skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outlier here (musician, spend hours per week trying to find new music) - some thoughts:

- The search space for music is really large and noisy. Most of the stuff out there isn’t very good, and the stuff that is good isn’t always discoverable with a single strategy
- The best strategies almost always exploit human connections

Some strategies I use:

- Spatial locality, who is performing with or near artists that I like?
- Publishing locality, who is on the same label as an artist that I like?
- Artist locality, what other projects has an artist I like contributed to?
- Fan locality, what other artists does a fan of an artist that I like enjoy?

——

Note that none of these strategies are as effective as “relinquish control”. For example, there is a freeform radio station near me that I listen to all day at work. I have a rule that I won’t turn the radio off in the middle of a DJs set, even if I don’t like a song. This has helped me “break through” to interesting artists I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.

To the article’s question, I think the main factor here doesn’t have much to do with music. Cultural production has exploded, and it’s really hard to navigate any cultural space in a non-obsessive way.

I thought it was interesting that the effect of “generational preference for music released when teenaged” seemed to wane around Gen Z. I wonder if this is just exhaustion, perhaps with tendencies towards pastiche as a consequence.
A Technical Guide to Architecting large ML pipelines on Snowflake
Last year in november, this was worth $90, now its $430 (was $490 before ER)

wth happened? what do people believe that Meta is doing that made it jump 5x and now seems to say its only wroth 4x where it was at its yearly lows?
https://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-prod...
Personally, I don't see the value in building server/tooling software for Windows these days. The market share just isn't there, and it ends up requiring a lot of work and testing to maintain.
Btw. OpenTofu 1.7.0 is coming out next week, which is the first release that contains meaningful Tofu-exclusive features! We just released the release candidate today.

State encryption, provider-defined functions on steroids, removed blocks, and a bunch more things are coming, see our docs for all the details[0].

We've also had a fun live-stream today, covering the improvements we're bringing to provider-defined functions[1].

[0]: https://opentofu.org/docs/next/intro/whats-new/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXBv0MYalY
There are so many WP plugins that “support the most popular ones”, depending on your criteria, either still means supporting thousands of plugins, or means it won’t support the plugins I use
blocking is not always that fine-grained; there are tons of IPs/domains blocked that have nothing to do with China
Correct. Any other country on earth, other than:

* China

* North Korea

* Iran

* Cuba

* Russia

* Venezuela

Could sell it to Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Belarus, etc.
> I suspect the next scientific revolution would be a refutation of Church-Turing

I'll give you long odds against. That would be tantamount to discovering a physical phenomenon that could not be described mathematically.

> a bit like my understanding of the relation between Newtonian mechanics, and General Relativity and Quantum mechanics.

Those relationships are well understood: Newton is a low-order approximation of GR in the weak-field limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Newtonian_expansion

The relationship between Newton and QM is explained, at least operationally if not philosophically, by decoherence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
My layperson theory goes something like: In the early 90s when the medical community had a hammer, everything started to look like a nail. The result being over-prescribing in children.

Fast forward to pervasive digital devices which represented a continuation of existing trends to an optimized extreme, and you have the fragmentation and destruction of attention on a societal scale that now spans generations.

American corporate culture's attempt at wringing every last bit of profitability out of human beings doesn't help matters either.

>Recently, my feed has become full of content about ADHD.

With a dx that's legitimately pervasive, add in basic human social dynamics but amplified by that same optimized extreme, and for better or worse a whole subculture develops around said dx that—as a side effect—dilutes legitimacy to some degree.

In my opinion the "ADHDer" thing is cringe and the rosy picture it tends to paint kind of glosses over how shitty having it is.

>Just a couple of days ago, I saw a tweet where a girl on a beach was holding amphetamines and joking that she takes them to focus on relaxing.

The sad part is that it has an element of truth to it: for some people stims do a decent job of negating depression or anxiety; let alone just avoiding stim crash or remaining functional during time off.
> Not everyone wants to put forth that much effort.

How is that more effort than listening whole albums?

I personally do my Spotify discovery exactly that way - I listen to "discover weekly", and when a song stands out, I just click on the artist and listen more. I can't imagine any way of putting less effort than that into discovering new music.
True! Really?
The more time passes, the fewer relics from earlier eras survive and stay relevant, like a funnel.
> It also might be worth noting that both pull quotes are things that Ah-Sen said in the questions, instead of things that Powell said in response.

One is from Powell, the other from Ah-Sen.

>> The attractive characteristic of a young narrator is the absurdity of it and the license of it. - Powell

>> The destiny of all books is to become unmoored from the time which birthed them. - Ah-Sen
Tiktok is indeed banned in China.

