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If you remember those songs, then surely you must have heard many more from the same era. TFA totally glosses over the increase in instrumental popularity during the 60s and 1970s.

Two big factors completely missing are 1) decline of Top 40 AM radio, and 2) decline of 7-inch 45 vinyl singles.

I remember the following instrumental hits of the era, they may not have reached number 1 but were definitely played a lot on air and were in my parent's (and then my) record collections. I'm sure there were many more.

Classical Gas - Mason Williams.

Telstar, Walk Don't Run, many more - the Ventures

Tequila - various

Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball

Work Song, Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert

A Walk in the Black Forest - Horst Jankowski

Alan Parsons - I Robot (FM radio)

Close to the Edit - Art of Noise

Music to Watch Girls By - Bob Crewe Generation

Let there Be Drums - Sandy Nelson

Topsy, Big Noise From Winnetka - Cozy Cole

Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Vince Guaraldi

Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk

Bonanza - Al Caiola

Like, Long Hair - Paul Revere and the Raiders

Theme from A Summer Place - Percy Faith Orchestra
The GiveWell Top Charities Fund directed $104M of donated funds to improve global health and fight poverty in 2022 [0]. This is effective altruism.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/top-charities-fund
I don’t completely agree that it is a waste. Yes that one person might be less involved but thats the price. The goal is to move forward, have an interactive session etc. so coming together once a month for example is great. And if someone can’t make it, then so be it.
German rail union's planned strike likely to impact freight, rail traffic
Unreal Engine 5.2
US support for nuclear power soars to highest level in a decade
And it keeps going. Manager II will tell Manager III "Here are the things my org has done!" and Manager III will tell VP "Here is what my product line has achieved!" and VP will tell CEO "Here is how profitable my business unit is!" and CEO will tell the board and the world "Behold what I have done!"

It's credit-taking all the way up.
It’s not like the FANG dev lives in a separate universe devoid of the same AI developments as everyone else. If anything I’d imagine the barrier to producing the FANG products of today goes down but the interview process of FANG is still mostly on a curve relative to whatever technology is available at the time. I sort of expect their operating expenses to drop with more AI development, meaning a FANG job becomes more coveted since less employees are required to produce same revenues but you would expect the wages of those fewer employees to increase, no?
I've built a bunch of Lithium Ion packs (nothing huge, the largest was 10 KWh, but still you don't want to mess that up, that's 1000 cells in a 40S25P arrangement), none of them go that low under load. If your cells drop down to 2.0V under load that's not a normal condition, either you are discharging your cell at more than the 2C or so that is normally specc'd (which you are welcome to do but it will cost you in lifespan) or the cell is on the way out. The normal arrangement for high current discharge is to simply set up more cells in parallel so they all carry only a fraction of the current and stay well below the maximum permissible current.

One application where cells are loaded up really heavily is in RC toys and drones, there lifespan is secondary to performance. But a normal, long-life application for a Lithium Ion battery pack will ensure that batteries are not overloaded (either during charge or discharge).

There are also special cells that can gracefully handle high discharge current (and usually correspondingly high charge currents) typically at the price of some capacity for a given volume.
I don't think you know how socialist "incentives" work.
One day you'll be able to add your billing...IN VR
Your week has 112 hours of waking time.

If you spend 50% of that at work, you have spent 50% of it at work. Probably the most productive 50%.

The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing. If you're not doing that then unless you really enjoy your job burnout is inevitable.
Thank you; good to know that they have that.
My assumption would still be that if the intelligence services want access to your private information or communication on the device that they will get it (without it be evident); whether it is a OS zero day or other means.
I also read through the link you provided on the anti-interdiction server, it only says laptop. I assume that this has expanded to the phone. (Did not go through the phone order process to find out.) Also, looks like one negotiates via PGP email on what one wants; so that is why I assume that there is no pricing on it.
If you let your bottom 20% performers go, what are the odds you'll want them back?
Not only that, but the 28 hours they work are probably some of the worst.

Ex you’re driving uber. You’re going to be “incentivized” (read: forced due to logistics) to work rush hour and bar hours. So you’re maybe working 5-7 and 10-12 on weekends and a couple weekdays. The reason being is that everyone wants to cruise around in the afternoon so the ratio of drivers to passengers gets so bad you’ll never get a ride.

And ofc if you’re sitting in your car with the app on waiting… you’re not being paid. That doesn’t count as work. So if you don’t get a ride for 2 hours bc not enough passengers - tough shit you’ve just made $4 for your 2 hours minus the cost of running your car and losing hours of your life.

But America is corrupted. Politicians let’s corps simply say “no we’re not breaking the law” and they believe them.

Anyone who’s debating that this is harmful and should be illegal is uneducated or a simp for those corps.
>No one associated with YC flagged this article

But there's no transparency, so there's no reason to assume it's true and not just the usual corporate PR.
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It sounds good. I understand your fire behind the idea.

