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“collapse in trust of governments”

I’m pretty sure it’s for 2 reasons: 1) politicians are slick hair car salesman types that have no shame, 2) government being incompetent.

Re 2, if the government could do the things they promised to do, things they charge us for, California high speed rail for example, then people would trust them as much as big business. I can sue a big business, but thanks to incentives I rarely have to. The government on the other hand has lost more lawsuits, screwed over more people, and destroyed the environment to a much greater extent than any single business could manage to do. They use their monopoly on violence to avoid accountability, and waste public funds on their own lifelong political careers, frittering public money away on their own selfish partisan squabbles. Businesses are rarely too big to fail, and therefor cannot behave with impunity. There are only 2 parties. Imagine a world with only 2 corporations!
Picked up (some) emacs in 1995, when I finally got a machine that could run a real version of it. That has served me well ever since. There's things like "org mode" that have happened in that time that I keep meaning to go have a look at, but never have enough need to go do it.

Not to rehash "Editor Wars"; whatever works for you is what you should use. It's good to try things that are hyped sometimes, and see why they're popular; but it's not always "rejecting advances" when those tools aren't as fitting to your use.

I had people talk up the "do what I mean" features of VScode, but i couldn't stand the actuality of it. Sometimes I don't know what I meant until I tried it 3 wrong ways first.
Whatsapp is just sending messages. Here's music recommendation lecture on using latest techniques to better serve users. I am glad that their music recommendations are very good. There are so many nooks and corners in a big company like Spotify where you need someone to be responsible for.

Music Recommendations at Spotify - Oskar Stål, Spotify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VvM98flwq0
> A side note - I am a little wary at how frequently economic figures have been revised recently.

They aren't revised any more often than normal, nor are the revisions large.

> It makes suspicious when people are surprised at good news that seems to go against sentiment.

The aspects if sentiment that historically vary closely with conditions (e.g., the current conditions portion of consumer confidence) are as consistent with recent good news as they have been with econonic news historically. The future expectations portion of consumer confidence, and aggregate “sentiment” measures that don't break out components, may seem inconsistent with current news, but that's also not historically unusual.
FYI: required fields were re-introduced in protobuf.
why? because despite what the gobs team and others thinks, that is a necessary feature to work with data structures.
If "everything is optional", what is the value of any structure, over sending an untyped associative array of stuff?
I watched it too few days ago and I wondered if it is as bad as it looks in the video.

I have been there a couple of times in the past before the pandemic and it did not look worst than any other big downtown in USA to me (another interesting topic for an European living in the USA btw), in the video… holly it looks bad. Is it that the video is made in a sensationalist way or is it as bad as it seems to be?
Hi, Author here. Apologies, I should have made it clear that this was intended to be a short list of microprocessors only, mostly to leave room for a follow up on microcontrollers like the 8051. Completely agree that the 8051 deserves a place on any list of important 1970s architectures.

If anyone is interested in the results of the poll which looks like a dead heat between the 6800/9 and Z80, then the winner was Motorola. So I'm now deep in research on the 6800, hopefully to result in a post in the near future.
Haven't gotten to test it but given i use CoreML on Comfy, i wonder if we'll see more optimizations and performance work on the back end of these platforms as more useful frontends come out. the 1-4it/s on a 512 image is just sad, and the 2-3s/it on 1024 is just sad in this modern day, hell the ANE can't even run SD 1024x1024 images on a Macbook Pro M3 :S
Agreed. Five eyes law enforcement is already all over crypto; can’t imagine they’d go easier if it became geopolitically influential.
It is also a matter of other related costs likely hydration or thermal reasons. There are adaptations to recycle carbon within rather than the obvious thing and just open their stomas to get more carbon dioxide.
Politicians failing to read the writing on the wall, then overcorrecting and acting devoid of all humanity and only for selfish reasons is the norm, sadly.
What the conspiracy theory is doing, is proposing this to be a clever move, when selfishness and stupidity also suffice as explanation.
>Sadly for Carthage

Before you sympathize too much with Carthage, bear in mind that their (well documented by contemporary sources even if you account for anti-Carthagian propaganda from some Roman sources) religious practices were distinctly grotesque, involving no shortage of child sacrifice that even included burning children alive. Notable families were also encouraged to do the same to their first sons in times of crisis, but would often buy the children of poor people to go in their place.