Douyin is owned by the same company but not the same platform. It is subject to Chinese gov censorship (like all media in China), while Tiktok is not (therefore banned).
> Having the US's primary rival, which runs massive disinformation campaigns, also opaquely control the content that US youth consume en masse seems worse than...just about any alternative

How is it worse than making disseminating disinformation illegal? The law as written lays bare the true motivation - it's not about fighting disinformation ("inauthentic user activity" has been detected across all social networks for the purposes of disinformation). It almost certainly is about protecting American companies from competitors with better AI algorithms. The legislature has telegraphed that the tech/potential for abuse are not problems by themselves - ownership by a Chinese company is what they take issue with.
Building and Distributing a macOS Application Written in Python (2023)
I wish my parents would have known that sending me outside would prevent my needing glasses. Or that schools would have offered some sort of treatment to help prevent it.

I feel like society generally accepts myopia as something you just get, instead addressing it like a disease that can be prevented. Sure, it's manageable with corrective lenses or surgery, but prevention is so simple. Better education, through articles like this might catalyze some of the changes we need to make to allow a lot of children grow up being able to see things naturally.

it's like diabetes, sure, some people are born with it, but others develop it through lifestyle choices. Except in this case, this effects children, who have very little control over their lives. It's up to adults to help them grow up to be healthy.
You said it required US ownership. It does not, it requires ownership by a non-foreign-adversary, which is every country in the world except 6. I’m being pedantic because the law is pedantic, and I am tired of people catastrophizing over a law they have not understood and that is similar to laws that have been in place for almost a hundred years (radio/tv stations, airlines).
java is great for jobs as well.
Because the '/' in MSDOS was already in use as an option-indicator - a carry-over from CP/M

FORMAT C: /S /U

The option-indicator in UNIX-like systems was the dash/hyphen '-'

ls -al
> “CP/M got the slash from VMS”, which is simply not possible because CP/M is older than VMS

surely not - i used cp/m 1.x back in the late 1970s and by that time VMS was a well-developed and sophisticated OS, unlike cp/m which was something you could have knocked up in a week or so.
What I meant was simpler OSes like BSDs, as you discuss in the edit, or Linux stripped down to networking essentials.
> that a complete collapse of the industry seems highly unlikely to me.

Unlikely in the next 10 years or the next 100?
That's a form of increasing heat flux, #1.
Yeah, I think there is a genetic component. I had glasses from the third grade, and I recall spending lots of time outdoors as a youngster. There wasn't much else to do.
It's true. I have noticed this. I think it's because American moral standards conform to the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics. Pareto improvements are insufficient. Interaction implies that some high standard must be met. Therefore, if we give someone something it is insufficient that it is better. It must be good.
Take an "Intro to AI" class at any of the top universities, and you're almost guaranteed to be using this textbook: https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

Check out that table of contents. There's more to the field of AI than Machine Learning, even if neural networks are the current hot thing.

I think its more accurate to say there's a substantial and growing overlap between the two fields.
All because they are not going to be making as much $5B in quarterly revenue. That's about 20B/year. Or 60b in 3 years. Or a 2x PE ratio. Didn't go down as much as I would expect.
Yep. Drives me nuts when I see people fiddling with platform-specific path separators. Just use /, it works everywhere.
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Of course the CEO is going to say that, because they don't want the law passed. When the chips are down, it's a lot less likely that just pull out than that they take the money from one of the many salivating buyers.
I wonder if this may mean we will see the Terraform dogmatic approach to declining to implement much requested functionality in the name of "it doesn't fit our ideals" go by the wayside. I hope so, otherwise, OpenTofu here I come; or well, I'm sure someone's got a ML infra tool in the works by now.

I always have mixed feelings when a software company like this grabs their bag and leaves the community that helped build them, high and dry; good for them but still bad for everyone else nine out of ten times.
And as a fictional story, it's just the author's completely arbitrary rendering of something that hasn't yet happened anywhere in the world. It's tiresome to see people citing that piece of text as if it were in any way a scientific source or prediction of anything.

A bit like citing Paul Ehlrich's hypothetical predictions of massive famines in the world of his future.. Oh but wait, they all turned out to be completely false.
I don't recall the GDPR being created specifically to target one company that politicians disliked.
Ah this is very cool.
That's a weird objection, because Typescript classes are literally Javascript classes[1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
https://archive.ph/zV5Sd
If companies didn’t go public regular people would not be able to invest in innovation. As much as people hate it, public markets democratize access to investments
And Mauritius's flag has more stripes.
I have no real opinion on whether or not WFH is better, but I feel compelled to point out that only a very small minority of people are working that far away from home.
Interesting. What would it take to write the driver? Also, is Plan 9 maintained sufficiently?
My new high end washer and drier come with an iphone app that notifies you when it’s done. It comes with non-optional spam notifications for their other products and subscriptions. It seems that the market of “pay more to get a product without ads” is increasingly disappearing.
I find these sort of articles so very tiring...

