skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All you need to create quality software is:

1. A continuously updated priority list.
2. A good team that work on tasks in strict priority order.
3. Automatic tests that stress tests the API of whatever you are developing.
4. No BS.
Masayoshi Son, the richest man on Earth, lost his billions
The ideas and implications of greater access to music, and a lower barrier to creation IMO are interesting.

Though, "worse" is utterly subjective. There is no way to rationally consider the sentiment until it is quantified in _some_ way. It would be interesting I believe for that to be attempted, at which time we could evaluate the point based on a proposed set of metrics that demonstrate "the music is worse." Then we might consider why.
Isn't YC's standard deal $125k for 7% and then $375k uncapped? Help me understand what's distortive about that?
I've got this after updating to Sequoia today as well, weird behaviour as Firefox network traffic will randomly stop working for a few minutes, then work again.
Let me preface this by saying that on the whole I agree with you.

However hardware startups that have to raise a lot of money before a Series A are... considerably riskier, no? If you're an established name in hardware or a hardware-adjacent field then you'll typically have less of an issue getting access to capital. You can strike some pretty amazing deals with vendors if the stars align.

But otherwise there's a considerable chance that you end up out of your depth, out of runway while pre-production units sit on a loading dock in China.

Pretty much everyone prefers investing in startups that require low capitalization at this point. Everyone has been bitten by this point. We've learned.

Not to say it isn't possible but I'm not going to unbalance my portfolio towards hardware startups unless that's somehow my play.
I’ve always dealt with snoring and a take home test was inconclusive (so my doctors weren’t super pushy about me doing an in person test). I still worry a little and my dentist used their 3d head XRay to show me my airway is so slightly constricted and I will certainly have it one day if not now.

All to say I am elated to have my watch helping me just monitor and understand the issue and help give me more actionable data if I need to pursue the doctors again.

I just wish we could solve this with something other than needs-AC-plug machine. I’d like to be able to travel without needing to think about that
If they're gonna require us to go back to the office, it better come with an office bonus.
I disagree that no effort is spent getting music. Picking your favorite song from an album takes an hour. Editing songs take minutes each.
Thanks! Going with hledger
If you change the file the hash changes
Donkeys changed the course of human history
It will still have that monitoring it will just be under his control with multiple layers of deletion possible depending on the severity of his crimes the cameras pick up (if there is a fire in his server room you can be pretty sure he raped or murdered someone). Atleast this is the silent part you are not supposed to say out loud that i picked up vibing from his comments.
Depressed fish? How Prozac in lakes and rivers may harm aquatic life
That policy can be negotiated if you are shipping enough, but nobody tells those associates because they don’t want them stealing the cash.
For real; this stupid patent thing is just one greedy company trying to get royalties from another while an entire built solution that could tangibly help regular people hone down on medical issues is completely disabled. I’m not usually the type to trash talk capitalism but this is stupid. I hope the company chasing down Apple for this goes bankrupt. It’s not like they’ve offered something I want to go buy that does the same thing.
Music is worse because the incentives have changed. There is less money and attention so fewer talented young people make a career out of it. Now they turn to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube et al instead.
Music, film, literature — it has all been reduced to “content”.
For comms it's better since raptorq can generate a large number of symbols. One use would be a TCP replacement. If a file can be transmitted in 100 TCP packets, and there's 10% loss on the link, then the client needs to retry the lost packets in order.

With raptorq, the client needs to receive 102 packets (I believe). And this can be any combination of original 100 packets and the large number of potential recovery packets.
> in terms of accessibility and of the diversity of music being made.

neither of those addresses music being "worse." There's no "objective" measurement of quality. If you have bad taste, you have bad taste, and you can always find someone to say you don't.

> I’m not sure that’s any different now than it was in the past

Beato explains how it's different. Look at some Top 100 song lists from 50 or so years ago. Here are a couple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_sin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_sin...
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While that is true, it's not what the article is about. It's about the attention economy stealing minutes away from what used to go to music appreciation and redirecting it to other competing activities that didn't used to exist.
I suspect the unspoken part is *of those who can't afford to pay the fines for bad behavior.
This reminds me of two things I experienced when I added a Mac Mini (M2 Pro) to my setup.

1. When I connected my iPad Pro M1 to the Mac via a 10Gbps rated USB-C/C cable, it only connected at USB 2.0 speeds (480Mbps). However, when I used a USB-C to USB-A adapter, then a USB-A to USB-C cable to my iPad, it connected at 10Gbps. My suspicion is that when it has the full USB-C wiring on both ends, it might try to establish a Thunderbolt 4 connection, fail, and just fall back to USB 2.0, rather than trying USB 3.x?