I know the Romans really, really disliked the Carthagians, so it must have tainted their view on them in all circumstances, but even then, there are enough sources professing outright disgust about their sacrificial practices to give the complaints some weight. And if Romans of all people are disgusted with how brutal a country's cultural practices are, you can imagine that they probably were pretty damn awful.
I have literally never in my life received or left a voicemail, or even know someone who ever did... and I also wouldn't expect anyone to listen to the one I leave on their phone.
I enjoyed the topic of resiliency and thought worth sharing. I hope you enjoy it too.
Wasn't it actually about spoiling the whole stock of Iranian's Uranium by applying damaging amounts of centrifugal force to it? I'm probably wrong about that, just asking.
Well, I use GRUB for booting since, let's see... well, since I first installed this system, probably something like ~10 years ago, and it just works, never breaks, and I never have to touch it.

The parent poster was definitely right that Arch pushes all of the decisions down to the users rather than deciding for you, so I suppose how much it breaks depends on how good your decisions are and how much of a Linux expert you are. I could fix virtually any broken Linux system while blindfolded, so I know how to set it up so that it never breaks and doesn't require any maintenance. This probably explains the difference in our experiences.
NoScript[1] & Kill Sticky[2] are mandatory for browsing the modern web.

[1] https://noscript.net/

[2] https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky
Get M1 macbook, throw your ryzen with 4090 in a closet and use it as a remote API endpoint for comfyui lol
Which goes back to the point of the community not caring about JITs, which is embodied in the way Python libraries that are thin wrappers around C code, get called as "Python" libraries.

They are as much Python as they could be Tcl.

Ironically it sufficed to Microsoft and CUDA step in, followed by Facebook as well, Guido gets out of his Python retirement, and JIT, GIL-removal are suddenly issues that matter.
> selfishness and stupidity also suffice as explanation

The problem though is that almost all societies, before us, considered stupidity to not be an excuse for any crime, for similar reasons to "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." This was because, as another principle I'm forgetting the name of points out, stupidity is indistinguishable from competently-executed malice. If competently-executed malice is always explained away as stupidity, there's no such thing as malice. (The only obvious exception, of course, being manifest insanity.)
It isn't funny, just sad. Another thing it is is 'predictable' since the same thing has happened and continues to happen elsewhere where similar 'progressive' policies are enacted.
They conduct electricity. Thus if you have a leak from one conductor somewhere in your house (that without ground fault protection goes undetected almost every case) and gets a different one from a different wire, you now have a constant-on heater passing through God knows where, ready to start fires.

A single leak also gives you a minor risk of electrocution. But the fire hazard is the important one.
A similar mistake was made by Ezra Klein in the NYT at the end of his opinion piece (1).

The 'we can regulate this' argument relies on heavy, heavy discounting of the past, often paired with heavy discounting of the future. We did not successfully regulate tobacco; we failed, millions suffered and died from manufactured ignorance. We did not successfully regulate the fossil fuel industry; we again, massively failed.

But if you, in the present day, sit comfortably, did not personally did not get lung disease, have not endured the past, present, and future harms of fossil fuels — and in fact have benefited — it is easy to be optimistic about regulation.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/openai-sam-altman...
Better get rid of daylight saving time, then, so we can spend more waking hours in the dark
"Everything else is a means to an end in efficiently delivery compute..."

Without tweaking anything (so not RWKV), you could train a GPT level RNN...if you had the compute to burn.
Ask HN: Are you having trouble reaching Bitly.com
It shows a certificate error, and if you proceed anyway it goes to a GoDaddy page.

https://bit.ly/ short domains do not seem to be affected.
>or they let it happen, intentionally, as an excuse to raid Gaza as well as improve the popularity of their struggling president.

If that was the goal, it massively backfired
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>You still have the title "scientist"

You seem to be completely obsessed by titles for no apparent reason. I don't care what your title is, if you fake data to validate false hypotheses you aren't doing science. It's very simple.

>You still have the title "scientist", and still get your paycheque. Like baking, there is the recipe one is supposed to follow, but there is also the how the baking is actually done. If a baker failed to follow the recipe in an instance of baking, would you also believe that they are not a baker, or are not baking?

If you purchase a cake from Walmart and tell people you baked it from scratch you are not a baker. If you 3d print a cake look alike made of plastic and tell people it is a cake you are not a baker.

You seem to be in the midst of a mental break so good luck to you.
Microsoft tried with XPS which is a zipped XML format, pretty much like MS Office 2007+ files. To Adobe's credit, they made PDF an open standard around the time XPS came out. Maybe it's a combination of being there first, many files already in PDF, and finally making the format open which made PDF win.
Most sugar today comes from beets and is extracted through an industrial process. Drug cartels rely on things like gasoline because they are commonly available, but if there were not criminal sanctions on the process, then it’s possible some higher-quality means of extraction would be employed.
> The only decent one would be Lee.