I realize this is from the OS/2 Museum and not Microsoft - but the result is the same:

Article written about a poor engineering decision made decades ago, which for reasons that perplex everyone still live-on today. Then the Microsoft apologists come out of the woodwork to explain how easy it is to live with these poor engineering decisions and how smart Microsoft Engineers are, and how it's literally all other operating systems that somehow are lacking, blah blah blah.

Backwards compatibility is usually the smoke screen apologists deploy during these discussions. As-if in the past few decades Microsoft couldn't have written a simple '\' -> '/' converter... Hell, if you look in the Explorer address bar, Microsoft even hides the path separator - opting to replace it with arrows instead.

Let's not even start on the CRLF thing...

Yes, Windows owes it's origin to OS/2, and OS/2 used '\' instead of '/' - so we should never correct a decision inherited from an OS that died 22 years ago...
The Law of Supply and Demand.

For example, open a lemonade stand in your neighborhood. Charge $20 a cup. See how it goes.
> Something like the JSON version of Terraform that can be generated by different tools, but an open standard instead.

God, please no. The worst thing about all these tools is the terrible formats they keep choosing.

Given the directions we’ve (“cutting edge” programmers and server ops folks) chosen to go instead, leaving XML behind was a big mistake.

I’d prefer something better, but yaml and json are so terrible that going back to xml would be an improvement.
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> Why is half this thread pretending that the Great Firewall is effective?

It's extremely effective. Just because a very small fraction of the population 1) know how to use a VPN, 2) are willing to pay for it, and 3) bother to use it, doesn't mean the GFW is ineffective. The CCP doesn't need 99.99% efficiency rate, 95% is plenty to control their population.

Source: myself, many years living in China.
I tend to ask in rapid succession if obvious solutions were used. It gives me warmup time to think about more detail.

Unfortunately people get annoyed when they ask for help and someone offers them 10 solutions they already have tried.

But often one of the obvious was not tried or considered so the person gets quick solution. Otherwise warmup to think more in details and ask follow-up questions why some of “obvious” solutions did not work gives great intro to get up and fix something.
Yes, you can speak like this. People are just going to think you're pretentious. This is the sort of language you use with specific audiences. The interviewer and the interviewee are simply using language for mutually exclusive audiences.
The MSDOS 2.0 source code blames IBM:

Most of these are
due to last minute changes to achieve a greater degree of compatibility
with IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS). This includes the use
of "\" instead of "/" as the path separator, and "/" instead of "-"
as the switch character.

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/80ab2fddfdf30f09f0a...
i can only speak to the early days (joined around 11 folks), but the engineers then were top tier and hungry to build cool shit. A few years later (as an outsider) seemed innovation had slowed substantially. i still know there are great folks there, but has felt like HashiCorp’s focus lately has been packaging up all their tools into a cohesive all-in-one solution (this was actually Atlas in the early days) and figuring out their story around service lifecycle with experiments like Waypoint (Otto in the early days). IBM acquisition is likely best outcome.
Ask HN: Is this a bad question to ask a GPT?
I recently asked this question to chatGPT and was told that I am violating their terms, “How to manufacture a dual carbon chlorine battery? What’s wrong with that question?
That was a nice read. Thanks for posting!
I wonder if they're getting them in bulk yet, or just a trickle at this stage.
It would cause damage that can be mended, same as how restricting steel trade would definitely hurt or bankrupt some companies caught up in it.
> Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day?

surprised as you may be, the vast majority certainly do not use Wikipedia
CP/M was released in 1974 while VMS was around 1977.
I guess the chat app is under quite a bit of load?

I keep getting error traceback "responses" like this:

TypeError: This app has encountered an error. The original error message is redacted to prevent data leaks. Full error details have been recorded in the logs (if you're on Streamlit Cloud, click on 'Manage app' in the lower right of your app).
Traceback:

File "/home/adminuser/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/streamlit/runtime/scriptrunner/script_runner.py", line 584, in _run_script
exec(code, module.__dict__)
File "/mount/src/snowflake-arctic-st-demo/streamlit_app.py", line 101, in <module>
full_response = st.write_stream(response)
Smartphones (still) offer novelty, and there are no alternatives to some of their useful functions, hence popularity. I’ll be livid if smartphone-type devices are popular a century from now.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303 - April 2024 (170 comments)
I’d be all for a GoboLinux revolution but it seems unlikely from a “if it ain’t broke…” POV.
Except for CEO's of course. As banning other people's contribution to the realm of political discourse is itself a political act.
Yeah, sure. You cannot translate what works in Sweden one to one to the US and expect the same success. But here is what you could do: realize that the cultural differences between Turkey, France, Australia, Ireland, Japan, Finland, UK, Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Belgium and so on are very likely not less than the difference between the US to all of these countries. And yet, some things US citizens claim can't ever work do so in very different cultures, under various right or left wing governments and in different climate zones.

