skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing jazz most of my life and one of the most frustrating parts of it has been this idea that there should be some immediately obvious virtue in jazz as a musical style. If you're a musician who enjoys improvisation, chances are good that you'll be drawn to jazz, especially to recorded works from the era of albums like Kind of Blue. But you aren't some kind of philistine if it doesn't hook you.

For example, I have studied a lot of classical repertoire in order to get my technique together to improve my jazz playing, and while I appreciate those compositions, I don't really listen to them for pleasure. My opinion about their value as works of art is not based on whether I enjoy them or not. I don't enjoy many types of food but I recognize that they have enormous value to people who do enjoy them. We like what we like, and we shouldn't judge styles on the basis of whether we like them or not.

If you listen to a record like Kind of Blue and it doesn't do anything for you, don't sweat it. You wouldn't be a better person for liking it, and no true lover of jazz would judge you on the basis of whether you like that record or not. If you're genuinely curious, listen to other jazz records from the era, maybe you'll like those. If you don't, no big whoop. There's a lot of music to love. Listen to what you like.
That’s fair, but they weren’t out of the woods yet. But probably less important than I previously stated/thought.
Write state to DOM, read state from DOM.
Yahoo is a portfolio of brands. Compare https://www.yahooinc.com/our-brands with firms that manage investments:

https://www.bridgewater.com/

https://www.schwab.com/

https://www.blackstone.com/

https://www.sequoiacap.com/

Yahoo is managing web properties and is essentially a media company (is paid by advertisers or other customers to deliver a well-characterized audience).
There is a third group who just want it to not suck. Imo that's been the largest group I've seen discussing the issues.
"Alexa, honk at this asshole"

"Ok, calling Hank Armstrong"
That's an escalation. It also violates the sovereignty of China, which America recognizes officially under the "one china policy".
Fake speculative stories about genetic inheritance seems much more socially and morally questionable than actual scientifically verifiable facts.
What? If I ask for a picture of a white family and get back a racially diverse family, how am I racist for being upset about the result? It didn’t do what I asked and it wasn’t an outrageous ask.
Where the Little Helicopter on Mars Fits in the History of Aviation
Or you dual-port the VRAM. Or you have a division between RAM banks managed by the OS, e.g. “slow” and “fast.” Or you have the custom chips mediate access to the VRAM entirely, but offer a DMA feature for, say, block transfers of bits. Or…

There are lots of ways to support a full 640×480—or more—with an 8MHz 68000. Sun, Apollo, and HP all supported at least 1024×768 on their 68000/68010 workstations.
They did not become persistently wealthy, but they were able to buy a bunch of neat stuff like ships that they could not purchase previously before people caught on that there was more gold. Spain did become "wealthy", but that is because inflation is a wealth transfer from creditors to the immediate recipient of the newly created money that lasts until the creditors catch on. But, as you point out, it stops working when people realize they are getting fleeced. Spain learned that the hard way.
A good alternative to writing your own echo server and debugging requests one route at a time is requestbin, which will gladly take any requests you throw at it, log them, and optionally return a response of your choice.

Lots of different implementations and hosts: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=requestbin
No, even if you pay you still have to transcode before importing and after exporting.
A good brand link with directional antennas will punch through quite a bit. I just mounted the wireless units inside at one end for my sister (although I did choose a mounting location that had thin wall).
They mention that they didn't test for it, but I'd wager that the parents use of devices results in them speaking to the children less.
2024 will be the year of the zombie VC reckoning
Yeah it's a common misconception; I think it's it's because After Effects has far outlived the source of its original UI metaphor, the Oxberry (rostrum) animation camera, which at this point few people still have firsthand experience with. Nuke and most newer node-based compositing software offers a more scalable approach for a broader range of tasks, but it can't adequately address that very specific AE niche of under-the-camera-style animation.
>Don't talk to me unless you're gigavaxxed

Still, I'm sure the amount of mRNA he was exposed to is only a fraction of the amount the body is exposed to during a severe Covid infection.
> Nuke is node based, which is what Natron has built itself to mimick.

