skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article asks two different questions, one about the decline of the instrumental hit and one about the decline of the instrumentalist, and doesn't go far to answer either.

I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the instrumental hits throughout the decades. Is the decline simply due to classical and jazz going out of fashion? How many are soundtracks? Surely most modern instrumental hits are EDM, yes? This data-driven history could use some more data.

As for the other question, the article's examples of popular instrumentalists were much more famous as bandleaders than as clarinetists or trombonists. Cheap recorded music and digital music production has pushed both the band and the virtuoso performer out of popular culture, replaced by the solo artist and their multi-instrumentalist producer (sometimes the same person). This is true even outside of hip hop. I bet a non trivial amount of pop fans would be able to name Jack Antonoff from his work with Taylor Swift, Lorde, and Lana del Rey.
There are a few niches where instrumental music is still going strong, but the stars seem to be composers rather than instrumentalists.

Movie scores: John Williams, Hans Zimmer, ...

Video game music: Koji Kondo, Toby Fox, Jeremy Soule...
I am in a similar age range and I am drifting towards this aesthetic. I think it's the counterculture of the increasingly sleek websites, with their overcomplicated 3D animations. Not saying either is better than the other, just it is the opposite end of the spectrum and way of still having fun when creating a website while making it feel personal.
That's what you took away from the question?

Jenkins still lives in legacy, and probably will for some time.
https://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/liias/2023/05/09/legislation-...

Is this news source lying to me?
I stand corrected (no excuses, I had my coffee already).

I managed to miss 'thin' when searching the web site (first hit from where I was happened to be 'thinking' and then I saw the Dell rack servers).

So the "thin clients" (with local storage they look like small PCs to me) are for the hottest content only:
"Setting the tiny mirror up only hosting Ubuntu ISOs, Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, and the CentOS repo for servers easily exceeded our design objective of >1TB/day of network traffic. Not a replacement for traditional "heavy iron" mirrors that can host a longer tail of projects, but this is 1TB of network traffic which we were able to peel off of those bigger mirrors so they could spend their resources serving the less popular content, which we wouldn't be able to fit on the single 2TB SSD inside this box."
Xerox PARC file system archive
Apparently so, considering that this is the same person who got a hold of the No-Fly List a while back, and, you guessed it, they found it through Jenkins somehow.
Although it can be laziness/ incompetence wasting cycles, sometimes the problem is that only the CPU got so much faster, and only in certain ways.

If Teams talks to a remote server, doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, it takes time for the question to get to the server, time to get back, that's some time regardless. Now yes, maybe they write code which goes

Hi! / Yes? / I'm a Teams client / That's nice / And you? / I'm the Teams server, what username? / SamBankmanFried / OK, and password? / Hunter2 / OK, you're logged in SamBankmanFried / OK do I have new #catpics ? / Nope / How about #emergency ? / Nope / How about #general ? / Yes, six messages ...

And that's a lot of round trips whereas they could have done:

Hi, I'm a Teams client, hopefully you're a Teams server / Yes, I'm the Teams server, what username & password ? / SamBankmanFried password Hunter2, also summarise my new stuff / Hello SamBankmanFried, you have six #general messages ...

Which is far fewer round trips.
Maia is very honest when she hacks a company, unsupported theories don't help anyone.
That is illegal and if you know of that situation I implore them to seek council and contact the DOL.
No, I meant that I thought this guy must've paid 10s of thousands for this license that he can no longer use. Because why would he be thinking about suing anyone unless he really feels aggrieved over the amount of money plus 10 years+ of use he got.
Paying your top performers more is not the same as stack ranking.
I don't necessarily disagree, but fundamentally I think this will lead to "anyone who can find a higher-paying job will find a higher paying job."

Part of what's enticing about these "blue-chip" megatech corporations like Microsoft or Apple is that they pay good salaries. Most work at these companies is not interesting (at least it wasn't at Apple), but you stay because the pay is good.

If the pay is shit, I'll take interesting work at a startup, or I'll find a place that does pay well (like Wall Street).
it reminds me of the phenomena of parodying 'I Love Lucy!'. Even though it hasn't seen new episodes since 1957 it is included or mentioned in some way in nearly every popular media.

The constant revitalization of the parody through new works ensures that the future will also include some mention. I think 90s aesthetic/internet-culture is a bit like that -- the projects that include those themes beget new similar projects in the future as long as they have some level of audience exposure.
Big companies with data restrictions that can't have anything so much as look at the cloud, and they don't have the skills or money to set up something nicer on prem.

Bitbucket is also a big part of this story.

That results in seeing Jenkins all over the ding-darn place at Boeing, LockMart, RC, L3, NGA, etc.

Of course, all that is thrown right out the window if you wire up the Jenkins instance to the goddamn internet.
Basically.

