skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about the business side of the whole ordeal. It's not just about "enjoying making music". It's about paying mixing and mastering. It's about paying NTS, Rinse FM, and the constellation of medium-small distribution channels. It's about distributing on labels like DFA, !K7 or whatever. It's about making sure that Fabric, Rex Club and Sneaky Pete can keep the lights on so they can play your music, so you can get paid, so you can keep making music instead of ahem having to become a webdev and write angry comments on HN.

It's about keeping an entire industry, live or recorded, and their milieu alive.

The truth is that what happened wasn't a liberation. It was a methodical purge of the medium-sized side of the music industry. Now we're reaching the point of having 5-6 industry giants taking all the money plus...yes, an inordinate amount of people making mostly self-referential music in their own bedroom on weekends, music that will reach no-one outside whatever local scene they hang around. But most of them were making music even before, and were by their own choice irrelevant to the industry. (True, now they can also become influencers on Twitch and maybe one out of thousands can make a living by streaming their life 24h/day. One ticket for the lottery, please). Whoever was between them and the majors is being squeezed out of the game.
Most people are not professional music critics, and most of their consumption is as a backing track to the rest of their life.

You could replace most of this category with a Markov chain bouncing up and down a simple key without most people even thinking about it, and I know because this is exactly how I made music for my shareware video games a decade ago.
Microsoft definitely wouldn't let that happen.
Unfortunately as a species we are in fact getting dumber because of dysgenics. Intelligence (which is strongly heritable) and fertility are anti-correlated, especially in women. See e.g.

https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/dysgenics-by-the-number...
Back then C might have been the best bet.
Which they might be willing to do, if the average domain generates enough upsell revenue with other services.
So, there are two things currently going on with the Debussy example.

The first is, yes, some of the notes from Debussy are actually poorly playable on the piano. One is this: https://i.imgur.com/K0Wuu3Q.png. This is a visualization I built (and which can't be ported to web easily, so unfortunately it's just something I have for now). It's like a scrolling player piano with rising notes, and the numbers next to the bars are what the numerators are. Note there are two 7s in the middle, and pianos are not good at 7s. I've verified these numbers are correct manually, so it's supposed to sound like that and the piano has an inaccurate approximation. This corresponds to this location in the score: https://i.imgur.com/24XY8vR.png

The second is, I suspect there is a mistake near the end. This visualization overlaps the original with the twelve-tone version: https://i.imgur.com/tS7WzRg.png. Note how some of the bars are separated from each other. I'm currently in the process of checking these notes. My original 12ET -> Just Intonation conversion was automatic and I fixed up all the errors I could find, but I could have missed one. EDIT: yes, there was. I fixed it now.

The third doesn't happen in this example, but sometimes composers want to deliberately round, such as in the Circle of Fifths. That would create unpleasant commas. I'm kind of lucky that it didn't happen in the demo I chose. The Circle of Fifths is not actually an issue; first, you can't keep old notes persistent across the whole circle; they will interfere. And second, thanks to Diana Deutsch's experiments on pitch memory, we know that if there are more than 16 notes between the old and new note, you shouldn't be able to discern the comma. However, although the Circle is not a big deal, other rounding intervals can become an issue, like 63/64, where the composer would like the rounding to occur somewhere other than the exact pitch repeat. Listeners are effective at detecting when an exact pitch repeat is slightly inexact, while they have a harder time discerning slightly-off harmonies.
Fun, I struggled with json parsing for a long time, and have done it for the first time with freepascal. Maybe this can help you : https://medium.com/@marcusfernstrm/freepascal-and-json-337c0... ?
If any constant factor were sufficient, there would be no time period when the reverse happened, the modern economies would be in an impossible state.
This is an extremely cynical take. (As usual, Hacker News!)

> The implication that "if people just got off their asses and did some exercise they wouldn't be disabled!" is disgusting.

I don't know how you got that implication. It seems like you agree that lifting is great. Many people don't do resistance exercise. The article itself is about the process of aging, and resistance exercise helps as a prophylactic. We all understand it's not a solution to all disability. But if it turns some people on to lifting, then net-net there's less disability in the world.

Great! What's the problem? (While we're talking about implications, your comment does seem to imply you haven't read the linked article.)
Threw my Windows partition away 4 years ago and haven't looked back since. Steam has earned my business with their work on Proton.
Eh, at least this short story did not say that. What it stated is the 'hook' line that got him was pulled from a menu. Not that this guy didn't at least to go Palo Alto first and make sure it wasn't a total shithole.
> Gas fired plants are clean: they only produce CO2 and H20.

