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Music is absolutely not getting worse unless you're only considering top charting music which is such a small fraction of what's out there. Even then it's highly subjective and behind almost every one of those songs or albums is a handful of brilliant writers, producers and session musicians you probably never heard of.

I'd say it's never been better. Music is more accessible which means more folks get exposed to it earlier and in more variety and in turn we get more musicians.

It's only going to get better.
Appears to be ripped out of their best product (IMO) - Trello. The one they didn't build themselves.
The gotcha is the cliche belief that the study is not relevant to humans because it is a mouse experiment.
I think it shouldn't be left out that the audience of LAN-parties were not people who just played games.

It was a "PC-community", people really focused on their PC. Its hardware, its OS, how to squeeze as much power as possible out of it. The perfect CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for each game, which hardware to use/buy next etc.

And THEN they played games. But they also hung out with like-minded people, exchanged alot of knowledge, data and content which would have been impossible to get by just going online with some modem.

The more this complexity of HW/SW was reduced, the more this breed of "consuming" gamers grew who only wanted to play games and didn't know/care that much about the hardware running it (other than wanting it to look colorful and pretty some years later).

--> If all you want to do is play games, the huge effort of hosting/joining a LAN-party is even more of a burden than it was for the PC-community...
If you depart from anywhere in the EU you always have this.
Aside from it just being a tough job market, the rise in remote work means there are now an order of magnitude more candidates for any position that isn't explicitly hybrid or in-office, and there ends up being a paradox of choice.
I am working on one of my Master Lists, but the /r/darkjazz subreddit was good. Now, it is mostly dead but for spam from randos who aren't within miles of the sound trying to flog their own efforts. Black Chamber, Free Nelson Mandoomjazz, you might try those for giggles.

I had expected that some of Badalamenti's stuff would have opened up since his death, like his score for Witch Hunt, but no luck. His stuff was sort of a wellspring, among others, which intermingled into that little creek we called darkjazz, for a while.

I originally got into it as a primary component of a long set of mixes for a particular mood, namely that I would have instrumentals (primarily darkjazz) buffering slow tempo "torchy" kinds of songs (Mel Torme, Julie London, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday) and the "once every ninety minutes" track which was a little newer. The idea being that the darkjazz doesn't call too much attention to itself and keeps the mood going.
I will never say that the NATO is an innocent organisation; however, to say that the US/NATO is indirectly responsible is a stretch. It would imply that the US invading Mexico would be justified if they were to become allies with Russia. I would as strongly oppose that as well.
Speed, then stop on the side of the road to consume a Sandwich or do some texting while waiting for the average to go down
I think there's a big difference between "being used by" and "being active members of the community".

Open Source means you can't really prohibit Anduril from using your projects; but _welcoming_ them and their money is a different matter altogether.
You'd be the first person I've come across who understood bitcoin and then un-understood it.
> Plane not full enough to make a big enough profit?

I don't think margins are as large as you think they are... I checked Lufthansas 2023 income report and they made 6m EUR. For a company that size it's.. not impressive.

And flying a plane from point A to point B involves a huge amount of staff both onground and and in air, so cancelling a flight because it makes a loss or not enough is no surprise.

> And when accounting for door to door times, flying isn’t that much faster anyway.

I got a few days off work (finally) to go to Italy with the girlfriend. Total flight time is 4 hours with one stop.

Shortest train time is 26 hours, with 3 train changes.
Sounds like you are trying to prevent replay attacks.

How do you imagine JWTs are being stolen in the first place though? XSS sneaky websites or someone over the shoulder.

Just seems that if the attacker is all up in your browser extensions can't they just inject email and password text elements into the dom and see what gets filled by the browser saved logins?
> There's also no intrusive ads

This reads like: Yes, there are ads.

And is it true that they scraped the account requirements? I know there are ways around it. But I really want an opinion with a button just as large as the one nudging me to create a cloud account to just use a local account instead.
Marketing. Trust me... it's not that cool. They hire artists to design this stuff. Not kidding. The exterior is made by an industrial designer more so then an actual engineer. I would know, I worked at the company previously.
Happy memories. I started with just 1:1 multiplayer games using the serial port (GTA, Dogfight, Doom). GTA (or our serial port config) had horrible problems with de-synchronization. The game just went on but players where in completely different locations in the game. As a workaround we yelled the scores to each other from time to time because that was one the best ways to notice the games where out of sync.

Later we used 10BASE5 coaxial bus connections with ~5 people. At that time we had no internet access and not much information about the IP protocol. IP address / subnet configuration was only known to a few people (including me) but we also did not really understand what they where doing.