2. On a slightly unrelated note: I found the USB-A ports (or rather, their controller) to be really unstable when using a hub, everything works fine when connecting devices directly to the Mac, but with any of the hubs I tried, I saw USB devices becoming unresponsive or resetting over time. A similar setup worked fine on my Windows PC. The most unstable was a simple (i.e. 3 USB-A ports and Ethernet) USB-C hub which I tested with an adapter ("proper" one with VL160 chip); for fun I also tested it with an ungodly chain of almost every USB-C/A adapter I had on the USB-C/TB ports, where it worked fine.

Having to do a bunch of troubleshooting to set up my USB peripherals on the Mac was a bit unexpected, at least the USB-C/TB ports seem to work well (other than that iPad weirdness), so I'm happy I went with the Pro model for the additional two ports.

(Note: While I didn't really approach this too methodically, I believe I tried enough combinations of cabling and hubs to exclude a simple issue like a faulty cable.)
I've heard they didn't mesh well with the YC culture
Ask HN: What's Your Earned Secret?
What's the invisible world that you see that others don't? How did you arrive at this vantage point?
There have been multiple studies that show music has gotten less complex — lyrically, harmonically, timbrally.
I don't hate my coworkers that much.
No. No, it wasn't always like this.
The first days live stream (as linked) is pretty interesting. It's 9 hours, of 9 days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avp_-wN3ekA&list=PLgOje37c-b...

The last message "dropped two wts" was normal and just slowing the descent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avp_-wN3ekA&t=29460s

CNN puts it as - "dropped two wts" - the Titan’s text to its mother ship read, referring to weights the submersible could shed in hopes of returning to the surface.

If you open "transcript" you can "Control+F" anything you might want to hear, but it's all pretty interesting.
A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
Doing the Minimum
What's particularly confusing is that this appears to be coming from the dev team themselves -- this isn't some rando pointing at an interesting unprepared github they found.

Like, if they're looking for publicity by sharing their github page, I'd expect the readme to have a basic elevator pitch, but their benchmarking section is a giant category error and it's missing even the most high level of summary as to what it is doing to achieve good throughput at high packet loss rates.
Isn’t the FedEx hub private property? What are the police even doing there? Did FedEx cut a deal with the police that they could hang out there and steal shit?
I love how determinist it is!
Google uses a lot of weather data in their products (search, Android, maps, assistant, probably others). If they license it (they previously used AccuWeather and Weather.com, IIRC), it presumably costs money. Now that they generate it in house, maybe it costs less money?

(Former Google employee, but I have no inside knowledge; this is just my speculation from public data.)

Owning your own data and serving systems can also make previously impossible features possible. When I was a Google intern in 2007 I attended a presentation by someone who had worked on Google's then-new in-house routing system for Google Maps (the system that generates directions between two locations). Before, they licensed a routing system from a third party, and it was expensive ($) and slow.

The in-house system was cheap enough to be almost free in comparison, and it produced results in tens of milliseconds instead of many hundreds or even thousands of milliseconds. That allowed Google to build the amazing-at-the-time "drag to change the route" feature that would live-update the route to pass through the point under your cursor. It ran a new routing query many times per second.
Money and Javascript.

The vast majority of people only visit websites that are other people's jobs. Popular websites now are those that provide legal ways of moving money. It's why no matter how good an open social network can be it'll only ever attract a fractional percentage of people(1) because KYC prevents any non-incorporated/institutional group from moving money. (1: ie, mastodon's 1 million, IRC's ~600k, etc).

And perhaps more importantly: the growth of HTTP as a javascript application delivery protocol instead of a way to access HTML pages on websites. The shift to browsers being fully fledged VMs runing real applications with lots of bare metal access means the utmost of security is required at all times (HTTP/3 can't even make a non-CA TLS connection). That security mindset makes for a lot more friction for humans trying to play around and share things with each other.
it's a TCS result.

seems like many commenting don't know about computability
Looking for another set of statistics (ATF specifically, as they also love killing animals) led me to this website: https://www.puppycidedb.com/

It’s sad enough that we’ve armed, trained, and funded a militant force with no care for the wellbeing of the people they are meant to protect, regularly abusing their power to harm people for their sick pleasure. The fact that we’ve also trained this near-terrorist organization to kill dogs for the sport of it is even more disappointing. I’m all for the existence of a police, of course, but we need a serious mass-firing and restructure.
> You have to go out and find it.

How do you discover them? Any workflow or platform?
Sounds like you should look for a new job.

Jobs move. My Mom's company moved from San Diego to Denver. She quit.
Open letter: Dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online
This has a broader purpoae in democracy. Laws change as people realize they are stupid and disobey them then opinion changes and the law catches up. The chance of being caughy and/or the punishment cant be too high to short circuit this for all but the most obviously bad crimes (ie murder, large scale theft, rape)
Please indulge my hypothetical situation: there is a company that produces many very expensive videos every week and make a lot of money from each one.