Profiters of stocks are evil, and take advantage of the poor developers!!

Why don't you own stock then, it's public?

ANGER
This is cool but following some of the links it seems like there are a lot of immature parts of the ecosystem and things will not "just work". See for example this bug which I found from the blog post:
https://github.com/odsl-team/julia-ml-from-scratch/issues/2

Summarizing, they benchmark some machine learning code that uses KernelAbstractions.jl on different platforms and find:

* AMD GPU is slower than CPU

* Intel GPU doesn't finish / seems to leak memory

* Apple GPU doesn't finish / seems to leak memory

Would also be interesting to compare the benchmarks to hand-written CUDA kernels (both in Julia and C++) to quantify the cost of the KernelAbstractions layer.
Similar experiences have been reported by people who came from these places
I've thought it would be cool to see something like this:

1. Go on Twitter and find a famous account (for visibility). Maybe they say something like, "The data shows..."

2. Pop into ChatGPT and create a data viz.

3. Deploy to Vercel.

4. Go back to Twitter, post the link, enhance the convo, naturally gain followers in exchange for providing that value.
Same, I'm a Pixel user and happy Macbook user, but every time I use an iOS device I have such a terrible experience. I purchased a 10th generation iPad for my daughter. The parental controls are simply broken. When installing apps, the child has to click "Ask" and the notification never appears on my wife's iPhone. And only one parent can be the account "manager". Because I'm pretty good with Google, I was able to find some random Reddit post which has a workaround (the solutions in the Apple forum never worked). You can go into the iPhone's settings and rename the phone, e.g. from "iPhone" to "iPhone 2" then the iPhone starts receiving the notifications from the iPad.

Well, I purchased a second iPad 10th gen for my younger daughter and the same exact problem. Out of the box this basic feature just doesn't work reliably. We're at the point we're renaming my wife's iPhone once a month.

That's just one specific problem we've had, but really it's been a disaster. The setup for both iPads was full of bugs and random issues. Both iPads randomly fail to install updates overnight. I don't recall the last time my Android has ever failed to do a system update. It's just really surprising for me because I assumed a device in it's 10th generation with such a good reputation would be rock solid.
There needs to be a corresponding Male Delusion Calculator.
I mean to be fair, the article itself doesn't make this clear.
I'll take the lesser of two evils, thanks.
Stock grants, not options. Pedantry aside, those grants are being cut, too.
It's a faux pas to flex your own massive amounts of power in places where it doesn't really matter all that much. Then again, Google has pretty much embraced their role as a comic book villain these days.
GDPR as a whole is very accessible legislation.

The entire document (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...) isn’t short: 54,000 words. But it’s very skimmable so that you can obviously skip quickly over the considerable majority as irrelevant to your situation, and generally pretty easy to read. The parts relevant to the typical developer or business person are actually only a few thousand words of chapters 1–4. I recommend just reading it if it might be relevant to your business, rather than relying on others’ writings about it.

Most of the lawyerly arguments come from people trying to justify bad stuff that they used to get away with but which is clearly contrary to the spirit and generally text of GDPR. (This is my uncharitable description.)
anti capitalist? hardly
I listen to a fair amount too but someone's list from jazz or metal or some corner of classical would be totally unfamiliar to me too. Fortunately it's so easy to search for a name, click a track, and listen for 10 seconds that you can breeze through recommendations super fast.

Of course lazy commenters like me don't link to representative tracks... perhaps a task for AI. "Go to top YouTube video for selected text" would probably suffice.
Great write up. I paid $3500 w/ broker fees (sedo.com) for my (lastname.com) about 11 years ago. Seemed super expensive at the time, but more and more "professional individuals" (lawyers, doctors, etc) that share my last name were appearing on the internet despite the rarity of it, so I knew I had to act fast.

No regrets! ...and the rest of my family loves having first@last email addresses :).
Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was a New Developer (2019) [video]
$35 a month for BASIC ? Seriously? Subscriptions have gotten completely out of hand.
There is contradiction because, in fact, the HN audience is more than one person and those people have different and conflicting views.
> Google has a dozen products that has over a 500 Million users.

So did Microsoft in 2005. That doesn't mean the Ballmer era was innovative. If you need other examples of companies with hundreds of millions of users that aren't relevant, there's also Oracle.
One of the drivers for email newsletters, ironically, is that bloggers don't trust Google to send visitors their way repeatedly, so they harass their users incessantly hoping to bypass the Google search monopoly although this runs headlong into the Google email monopoly.

To be fair though I remember working for firms that were struggling mightily to deliver mail to AOL in 2005.
I have no idea how much effort Google spent preparing these demos, but I personally find it so much less impressive than the livestream OpenAI did where they actually used their tech following suggestions from discord.
> mathy

Are they? I thought math rock was all about weird time signatures. By contrast, Polyphia is pretty accessible. And I've never heard them play a weird time signature.
Guess we'll have to keep sending people to prison until y'all get that your 'fake it till you make it' is in fact fraud, which most people understand as a kind of scam.
Any crazy stories from this?
I'm glad you've never cheated, and hope this becomes more common in the future.

