skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's issues with "popular" music as the best selling music is usually middle-of-the-road to appeal to as many people as possible.

However, the lowered bar of being able to produce music from low cost equipment has opened up the world of music production to talented individuals that otherwise might never have produced anything. The trick is to try to find more unusual styles of music that don't have mass appeal as those artists will be doing it for the love of the music. (We've been to ArcTangent festival for the last few years and that's an incredible mix of different metal genres with a fair sprinkling of math-rock. There's a lot of incredible talent out there, you just need to look in the right places).

There's one aspect of modern music that I have come to resent and that's the death of sampling. I'm a huge fan of Tribe Called Quest and back in the day, they were able to use so many incredible samples of little known jazz tracks. It's so instructive to find the source of the samples and realise how they inspired Q-Tip to incorporate incredible musicianship into just everyday rap. Nowadays, it's a lot harder for musicians to navigate the legal minefield of sampling and building upon the work of previous artists.

I have to add that I've grown to have an intense dislike for "generic music" that seems to be used as a background for social media videos. Why does it all just sound the same?
More studies of college-age upperclass people?
I guess the LISA '04 article and citations / citing work are a good starting point: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1106087772774893771...
Defragmenting thoughts
I think you raise a very important point. What if it's economically better for you to let men have sex with your wife for money? If you _don't_ do this, you're just sitting on untapped value.
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or they used a more sophisticated star provider ?
Yeah, there were regional and other niche music scenes. But you needed to be really into music. And you needed to buy music on media, trade tapes, etc. Definitely a lot more friction than looking up a band on Spotify or Apple Music (for most bands even if relatively niche).
Yes, and I fear that I have not seen or understood a lot of the cultural references/jokes that they would understand.
Is there anything special about your new bed that’s causing your better sleep or just the fact that it’s new and not saggy?
And I believe we are in general wasting lot of the so called talent. On mostly useless things.
I mean the latter. Science progresses with big steps every now and then so it would be crazy for me to claim "AI will never exist". It's clear that eventually we'll get there.

It's a fact that somebody somewhere thought of making better bearings for their horse-pulled carriages centuries ago. That person does not get credit for modern cars' suspension systems however.
While "abandon those projects" doesn't help someone who developped something with it and need to keep them updated, the fact is that you can just keep using the older version of the library while you do your update it works just fine on newer PHP, AND pretty much any decent sized projects doing such a switch has a large transition period where they support both, AND tooling to automate such upgrade exists AND we should be very happy about removing code from comments.
Imagine believing near-universal access to creative tools for individuals is a bad thing. What? The gatekeeping and condescension this article contains scream old corporate "music" man yelling at clouds. Embarrassing. Probably just mad the kids he usually lectures got sick of hearing about how their digital signal flow wont ever sound as good as his 67 tube marshall stack.
Where can I learn more about the relationship between wolves and sapling growth?
The best talk I know about this is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6goF1dM3ag
Sarcasm aside, here’s a Nix manual from 2004: https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-0.5/manual/manual.html.

(The compile time of Nix itself is unpleasant, but not exactly exceptional among programs written in the modern C++ style. The eval time even for Nixpkgs even on a ten-year-old i5 is annoying but not a terrible problem the way it’s used now, though even on a recent Android device it’s admittedly measured in minutes.)
An old boss of mine used to say,

"Sometimes I shake my head and wonder. And sometimes, I just shake my head."
Anonymity is critical to free speech, because there exist bad actors who will resort to violence to suppress speech they don't like.
He writes interesting medium-to-long articles on topics that are on topics senior engineers / engineering managers care about and don't get much informed coverage elsewhere. There aren't that many genuinely technical journalists in our space, and I'm not aware of any as prolific as him. (I'd love to hear some, though!). I am a happy subscriber.
> The difficulty you found has little to do with Excel;

i claim, if you allowed access to an underlying source code representation of the spreadsheet, or rather, if you made that transformation at all, you could easily add symbols and labels to transform an excel sheet into something a programmer could turn into a binary but i doubt that step inbetween is desired

I mean, the activity of analyzing an excel spreadsheet is more akin to learning where all the items in your favourite point and click adventure is and in what order to get them where, than to actually analyzing a problem
Biology has nothing to do with it. We can't construct any manner of machine that measures time going in the other direction.
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykI_y2X65TU
This is missing a key point. Silicon Valley Bank was giving those founders/executives easy 50 y mortgages for mansions and commercial real estate. This is the worst garbage now in SVB's balance sheet. Commercial real estate is down, those mansions are worth less, and MBS with very low rates on top of those are worthless. Don't fall for the distraction of long duration treasuries.

