skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital audio killed the industry. Why buy an album when you can

1. Use Napster
2. Use Limewire or Kazaa
3. Download from FTP trading sites
4. Torrent from Pirate Bay
5. Listen on YouTube
6. Listen on Spotify

Digital supply is effectively infinite so the price goes to zero. How to apply DRM to files ripped from a CD that can be compressed down to 3 MB?

There are other factors, like changes in youth culture and competition from other forms of entertainment, but digital audio + distribution completely transformed the music ecosystem. In the 1990s it was possible for talented, intelligent young people to start a band and pursue music as a career because the expected return was so much higher -- not only monetarily but in cultural cachet and the excitement of the local "scene". But all that has dried up. Labels aren't giving out big advances, nurturing unknown bands, or paying for million dollar albums any more, because they won't recoup the costs like they used to. Meanwhile potential talent got a job, went to college, or stayed home and played video games.

Once music lost its "goods-character", as Carl Menger would put it, all the upstream inputs -- like fancy, palatial recording studios -- withered away.
And you are the customers of those companies advertising. That's leverage, too.
I don't know about the joke format, but the ideology reminds me of the rationalist's version of Baudrillard's simulacra: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/simulacrum-levels

At higher levels of simulacra, the statements people make are less about reality, and more about what they want people to believe they believe about reality.
Lustvig is a crackpot.

https://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-t...

His understanding of what happens to fructose in the liver is fundamentally incorrect.
It’s not about groveling. It’s about demonstrating that you have the skills and experience they are looking for.

You are selling something, why should anyone buy it? Convince them.
Nothing special. Just use preinstalled system and don't even think about using anything else.
Expo supports custom native code including your existing modules. It is a much smaller step to start using Expo if you are already using React Native.

Using Expo without EAS, the paid services, is definitely supported. The Expo framework is free and open source and is designed to be generally decoupled from EAS. "npx expo prebuild:{android,ios}" will generate "android" and "ios" directories that can be built with existing build processes.

Expo: free and open source framework. Includes Expo CLI, Expo Modules, Config Plugins, Expo Router, debugging tools.
EAS: hosted paid services. Includes builds, submissions, updates, credentials. Works with any React Native project whether or not it is using Expo.
How do we kill Google? They were great for 10 years - so so for another 10 - but now they’re outright hostile towards the free internet and must be put down. So how do we do it?
My interpretation of that is not they want recent music but they want novel music.
Give me 3 examples of Bolshevik influence that still remain today.

You don't even need to give me positive examples, just examples.
For the larger ones, heating a room.
Just got mentioned on the latest Dough Roller podcast FWIW, from July 21.
Unlike recent versions of Office, old ones didn't call home, and Microsoft doesn't really have an idea of how many copies of their software are still in use in some cases.
Isn't this easily "defeated" by the use of a web proxy? Won't corporate web proxy software just replace the token with a generic company token?
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There's no way he found this without actually performing sql injection attacks. Not a good idea.
No, my argument is that it doesn't take a smartphone to be distracted in class. And that electronic entertainment devices have been available for many decades.

None of this is new. Children being distracted in classrooms is nothing new. If there's children, there's socializing, playing games, and ignoring adults for the much more interesting other children.'

Cell phones are just the new boogyman, like CD players and walkmen and gameboys etc. were back in the day.
Sometimes that comes from the fact that a long running project gets bigger and bigger. So your upgrades may coincide with expanding projects.

At least for groovy dev (IntelliJ is basically the only IDE you can use for groovy functionally AFAIK), it starts to really slow down once I get to 50-100 classes, and starts to trend to unusability. There's definitely a nonlinear growth in the impact of more code.

So I need to split my projects into sub-jars, a bit of a PITA.
Unless the US disappears it seems pretty clear which of those two choices we will end up with, unless of course there are other choices.
It’s also a sign you aren’t looking. Yeah, music is going to be trash if you’re just looking at what’s popular on the radio/TikTok/charts. Spend some time on bandcamp going through what’s been posted in your preferred genres.
"Eventually" is definitely the keyword here. I remember problem with Setting Sync (where the Material Theme UI plugin would bloat the setting size too large for it to sync and it just throw error without allowing user to try to fix it) that was on their issue tracker for years until one day a dev came in, asked for the log, and the entire thing was fixed within a week.
Part of the issue with SaaS is when they're rushed to build using the "fastest" technologies or platforms. Then, when they get bigger, they end up having a much higher break even burden.