But you're fighting an uphill battle to expect people not to possess prejudices based on what is statistically likely. People will believe the evidence of their eyes.

The most you can hope is that people not act on their prejudices before getting to know you. And, as unfair as it is that you can't change it, you'll have to find ways to live with the reality that there are people who will act on their prejudices before they get to know you and know that you're really different.
2nd deriv is negative and we're likely to overshoot, hence, the decision and article about it
How about some succinct data structures and delta encoding for modern databases [1]. Succinct data structures are a family of data structures which are close in size to the information theoretic minimum representation (while still being queryable).

[1] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/blob/dev/docs/white...
Correct. I've edited it to say that clearly (finally). Sorry about all the confusion here
Is it not better/preferable to freeze salaries than to cut more staff? From a morale PoV, from a human PoV, except maybe not from an individual PoV, overall.
Presumably the business is not just leaving the prices they charge for their good/services static and saying "welp, a dollar is worth less now than it was, I guess we'll target less revenue!"

Cost-of-living salary adjustments should reasonably be expected in the same way a company is reasonably expected to adjust pricing according to economic conditions.
This is brilliant, will absolutely hack around with it this weekend. I think it's possible to temporarily modify brightness on iOS as a third party app, thanks very much for the suggestion
"Maslouh was last year a 34-year old employee of Randstad, which was contracted by Google to identify potential job candidates and enter their publicly available information—derived from services such as LinkedIn—into gHire, Google’s applicant tracking system."

GDPR defines that it does not apply to individuals for "purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity."

Now if you check the LinkedIn T&Cs your LinkedIn account is your personal account, e.g. it is not your employers account.

So anyone using their (personal) LinkedIn account in the course of their job (or other professional/commercial activity) is then potentially subject to GDPR.

In the case of Maslouh, based in London, performing work for his employer, Randstad, who themselves were hired to do this work for Google presents a problem with respect to GDPR and his/their "processing" of people's personal data from LinkedIn.

Basically it seems that Maslouh is acting at the very least as a Data Processor (and perhaps likely as a Data Controller himself in which case he must register with UK ICO and pay the annual fee) by retrieving personal data from LinkedIn using his own account and then transferring that personal data into Google's gHire system.

If Maslouh had used a Randstad LinkedIn account to do so then he personally wouldn't be directly affected by GDPR, though Randstad would - however LinkedIn AFAIK do not offer company accounts at all (rather they provide mechanisms for companys to pay for features that specified individuals' accounts can access).

So does Maslouh have a contract in place with Randstad for his to act as a Data Processor for Randstad? Does Randstad have a Data Processor contract in place with Google which indicates that Maslouh is a sub-Data Processor?

I raised this fundamental GDPR-related issue of LinkedIn accounts being personal accounts and the implications for recruitment people (both employees of a company and also "contractors" of recruitment agencies) with the UK ICO when they had a "Future of Recruitment" consultation (last year? 2021?). The published ICO consultation document from memory made a vague passing reference to LinkedIn-related implications not currently considered.
I have an app from my health insurance company to see if a hospital is contracted with them (similar to what they call "in network" in the USA). It's as simple as typing in the procedure and my zipcode and it shows me contracted hospitals near me. I always check it before I schedule an appointment.

Alternatively I could also get insured with a company that covers all hospitals but those have higher premiums (around €50 per month extra).
It doesn’t take illegal back channel coordination to play follow the leader.

All it takes is one major company to pull the trigger, then the rest will follow.

The hiring market during covid was wonky in a way that favored applicants, and a lot of folks who got hired were under-qualified, overpaid, or both. This is just a natural reversion to a more balanced state across the industry.
So funny to see google stressing EVERYTIME that they have been using AI for years.

Dude, you were seated in the pot of gold and let your organizational disfuncionality block you from really using that.

And now you come trying to get the crown of AI? Catch up and them we can talk.
Gosh I like this comment so much. This is exactly how I felt and saw ourselves whilst sitting in hipster startup offices getting way too much money compared to the rest of society. That said, tech people in general publicly don't get enough respect or disrespect for their work.
Freezes salaries, but also dials back on stock grants and bonuses. So depending on how one views "total compensation", Microsoft is handing out pay cuts.
Aren't these industry awards essentially participation trophies for whoever is willing to pay? Like the notorious "Who's Who Among American High School Students" in the US.
Succinct data structures ftw.
DRAM is not greatly affected by radiation, because the capacitors are large structures relative to radiation events. SRAM is affected, which is why SRAM arrays should always use SECDED ECC.

