skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bandcamp let me pay a musician for a song, regardless of how unknown or unpopular a band was.

This is what made me love Bandcamp. I get to pay the artists more-or-less directly, and as a person who tends not to be into the Big Music Names, Bandcamp is utterly amazing, chock full of smaller artists doing wonderful things.
Could you point us to some examples of old games using this technique? Would be awesome to see.
Porkbun.
First Google result was a small air conditioning reseller, the second was []1. I'm going with the former.

1: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accel...
Agree! My point was, and is, that the stock market can decline or go nowhere as the economy grows, sometimes for a long time!
A fitting rebuttal to Andreesen's manifesto is Erin Kissane's recent series about how Meta enabled a genocide in Myanmar. "Trust and safety" as enemies, indeed. https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
But there is a precedence to pick for the panic case too.
All these 'best' accounts are essentially the Twitter equivalent of SEO farms, as far as I can tell.
Not that I am rooting for this product, but... "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."
Thanks, it was a lot of fun!
yeah he quotes the Futurist Manifesto further down the page, also with no historical context, which ... I dunno, that's gotta be a dog whistle, right?
Countless ways. From sheer governmental incompetence like when regulating the competition out of markets. To simply not understanding second order effects when “helping markets” with patents and humongous copyright terms. To not understanding supply and demand when pressed to fulfill voter promises like when attempting to control and fix prices. To being captive to interest groups that end up controlling a huge chunk of economy like in heath care.

But most of all through sheer, pure corruption. Because why else would someone become a politician - a relatively low paid position - if not to be in a position to transform all that power and influence into money, for the highest bidder?
100%

My concern though is this line from the readme

> "This repository will be abandoned once Linux or FreeBSD is stabilized with write support. OpenBSD is not the main area of interest."
He’s produced some popular documentaries with a distinctive narration and storytelling style. Grizzly Man is one of his more famous movies.
If this was true we wouldn't have any dams, the market would see to it pretty quickly.

It's not, at least not yet.
Thanks, wildfires inspired us to work on this technology, so we're excited to see it used in those applications too!
Hang in there. I’ve had the same challenge. Take some time off and burn through any energy accumulated taking care family in just a few days.

Best I’ve found is to try and keep things at a slow burn. You’ll never really relax but you can try to reduce the stress peaks.
Not completely, a big part of the problem is resturant floors tend to get wet. When I first injured my back I slipped on a damp greasy floor.

If I had a mat like that I wouldn't have slipped.
That's a really recent paper. Do you actually keep up to date with everything? How do you find the time?
I own about 15 hectares of agricultural land in SE Asia and recently have given up on our manual battle against weeds and have temporarily opted to go for herbicides.

We are presently planting a new batch of trees and the weeds have grown faster than our farmhands ability to keep up and have strangled our saplings. Hopefully after the trees have matured, the amount of sunlight hitting the ground would reduce and this should in turn reduce the weeds ability to grow.

I am fortunate in that I can support the farming from other income sources, but a typical debt ridden farmer in this region would be completely unable to do so.

But using herbicide makes me a bit sad, from a lush biodiverse field we now have something I would describe as a barren wasteland minus our monocrop.

I wish there was another way.
Indeed, there are many who make so much noise made about how unsustainable and environmentally toxic industrial cattle farming is, but then it's crickets when it comes to how unsustainable and environmentally toxic industrial agriculture is.
Plus, a copyright owner can supply additional linking exceptions.
I did this back in 2016, with an iOS app I built/hacked away at while learning/self-teaching Swift and UIKit.

Easily over 1,000 hours (~2 hours ~5x day per week for ~2 years) invested in to the app. I learned so, so much, and fell in love with the Swift language, but that app never saw the light of day.

Instead, I developed skills that have made me a much better programmer. And, fast-forward to the current day, I could effectively re-write the entire app - from scratch - in a weekend, due to the evolution of Apple's platform dev tools and APIs over the last ~7 years + the mountains of Swift code and packages I've hacked and honed away at over the years.

This type of project should be celebrated. Programming is (can be) art. Art can be made just for you, as a creative outlet.
Meta in Myanmar, Part IV: Only Connect
Employees are on board. They see it as not having to worry about security in the worst case scenario where they'll have a small cushion. I like it if it means they're willing to fight until the very end if need be.

And if they quit anytime before year 2, they know that they'll get nothing. Money comes to the company. So they're kind of handcuffing themselves for at least 2 years
> But the rut isn't the problem. The fact that you think you need to get out of it is the problem.

This is an incredible insight in and of itself, thank you.
> It makes me sad when flexible general purpose APIs are replaced with locked down, specific ones. (e.g. overlay windows API -> a specific "chat heads" API).