Lee had a habit of couching orders as if they were suggestions or requests. The South's most effective general may have been Jackson. For the first half of the war, the Union's top general in the east was McClellan, who was useless.

[Edit] McClellan didn't fight in the west. And I spelled his name wrong.

[Edit 2] Lee overruled Longstreet, who wanted to flank the Union's right. Lee insisted on a frontal assault. That decision led directly to Picket's disastrous charge.

I don't understand why some generals are so averse to flanking actions. Is it because they are somehow considered cowardly, or "just not cricket"? Flanking actions are often decisive, and sometimes even the threat of a flanking action can critically disrupt enemy operations.
It's not so much law, as far as I'm aware, as the PCI/DSS requirements made by the credit card companies. Since they'll stop doing business with you if you don't follow their requirements, for all practical purposes, they have the force of law.

You could probably get sued for negligence if you process card details over an unencrypted connection, but that's nothing compared to the damage your business will take if the card companies decide that you're on the naughty list.
Under What metric do you apply that? What goals did they have for his program?

My understanding was the purpose of buying Joe Rogan was 2 fold, one of course is to bring in new users, but that was not the only goal (maybe not even the primary goal) the other goal was to get more of their current users to have more listen time on podcasts and less on Music, they pay far far far far less for podcasts (in many cases nothing) than they do for Music.

If they were able to shift the total listen time it could have more than paid for Rogan even with out new subscribers

The contract is up for renewal very soon so if they drop him we know he did not meet their objectives. Somehow I bet they renew
> All I hear is "We hired for the sake of hiring when money was cheap and we wanted to signal 'growth'

In a healthy company, I would expect every employee to contribute to the bottom line, either directly or indirectly. They hired these people because they needed them to do a job, a job that somehow helps making the company money.

As such, unless there are sudden significant changes to the market and product (which as far as I can tell is not the case here), firing employees should result in lower revenues. After all, employees generate more money than they cost, that's the entire point of employees.

This leaves me with a bunch of questions when I read things like this:

1) If the company can get by without these people, what were they doing in the first place?
2) If these people did not contribute to the bottom line (directly or indirectly) what was the point in hiring them?
3) If they did contribute, why let them go?
Not sure if this is just a tongue in cheek response, but cellulose isn’t fat, plants use it to give structure and rigidity to their cell walls. Animal cell walls do have lipids, but these fats not responsible for what makes animals obese.
The phrase "shutting down" here is doing a lot of work.

Why don't we characterize it as "challenging" them?
> When you say 'poison the database' in the case if sms/robocalls what exactly would that involve?

It involves never blocking any SMS/robocall: for SMS always reply in the affirmative (i.e. you want an agent to phone you), for robocalls, keep the call active for as long as you can, and reply in the affirmative for future contact.

You do that, knowing full-well that you aren't going to be buying anything.

If even half the population did that, spam SMS and robocalls would become too expensive to do anymore.
That's not how LTS is supposed to work. You should be able to uograde effortlessly with minimum risk.

If you're at a point where a patch for LTS looks like an upgrade to the new version you've screwed up LTS.

Also, getting to the point of having an LTS and actually providing the support is expensive. You need experts that can backport security fixes and know the product inside out.
Most languages that have a way to define dot-syntax functions that aren't actually methods of the type also come with the ability to use any zero-arg method (both true methods and dot-syntax extension functions) as a one-arg function reference, or rather n-arg methods as n+1-arg function references. No need to crowd the unqualified namespace just to be able to use them without wrapping in a lambda.
How is that a stretch? If we're not irreplaceable then ganging up on our employers is a way for us to reclaim some of the leverage in this transaction that we lose by being replaceable.
> as well as improve the popularity of their struggling president.

How does that work ? He's at a record low approval, Israelis want a culprit and he's the default one
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California regulators cut incentives for rooftop solar even further
I asked the Ashley Madison files to you because you had them in 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10083708
even though I primarily use spotify for podcasts, the radio functionality is something I've used for like.... 8 years
> when the brain, as far as we know, is emergent behavior from many little things coordinating, not architected

I wouldn't characterize it like that ... The brain has a specific learning architecture / dynamics that has been created via evolution under selection pressure to learn (i.e predict outcomes) better.

As a product of evolution I wouldn't want to call it "architected" or a top-down design, but for the time being it's the only example we have of such a successful learning system so it would make sense to copy what evolution has done, which means copying how it works on all levels.

A simpler example is convolutional neural nets for vision which were explicitly designed to simplistically mimic some of the behavior of our visual system with it's multi-layer (V1, V2, etc) architecture and local learning rules. Sure there's emergent behavior occurring when data is fed into such a system (both brain's visual system or CNN), such as the pattern detectors we see emerge at lowest level, but this emergent behavior is a result of the overall architecture.
Spotify had a large headcount.