The dominant cause of DRAM failures is bit flips from variable retention time (VRT), where the cell fails to hold charge long enough to meet refresh timing. These are believed to be caused by stray charge trapped in gate dielectric, a bit like an accidental NAND, and they can persist for days to months. This is why the latest generation (LPDDR4x, LP/DDR5) have single bit correction built into the DRAM chip. Along with permanent single cell failures due to aging this probably fixes more than 95% of DRAM faults.

The DRAM vendors sure could do a lot better on publishing error statistics. They are probably the least transparent critical technology used in everything, but no regulation requires them to explain and they generally refuse statistics on faults even to major customers (which is why folks like AMD run large experiments at supercomputer sites to investigate, and most clouds gather their own data).

That said, DRAM chips are pretty good. The DDR4 generation probably had better than a 1000 FIT rate per 2GB chip, so in a laptop with 16GB that would have been less than 10 error per million hours, or under 1 per 50 laptops used for a year.

For many of us the vast majority of data is in media files. I personally notice broken photos and videos every now and then. I would love to have a laptop with a competent ECC level, but they do not exist. Even desktop servers often come without. It is unclear how much better the LP/DDR5 generation will be since the on-die ECC still does not fix higher order faults in word lines and other shared structures, which may sum to as much as 10% of aging faults. All simply educated guesses, since the industry will not publish.
Because executives get issued an order of magnitude more stock than you could ever reasonably buy?
Well, other than Observable, reactive notebooks are not that common and well known (precisely because Jupyter, which is the most famous, didn't support that model before).

So maybe today is the first day that you are exposed to that model and you learn about it? There's always a first time.
How are public works projects funded now? Same way. And if corporations want to fund certain projects too, they can. It's simple, extrapolate how we fund current projects and do the same with software, it's not that complicated.
Spain has been asking for this for decades
It might be better if you didn't over hire.

I can't speak for MSFT. But a lot of tech companies definitely hired to banana town.

Cutting would be better than freezing salaries.
Haha, that was a straightforward purchase. I dont think i've ever been able to find another advaitruia (advait on its own is an uncommon name)
Anyone can buy MSFT and get their share. As for the employees, they have stock options and are getting a piece of the all-time high stock price.

Although MSFT's all time high stock price was in 2021.

This goes for all public corporations. Anyone can get a piece of the action by buying some stock in them.

As for the size of Nadella's compensation package, speaking as a long term MSFT shareholder Nadella has earned it. You might want to check out a graph of MSFT's stock price before and after Nadella became CEO.
I think Pyodide is what you want.

https://pyodide.org/en/stable/
Mohamed Said, a longtime Laravel community member and former Laravel employee

https://twitter.com/themsaid/status/1656336205523320840
Nobody has mentioned Approximate Nearest Neighbor search (aka vector search), which IMO, are fundamental data structures advancements.

Basically given a set of million (billion, trillion...) ~1000 valued vectors, and a query ~1000 valued vector, find the closest vector in the indexed set. This is "nearest neighbor" search and there have been increasingly more and more sophisticated approaches:

http://ann-benchmarks.com

https://haystackconf.com/us2022/talk-6/

And has spawned companies like Weaviate, Pinecone, etc etc (a half a dozen others)
"Some of this only recently became technically possible. The new ScreenTime API from Apple allows users to connect apps on their phone to third party apps (like us). We receive opaque "tokens" for each user app selection and we can perform actions on the tokens, which affects the apps without us knowing what the actual apps are. We can add and remove "shields" to a token, which presents an obstructing interface over an app or website. We can display a user's usage of a token over a time period and display that data to them."
I disagree, I don’t believe Trump and Elon musk are ethical and they are very successful in terms of power and money.
Maybe because previous hacks have been of varying legality. The entrypoint for the airline hack was also Jenkins.
“…those living within an hour's commute to a major Dell office should come in for those minimum three days.”

Time for any Dell employee to dig up the highway leading in to town
Because it is a cut. Your spending power is less. It's a real terms cut. There's a good chance they've increased their product prices by inflation as well.

I mean they don't have to raise salaries, but if someone is offering me a higher rate I'm going to go.

You have no responsibility to your company.

Now if the entire market is telling me to take a cut, either it's collusion or software developers are simply worth less now.
If the business can't afford to raise salaries to match the prices of goods, then that is a pay cut in terms of the goods I can afford. It doesn't matter why.

If I earned $5/hour last year and a gallon of milk was $5, then milk going to $6 means that my milk/hour rate has gone down unless I now earn $6/hour. That is a pay cut.
You have to input just the pieces you want help with. It can't do a whole project, but you can tell it the tech stack, and maybe give it a few of your classes, and it can then write a new class for you.
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The new twitter sucks. so many things are broken. search does not work unless you are logged in.