One doesn't even need any experience to see what UI/UX Natron is providing either ;)

After Effects is the one app that just happens to be hybrid enough with an encompassing ecosystem that people put up with it. Its toolset and layer based workflows lend itself to being effective for motion graphics and design work, but it also has enough of a toolset to handle quite a bit of 2D compositing. Since most people don't want to have to spend money on multiple apps (considering how much they're already spending a lot for the privilege of using Adobe software), it's a really strong "good enough" tool.

For a dedicated compositor? The general landscape looks like:

Episodic and feature VFX: Foundry Nuke

Advertising/Commercials: Autodesk Flame

Can't afford Nuke? Fusion Studio.

For mograph/design artists, there are other tools that can be interesting to replace or complement existing tools like Cavalry.
Yikes! So even the A3000 was hobbled by decisions made in 1983-85!
My position is thus: anonymity is not credibly possible for average users ergo further discussion of the topic is either pointless rhetoric OR designed to provide cover for bad actors. The entire discussion becomes even more ludicrous when put in context with the extend of digital surveillance by private industry is compared against what we know about digital surveillance performed by western governments. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, claims of concern over internet privacy will start being taken seriously shortly after the individuals making said claims have provably begun actively picketing Apple, Google, and MicroSoft's corporate headquarters (to start).
If you can’t find investors who will invest at 1x preference, it’s a sign that you should seriously consider shutting down rather than raising more funding.
This is like asking why economists hate freakonomics but have respect for Milton Friedman.
Gambling company should know the house always wins.

If I read crunchbase correctly FanDuel got $350M in funding by 2015, and sold for $465M 9 years later, for 33% ROI, or about 3%/yr. Founders don't deserve anything just for managing to hold on to investor capital and not lose it. Investing money at below market rates is not an achievement. Founders and employees weren't robbed.

Also, OP is just a bad ad.
Ah, jQuery, that cute little artifact from web development's stone age, where manipulating the DOM directly was the height of innovation. How quaint it seems now, in the shining era of React, where state management is not just a task but, once it gets its hooks in you, evolves to a transcendent experience. To cling to jQuery is like insisting on using a typewriter in a world of voice-to-text AI, but adorably obsolete. React, with its majestic state orchestration, makes jQuery's efforts look like child's play. It's like comparing the glow of a firefly to the brilliance of a laser beam. Truly, we React devotees can only chuckle at the notion of jQuery, for we have tasted the future, and its name has and always will be React.

/s
Yes, I've been asked why we use jQuery many times so I had to put it in the FAQ. I think we have solid reasons for it but it is controversial sometimes.
Liq prefs vanished during the ZIRP and I haven’t seen them return…yet.

But the founders do have some leverage. If there is no incentive to do the deal they can just… not cause the deal to happen (different from blocking it, just not working on it).

This is the same reasons you see big pay packets for the execs when a company is doing poorly or is bankrupt: otherwise they could just go do something else (get a different job). The poor guy on the assembly line may not have the same option.
MacOS has had protected memory since the public beta of OS X... I don't believe an app can do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Atom
Do you use everything together? My opinion is that if you'd use any of that seriously you buy the device that let it run correctly. Opening a multi-module project in Android Studio that requires something like 6GB or ram for the index, then running it inside a 3GB emulator on an 8GB laptop is just asking for problem. Be mindful of your RAM usage and select the suitable amount for your use cases.
So are these:

> In line with Diamond’s hypothesis, the researchers found that environmental barriers do indeed impact the likelihood of cultural traits being shared between societies.

> “Our analyses support the hypothesis that yes, environment likely influences how cultural innovations spread, just like Diamond intuited..."

> “Our study offers one quantitative realization of Diamond’s arguments and not a definitive answer,”

Meaning, not a definitive no, either.