So this was kind of similar to what I imagine tech priests do in Warhammer 40k. We entered the sacred numbers (192.168.0.X and 255.255.255.0) and did some other things we thought where necessary (but weren't) and somehow got it running.

Also, for some reason we often got electric shocks when we touched the coaxial connectors, I guess it happened because the different players connected their PC do power outlets connected to different phases.

After that with Ethernet everything became much smoother except for cable issues. Ethernet hardware at the time did not sense the cable type so we had to be careful if the players brought crossover or patch cables and use adapters if necessary.
As an aside, I've bought a bunch of AZ-Delivery products and have been very happy with them.
Except the advertising industry of today is akin to mental manipulation. It's less about letting you know what the product can do for you and more about getting you to buy/pay for it.
The technicians say it's working as intended, maybe I have a setting wrong? I'm sure it's doing ..something.. Shrug
I see it as free brand advertisement. The company appears "active" and "growing" in google searches.

Head hunters have started doing it as well.
If it were birthed it might be smarter to say orphaned or alienated or something that follows the parentage metaphor instead of unmoored.

If it were berthed it would make more sense to be something like "The destiny of all books is to become unmoored from the time where they were originally berthed".

But it is more common in English to use birthed as created than this kind of extended nautical metaphor.

And it is more common for people to mix their metaphors, especially when they are trying to sound clever.

Therefore I think they mixed their metaphors a bit.
This was the norm a few decades ago. Spare pilots and other aircrew at all airports, even spare aircraft at large hubs.
Because it was more than a mere ban, AT&T was dissolved.
https://youtu.be/kt7zARB_sxc

It's extremely hard to make friends here, our culture is a mixture of abuse (physical and sexual), doing drugs, drinking alcohol and getting drunk and gambling. There's no innovation here, house prices are insane, food is expensive.
It's basically internal policy for many airlines to only pay out when an official dispute resolution or small claims court process is started/won.
It seems like this practice of always having job listings posted, even if you don't intend to fill them, effectively hides the internal status of a company from the public. This signal -- "the company has more or fewer job listings compared to the past or compared to other companies" -- could have a marked effect on current employees, investors, analysts, etc. But the company may want more control over how these groups perceive it, so it masks this internal state by adding noise to the signal.
My optometrist said that this is only proven way to stop the progression of myopia. Sadly, I cannot wear these as I have cylinder
I think I'll wait for the cover of nature article before getting excited about superconductors again.

(Yes it could still be a scam even if it gets into nature but that seems like the minimum to me)
Indeed, if you try to get them to refund you by yourself, they will keep saying that it was out of their control. But I've gotten several refunds over the past years by going through one of several companies who specialize in getting airlines to give refunds. Granted they take a % cut, but you still get most of it without lifting a finger.
I feel a large part of it is that companies are getting regular employees to do more of the interviewing, so it's like they get people in simply so they can train those employees interviewing skills.

I know at the previous company I worked at you couldn't get promoted unless if you were partaking in interviews, so I feel that might be a potential reason.
It would then seem, the only winning move, is not to play.
Stuff like this makes my blood boil. It should be illegal for airlines to overbook flights - full stop. I don't care how much this reduces profits. I don't care how "razor thin" the margins are.

I want to see some damn collective organizing. Can you imagine if passengers had started revolting against the idiot agents who abused the person arrested there?

The more pain airlines feel from the ensuing bad PR as a result of the chaos, the better that flying gets for everyone. I want airlines to fear the power of the customer.
I hold my vault seal key in my KeePass database. It's set to start and prompt for the master password when I login and it integrates into the FreeDesktop/DBus secrets API (and ssh-agent). Obviously I only need the seal/root tokens when the Vault server reboots. Once it's running it hands out secrets and certificates to everything else.
Nothing controversial, but it is more likely a correlation, not causation.

If you're vitamin d deficient, that means you're not spending time outdoors (in the sun).

If you're not spending time outdoors, it probably means you're focusing your vision on short-distance objects, like screens and books. Which naturally leads to myopia for most people.

Obviously, vitamin D supplementation is highly unlikely to do anything to improve the condition, because vitamin D deficiency is just a symptom.

Similarly seasonal affective disorder is also very rarely improved by vitamin D supplementation alone.
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What a dream for AWS. Junior devs who have never seen local development but only know the AWS console :)
I love reading as much as anyone, and probably finish on average, 100 books a year, but - I’ve gradually become skeptical of the idea that books are an ideal format for acquiring and retaining knowledge. I’ve written a few little comments about this in the past [1] but I’ve been meaning to explore the idea further. I originally began thinking this when I realized I could only remember a handful of details from books I had spent hours reading.

