skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The album was an artifact of the limitations of the LP format.

I prefer to think of it as that streaming liberated music from those restrictions.

That said, some files on a Spotify server do feel a bit empty compared to a physical LP with an artful cover.
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And honestly this doesn't even have to be an allegory to something else, this is literally true about the toaster market right now. There are so few companies that actually design and manufacture toasters themselves.

I ended up buying vintage because it turns out technological advancement has been directed to finding and building an ever more minimal viable toaster to keep prices sorrrrta constant under inflation. So that 80's-90's toaster is delivering value right now.
> I journal every day and I try build experimental software projects what I think is valuable or interesting.

> For example, I love goodness, positivity, light and think on these things and reject what is not these things.

> So I try do things that are valuable to me and share them with others.

I really like your perspective! We're very similar in that regard.

> I recognise that it takes a lot of work to create something. You can't just know 1 thing or be good at 10 tasks to produce something to high quality, you have to do 1000 tasks you've never done before.

I recently discovered the idea of a minimum viable product and the whole "fail fast, fail better concept." It was a comment on HN that gave me the idea for The Metronome and I ended up launching the magazine in less than a month. I've never done something like it, but I wanted this thing to really exist, so I did what I new and put it out--and the response to it has been overwhelmingly positive. The second issue will go out tomorrow; I learned from my difficulties while making the first one and ended up needing less time to create the second one.

Perfectionism is a terrible problem, so doing things and getting better as you go is better than trying to be better before you actually do the thing, I believe.
Haha reminds me of Lorenzo, a French rapper who split his album into 68 30-second tracks just to mess with Spotify. The album got withdrawn within minutes but the buzz worked well!
they have a filter at the sewage plant specifically the right size to take out the multivitamin pills

if you take a vitamin pill, make sure it's bioavailable, ideally using EDTA, or some other polydentate ligand.
Yes those are good analogies, but I don't know the name for the general idea. Probably it's the same phenomenon that makes some people refuse on principle to discuss anything involving a hypothetical or counterfactual premise.
I second toast0's point. Apple didn't ignore desktop gaming, they actively gave the middle finger to the whole community, repeatedly, and iOS was the only bridge that was thrown to restore some kind of decent relationship.

See nvidia basically banned from the macos ecosystem, or the whole fight with Epic as they couldn't come to any resemblance of a compromise.
Thank you for the response. It looks interesting.

>I needed a quick and easy web server

I am trying to reason with what I know, but wouldn't something like "python -m http.server 9000" suffice? Or nginx? These are battle tested and python is there on most platforms.

Or is there more depth to this specific web server that others don't have?
Yes, short abbreviations are brutal in long sprawling code contexts. Write in a compact, functional, and readily unit testable coding style, and those tiny variables reduce your cognitive load and bring great clarity. Use comments and/or docstrings to provide context for compact parameters and local variables once, rather than implicitly documenting with every usage.
It's a massive disservice to customers to have 7030 series and 7040 series be different generations of chip.
tfw a connotation is more powerful than a definition
Ha! Autocorrect got me, I did mean to say injections ^_^;;

Although tbh I have had several nasty infections from then-untreated eczema...
So this is a $300k/year medication but is apparently just (per the article) a combination of existing approved and developed drugs? As in the cost of development for this seems largely to be covered by the cost of development for the original drugs?

Is this behavior something that should be rewarded?
“Yay you found you could combine existing drugs to make something better but your charging as much as if you developed those drugs as well”?
electronjs is probably the best cross platform desktops GUI,just a bit heavy.I actually use wxwidgets for GUI desktop apps.
Same. I'm skeptical of people who say otherwise just because I've heard AMD does open source for so long.
The H10 is the gold standard for HRMs and the one most commonly used by anyone doing experimentation with HRV. I don't have the specs memorized off hand, by my recollection is that it does a better job of capturing the entire waveform.
There are currently 30,000 people with CF in united states.