Calcanis telling how he got SVB mortgage for his house: https://twitter.com/one4thecashbag/status/163533710637676953...

"They did my mortgage, and they did it in like 10 seconds"
This is the first time I've ever posted an XKCD link here, but I think the occasion calls for it.

https://xkcd.com/810/
It truly is the golden era of music. There's always been an enormous amount of dross in music, with nuggets of greatness that have stood the test of time. There's both automated music discovery via services like Spotify, and successful hand-curated streams like https://www.thecurrent.org/playlist/the-current that employ real people to do the actual digging.

Criticizing "one person attempting to do all of this in a home studio" -- people have always been doing that, and sometimes being successful. Go read the history of the band Boston as an example.
The way that these laboratories work—most pop songs are made through collaboration, with a mixture of people working on it that are all really good at some part of songwriting, performance, or production.

You probably have at least two writers—maybe one person who’s really good at beats and arrangement, and one person who’s really good at topline. You have a producer, who gets good recordings of all of the parts and creates a mixdown. You have session musicians, who have dedicated their lives to an instrument.

It’s great watching interviews with the people involved with this process. The best songs often have serendipitous beginnings—somebody made a beat, and somebody else says “that would go well with these lyrics I’ve been working on”. Or something like that.

It’s a lot less factory-like than one might think. If you want to see factory-like music production, travel back to the 20th century, there was a lot of it. Look at the Brill Building, or Motown, for example.
Yeah but not everyone affords a crop harvester and even then you have less farm workers not no farm workers.

I think there will be less demand for programmers and more demand at lesser pay for the top quintile of talented coders. There will also be ML managing/engineering/monitoring type jobs that will require you to know how to code. Various other disciplines will also have knowing python and shell scripting a requirement.

The only thing that will get decimated is the need for a 10:1 ratio (making that up for the record) between coders that stitch software and suck at debugging and coders that sre debugging ninjas that can identify issues GPT* hallucinates.

The next stage of decimation is a long way off when GPT is able to be integrated into the production monitoring tooling, debug on it's own and answer questions like "why is your code slow under these circumstances? And why does it randomly crash?" Right now operations/sre/users ask that of the programmer. I don't believe GPT is anywhere near being able to reliably answer those questions because if it were, why emit such code to begin with? You would be able to prompt it to generate perfect code if it could do that, the code I have seen is impressive but full of flaws even a collegr freshman wouldn't make.

To me the question is the same as dalle-e replacing artists. Even whe the drawing is not weird or just messed up it still does not "wow" you, i mean technically it qualifies and for a machine it is impressive but it just feels mediocre to the most part.

I think in reality what you will see is GPT assisted IDEs giving new meaning to "code completion".
You still get the widgets in some interactions (like left swipe from the edge of the screen). There must be a way somewhere to customize those as well, but getting rid of widgets altogether is a lot faster.
Well, for a couple of rich guys, they seem to be the majority party in the senate.
If you find yourself with the time, and the inclination, give Arrested Development a go. I thought it was fantastic. I think there is a reason that it always sat a little under the radar. You have to actively watch it. It's not suited to being on in the background.
There is likely enough stable state populations that humanity doesn't go extinct. Now current global economy or culture might go, but if it doesn't support continued stable state existence, maybe it doesn't deserve to survive.
Key lesson learnt here - lesson that most of us either already learnt or will learn pretty soon: detach emotionally yourself from company you work for. Usually easier said than done, but saves a lot of headache in situations like this. Invest your emotions into your family, beloved ones. Treat company as business partner - with respect and limited trust. It goes contrary to popular (particularly in western culture) trends to treat your employer as a second family, sharing your emotions almost publicly and expecting everyone to understand and support you. Sad truth is that at the end nobody really cares about your emotions or bad feeling, no matter what happiness-managers try to prove, business is business. Your family, your spouse are ones who should care.