The short version is this: there’s nothing inherent about the format of a book that makes it ideal for learning. It is mostly a historical consequence of the fact that scratching symbols onto stone or paper, then replicating that paper/stone is easier to develop than recording and playing back audio or video. Human beings spent thousands of years using languages that were purely spoken ones, and writing is a fairly recent thing historically speaking.

If somehow it became possible to record and play back spoken language thousands of years ago, writing might have never become a widespread thing at all. Even today, speech is how the vast majority of the world uses language. Let’s not forget how influential the book form has been on thought, from the Bible to the Quran, etc.

And so if you brush away the mystique and legacy of books and think about what an ideal learning format would be, I think it would be quite different from a book. Probably it would incorporate audiovisuals, spaced repetition, and some form of storytelling.

All of this is about reading for information, not for pleasure. But I don’t primarily read fiction for information in the first place.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20940944, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319599, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095507, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39521964
This is true of literally any software and if you really wanna oversimplify it, our brains are just a bunch of if statements (condition based logic) too...
Why the boring tech is the best for starting a startup
Since 2015 we occasionally have LAN party with 4-5 friends. Usually we play Titan Quest, however we cannot finish it. They still make updates and new expansions!
Eventually they'll learn how to counter sue and use the full power of their legal team to make an example out of what they regard as "peons with delusions of grandeur".

You laugh, but similar stuff has happened in the context of IP/Patent law. de facto retaliation is real in the legal system
Where do you see this convergence? From my perspective, the 'Out of Africa' hypothesis [1] suggests that the current breadth of humanity started from a migration from around 50,000-70,000 years ago. To get from a group that would have probably been quite homogeneous, to the extreme diversity of basically every single thing we see today - physical, ideological, cultural, etc - in such an incredibly short time frame, would suggest to me that even the briefest of moments apart sets us all on radically different courses.

Humans, relatively to most animals, also have an extremely slow generational time, which I think also further emphasizes this divergence. If we assume a low end generational time of just 20 years, even that is as few 2,500 generations, hardly a blink in time on a normal evolutionary scale.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_moder...
To satisfy the predetermined desire to debate it.
Why do you feel that you are able to see things objectively?

To me, it looks like you are repeating kremlin propaganda. It looks like you’re another victim of the Chomsky school of propaganda.

The USA isn’t responsible for russia’s invasion of Ukraine (or Georgia, earlier). If they are, it’s only responsible insofar as allowing useful idiots to apply political pressure to their governments and force them into pacifism, thereby enabling russian aggression.

If you want to have a discussion about this, could you start by not being so patronising?
> Never free

AFAIK it's how you get memory safety in missile guidance software: you just have to put enough RAM on the board so it never run out of memory before the end of its flight.

Edit: TFA just talks about that in the “never free”
I usually slept under my table, but just for convenience ; I've never heard of occurences of seat being stolen (plus your computer is plugged in, how are they supposed to take your seat ? That would be stealing).
One of the grossest large codebase anti-pattern is god state objects. One of the worst I've seen had to do with the state of conference call. Depending on the state, zillions of properties were or weren't valid. It was a huge, fucking mess that often allowed invalid states to creep in via edge-cases that led to unrecoverable states.
Right now I can see knock-off D1 mini clones on Amazon for about £2.40 each. Real Wemos boards are about £4 each in bulk.
the spotify app has a mini player that seems to do a similar thing https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/Introducing-...
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Ask HN: How to get Airbnb to acknowledge a bug?
I'm an Airbnb host. Today we found a clear bug/glitch that allowed a guest to Instantly Book over another guest's accepted reservation on the same night.

The original guest and I have a decisive paper trail for their reservation. Not only that, Airbnb is still asking the guest to pay for the night that they have already promised to the second guest!

Airbnb support is refusing to acknowledge the bug. Worse, they are threatening the original guest and myself if we do not follow through with the new booking! I even got a support technician to admit on the phone that the product was not working right, but that his entire customer support team was not allowed to report bugs.

So I now ask the minds of HN - what do you do when a large tech corporation with terrible support has a glaring bug? How do you get a real person at the company to care?

And what recourse do I or other users have? What's the next step? Small claims court? A Tweet? I'm lost.
> First of all, I recommend giving the paper a read

I'll put it on my list, thanks for the recommendation, but it really has no impact on my point (see next point).

> because I think you're misunderstanding the claim (plus, it is a very good paper)

Note: I wasn't criticizing the paper. I was criticizing the comment, which claimed "it’s better" to view these as special cases.

If it's not obvious what I mean, here's an analogy: it's the difference between having a great paper that reduces ~everything to category theory, vs. claiming "it's better" for the audience I'm talking to to view everything in terms of category theory. I can be impressed by the former while still vehemently disagreeing with the latter.