But in reality, in just doesn't work.

If I don't value my time, and my employer has to pay for my commute, then why wouldn't I choose to move an hour away from work, or take a job an hour away, to make more money without actually working?

How would you solve employers discriminating against people that live an hour away or paying a lower hourly wage to someone that lives farther away?
> I'm pretty sure that PHP is not only used for web sites

PHP is explicitly designed to serve web content. It's usage may vary, but it is unfair to expect it to optimize towards anything but as a web backend.
Mean Well has been around for a few decades. They are in a lot of pinball machines too.
I often wonder how much of celebrityhood [minor or major] is a cause of mental/emotional health problems, and how much of it is an effect.

Trading your privacy and dignity for likes and dollars seems like something that is tricky to sustain healthily.
> Elon wanting to colonized Mars is an example that isn't like that at all and his effort seems to have positive side effects

Everything can, to some extent, have some positive side effects. But keep in mind what is the real reason why Elon (and other libertarians) are so interested in colonising Mars - as opposed to exploring other, and much closer, "undiscovered countries", like Antarctica or the ocean floor: the existing legal systems do not reach there, or if they do it's very difficult to enforce them. Their idea is to create a "libertarian paradise" where they would define the rules of the society.

I mean, it has zero chance of working the way they envision it, but they envision it nonetheless.
The web was weird and wonderful. The cure was Facebook and Twitter.

Keep your cure for JS as far away from me as possible, thanks.
3 things:

- the culture is not the same as the US. French people tend to be very financially risk-averse

- the VC eco-system in France exists but it is trash

- people who have the skills to create startups in France tend to do it outside of France because they will have access to better capital/labor markets (for example, DataDog and Docker both have french founders)
> tying TLS to domains instead of IPs impedes anything on LAN,

TLS doesn't care what's in the certs, that's an application concern. IP addresses work fine in x.509 certs, but are discouraged because of difficulty of validating that control of the IP will continue through the certificate validity period. But this wouldn't much help for your LAN use case, assuing you're using RFC1918 addresses, because no one can prove control of those, so no publicly trusted CA should issue certs for them. Same thing if you use ipv6 link local, although I don't know too many people typing those addresses, mostly people want to type in a domain name, and if you make a real one work (which is doable), you can use a real cert; if not, not.

> IPv6 has too much inconsistency in how many bits are allocated to customers, and would be much saner with a more structured ISP/Region/Subnet/DeviceChosenIDThatIsTheSameEvenIfYouChangeISPs scheme so every ISP got the same number of bits.

DeviceChosenID that is the same everywhere is kind of a huge privacy thing that we already had and mostly rejected. Giving every ISP the same number of bits is silly anyway; Comcast needs more bits than [ISP that only serves California], and heirachical addressing is lovely for humans, but not necessarily a great way to manage networks; each regional portion of the network is going to end up doing its own BGP anyway, at which point, the heirarchy doesn't make a huge difference.

> Some level of onion routing could probably just be built right into IP itself, there's not much reason an ISP or even the local wifi router needs to know the destination I'm sending a packet to, if there's a fixed heirarchal structure, it just needs to know the recipients ISP, and the rest could potentially be encrypted at the cost of some negotiation setup complexity.

Source routing exists in RFCs but was quickly dropped. There's a lot of security reasons, but also it just doesn't work that well. The destination is needed to make the best routing decisions.

Say you're in Chicago, sending to me near Seattle, and our ISPs peer in Virginia and Los Angeles (which is a bit contrived, but eh). If you send to the nearest peering, traffic will go east to Virginia, then west to Seattle. If you look up by destination, you'll more likely go west to LA, then north to Seattle and total distance will be much less.
We should base our decisions on the outcomes in a work of fiction?

Are they high on the spice or something?
Implicit in the Turing test is the entity doing the evaluation. It's quite possible that a human evaluator could be tricked, but a tool-assisted human, or an AI itself could not be. Or even just some humans could be better at not being tricked than others.
And people cannot be both, hackers and having a social conscience?
The hallmark of contract employees is not a massive increase in hourly pay, it is the ability to choose when you work and what jobs you take. Minimum wage makes sense for traditional employment because it's all or nothing, it doesn't matter how much you don't want to come into work today, either you work or you're fired. With gig economy work, you can say "eh this isn't worth it for me" when the compensation would be low or if you had something better to do, but still get paid when it would be more advantageous for you.

