skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote a personal memorial "RIP: Dave Mills" in danish:
https://www.version2.dk/holdning/rip-dave-mills

Read it in english with Google Translate:
https://www-version2-dk.translate.goog/holdning/rip-dave-mil...

Quote of the last paragraphs:

Dave accomplished many things in life, he started his career with the "Bandits of the Beltway" as they were called in "MilssSpeak" and there were things he was still not allowed to talk about, for example the guidance computer of the Minuteman-1 missiles, things no one wanted to hear on, e.g. 16-pulse Tactical Loran-C and things that are so big that they are hard to grasp: If Vint Cerf was the "father of the internet" Dave Mills was its grandfather.

Somewhere in the middle of that long list should also be said that he kept a single father and two young children sane and on track, on the opposite side of the globe.

Glory be to his memory!
I love humans, just not all of them and I prefer separating my private life from my work life
I agree it's nuts and wasteful. It seems like Microsoft & Apple could come up with an arrangement to reduce their waste.
Lol this is ridiculous
> Why not a country with more free space, like France?

I can't speak for everyone, but in my case it's laws, regulation, and general friendliness to business enterprises that bring income to the country.

Amsterdam is likely also the best connected area in Europe, the European equivalent of Ashburn, VA.
>Bandcamp is widely used in all over the world.

Not really.
Consultant here, all of our clients that do something with GenAI are on Azure for exactly that reason. Also, Microsoft has European data centers, sending stuff to the US is a big no-no for pretty much all of our clients.
The website the article is reporting on is a work of beauty. On the other hand, the website the article is hosted on..
Sigh. If you're not capable of admitting when you're wrong I feel bad for you. There's no shame in it you know. I'm wrong about stuff frequently, but at least I'll happily admit it.

Life is too short to waste energy clinging onto bad arguments simply out of spite or poor self-esteem. Embrace cummingham's law.

Have a good life.
There is no evidence that it was named after her in the referenced Deadpool article, and I would expect the “Origin” field to mention it if it was the case. Your conclusion doesn’t seem plausible to me.
I’m the only one buying stuffs on Bandcamp in my family. Casual listeners see no reason to be on Bandcamp when they can listen it on YouTube or Spotify.

For the parent comment, it’s better to support artists on whichever platform they want to be in, because parent comment feels like he has an axe to grind on Spotify.
Median age of first time homebuyers has increased from 29 to 35 since 1980
Using up a lot of encoding space for four registers is indeed a problem, but it's a different problem. Even if you restrict the instruction to Fd ← Fd + (Fs1 * Fs2) and/or Fd ← Fs1 + (Fd * Fs2) (the RISC-V Vector extension provides both) you still have to read three registers.
Which, if you recall, turned out to be a bit of a linchpin role.
Okay, I’ve thought twice and I don’t care. Is it okay if I use this now?
I know the HN hivemind despises white space and padding and medium width paragraphs and deem them unneccessary and atrocious for some reason, but the design on the site is not that "functional" - on a window with width of 1035px or less, the main table moves all the way down below the filter column - I can imagine someone opening this with a tablet or something like that for the first time wondering where are all the articles until they scroll all the way down.
That is so genius: Completely handle all immediate issues which probably involve a lot of idiot user error and no issue on the hardware, and then completely drop fools after 30 days! You only have to deal with the issues that aren't actually issues!
Amazon would love to sell me the novel Bastard out of Carolina in paperback or electronic format, or a DVD of the movie made from the novel.
I can't even read the whole post without registering and he has the nerve of calling other websites disrespectful.
This is "Chinese". I personally don't mind, especially if it is open source. But I've seen another China (and electron) based note-taking app vilified for this reason.

FYI It is Siyuan [1]. What is unique about it is the logseq-like block-level granularity (ref/embed/query) and (soon) the notion-like databases.

[1] https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
Knowing the history of deepfakes, I really hope you have a good NSFW filter :)
Why would artists not put their music up on one of the most well-known platforms that allow people to significantly support them by purchasing a copy of their music.

I legitimately don't get it.

I don't necessarily believe that Spotify is necessarily worse as a way to make money from their music (I think ad-supported and subscription "bundling" services such as Youtube and Spotify probably result in more money going to artists than all the options for purchasing artists' music piecemeal, like Bandcamp), but artists should definitely make their music available somewhere for fans to purchase regardless

Substitute Bandcamp with Google/Apple music or whatever, the point remains, one can use Spotube and choose to support artists buy paying for their music.

