skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not trying to argue the point, but I listen to FM about every day, or at least every day I’m in the car. It’s much easier for me than getting music from my phone going, even with Bluetooth.

And I have come to the conclusion that I like talk intermixed with music, even if the talk is an ad. It’s weird, I never thought that’d be the case, but I do. In fact, I wish I could easily mix my music library into my podcast library— specifically, interrupt podcasts with music (maybe replace the ads with a single song).

I also like how easy it is to switch channels to something different. I could do that with CarPlay or something too with my own music, but then I probably have to actually think about it (when I should be thinking about driving).

And for people who care about live music events (shows etc) it’s a great way to find out about those things, particularly if your city has a good public radio station and not just iHeartMedia.

I’m not sure I Love radio, but I would probably really miss it if it wasn’t in my car.
I wanted to try some when I visited my gf in Taiwan more than a decade ago. She looked at me like I'm crazy and that ended there.

I did try kava in small Fijian island with no running water. It didn't do anything to me, but one of the guys there said "It's like a fine New Zealand wine"...
This is also how the human brain works. A young babby will have something more similar to a fully connected network. Versus a Biden type elderly brain will be more of a sparse minimally connected feed forward net. The question is (1) can this be adjusted dynamically in silico and (2) if we succeed in that, does fine-tuning still work?
There's a toll road near me that always triple bills me. Am I really going to call and complain about $1.27 a few times a year?
I don't see any connection. This is a very minor product for Intel.
It's scary to think people want to put these LLMs in the position to make decisions. Like seriously? You want a black box LLM created by an opaque for-profit organisation to make life changing decisions? All the David Mayers who want to apply for a visa or open a bank account are out of the game.
Suppose you died every night in your sleep and were replaced in the morning with a perfect copy of yourself with all your memories intact. Would you know the difference?
> Imagine how many ideas are held back because their authors don’t have the right tools to express them.

IMHO article would be much better while not exploring new ideas and use simple text and web-native controls instead of inconvenient accessibility-wise poor UI/UX.

P.S. Print preview is hilariously bad.
It’s not dead. Lots of good stations around. I recommend KYGT-LP out of Clear Creek Colorado. Lots of good stations also broadcast online it’s amazing.
> Aurora DSQL isolation level is equivalent to PostgreSQL Repeatable Read.

So it lacks Serializable isolation also, but I guess that's the secret to how it "offers the fastest distributed SQL reads and writes".
Is the person from before you last slept the same you? How do you know?
Chinese hack of global telecom providers is 'ongoing,' officials warn
I guess it's hard to know how well this would compete with integrated gpus, especially at a reasonable pricepoint. If you wanted to spend $4000+ on it, it could be very competitive and might look something like nvidias grace-hopper superchip, but if you want the product to be under $1k I think it might be better just to buy separate cards for your graphics and ai stuff.
I think so too but I'm conflicted. I wouldn't want to give up my infinite jukebox that I have on my phone, but at the same time I think the loss of shared culture is real.

American Graffiti is the movie that first made me think about it. The DJ (Wolfman Jack) is a central character in that movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ9Gp6Qc8LQ
Are you not describing the current talkback radio experience?
Compared to what?

Radio does convey a sense of locality and connection that nothing else quite replaces for me (including web radio).

There's something unique about browsing the FM (or AM, where still available) in an unknown place, seeing whether you can still get the same station the next day on a road trip etc, and knowing that some people in the general area are listening to the exact same thing at the same time.

Long distance listening on shortwave can also be quite fun, although fewer and fewer countries are still active there. It's still fascinating to hear your home news an ocean away with just a small wire, a handheld radio, and no network whatsoever!

Obviously I wouldn't trade Spotify for it, but I'd still be sad to see it go.
Web-hooks create distributed systems. So they are "distributed systems" hard.

What means that, if you know your timing, miltiplicity, and reliability requirements and guarantees, you can solve most problems by taking the best design pieces from the state of the art (idempotency, write-only logic, retrials, optimist atomicity, peer election...) and applying whatever you can to simplify your code as most as possible.

If you know how, you can probably solve most problems just fine. But you must know how, and you must know the problem.
People get struck by lightning or have epileptic fits, and it doesn't wipe their personality.
I worked at a Microsoft shop circa 2007 on ASP.NET/Silverlight systems and we had a subscription to MSDN. This was a pretty good value in terms of the headliner products like SQL Server, Visual Studio, Sharepoint, etc. We were getting discs for everything in MSDN and had a cabinet filled with discs and had an employee whose job it was to catalog it. I was amazed how many discs we had of enterprise software from Microsoft or some company that Microsoft had bought that I'd never heard of we had.

