skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope one day it'll be easy to make a living doing several different things, and not just one thing for 8 hours a day.
>> Even in tech niches like this, cryptoanarchist ideas get routinely derided as useless and scams.

I agree.

The tendency to over-criticize and deride is part of the self-inflicted helplessness. Every attempt to improve things gets a fair deal of scorn and criticism...which is not exactly good.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has noticed this. Gruber’s take on Apple is generally good but politically his comments are often cringeworthy, to the point I don’t read the website regularly any more.

It’s not protectionist to force Apple to open up the App Store in your country. It might be disagreeable, for some people, and that’s fine, it’s ok to have an opinion. But if you’re going to throw around big words you should know what they mean.
I would certainly hope they do, it'd be entirely pointless if it didn't.

Doesn't change that it's not a country.
Every time this topic comes up a rhyme of your comment bubbles to the top and speaking from my own experience growing up in a winery. I can say: yes, it's hard, but no, it's not impossible to take up later in life. Stop assuming he just threw away his notebook and bought a tractor and stop spreading coffee table knowledge. Let people discover things for themselves, or even better, try finding things out for yourself. Because maybe, just maybe, you might discover that our differences are what make us unique and capable of achieving things in our own ways. There is no best practice for everything or everyone.
Oh, thanks! Very thick of me.
I had mentors at work who taught me how and what to do in the beginning and helped me a lot.
When it comes to life in general, I interact with many people—older, younger, more successful, and less successful. You can always learn something from each of them, but not all advice is worth taking to heart. Only you know what’s best for you. It’s also very important to find motivation in books, movies, positive experiences, and the stories of people who have achieved their goals. Look for inspiration in everything that moves you.
Last time I checked, Boeing is still about half of all Commercial traffic. So until that stops being a thing, Boeing will stay around.
Huh… rubbish lining the highways always stands out to me due to its rarity.
It's not likely that life will survive long enough to form civilizations that close to a black hole. It has probably fed like this many times before already.
I've been reading the mentioned Bush memoir "Pieces of the Action" and it's pretty good. Stories about engineering and organizational politics. As good as any business classic (e.g. "My Years With General Motors" or "High Output Management").
It's more of a West Coast synth so it doesn't sound much like a Moog; I like that it has a "modern" approach (not just a clone of old West Coast synths like Buchla/Serge). I also like that it's really packed with features: two oscillators, two cycling slopes/envelopes, two low pass gates, a bucket brigade delay, a modulation source with noise, three mixers... all in a compact case and for a very reasonable price. It does have some shortcomings though (see below).

The waveshaper sounds good but it's a bit limited (it just continuously shapes from one waveform to another, but it's not a proper wavefolder, i.e. it does not "fold" the wave creating those crazy harmonics). However you can overcome this limitation because you can always use the analog FM for adding more harmonics, this is linear FM, not exponential, so it's easy to keep it in tune and as a result it's very flexible, it sounds great (don't expect the sound of digital FM like a DX7 though, this is the typical 60s/70s analog FM sound).

The envelope is quite bad and it's the main shortcoming of this synth. Of course being a West Coast synth I didn't expect full ADSR, but my issue is that it doesn't have a way to switch from ASR to AD mode, in other words you you can't turn off sustain so the only way to make plucky sounds is to use short gates; this is a big limitation (some hardware doesn't have a way to force the gate length) and I dislike that very much. On the other hand, one thing I like about the envelopes is that they can be switched to cycling so they can be used as LFOs which is in line with the fact that this is a West Coast-inspired synth.

The low pass gates are amazing, definitely my favourite part of the synth, they can be used as VCAs or as proper low pass gates, but also they have resonance unlike the classic ones from Buchla/Serge. I love how flexible they are and how much sonic palette they offer.

TL;DR it's a really good synth except for the envelopes, would be a great pairing together with a good West Coast slope/envelope module like Make Noise Maths or Befaco Rampage.

PS sorry for the wall of text.
To be fair, most devs leaving the software industry won't have half the type of problems that actual farmers have - they have money, so they don't have the same pressures and they are typically doing some kind of boutique product.

I would love to "farm", but only as a retirement "job", and only with specific products.
Interestingly The Philippines is responsible for 35% of ocean plastic waste.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic...
Alternatives https://github.com/beucismis/awesome-fetch
> When I was an undergraduate physical chemistry student 137 years ago

Wow! How old are you? Lol
I have this feeling that they go after seeders that go above a certain threshold.