Every single video they make is a hit.

In this hypothetical situation, I would be impressed that this organization is able to deliver such consistent product. I would be curious about what they do or say operationally that enables that.

At the end of the podcast the filmcast, they say "at the end of the day, it is really impressive that _ made a movie." (They name the director)

This is true if the director has made dozens of movies or one. It's always impressive. Doing things in the real world is hard.

Do you find anything in this hypothetical situation agreeable? Or is it only hard when someone you like does it?
> Are we just fully ignoring the Constitution now or?

The law, not the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution would prevent the Congress from banning mailing cash.
CoT means you're adding loops
Fascinating visuals.

A point worth remembering is that reserves and production aren't tightly coupled, Nor are mines: Australia for reasons I shall never understand, exports mostly raw, only partially processed inputs to China (mostly) and then buys back the product. Why we don't value add more, is totally beyond me. Especially when you bring strategic interest to the table.

A second point worth remembering is that strategic interest is an admission you aren't going to chase lowest price on pure economic grounds: you're going to wear some cost to retain CONTROL. Again, Australia hasn't invoked this anything like enough in the last 2-3 decades. But we could.

The last point, is that "rare earths" aren't particularly rare. A combination of lazyness and economics make them concentrate in a few hands. There are enough out there.

We're not facing Erlich-Simons. We're facing willingness to invest in mines, invest in production, invest in stockpiling, and invest in non-least-cost production.
That's a thing, but for the most part I don't think is the main driver here.

I agree with Beato's angle, but it needs some expansion. Twenty years ago the music industry was cut off from its main revenue source by internet sharing. It has somewhat recovered through streaming but the money they spent on artist development has not. Why?

My speculation—combine the continued availability of classic acts (hello never-ending copyright) with the deluge of the cheap, mass produced content and there's just an incredible amount to choose from. It should be cheaper just from an economics standpoint, and since profit is down that necessitates less investment into excellence.

Also, all the good pop chords and melodies are probably already taken as well, the music is pretty simple.

The other angle to the problem is discovery, and that makes it very hard to get noticed. This article was pretty great on the subject:

https://www.billboard.com/pro/new-music-tiktok-artist-develo...

To get back to an older era when we were younger... I remember iconic albums/singles dropping every single week in the eighties. The machine was incredibly well-oiled and running. Today I hear something big maybe once or twice a year. Part of that is the discovery problem I know-radio and mtv were killed by the internet star.

How to invest in quality, and how to make people aware of it?
good points.

We can't put the genie back in the bottle -- music's been digitized and things that used to be expensive and difficult are now cheap and easy, as Beato says.
> The feds

The plaintiff "is pursuing a class action lawsuit against the state of Indiana." No evidence of any Feds being involved.
I actually think this document gives an incredible look at the kind of culture that Jimmy is intentionally cultivating!!

There are lots of startups in SV looking for "cracked engineers" and frankly this sounds a bit like that!
I did one of the take home studies. It seems like there’s so many ways to get inconclusive results - they depend on a microphone that might end up underneath you, the probes could fall off, the battery could die, the “UI” is weird. I think continual testing is a very decent solve for some of those shortcomings and pushing people to the actual clinic for the real test
IMO part of what attracts to works of art, as humans, is the humanity behind those works of art. My love for the Beatles is probably equally due to the love of their story - the rivalries, highs & lows, their journey as musicians - as it is the wiggly air tickling my brain in the right ways.

The quality and novelty of music used to, in some ways, be a proxy for that humanity. It was hard to make interesting sounds, and that means something to us. I don't think AI will kill creative endeavours, but it also means we have to look harder to find the humanity in the art we consume.
https://archive.is/8wqVX
Acquihires are bad for investors. Most of the negotiation happens around the comp for the employees, not the price of the acquisition. YC makes money off of huge wins like Stripe, Airbnb, etc.
I can vouch for this first hand. Music has absolutely zero meaning in my 16 year olds life. They don't listen to music - new or old. They don't know who current artists are, and they certainly don't have an opinion about who is their favorite.

Thankfully, they are also just as disinterested in social media.
I liked both of those tunes when they were on the radio, and still do. I also like the Partridge family songs. So sue me.

P.S. Led Zeppelin is the greatest band ever. It's not even close.
> Should we be grateful that we have running water, 24 hour electricity and don’t suffer from constant hunger, because a depressingly large percentage of the worlds population does?

