skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the latest episode of the Adam Regusio podcast [1], Adam was speculating that a nonprofit organization could create a program that generates every single possible melody or chord progression in order to release it with a creative Commons license. The idea was that record labels have been suing artists who create similar chord progressions recently to songs from 50 years ago and that he could and the madness.

perhaps that ruling could be justification.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=WE9ibS_6WdY
That'd be interesting to find out. Have you contacted anybody? Couldn't hurt to ask.

A lot of ratings-attracted people really are under the impression that a) third-party ratings are super helpful/crucial, and b) you can get some improved-objectivity from subjective feedback in the right circumstances. But you have to kind of shape the circumstances (rules/mods)

There's also the fact that a lot of commenters and posters are clearly coming from another zone, so to speak. They are feeling bad, and want others to feel bad, and so on.

So, you can get these really peculiar / odd rules & moderation frameworks in similar cases. Which make sense in context.

But yeah, it'd be interesting to know about the history or rationale.
Yes, we do have that. It's at the state level.
Downloading 500KB of pseudorandom numbers is insane. Just generate them on the fly.
Elon Musk says X will strip ability to block accounts
ForeFlight is the greatest app ever created.
This project was reported to Putin as 70% of estimated success chance. And obviously it was very optimistic estimation, so probably everyone understood that.
they care, but they are victim of shitty app development companies, and in turn they are victims of the Android/iOS development ecosystems

fixing is in progress. just as redesign. just as upgrading to whatever next version, and so on.

but costs have already spiraled out of control, there are a lot of competitors, and all this doesn't make sense, but probably has some VC money in it somewhere.
> It didnt have its sovereignty until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.

What? You have sovereignty as soon as you decide it. Especially if you are fighting a war to maintain your sovereignty. If the treaty was never signed, the US would still be sovereign.

Try this extreme example. Imagine if the founders decided to simply wipe out the british and there was no brit left to sign any treaty. Would the silly british king still be sovereign over the US even though the silly british king and his silly kingdom no longer existed? Of course not.
General Aviation still uses lead in their gas, despite it being shown several times in enormous nationwide studies consistently to not be necessary, and often simply requires more cost in maintenance (lead builds up on spark plugs causing a lot of issues).

So environmental impact isn't high on their list already, and this BPA issue is very likely going to be completely ignored by anyone in that field.
ECH seems to have been rolled out in browsers as dev features so idk what the real blocker is anymore.

Edit: it looks like as of late May if you enable some dev flags in Firefox any site behind Cloudflare should use ECH.
Disney is a cover story for the high-tech survivors of Atlantis who have lived among us for thousands of years hiding their weather controlling technology from us. They're causing global warming now so that the seas evaporate and their old city will re-emerge from the cities, along with ancient R'lyeh which they will visit to make sacrifices to the Great Old One, Dread Cthulhu, in the hopes that He will eat them first and release them from this curse.

or. something. Aliens.
It's the most common Chinese swear word, "your mother" (你妈）.
"Individuals are just as capable of doing this,"

Yes, but fiduciaries aren't (and even VCs generally try not to).

" there are plenty of adequately run companies owned by PE

Define "adequate" and which ones are they? I've certainly experienced directly and indirectly enough to know I'm quite burned on them, and I have yet to meet a single person who enjoyed dealing with one, that wasn't one; anyone on the receiving end of endless cost cutting, sell leasebacks, forced vendor changes to more closely align with portfolio choices regardless of sense, etc.

No, the people who seem to love PEs are either Ayn Rand's fluffer contingent, adjacently or are making money off one already without having to be subjected to their profoundly absent graces.

Pass.
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This is some bizarre nonsense about Ukraine: in what way did the US "try to install democracy" there, let alone "failed"?

The only sizable presence of anything of the US origin in Ukraine were Protestant missionaries, unlikely supported or directed by the US government. Everything else was there in such low numbers that it was, essentially, unnoticeable. If anything, the US didn't really pay attention to this part of the world...
Mainly because the message thread is implicitly authenticated, so no additional web login required -- and we want to allow for conversational payments, where you can ask as many questions as you need before committing to pay.
Usually, no you don't. You only write a try ... catch or try ... finally block round the entire method body, from the point where you create the resources you may need to clean up to the point where you no longer need them. For example:

var myFile = File.Open(filename);
try {
while ((var s = file.ReadLine()) != null) {
var entity = ProcessLine(s);
// do whatever you need to do to entity
}
}
finally {
myFile.Dispose();
}

C# gives you the using keyword as syntactic sugar for this:

using (var myFile = File.Open(filename)) {
while ((var s = file.ReadLine()) != null) {
ProcessLine(s);
// do whatever you need to do to entity
}
}
… I think partly this is that Android has lacked a decent QR code scanner (out of the box) for far too long. The hardware has been there forever … but you're forced to choose an app, and thus you have to have the nose to be able to suss crapware from not.