Let's look at some of your examples and see where things can logically be cut.

>I imagine there's a big team dedicated to getting inventory on the service through negotiations with music producers around the world.

This can be streamlined considerably through standardized contracts. I'd wager 90% of the inventory that said team gets is from niche artists, independent artists or small labels. Very few artists actually have the clout or resources to negotiate their own deals with Spotify. That's sort of the point of having executives - to handle the Taylor Swifts of the world. Your local band, rapper, singer-songwriter or producer doesn't matter to Spotify.

Have a clear and straightforward tier system for compensation. You get a billion streams a year? You get $X. You get 10,000 streams a year? You get $Y.

>There will be a large editorial team producing playlists, curation, tuning the algorithm with expertise, etc. That all needs to be localised and to cover lots of niche music tastes. That's also not evergreen content or work, it needs constant updates to remain relevant.

You don't need a large team to curate playlists when you can have users curate playlists. In fact, they already do. You don't need a huge localization team either. Users already take care of the legwork for you. Same goes for algorithm tuning.

>Then there's international expansion and enabling the tech to work for more countries, more languages, more payment methods, more types of music publishing.

Spotify is kinda already there in terms of international expansion. Anywhere they aren't already, they probably won't get there for political reasons (such as China).

More languages? Sure, but that doesn't require a massive team. Fortunately, there are a few dominant languages around the world, and Spotify has those covered.

More payment methods? Let the creators of those methods handle that - that's their job. Credit Card companies or banks or whatever don't create their own payment platform tech and just say "now it's yours to try to implement", they have entire teams dedicated to that.

More types of music publishing? Like what? There's only so many methods of publishing music, and I'd wager there's going to be very little (if any) innovation there for a while. Spotify doesn't really distribute any other forms of published music besides digital streams. They aren't selling records or CDs, are they?

EDIT: you could also say Spotify has vastly overspent on the likes of Joe Rogan, no matter how popular he is. $200 million dollars to a company that isn't very profitable, no matter how large, is just bad business. He's worth nowhere close to $200 million.
I feel like the scheme transition could go better if it had been proposed today. The dev community is much larger and there seems to be more activity around this stuff today.

Case in point, the recent async updates, native compilation and more. They often leave something to be desired but are nevertheless huge upgrades.
Probably there are more Python users out there than combined users of all lisp-like languages, which I guess would mean people are less scared of white-space significance than s-expressions :)
There Are a Lot of Ways to Hide Stuff in the Browser
CFRP rebar has been developed with a much longer lifespan. However, it is currently considered non-economical, possibly because design lifespans are not long. Aramid FRP has been considered for rebar as well; glass fibers are attacked by cement alkali; basalt fibers have good performance dependent on the source of basalt (rocks with varying composition).

One issue with a long-lived building is that you never know exactly when it will fail. 700 years down the line, it starts to crack: now what? The evolution of biological systems has strongly preferred regular replacement to longevity.
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Is this implying that these kinds of events are politically advantageous to pro-settlement and native-displacement factions in Parliament?

Get attacked, retaliate with orders-of-magnitude more force, and drive natives out of their homes and into progressively smaller and more-fragmented reservations?
> I'm repeating a theory I've heard that sounds interesting

Have you heard about the one that says the earth is flat, or even hollow ? Quite interesting isn't it ?
To save you a click: it’s “rizz”, short for “charisma”. Yawn.
This is completely backwards.

They didn't hire "for the sake of hiring" -- they hired specifically to build up their podcasting and audiobook efforts, which were totally new products within the app. Which they thought were essential to staying competitive -- e.g. what if people start moving over to Amazon instead with its Music+Wondery+Audible, or other competitors?

Now it's turned out those bets haven't been as successful as they wanted, so they're keeping them but massively scaling back on future investment. Which means they don't need those employees anymore.

Honestly, what do you expect Spotify to do? Not try to stay competitive, and risk a competitor taking their place, and then go the way of Pandora? Do you think it's wrong to hire teams to build products when you hope the products will succeed but you can't know 100% for sure?

This is just how normal, healthy business goes. You make bets, sometimes they succeed wildly, and sometimes they don't. When they don't, it often results in layoffs because there's not enough profit to keep paying those employees with, and there isn't immediately any new product for them to work on.

Believe me, a company with profit margins as thin as Spotify's can't afford to "hire for the sake of hiring". That's just not how it works.
Many of us here grew up in the answering machine era where leaving a message was normal, expected behavior- when phones were not carried on your person.