Building with boring technology on the other hand can remain very low in monthly costs and still provide a lot of scale and capacity for users.
No disrespect, but...is this comment AI generated?
Is it possible for them to implement this API in such a way that it will fail 5% of the time or so, making it impossible for websites to deny individuals based on failing attestation?

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900k AI Job
You answered your own issues. Dont open untrusted documents from the net. not running while connected to the net seems mute as the software doesnt directly access the internet.
Seems like issues even the most up to date software suffers from.
This. The half life of caffeine is ridiculous, compared to our assumptions.
> it’s the maths for neural networks largely multiplying large arrays/tensors together?

Yes, it's multiplying and adding matrices. That and mapping some simple function over an array.

Neural networks are only that.
> I've never been in an interview where the interviewer looked at my profiles on various code hosting platforms

I guess one thing Simon didn't consider is that as long as the vast majority of developers (let alone people) express no creativity, your interviewers won't either.

> ...they could send over recent PRs

As long as the cultural norm is NDA - better known as Not Doing Anything - it won't happen.
The license on a linker shouldn't matter. It isn't injecting copyrighted code and there's already precedent for excepting trivial boilerplate in the GPL ecosystem so nothing in the generated binary should be affected by a copyleft license on the tooling. AGPL would only restrict deploying a privately modified linker via a network service which isn't a realistic scenario for a basic dev tool.
Why I don't like LinuxCAD (1998)
Pack a beach umbrella.
I'd be interested to hear what some of those gaps are from your perspective, as they represent opportunities for community creators.

In other words, what resources do you wish existed?
Media Objectivity and Bias in Western Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
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How is it crazy? Jetbrains' IDEs provide more than enough value as it is. I don't want to pay for features like their collaborative coding or AI assistant that I won't use.

Would you rather them roll out cost-plus pricing or roll up the cost of new features into higher base prices?
> but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine.

This is why I don't use FF (although I'm on Linux). It's unusably slow for me. My experience is not the most common one (indicating that there's something about my ecosystem that FF hates), but I haven't been able to make FF work in any of the releases starting a couple of years back, I think.

I don't browse on my phone at all, so I won't be using FF there purely for that reason.
> It demonstrates careful work with every function documented in Doxygen comments and a development manual entirely designed to raise the bus factor to infinity.

In my experience, not a single employer cares about documentation.
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I object to the original claim that "10% of [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] were captured and tortured during the war."

As best as I can tell, Stockton is the only one who might fit that description, and the cited support for Wikipedia"s "five weeks of brutal treatment" doesn't help me understand how that specifically was torture, unless all "brutal treatment" is considered a form of torture.

He lost his wealth, including his library and animals. That's surely an emotional shock that could easily lead to depression. I can understand how someone from privilege, with a lot to lose, may be more affected than a poor person with little to lose. I can also understand how that depression may make it harder to survive wretched circumstances. But I also don't want to give special dispensation to wealthy people just because they are used to a good life.

All of the resources I've found about the event trace back to the biography I've been quoting. The book "His Sacred Honor, Judge Richard Stockton" surely has more, but I can't find a copy online.

I am unable to answer your question about the book. I believe that if "civilized warfare" is a meaningful phrase in a 1770s US context then it's surely influenced by Vattel.
SpecularCSS Open Source Library / Barbiecore
If you're looking to create that shiny, happy, Barbie plastic look, you might give the SpecularCSS open source library a look. If you're more into steampunk or other aesthetics, it can help with those too.

It can be used just for fun or, when used judiciously, can be used to create more functional and attractive web applications.

SpecularCSS:
http://www.specularcss.org

GitHub Repo:
https://github.com/amegahed/SpecularCSS

Example:
https://specularcss.sharedigm.com/vendor/specularcss/demos/demo3/index.html

Material Configurator:
https://specularcss.sharedigm.com/vendor/specularcss/demos/demo2/index.html
Exactly. This is common also with other tech companies. I knew an ex-Facebook employee who was defending them at the height of their "Facebook Research proxy monitoring underage kids traffic" scandal. I'm sure his team was trying to be moral in their work, but people don't realize this doesn't generalize to massive corporations or even that in their bubble their morals may be perverted.
I can't recall where I read it but the biggest danger with having a fat paycheck is that your lifestyle changes drastically. More money? Well, now you can do/afford more expensive things, you can take more luxuries, have a bigger place, a fancier car, and so on.

And the problem comes when you have to cut back all that, you need a job that can support that lifestyle. I believe the best thing you can do if you have a fat paycheck is to exactly take the opposite approach: keep living simply, save as much as you can, yes give yourself a treat from time to time, but essentially keep an average lifestyle.