Google Goggles grew the functionality years ago, but even recently it will still deliver Artificial Idiocy level results: I scanned a QR code this year (I think it was?) and the AI thought about it and … told me it was a QR code. "Here are image results from the web of other QR codes!" sigh

So I have a dedicated app for this.

The camera app has grown built in support for them, but the UI is hot garbage. I'm not at all sure how one is supposed to discover it; there's no button for it, no label, nothing to really indicate it. You just point it at a QR code, but it's then pretty terrible at recognizing them, so even if you're doing everything right … you might just get nothing, with no feedback.

So I still have a QR scanner app, as it is far easier to work and more reliable at scanning than the camera app is…
Agreed. If your "hands are tied" because you didn't create the artwork, clearly you didn't consider it worthwhile in your brief to begin with.

Presuming the artist is still around, one would imagine you're capable of commissioning them for a wider array of options. Women represent around half the people on the planet, yet seem to be more of an afterthought, or not a thought at all.

Even for men, the options are pretty "big and blocky" or go home.

As developer93 said, your respond was quite blasé, and absolutely feels exclusionary - the kind of "nothing I can do" attitude just puts across that you don't want to do anything about it, presumably because - given the apparent lack of forethought on including women in the design spec - you don't think it's a problem?
Why doesn't the first paragraph make any sense?

> Best compliment so far. In my professional circles it might even be kind of boring or let's say, logically evident, to a lot of very experienced or intelligent people.

I mean I'm reading it to myself and the words make sense. Do you mean something else, like you personally can't imagine such a professional circle existing?
For reference: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwBEqV9OBTe/
For the curious, seems to be available here:

Original Japanese version with pictures/design/colour: https://www.mediafire.com/file/0eknpsoz6p87af8/完全自殺マニュアル+(鶴見...

English Machine/Human translated .txt file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/qb7b5ha20hyzl56/The+Complete+...
It disgusts me how much duplicated effort there is with services like these. We can debate about the merits of market competition but what are they really competing over? The controlling factor is parking availability, there isn't really anything to innovate about paying for parking fees. The people who choose these apps aren't even really the ones that have to use them the most, because god knows the people that own the parking lot get free parking, and the "markets" for parking lots are not organized such that people who need to park can't really just decide not to park at a particular lot because they realize they use a shitty service to collect fees. This is a huge indicator that these services should be owned by municipal governments and cities should pool their resources on a standard shared platform / software suite instead of duplicating the effort making identical competitors.

Lots of industries like this, frankly. Another one that comes to mind is recruiting. Hundreds of thousands of duplicated man-hours, for what? Are any of them really better than the other? How do you "innovate" in these kinds of industries?
Cool!

I definitely want to see other people's versions, and then I want to see everybody's (or the last 100 or 1,000) averaged together. Also a leaderboard with the best ones. :)
The hiring manager believes that the applicant will get bored and leave the moment something closer to their seniority level becomes available.
That logic doesn’t quite follow because even if overall population is higher, high density living situations are not new. I imagine the inside of a long house in the early evening would have been filled with animal, child, and work sounds. Definitely louder than my modern single family kitchen.
No way am I giving your startup* my phone number. Maybe you can have a custom-generated, one-use-only email address that I can turn off so you don't spam me. (Your startup may be virtuous, but most startups fail, and then my data becomes an asset that gets sold away in bankruptcy.)

I also hope that your startup has been advised on the very significant TCPA liabilities this approach risks. Even if you do everything right, you're going to face lawsuits saying you don't. I have very mixed feelings about the TCPA, and it does hamper "innovation" in some circumstances, but I am delighted that it carries significant litigation risk for anyone who thinks it's a good idea to send me SMS messages. I. Don't. Want. Them.
> it was a military autocracy until the 1980s, at which point it made an incredible shift towards democracy and the economic growth story was one of the world’s most amazing

The economic growth, or at least the seeds thereof, largely came during Park Chung Hee's dictatorship, which ended in 1979 with his assassination. GDP per capita increased over tenfold during his tenure. The shift towards democracy afterwards was tumultuous for a while, with the first real civilian presidency being Kim Young-sam's in the 90s.

You're definitely right that the growth story is one of the most amazing in history. It's a country roughly the size of Indiana with no natural resources to speak of, and over 50 million people (over 10 million more than California, the most populous state) crammed into the few flatlands it has, being a very mountainous country. Yet it was able to go from an agrarian society to a highly developed nation, with the 12th largest GDP, home to feats like building a third of the world's tonnage of ships. It's absolutely wild.
I feel like I just saw a news headline about this too. Wouldn't surprise me if there was an organized push coming from somewhere. It does seem like the faces + comments would be a good dataset.
It approaches qualified immunity.