Looking into 2.6M individuals, determining that the offense is real, figure out the possible loss to the copyright holder, identifying the user, send all this paperwork to all the public prosecutors around the country and have them prosecute people for $100-$200 loss to some company doesn't seem feasible.
No, they were jailed because they reassured the population that there was no risk of earthquake, when there absolutely was. That's very different.
I share the same enthusiasm related to ETL as a code, but as a heavy user of SQL Server 2005 (SSIS) at that time, the main advantages for me were that there was a closed and concise ecosystem around the technology, less fragmentation and multiple pieces that could fail. It was way simpler to reach people to solve the issues on the platform, and less time was needed to think about the technology itself and to think more about the problem.

When I transitioned to ETL as a code 12 years ago, I felt for the first time what it looks like to be a programmer/developer, since in my case the technology was literally a means to an end. To be honest, I did not even think about tech at all.

Just to give an idea, I was responsible for 5 instances of SQL Server, and with another person we were responsible for the whole end-to-end data operation (i.e. ETL via SSIS + OLAP cube via SSAS + and reporting via SSRS), and today I struggle to have the same level of scale with less than 7 people.

Fast forward to 2024, the inverse is true: I spend way more time thinking about the tools and their specificities than about the problem that I am solving at the end of the day.

I'm not telling that ETL as a code is bad (actually there's a lot of good stuff out there) but for folks in this kind of ecosystem (e.g. azure), definitely the juice to have some homemade code and all the stuff that comes with that, does not worth the squeeze.
Cars 20+ years ago vs more recent cars - I've definitely noticed them auto-doing what I was taught to do with older cars: ease off the brakes right at the end.
My Thai girlfriend enjoys her farm, spends a couple of hours a day to work on it.

Of course, it's not our primary source of income, as that is my work as software engineer. For her it's a nice hobby.

I don't think you'd need a degree anyhow. Plenty of stuff can be learned online these days. And you don't need a lot of equipment either, if it's just to take care of yourself or your family. Depending on your community, you might also be able to rent some equipment if you need it at times (my girlfriend rents some equipment, tractor or some such with a driver, to cut the rice, about 2 times a year, as do most people in our village).

If you have a bit of a garden, can easily start as a hobby, I think.
There are lots of ways to consider "nationalization" but here are some examples.

The US temporarily became a majority owner of GM as part of their 2009 bankruptcy.

> Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program the US Treasury invested a total $51 billion into the GM bankruptcy.[93] Until December 10, 2013, the U. S. Treasury recovered $39 billion from selling its GM stake. The final direct cost to the Treasury of the GM bailout was $11[94]-12 billion ($10.5 billion for General Motors and $1.5 billion for former GM financing GMAC, now known as Ally).[95] Local tax incentives amounted to $1.7 billion, most of them in Michigan.[96][97] A study by the Center for Automotive Research found that the GM bailout saved 1.2 million jobs and preserved $34.9 billion in tax revenue.[95]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...

https://jacobin.com/2019/10/general-motors-nationalization-u...

Conrail was a consolidated nationalization of multiple failed or failing railroads. In hindsight it effectively served as a way to consolidate, restructure, and then re-privatize the operation of the railroads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrail

It doesn't have to mean that the government continues to operate the company directly indefinitely.
How will this affect companies in a technical aspect? Just no more e2e encryption available in the clients? Or will it be some kind of weird e2e with a backdoor (which is not how encryption works)…
Exactly. Admittedly I was a lot younger then, but I had a hard time finding even relatively simple options in the nested menus and tabs of Windows XP.
I think even calling it lying is too kind. It just has no relation to truth.
lol they gon get flamed
Fantastic project and that colour silk-screen seems to work perfectly for this.

It's not clear what size screen would be ideal though, as a 3-4" one will seema bit 'stuck on'. Maybe an option for a larger screen to make a 'spectrum clamshell laptop', and/or a video out to have no screen at all.
The woman who ran PR for Chicago Tribune did the same thing with her husband. She now has a small farm in Michigan. She runs a PR agency from the farm.

I personally couldn’t do it… I prefer loud noises and bright lights but I lived in Rincon Hill and Times Square at various times…
The obvious answer is inheritance or marriage. Anything other than that (even crime, etc.) requires way more luck than one can realistically plan for.
It would be on a Dragon Capsule the Starliner is not just having helium problems, it has functional problems that compromise the return to earth mission they are trying to resolve(...I mean manage what this really means NASA has already contacted spaceX) it an announcement will be made tomorrow.
Because the USA isn't Venezuela
Existing planes continuing to fly doesn't necessarily keep Boeing in business, at least not in their current form.