But keep on telling yourself the story that the US is so exceptional that reasonable conservative policies that work everywhere else can't work. This is likely just going to work out great in the long run.
Recent and related:

IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303 - April 2024 (170 comments)
No, small states do not have the same rights as large ones. You may disagree with this but I don't see any point in pretending it's untrue. Large countries have more sway and matter more to everyone, including but not limited to operators of social platforms. Losing half your userbase hurts much more than losing a hundredth. I also doubt that the U.S. would force a sale of a social app based in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Gabon, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Egypt etc etc etc.

I wouldn't particularly blame Gabon or Vietnam if they wanted their primary media outlets operated by nations that are at least vaguely friendly to their values. They are free to attempt to force a sale and ban it when those apps inevitably do not comply.
Yes, Microsoft Research is huge in this space. Z3, Boogie, Corral, Dafny, F*, Lean...
oh damn, I completely forgot about utility co-ops!

I'm envious of those, they're all over the state but they're only out in the sticks.
Reading glasses cost $20 on amazon, and make close objects appear far away.

In case any of you look at something close up all day, and want to make it appear further away.
Facebook is just groups and marketplace, sprinkled with some ads, at least for my age group and area. But groups are very active, especially neighbourhood ones, where I get my hyper local news basically.
I also listened to so much of this in my late teens that hearing the original sounds strange.
My beef with IBM as someone who worked for a company they acquired is that they would interfere with active deals that I was working on, force us to stand down while IBM tried to sell some other bullshit, then finally “allow us” to follow up with the customer once it’s too late, and the customer decided to move on to something else. Repeatedly.

Fuck IBM.
or just work anywhere within IBM
> The fact that they spend more than everyone else does in the space

We don't know how much Apple spent on Vision Pro.

The project has been going on for at least a decade.
Out of curiosity how difficult has it been hosting OpenAI's SDK? Is there one off stuff that goes into that? Their API seems really challenging - SSE's, tons of complex generics, async, docs - it's endless.

Really impressive stuff, I can't imagine doing all this with a team as lean as yours.
Fun; I'm doing the reverse, Common Lisp under Vim with slimv. Not bad, and far less distractions. I was more than used to vi keys with sacc/mutt/nethack and friends. No erc, no jabber, no malyon, no Nethack. Yes, it's possible: https://github.com/be11ng/nethack-el I can spawn a tmux pane alongside vis/vim, but with Emacs you can do it with less effort.
Same, but with ESPP stock, and it was a few months earlier. Ouch.
Looks like the wumao's have made it to HN :)
The west has shifted into believing subjective experience is useless compared to objective knowledge.

This is like a BackEnd engineer saying that he doesn't believe the FrontEnd exists.

We've been studying the FrontEnd for the majority of human history, and while many things we've found are just plain wrong in an objective sense, they still have subjective value.

Case and point: look at how meditation has been receiving continuous affirmation from the scientific community.
It's the 6th biggest company in the US.
Also, shouldn't it be "berthed" not birthed?
I'm always a bit surprised when startups come out of stealth mode with no product demo videos and only a press release. My guess is they're either wanting to raise more money before official launch, or just wanting to grab a press cycle ahead of competitor announcements to build the waitlist. Is there any strategic reason in 2024 to not include more details on the website?
I've never felt as seen as when I read that title
According to Wikipedia, CP/M was released in 1974, and VAX/VMS was "announced" in 1977 (presumably means it was available a bit later than that).
Heh, interesting example because DoubleClick kinda did take over Google.
I find the claims that Go is easy just wrong. It's actually a harder language to write in because without discipline, you are going to end up maintaining massive amounts of boilerplate.

That's from someone who did a bunch - Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, C++, Scala.

Syntax is one thing, assembling an application with maintainable code is something else.
As I understand it, the unconstitutionality of the initial executive order was based on the balance of power in the US government. Doing this kind of thing by executive order is not allowed. Doing this kind of thing by passing a law through Congress is allowed. The Constitution gives a lot of power to the legislature, especially given the interpretations of the Commerce Clause over the history of the US.