The day you need to go elsewhere and you find out that you are against the wall because you need that much money and you can't find a similar income is when you're basically screwed.
So your position is, they'll never do it, and if they did, it's fake. Sounds like self-peasantization.
Nope, I've never seen that. Iceraven is just Firefox for Android with more extensions enabled, about:config support, and a couple of other minor annoyances fixed.
For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center>

<https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/>

I'd advise heavy dosings of salt in reading this or the other 25 parts of this book-length "Abundance" series, though as an insight into present trends in Libertarian cornucopian theology, it may be useful.
What makes you think that fish are in ANY way different than land animals or even humans? Why should they not suffer from being captured and not being able to live freely in their natural habitat?

In what way is my POV biased? What you describe is a purely egoistic attitude. Ask the question: Who does this serve?

Your answer might be: primarily the animals (this includes fish). But this is not true, as the only reason we would have to conserve any species in the first place is because we humans (almost) drove them to extinction by e.g. killing them for profit (e.g. leather, ivory, etc.), burning their habitat for animal feed (which happens when you eat land animal meat) or by overfishing (which happens when you eat fish). Either way, the reason is not valid because the root cause is driven by human behavior, which almost all people causing it could change it in an instant - but they choose not to. Why? Because their pleasure is more important than non-human animals' lives.

Hence, the answer is: the humans who pay for it. It only serves the entertainment of humans at the cost of the (non-human) animals.

Kids visiting a zoo for sure don't consciously think "its OK to capture animals for amusement", but they get subconsciously conditioned by the fact that it is portrayed as "normal".

My guess is that you never researched about how zoos work. If you did, I promise you will be shocked what happens behind the scenes in order to "give kids a view into a world beyond the one in which they live day-to-day".
You mean those would work like a virtual single GPU with 48GB vram?
> gender dysphoria is essentially a mental illness to be cured

I thought this was the progressive opinion? Gender dysphoria is a mental illness and transitioning is the treatment. What’s the accepted view now?
The choice of lobster was because I replied to a comment claiming lobster had become a luxury good, due to increasing rarity.

Here is some index of north american lobster catch: http://www.asmfc.org/species/american-lobster

Looks as though it may have stalled a bit since 2015. But before that lobster catch definitely grew a lot.

Obviously with things like lobsters there'll be geographical variations, but I don't think there's any reason to suppose that lobsters have become a luxury good due to scarcity.
Support of covid vaccine mandates was stronger on the left than the right, which caused some right-wing voters to have biased views of the vaccine. It's not clear that mandating a vaccine leads to more vaccination in the long run.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230726145615/https://www.washi...
Currently development and standardization occurs in the open, on GitHub and elsewhere. When it's decided that's no longer possible, I hope you realize that this kind of targeted harassment is what led to its demise.
Show and tell of what you're learning is really valuable too.
Ah yes. The "Uncle Ted" approach, but a bit more mild. At what point do we go full Ted?
Still no Wayland support.
What I reject is evaluating the a job maket and completely ignoring the market participant, treating them as interchanagable.

Sure, many people suffer from self delusion, but that doesnt mean that their individual characteristics are meaningless.

If Jeff Bezos wanted to make tools, with all the power and money he has, he would have a much better chance than the average market participant.
People used Firefox because it was installed on their computers by the neighborhood nerd. Something similar must happen now. People have to cease using gmail, google search and google maps.

Alternatives need to be built and advertised.
He is just a bully - why some people on HN worship him is puzzling.
That’s unenforceable in the US where I presume this site is hosted.
That doesn't sound so bad to me...I mean, so long as the there is chemistry in the banter and the commentary is not grating
Yeah, Chinese characters radicals are not an alphabet per se, while Hangul has separate, standalone letters. It's literally a matter of composing them in a fixed way, compared to Chinese characters which tend to go bananas on how many thousands of ways they can be composed.
> Perhaps MS Bing offers more money.

> Or they build their own ad system.

And we still are being tracked by BigTech with the same business model that people object when Google does it.

> Or pivot into some other business area.