AFAIK, that can only be the case if you combust the gas with pure oxygen; air also has a lot of nitrogen, so combusting with air will always lead to some oxides of nitrogen appearing in the output.

> Nuclear is “dirty”: they produce no CO2, but relatively small amounts of highly toxic waste.

It depends on your point of view. That highly toxic waste is completely contained in normal operation, so looking from the outside, it's "clean"; it's only when (or if) you open the box that it becomes "dirty".
> So in the spirit of the recent post about Charlie Munger killing a lot of pilots

Mind linking this? The search box isn't giving me any recent results that look right.
I’ve been running the betas for both and noticed restarting to install updates has become far, far faster — like maybe a minute or two.

Nice! (And thanks for the backgrounder. It's the first time I've seen this explanation on HN.)
"Easy enough"
sure, you keep up with all those patches, manually, on your own system, then say it.

This site literally can't not be pretentious
It depends. In private companies it can be the CEO, or the CEO can be the owner who sets it's own comp. But generally yes, it's the board of directors, but rarely without input from the CEO. So it's not uncommon for CEOs to have an influence over the compensation committee about what their comp should be.
I don’t see the logic there.

If they both got the same interest rate, then their wealth would grow at the same rate. Add in progressive taxation and the gap might narrow.

If they’re getting different rates and taxation is regressive, then those seem like better explanations.

Edit: also spending patterns.

Edit again: note that this wasn’t meant to be a complete explanation. I just wanted to point out a few reasons why compound interest is not sufficient to explain a widening wealth gap (the claim in the comment I responded to).
Even if you know that the strategy is problematic in scenario Y, other viewers of the reply may not; you are only one of the many potential consumers of the response. Isn't it useful to flag the potential gotchas of a given approach for a naive reader?

I feel like many of the complaints Stack Overflow users come down to this: in many users' minds, the site is a Q&A forum, while the SO team wants it to be an authoritative repository of technical knowledge.
Do they sell fruit?
No. Coal plants on the other hand: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

> The chances of experiencing adverse health effects from radiation are slim for both nuclear and coal-fired power plants—they're just somewhat higher for the coal ones. "You're talking about one chance in a billion for nuclear power plants," Christensen says. "And it's one in 10 million to one in a hundred million for coal plants."
>Do you want more games to be played on Linux or not?

This is meaningless if you change the definition of "on Linux" to mean "on Windows".
I agree.

Great > really good
Yeah, the whole idea was a bit nebulous tbh. I remember the main guy I was speaking to at Acorn talking about creating an ASIC. I believe it was aimed at being some sort of early GPU. But the project never really went anywhere, anyway.
> Do any of the consoles support proton, so that the only barrier to releasing a game are the legal agreements?

Steam deck
There are people who take words quite literally, pretty ironic to ignore them in a post about disabilities.
>The data show that an individual in the 75th percentile of wealth distribution who invested $1 in 2004 would have yielded $1.50 by the end of 2015—a return of 50 percent. A person in the top 0.1 percent would have yielded $2.40 on the same invested dollar—a return of 140 percent.

I may be mistaken but I think investing in VTI (total stock market index) and reinvesting dividends from 2004 to 2015 would yield you close to that 140 percent. Maybe 120 to 130? No need to be a top 0.1 percent to invest in that.

The "rich are getting richer" is a natural consequence of compound interest (which works for those with assets, and against those with debts) and the stagnation of some wages.
Yep - for every minute of videos I upload there’s an hour of editing.

And recording audio is full of retakes.
How will they prevent it?
Technically... yes. Nuclear plants routinely discharge a certain amount of tritiated water and radioactive gases. But it's well below natural radioactivity levels and certainly MUCH smaller than amount of "radioactive pollutants" released into environment by coal plants.
Not really. I was watching a video about how someone like Elon Musk won’t take a salary from their company. Instead they get paid in stock. Using the stock as collateral they take out loans at low interest rates based on how well the banks assume that the stock will perform. Then all of that money they have is non taxable. If the stock performance outpaces the interest rate, then even better.
Compound interest includes both value inflation from governments printing money and actual earnings/payments from assets.

Owning something that earns while you sleep does tend to increase you ability to focus on what is important.

Sadly, I'm not sure anyone who is wealthy has what I would call a focus on what is important. Terrible situations, failed marriages, relationships with kids, etc..
Well also, you can't benefit from interest if you don't have any money left over.
Oh I see. Yes, this is a very common way for C programmers - in particular - to make a hash table, it's the design that C++ enshrines as std::unordered_map and it's the data structure you'd have been taught in a University data structures course in the 1980s, and maybe even the 1990s [depending on who is teaching and where]

While internally this is indeed using linked lists, I don't think you can make use of that from PHP which is what I'd imagined was meant. Suppose I had a million integers that I found somewhere, and then I want to splice in a different million integers I have, so that in total there are two million integers. With linked lists that's very cheap, basically instant, but with most data structure, including a hash table, not so much.