Consider an AWD BMW without badges. If it's a 3 series or above all you know is that it's either RWD or AWD.

If they tow it by the rear wheels you blow up your transfer case. But try and prove that it was THAT action that blew it up.
I'm muy experience with a Reamed one, on one hand, the noise. It took a lot of time for me to get used to it and fall asleep. I did some adjustments to the machine using the hidden medical menu to improve it (basically, disabled "Expiratory pressure relief (EPR)™" which "maintains regular airflow pressure while you inhale and reduces pressure to make it easier when exhaling")

On the other hand, the masks. I started with moderate success with a nasal pillows one and at some point I started opening my mouth having the worst dry mouth experiences in life.

Then I switch to a full face mask that covered my nose and it itched so hard at night that I woke up just to scratch.

Then I switched to another full face one that left my nose out, but couldn't get it to not leak (I have a lot of facial hair).

Then I got back to the nasal pillows one but I'm taping my mouth close. I've finally had moderate success with this.

I took me like 3 years to get here.
Here are some interesting videos on NMN: https://www.youtube.com/@DrBradStanfield/search?query=nmn

I think the pragmatic position is that NR has better testing in humans and is a bit cheaper, and there's no reason to think that plain Niacin isn't just as good at this point if you can deal with the flush - we don't really have enough solid testing yet, and it's extremely cheap.
Depending on the place, if you fail to pay it's actually more valuable to them, due to fees.
Samples are taken from inside the cheek, maybe when head transplants are more common, but even then you'd need the donor to have committed the crime, left their DNA via saliva, eyelash or such, then died, you receive the head transplant, then get collared for the crime.

All without pointing out anywhere that it's a head transplant and could they use a different source of DNA sample.
I think the argument is that they already have spotify downloaded and are probably already using it. So why NOT use it? Why bother with a dedicated app?

Spotify is also probably more feature-filled than the average crap app thrown on the appstore for quick money as a whitenoise maker. For example the ability to download or send to speakers (like Sonos, Alexa, for example). Plus Spotify has greater selection of noises (yes there are MANY different types of white noise). Plus you can easily switch to your other podcasts and songs when you want.

I for one am an avid whitenoise listener on spotify throughout the day. I will listen to one type of whitenoise in the morning, then listen to a podcast episode, switch to a different type of white noise for a while, then some ambient noises, maybe some actual music around lunchtime, some more soft whitenoise after lunch to focus, another podcast at the end of the day. Doing it all in Spotify has value. Could I switch apps if I had to...? Sure. But a fully-featured music app is a natural place for long tracks of audio, so it makes sense to have it all together.
there was a pushback from vendors who drumroll.... sell dpi
I love the smell of doing a good wipe on my hardware by sticking all of it in the microwave.

The smell of burnt silicon in the morning is what keeps me waking up everyday.
The payment model of “streams per play” has always felt wrong to me. Wouldn’t a more rational be “how does this user’s monthly fee get divided”?

Let’s say someone pays $10/month for Spotify. First Spotify takes their cut, let’s call that $3 but whatever it is. There’s $7 left. If someone ONLY listens to Taylor Swift that month then she deserves the full $7. If someone listens to 50 artists for 20 hours then those 50 artists can divide the $7.

You can set the pool size and divide the pool a few ways. I’ve got ideas for how I think that should be done. But in any case I’ve always thought the division should be on a per-user basis rather than entire ecosystem.
It should have notifications for replies.
A couple years ago we had a major flood event which still hasn't been fully recovered from, so... Maybe that qualifies as more rainfall.
Suspension of civil rights is NEVER okay in democratic societies. If you suspend them, you’re no longer democratic - Period.
The "leaked" document that this entire article is based on has never been backed by anything. I can "leak" a document that includes wild claims. In absence of actual evidence, this is all conspiracy theories.
I just went to the place with the lowest historic cloud cover for that time of year. I'd like to do that again for 2024 but it means the desert in central mexico...
This is by well known constitutional scholars J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe. They refer to the article you linked.
As far as I can tell I can't use that as my root filesystem, right?
> This is a phenomenon I really don't understand.

It's status signaling.

Anybody can send pseudorandom numbers to their audio device, but some people are rich enough to do it on a thousand dollar device, using a paid subscription to download megabytes of pseudorandom data over mobile data, storing it on expensive flash to achieve the same result.

Don't judge it through a rational lens. It's primitive status signaling.
You're clearly trolling, but talking about the empirical lack of inclusion when it comes to female aspects, is in no way connected to misandry, and you're just being deliberately obstinate and facetious in a transparent attempt to cause drama.

Not sure you should be the judge on what is "clearly famine" when you falsely equate being inclusive of women, as being related to misandry. Poor trolling attempt.

