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> It is a bit like Esperanto or something like that. Maybe I am just brain damaged from growing up in a world with English and other messy spoken languages but my intuition suggests that perfectly structured languages are possibly the wrong approach.

You seem to be implying Esperanto's lack of popularity is related to its regularity, but I don't think it has anything to do with that - it comes down to network effects. It's not an official language in any country. There are very, very few native speakers of Esperanto. Of those blessed few, they obviously have at least one other native language, otherwise they'd be completely cut off from society.

And by the same token, English is popular as a second language due to network effects and the benefits learning it can confer (read: better economic opportunities) and little to do with its regularity. A lot of people have had the experience of learning a bit of Spanish and realizing that English's spelling system is atrociously irregular and we gain nothing by having so many spelling rules that have so many exceptions they can hardly be considered "rules". In fact, English's spelling used to be much more regular, it's just that our pronunciations have shifted a lot over time while the spelling has remained relatively static.

This is all tangential to your larger point, I just like talking about this kind of thing.
Every time I move away from VW and the sounds start to sound stale, some random genre offshoot pulls me back in with full force and takes over my brain completely.

Lately its the whole broken transmission / signalwave genre:

https://intertelecom.bandcamp.com/

https://ct57.bandcamp.com/

Once you start getting into the different genres of Vaporwave, you start wondering are you still in Vaporwave? Where does VW end and the subgenres start?
So is this plane totalled? Or can it be repaired and returned to service?
Valve's ban on blockchain games was more related to their cut of revenue and desire note to bolster systems that bypass it, probably along with KYC concerns converting steam wallet money into crypto.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523878
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Agreed. Affirmative action was a bad idea.

We should never be giving special advantages or holding someone back based on their race.
I figure I would never have competed with this kid; he’s making people like jwz or antirez obsolete, not me! I’ll always be way more mediocre than this person.
Just need the US and EU to follow suit now and the giants can get back to paying for what they use!
I will argue against your first point ;)
...but otherwise pretty much agree.

I learned LISP in college, way back when expert systems were the future of AI.

The worst thing that I could probaby do professionally is to write something in LISP that needs to be adopted and maintained by somebody else in the future.
Hey, incident.io CEO here! Thanks for mentioning us.
There's an implicit assumption that the providers/operators aren't being actively negligent both by the customers and backed up by the fact that negligence can pierce these kinds of releases in most cases.
There are definitely people on Substack who have been able to see success doing the whole "independent non biased news" schtick, but I'm not sure if it's possible to build a NYT level of business doing that.

At the same time, maybe smaller independent news outfits that are run by at most a handful of people, that cover more local news might be able to make it work if they keep their expenses low.
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3) it'll show lawmakers where the laws are good and where they need changes
It's not a matter of ruling narrowly. Gender and sex based discrimination is already illegal in admissions.
Where did you get 30 million? One online source estimates 1 million net worth and has some reasoning to back it up. My guess is that if he has owned a house in the DC area since he has been on the supreme court, he would have a lot of home equity too but probably not up to 30 million
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Meh, I'd sooner believe it treats depression. Try having a Diet Coke and report on the 24h after ;)
Oh, and multi-line statements will be supported from Python 3.13 (https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103124)
To expand on point number 3, the sugar industry is one of the most notorious at utilizing motivated research to its own benefit. If aspartame had even slightest chance of causing illness or cancer, you could bet on the inevitable, unrelenting smear campaign that Big Sugar would be waging against it.
Unfortunately, people have jobs where they don't know every number that might call them before hand, so as part of being responsive clients, pick up.

Until we hunt telemarketers for sport, this will not stop being a miserable experience.
I don't think you'll find metaphorical rock stars working in a team in a salaried job, any more than you'll find actual Taylor Swift doing ten hour shifts in an office building. There's nuance to that though. It's really hard to distinguish yourself working in such an environment, you don't have the time, freedom and energy to do that. And if you can't do that, you won't ever be much of a "rock star".

Not that you can't work as an independent "creative" in programming though.

I've gotten to a point where I can work on Marginalia Search full time, and live off grants and donations for at least a few years. Dunno if I'm a rock star for it, I don't even have a Wikipedia page, but I at least reckon myself a fairly successful busker.

If I don't qualify, then certainly Serenity OS Andreas who made like $300k in a week with his browser shenanigans. Him and a other people far more talented than I am are able to live this way.

But it's a weird game. I think it's more or less all about the right sort of visibility. You distinguish yourself working on some large problem in a public fashion, and people inevitably will start throwing money your way; this enables additional work and additional visibility, it gives even more opportunities.