I have mixed feelings about marketing to the enterprise market. On one hand you can build some large and interesting things that deliver a lot of value, particularly in the semi-custom area. For many reasons I can understand the viewpoint of a salesman on commission. On the other hand I was really depressed after I'd talked with about 20 vendors in the "enterprise search" space and found that none of them particularly cared about search relevance and didn't regularly do evaluation work unless they were participating in TREC to gain industry visibility. Sometimes enterprise products have a lack of refinement or even basic quality compared to consumer products.

If I was going to get back into business development I'd do it with a keen understanding that getting the politics right and the software wrong is better than the reverse when it comes to making a living. I think I'd find myself hard to motivate in that situation.

I think Microsoft's end user area where they are the most pathological now is XBOX, Game Pass and all thought. Looking from the outside it looks like Dr. Evil has decided to buy the whole game industry to put it out of business and force people to pick up another hobby.
>I was told that it was weak to cry if I lost a Karate match but as long as I lied and said it was because I got punched really hard, it was OK. I'm not sure what the ultimate goal is of this kind of socially engineered lack of self-awareness

Learning contains much failure, and being able to better control your own emotional state in the presence of these many every-day failures makes further progress faster, easier, and more pleasant for everyone?
You can't conclude that.

At best, you can conclude that outdated product design doesn't always ruin a business (clearly). But you can't conclude the inverse (that investing in modern product design doesn't ever help a business).
We all have conflicting desires. You might desire a healthy physique while simultaneously desiring a hamburger.

But do you want to want the hamburger? Or do you want to want a salad? Which do you, the person (not the animal), really want?

With a bit of reflection, it's not so difficult to figure out what you as a person really want, and it's often different than your lower level primal drives.

Those who choose to eat the salad haven't suppressed anything - they've simply aligned their actions with their higher order desires.
> It adresses the question of US foreign adventurism and why the situation is different today. I.e why Iraq and Ukraine is not the same. It also give you a framework to think about international order.

The Russian internet is full of well-crafted content like this, with the opposite view. Both are propaganda.
It kind of exists.... as a js library - ofc.... Who would have thought.

It is called HTMX and its successor data-star.dev
> What is a popular music terrestrial radio station at this point other than a vanity project?

More's the pity.
Excellent, agreed. Nothing is sacred except "the grind", it appears, yes. No value exists outside viewcount, or listenercount, or whatever metric the media uses.

Your comment reminds me of something I read yesterday, an allusion that mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota made to what he called "Kultur", in this remarkable interview https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00326965.pdf. The context is different, but I think your usage is in line with his in the interview.
There are more interesting ways to talk about fertility than extrapolating it out to infinity.

South Korea isn't going to "disappear". Not unless its northern neighbor decides to nuke it.

But it is going to have to figure out what to do with a population that consists of many old people and few young people. Maybe it'll be just fine, if it has sufficient automation to support its elderly and produce enough wealth. Or maybe it'll have a crisis where there just aren't enough people around to do the work.

That seems considerably more worth talking about than talking about a curve that asymptotically approaches zero.
Mocking the signs at Facebook started literally the day after they appeared suddenly in the 1601 building. "Break fast and eat things", and so on. There was a very fancy print shop on site and we would work up spoofs on the same equipment.

A large percentage of programmers of a certain generation got their start in the graphic design world.
Seems you could compile desktop apps to Web Assembly and distribute them without using some monstrosity like Electron.
All the TOP XX lists were completely made up by the music industry. And even many pirate radios were promoting their friends mostly.

But to be honest, now they got the grips on Spotify. And all the fake views on YT (like the making of "Despacito"). The music moguls are ruthless.
Can Amazon please get RDS product management ducks in a row? You got RDS For PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL (provisioned), Aurora Serverless v1, Aurora Serverless v2, Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, Aurora Global Database, and now Aurora DSQL (with PostgreSQL compatibility). It's very confusing, the docs are confusing, and the even the tools are confused.

I think this is pretty big contrast to something like S3 where the product feels far more clearly and coherently managed, and where they have released lots of big improvements/changes over the years without disrupting or muddying the core product in major ways.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/CHA...

The quotas page is always the most interesting for any aws service.

10Mb transaction size and 5min transaction duration limits are interesting limitations that kill any "everything lives in the db" notions that one might have.

A fully transactional, scalable, distributed data store + queue + db + data stream with triggers is my endgame

Also, the 128mb limit on transaction temporary storage seems _very_ limiting for big ol' analytic queries
Some time in the early 2000's I heard a Microsoft ad, on FM radio, for FAT32. I turned off the radio and basically never turned it on again (and made sure my next car had mp3 player support.)
It doesn't matter if the "cost is driven up". Nvidia has proven that we're all lil pay pigs for them. 5090 will be 3000$ for 32gb of VRAM. Screenshot this now, it will age well.