Actually yes, I do think we all should be very grateful for that and other conveniences we get to have because of all the hard working men and women that make it possible. To take them for granted is being spoiled IMHO. You think the people that fix our water pipes, service our electrical grid, or grow our food would agree that tech workers that can't work in their pajamas from home live under any kind of tyranny? There are Russian missiles destroying those very things 1000 km from here everyday, and you want to defend calling back to office policies tyranny? Please get some perspective, everyone have problems but there are different degrees of them.

> That tech workers have privilege?

Yes we do, and a lot of it. Does that mean we should keep quiet when we're treated poorly? No, of course not. Everyone has had a boss they didn't get along with, or company policies they didn't agree with. Use words like tyranny if it makes you feel better, but don't expect everyone else to agree with such hyperbole. You don't even have to look for suffering outside of the US either, there's plenty of Amazon warehouse workers or delivery drivers that would love to switch places with AWS employees for half their pay, even if they would need to commute.
It's not what POWER cannot, but about what graviton can CUT OUT and SPECIALIZE in while still being able to do what AWS wants.

POWER from this perspective, does way too much. It's too much chip for AWS's needs, and a big waste of money.

That's what optimization means! You get the smallest/ simplest/cheapest thing that does exactly what you want, and ignore the big bad "do everything" chips that go for megabucks.

Then you can devote chip transistor count toward the instructions you want, and ditch all the dead weight that comes with a traditional chip like power, that tries to make a balanced general purpose cpu.

This results in a chip that isn't good for anything but the specific need, but it's super cost effective and higher performing.
Absolutely correct. It starts kinda hilariously;

The convergence of computers and music production is now complete, making any sound theoretically possible at virtually no cost. But

I mean… lol. Cmon. Let’s run through the facts:

1. More music is being made now than ever before, both in terms of genre diversity and absolute amount.

2. The average consumer can access an effectively infinite range of that music, which is up from “a few records a year and whatever’s on the radio”, which in turn is up from “whatever’s on the radio”, which in turn is up from “whatever live music might be played at the local pub on Saturdays, plus church hymns.”

3. Across cultures, people think that the music that they listened to in their formative years — say, 15-25 - is the best music. The mechanisms are fairly obvious to back that up: emotional vulnerability, novelty, and number+quality of peer relationships are at life-long highs. In short, nostalgia.

I would happen to agree re:pop (other than em!) but I think the scientific facts are all we need here. The article (and, presumably, the original video) is well written and in good faith, but I think they’re lacking some serious self-awareness.

As the optimists always say regarding macro timelines: the world is much better than it was, the world is gradually getting better, and the world can be much better. This article would be covered under the first clause!
Unfortunately, aesthetics are not objective, and ""worse is utterly subjective" is not a criticism. There are no metrics that do any more than support an argument; they can't "prove" it.
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It’s smaller. The logo already just says JS. It doesn’t boost Java’s reputation. And people in the ecosystem don’t have to worry about oracle threatening them.
The test case for tanking this behaviour seems almost too easy to set up. Pick a series of organisations across the political spectrum. Think tanks, civil rights outfits, charities, et cetera. (Nothing explicitly partisan.) Overzealously document a donation to each, have them each confirm their acceptance in writing and then settle each donation in cash via FedEx.

(Round 2, donating to candidates via cash the cops steal, is more tricky to set up since you'd need separate donor-candidate pairs across the partisan spectrum to make it work well.)
sounds like projection to me

projecting unacceptable parts of self onto others
Music being easier to both create and consume hasn’t made it worse. Thinking about why it would for more than about 5 seconds makes this obvious - there is no logical causal link. If anything, logically a lower barrier to entry means more creativity by more people, and invariably some of those people will be very good. It sounds like the author just hasn’t figured out how to find good music in the current ecosystem.

In other words, skill issue.
The First Horse Domestication Was Later Than We Thought
I make my own computers out of transistors and wires.
Is there any reason why the FedEx building has such a tight relationship with police?
Doesn't explain why it sometimes works sometimes doesn't though?
From what I could tell, the equivalent level (in terms of scope/responsibilities) at the other FANG companies pays more. So even if you are just after the money, it doesn’t seem worth it if the others are also willing to hire you at the comparable level. Of course, there are exceptions - like there’s some managers I would follow anywhere, or some projects are just that exciting.
https://archive.md/86bLc
Well they got off the boat so that they could die a little further down the beach or if lucky down the road. Death slightly later is a big motivation.
We can avoid your initials conflicting with anything by abbreviating your name to “JavaScript” now that is available.
Sorry, I'm not sure where I used either term

If you want, I will though: in the document, Jimmy says he wants to create the biggest YouTube channel. By that metric (his own!) he has succeeded.
Power is not cost-competitive at all to mainstream x86 chips. And stopped being so quite a long time ago.
Nope. It only invites corruption.