fragile using unsafe code. Ultimately what you want is for references to remain stable on push/pop, which can be achieved simply with a Vec<Vec<T>>.

It's also idiomatic for push to return nothing and for pop to return the item (if any - and not crash if not empty!). Similarly back should return an Option instead of crashing on empty (and is called last in Rust). for_each is also unidiomatic - it's much more useful to provide an iterator over the collection.

Here's an example implementation in ~60LOC instead of ~200: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...
It was endlessly patient until they introduced rate limiting. :)
Ok I've never flown paragliders, but I have flown regular gliders. We did have air band radios on board anyway - not just for emergencies but also to communicate with other air traffic of course. Today they even have to carry ADS-B transponders, but when I did it that rule was not in place yet.

I'm surprised you use the ham frequencies, I'm also a ham but if I wasn't it would be a bit annoying having to study for the ham exam just because I would want to paraglide. For the air band there is another procedural exam here in Europe but that's ok because you really need to know how to behave on that band. But the ham exam is really focused on building your own radios which a paraglider would have no need for.
Oh that’s neat. I’m struggling to think of bug prevention that’s similar on a PC. Orientation lock maybe?
I got an adapter hose from co2 supermarket [0] that fits my local standards.

I also added a standard regulator to my setup because I trust it more than the sodastream, tho the pressure rating of the sodastream should be enough.

Then I got a tank of food-grade co2 from my local supplier. I guess welding grade co2 would be good enough as well, but as the price difference was non-existent it was a no-brainer.

When you get a regulator, make sure you get the highest flow-rate you can find as some of them will be problematic to get enough pressure for your beverage.

Mine does not go nowhere as high as the regular sodastream bottles directly, but the result is that it takes me an extra 10 seconds per bottle to get the same result.

[0] - https://www.co2supermarket.co.uk/adapters-for-co2-regulators...
Level 3 is still good for APIs. Humans don't really come into it... they're just clicking on pictures of cats.
A surprising source of slow compile times can be declarative macros in Rust [0].

I believe the core of the problem is that it has to reparse the code to pattern match for the macro.

One egregious patter is tt-munchers [1] where your macro is implemented recursively, requiring it to reparse the source on each call [2].

In one of my projects, someone decided to wrap a lot of core functions in simple macros (ie nt tt-munchers) to simplify the signatures. Unlike most macros which are used occasionally and have small inputs, this was a lot of input. When I refactored the code, I suspect dropping the macros is the reason CI times were cut in half and a clean `cargo check` went from 3s to 0.5s.

[0]: https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/04/12/how-to-speed-up-the...

[1]: https://veykril.github.io/tlborm/decl-macros/patterns/tt-mun...

[2]: https://github.com/dtolnay/quote/blob/31c3be473d0457e29c4f47...
I don't know why are you so against an air fryer. Not all apartments in some countries come with ovens. It's a great device and many people love it. I get this impression you are just minmaxing it without trying it.
We were in a long-term decline in social capital since the 1960s, and the pandemic accelerated the process. Even in the 1990s social capital was higher. For example: https://www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-social-circles...

An interesting illustration of this phenomenon is the movie “City Slickers.” I just watched it again the other day. Its depiction of New York City life was completely unrecognizable to me.
You might want to read more about the terms of the deal. Musk specifically waived due diligence, which is why he couldn't break the deal when he wanted to:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/in-letter-to-twi...

This was unusual to the point of getting criticism from a judge when Twitter sued to force him to follow through on the deal (which bought them at a significant premium over market):

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-calls-elon-musk-legal-...

> Furthermore it doesn't make much sense to calculate drawdown of a 40 billion USD investment with a timeframe of a few months. The idea of any large investment is to make it grow with time after long term interventions (years, decades).

This is vaguely true but in this case the big question is how he'll make it massively more profitable than it's ever been. Twitter was marginally profitable for the last few years but the massive debt load Musk saddled the company with means they need to increase profits by whole number multiples simply to catch up to where they were in 2019-2021. It's not enough to get advertisers back, they have to significantly increase their spending.
The real need of any home server has really dissapeard now when there are cheap services for everything and all of them do it better than any setup am willing to dedicate my time on. If you really want something just buy a cheap NAS and it will run everything you want with minimal setup.

Unless you want to learn how to setup a server ie "home lab", but then its more cheaper and more efficient to rent a cheap vm on linode.

The era where you had an old computer from your office in a closet to host your website, music, email, and such is long gone.
> I think the swiss working class is a bit better of, than those in the subsahara facing drought.

With such an argument we could drop everything we're doing in Switzerland, as we're probably better off than most other people in this world (by average).

Don't make the mistake to think that every Swiss citizen is well off. Very well off compared to the rest of the world, sure. But we have our own class of people who barely get through the month. (These people would be homeless and absolutely devastated in the US, so we have that going for us.)

The only income smaller ski regions have are winter sports. If this goes away, these regions will probably have some very difficult times. Now, I'm talking about the smaller ski regions with not that much wealth. Different story compared to Zermatt, St. Moritz etc.