Or do you mean Boeing is so critical to maintaining the existing commercial fleet that they won't be allowed to fail?
I wanna be you! problem is probably 15 years or more until it's feasible to me due to current salary, savings and country.
It’s around 300 million light years away, so this technically occurred a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

With that in mind, I can imagine that millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
OK, well, that makes a little more sense. But the answer still seems to me to be a pretty obvious "no". ECS is an engineering methodology. QFT is a mathematical formalism that combines quantum mechanics and special relativity. It's really apples and oranges.
But the rules the EU makes impact the country I live in.

The EU does not need to be a country for their rules to have impacts on countries. I think this is pretty self explanatory though?
I used to work at a self-driving car company, and all the vehicle's motion was planned around how much jerk to apply.

Your muscles are pretty good at applying a constant force (or responding to a constant acceleration). Hold your arm out straight: it's no effort to keep your arm still and counteract the force of gravity. Now imagine gravity varies quickly and randomly between 0.5g and 2g. I guarantee your arm won't stay still.

The same prinicple applies on a bus or in a car, except this time the forces are smaller, and it's your neck keeping your head still!
Nope no docker for now just firebase
Gruber is part of a strain of thought that masks anti-anti-monopolist beliefs behind the idea of "realism", as Cory Doctorow describes it[0] (the same category blogs like Techdirt belong to). Basically he's operating under the idea that big tech is so massive that any attempt to regulate big tech will fail and just eliminate the smaller competitors in the market (they're arguing that anti-monopolist actions fit the idea of a "compliance moat", where entry in the market is made so difficult by regulations to the point where only big players can exist. A basic example of a deliberate compliance moat are banks - there's an absolute truckload of laws and regulations before you can become a bank because if you're going to keep people's money, you need to be goddamn careful with what you do with it. At least in theory; enforcement of banking regulations has been spotty before and that's why the 2008 banking crisis both occurred and saw almost no legal punishment for those involved.)

You can see this with his other articles on the DMA, where he argues that the EU (or Japan in the case of the recent law they passed, see other commenter) are doing this specifically because they want to punish US big tech[1][2][3], rather than acknowledging the fact that these companies all being US giants is a mere coincidence and this would have happened regardless.

Even if the monopolist manages to mask himself behind good PR (which Apple has), they're still a monopolist. It's just that the digital age created a new type of monopoly: the platform/ecosystem monopoly, where a company that on paper has other options available in its market, is able to lock in it's business partners and make them unable to move because of the sheer size of it's existing customer network (whilst also keeping those same customers locked to the platform in a vicious cycle).

Apple is but one example (and arguably the most egregious as they exploit and enforce theirs to a degree that's pretty extreme), but most of GAFAM operate their own platform monopolies with varying degrees of abuse.

It also goes hand-in-hand with absolutely bizarre arguments and misunderstandings surrounding the GDPR[1]. In their heads the destruction of the EU digital tracking market while (US) big tech washes it's hands of the regulation presents itself as a failed anti-competitive measure rather than the clear intent which is to well, destroy the digital tracking market in the EU, which is what the GDPR is entirely about. (Since the EU considers digital tracking to be unethical and a violation of the right to privacy.)

The weird thing is that both Techdirt and Gruber are otherwise pretty clearly pro-consumer rights but have this almost absurd belief in the free market self-regulating without laws while a free market without laws (well, they're mostly unenforced or weakly enforced) is what got us here to begin with.

[0]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/edpb_meta_pay_or_ok

[2]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/apples_plans_for_the_dma

[3]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/ec_non_compliance_investi...
Sony Interactive Entertainment (which I believe is the "Sony" he's referring to) too is an American company.
I just don’t agree with this for a moment. And ironically the topic was covered in Gruber’s WWDC talk. What you’re proposing is exactly the same as saying that Apple is not allowed to privately test their APIs and frameworks in their own software before they let others use them.

Of course they should be able to do that. Of course they do not have an obligation to open everything to everyone at all times.

This is not like the bad old days where Microsoft used private APIs to disadvantage third party software in an operating system that literally had 95% world wide market share. I don’t know what share iOS has, but it’s a tiny fraction of the installed base of all operating systems.
Yea, Google/Ads is the problem for this specific case. Just that Google didn't fight it and Google also was pivotal in creating the modern LLM/AI tech. They are the people who are destroying the internet from many fronts.
Orwellian surveillance is all fun and games until you get to Kafkaesque imprisonment.
RS is used in distributed storage system like hadoop for fault-tolerance

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.4.0/hadoop-project-dist/ha...
Someone could be going into farming for a low cost independent lifestyle, not necessarily as a profit maximization venture.
Corn or dairy cattle, absolutely. Oranges for concentrate, sure. Even cabbages for transport, right.