And what other method do you suggest for funding besides ads or people paying for the browser? The second option has never been a long term successful business for browsers?
I guess this is related to: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...

edit: The linked article is from February, the fire happened today.
Potential collapse of Gulf Stream system could have catastrophic climate impacts
It wouldn't be centralized
I also thought of this, I would try to make ChatGPT pretend like a human to test customer interest in a potential idea - or conduct user interviews. If you can really build a high fidelity human simulator even for a limited context, I will bet this has immense value - the value should be in the fidelity to a human in depth, not in breadth IMO. Good luck! There was a related Economics paper on this a while ago (but there seem to be more than a few papers on this now), I can't find it, wanted to link it.
> our health insurance for our family is provided by our jobs

I was not sure how this worked. I knew that the US does not have universal health care (not having it is one of those famous American things) but I assumed that it works on a private basis - you chose an insurance company if you want (and can afford) to be insured, you pay them $X per year and you are covered. Having this tied to your employment gives your employer terrible leverage over you. That would certainly stressed me out.
FWIW, there were more gameboys sold than there are people under 18.

73M children, 118M gameboys.
This sounds like Patreon.

Imho, the "just buy it" or "patreon to access the development discord/forum/whatever for OSS" seem like the best approaches. Like, I'm in Mastodon's patreon, and I'm happy to buy software. And while it may sting, I'm okay with "major release = new version buy it again". Not fond fond of installed local non-cloud software in the SAAS business model.
And here is mentioned «LinuxCAD Impressions» by Robert Wuest published in Issue 30 of Linux Gazette, July 1998.[0]

[0] https://linuxgazette.net/issue30/wuest.html
You're comparing apples to oranges. Personal, individual annoyance from a group of women being rowdy vs. the physical aggression, and undertones of violence that are associated with it, that comes from a group of drunk young guys.
There is a similar problem with the handling of homeless as far as I know. Getting a 'mentally-ill' person off the street before they do damage to others requires the state to define a mental and behavioral baseline for ones right to self-determination.

Screwing that one up also sends us back to a really ugly place.
Yeah, this guy lost me right there.

Speaking as someone who works at Google, but not on anything at all related to ads, browsers, or ad spam detection, I only wish that the attackers who (try to) make a living out of scamming Google and its advertisers out of money were as incompetent as the author of this article appears to be.
Relevant news: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...

Seems to me the problem currently is that while the probability of an electric car catching fire is very low, if it does so the fire itself is of the very nasty kind.
Are you aware that this heavily biases your hiring process against parents and other people with little free time?
No it doesn't. It claims overfishing in many areas. Not a decline in lobster.
Ask HN: Effective Collective Action to Prevent Web Integrity API Adoption?
I see some suggestions and ideas spread across threads and might be beneficial to collect them.

Legislative action and Firefox adoption banners were mentioned. Any other suggestions?
I don't think it's a total improvement, but it takes about a day or two to get used to. Feels like a well tested sidestep to just not be stuck with such an old UI and not turn off new comers.
Cloud GPU providers are running low on capacity at the moment as people frantically suck up capacity to hop on the AI bandwagon, raising worries about availability. So having guaranteed access is maybe one motivation for local GPUs. But for me the main reason to go local is more psychological. I've mostly used cloud compute up until now but whenever I'm paying an hourly cost (even a small one) there is a pressure to 'make it worthwhile' and I feel guilty when the GPU is sitting idle. This disincentivizes playing and experimentation, whereas when you can run things locally there is almost no friction for quickly trying something out.
Probably upvoted due to the vehicle carrier that's currently on fire in the Netherlands?
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/07/putting-out-cargo-ship-fire...
“Please be civil while we destroy the web as we know it. We also put earplugs in, just in case.”
I've been using FF as my default browser on desktop and mobile for at least 4 years. I've had zero issues. In fact, if I need to use their dev tools, I find them superior to chrome. I don't understand the shade Mozilla gets thrown at them.
And yet children playing games on their phones and aren't the equivalent of your wildly inappropriate metaphor?
No, not at all. Search "remote attestation" and "safetynet".
Security is probably the biggest reason. With attacks growing continually more sophisticated, it’s not enough to just patch holes as they’re found — you have to engineer entirely new systems to not be drowned in holes. This unfortunately has compatibility implications.

Look at macOS for example, which over the years has gained app sandboxing and mobile-like access permissions. Software pre-dating these additions that assumes that it has access to everything all the time will have its functionality impaired. Devs had to update their software to not make such huge assumptions and to handle no access cases gracefully.
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Should they just not implement the feature at all, or would you like them to pay for it?

I don't understand what the exact problem is you're having.
> You don't have to worry about quality control

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, as a large part of software development is QA testing, and validation. Which is a form of quality control.
I understand where they are coming from, but in a market with a lot of EV's it seems it'll just drive customers to the competition.

No-one wants a fire on a ship, and lithium batteries in a fire aren't fun, but if you want to transport cars then I guess you'll need to figure something out to stay in business...
I'm very curious what your other components are and how you managed to fit 2 3090s in one PC.