skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder if this has gotten worse as music listening has become more of a private thing (solitary ipod/iphone listening). prior to that, i think many parents (myself included) found themselves exposed to lots of new music simply because it was hard to avoid not hearing whatever their children/spouses were listening to at home or in the car.
I really think they goofed Pathlib because of this.

path = Path(“/foo”) / “a” / “b” / “c”

The following is functionally equivalent to the above:

path = Path(“/foo”) / “a/b/c”

Which I really think was a mistake. The latter should resolve to “/foo/a\/b\/c” (IMO) because all other invalid characters (like space) are auto-escaped. What’s the point of the overloaded div operator otherwise?
I will add that as a library, it has a big potential to be used in resource restricted envs, such as microcontrollers. Every other JSON library under the sun uses HashMaps or Btrees to structure the tree which end up wasting space. Another interesting one called Araq/packedjson whose ideas I borrowed, might be the most space efficient design so far, however it looses on speed comparisons on operations that involve removing items. That's because some structure should be maintained and this library provides the best trade-off between complexity and space efficiency.
If I were China this is the move. I’m suspect this is the intention of the bill from the US end as well.
Can you assume your users do that?
There are a lot of old porn videos out there which have become commercially worthless because they were recorded at low resolutions (e.g. 320x240 MPEG, VHS video, 8mm film, etc). Being able to upscale them to HD resolutions, at high enough quality that consumers are willing to pay for it, would be a big deal.

(It doesn't hurt that a few minor hallucinations aren't going to bother anyone.)
Do you do any consulting? Would love some help on something similar? @pieperz on twitter.
For sure, but they're talking about CSS modules, where styles are isolated to components at build time.

CSS modules are critical in a large web app for those rare styles you can't accomplish with Tailwind, but for the vast majority of styles I do not want to be hand-writing them. Plus, unless you're extremely strict about using CSS modules, you don't escape the horror of styles being inherited from global classes - on the other hand, a robust library of utility classes like Tailwind makes "inline" styling so easy you're likely to end up with almost no hand-written CSS anywhere.
I agree with everything you are saying, but the stock price is up 6x over the last 10 years and revenue is still growing 13% a year so nobody at google is going to listen to any of this.

Basically ad dollars have continued to transition from old media to digital media over the last decade+ and that mass migration has created enough revenue to cover up all of Google's core problems.
There are plenty of US companies that are authorized to use government-funded patents, that would prevent them from transferring ownership to foreign owners. This isn't a "poison pill" conspiracy, this is standard export control for state-funded technology.
hard to see that we "solved" this, regardless of who's allowed to vote
Unless your org is still running a legacy version on their own data center!
Terraform does help with managing medium-large fleets, and a lot of special sauce is the structured types corresponding to cloud platforms (dubbed "providers") and the different services they offer. You could write your own configuration language and launcher but Terraform has been tested against many setups and can manage rolling restarts and other deployment methods. It's modular so you can define the configuration of a single server and then say "bring up 20 of these, use this docker image, name them thus," etc.

Vault for securely storing keys is also a convenient system component.

Both can be spun up in production without having to go through Hashicorp directly, but they also offer a service for managing the current state of the deployment (some aspects of the system are not queried at runtime and must be kept in a lock file of sorts, and coordinated with others doing any production changes). Some teams will coordinate using an S3 folder or some other ACL'd shared storage instead of relying on Hashicorp Cloud.

I find it's the closest thing to a public version of the service management tools I grew used to within Google, and it has been a driving force for the DevOps movement. I think something else could come along and do it better but it does seem like a lot of upkeep to retain parity with all the cloud services' products. I hope OpenTofu is successful, competition helps.
The cost is supposed to go down as LLMs become more efficient and hardware efficiency goes up with time.
My personal opinion is it was a company for crack monkeys. Consul, Vault and Packer have been nothing but pain and misery for me over the last few years. The application of these technologies has been nothing but a loss of ROI and sanity on a promise.