While maybe not reaching the John Romero levels of rockstar we had in the '90s, this manner of working is certainly closer to the success of a Taylor Swift than being the most talented developer in the IT department.
100% of cases I'm aware of the police acting like someone's being ridiculous for thinking they'd bother to even run some plates captured in a video of a crime predate "defund", which I'm actually tepidly in favor of, since I'm pretty sure we could come up with programs to issue traffic tickets and hassle the homeless for a lot less than what we pay for the police. I've never once known them to lift a finger in the case of an actual crime, regardless of how much evidence you can hand them on a platter.

And I'm not in one of those supposedly-hellhole liberal cities that people claim have legalized all crime or whatever. Direct and second-hand experience with this stuff dates back to the 80s, for me. Zero times have I known the cops to help when a crime's been committed, beyond issuing a report for insurance (and sometimes charging money for that "service") and possibly snooping around to see if they can charge the person reporting the crime with something (hey, they're already right there, so that's a much easier arrest to make!)
It’s reasonable but then you learn that poor Asians do well. They inherit nothing, go to poor schools, but then do well.
Yes, that's the only form.
Brazil is currently considering a similar law that would require social networks to compensate content creators for each republication [1]. However, unlike the situation in Canada, the Brazilian lawmakers have taken into account this scenario. The law mandates that social networks cannot cease publishing the content and must negotiate compensation in "fair terms." Personally, I find this approach to be quite perplexing.

[1] Source: https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/politica/2023/04/50899...
This is the most infuriating thing in Markdown.

Like... why? I never ever need a separate lines stitched together, but I do need a line breaks.
This reminded me of a former boss who, when ill with a cold/flu, would curl up in a blanket with a bottle of whiskey and intentionally dehydrate and overheat himself in the belief that it accelerated the course of the sickness.
I think the target demographic of this isn't somebody who whats a workstation, but people who what to do riscv development, and start porting things like ffmpeg, make sure video drivers are working, and so on.
If anyone want to try, here it is - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-notifier-hacker...

(It doesn't collect or use any of your personal information, cookies or anything)
2FA mule.

Makes all of this very simple.
I was trying to get my head around Temporal a couple days ago, and these brief descriptions of Temporal’s terminology are much easier for me to understand than what I found in the docs.
IMHO, most users of git don't care about the D, they just want a VCS that does network operations faster (CVS and SVN are painful when your server is on the wrong continent) and/or supports a better fork/merge flow.

Centralized VCS makes a lot of sense in a corporate flow, and isn't awful for many projects. I haven't seen a lot of projects that really embrace the distributed nature of git.
News outlets usually provide RSS feeds.

Don't they allow to show the contents of those feeds on websites?

And isn't showing the content of the RSS feed "fair use" anyhow?

When I look at the content of the Toronto Star for example:

https://www.thestar.com/content/thestar/feed.RSSManagerServl...

My gut feeling is that showing those short snippets with a link to the articles should be fair use. Am I wrong?
Neat! Once you're installing something to do terminal plots though, https://github.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot looks the nicest I've seen.

(The nice feature of feedgnuplot of course is that you can _also_ render the plots to images, which youplot can't)
When antagonizing the bear it isn’t insane to look over one’s shoulder and check that your strongest friend and ally is actually right behind you and not just standing by to see what’ll happen.
That is a shallow regurgitation of their opinion that has been repeated out of context in headlines, but it misses their point. The Copyright Office's opinion can be better summed up as:

1. Copyright protects work that humans create

2. Humans sometimes use tools to create their works, that is okay

3. Y'all make up your mind whether your AI is some sentient being or whether it's just a tool. We're just lawyers.

If the wind blows and your typewriter falls off a shelf and writes a novel, it isn't subject to copyright either. That doesn't mean that all works written using a typewriter aren't subject to copyright. It means a human must be part of the creative process.
Wouldn't the DMCA safe harbor apply, it's user submitted content?
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High quality education and resources being gate-kept makes less sense moving forward. Easiest solution is to let a LOT more people in regardless of background. Letting more people in means you get more money anyways. Who cares if letting in more people makes things less "elite". Elitism is cringe.
Yes indeed. The models are too computationally expensive to run locally (7.5Billion parameters). Though you could in-principle swap in any local model.
Nothing that travels at light speed experiences time. For a photon, emission and absorption is a single event.
Microsoft no longer seems to be in the business of putting Windows first. Since they're completely out of the mobile market, they're always going to have be a cross-platform software company now. They want to sell software subscriptions and that requires going to where the users are.
I'm not smoking anything. I'm merely speculating on what I think is a rather interesting hypothetical situation. It's generally interesting enough to sell millions of copies of books and thousands of movie tickets on similar subjects, after all. I just think being told that you've been lied to for decades, your elected leaders don't really call the shots but some classified group does unilaterally for the entire planet, there's some unknown creature potentially at the top of the food chain prowling the planet for the first time ever, and now you have to just suck it up and go back to flipping burgers to be rent burdened, is a really hard pill to swallow. For reference, we've gotten close to civil unrest in the past, when it became clear with the Pentagon Papers to the public that they were lied to about Vietnam being winnable and the scope of the conflict, and public opposition eventually forced the war to end. People were facing conscription and burning their draft cards. To think the working public today, as squeezed as they are by the elites, might face extraterrestrial threat and the greatest lie of all time and just clock in the next morning like nothing has changed, I think, is a bit of a gamble.
No.

