skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand pg's piece or how PR works. The idea is that the article is there because it was pitched by a PR agency rather than the journalist sniffing it out. The grain of sand that creates the pearl is from the PR agency. There's not a corrupt payment; the client pays the PR company, the PR company doesn't pay the publication. The PR company and their client don't need to offer a corrupt payment because they are giving the publication something useful - an easy start on an article - but it's at the editor's discretion whether it makes it to the audience.

A newspaper/magazine/site wants to fill pages with things of interest. Sometimes it's investigative (though often these are built through tip-offs anyway), sometimes it's fluffier. The PR company is briefed by the client and then develops things to pitch that suit a particular publication. They build these relationships over time and don't want to destroy them with consistently bad story pitches. PG's article goes through this.

If there's a business person profiled on the front of the careers liftout, that was the work of their PR company. PG estimated half of the news, but I'd guess it to be higher than that. Once you've seen behind the scenes, you recognise it in almost every article.

I didn't read this Metallica article, but the client could've been Metallica, the venue, or something else. If there are quotes from Metallica, that will almost certainly tell you it was them. The writer doesn't need payment from the client or PR company because they are being handed an interview opportunity on a platter, or exclusive quotes or convinced that some other element of the angle will be of interest to their readers (stage configuration, etc).
Based on the last several HN topics about TikTok, I'm assuming it's a matter of time before the shills get here. I want to just put this out there as something to consider.

The people of America don't deserve harm for actions that the US government did to countries in the past. TikTok is a poison to our society, using classic social media tactics of manipulating the dopaminergic system to convince the user to spend money. The word "user" has a specific meaning in the world of addiction, and it's no accident that tech chose to use this word.

A lot of "Americans" are only a couple of generations removed from an immigrant. They comprise [25%](https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/chart/first-and-second-...), of the population, or over 75 million people. If there were a nation of just "First- and second-generation immigrants to America", they would be the [20th biggest country](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...), just ahead of Thailand and behind Germany.

You might think that it's okay to "hurt" the caricature of an America in your head. Fat, lazy, entitled. There's no need to go into why that's bad. But if you DO think that way, keep in mind that there are a lot of Americans who are genuinely good people and would be thankful to have you as a friend.

Just thought those commenters should know that before wishing vague ill-will towards Americans.
Anyone who uses linux/freebsd will know what DRM actually means in this context
"I'm just describing reality" is what I hear an awful lot in response to "wouldn't it be better if we..."s. My issue with them is that it's not mutually exclusive. Just because you've got one realistic option per election (namely: second-worst, such that first-worst doesn't get to win) doesn't mean that the same party is always going to be "yours".

I think this line of thinking is part of the cause. It's compatible with "reality" to not think of either party as something one needs to be loyal to and, instead, look at your options. It's not a package deal
Except DRM in this context is a Direct Rendering Manager [1] which is a slightly different struggle getting pixels onto the screen.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
This undifferentiated trend of “screen time” as a catch-all can’t die soon enough. There’s a massive qualitative difference between letting your kid tap on whatever the YouTube algorithm recommends for hours unsupervised and other, beneficial use cases. My son’s major motivation for learning to read came from watching us play Breath of the Wild and getting tired of not knowing what was going on. Lately we’ve been playing the remake of The Oregon Trail and using it as a springboard to discuss the history of westward expansion in the US.

We are adamant that he not watch advertising or make heavy use of recommendation algorithms and have explained why and what they are and what the difference is, but he’s welcome to watch as many pre-downloaded Dr Binocs videos as he likes (for example).

All that said, his daily chores include getting the eggs from the chicken coop, weeding the garden and the heavy “screen time” season is winter when our days are very short and wet.
I was introduced to Pascal’s Turtle Graphics back in the 90’s. I thought it was cool but never had a real use for it; x,y seemed easier for some reason. I started drawing SVG’s for a laser engraver and suddenly I wish other languages had them. I even started to write my own but I don’t know the math (even though I hear it’s relatively simple). I may get back to that but I figured out that simple scaling gets me there by reducing the cognitive load of pixels.

I don’t know if this makes sense but I was feeling nostalgic for turtle graphics.
Or a government organisation. Or a charity.
NHC was solid with their rain prediction:

Los Angeles and San Diego are both expected to see about 2 to 3 inches of rain. Substantially more rain — 4 to 7 inches or more — is probable in the mountains to the east of Los Angeles and San Diego.

What got screwed up was translating that into "OMG HAIR ON FIRE", because that level of rain happens every few years, and while it can cause damage, it is not that big a deal. It is rare in summer, but not rare in Southern California.
Can you explain what you mean by an un-repeatable process? This isn't a physical science, you don't need your own reactor or chemical lab or anything to repeat what they've done.
Indie stuff is on Bandcamp.