And don't get me started on Terraform, which is a promise but rarely delivers. It's bad enough that a whole ecosystem appeared around it (like terragrunt) to patch up the holes in it.
If nothing else the ban on foreign ownership of Chinese companies alone feels like it justifies some reciprocal action. No US (or otherwise) company can operate in China, but the reverse is not true.
I ask that you look at the last 20 years of venture capital and tell me if they're going to be able to stop.
Please, for the love of God, can people please stop making me pry their point from their hands? What about astroturfing makes reddit, a platform where you can build your own walled garden, a platform where you cannot find content that isn't filtered through US hegemony?
> verisimilitudinously

I might say to them that verisimilitudinous is not the usual word (despite the OP). It's the more elegant verisimilar, and thus verisimilarly.
Im not surprised about the negative comments. I’d be more surprised if the negative commenters have even tried VR. VR and AR are just such a huge paradigm shift that according to the data, only tweens and children “just get it” as a demographic group without a lot of coaxing and explaining. I would say that it’s their generation’s NES. Being an adult VR enthusiast feels like being part of something like the homebrew computer club, well until Quest came along.
> The research is focused on _how_ it works, rather than _if_ it works

True, but it also has this very perplexing statement:

> The assertion that it does function as a robust “empathogen” is largely based on anecdotal clinical reports, which conflict with several human subject studies that have commonly failed to reveal robust empathogenic effects. For example, MDMA appears to only mildly potentiate empathy (5, 6) in the multifaceted empathy test, in which subjects are asked to self-report levels of arousal after exposure to emotionally charged images

Such assertion is largely based on million of actual users. The scientists' observation is completely disconnected from reality, to the point of being false; given this, I question very radically the validity of the referenced research.
The local oldies station plays 1950-2004 (now-20) and does seem to delve a little past top 40 from time to time.
I love opening the bandcamp homepage and seeing the live purchases scroll past, people all over the world buying music I've (mostly) not yet discovered!
The real fun starts with UNC paths. Is it `\\\\server\\share\ with\ space` or `//server/share\ with\ space` or any combination of those, preferably with quotes.
IBM objected in 1983 - yet that decision lives on today? It's what Windows displays to users, even if you can actually type in / and things still work.

When Microsoft wrote IIS and other web technologies the internal friction of path separators must have been fun to experience. "Why are we still using \ again, Jim? Oh, that's right, we chose poorly a decade ago and for some reason can't be bothered to fix it!"

> Dude, why are you so angry about what direction a slash goes?

Because it's rubbed my bum raw over the years and I've finally had enough! I mostly jest... but seriously, it's super annoying to deal with and a constant reminder of the poor decision making Microsoft products often encompass.
More like `newtype` with implicit `coerce`
Windows used many of the MSDOS services, like file system access. Windows was built on top of MSDOS in the beginning.

Windows predates OS/2 (OS/2 development started in 1985 according to Wikipedia)

How is it a poor engineering decision?

What about the original Mac OS using colon as a path separator? Or Lisa OS using the hyphen as a path separator?

see https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17069/why...
Its been a wild ride thinking about this. Start paying attention to how many times you use spatial relations to talk about abstract things that seemingly have nothing to do with physical reality. Even in programming we often use language like "Run x THROUGH y, if it COMES OUT as z GO BACK to...". One can imagine a visual representation where x,y,z are just differently colored balls representing some other structure in space/time, with the x ball going through the y ball, and coming out as some other ball which moves back to something in the opposite direction.

Everything that happens happens in space and time, so it makes total sense that we have this common denominator of reasoning spatially that ties together images, written language, and sound.

I don't make a distinction between "reality" and the mental conception of reality. By all pragmatic takes, my mental experience IS reality. Anything beyond the means of observation may as well not exist.