I don't like to be notified about anything non-critical. I take time in my day to check the 'threads' link at the top of Hacker News and spend the 10 seconds or so it takes me to see if anyone has replied to anything I posted over the past few days and if I feel it warrants a response.

If it does I pop a note in my to-do list along with a link to the comment in question and get around to it later.

The last thing I want is yet another ping to tell me someone replied to me on a social news site. One of the reasons I comment on Hacker News is that it doesn't poke me in the eye for every reply I may get.

Honestly if Hacker News were to add this feature I would disable it instantly or maybe just not bother interacting with the community if they did it in an invasive way that I cannot disable, although that is quite unlikely.

Quick edit: I didn't mean for the above to sound hostile to what you have made. Apologies if it comes across that way. I just feel very strongly about over-notifications in todays world. For those that want it hopefully they find your extension helpful!
Wrong - I can use Qt and QML to make an app that compiles and runs, unmodified, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and others. It can even run on web with WASM. And I wouldn't call web apps "native" or "the best".
>Steam refused to publish the game due to some obvious copyright issues (like they told Midjourney to generate superman or one-piece characters)

from post:

> contains art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties.

So I'm guessing 2
I must ask, how did you notice that?!
It's a common fallacy that increasing the dose necessarily increases the effects. There are a whole lot of chemicals where the relationship is more complex. There are drugs where negative effects only occur when the drug is discontinued, where the effect of the drug increases or decreases as it it taken continuously, where the effect rapidly saturates and does not increase with increasing dose, and so forth.

I know enough about pharmacology to know that I know nothing.
Are you sure it's Github and not your ISP or something? I've just pushed commits to a bunch of repositories in the past half hour.
I think Banks is quite unique in his presentation of a space-faring civilization and I love him for it. If you want to start with the Culture novels you can't go wrong with either Consider Phlebas (more of an outside look and a bit of critique of the Culture) or Player of Games (the Culture is much more fleshed out).
The author is on his Discord server basically 24/7, he's definitely not contributing to this problem.
Hey, home', I can dig it. He ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap-up on you, man.

[Subtitle: Yes, he is wrong for doing that]
Probably cocaine. By the looks of it.
What about people who come from families who immigrated into US very recently? On both ends of affirmative action. Why would sub-Saharan african immigrant get a preferential treatment while eastern european one wouldn’t?
That's a really cool overview. Some charts have a very high variance, and others very low. I wonder whether that volatility is a function of volume of users/reports or of user technical savvy. Pretty interesting either way.
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This is a bullshit argument. There is zero liability for Valve here. They are a publisher, and are fully protected by the DMCA. Have they received a single takedown request for AI generated art? Why are they judging it to be possible infringement then?
Yeah he does seem to have a somewhat cohesive and distinct philosophy of his own that undergirds his decisions and that's been underappreciated given his influence over the Court and American jurisprudence
> Don’t worry, just send to any of my addresses, and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.

thank goodness for the ignorance of our betters.
It's always so funny seeing these kinds of comments from throwaway accounts
Going a step further, I think google should stop crawling websites that are paywalled. When I search for something, I want to see results that I can click on. Not some snippets from NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg and others which are heavily paywalled.
No, the sources which are not credible are "defiantamerica.com" and "dailymail.co.uk".