This drug can only be used by CF patients with a specific mutation, not the entire population.

And I wouldn't assume $180M since this treatment is a combination of 3 different drugs all with their own development pathway and safety testing.

Then you need to look at the actual cost of manufacturing the drug, packaging it, delivering it to patients and all the salaries of the people it takes to do that. Sales of $180M is not profit, it's revenue.

Don't get me wrong, they are making a profit, but pharma company profit margins are usually in the 20-30% range and that's for the successful ones, not including all the companies that spend $100M and fail with nothing to show for it.

Then add on top the remaining patent life which is usually less than 10 years, after which the cost of the drug will plummet and the originator company will stop making money.
> fiduciary duties

only agents acting on behalf of the owners have fiduciary duty. Of course, if you are a majority owner, but there exists minority owners, you cannot screw the minority owners to profit yourself - i guess this is a form of fiduciary duty.

But if you own it outright 100%, then you don't have such a fiduciary duty to yourself.
I would caution you against assuming disagreement is misunderstanding,

A spring only suspension system responds quickly to a bump in the road. If that’s your only metric, it’s good. But a car without a damper is going to be hella uncomfortable. The shock makes it respond slower - it doesn’t mean it doesn’t respond.
Spot a programmer who was trained as a mathematician
And with a lot worse screen. The screen is the main thing keeping me away.
they took entire class of problem and made it disappear, that's great engineering.
I guess I've been using Pond and Watershed incorrectly all these years, as I have definitely referred to something artificial as a pond and have used watershed to connote drainage. Even the definition of bluff they use feels to me like something we could use in American English. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If not creating documentation is leading to bad PR why doesn’t MS just create the documentation instead?

Occam’s razor would suggest it’s because accurate documentation would create worse PR.

That’s not reassuring at all.
>var list = [];

> while (true) { list.add(1); }

idk, I don't think endlessly growing memory usage is really what a leak is, a leak is really when you have no way of accessing the allocated memory to free it (ex. dropping the last remaining pointer to a `alloc`'d block in C) or the opposite in garbage collected languages: accidentally holding onto a strong reference to objects that should be freed.
Tcherepnin: Basic Elements of My Musical Language
Right? As a user, if I listen to 2 hours of content split equally between sources A and B, it seems fair that they each get half of my subscription fee (less Spotify's cut). Regardless of if A views B's content as "less worthy". On the other hand I wouldn't sign up for a monthly white noise service and if A went on strike and didn't renew license agreements, that's what Spotify would become. Record labels do have leverage over white noise which is a commodity (right? y'all aren't beholden to certain streams are you??)
Sadly. Can such tendencies perhaps be remedied, or at least mitigated to some effective degree, over a large population by learning and practicing more critical thinking?

I think it's simply a matter of habitualizing and getting better at critical thinking and establishing more helpful cultural norms. However both of which are, of course, difficult to do, just like anything that has anything to do with network effects.
Are you specifically referring to method function receiver type annotations?
Those are often left shorthand but shouldn't exist out of the type definition file anyway eh?
> we should be just accepting it as a society.

This problem is solved using the court system, and then legislation system. Things which _should_ be unacceptable needs to be made illegal. And over time, this has indeed been the case. Things like environmental regulations etc are the examples.

> various responsibilities to the company for them

i think the employees are reading too much into this responsibility, because the only responsibility the company has for the employees are the legals ones: such as OSHA, timely payment of wages, safety from harassment etc.

Longevity of the job, social responsibilities (such as improving the community etc), are all secondary to the financial success for the shareholders.
The idiomatic translation to English would be: “A broken clock is right twice a day.”
Distrust is building for Fly. Their articles ooze arrogance, whether it's hyping up their "unique" hiring methods or their "managed" Postgres service. They even gloss over serious flaws like data loss in LiteFS. Their latest article is another red flag for me. Started off intriguing, but now, I wouldn't trust them as far as I can throw them.
You’re neglecting the time value of money and failing to adjust for risk. Pharma margins aren’t that great. 15–20%.
You seem to manage fine. I do think most projects do not need AWS, and at work we run most of our infrastructure on our own servers (colo, we rent racks and buy servers).