We'd be happy to pay 5000 for 128gb from Intel.
Imagine the bugs introduced in trying to make a digital copy of a brain. Terrifying for the subject.
Every time I see the phrase "prompt engineering", I have to wonder what "tardy engineering" would be like.
Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET
Garbage hit piece.

>But in recent years, a fringe theory has gained prominence for arguing that seed oils are toxic

Sources please. I would say this certainly not "fringe" theory.
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I worked at regular software companies for quite some time before Spritely, so no judgement here. I hope you can get the sort of job that is fulfilling to you, though! I'm glad we can give you some hope. :)
"Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company."

https://gist.github.com/kislayverma/d48b84db1ac5d737715e8319...

I read that post every couple of years or so.
No, but if I died tonight and a copy of me took over tomorrow, what good did that do for me personally? I'm still dead. Selfishly, I don't care if a copy of me continues on, I only care that I don't.
I think there's a secret pirate in me that wonders if the time is right....
Philips hub, latest hardware, reset multiple times. There’s just something flakey about our setup. It might even be that the bulbs are, what, going on ten years old? Maybe newer ones are more reliable.

Or I’ll just replace them with Nano bulbs that use Matter. Those have been rock-solid.
> you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually

Like creating useless bus lanes? Then creating useless programs to write tickets to those "parked illegally" in bus lanes? Then creating useless digital waste finding a "better way" to write these pointless tickets over a pointless lane?

> The key is still to launch fast

The key is to get rid of things that don't work and can't provide worthwhile value to the _majority_ of tax payers.
We can't copy a person anyway. We're going to find out that it requires an order of events - order of experiences - aspect that can't be recreated to get the actual person. Everything else will end up being a weak simulation (even if it gets a bit closer over time with improvements in simulating).
I love how Hacker News moderators will let international political news stay on the site. But never any US political news stay on. Unless it serves the tech industry.
It's not much different from anything involving the legal system. If everyone charged with anything ranging from a fine to a criminal misdemeanor just requested either a trial or an administrative hearing, the system would vanish overnight.

I did once discover that in at least one jurisdiction criminal charges were not guaranteed a jury trial, only a bench trial was given. The judge in that circumstance is the prosecutor from another nearby jurisdiction.
Last I've heard, the architecture makes that difficult. But my information may be outdated, and even if it isn't, I'm not a hardware designer and may have just misunderstood the limits I hear others discuss.
The MIDI support in _all_ the emulators I've seen has been fairly... not-great... overall. I should look again but I remember reading through the source for Aranym around this and being pretty disappointed.

Must... resist... temptation... to write my own
yeah, I wasn't hypothesizing this as something that should be added natively to browsers. Web is complicated enough officially supporting 3 languages (or 6, if you consider wasm, webgl and wgsl)

Though for what its worth, "no official agreed upon spec" didn't stop browsers before haha
We run a combination of managed hardware and virtual hardware. The prices for both have indeed gone up significantly since we launched some of our earliest plans. We don't have the luxury of using a cloud provider like AWS for our Anycast DNS infrastructure, thus we are limited to our choices. Furthermore the cost for network transit has gone up, as has the cost of ancillary services we use to operate our network (such as tooling for alerting, observability, etc).
Brilliant! and warming. ( literally and figuratively. )

"My family was homeless when I was born. But my parents found work, the council found us a flat, and 20 years later my dad was the managing director of a very large engineering firm, and my parents built a fabulous home.

To cut a long story short, much later my parents had a few personal problems, and sadly my mum finally killed herself. I don’t think you ever get over it, you really just learn to live with it.

My life then went a bit pear shaped. I trusted bad people and guess what, really bad things happened. Very kind friends managed to put me back on my feet, and then, at 55, I met Judy and her family, and we’ve had the most wonderful 15 years together.

So please, what ever happens, please don’t give up."
I agree completely. This is unsubstantiated hype.

Transferring our consciousness into "the net", or some other fuzzy concepts are so far removed from reality as to be complete fiction. This includes freezing our brains and reanimating them later to resuscitate our lives.

They not only massively overestimate the functionality of today's tech to receive something like our consciousnesses, but even more so, by orders of magnitude, underestimate just how complex our living bodies are.

We only have the vaguest of ideas about how our physiology works (while we might be able to replicate flesh cells for "fake meat", we have 0 understanding or control over how those cells organize to form macroscopic organs). Applying this to the brain, our understanding is even more primitive. An example would be recent news that perhaps the brain is not sterile, but hosts a microbiome. Whether or not the brain hosts a microbiome is still "controversial".