As mentioned before - don't burn bridges. People who you were working with might become your business partners one way or the other in the future. Embrace this situation as a lesson learnt. It will make you more aware and stronger. Take care.
From 2020, "Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?" https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

> We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex.
The positive side of what the author talks about is the reduced need today of needing deal with people like the author in making music and sharing it with others.
How did you chose your new mattress? I've had a hard time knowing from the short impressions in a mattress store if that mattress is really what I want or just feels nice for 5 minutes in a store
I've seen enough mental issues in people (depression, schizophrenia, etc...) that seem to have a high correlation to poor sleep and/or lack of sleep to make sure I stay on top of getting enough sleep.

Depriving your body of food, water, oxygen or sleep is no joke.
>I can’t seem to ever develop a full grokkin’ grasp of what the heck “.NET” is at any given time.

Even those the work at Microsoft haven't been able to work that out since they coined the term, let alone developers etc.
If the parent's description of the problem is correct, then imagine this:

You have a solution of length 6, no fire;
Solution of length 4, one fire;
Ok sure you prefer the no fire one.

the score for the paths is 6 and 13, respectively

Your algorithm works!
But as soon as you have a solution of length 10 (or some length bigger than the length you want), a* still prefers that to the solution without fire - but the answer must be less then or equal to six steps

You can modify to make fire cost 1.1. Now if you find a solution of length 6, you know it must be correct (it minimized the number of fire squares and ended up with a length six solve). But if it's not length 6, you need to increase the cost of fire and run again if there was any fire in your solution.
Nothing special. Like it's modern mattress technology and all, which has apparently improved quite a lot sine back when I bought my old bed.

But overall it's just much better suited to my body. I'm pretty tall so I need a relatively firm mattress to avoid sinking into it and sleeping all banana-shaped, but with this bed the core is firm but the top layer is soft. Hard to explain, but it's amazing.
I am not denying that for some people hallucinations are possible and dangerous. I think my main point is twofold. First in the general debate hallucinations take too much space in comparison to other psychedelic experiences. Second I think that for medical use hallucinations are not the main obstacle. For example what you describe I wouldn't consider hallucinations. LSD can definitely induce certain ideas and motivations into you and this is the area of experience which I would like people were more aware of.
IKEA just launched a $15 waterproof Bluetooth speaker
I agree with you: this is a good practice.

However, what I was speaking about is the version handling of (sometimes direct but mostly) indirect dependencies.

The domain of `composer why` and `composer why-not`.

One if the most speaking example I can think of is: if two libs depends on guzzle 5, then you can't update only one on a version that depends on guzzle 6: you must upgrade both at the same time. Each to an intercompatible lock on guzzle version.
your comments are very snarky

It would be great if we all try to keep the tone respectful and avoid snarkiness to maintain a constructive discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> When your machine metrics are recorded it is much like a fingerprint. Who is tracking you can sell to you better, which by definition means you get a worse deal. Also you are better surveyed for how you can be used.

KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit, I don't think this would be legal for them.

> You think KDE doesn't have people who do this?

No, because it's not a commercial company. I do think they have an interest in collecting metrics because really it can be very hard to get useful information otherwise. In something of the scale of KDE it's going to be hard to determine which parts of it get the most use, and what crashes in some particularly weird circumstances.

In fact for instance I recall KDE upset quite a few people when at one point Kate lost the project functionality -- apparently the KDE devs didn't realize that the function was actually quite widely used. If you don't have data on this kind of thing it can be hard to figure out a good way forward.
I just want the most people to use my stuff with the least extra work and maintenance possible. It is personally important to build a future where OS and architecture are not a factor.
Does anyone else feel that the complexity of the full-stack frameworks is getting untenable?

1. There is a significant gap between dev and production environments. (See #2 why this is critical)

2. The production build times are super high

3. ES modules are great, but the JS ecosystem being a bundle of small libraries, getting them all to play nice is hard.

4. I occasionally get X is included twice errors that are painful to track and debug

5. There are frequent instances where I find out that the very problem I had has been solved by someone, but they don't know how or why. They remove a, b, c then it works. They add it back, it still continues to work.

What happened to KISS?
Mark Fisher would say current music sucks because it's lost the ability to articulate the present.

“The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations. There can be few who believe that in the coming year a record as great as, say, the Stooges’ Funhouse or Sly Stone’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On will be released. Still less do we expect the kind of ruptures brought about by The Beatles or disco. The feeling of belatedness, of living after the gold rush, is as omnipresent as it is disavowed. Compare the fallow terrain of the current moment with the fecundity of previous periods and you will quickly be accused of ‘nostalgia’. But the reliance of current artists on styles that were established long ago suggests that the current moment is in the grip of a formal nostalgia, of which more shortly.