Doesn't have to be a replacement. It's good when you add specific APIs to do specific things that aren't very dangerous and then have the super dangerous one left as a risk signal. Innovation can still happen, common things get easier, and dangerous things get rarer. Feels pretty good to me.
David Beazley Programming Courses
Yahoo Emoticons and Smileys (2017)
I find it slightly amusing that composer Gustav Holst, mainly known for his suite _The Planets_, encouraged her to study music, but she ultimately pursued astronomy instead.
This was my first reaction, but on thinking more I think this might end up being positive. Bandcamp is where I look first for music, and increasingly new releases are never there. It's great for music released in the mid 2010s, but it has without question been slowly dying. Hopefully somebody who cares is going to resurrect it.

I'm probably being too optimistic, but it's a nice psychological blanket
There should be an attempt to calculate inflation separately from changes in productivity. Tech, for instance, has largely been deflationary due to technological improvements. Real estate, on the other hand, has been inflationary due to monetary policy. CPI doesn’t capture that at all. They should also add real estate and other assets to the inflation calculation. Stock valuations have been historically high. Put another way, $100 today buys you less future cash flow than in past years.
>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform?

Seeing as it's somehow the only social network to spam my email (I never even touched LinkedIn) endlessly? Yeah, it's been shit for many years. Even by social media standards.
If I understand what you're saying, it's the macos UI that is degenerate?

I say that because the reliability with advanced hardware (power management, power per watt) has been famously rejoiced over increasingly with the M1 and M2 hardware and macos on it.

Personally I too get annoyed with the UI inflexibilities, prefer Asahi so i can just control the visual aspects.
This comment thread is honestly hilarious. Anti-vaxxers coming out of the woodwork en-masse :)
I agree with Don Norman's points on product design, but I couldn't help but think that the current world is also designed to benefit those people who will never live long enough to be impacted by the consequences of our current inaction to stop/reverse/mitigate climate change.
Managerial bloat tends to lack a short term counter balance. Boom/Bust cycles seem to emerge.

Personally I wish we needed fewer managers but I often see their necessity.
Replicated research. Peer review is when journals ask other researchers to look at a paper and determine whether it's suitable to be published. Attempting to replicate the findings is typically not part of the peer review process, peer review is a sniff test.
Sorry, did you mean to quote something different in my post? Questions are not evidence. It’d be extremely helpful if you gave a specific definition of “understand objective reality” as I asked in #1 before moving on to 2 and 3.

If you’re saying that “understand objective reality” means “knowing the true process of the universe’s creation” I’d counter that baked into that is the assumption that the universe was created, which is not necessarily the case, so you’d additionally need to provide evidence for that.
Did you look at the title?
I always thought this would be a good attack vector for hardware bitcoin wallets.

You make a subtly backdoored version (for example, tamper with the RNG so it only has a few bits of entropy) and you either return it, or sign up as a third-party seller and ship it to Amazon yourself, to be commingled with existing legitimate inventory.

Then a year or two later, because you know all but a few bits of the private key, you grab the money and run.

No need to control who gets the backdoored devices, just ship enough that you luck into some rich buyers.
This post scares me because I see so much of myself in it. I can get really wrapped up in the building of a great product, deeply absorbed in the identity of being a craftsman, and grossed out by the “soulless” approach of quick-and-dirty MVPs and iterative market testing. If you’ve ever visited the r/SaaS subreddit, it is the antithesis of what I enjoy about being a software developer. However, if I can manage to change my mentality about market testing and quick, dirty iteration, I know that provides a much better foundation for letting loose and focusing on the craft.
That explains why they were asking for Putman scores when hiring engineers around the time they started.
No thanks. If I don’t control the hardware and the OS, that means I can’t use mods. But with the absolutely disastrous states games are released in nowadays, those are absolutely necessary.

The input latency is a secondary issue.
I partly agree - I think you've outlined well why democracy should not be an end in itself. It's a means to an end and it's not always the best means. The main advantage of democracy is that it facilitates peaceful transfer of power between competing groups of elites. But you could imagine scenarios where the cost of a violent transfer of power is less than the cost of some other very bad outcome democracy is hurtling towards (e.g. an even larger outburst of violence at a later date, an environmental catastrophe).
It's possible, but you'll run into annoying breakage long the way. It's probably safer and less troublesome (unless you're deeply familiar with the changes along the way and the old upgrade procedures) to take the existing configurations as guidelines what to recreate on the latest release.
Interchange fees are regulated in Europe. This prevents this weird inflation of card fees which are then returned via cashbacks.
Because bandwidth is not cheap and there are better tools for downloading.

Either youtube-dl or newpipe.
You say that, but applications use up orders of magnitude more system resources these days due to being built upon several layers of abstractions. Some modern applications feel more sluggish than their feature-complete counterparts from back in the day.
Alternate, equally speculative but less cynical take on 4-5, largely advised by Songtradr's announcement here: https://twitter.com/songtradr/status/1709986126117630051?s=2...