There's an old saying: you can't believe everything you read online.
Yes, the tech world puts these folks on pedestals but they are really just trend followers. The club is small and unless you went to an elite high school and then an elite university you’re probably not getting in. But the difference between these VCs and the average technologist is just a lot of polish and elite backgrounds.
VCs main alpha is that by network/relationship, physical location, cultural convention, and investment mandate.. they have access to pre-IPO tech companies that most regular Joes have to wait until they IPO to invest in (years later, at greatly inflated prices by then).
This is just a dispute of semantics over what the word "law" means. The fact remains that the United States government has been designed from the start to have legislative bodies that pass statutes, and judicial bodies which do not pass statutes. If judicial bodies effectively pass or amend statutes by exercising too much control, then we have a fundamental breakdown occurring with respect to the design of the system.
I personally avoid living near interstates. The noise, the pollution & the walkability around them generally suck. YMMV.
Why don’t companies have pros make things and non-pros maintain those things after they’re made?
Making movie trailers with Zeroscope, ElevenLabs, and GPT-4
Why is the base assumption here that journalists be the ones to pay for this?
Who are the players in Big Sugar who works exploit this? Can’t be the likes of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, because they’d also be part of Big Aspartame.
Who are the players in Big Sugar who would exploit this? Can’t be the likes of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, because they’d also be part of Big Aspartame.
I'm pretty sure they only went because the CEO/owner went along. Seems like a reasonable assumption to make as a customer that the CEO wouldn't risk his life.
Don't obsess over the price you get for used stuff.

If you want, post for sale high, and lower the price over time until you get a sale.
> We need to stop being this judgy. People should be allowed to make decisions - including the decision to trust someone else

The important distinction is whether people can make an informed decision to trust someone. If you're going to take non-expert passengers on some experimental craft and using loopholes like labeling them as "crew" I don't think you can say they're really making an informed decision.
He follows ~21,700 accounts. Do you think he shares or endorses the opinions of all those accounts?
There are 5 platforms Microsoft wants to support: Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, and Web.

These new Microsoft applications run on all these platforms identically across all these platforms and mostly with the same code.
This sounds almost psychopathic or maybe it is just ragebait trolling.
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I think you have the economic history of the cotton gin backwards there. The slave economy was much more tobacco-centric before the cotton gin, because even with slaves, cotton was too labor-intensive to be worth large scale agriculture before the cotton gin. The cotton gin is a good example of Jevons paradox, where making something more efficient (in this case, making cotton harvesting more labor-efficient) ends up increasing demand (in this case, of cotton-harvesting labor).
On the effects of AI on the enterprise software industry
Why does anybody still pay attention to this guy?
Right, but lack of good signals should be regarded as a bad signal too

The status page backend should actively probe the site, not just being told what to say and keeping stale info around.
Plenty of people would probably argue that Rogan has been leading the way to higher quality. It's why we now have countless of 3-5 hour podcasts where people are allowed to go through all nuances, finish their thoughts and we don't have to rely on the 30 seconds soundbites that TV and traditional media filters give us.
....how can they see the area where the front gear is from within the plane?
I was hoping they were gravitational waves from a monster, darn title getting my hopes up.
I can't stand the guy, but if you're going to make accusations like that you should bring receipts.
I had a neighbor at one point who kept a compressed air horn next to his phone (back when phones were things that hung on walls or sat on tables), and every time he got a telemarketer he'd blow it in the receiver until they hung up. Funny for a while, but got old fast.
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Not a single day passes without a MAJOR outage in a Microsoft owned service.
true. wonder if there's something like the average of the 2 best bids that would mitigate this problem. coupled with anti-corruption enforcement...
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Mick West’s analysis involves the gimbal lock idea, which I am convinced of, but he claims that the infrared shadow is the shape that a two engine plane gives off when it is at an angle, and one engine is occluded by the plane’s body. This seems more plausible to me than dust on the dome, which I imagine those sensors must have some way of handling or they would be useless.
It runs in the terminal, so you can also CTRL-r it!
MS-SQL definitely has a few performance implications... you also have limitations in terms of indexes. It also doesn't help that there are subtle differences between the different databases in terms of how this is handled.

Aside, I really wish that MS had simply had an updated behavior for TEXT, where it behaved like VARCHAR(MAX) under the covers, given the underlying database was updated to version N. Which would be slightly easier to deal with in practice and more similar to say PostgreSQL where that is effectively already the behavior.

Aside: None of this accounts for proper Unicode (UTF-8) normalization for indexing/size. Which leaves it to the application to deal with in practice.
I should mention that I clicked on every single link to see the contents before classifying it, which is part of what made this so tedious
Because AI IP law is murky, and that's all Valve cares about.
Nice to hear your perspective. Just asking, You wouldn't use it even if it's just a badge (or an indication), and nothing intrusive like a push, or a popup?
I sometimes do find different prices for same products with amazon pushing me to buy product with prime shipping.

If you use an extension like Honey, it will warn you that a product is available for lower price without Prime.
This is how real estate works. It's called "escalation" in real estate.
So if I understand correctly, those companies are now going to be forced into paying for products that they cannot just stop using?