Mainstream stuff, iTunes has the biggest collection, but Qobuz and 7digital more reliably have lossless (a lot of the iTunes long tail is stuff encoded in the mid-00s) and work without a dedicated client app.
It is entirely irrelevant because cell phone companies add “analytics” (spyware) as part of their firmware stack… which Google and anyone else cannot block.

Use no cell towers or agree to be tracked. Lol.
If you're getting targeted with major browser zero-days, ads are the least of your concern.
I know what happens to me after I die, but what about those left behind?
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It's possible to generate 12 ET too, by rounding all the keys and harmony changes. Just as 12 ET is a good approximation to Just Intonation, Just Intonation is also a good approximation to 12 ET. The tones lose some accuracy but gain compatibility with MIDI interfaces.

However, it would be hard for me to implement this feature, since I have no midi devices, no midi experience, and my browser (Firefox) also doesn't support WebMIDI.

I'm thinking about implementing record-and-replay, since the playback and storage-format are already done, but midi will likely be deprioritized unless there is significant interest.
Precisely, Not to defend Namecheap but we are in a different time. I don't know everyone's age on HN. But If they were just 40s, they would have lived in a zero interest era for 15 years and nearly all of their professional lives. We are having inflation, cost of money going up. The margin that used to work for Namecheap may no longer works for them now. And you have plenty of option outside of NameCheap. And again, none of this could be called rent seeking.

Of course there is an argument in US and Tech today ( as shown in many of the comment ) that margin is somehow evil. And should be as low as possible. I guess that is a different argument.
> Deployment of solar and wind is just much faster and ends up being much more cost competitive.

There's literally nothing stopping us from building _both_ solar+wind and nuclear. There's no shortage of construction workers or materials. And it avoids the need to build large, expensive, and relatively short-lived (and resource-intensive) battery installations that are needed to displace fossil fuel-based energy generation. Solar and wind have an 80/20 problem, and nuclear easily slots in as a great solution for that 20%.
Capitalism and the Future of Democracy (PDF, 2019)
A decade has passed since the cancellation of the Paradise Lost film adaptation
will any of the pre-production work ever be recycled anytime soon?
I don't think you are right. There is actually quite a lot of literature demonstrating how species present in hunter-gatherers are not present in the guts of individuals from industrialized societies. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.046.

Still, even if this was not the case at population level, my point would still hold. At individual level, many species are bimodal. With the wrong nutrients, infections, etc. your microbiome might fall into a state where you have none of them, as they have been outcompeted, and reversing that is incredibly difficult.
Don't know why there's no reply button under your other reply. (Ah ok, I see it now, looks like HN needs to wait a bit before that button appears).

For me, it's ethical. Loading trackers/malicious connections/contents on my own machine is unethical. That's it. I don't run those on your server, why do you run them on my devices?

What I said is simple: there's ethical pricinples standing by users' sides, and nothing for websites.

If you think it's unethical, you do you. I won't participate in arguing about your personal preferences.
Reminds me of this scene with Stanley Tucci talking about building a bridge in the movie Margin Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mc-38C88g
Funny how many "I"'s and "my"'s in this piece.

This was especially ironic:

> "I want to kill my ego, or at least substantially break it"
There isn’t time for a “just keep working on the next reactor.” We have to decarbonize the entire economy in a ridiculously short time, and that means either (1) focusing on technologies that already have an exponential adoption/price curve, or (2) making decisive and massive investments in nuclear to get the technology onto such a curve. Anything else is going to be mostly irrelevant.
This is a great reply - thanks.

I think this bolsters my sense that we should not be calling this activity ‘reading’ but rather ‘investigating’ or ‘researching’ or ‘understanding’ or something (none of these are perfect - there must be a better word…)

Calling it ‘reading’ - especially if encouraging newcomers to programming to do it - is, I think, likely to discourage more than help.
Not even close. Its using the right tools for the job. I have over 250k tracks in flac. Navidrome and plex handle it just fine.
It’s an arms race. The utopian hyper-civilized ethics are replaced when your adversary are doing everything possible to turn you into a product. Tracking, fingerprinting, creating shadow profiles for you, etc etc, etc without any meaningful consent.

If the adversaries followed idealized ethics, they would respect DNT header, for one.

That said, actively avoiding those actors who are unethical is commendable. It’s just very difficult to do in practice, since basic communication with eg neighbors, parents, friends are mainly through these channels.
How prominent was the phrase 'digital rights management' when Linux's direct rendering manager was created (Wikipedia says 1999)? The FSF's 'Defective by Design' anti-DRM campaign didn't start until 2006.
> Also, clean up costs are covered by the tax payer.

Maybe you can provide a link.