> For starters, RC absolutely can handle cycles (e.g. through trial deletion).

"Can handle" is quite the hedge. You "can" walk across the continent too, but at what cost?

> The most prominent example of a programming language that uses such an approach is probably Python.

You're saying Python uses RC to handle reference cycles, and doesn't need a GC for that? If so please ask them to update the documentation, because right now it specifically says "you can disable the collector if you are sure your program does not create reference cycles". https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html

> [...] hard real time [...]

Nobody said "real time". I just said "hard guarantee".
> I don't think it's reasonable for airlines to expect to maintain the same number of departures that worked in the nice summer months through the winter.

Agree. So they don’t sell tickets for those flights that don’t run, then there’s nothing to compensate.

Operate fewer flights if they are going to struggle to operate the ones they sell tickets for.
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That's why I said it should also have a pseudo class. Similar to :checked on inputs.
This is a lot of text to mean, “I’ve already made up my mind I can’t make any choices.”

Typing out such a long rambling reply was itself a choice.
Sports in general is a big thing here in Sweden and the same way it comes only partially from tax payers' money, a lot of those activities are supported by the community and participants
The return of the 80s is, or rather was, just a current trend. Next up will be the 90s/00s, which can already be seen in make up and fashion, and I'm sure media will follow soon as well.

Wrt/ Hollywood: I think they are not the monopoly they used to be, because the powers are shifting by streaming, and short video services. Similar to how AAA games are more stagnant than the indie gaming scene.

"Music" is too broad to "get worse". There are trends in music that can be considered bad, such as the lessening dynamic range of the recordings - the Loudness War[0]. But there is more music than ever, computerized or not, so if you find that some source of music is bad, you just need to look elsewhere. Music production is easier than ever, so even very niche sounds are kept alive, like the lofi sound of post-punk decades ago[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

[1] https://desmonddoom.bandcamp.com/album/doom-and-bloom
attr() can also be used to some degree https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/attr
Had a similar experience with Turkish Airlines, and I definitively agree on avoiding planes as much as possible, long-distance trains all the way.
This isn't accurate. The government has never banned Americans from watching a foreign television show or listening to a foreign radio broadcast. Please don't distort history.
I was skeptical but your claims all checked out!

https://discoveryparkofamerica.com/uncategorized/the-great-g...
They collected my email when I signed up to try and then told me I couldn't try it. Unethical.
Yet evidence from the EU says this doesn’t apply.
Apparently Frederick II (the Holy Roman Emperor) tried it to see what was the innate language that people speak, but the toddlers just died.
Historically better compatibility of nvidia and amd hardware for Linux was changing quite often.

I believe it to be hugely neglectful for hardware vendors to not invest here. The windows drivers suites is awful as well and I believe it to be vastly neglectful that they don't provide drivers for as many systems as possible. Somebody is sleeping in those orgs as they certainly would have the resources.
somewhat like ppl that oversell their sexual availability in order to always have options and never be in need.

it's a way of life, but not everybody can do it
'Why bother with programming languages when at the end of the day they are just pages of text'
The technique looks from the "bottom" side of the chip -- so the imaged elements are mostly "metal 1", e.g. the layer of metal that is directly connected to the transistors. Inserting a dummy layer in between the transistors and metal 1 would be a huge performance and density impact, I don't think it'd be practical.

That being said, the back side power delivery stuff that is currently in the pipe for the sub-"2nm" nodes would block viewing the transistors.
If you know the flight will be cancelled why would the airline sell you the ticket?
> We really need music search which follows more interesting routes through content rather than just 'people who like this also like' or 'here's another album by someone you already listen to'.

I agree with this so much. We've had about a decade of this kind of robo-curation in every single aspect of our media consumption. Read books like the ones you like, listen to bands like the ones you listen to, more videos like this one, etc. I'm so sick of it.

The way to branch out of your rut is other people. Some band I'd never have listened to, and if I accidentally had, would have skipped it 30 seconds in, have become my favorites simply because someone I had a connection with played it or recommended it. Movies I wouldn't have picked, but watched with someone else, are often better than anything I'd have picked based on my past preferences.

These days, more and more, I am realizing how rewarding it is to read a book or try a new restaurant based on nothing except that a friend with completely different taste likes it. If it turns out to be a dud, it's worth it for when I find something completely new that I do like.
In my experience office jobs in general seem to get a lot of applicants per opened position. Majority of them does not even pass requirements for the job, but they try anyway (recruiting is SO exhausting in that aspect).

Doesn't seem to be enough jobs and too much people needing one.
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