I don't think most people are actually doing this though..
While potentially significant in determining the intent of various groups in China reacting to knowledge of the virus, an extra two week headstart on developing a vaccine seems to be of little consequence. There are so many variables involved, it's not even clear if knowledge of the virus two week earlier would mean the vaccine would have been produced two weeks earlier.
The debugger is a relatively simple environment: you have a program, you have inputs, and one of these leads to weird behavior.

When you encounter people, they might be in a bad mood for a thousand reasons you can't know about and that you can't inspect like you can in "computer + program + data", leash out at you (verbally) for no discernable reason at all (and that they themselves may not even be aware of)

When you never learned about that messiness of a system as complex as people, it can feel arbitrary and hostile. If you're the type who needs method and order to feel safe, computers are wonderful, people much less so.
This is what happens when a web site, or any business, is actually useful for visitors. Too many sites now only focus on selling someone else's product through marketing. This site focuses on being helpful.
Honestly that site has great UX/UI. Mobile view could be improved but it doesn’t have any distractions and a clear user interface with all the relevant information, so it’s ahead of most over designed “beautiful” websites.
> They're the best when the skin starts going black

they are way too sweet for me when the skin is mostly black... I do like fermented pepper hot sauce though
When comparing banks, I am comparing the banking service and not the rates. The recommended practice would be to keep just as much as you need in your checking/emergency accounts for month to month usage -- and have the rest of your funds in an independent investment/savings account, probably with a different institution. Ideally you time your auto-investments so the money gets invested as soon as it lands in your account via paychecks, etc.

Theoretically, lets say you keep 5k buffer in your checking account. The amount goes up and down as you get paychecks, pay out your rent, credit card bills, etc. That average 5k balance at 5% interest gets you $250 annually, or about $21/mo in interest. You'll give away 30% of that to taxes, so the "opportunity cost" of your checking account is ~$14/mo.

A serious question for any busy professional (as many of us are here) -- is chasing after this $14/mo worth the cost of a substandard checking account and bank service? My experience is that good banking service pays for itsself.

I'll give examples:

- One inexplicable fee from a bad bank will wipe out your monthly monthly interest

- If you have to wait on hold for 1hr to fix it, you've already lost way more

- If you have to pay fees left and right for things like certified checks, again you have lost the interest

- If you have fraud on your account and spend >2hrs dealing with it because the bank is unwilling to help or sends you to some offshore call center, again you lose.

- Suddenly need a statement from a year ago? Some banks will charge for that. HSBC (last I used) neither returns your checks nor shows images of your checks, so you have no record of checks unless you keep them.

A great bank has all sorts of fringe benefits. Mine will even do notary service for free. Mine will give near spot FX rates on overseas ATM withdrawls.

For US customers I would wholeheartedly recommend Chase, no need to be penny-wise pound foolish.
I am surprised they had logs for this long. Entra only comes with 30 days of audit logs by default which is utterly insane
> The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds.

> These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth, and our names about ourselves, our ideas of ourselves, our images of ourselves, with ourselves.

How much truer this excerpt of one of Watts' lectures [0] has become in the age where even our selves have become almost fully digitized. Many of the people you interact with will now never meet you in the flesh, only as symbols on a screen.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJYp-mWqB1w
First of all, the tool’s description doesn’t say anything about ads. Second, I’m neither the developer, nor user of the app.

Third, I didn’t say definitely, but arguably. I might be wrong, but I’m not endorsing anything here.

Lastly, I’m an ex-musician, too and prefer to pay for premium and buy proper albums when I can.

So pointing fingers doesn’t do any favor to anyone.

Have a nice day.
> It's a bit tricky to split out finance industry trends from the broader economy of course.

that didn't stop you from trying though

"79% fewer job listings" is not the same thing as "79% fewer jobs"

yes, fewer people hiring at the moment because the cheap money has dried up

none of this is specific to the UK
Yes, what Reiser did was horrendous. But that was my point: at the same time, people do such things every day all around us. It's only that Reiser went further and committed murder. It is indeed an horrible act, and the only practical thing to do is lock up muderers, but I also think we should look at society's role in producing people like Reiser as well.
I cannot seem to access that link outside finland.

That is indeed a tough proof to solve sight unseen. Any reason you say that students are seeing that question for the first time in the test. Seems like a famous questions, even chatgpt got the proof correctly .
> phreaking was literally theft lol

Right? People get so attached to their political views that they dont even notice it.

Kevin Poulsen, just wanted to win the Porsche for the poor...
> IP protection is not cartelization / price fixing.