Because here in the US that's not the case. For the Three Mile Island meltdown, the cleanup cost was about $1 billion, and the vast majority was born by the private corporations, not by the public. Here's a GAO quote [1]

During the period 1979 through 1981, five federal agencies committed $275 million for TMI related matters, but very little of this money had been used to directly offset cleanup expenditures. However, the current Administration commitment of $123 million for data acquisition and research and development could directly offset as much as $54 million of GPU-budgeted expenditures. Other reductions have occurred or are expected to occur as a result of Department of Energy involvement.

[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/117345
I think they mean jobs as in lines of work not jobs as in instances of employment.

One thing I wonder about a repeat of history is if the lowest classes still get enough of a share of the increased output in income/QoL would there still be a revolt about the increasing wealth concentration?
>My son’s major motivation for learning to read came from watching us play Breath of the Wild and getting tired of not knowing what was going on.

My son gets a few dozen minutes of Youtube kids as a treat if he has done well. The in-built timer asks you to solve a simple multiplication problem to add more time: he has gotten remarkably well at doing those even though he hasn't had multiplication at school yet. Now I am pretending that I am not seeing him solve those problems!

If anybody here works at Youtube kids: please add division!
“Proportion of offenders who previously offended” is not necessarily an indication of “proportion of first-time offenders who will reoffend”.
>>The proxy application and most of the malware delivering it are packed using Inno Setup, a free and popular Windows installer.<<

ProxyNation: The dark nexus between proxy apps and malware

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/proxynatio...
Unfortunately “better ad sourcing methods” require a lot of human capital to support (direct-sold ads, constant monitoring of inventory, being able to afford higher bid floors, etc.) or ultimately access to better advertisers by having a large amount of traffic.

All of these are features of larger publishers, unfortunately, which means that smaller publishers suffer more malvertising. So you’re basically just supporting large publishers. Which is definitely better than supporting none, so I still commend you :)
> Sometimes the complexity doesn’t convey any new information.

It doesn't when you take a sentence as a whole but a more rigid grammar makes it easier to predict how e.g. the beginning of a sentence will continue. Put differently, entropy is lower. In my experience this allows for faster reading and understanding, and conveying information more accurately, as there will be fewer misunderstandings on average.
Yes definitely - the vendors of the PSVs will calculate for you a special compensation factor that allows you to test the PSV at normal room temperature, but still have it open at its set pressure when it is at a higher operating temperature.

They call it the "cold differential set pressure".

You can calculate your own cold differential set pressure just as a cross-check against the vendor's calculation to make sure there are no misunderstandings but ultimately you should just use the vendor's value.

In the case of steam, because it is obviously non-toxic and non-flammable you can just let it go to atmosphere in an emergency, so the best thing is just to let the spring of the PSV be exposed to atmosphere rather than some variable operating temperature.
It could be faster. DD uses a proprietary VM solution to run Linux, while Podman uses Lima. Lima is an extremely active project, while Docker seem happy doing the bare minimum (from my experience at least).
Fun fact: if everyone in earth had the same carbon footprint as folks in France, we could bring the entire third world up to first world living standards without increasing the world’s total carbon emissions.
The scenario is: don't enable automatic updates. How long will a compromise exist before someone notices? Often, not very long at all. It's entirely common to avoid an issue because you haven't bothered to update. It's also part of why corpos have their own repository mirrors too since dev supply chain attacks have gotten more common and no one's going to audit their dozens/hundreds of NPM dependencies every update.
If you don't want to do very much, you can try adsense. If nothing else you'll get a good sense of what the floor is.
AI-Generated Art Not Protected by Copyright Law
That's exactly the issue, there would usually be a considerable amount of people in the market moving to bigger homes, changing neighborhoods, downscaling, but right now if you have a low rate loan it would be insane to give up your loan and pick one with the current rate, so these people generally left the market.

This odd lots episode is a pretty good discussion on the whole subject: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-24/how-the-h...
And now they have to play putin games because they need gas.
Yes. Navidrome pplay:sub and beets are my stack and they pass the spouse test.
VLC does support DVD menus... maybe not from iso, but you can play ripped DVDs with menus from VIDEO_TS folders.

Why you'd want DVD menus in the first place, though...
I interviewed with a company that kept telling me repeatedoh how “people-focused” they were and how people were the most important thing to them.

Over the course of 3 interviews, I was ghosted by the CEO (had to email to see where they were 10 minutes into the scheduled interview), left with no contact for weeks between interviews and then when I emailed to check in was told, “Sorry for keeping you waiting, we were going to email you today…”, and then they wouldn’t let me read the company handbook before signing the offer letter.

It was a real stark example of telling vs. showing.
I'm registered as the party, it doesn't mean that I will always vote for them.