This may have been a last-minute accelerated deal process where Epic would have all but shuttered Bandcamp if a buyer couldn't be found, before they needed to announce massive layoffs to assuage investors. Songtradr is given an opportunity to see the deal, wants to ensure Bandcamp's survival in its current form (because its demise would hurt the entire ecosystem Songtradr depends on).

But Songtradr isn't given time to put together a transition plan or identify the exact legal path to deal with the union (especially given that they're in an entirely different country with different labor laws!) and not expose themselves to liability. So they announce conditional openness to the acquisition (per the link above, the transaction hasn't closed yet), and this at minimum gives Bandcamp a stay of execution while they identify next steps.

Now, they've identified at least one next step - how much of the current Bandcamp costs they can carry during the transition - and that's 50% of current staff. A tough call to make, but if the alternative was shuttering the service, a very justifiable one.
> The rational choice is to sell.

Not necessarily. Whether or not that's the rational choice depends on what your goals are.
This is the one. C3 IOT became C3 AI without batting a lash. The radio copy is almost identical, with only the name change to catch your ear or avoid sounding dated.
This is a naïve question, but why on earth are unions isolated to one company so often in USA? Surely an industry-wide solution would be more effective.
Yeah, I basically use it for online resume storage.

For years LinkedIn languished as the site everyone was on, but nobody actually used for anything. But I have actually gotten a couple of leads from it now.

The feed is trash though, for sure. And you have to laugh at the endless parade of bimbo pictures attached to accounts that are supposedly "recruiters." Unprofessional and insulting.
Edinburgh couple are handed £17K bill by Tesla as they 'drove in rain'
I'm late to this party so this comment will be buried, but I hope it's useful to someone.

MSFT will be replacing some of the NTLM functionality with something called IAKERB, which is a GSS-API mechanism (aka, an SSP in Windows terminology) that allows the server application to proxy Kerberos messages between the client and the Kerberos key distribution centers (KDCs), and this will replace two things that NTLM provides:

- support for cases where there is
no direct line of sight between
the client and the KDCs
- support for using username &
password local to the server by
having the server have its own
local KDC

The only NTLM feature not provided by the new thing is the ability to InitializeSecurityContext() without naming the target service. This is why it's not entirely a drop-in replacement, and NTLM-using applications do need remediation for this (and, along the way, to replace uses of the NTLM SSP with the Negotiate SSP). Because the apps always know a name for the target, there is no reason that this remediation should be hard. Therefore you can consider all the NTLM functionality replaced by IAKERB.

EDIT: I don't mind downvotes, but if I'm trying to provide useful technical information and you disagree with it it, it might be useful to say so because a) I might be wrong, b) you might be wrong, c) others might learn something.
The 1995 is very good and I'll watch it again every few years.

I walked out of the 2017 Scarlett Johansson remake. And a big reason I did so was that it lacked the atmosphere of the earlier film, what is known as Ma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)
> There should be an attempt to calculate inflation separately from changes in productivity.

Two questions:

1. What does that even mean?

2. For what use?

> They should also add real estate and other assets to the inflation calculation.

There is plenty of tracking of asset prices. Why should it be part of generic (i.e., consumer) inflation, other than to break all the processes that depend on that measuring consumer prices as distinct from producer prices, asset prices, etc.?
The purpose of that is to allow previewing before purchase, which IMHO is a wonderful feature and is the big reason I used to use Napster. If I liked some of the songs, I'd buy the album. I do the exact same thing now on Bandcamp.

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/360007902173-I-h...

https://newmusicstrategies.com/but-if-they-steal-it/
We closed the round two months ago. I just brought on 3 employees. It's not diluting me or costing me anything. My employees are exchanging a small portion of their stock comp for this guaranteed severance; investor will wire money into segregated escrow accounts that both me and the employees can see.

In the worst case scenario if the business fails and if my employee has been loyal then they get their 3 month severance. If they leave anytime in the next 2 years, they get none of that money. Money comes to the business instead
I know the site is meant to be boring videos, but I found this one extremely interesting (and I've not even watched Star Trek) https://napflix.tv/?id=e5Did-eVQDc

My go to for videos to put me to sleep were trains going through snowy mountains. I didn't see any on the site, but an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjw-n1bOnE
Where can I read more about the effectiveness of the inert interments and their dosage?
Qobuz operates in (and is based out of) the EU.
UFS/FFS is well tested code and won't corrupt itself, but it lacks the checksumming to detect data corruption from unreliable hardware/firmware/drivers.
Nah, the hype cycle for both started a decade ago, long before the pandemic.
Yes and no. It's free in the sense they embed it in the price (i.e., it's not extra). But the price does vary across registrars.
> But the bigger point is that you conflate selling to a bigger company with more resources with “f[ing] their users,” which is just naive.