> “Our findings point out that geography, like genetics and ecology, matters, but it is not destiny.”

It's complicated. I hope this doesn't surprise anyone.
Yes, thank you, that's more precisely put.
I answered this question here last month: https://bloomberry.com/why-new-hires-often-get-paid-more-tha...

Basically it comes down to a few reasons:

1) Hiring budgets are always > than budgets for raises

2) HR and recruiters are incentivized to hire new people rather than retain current ones

3) Employers overvalue experiences obtained elsewhere

4) Nobody really wants to solve the problem of retention because it's a deep-rooted issue with no easy fixes (unlike paying someone new a lot of money)
During the bombings of Gaza in 2021 I quit my job at an Israeli startup which my company had acquired and transferred me to.

To be fair, I was not happy with the working culture which existed at the startup and I probably would have quit anyway as soon as my visa status would have allowed me. But after the bombings started I couldn’t in goon conscious work for these people.

Before the bombings started they had actually posted a team wide email celebrating Israeli independence in a very hateful way, describing their neighboring countries as “enemies on all sides”, along other militaristic dehumanizing stuff.

When the 2021 bombings started I went on a strike, ceased communications with them and quit soon after. My visa status was a little complected to maneuver but it all worked out in the end. And I’m really glad I wasn’t working for these people a minute longer.
You know that falsely accusing somebody of a crime is also a crime right?
More to the point, Diamond got rich doing it.
> I would be surprised if it caused the immune system to no longer respond.

I wonder if overfitting to Covid epitopes would cause proliferation of Covid recognition at the expense of other recognition?

Moreover, I wonder if it could lead to overwhelming activation, recruitment, and inflammation in the presence of weakened Covid virus (low dose, environmental background) that would ordinarily be cleared?

This definitely deserves more study.
I think the stars, in conjunction with the planets, can give you a half decent fix.

The Soviets started landing on the moon in the 1950s. It wasn't pretty, it was primitive, but it has been done. We (as a species) have since landed on asteroids and planets of sulphuric acid.

Space is hard, but we're literally trying to replicate what has already been done.
Despite being asynchronous it contains a single linear schedule and two callbacks. The obvious outcome is two layered constructors, and a single top level API object with two custom events.

You couldn't describe what was going on in an equivalent functional construction of a react version unless you first head off on a diatribe about signals/hooks/state-management-disaster-du-jour, the choice of use of which would have implications to both the event handlers in some way - though they likely couldn't be in-place here, they'd have to be passed down from parent context in a giant dance of inversion of control. At runtime the outcome would likely get parsed twice (once for shadow, once for insertion) if not more times under certain compositions. Here the jquery is almost incidental, and could be quickly replaced by something else - for example want to swap out htmx here, well, just add the markers to the DOM, delete the jquery lines and you're done. You'd probably need to spend at least an hour figuring out if you could fit something independent and platform-native into your react code base, hell I've seen people burn weeks on it.
This is just delightful, but is no one else bothered by the honey bear mustard bottle?
What were the false statements?
Oh definitely. I think by talent I just meant “not a constant struggle”
I haven't dug into the code, so would you mind sharing how this is different than a tool like zxcvbn?
Multiple cross-checked hall effect sensors, hopefully. Same concept though.
The idea is to ship it to Italy where wild boar is heavily regulated to avoid over harvesting.

Let the Italians figure out if its safe and if they want it.
There is no meaningful network effect or vendor lock-in - which is like the #1 thing that prevents companies from competing. That's the real problem for these AI companies.
I think the perception of raising venture capital has soured. You really are an employee. Many founders of well known companies make far less than you would expect. Generate and own a SAAS business that does 1M in ARR, and you can almost walk away with 5-10M. This can be done in a few years.