Personally, I don't think that specific minutia of phraseology ("my" vs. "registered as") are as productive of our political reality as you do. I think it has to do with FPTP voting.
I am familiar with a few south east asian languages and none would have any issue expressing "I will be going to the barbers while I'm in town" ... I think even in English if a second language speaker said "I go to barber while I in town", it's still possible to understand.

Regarding redundancy, I so think that it's important and other languages have other ways of handling it. I know that Vietnamese for example very often doubles up the verbs for example for "help" it's common to say giúp đỡ together although both these words individually also mean help.
That's all well and good except there's a nearly-zero number of nuclear plants being built. Which means there's a nearly-zero number of subsidies. You don't get in the business of building Widget X for the tax credits when nobody is asking for Widget X and Widget Y also gets tax credits and is being cranked out everywhere you look.
Yeah, no. That's entirely contrary to the point of the domain name system. It was always designed with a capitalistic, first-come-first-served, mentality. Stake claim to your domain and hold it. The issue is those domains that are parked and never used should be forfeit, recycled back into the pool. DNS should work both ways. You're free to add records, so long as they can verify usage. It's the last part that isn't effective right now. Some way to prove that it's being used other than a parking service. Anything but a parking service.

A few times I've given up squatting on a domain simply because I thought someone else would probably do better with the domain name. I was right a few times. A few made it into the hands of martech unfortunately but some of my gaming domains have now grown into decent sites under the current stewardship. It makes me happy.

I also think there should be a gTLD for people. You're own personal domain, that's yours, and no one else's, for life. You're free to post up whatever within the law of your land. We already have things like social security numbers and the like. Why not have http://john.jingle.heimer.schmitt.id? Apple thought about this a long time ago and registered me.com with the thought that every apple customer would have <customer>@me.com (which they do!). There's no clear way around this mess other than more gTLD's.
https://archive.is/l84Sh
What have they been building?
Score for the humans! And score one for generative models being weird aliens instead of robot butlers / illustrators!
Nice to see solar projects like this. We have 4 solar setups on the property currently.

One for main house. Another for the pump house. A temporary garage setup and one for a studio.

A good way to learn to manage your own power generation and setting up systems.
Some folks might be interested in listening to modern musicians playing just intonation- https://lamonteyoung.bandcamp.com/album/just-stompin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monte_Young

I also like his drone work and have lots of fun with paulstretch.
The Low-Budget Startup
Let's assume that's true (though I wouldn't be surprised to learn there are sources saying otherwise). Why is it relevant? In one scenario you have the risk from just covid, in the other you have the risk from both covid and the shot. When it comes to myocarditis, what are we supposed to do with this knowledge?
You are promoting private REITs like they are something special when they aren’t.
dang has said before that pinging does not work.

There's an email address on the bottom of the page:

hn@ycombinator.com
These types of workers are rare, but they were the kids in school you hated cause they turned in every test in half the time and passed with a 100% score. Granted, he shouldn’t be bragging but there was a whole subreddit dedicated to guys like him and how they managed to work 3 full time jobs. You can’t hate the guy for using the rules in his favor.

This guy is doing enough work to appear like he’s working 40 hours, because the measuring stick is someone not nearly as talented who takes 40 hours to do the same work. He’s not banking a huge salary, he’s not unavailable for long periods and he’s producing quality work. So he flys under the “performance radar” with his manager. Helps that Google measures quantity and quality, not time spent.

Trust me, as a lead of 8, we know you’re when you’re not working 40. But I’ll bust the balls of the guy dropping offline for 2 hours who can’t get his work in, before I bust down the door of the guy getting his work done in 1 hour. Is it his fault for not working 40 hours? No, it’s the idea that he’s not doing his fair share and using 40 hours as the measurement. This isn’t new, some of us have been doing it for decades and most of us have learned to just keep it quiet.
I was gifted Designing Data-Intensive Applications in high school and it changed the course of my CS education. Beautiful, beautiful book.
We had hardware for time sync at Google 15 years ago actually, thats not a new thing. Actually.. we had time sync hardware (via GPS) in the early Twitter datacenters as well until it became clear that was impossible to support without getting roof access. =)
And/or/xor/nand, popcount and maybe FMA.

Division, bah!
> A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday that artwork generated by artificial intelligence is not eligible for copyright protection because it lacks “human involvement,”
I really do miss the days where candor was seen as a sign of respect. Now it's just seen as being contrarian or even insulting. All because you "ruined" their virtue-fueled dopamine drip.

It's not a genuine interaction, at all. It's a town hall full of shit posters, some of which you went to school with or just happen to be related to. There are literal families divided right now because Becky went full "nobody asked, stay off my profile" mode on her Uncle Steve. Which is just nuts.

Really makes me worry about where we'll be in 20-30 years, socially speaking.