But there are other things there's demand for, or demand can even be created for, that do not have such vast efficient scales. Hand-reared escargot, or spinach grown within resonance of a woodpecker pecking at dawn, just two examples.
It's great that you personally don't generalize it into a stereotype about Indian people, but that is not what a stereotype is, and "Indian people are good at math" is the stereotype, not "high skilled Indian visa holders working in the US are good at math".
Royal Mail has a special VAT exemption which is meant to compensate for this.
I do not agree that the most probable explanation is scent, given the description provided by the comment you are responding to
Nvidia releases free LLMs that match GPT-4 in some benchmarks
This is accurate. My current job, is much lower than I was making int he SFBay area, but I actually have work life balance. I don't have to worry about my phone ringing at 2am, and I don't have to worry about yearly re-orgs or project managers who are "Agile Certified" but implement Waterfall.
The US Treasury practically owned Ally Bank (formerly GMAC) after the 2008 financial crisis with a 63% stake [1].

The government then sold off its stake around 2014 and Ally seems to be doing well now.

I’d make the argument that significant ownership by the government means it’s effectively nationalized.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhenry/2014/12/31/u-s-treasur...
I read someone who retires and "takes up farming" as retiring to a house in a rural location and maintaining a garden and maybe some small quantities of livestock.

IE someone who is not depending on the "farm" to be a commercially successful operation or is even attempting to run it as a profitable business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_farm
The Slack engineering blog[0] is more pragmatic, and shows more about how the approaches were actually combined.

This is basically our whole business at grit.io and we also take a hybrid approach. We've learned a fair amount from building our own tooling and delivering thousands of customer migrations.

1. Pure AI is likely to be inconsistent in surprising ways, and it's hard to iterate quickly. Especially on a large codebase, you can't interactively re-apply the full transform a bunch.

2. A significant reason syntactic tools (like jscodeshift) fall down is just that most codemod scripts are pretty verbose and hard to iterate on. We ended up open sourcing our own codemod engine[1] which has its own warts, but the declarative model makes handling exceptions cases much faster.

3. No matter what you do, you need to have an interactive feedback loop. We do two levels of iteration/feedback: (a) automatically run tests and verify/edit transformations based on their output, (b) present candidate files for approval / feedback and actually integrate feedback provided back into your transformation engine.

[0] https://slack.engineering/balancing-old-tricks-with-new-feat...

[1] https://github.com/getgrit/gritql
Damn, I was hoping this bridge would stay in its current limbo state where it's open to pedestrians and bikes but closed to vehicles. It's so much nicer not having a five lane stroad that lets cars go 50mph into a park, and instead having a pseudo-community space.
Most people are just concerned about economic and social issues, and the implications this proposal has on freedom of speech and what that means to democracy seems to be unknown to most.
In Portugal, this proposal was not debated nor was it present on most parties' electoral agendas. Furthermore, I got no replies from the MEP candidates I emailed about their opinion on chatcontrol. Even if I wanted to vote accordingly to this proposal, I simply couldn't.
> I have more aha moments in the shower when I'm working intense hours, not less. My theory on this is that more exposure to the problem space gives the subconscious mind more to chew on.

Yup I can nod to this one. I know the relevant codebases back-to-front (from staring at them for 12 hours a day) so it's fairly easy to visualize implementations exactly and where they'll go and what parts they'll touch.
which AI are you using? how do you cover the cost of it being your site free (unless there is a paid plan that I didn't see)?
I mean.. everyone who can string two words together does...
They're both on medicaid because we have decided collectively, as a society, that "ROI" is something we should chase. The mentality that it's the wrong choice because he's not trying to write a money printing piece of software is precisely why we live in the world we do. I admire someone who wants to go out and create something in the physical world. Even if, for insane reasons, America no longer seems to value that.
Golden comment.
Heatwave puts focus on 'labour law violations' at Amazon
Does HN anticipate 'run for fun' becomes 'work for good'? In that the idea of putting yourself through physical and mental toil; investing in time, tools, gear, travel; effectively making a lifestyle around the personal development that comes from running will also happen to work.

Feels to me like many anticipate the possibility of a welfare state created by AI job loss will push people to scale back their financial needs to be able to fill their time with meaning. Will all work start to look like NGOs (modest compensation, local impact, ethical alignment, ala 'barn-raising')?
Could modern AI help amateur mathematicians to build proofs?
SUSE Acquires StackState for Cloud-Native Observability
With all this tech youd imagine it should have become easier to self sustain.
Funny comment about it being dark in Michigan. My feeling here in the summer is like, will the sun ever set (somewhat light out until almost 10pm depending on location)? I know what you mean, of course.
I think you're significantly underestimating the complexity of automatic transforms. It's not like they didn't try writing codemods first, and vim macros aren't more powerful than codemods.
Keyboard keys getting too stiff to press? ;)