It's not naive, it's how these things go the majority of the time. I think that expecting otherwise is a bit naive.
If you re-frame Spotify as a way to discover music, it's not worthless.

Feel free to use Spotify to find artists and give them money however you want.

Also, nobody is stopping you from spending your time finding new music and giving money as directly as possible to the artist.

Spotify can be seen as a way to increase your exposure to new music, and for that it might be worth the $XX/month to many people, the ability to stream/cache it is a nice addition, but you don't have to rely on it as a way to give money (a pittance) to artists you like.
They voted for this.

There's no hidden secret. It's right there in the open.
Have you looked at the RAZ Memory Cell Phone? I've been considering that for my mom, who also has early stage dementia.
Well if we’re going off opinion rather than tested hypothesis, my observation is that the reason people gain weight after college is gradual lifestyle changes leading to less sleep, alcoholic calories, sugar, more sitting, less exercise etc
Not everything grows in California.
To be fair, it's not yet clear from the courts perspective what constitutes a derivative work in the world of software. There's a not-insignificant possibility that a future court decision will give a definition for "derivative work" in software that erases the difference between the LGPL and GPL.

IMO, it's even somewhat likely. It's entirely unclear why the legal system would care whether something is statically linked or dynamically linked with regards to interpreting derivative works in software, so the question would likely boil down to simply "does linking a library make the application a non-fair use derivative work of the library"? If no, then there is no difference between the LGPL and GPL. If yes, the status quo remains.
Personal goal: Build an entire SPA running on PostGres. No microservices, no CAP, no reverse proxy, no caching, just a boring boring app that works.
Also you do have something to lose -- the time you spend worshiping the god that may not exist.
Ecstatica - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOXk3QJWN8
Literally everybody has family members who could use extra money. If having family absolves you from ethical constraints we can dispense with the notion of ethics altogether.
And in Masai Mara (just outside the gate), I am setting up a Safari lodge/camp site - specially targeting digital nomads and the backpacker crowd that looks for good internet connection (Starlink) and infrastructure + the community aspect which is really missing in that area.

Would be great to have thoughts / feedback from the HN Community. Also happy to chat in general if you're planning a safari trip :) Email is in my profile.

I've grown up in Tanzania and partially based in Kenya past few years and partially in California, I'm intimately familiar with the safari scene there. Spoiler - it's incredible.
Man, what is with HN and weirdly detailed posts explaining how awesome the Soviet economy was?

For my money, the Soviet economy failed while the NATO countries succeeded for reasons described by Hayek, summarized reasonably well in Marc Andreessen's weird diatribe. At best your post is splitting hairs, at worst it's Zizek-like nonesense "20th century communists established the real free markets!"
It's that I do not understand the "citation needed" annotation applied to "Arabic", because of the very reasons, you mentioned. (What kind of mindset is behind this?)
the parent comment had no reference to ubo? invidous doesn’t use the youtube ui or account
I agree with the overall thrust of this, or should be easy to convince, but boy does this lack of self-awareness just shout “distance yourself and run, don’t walk!”

> Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.

Really?

Does an uber-wealthy capital allocator publishing a social manifesto seriously not see that this comment at least justifies a half-assed explanation as to why it doesn’t apply to the author?

Maybe something like, “my personal chef Instacarts my dog’s peanut butter from Whole Foods, just like everyone else, so I am not totally detached from reality!”
At what point is a shop a union shop though? Is it when they vote to unionize, or when the union receives recognition and a collective bargaining agreement?

(That's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuininely interested in it from a philosophical and/or legal point of view)
> It is hard from the outside to distinguish between Amazon style "we are investing all our profits back into R&D so we can take over the world" and "We are bloating our team to grow at all costs and don't know what levers to pull"

Considering Amazon was building physical warehouses, buying land, literally delivering to people, executing deployment of AWS which Netflix was famously using, all while being a publicly listed company with audited public financials I think Amazon’s style is easy to distinguish from the outside.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37897798
Using Kagi, I set up a domain redirect to point youtube.com search results to an Invidious instance. Works great.
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Agreed. My own personal trajectory was

1. raised without Internet

2. discovered internet and thought it would transform the world for good

3. discovered mobile devices and thought they would transform the world for good

4. discovered social medial and thought it would transform the world for good

5. deeply disillusioned with social media and abandon it

6. think social media festering cancer

7. think mobile device cuts me off from most meaningful social contact

8. abandoned mobile device (but kept Apple Watch for emergencies)

I'm curious to know if future generations who started at #4 end up at the same place I did.