If people aren't being compensated enough to justify the time spent, they can just stop with no penalties. That for many people a menial gig that pays less than minimum wage is better than any alternative they have access to is the real issue. People should have access to rewarding work and hobbies that they'd prefer to gig work, but you don't fix that by making gig work pay more.
Python's real strength at this point is the ecosystem. If you want speed you wouldn't use Python. Having said that, its better for the planet if default Python is more efficient. Everyone has seen Python code doing stuff Python code should not do at scale.
Show HN: A tool to visualize scale/arpeggio shapes on a guitar fretboard
It's open source - fork it here: https://github.com/nichwch/fretboard-explorer
> I'd rather pay $3 on the toll road and $50k for a surgery myself than pay $10 in taxes towards the road and $100k in taxes towards the healthcare system but receive both of them for "free".

That would be a nice scenario to choose to be in.

However, the US _government_ pretty much spends more per-person than those countries with a social net [1]. So in reality, you're paying those taxes of those social countries and also getting to pay private insurance ontop of that. Although current taxes are lower than the social countries since the government's expenditures are debt financed but if the USG were to stop they'd have to raise taxes to pay it with revenue and then you'll be really wondering why you're paying the same in taxes as the EU and not getting EU benefits.

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.GHED.PP.CD?most_...
The Pharo Launcher has an in IDE tutorial window that opens when you first open the image . Apart from links to documents it also contains an interactive in-development environment teaching you the basics.

One of the images is the Pharo MOOC. The website has links to several documents to get you started.

No offense but you kind of have to look around it to not find the ways in which the Pharo team attemps to get you underway.
Next comes this:

> "The fern leaf thus develops from the inside out and not by randomly dispersed dots that gradually fill the leaf area, as is done with chaos computer programs."

Yeah, real life is not a computer simulation (AFAIK), and thus is not made "of randomly dispersed dots"
It’s not like or dislike, they’re betting on the economic future of Türkiye - and their bet, with their money on the line, is that Erdoğan is bad for Türkiye.
I wouldn't have a problem with that, if only they were in better taste... that graphic looks like something out of XKCD, and the scrolling userlist almost gave me a seizure. Looks like it was done by a teenager or someone with more commercial rather than technical background, and this isn't a praising.
This could just be an annoying issue of how a word is used. Words pick up multiple meanings over time. Certainly "budget" can be used in the sense you say, but "The Budget" is a term for a political event, in the UK and probably Canada which includes other things - much as those of us who like cleanly defined terms would prefer it otherwise...
When you talk to folks in politics around the periphery of Congress and the white house and you bring up major systemic change, in my experience they shake their head and say, "let me stop you there."

There is only 1 issue they care about. They all say it is the root, the basis for any and all other change.

Campaign finance reform. When you are campaigning and fundraising full time you cannot and will not do your job as a legislator. I have heard this over and over and over.

"What if we..." Campaign finance reform. "But isn't..." Campaign finance reform. "How about..." Campaign finance reform.
>Because the French couldn't give a fuck about making money.

lol.

There's about a dozen African countries who would like a word with you.
So like, if writing is one of many extensions of man, then Plato is an anti-McLuhan.
What would you know, random Hacker News commen--oh. Hi Sam, carry on.
AFAIK PinePhone Pro is still far from being a daily-driver-ready, so a comparison with it is almost irrelevant. It has no paid developers, so I don't expect it to be ready very soon.
Here's an earlier tweet of his lamenting what has been taken away from children by the rising dominance of cars in society, a function of suburban living:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1656249684300640259

The growth of suburbs had plenty of drawbacks. Many people will argue they "need a car", aka the price of entry to modern society is thousands of dollars.

Transport is ~28% of US GHGs. But there's no quick and easy way to rebuild cities to facilitate most people getting to where they need to go quickly and cheaply by transit and walking/biking.

There's lots to say on it, but I'm not a great writer!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-seniors-driving-id...

https://jalopnik.com/what-i-mean-when-i-say-ban-cars-1849122...

https://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-Americ...

https://twitter.com/bancars4life

https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatwouldjanejacobsdo/
No-win? People love firm leadership in a time of crisis. It was almost a no-lose, but Trump found a way. If he had reluctantly accepted basic public health measures from the start or even pivoted into them when things got serious ("Stop the China Virus! Wear a MAGA Mask!") people would have loved him for it. He would still be president.

Instead, 3 years later, half the country believes that masks are tyrannical government oppression and IR thermometers are gulag training.
I share this only because the (re-)announcement of Google Labs made me nostalgic for the old one. Google Sets seemed magical when I first used it -- not quite at the magic level of ChatGPT, but amazing for its time. The links to the canned examples still work on this Wayback archived version of the site.
When I first read this I thought it was a deep fake, due to the character Paul Stamets on Star Trek Discovery named after the Mycologist.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Stamets

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Stamets_(mycologis...
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What makes you think it may be irrevocably broken? Worth noting that unlike, say, the USA, Turkey does not have a constitution that was written two hundred plus years ago and is virtually impossible to change or update.
When it's an option, fly Lufthansa. At least in their transatlantic flights, the food was excellent even though I was in cramped economy class. As I recall I had a type of beef stew, potatoes and carrots, salad, bread rolls, butter, and a nice ice cream for dessert.