Now as to the question of whether language can represent any mental conception, I am not so sure, but merely being enough to represent any physical system is plenty, and of this ability I am sure. Surely if I show you a video of any random thing happening, you can describe in some words EXACTLY what is happening such that another person can recreate that state perfectly. Without any abstractions you could give a description of every single object/pixel in your view, and with "higher" level abstractions like "everything is moving" you can create a lossy representation (which is often enough depending on as depending on the purpose, we don't always care about the actually state of the exact state of system, but rather that it possesses some property. "Something is moving" vs "nothing is moving").
Sure. Until the flood of Taiwanese clones brought the price down the cost of a "proper" IBM-PC was high. I thought we were talking "personal computers" more broadly here though. The IBM-PC was released mid 1981...
Another thing that DRM (and always online) killed...

Being online just hasn't the same feeling when you could hear screaming within earshot when your plan executed to perfection...

I miss the raw simplicity of IPX. Not the NE2000 IRQ hell, though
There’s some research here that the NYTimes cited in an article on the topic of TikTok deplatforming certain topics

https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing...
There's no evidence one way or another. TikTok's servers are in the US, but, even if we audit their entire outbound connections, or get a warrant from their ISP to confirm no traffic has ever gone out to China... There's no surefire way of saying that an employee didn't just plug their laptop into the server, download data, and then ship it off to China later on.

Both the US government and TikTok/ByteDance are unable to prove their claims, and likely, neither one ever could. Even if TikTok showed 100% evidence that they've never done that, the US government would know that there's nothing stopping TikTok from doing it at a later date.

This legislation is the US government deciding that the risks are too great, and so they're willing to take the gamble and shut down a company that's potentially done nothing wrong. "Innocent until proven guilty" is typically reserved for the judicial system, but this is a legislative decision; it'll be an interesting court case to determine if the US legislators are able to make these sorts of decisions outside of the judiciary.
No, I'd agree with this. Your AEs / clients always want it done as fast and cheap as possible. I enjoy the variety of problems and clients, and honestly sometimes find working with our SWEs a bit pedantic. I have a Get Shit Done attitude.

I would say, the top maybe 5% of Sales Engineers/SAs (whatever you call them) do have a very deep expertise in one area and those are the folks who are trusted to get a deal done. I've done defense tech, adtech, and now databases. I've been the time to really go deep on databases and that's what I'm building my career around now.
The Israel/Palestine conflict is routinely at the top of massive subs like /r/news and /r/worldnews, two subreddits with diametrically opposed views on the conflict.
shades of https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Er why would that be the case. To be unmoored is to be detached from something. So the quote is saying that the destiny of every book is to be detached and read outside the context in which it was written (birthed).
WSJ is wrong. Autocomplete code models are small (5B param) and very cheap. A single inference is roughly $0.000001.
Oops you are correct! Broader point still there that federal regulators can regulate contracts though.
I certainly have plenty of biased but late 70s early 80s seems like a really good era. Especially because it was so diverse and not dominated by a single sound.
That is a less than smart attitude on it. I don't think you have really thought that through.
High speed rail tickets are expensive almost everywhere, even when publicly subsidised.
I have nothing against PowerShell. I've used it for avoiding detection etc. in the past. Fun tool that surprises and delights in unexpected ways.

It is pretty powerful/insane that stuff like this is a part of PowerShell and that's probably what the GP is talking about:

Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
using System;
namespace DemoCode
{
public class DemoClass
{
public static void WriteHello()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello");
}
}
}
"@
[DemoCode.DemoClass]::WriteHello()

Or LoadLibrary call and invocation from PowerShell. [0] [1]

It blurs the lines as to what it is no matter how you look at it.

In contrast, try doing that in cmd.exe or invoking a function from a shared object after getting a pointer to it using dlopen through a POSIX shell.

[0] - https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSReflect-Functio...

[1] - https://fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials/24.html
I keep hearing this, and/or “it’s fast if you self-host”, or “it’s fast as long as you don’t install a bunch of plugins”.