As for your fake "facially-divergent" comment, there is a way to go in terms of visibility of disabled people, which would include people with a variety of facial differences from the "norm" -- it's a shame you weren't serious, because you could've almost made a valid point there.
I guess if you s/park/live then this is why everyone concerned would rather poor people just get on with it and die already. I mean if you're not going to spend money then please move along and make room for a paying customer.
Artists tend to be very upset when they make a work for hire, it gets popular decades later, and they don't get any royalties.
I'm looking for that kind of featureset for my root filesystem on MacOs. :/
> I made this game

You moth..f.... piec. of sh..! Now I can't sleep!

EDIT: After having played it a few times, I think you should expand on the idea, because it seems to be a great tool for training visual memory.
> I don't have an answer, but I'm fine with not understanding. Let people have things for their own reasons.

This way of thinking creates things such as Electron.
It's not completely useless, but the US military's existing transport aircraft are not exactly pushing the boundaries of fuel consumption. A regular 777 freighter will get quite a bit further. Ultimately the military don't care about the cost, have many refuelling options, and are relying on much shorter range aircraft in other aspects of any conflict. Plus unlike other areas of aviation, if you solve a range problem with a bigger fuel tank, you don't get beaten to death by the bean counters.

That's quite different from an airline, where a 20% saving in their largest expense against a 3% margin in a price competitive industry is game changing
I’ll answer you seriously: it’s easier to pay $.99 for an mp3 of exactly what you want than spending 30 minutes finangling free software tools.
There’s a huge difference between “identical clone of an existing service” and “a new service”.

My challenge at $dayjob is that it takes months to spin up a new cloud service because they’re new.

Either a new app that wasn’t on the cloud before — in which case the templates need extensive customisation.

Or, new app in the sense that the devs just cracked open Visual Studio and have no idea yet what they actually need from the cloud.

I get maybe 10-20 copies of a template (dev/tst/prd + ha/dr), and then I have to start from the beginning.

Guidance on how to maximise reusability would actually be very useful.

Unfortunately, in the real world, this seems difficult. Many small variations in requirements tends to make abstractions leaky.

For example, one vendor requires active-passive load balancing for licensing reasons. Millions of dollars worth of licensing reasons. Neither AWS nor Azure support anything but active-active in any of their load balancers. (They do in DNS, but for various reasons that won’t work for us.)

Another “new” app (industrial air quality monitoring) is actually from the stone ages and doesn’t support PaaS databases or even 3 of the 4 clustering modes available in IaaS. So a custom load balancer solution is required… just for it.

This is the issue. Everyone that loves the cloud and says it’s simple has easy mode turned on: cookie cutter clones they can stamp out for many identical customers or whatever.

Some people play the game with “big government” difficulty.
Isn't it still possible to put one link into an email without blocking the crawler?
That’s working out great in New York.

They timed the release of photo-rolling with a few years worth of defective, delaminating license plates, and many people deface or bend the plates.
The argument was made that the US/UK "installed" the Khomeini regime, which is an utter absurdity. They supported the Shah for realpolitik reasons during the Cold War. Hussein got spanked in 1991 not just because he invaded Kuwait, but because he was also making noises about going after Saudi Arabia.

And as much as some people on the Internet think this is a Very Bad Thing, oil is and was a critical part of the global economy. An unstable dictator being able to play games with the world's oil supply isn't just a Very Bad Thing for imaginary mustache-twirling capitalists in their monocles and top hats. It's a Very Bad Thing for anyone who has a job or who relies on global trade. Which is, well, everyone. Which is why a multinational coalition under UN authority, which included several other Arab countries, put Saddam back in his place.
Yeah thats the same argument for movies being shorter as well.

Thats why a lot of movies have crept down to 80-90 mins. It allows theaters to fit a whole extra showing into the day, which means more box office revenue. Only the big hits are generally allowed by the studios to be longer (like a Christopher Nolan or James Cameron movie for example).

Because the same thing is true for movies. A theater ticket is going to be $10 regardless of whether the movie is 75 mins or 180 mins. Might as well squeeze more showings out.
I wonder why they did not just add the feature if it is so desired? Feels like the code required and UI changes would be minimal.
I guess I'll go first:

xconfessions by Lust Cinema is pretty good, especially the early ones. They are a collection of 15-20 minute long films based on fantasies that people have submitted. They have a natural progression showing the lead-up (the "why are these people having sex? part) and the actual sex feels pretty genuine.

Any others?
I remember when I moved to DC many years ago we drove to an art exhibit (in an empty building way away from the metro). There was a guy walking up and down the road saying "$5 to park!" I paid him and in the elevator an older woman smugly told me "It's free to park here!" I told her "I know, I'm paying for him to not break MY window." The look on her face....