Dear god, which rock have you been living under if you're somehow not even able to conceive of the similarities with the other industries where monopolies are good, actually. Coase did good work but clearly he was a disaster to public education, if you're not even able to at least recapitulate his arguments. Wait, wait, you do at least know what a marginal cost is, right?

> You responded to me by inventing a strawman argument

Ah yes, the strawman of microfoundations. I really wonder how some heterodox economists manage to even take themselves seriously sometimes. I assure you that having microfoundations for your model is much stronger than not having any foundations whatsoever.

> Your particiaption should be self-evidently valuable if you want to be considered a participant in a debate.

See, pigeon chess. There's no point in debating you lot, I mean Adam fucking Smith, the commie bastard he is, wrote a book about that mercantilist BS, so if three centuries hasn't been long enough for it to sink in nothing I say or do will.

> Incresing internal wealth is always predicated on importation of foreign currency. This is why sanctions work to impoverish nations, in spite of possession of valuable items like oil.

Like, wow, this is some breathtakingly novel take on the paradox of plenty right here, we should get this published so you can win the next Sveriges Riksbank Prize.
And then you have the ugly stuff; I remember reading a paper (cannot find it now, though) about fraud rigs through which people can buy fraudsters to promote their products and trash their competitors' products. With AI, that kind of stuff will surely accelerate.
I was disappointed they didn't try the drag race again.
Is that in the UK or somewhere else?

>>However, it's pretty clear the policy intent isn't only to let people monitor their usage.

Of course - but I contest OP's claim that it has enough granularity to tell you that you're showering too much or that your tool shed uses too much energy - it doesn't allow that in the slightest.
Overly aggressive denials of simple requests ("please use another word") just make me wonder why you are so upset about it? Blacklist/whitelist DO reinforce the notion that black = bad and white = good, so what's the deal with using a different word? I truly don't understand why people would get upset by simple requests like that.
Are you saying Nesrin Sipahi, who received a personal award from the president, has nothing but Spotify?
When we look at LLMs and stable diffusion which mimic intelligence we see that random seeds are crucial for the inference process to produce an output. Maybe there is some random number generator also in the human brain which is necessary for the brain to function properly and to escape from local minima.
Swiss pensions for foreigners are also only paid if the recipient proves they are alive once a year. My father had to sent proof of being alive for decades.

To be fair, it is much harder to verify this automatically if the recipient lives in another country.
Even AWS tucks mac minis into a rack https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m2-pro-mac-i...

Perhaps a policy holdover from the late 90s https://www.wired.com/1997/09/apple-kills-clone-market/
Z-Wave is also nice because it's in the 860/900 MHz band. Better propagation through walls and so much less contention than 2.4 GHz.
so, how many nanometers is 2nm?
> Finance is deflating like a slow puncture.

i think that’s just a snapshot of the current economic situation around the world, not a long term trend:

https://www.morganmckinley.com/uk/article/london-employment-...

charts 15 and 16:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ad6d32fe36e...

this has a bunch if interesting stats:

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...
Yorkshire is known as God's own county; I don't think that is an American import.
If you want to support musicians buy their music on bandcamp or go to their gigs and buy their merch. Don't think you're going to Spotify and doing them a favour by giving them 0.0005$ per play.

Spotify is part of the problem, not the solution.
Okay, THAT is Hacker News worthy.
I forgot why I had a pdf of your cookbook, have you at some point gave this out for free?
Lossless still beats MP3@320CBR audibly, but you need a pipeline which can render that difference.

I’ll not rewrite details here, one can search my comment history if more details are required.
> I'm not part of the "talented executives shouldn't get paid a lot" crowd, but the important part is the talented bit.

On the face of it the CEO and other executives are talented. The founders occupy the most senior positions. They have built a substantial business.

Maybe they were lucky or influential instead of talented. Perhaps things have just gone wrong and they are desperate and this is the best available option. Maybe success have made them lose touch with reality.