> it is really not smart, trying to keep things artificial alife

I do agree with your main point! I also smh when I see all of the artificial snow machines which waste lots of water and energy, the tons of cars which travel to these regions, mass tourism etc.

Which doesn't mean that we can't also say, that the working class in these regions will be in serious trouble if we stop.

Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't stop. Complicated, I guess :)
Kagi search engine subscription is easily my top choice (https://kagi.com).

I'm really glad something can finally, truly replace Google search and be just as good or better (neither Bing nor DuckDuckGo were good enough when I tried them).

If we're talking physical products, I'd probably go with the Apple Magsafe wallet. It's a little thing but I love not having a separate wallet to keep track of every day.
Not at first, at least, in my opinion, if crowdsourcing is what makes it useful. If the network effects are what makes a product useful, a subscription fee pushes against the growth of that network.
Little things too. Have you noticed?

A lot less people are holding doors. They just pretend not to notice you.

At stop signs folks used to wave each other to go. Now it’s a race to stop and go first.
Sorry for the confusion. I assumed that person was swiss. lol
The quotes in XML don't make it a string; in the XML schema you can specify the type (and so much more). JSON has a lot of benefits but it absolutely loses this particular comparison. XML schemas will give you all the type information and automatic validation you can swallow. Typing in XML is far richer than in JSON. There's even a date type!
My daughter, 10, was really pushing for some way to access her own music back in the summer. At her age I got a walkman and was already making my own mixtapes off the radio using the big system in the living room. We swapped tapes at school, did all the things in the article. I just couldn't see that being a thing now in 2022. So we got her a HomePod Mini for her birthday and, sure, she plays her tunes and is happy-ish but there's no headphones (it's not private) and no way to take it with her, no sharing, no discovery, no peer-swapping at school - it's pretty crappy compared to the experience I had at that age. I'd have bought her an iPod but of course they were discontinued the year before so impossible to justify.

At the same time her friend bought her a little Jensen walkman with a copy of the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix on it. She loves it! So I bought her some blank cassettes and now she makes mixtapes by playing off the HomePod into the Jensen's microphone. Quality is shit but she's young and nobody will be more pleased than me (among other things, a semi-pro audio engineer) when she complains and asks for something better. At that point I'll figure out some unholy solution involving a computer and a headphone cable and a tape deck. So much more complicated! So much for progress.

It really is an ideal format. Cassette is perfect. Siri most assuredly is not.
Yes, I loved that era of the web!
Lower base pay would make the job postings relatively unattractive though. Wouldn't this law encourage higher base pay and lower bonuses in order to make the job posting look better?
Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art
> CarPlay is definitely designed to be less distracting than Android Auto

I don't think this is true. CarPlay still covers my entire display (which I use for navigation/GPS normally) when someone calls. How this pass any sort of QA/user testing is beyond me. At least Android Auto displays a little message about it, rather than covering the entire display together with the navigation.
IMO fair use is still not a strong argument for Microsoft. They commercialized the product and made money out of it.

Fair use is only allowed if the work you're doing is purely for the greater good. I might be wrong though, IANAL.
I blame China. As a researcher in China, you were told to publish, as often as possible, OR ELSE. that's leads to a constant publishing of useless papers. China took the whole idea of "publish or perish" into overdrive.
But, if you don't have trust in your engineering/product org (e.g., working as a team rather than for individual metrics is seen as counterproductive for individual career, execs not trusted, documenting is seen as making you expendable in headcount reduction, etc.)... then either fix your org culture or move to somewhere where you can have a better culture, IMHO.

(And if SHTF before you fix culture or move, then the question of succession for a lead dev can just be bumped up the management hierarchy at that time. And the interim solution can be creative based on the details of the immediate situation. For example, there might be an obvious successor, based on their background, skills, and availability at that moment, and the nature of that might determine whether to be thinking of them as interim, provisional, or long-term.)
> It tends to land in the right ballpark and capture the tone of a thing.

One weird trick is to use this text to search the web. Because it is already in the ballpark it will be a very good query. The model would bullshit "The height of Everest is 8,230 m", you take this string and search it, find "height of Everest is 8,849 m" -> correct the original response.

Now the problem is, how do you decide what information to trust in search?

AI needs a big push to index and do consistency checks for all facts. Let's have the model write a billion wiki entries and knowledge base concepts. Check for support, consistency, competing explanations - everything should be in there, we don't decide what is true. Then a language model can say when a topic is controversial, or when it doesn't know something.

Of course the goal is to find the truth, but we know it is going to be tricky. In the meantime we can have models that know when they don't know, or when the information is not certain.
> For example, I'm not sure if there's much value in learning things like basic SQL queries anymore which was something I had to learn when studying computer science. ChatGPT is great at writing SQL queries if you're able to tell it exactly what you need.

Using ChatGPT to generate something that you can't independently verify is a terrible idea. Most of the time it'll be fine, but when it's not you need to be able to recognize the flaws. Hopefully you at least test it before pushing, but if you don't know how to write the query you also don't know its failure modes, so your tests will likely miss important edge cases.