I look forward to experiencing this some day. In the meantime Jira still seems really slow.
If any ideology or regimes espousing it have earned scaremongering, it's communism.
Startups Say India Is Ideal for Testing Self-Driving Cars
> Lee’s Summit, MO (USA), 2002

I wonder if that person ever got to meet Lowtax lol
> increases division in Western countries.

I don't see how people can say this with a straight face knowing that American adversaries operate almost in the open on Facebook. You don't need to control the platform to control the message. That's what social media companies sell!
Certain aspects of it do, but it doesn't as a whole. See United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez for the precedent that the Fourth Amendment doesn't totally apply to non-citizens. The Supreme Court hasn't specifically ruled on the First Amendment, it's hard to imagine that they would say hostile nations have an inalienable right to publish as much propaganda as they want in the US.
Sure, but not right now (since they just raised their B).

My guess is it was the second reason:

> wanting to grab a press cycle ahead of competitor announcements to build the waitlist.
Sovereignty is really just a fancy word for "do whatever the hell we want" made to sound noble.
I use Pandora and subscribe to Premium which allows me to listen to albums on demand. When I started out as a free user after I gave up on Youtube in the background apps, I didn't like Spotify because it kept forcing me to listen to awful songs that it pushes on everybody instead of what I actually wanted to listen to. Pandora was a much better experience as a free user because their "radio" plays music similar to what you've already told it you like.
>" Yes but this is still okay as we can teach people to critically think and make their own decisions."

Politicians will commit seppuku the minute it happens in their country. Independently thinking populace is their worst nightmare.

Luckily for them most people do not do that.
Was going to say the situation with path lengths on Windows is mostly gone today, but it does still pop up on the odd occasion.

For example the built in .zip file support can’t extract long paths (7-zip however has no issue).

Also my Git client of choice (TortoiseGit) doesn’t fully handle long paths.

But day to day long paths on Windows is fortunately not really an issue any more and they’ve been steadily improving support over the years.

Despite generally being a fan of Windows, before Windows 10 the long path situation was infuriating, they even had a blog post acknowledging it’s a problem, but also stating it was going to be very non trivial to fix and as such they didn’t have any particular plans to fix it.

I suspect that WSL made the limitation more regularly painful enough that they could convince managers that it’s something that had to get fixed.

Windows Terminal was probably also motivated by WSL.
My #1 source for finding new music: teen-aged daughter
200 years from now someone wonders who you were simping for.
Despite all the buttons you clicked that say, "Buy! Buy! Buy!" you actually only ever leased access to the show.

But if the buttons said, "Lease! Lease! Lease!" everyone would go "WTF!" so they say, "Buy!" instead and no one reads the small print.
Is gRPC too easy or ?
China should retaliate and ban all US ownership of chinese companies
How in the world is your rant in linked file supposed to work?

* It seems you decide whether to execute a file by its extension, e.g. `.php`

* You are complaining that Windows is stripping away spaces, so `.php ` becomes `.php`

* And supposedly this could lead the file being served as static text if you didn't have a Windows workaround?

It rather seems to me that POSIX accepting `.php ` as a filename, and this not being picked up by a `.php` check is problematic here.
thats why it also works without any spaces

DIR C:/p/s/w

Doesn't do what you might expect.
I could see this being really bad for the site. A lot of Japanese illustrators were already treating it as an afterthought compared to X/Twitter, and if the new terms actively make Pixiv worse for artists in the rest of the world then its importance could decline even further.
I have a very similar history as well, so jumping in. You've probably heard of the artist, John Frusciante. But probably not the album, Maya.

The guitarist for RHCP is making the best modern IDM.
a lot of this is your choices. You may be choosing to engage less with new music.