Remember to consider more annoying points that can often become hidden costs, or hidden risks:
- backups (and more importantly, restores :) )
- maintenance and security (you are in charge of the lower levels too)
- decent authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
- SLA, both 'in theory' (what does the contract with your provider say) and 'in practice' (how much would an interruption could cost you and what happens if the provider does not respect SLA at all)
- how do you handle outages (ideally you want to have a plan to know what to do when the obvious things go wrong. Then for the non-obvious things)
- how do you transfer knowledge to a potential new employee. Is there only one person that know how something works. (called 'bus factor')

And yes, most of those also apply if you use AWS, but typically they would cover different parts or have different risks. And usually some associated product you can pay to manage that risk
All the takes here that this is something I should be able to do locally are missing the point to go on a tangent.

The power of what Adobe is offering is generative AI in the context of proprietary photoshop tools.

Can you feed a prompt to a model outside of photoshop and ask for a particular result? Of course. But if your workflow already happens in an Adobe product and you want a highly specific and predictable result from Ai trained on a highly specific action, that’s something that you really can’t efficiently replicate elsewhere.
Has anyone used virtual threads? I tried to migrate my app over to VT's and kept experiencing random deadlocks and I couldn't figure out what was causing them. I tried moving all the synchronized blocks to reentrant locks, but that didn't work. I also tried turning on the TV debugging system properties, but none of them printed the problem.
I’ve read a substantial part of the essay now, and I think you’re reading to much into that. The crimes she cites are quite different, and I doubt she would implying “moving past blame” for something like her son did.

And I think it’s a quite interesting essay!
I considered that too, but I'd like the group to exist offline as much as possible; talking about ideas isn't the same as acting on them.

I really didn't think very deeply about the whole thing before writing it; I was trying not to break my blogging streak. After looking at the comments though, I have a clearer idea. Might write about it today :)
Just because a behavior may end up profitable for its owners doesn’t mean we should be just accepting it as a society

I 100% agree with you, but isn’t this how capitalism works?

I do notice similar sentiments to use more frequently on HN lately. Feels like people are actually aware there are problems now but unsure what’s to be done?
apache? nginx? Serving static content off the file system is braindead simple.
For text input support, being boring feels like a feature not a bug. For writing on mobile, you'll be writing a lot of boring short messages. That's said, it'd be cool if it can precondition with the app name - You'll probably write something more interesting on Pages vs on iMessage.
Maybe not good strategy but still really interesting question.
Definitely.

The thing is, I'm already doing things whenever possible as an individual, but I've spent so long alone that I'm really craving the company that a community provides. I want to start and be part of offline spaces, hence the club.
> if your product can only run on ads because people won't pay for it, you know you have a shitty product.

https://www.eurogamer.net/football-manager-dev-hopes-to-stic...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2012/jul/23/...

https://venturebeat.com/games/monument-valley-developer-only...

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/34191/gdc-online-11-android...

https://www.androidpolice.com/2010/08/26/android-piracy-by-c...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2515893/android-softwa...

If anyone ever wonders why premium games on mobile died out, there's your answer.