On domestic flights, I miss Southwest Airlines pre-9/11 snack packs. They had cheese, crackers, cookies, and fruit like apple sauce. Nice pick-me-up in the middle of a three hour flight.
> By this definition 100 humans pushing a stone have superhuman abilities.

Yes, that is accurate. A person with the strength of 100 people would be superhuman. A group of more-than-one humans has more-than-one-human abilities.

> This is not what superhuman means in an AI alignment context.

It is though, at least partially. Chess AI are great at chess because they play a shitload of it. Part of the power of AI is just being able to do the same things we do at vastly increased scale. Even if it could only do that, it would be dangerous.
> The FUD he stirred on basic public health measures swirled for years and we still haven't seen the end of it. Just look at this thread.

By this, I take it you're implying I'm a Trump supporter and that is why I responded the way I did. You are mistaken, and I suggest you re-read what I actually wrote.

Nothing you have said in reply to me refutes the substance of my statements, you are just trying to deepen the politicization of something that was nearly a universal government fuckup, and I mean universal both across political alignments, but also geographically around the world.
Words have meanings and slapping the "hate" label on anything you find mildly distasteful leads to disingenuous discussions. The parent comment is being dismissive at worst.

Assuming you're not sealioning, FAANG employees have a reputation for being entitled: see the famous "What, sushi again?" quote.

(The site hosting the original article seems to down:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/waze-ceo-skewers-silicon-vall...)
nifty. neat linked astrophotography blog: http://wondroussky.blogspot.com/
This claim is completely un-substantiated. Many people around me who have been laid-off are extremely talented engineers.
30+ years of midwest raves did me in. One sound system had 1MW bass bins - have been to some with ~40ft x ~15ft of bass bins. Only one ruptured ear drum in all of that time (Regis - didn't even seem that loud) - that's the ear that is the worst. Doesn't bother me, other than anxiety about potential neurological effects.
everyone on HN somehow thinks they are too smart for ads. get over yourself.
Isn't the currently richest person on earth French?
> genius

Something I invented early in my career seemed like a hotshot thing at the time. But I now realize it wasn't that great, and today I could do much better in my sleep.

One of the benefits of experience seems to be greater understanding of some things, even if that means realizing we're not as smart as we used to think we are.

"Greater understanding" is also one theory for the lower tolerance for BS that some have mentioned here. Early in our career/life, we have less basis to recognize nonsense and to understand its impact. With experience, we start to realize, say, a single thing that's happening has orders of magnitude more adverse impact than we can make up with all a team's clever activity, and that there's no good reason for it.

If, when you say "we urgently need to stop dumping toxic waste onto our lawn, because it's an existential threat to our company and everyone around it", but a very junior person hears only "get off my lawn, you whippersnappers!", well, they'll understand someday. If they survive the Superfund site.
I'm sure. Just trying to illustrate that there's no total replacement for the "real thing".

You may say "of course", but we have people like Bryan Johnson running on drug/supplement cocktails, in a "scientistic" pursuit of Goodhart's Law.

I just hope that he falls apart visibly rather than invisibly, so others don't try to follow in his footsteps.

https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/
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I'm 63 and have been "working with computers" since the mid 70s or so. It's been a great ride and it's not quite over yet.

As to your specific question, perhaps you'd be interested in maintaining some existing open source projects whose mission speaks to you. If you can contribute and bring more value than pain in working with you, I'd expect they would come to welcome your help.

As regards the negatives and imagined negatives of being an older developer, I have to say that they just don't have any sting with me. Nothing has any sting with me anymore.
For someone not educated as a scientist, he has a remarkably solid history of academic publications. Pretty inspiring actually.
The IRS recently got a significant amount of funding, and call times went down by a lot.

There are certainly inefficiencies out there, and we should always be trying to root them out, but sometimes if you starve an organization of funding, it doesn't perform very well. Shocker!
For the record, I downvoted this. I have zero association with YC.

Posted in the interest of providing you the transparency you desire.
There are lots of metrics available to optimize for or use as guidance. The choice of which metrics to pay attention to is a politcal matter.

I don't know that any state made it a policy to optimize for a reduced death rate directly. They chose hospitalizations in the early days and then I think metrics disappeared, or only the R value was loosely paid attention to. That's my point.

If death rate wasn't a chosen metric then it's irrelevant.
Also perfect train security doesn't protect against something on the track, and you can't adequately protect thousands of miles of track. You can reduce, but not eliminate, the risk.

A plane is a self-contained system and most people don't have access to surface-to-air missiles.
By "many countries" do you mean "Sweden, if you cut off the data right before their big wave"?
37 here. I’m probably slower than in my 20s but somehow I feel smarter. I feel it takes me less time to learn new stuff and solve complex issues.