It is not that nothing happened in the period when the slow cancellation of the future set in. On the contrary, those thirty years has been a time of massive, traumatic change. In the UK, the election of Margaret Thatcher had brought to an end the uneasy compromises of the so-called postwar social consensus. Thatcher’s neoliberal programme in politics was reinforced by a transnational restructuring of the capitalist economy. The shift into so-called Post-Fordism – with globalization, ubiquitous computerization and the casualisation of labour – resulted in a complete transformation in the way that work and leisure were organised. In the last ten to fifteen years, meanwhile, the internet and mobile telecommunications technology have altered the texture of everyday experience beyond all recognition. Yet, perhaps because of all this, there’s an increasing sense that culture has lost the ability to grasp and articulate the present. Or it could be that, in one very important sense, there is no present to grasp and articulate anymore.”

― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgkLICTskQ
Even if not. I have a big project running since 2006 and only had to change a handful of lines in that time once (+350k loc).
I'll be honest, I didn't get it at first. I thought initially that it was too complex for the teaching example. And then it clicked. You're rather smart aren't you! I guess 24, or 36, or 48 would have worked!
People are not really that different either, even cultures. Get familiar with enough of them and there are few surprises left.
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I built Tournacat out of the frustration of the lack of reliability of public calendar for Esports in general. Personally, I've been using this to make plans for watch party at my place weeks in advance.

Currently it supports Esports title like Dota 2, LoL, CS:GO, and Valorant. Down the road I'll look into adding more prominent Esports titles.
I've experienced this with My Business and AdWords.
As a founder I’ve slept irregularly for 15 years. My solution that kinda works is if I’m tired after a night’s sleep, I sleep a few more hours later in the day.

My cofounder in one venture you never know when he is awake or asleep as he refuses to set an alarm.
‘He passed the bee baton on to me’: people who inherit hobbies
A lot of the old literature describes LSD as ‘psychotomimetic’ which is entirely wrong. The hallucinations that LSD users have are entirely different from the hallucinations that schizophrenics have. There is no commonality in the experience at all.
Sure.

But you might just work retail, do shiftwork at a factory, or work in any number of places that require weird hours. Healthcare, plowing snow, train conductor, and anywhere that you wind up on-call just to name a few.
Do you care to elaborate?

I've been thinking about this a LOT over the years. I feel like children were meant to be able to roam around and find different adults to glom onto until they're too annoyed and then move on to the next, all the while learning different specialized skills and niches to find one they fit in with.

I can't help but feel that more-than-2-adult households would have a huge advantage in this era.
Really interesting writeup!
Went to several stores and tried a whole bunch of mattresses. Tried several dozen beds and got input from a bunch of different salespeople. Was like a 2-3 week vetting process before I found something great.

A bit of a hassle, but well worth it though.
They were using the wrong tool for the job. The R in RDBMS for the existing sheets, they were using R as in not machines but humans doing the RELATIONAL work. Yes I was trying to make my job easier, that is why mankind invented RDBMS right? To make our work easier and accurate? No?
> As fully featured desktop environments go it’s right up there with the commercial offerings.

It's not right up there, it's ahead.

As others here pointed out, it beats macOS regarding multi-monitor support.

And it beats both, Windows and macOS regarding features, polish, stability, and configurability.
I agree with everything you said, though there’s also a time dimension to it. Humanity could be a relative latecomer to the galaxy/universe, since we weren’t the first species to evolve on earth. The dinosaurs were first, something like 300 million years ago, went extinct ~65 million years ago, then humanity evolved a few million years ago.

Assume there’s at least one other planet, say in the Milky Way, that evolved life at roughly the same time as Earth, except its first major species was intelligent. They would have a 300 million year head start on humanity. Whatever science and tech they developed in that time would be far beyond what we can currently even imagine. Crossing the vast distances would likely be more viable for such an advanced species.

There’s probably some statistical distribution, Normal or otherwise, governing the odds of emergence of intelligent life on any given planet capable of supporting life. Most such planets may never evolve intelligent life, or may take more than two tries for it. Earth and Humanity may even be somewhere far to the right of the mean and median. But if even just a few planets are further to the right of Earth, then you could end up with those species having hundreds of millions of years of a head start vs humanity in their evolution and development.
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The internet archive does facilitate mirrors under the LOCKSS (lots of copies keeps stuff safe) philosophy.