But to give a TL;DR for those who don't click through: Piracy on Android in the 2010's was especially rampant, due to the nature of how you APKs are packaged and distributed (and how hard Google makes to add DRM). 70% piracy rates were common on Android compared to 30% on IOS, and it wasn't unusual to hear of 90+% in some games, to the point where a few games went f2p simply because they could not get users to pay a single dollar for their game.

in a particular instance, the hit game Monument Valley, a 2014 game that had 26m downloads on IOS alone in 2016, was reporting 95% piracy rates on Android. It is (or was, back in 2018) $3 on IOS, and now f2p on Android for that reason.

if you want a frame of reference for how absurd this is (not that you should to understand how 19/20 of your "customers" aren't buying your game): PC piracy has stayed around 33-40% throughout the decades. I cannnot blame developers for switching or abandoning the platform given those piracy rates. It would legitimately be better to offer a demo on Android (a properly isolated demo, not "part of the full game" demo) and point them to console/PC than it would to spend resources porting to Android.\

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Gabe Newell is oft-quoted saying "Piracy is a service problem". Well, this shows that services can simply get around this by turning the pirated content into a thin client and store all the value on the server. It simply took until "always online" was no longer a lofty assumption to perform.
Both of these babies are female. I am not at all surprised that the drug helped in the way described in the articles, but it doesn't actually indicate whether or not it could impact the vas deferens since that's a defect in the male reproductive tract.

According to the CF Foundation, the cause of the lack of the vas deferens is not conclusively known.

https://www.cff.org/managing-cf/fertility-men-cf
Here is a thought, introduce a new term "metric NPV correlation factor". If a particular metric has a perfect correlation with NPV it is assigned 1.0. If increasing or decreasing the metric has no impact it is assigned 0.0. Now that we have established a gradient, it is possible to further the discussion.

You are stating that cash / sales do not have exactly 1.0 but can be something less. I can accept that. However, the correlation is very high and higher correlation factors are harder to game. Metrics with high correlation factors also do not need to be hidden.

Let's contrast this with another metric: number of emails sent per month. Low correlation factor, easy to game, likely to actually cause harm to a business. This is the kind of metric that you would certainly need to invoke Goodhart's law on (i.e. hide) which is, in turn, a sign that a metric should not be used.

My main thesis is metrics must have high NPV correlation factors or should not used at all. High levels of scrutiny should be placed on those introducing such metrics. Finally, no metric should ever be hidden as it is a clear sign that NPV correlation is low by definition.
It folds together a lot of user cues around input: that the controller that presses start is the one that the player wants to use, that they are present and ready to play(vs sitting back and watching a cutscene, which, uncued, can be confusing if the game subsequently transitions to gameplay). It can also act as the centered calibration for the sticks.

Older games' "press start" messages were tied to the title screens being part of an "attract mode". This is something done both in the arcade and in retail store displays: it's much less eye catching to have the game sitting there wherever the last patron left it, than to have a rolling demo with a little trailer, some gameplay shown, and a "press start" message. The attract mode does the work of a sales pitch, and a lot of older games were big on the concept and invested time into that feature.
Perhaps not unusually, but there is some evidence that they are more profitable than comparably sized non-pharma companies.

>"from 2000 to 2018, the median net income (earnings) expressed as a fraction of revenue was significantly greater for pharmaceutical companies compared with nonpharmaceutical companies (13.8% vs 7.7%)."

Profitability of Large Pharmaceutical Companies Compared With Other Large Public Companies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054843/
I'm not hugely familiar with IAM, but can't you get basically the same, for free, using Cloudflare Zero Trust or even Tailscale?
Damn, I live in San Jose and eat a lot of tilapia cooked various ways since I had Covid and can't stand the taste of animal meat anymore. I think I'll try salmon.
> Maybe corollary to this is that if you can’t do any immediate action with it, skip the read.

This is what I do. I've been curating my internet diet a lot over the last four years or so. I guess it's a downside of the curation that what does land in my inbox is stuff that I can do something about.
This just cuts out the indies. the big cashgrabs can afford to roll their engine. They are that profitable.
It's diplomatic relations in isolation.

But if someone agrees to it in exchange for staying silent, that's still a bribe.
I respect you for a lot of thing you say Walter but this is garbage.

Taxes are not 1000% higher in USA than they are in France or Germany.