However it happened, we have gone from apparent talent to apparent stupidity.
Study finds Bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
Aren't people en-masse realising that AI, for all its impressive bling, is a stupid blunt instrument? If you've used it for any amount of time you'll know this. Sure, it's a great time-saver, and if you use it wisely it can remove a lot of tedium. But if you're a developer, one thing you'll know is that it cannot replace developers. You still need to structure your whole project yourself, figure out what the data schema needs to look like, and direct the AI tool to do small sections of the work. And you should be ready to sanity check and debug anything it spits out. Similarly with AI image stuff, if you have a bunch of old black & white photos that were taken on a shitty camera in the 1940s, you can get it to upscale, repair, clean and colourize. But if any living person knows any of the subjects in the photographs, be ready for them to laugh their heads off (or get extremely angry) that grandpappy's eyes are not grandpappy's eyes, that they have lost all family resemblance and look more like expertly stuck-on googly eye stickers. Also the colour palettes are wrong for the time, their teeth get magically straightened, their fob-watch chain gets turned into a rope etc. Some of these un-guided AI effects are as bad as their non-AI counterparts, like Affinity Photo's "magic inpainting" that's supposed to let you easily paint out unwanted items in a photo. They look like magic when removing a seagull from a cloudless sky, but they'll make an absolute hames out of anything remotely complex. For example, removing a person from a busy street. Instead of inventing some plausible background to replace them with, it'll just auto-clone their surroundings into the vacuum so you end up with very obviously duplicated features (door handles, street signs etc). This is something that you would never do as a photography professional. So can it save you a bunch of time? Sometimes. Can you rely on it to work without a human in the loop? You're havin' a laugh!

Something that all AI tools need to build in is the ability to override their learned data and to curb their enthusiasm for inventing completely wrong detail that was never there. While AI has gotten impressive, I wouldn't trust it to do anything remotely important without a competent human driving it.

The biggest problem with AI is that companies that adopt it think that they can fire a bunch of staff and let AI tools run amok.
I've done a bit of thinking about Mr. Reiser and after reading the message to the mailing list and the like I'm thinking he sounds remorseful but also even if he wasn't the debt he owes society is being paid by his incarceration and I do nothing worthwile to pile on and re-punish him for his crimes.

The same goes for my comments about Stallman; I don't care for the man and probably wouldn't hang out with him or entertain his ideas but there's no denying his contributions to open source and the gnu set of things. His relevance now is basically zero and so is Hans's but I don't need to flog either of them anytime their names come up.

So my previous comments I apologize for (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626&p=2#39045093).

I don't know enough about filesystems or what was maybe planned for v4 v5 and beyond for reiserfs but I am glad we have some really nice filesystems in Linux. I'm stoked to see what I can do with bcachefs and am quite happy with xfs and zfs on my systems.
I didn't actually make that argument, though. I said that a user who circumvents ads on Spotify and buys albums from Bandcamp is more profitable for the artist than someone who just listens to Spotify ads, and I believe that this is factually true. A quick review of Google will turn up endless testimonies from artists who make more money from Bandcamp, usually by an order of magnitude or more. Spotify may be better than anything we had before (I don't believe this is true, but assume it for the moment), it is not better than anything that came after.

For the record, I am steelmanning a position in which abject piracy is a social negative, which I do not actually believe, but if we take that at face value my arguments still hold.
> Hopefully a human will respond soon

I wonder how quick the transition of HITL (Human in the loop) to HOOTL will be.
I see. and that's indeed one of the two main meanings.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caretaker

hmmm is there some extended n-gram search these days where you can search for a specific word *with a specific meaning*?
I've seen similar sentiment as well. It's difficult to blame people as I am certain individual experiences dictate how they feel about business. Software engineering in particular feels like something that is just fundamentally misunderstood by most people. If I looked out and saw a half constructed building I would not tell customers that it is almost done. Most people can grasp that a building needs materials sourced from many vendors, some people working on certain aspects (plumber, carpenter, framer, etc), but for some reason they just look at software and are convinced it is a lack of resolve or dedication or something.

I blame the popular notion of hacking together Facebook over a long weekend or similar. There is usually a lack of respect and clear communication at the heart of negative feelings. I attempt to properly level set expectations so there is even room for the soft skills you identified. It's hard to deploy them when the business has a fundamental misunderstanding and antagonism towards development.
I don't use amazon (although I cheat a bit because my wife sometimes does). But for books we use indigo.ca (in Canada) which has the same selection and is importantly not Amazon. Is there another national US online bookseller?

For other stuff, I just go to the hardware store. The only real amazon thing I depend on is a kind of micro-fibre wipes I use for my glasses.

It's actually mostly happened organically since amazon got so bad, although the last few times I used it I abandoned my cart trying to navigate the dark pattern of paying without buying prime or getting tricked into shipping fees.
>Amsterdam is likely also the best connected area in Europe, the European equivalent of Ashburn, VA.

Best connected to what exactly? If you ask most people, Vienna is a lot better connected with the rest of europe. Amsterdam is at an edge of the continent.
It is and afaik always has been available for free
Their Beta yeah, but the vast majority of their wealth is built on venture capital where they give many things back. It's a very popular service that musicians want to be on. Neither popularity nor musicians would happen if they didn't give anything back.