We're still hundreds of years away from a comprehensive understanding of physiology.

But of course, we're never going to live that long, because we still believe (statistically as a species) in invisible guys in outer space that tell us we need to dismember people who believe in the WRONG invisible guy in outer space.

Our primitive violent ape species will extinct itself long before we ever have a comprehensive grasp of how life works, especially to the level of understanding consciousnesses...
I've listened to plenty of listener powered stations. They don't have ads. Just weeks of effectively ads when they are begging for donations. I'd rather have an ad.

Plus every listener powered station I've ever listened to has tons of shows I don't care about or even tolerate. Streaming doesn't have the same issue. Just as an example: your KEXP appears to play country, jazz, and electronic, reggae, and metal. I think a lot of people aren't going to be interested in all of those options.
The issue with that approach to hydration is that it causes the browser to freeze.
I don't think Kagi, at the moment, is doing anything nefarious with the data that they have. But that paragraph you quoted is pure marketing.

>You have to log in for Kagi and create an account because that’s the nature of a subscription-based business model; you somehow have to tie the payment to an account.

If data was really viewed as a liability, they would adopt a data minimization model similar to Mullvad and not tie user accounts and email addresses together at all.
What do you think is comparable but better? I think you’re really seeing that they have a large organization with a lot of people working on different complex products, which makes major changes much harder to coordinate, and their market skews technical and prioritizes functionality higher than design so there isn’t a huge amount of pressure.
Broadcast radio stations typically had phone lines for listeners to call. Music stations would take song requests and run contests where the Nth caller would win a prize. Talk radio would put callers on the air to chat with the host.

Maybe you already knew this, but anyone who remembers broadcast radio would also know it. If you're making a joke, I don't quite get the punchline.
Also, the LS-2000 is a noisy POS. I owned this thing for years (bought new) and put plenty of time into it. It just sucks. It was only mediocre for slides and black-&-white negatives; for color negatives it was nearly useless. You could never remove the base negative color and retain good image color. The dynamic range sucked.

I sold it on eBay years ago, then researched what might be better. The general opinion was that consumer-accessible scanning peaked with the Minolta Dimage Elite 5400 II. Of course these were long out of manufacture, but I managed to find one new in the box on a small auction site. To this day I haven't gotten around to scanning a single piece of film with it. Maybe this post will finally get me off my ass...
Fortunately, the economics of the marketplace have driven it towards big gene-printing firms. It's cheaper to outsource to a high-capital, low-cost-operating company than it is to do in house with a low-capital, high-cost-operating approach. Thus the low end of the market pretty much died and the big guys check all orders against a slew of thou-shalt-not-print genes.
I can speak from my experience building a B2C product. Our traction from when we marketed (organically only) before our MVP was out was mainly though Reddit. Once we had a working prototype, X showed some help. Alongside this, I build from cafes where I continuously speak to potential users and collect their feedback
Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral
Yeah, you can argue the same thing about going to sleep, there's no guarantee that the same "you" wakes up.

From the outside, an "identical clone" is indistinguishable.

On the inside, the clone feels exactly how you would feel.

The only problem is the "I don't want my 'me' to die" feeling.

I bet most people would be fine with death/rebirth teleportation.
Light Devoured: From surrogate kings to sun shields
"better" is just fashion nowadays. There's nothing astro does that NextJs can't. Worked with both and still work with both.
Thank you for laying it out. It's so silly to see people in the comments act like Intel or Nvidia can't EASILY add more VRAM to their cards. Every single argument against it is all hogwash.
That's absolutely false, but thanks for contributing.
Some years back Santa Cruz updated the meter maids / parking enforcement to GPS enabled smart devices and they would still drive around, get out, take pictures (when someone was in violation). My wife and I were sitting outside a restaurant where such a vehicle was being photo'd. This particular meter person was known to be .. not nice. While said person was behind vehicle (old vw bus) and out of site of the meter, we slipped a couple of quarters in and got back to our seat.

Watching the reaction (they already had a couple of photos) was priceless. Said person questioned about 3 different groups (myself included) and all played dumb and had a good laugh when done. The vehicle owner saw the interaction from the farmer's market across the way and bought a round for a couple of tables.

Santa Cruz has a history of meter scofflawism - https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/mr-twister-s-mission-of-...
Let's say you just found out that this is actually happening. Every night you die and are replaced with a perfect copy of yourself. Would you do anything differently?
I have significantly more and better sources of human curation now than I did when I was listening to college radio.
The Nextjs site lasted 4 years. Before that we had a Gatsby one: https://github.com/datocms/old-website/
relying on communist china to provide materials to make us mil battle armor.

brilliant. not.
The fine article states reviews are still embargoed, and sales start next week.