The main reason are patents, lack of generics, lacks of leverage of insurers in the American health care system and lack of regulation.

One of the main insulin provider in the USA is currently Sanofi.
Sanofi is a french company.
And the same insulin in France is under 10$ and currently reimbursed at 100% by the government.

Why ? Because in France the health coverage is state managed. And when the state negotiates the prices (paid by tax payers), the industry shut up and accept them.

This is the same in most of Europe Switzerland excepted.
It seems more like they price it high because they can. The process isn't expensive. A 68,000 square foot plant makes a million pounds a month, says the company. It's not like lab-grown meat, which is a slow, expensive process.

Amusingly, Impossible's ground beef like product was getting rave reviews from prominent foodies at first. It first appeared only at expensive restaurants.
Then they got Burger King to sell it. Only then was there criticism.
In the mid-1990s a large ISP I am aware of, rented "pizzabox" and larger Sun SPARC systems (like SPARCstation 2s; but even the larger systems ran the same OS) to corporate clients.

The team of 5 sysadmins setup, installed, secured and managed 2000 such systems, mostly running SunOS 4.1.x , which didn't have nearly the automation that we have now on newer Unix based OSes.

Using only the bash shell and the many scripts they wrote for managing them. Guess the profitability of that kind of setup? 1 sysadmin per 400 systems... the kind of overhead people think exists, doesn't.
> But how actionable is most information out there?

I think it depends on our individual information diets. I've gradually curated my internet diet to avoid receiving and reading stuff I can't do anything about, so the stuff that does land in my inbox is often actionable. Might not be true for everyone.

> feel like some social media thing should probably already exist, where people find each other to take action together.

What I'm noticing is that the people who do take action are all connected locally and/or offline so I'm trying to focus my energy there. Meet people, take action outside the screen, offline.
Aerowagon: Bolshevik propeller-powered rail car
well, no one else is known for their "physics engine", so clearly Bethesda did something right, or cheaper than everyone else (doubtful).
Yes, that's obviously what they mean. The pronoun "its" is modifying "America".
Not really, its just a few lines in your nftables/iptables rules. And sure, wireguard is great. It's just an underrated trick from decades ago. :)
This is a very interesting sentence, because fish are animals.
You could buy a framework mainboard and build one:
https://frame.work/products/mainboard-kit-amd-ryzen-7040-ser...
You have it figured out.

If you are worried about redundancy, get a second server at a different company with the server in a different part of the country, and back up to it every hour (incremental backups) with a full backup every night, or whatnot.
The using declaration modifies your namespace.

From the docs:

namespace X
{
using ::f; // global f is now visible as ::X::f
using A::g; // A::g is now visible as ::X::g
}

void h()
{
X::f(); // calls ::f
X::g(); // calls A::g
}

Link to docs: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/namespace#Using-d...
So much for “art”, eh? I consider what he did art.

I think it’s cool he played with the system, that is art to me, shame “the central committee” deemed it as unorthodox.
If I look at the job market in my area it’s dominated by Java. There are a lot of .Net jobs as well but they are typically at companies you really don’t want to work for, so it’s basically so much easier for you to find a nice job if you’re into Java.

I’m not, mind you, but maybe 21 will actually change that. I guess it’ll depend more on the tooling than anything else. Because the things I dislike the most about current world Java is that it’s very dependent on 3rd party “addons” to become a nice working experience. Like, you’ll probably want to use Quarkus if you’re doing anything enterprise related, but then you’re putting yourself at the mercy of Big Blue. I’m not sure that Java21 will change that, if it will then it’ll probably be a world where Java dominates even harder than it already does.
I wasn’t distinguishing the two sorts of attacks.
I fell in this trap often, so to avoid it when I decided to launch a magazine, I also took an action at the same time, one that would make it difficult to back out: I sent emails to experts asking for an interview, telling them it was for a magazine I was launching. It worked for me, but not every project might have such an action to go with it.