Linked Lists are very rarely what you needed, even though when they are what you needed they're invaluable. They are really easy to implement in C, so it's sort of a "I've got a hammer, now all I see are nails" situation in C.
One difference is that abortion is verifiably more dangerous when it's illegal, since the mother's health is put at much great risk. Murder is just as dangerous either way.

For drugs there actually is a strong argument for applying the same logic to legalise and regulate them, as it may well reduce harm.
> 2. Doing a bunch of pretend work so you can come to the conclusion the VP wanted in the first place.

I was once a contractor at a company that had been acquired twice. The Finance lead all off a sudden had a big team of people, and he lacked the imagination to use them effectively. His team were a waste of space. His solution was to hire a consultancy to 'benchmark' the size of the Finance team. Guess what they found...all of the acquired people had to go!

I felt he lacked the backbone to just make a decision himself.
The client "needs" in question here are low cost overall, low marginal cost for each revision, and a totally-interactive "do what I mean" interface.

Shoving a human artist in the middle is a liability on each front.
Because even in china they can't build nuclear as quickly (and likely as cheaply) as wind and solar. It's hugely different [0][1]. Over the last 10 years, they used 3.5x more energy (so not nameplate capacity, but actually generated energy) from solar and wind than they did from nuclear.

Further, if you download the data [1] an look at the derivative you get an even more grim picture. Not only is wind and solar increasing rapidly, but the derivative is positive (and possibly increasing itself). But when you look at nuclear, you find that not only is it not increasing as rapidly, but it's derivative is going down and heading for zero fast.

[0] https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/renewables-in-china-tre...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china#what-sources...
It is notable in my mind that Russia is the only country that is building nuclear power plants of the same design regularly enough that it is on an n-th of a kind (NOAK) as opposed to first-of-a-kind (FOAK) basis.

China is building a lot of reactors but they seem to be trying almost every design in the market and even thiough they say they want to standardize on the Hualong One there are really two different Hualong Ones and they are already talking about the Hualong Two.

It is all the more mind boggling that Russia risks ruining it all for themselves (as well as all of us) by risking it all at Energhodar.
I literally moved away from Namecheap when they did a UI redesign many years ago. Their old control panel was ugly but functional. Their new one looked much more "modern", but was way less information dense, and they introduced jank and made stuff take more clicks and hid stuff behind collapsed-by-default menus iirc.

They also made their billing details UI no longer accept the letter "ø". The billing details UI which made clear the importance of making sure the name you enter matches the name on the card. And the name on my card happens to contain an "ø". That doesn't exactly instil confidence.
It’s also the most exhausted. The min char available now is in the 7 range. Prefixes and/or suffixes and even hyphens are being used to find land. It’s brutal.
Repeating this FUD meme over and over again does not make it true. Yes we get it. You read an upvoted HN comment once that said "Windows API is the stable Linux ABI now" and know you can get upvoted if you just repeat it. But it is simply false.
I highly doubt that, even poor people in Europe can afford good health care compared to the US.
You're right, extremely disappointing.
I’m told people rave about his KITP dorm building - maybe that’s where all the lessons learned went
Maybe this is rent-seeking. Don't know. What I do know is that the claim has been made in this thread and the only real support is feelings

Who made the claim?

Also, saying someone makes 65% operating margin as a measure of evil-ness is ridiculous

You said evil, not me. Projection?
Of course. But what should the illustrator do today? Considering that there might be a higher risk of getting fired in N months/years from now. Probably refine their business skills. Maybe also get familiar with the capabilities/weaknesses of the latest tools, and how they can use them to be more competitive than before?
Interest returns (including ROI on investments) only help you if you have money in the market. The poor don’t. The poor are also disproportionately affected by inflation, as that causes wage stagnation, whereas regular old inflation is less than interest rates so it is built in protection for capital holders.
So this is basically just what we used to do in IBM Extended ASCII like thirty-five (forty?) years ago, only slightly expanded because Unicode has more characters than Codepage... Uh, 472? 185? I forget. But anyway, wow: So much time, so little progress.
Yes, that is a good place to start from. Look at it this way: we have starvation in the world at that 2% due to both issues growing food and indirect issues (transportation, fuel, lack of opportunity, corruption.) If agriculture jobs were forced to 2.5%, what kind of pressure would that put on everything else involved in successfully distributing food. And what would that in turn do to the percentage forced to do more localized agriculture or subsistence work. And what would the costs of and political/behavioral (over)reactions to the shock and the unevenness of each of those adjustments be.
You run into scalability limits pretty quickly. Unless you are truly the world expert on weird ball bearing failures or whatever. Or can genuinely speak or do consulting days that clients will line up to pay you $20K+ per day to do. (And even that isn't all that much absent a pretty full dance card. Just how the math works.)
> If not for the decision of German public to shut down their nuclear reactors, Putin would have never had that much money to start the war.