I spend at least an hour each week doing something that I can also listen to new music at the same time, and I add it to my favorites, so that those dark AI recommendations start adding similar recommendations to my listening mixes. I don't listen to top 100 because by and large I don't like it. In modern music my taste has shifted away from prog rock and classic into techno/psytrance/etc. All it took was spending a bit of time looking, every week, to enrich my taste in music and make sure I wasn't repeating the stuff I heard on the radio growing up forever.

It's up to you to do it. It's your choice to make.
This seems like a really good take on the situation. I usually disagree that discoverability as a problem. Discoverability could be why my tastes have stagnated.
You are correct. There used to be a limit. Radio was deregulated in the 90s and by the early 2000s local DJ selected music was essentially gone.
I understand why he chose to say it this way, and I'll probably be stealing "liberal racism" (what a phrase: that's going in my pocketbook alongside "white guilt" and "racialise"), but this is the wrong way to say it to a Bay Area audience. You'd want to say something like "erasing representation to avoid confronting racism".
I know. I'm agreeing with you. I meant your reasons make sense as to why they won't strike it down haha
I can’t speak for other events, but QuakeCon and Dreamhack have had internet access (and quite good access all things considered) for a decade or more now.
What about no sale yet they continue to operate because the ban is not enforceable either legally or technically?
Based on analyses in at two countries, fake MDMA (ecstasy pills without MDMA) is not common.

MDMA content in the pills is often overstated, but still high (even too high, referring to the health organization guidelines); this is IMO the most damaging effect of lack of regulation - it's impossible to know how much MDMA one is going to ingest.

I agree 100% that MDMA legalization is a benefit. As first step though, drug checking centers are a huge (and realistic) step forward.
I would sooner not buy the bread and just eat avocado+lime+salt! Limeflation be damned.
Today a Chinese company. Tomorrow a French company, or a German company or a British company, or an Indian company.

In the future, ANY foreign company could be at risk of being shut down, sold off or banned.

That's a powerful disincentive to any company. What happens next? Foreign companies don't waste their money by investing in the US.

For some reason the US seems hell-bent on destroying its future.
For the macOS build in windowed mode, has anyone found a way to enable pixel scaling? I can set the window to whatever size I want, but if the game itself runs in 640x480, that doesn't do me any good...
That calculation is correct. 2^12 microseconds is 4096µs, or 0.004096s, and 12288b / 3Mbps is 12288 / 3000000 is 0.004096. So yeah, just a hair over 4ms for 1536 bytes. Exceedingly slow by modern standards.
Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
> It must be comforting for Meta to know that if they wanted to build a leading TikTok competitor or any other social network in the future they can easily do it.

They already did. It's called Reels.
This is wild.

Their accounting could massively hurt the VR industry (to the point, the comment above about how it’s too bad VR can’t be profitable).

IMO it’s not AI or VR that will take over, but a combination of the two.
Very interesting interview, but aside from that – what a true joy to read an article with so many words I'd never even seen before!
I didn't know that, I'll look into it, thanks
Yeah I think it's far more interesting to view this as a series of people making probably the best possible decision at the time, and winding up in a slightly unfortunate, suboptimal place.

That's hardly uncommon! Examine the history of basically anything.
Unless you’re going for some meta-joke, no.
I listened to a lot of Apple Music recommendations while getting my three kids to sleep over the years. I would say that in my 40s I’m discovering more new music, and music I genuinely love, than I did in all my teens. I don’t get to go to a lot of gigs, but I go to one big festival a year and it’s the bands in a tiny font that I get excited about. Yeah most stuff is shit, but there’s just so much of everything.
> I get why people study this sort of thing and why it's useful. The thing that I don't understand is why people need studies to tell them they should skip desert, leave the phone on the counter, go outside, and ask your neighbor how they're doing.

People have all kinds of weird beliefs, and there are entire industries selling quack remedies and therapies that people, willingly and unwillingly, buy into.

Sure it won't reach everyone, but it might reach some people who genuinely thought their previous beliefs and behaviors were "correct".