Do that with a venture backed business, they will force you to raise a series A and shoot for a 200M+ outcome. If you dont increase revenue, they want you to fail/go to zero trying to shoot for the moon. You might spend the next 5 years at a 200k salary, while you could have reached financial security at FAANG. Also, many companies have less respect for founders than you would expect. Its not the career boost people think it will be. You are building a different skill set thats not as useful inside a high paying tech company, aside from engineering. Which even then, is very different at a startup.
Docker for Cloud Native Applications (My First Book Ever)
I’m using Supabase for similar reasons but there’s one specific situation I’m trying to sort out.

Say you have a user “profile” which includes their privileges - like say a column named “privileges” which is some JSON object denoting what they can/can’t do.

Even with RLS, how do you ensure that a user can’t simply make a curl call with their own JWT to elevate their own privileges?

Basically, how to enforce column level security?

The best thing I can think of is to place “privileges” in a child table and only let the service account update that table.
Its so much work and Im not a techie. Its definitely beyond most people's reach.

(I self host everything except email and calendar -> Apple and Microsoft own me)
Honestly haven’t felt like it didn’t have enough RAM even once.

My daily driver before this was a Ryzen 5700x desktop with 64GB RAM, so I know what a powerful processor + RAM combo feels like.

Haven’t even heard the fan even once.
No.

Big mistake and with respect you're uninformed and wrong here.

If he's not convicted then your statement is an accusation of guilt. A false accusation is defamation and it's damaging to the aggrieved party.

False accusations are both harmful to the target and risky for the person making them.

You don't need to be a jury or judge to care about this, for these reasons the AP style guide and practically every journalism outlet takes this matter very seriously.

Now maybe it's 2024, you're a rando from the other side of the world on the Internet and you just do what a billion other social media randos do and you run your mouth. You think your speech doesn't really matter because in practice if you're wrong neither of you is likely to be affected, so you don't need to hold yourself to this standard.

OK fair enough. But if your speech is junk that doesn't matter, why did you open your mouth in the first place? Do us all a favor and if you're going to promote the idea that casual defamation is fine, keep it shut.
> What's remarkable about Bitches Brew to me, is that in many ways Miles was a traditionalist, and yet his foray into the avant garde...

John McLaughlin was how I wound up at Bitches Brew - and got introduced to Miles.
BB was a departure from the early JMC I was used to and it took me a while to bite into it. Hearing Holland and DeJohnette helped.

A few years later I was all in. Saw Miles on my 19th bday.
It’s a symbiotic relationship but not a symmetrical one.
In the beginning Apple needed the devs more than vice versa, but now it’s definitely the other way around.

Note the “more” part, it’s still a symbiotic relationship.

Apple couldn’t have made the iPhone successful without third party devs, but it’s doubtful Spotify could’ve been as successful as they are without access to the iPhone.

As an app developer for iOS myself I can say that Apple’s frameworks have been invaluable to me, especially the improvements and additions in the last few years have significantly made my work easier.

Not only that, because overtime I’ve become friends with some of the engineers that work on them, I also know how much time and money goes into them, at least on an individual engineer level.

So it seems fair to me that Apple gets paid for their IP. But I’m not interested in paying huge fees upfront like what was common when developing for game consoles, nor am I interested in paying potentially huge fees like the CTF.

To me, the best option is a revenue based commission. When I do well, Apple does well, but when I don’t I won’t owe Apple anything. This also motivates them to keep investing in frameworks, because with good frameworks I can make better and more successful apps, which then benefit them.

It also allows me to take risks and try out new things or even give away my work for free.

Personally I was already happy with 30% and that’s what I signed up for at the time. The 15% I pay now is of course even better, but it’s not like I passed on those savings to my customers.
If I ever get so successful that I hit $1m in revenue then I’ll be more than happy to pay the 30%, because I will have been successful in part because of the tools provided by them.
Or put differently, that success will be in part a consequence of what happened before I hit $1m, when I was still paying the 15%.

I’ve got friends that have launched their apps on Android as well, but those earnings are a rounding error compared to their iOS earnings and their apps are heavily being pirated on Android.