55% of natural gas that circulated in Germany in 2021 came from russia. 48% of natural gas that circulated in Germany in 2021 was exported to other countries. ~13% of natural gas in Germany that year was used for electricity production.

But go on and tell us how keeping nuclear power on in Germany would have cut those natural gas exports, heated the 14 million domestic gas boilers, or produced fertilizer.
Thanks, let me know if this got better after refreshing the page.

My code coverage is so low, there's a tiny chance the web app will noclip you into the sunny tropical fruit loop forever.
The reason it's different is that domains are so cheap and the price increases are so small. Why would a major company (or even a tiny company) change their domain over an increase of a dollar or two per year? It doesn't make sense.

If those restaurants' landlords had hiked their rent by a few dollars per year, they wouldn't have moved either. But it's not uncommon to see increases of thousands of dollars per month, even for a small restaurant, when the lease comes up for renewal.
I don't use bash so it's not applicable to me anyway, but why would I want it on? It's saving a few bytes of disk space, at the cost of ruining my history (the thing that the whole feature is about). At least fish's search feature is so awesome that I never had a problem with duplicate commands causing problems.

And I want my history untouched, because sometimes I forget how I solved something, go back a few months in my shell history and see the sequence of commands that I've used. I think that's a nice thing to have. And if I ever need history without duplicates, it should be easy to deduplicate it with a simple script.
>First, the rich don't reliably get richer faster than the poor get richer.

yes they do, as money printing benefits those who are leveraged into assets more than other types of debt holders.

The rich (by proxy, through investing in the stock market) actually hold more debt in aggregate. And per capita, they hold WAY more debt, hence benefit from money printing even more.

Money printing is indirect wealth transfer from everyone else to the rich.
> It was employees' personal MP3 collections that seeded their library, so while that statement is true it is a little disingenuous without further context

If anything, that feels even worse.

> I believe some of the early nintendo retro releases were emulators running pirated roms

If Nintendo has a licence for the game that the ROM was an unlicensed pirate of, while that's weird, it doesn't seem fishy in the same way.
There’s no reload button for your default search engine. So for me, there _is_ a reload button on google.com.
Most likely because that ordinary computer of that time wasn't trying to bring up any network devices.

Simply put, strip down an OS to the same feature set of that ancient computer and the modern OS will be a lot faster. Some of the networkless VMs I mess with boot in a second or two, but you see we've abstracted most of the hardware away. So, mostly the problem is a hardware one.
Similar to https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12950
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230821190137if_/https://thehil...
it's just this simple: They don't want to stop global warming. They want to control everything. Global warming is just the excuse.
If you found out who is father was and where he was from I'm sure it'd make perfect sense.
Feel the same way with integralapi.co – we'll be going open source very soon but want to make sure we have everything "open source ready".

Can't give out code that can't be exposed to the public.
Ask HN: Have you ever felt you moved on too early?
Context: I'm currently validating new project ideas and have just realised that a previous project of mine could've been commercially successful had I kept pursing it. What advice would you give? Keep iterating on new ideas or revisit the old ones?
No no. Incidental music and "music you listen to while doing something" are not the same.

Listening to incidental music all the time devalues music. And we do it not because we wanted it but because Spotify, Apple music etc promote it. Until then "just play random stuff that this ML thinks is similar" was not a thing. But subscriptions make them more money than if they just let you buy albums and stream what you bought. I wish more artists didn't sign up for this but unfortunately big labels did.

But you can listen to non incidental music that you have specifically chosen while doing something. Even your dad could be doing something while listening to music (thinking).
> No game developer is ever going to individually package, and consistently repackage, their game for 20 distributions.

Nor do they. Steam Linux Runtime exists.
Quantity can lead to quality, especially when you have immediate feedback.

https://austinkleon.com/2020/12/10/quantity-leads-to-quality...
How is solar and wind energy rapidly increasing “grim”?
Why would you try to run Nautilus from 16.04 on 22.04? It was distributed in a way designed to be run on 16.04.

Are you under some weird delusion that you are forced on Linux to develop software in one particular way?