AI tools are great for speeding up processes you can do by hand, but because they're all statistics you can't count on them to do it alone: some percentage of the time they will inevitably be wrong.

EDIT: Note that this stands in contrast to a wholly deterministic tool like a calculator, which in most circumstances doesn't need to be second guessed.
the other big problem is not enough licenses being given out to sell marijuana, and extensive corruption in the awarding of those licenses. much of the "legal" grows are diverted to the black market, because there is demand but no ability to sell. black market marijuana these days, depending on location and circumstances of course, is cheaper and higher quality than the legal market.
Podcasts are good, but I'd suggest bringing a book or two and some paper and a pen if you can. You're going to get sick of podcasts after a few hours and want to do something else.
Also the reason I have 100s of screenshots of my lockscreen...
So, it sounds a bit like Selection Bias--

The guys who create these companies you purchase have a local a network in the industry-- That is to say: The guys who create & run the companies are able to find labor.

This article is about a labor shortage...

Apparently a few tradesmen are able to recruit other tradesmen, and perhaps pay them well, in the right geographic locations where there are enough skilled tradesmen (or train-able interested apprentices) to hire.

But it sounds like the vast majority of Tradesmen company founders are unable to find labor.
> When Google was scraping lyrics off of lyric sites--lyrics being totally and clearly copyrightable--it was dinged pretty hard for that.

Was google dinged for scraping the lyrics or publishing them verbatim? My understanding is that it was the latter.
I have a 6th generation with 32GB:

hw.model=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100U CPU @ 2.30GHz
hw.physmem=34227793920
Built a crkbd.
Got a sensor watch.
> Torrent client that I actually use for Linux ISOs

It's okay boss, plenty of us pirate stuff too. You can just admit it.
Yes! One of the other comments got to the crux of this: nobody ever figured out a sustainable business model for this. I think it's a shame.
Or move to another country without extradition, something I'm surprised more people don't do.
Depends if weight is lost in high-stress or low-stress biological environments, I'm sure...
Luckily by agreeing to the TOS you've indemnified Github against the consequences of that scenario.
While I see your point, it is not hard to see the implications of your argument. Should students be allowed to use calculators in basic math? Don't you think they should learn arithmetic and be tested on that? What about reading? Why learn how to read when you can just use a device to read text to you?
Within generally similar animals, brain size is correlated with intelligence. Across different branches of the tree, it's harder to compare.

Bigger bird brains ~= smarter birds. Bigger dog brains ~= smarter dogs. But you can't directly compare dogs and birds in that way.
My observation is that there were a fair number of activities that had their own momentum of a sort. When that all screeched to a halt, it's a lot harder to restart them given that organizers and others have gone off to do other things, etc.

With respect to cities, in the US, a lot of cities (including those we consider elite today) were losing population until 20-25 years ago. There's no guarantee that the young college-educated demographic will continue to move into cities in greater numbers than their parents did.
Neither is Wikipedia. While some vandalism might be obvious, more nefarious edits might not be. It's still an extremely useful tool.
How transportation technologies shaped empires
Oh I dunno. I think that while there will be a lot more people doing a lot more stuff, this is a bit of a stretch.
Thank you.

After pondering for months on this I have come to the same conclusions as you and reading your link made perfect sense.

We are fighting to work harder because we value currency above humanity. What a silly fight. Most jobs can already be done by an AI and we should work towards that, not the other way.

What is the point of free software again?

The tech is out of the bag. The hard part is done, the part where you are learning the unknown is infinitely harder than copying it afterwards. Nobody will ever control it.

Time to set ideas free.
Security cameras are currently the only thing I actually have running at home.

I'd like to do SFTP backups eventually.
Yeah but for many projects the bus factor and the lottery factor can be quite different.

Unless your employees are miserable, they will probably still be reachable to answer short form questions after winning the lottery, even if they don't actually work for their full notice period.
Unfortunately in Safetywing terms it sounds like residency, but in very unclear terms:

> Home Country means the country where you principally reside and receive regular mail.
> Car play and the iphone more often get into a state where the phone is connected physically but the phone "isn't connected"

I thought this was just me. I used to use Android Auto on the same car I have now, and never had this issue. Got a iPhone some year/s ago and sometimes this happens, maybe once every month or so, but thought the issue was my car or the phone itself. Good to know it happens to others.
This was 1 chopper doing private property management to increase its value, yet outrage here resembles end of world... lets be a bit smarter. Ie one can save 1000x more energy every year to resettle people from places like Phoenix to location where AC nor heating is not needed. We can sit all day coming up with fantasies what to ban to cut down energy consumption
What is a "knowledge reservoir of truthiness"?
That's probably why in the US nobody put their cart back. They would do it if they had to get their coin back. Again, to fight laziness, go for the wallet!
Obviously it's nonsensical to say students should have access to all tools. In the real world every single idea and fact is easily look up able, but by teaching students to derive known facts gives them the skills to eventually derive unknown facts in the future. But most people have a super neoliberal view of education and pretty much want every American student to be an idiot who just can't think