I can’t quantify what it is that Apple does different that it entices customers to spend money on apps (other than the lack of piracy perhaps), but it’d be silly to pretend like it doesn’t benefit developers to a degree that it warrants Apple getting something in return for that, in addition to the tool-based justification.
I’ve always wondered what it means to be a “founder” when it is done with everyone else’s money. Are they not just effectively employees at that point?

I fear such abuse of
such just feeds a narcissistic species that focuses mainly on executive headshots and snazzy websites.

Too many startup websites scream, “look, we have a website, $$$ millions, and an executive board — we’re all grown up now!” without actually having much clue. Medium sized business are more self confident and don’t bother.

The small business founder that starts as employee #1 and grows organically is an entirely different animal and fully deserves the title.
I enjoyed this self-aware and reflective insight. Thanks for sharing.
So what exactly does happen when you admit you don't know a thing? And what's worse: admitting you don't know a thing or showcasing you don't know a thing by presuming the wrong thing? Intriguing stuff.
of course, hindsight is 20/20, but...
Why did they accept the deal with the investors?? That seems like a horrible deal? Google search shows they only raised $416mio total, roughly speaking anything above that and below $559mio the investors could have accepted, pocketed a quick and tidy profit, screw everyone else, and nobody can do anything about it. Or is that too naive of me?
In an age before kubernetes, we would rent servers and VMs individually.

Cloud providers rented out this compute on top of their infrastructure.

This seems to provide a similar abstraction on top of bare metal, kind of like openstack.
Or a retrowave album.
The fruit?
I agree with your misgivings about window management in MacOS. The way Windows does it is so much more intuitive.

For window snapping, there are countless apps that will easy solve your problem. But I get why you would struggle - I still get frustrated at times with the way MacOS works.
All over the news for awhile now, time to be contrarian and long GOOG (see META)
Not to detract from the coolness of this, but I wish new OSes dabbled in new GUIs as well.

Experimental operating systems seem to be dime a dozen by now, but we almost never see experimental GUIs or entirely new "desktop environments".

Just as how almost every "new" programming language is still stuck with semicolons and other C-isms that were ancient back when the Egyptians were laying down the pyramids, we're still stuck with either imitating the macOS GUI or the Windows GUI, or some weird Frankenstein's bastard of the two.

iOS, Android, consoles, and most recently the Vision Pro have proven that eschewing longstanding conventions can be successful — for example the vast majority of people on this planet don't need or care about scrollbars (or even menubars) anymore.

So why aren't the creators of experimental OSes being more experimental with the frontend? Come on guys, none but the nerds among us will be impressed with how it's made behind the scenes. The first impression that most people will get is that's just Yet Another WinMac-Looklike.
As someone whose love was poisoned and self image messed with, I think it was mainly my job.

It was a brain drain.

I think my life is healthier now.
I still love what I do.
Even just the race of the default "person" is impossible to set in an absolute manner. It feels like one could tackle this by having a checkbox of various filters that add specific biases. Like what race do you want your default person to be?

They could even put the forced-diversity-overdrive filter as the default, and for "real mode" display a disclaimer about it having biases that are reflections of all the garbage human biases that have been fed into these systems. Then when the political hacks of either team post pictures that are just obvious results of the filter they selected, they can be ignored.

I suspect the stopper is that these machine learning systems are being marketed as superintelligent "AI" which can solve all of the world's problems, and having to baby them with settings would be a recognition that they're actually just imperfect tools.
AFAICT Formstack and Omnisend are marketing automation and analytics services, not automatic split testing. I got out of the marketing space a while back but I do appreciate the cross check! However it doesn't look like those products are doing exactly this.
> You expect every developer to buy a second Mac?

It's very easy to check the memory usage of your project (it's kinda in your face on XCode). If you do a few minutes test or let the app stay open for a few hours and usage has ballooned to a few GBs, that usually means you have a leak somewhere to fix.