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> Taylor Swift had a rich daddy buy a record label for her. For everyone else, why bother?

Taylor Swift (an insanely hard-working artist) started gigging when she was like 12 or 13, and her dad invested in (didn't buy) a startup record label, that built up a roster of artists and did very well on its own terms. (Despite being attached to Toby Keith)

Record labels, publishing companies etc., do not cost much money to start up, actually. His investment was likely small, and also likely comparable to the cost of seeing a child through a college education. Less, perhaps.

A quick google suggests he got 3% ownership for perhaps as little as $130K, which indeed is comparable to the total cost of getting a child through higher education in the USA.

And of course her parents were helping her: she was 13. Did her dad make a pretty smart decision to ensure some influence over the people responsible for his daughter? Of course he did. You would.

More generally: hang around your local (proper) music scene sometimes, and pay attention to which young starter bands have helicopter parents, and which do not. And then try to correlate that with success. Pushy helicopter parents are very often an active disadvantage, because promoters hate working with them. And they are inherently uncool. Even -- perhaps especially -- when they used to be cool.
Can you provide an example with details? Thanks!
> I'm pretty confident, though, that in another thousand years there will still be ancient data tables "archived" underground in Iraq, while todays' billions of spreadsheets in digital form and on non-archival paper will have long since disappeared.

Probably, but you never know. The Mesopotamians didn’t intend their tablets to last this long, either—but they often got burned in fires, which hardened them so they lasted. So some of our artifacts might get accidentally preserved as well.
Which version of MacOS are you using? I believe Apple has made changes to the keychain in the latest version which prevents the scripts from working properly.

The only Apple "device" I have regular access to is a hackintosh, so this stuff is frustratingly hard to debug. So far I've been relying on efforts from the community, but the scripts appear to be somewhat flaky and don't always work for everyone unfortunately.
"Making the world a better place through streamable, appendable object streams"
You were told by whom? An editor? A reviewer? To how many journals did you submit this research? Did you work your way from top tier journals downward? In general, almost all empirical research will find a home. I find your story less than believable without some additional context, disgruntledphd2.
That's the risk of being in a society in general, it's just that we interact with people outside way less now. If one doesn't like it, they can always be a hermit.
> Someone should know about what fp is before writing a book like this.

1. Are you quite sure John Ousterhout (who invented Tcl[1], comparing it to Lisp in section 7 of the original paper) doesn't "know about what fp is" as you say?

2. Do you think that the main reason functional programming hasn't taken off in systems programming is that practitioners are ignorant, or do you think there might be issues with fp systems that prevent its adoption?

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.p...
You were literally gatekeeping ptsd from Christian mom's not one post ago.
you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Good bye now.
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So the best case is that it is gambling? What are we dong?
Oh, it's mainly for platform compatibility. IL2CPP performance is really problematic since it still carries many issues of Mono, even if transpiled to C++: https://meetemq.com/2023/09/18/is-net-8-performant-enough/ (don't look at just the starting graph - make sure to scroll down to notes where RyuJITs code competes with other fast entries or even outperforms them).

Perhaps what you were looking for is NativeAOT? Either way C ports really well to C# since it supports a large subset of it "as is" and then some with generics and other features originating from C# itself.
You don’t need 1M to trade 1M. Ive seen retail accounts with 50x leverage
Have you not tried this with existing models? Seems like something they would thrive at.
Exploitation nearly always involves paying. Plenty of people caught up in sex trafficking still get paid, they just don't have a viable way out. Plenty of people working in sweat shops still get paid, but again not enough with enough viable alternatives to get out.
Use a page rule for the URL pattern of the RSS feeds, and set the bot protection to off.
There's also a Figma plugin that can import OSM as vector. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072/v...
I don't think "xor" belongs to that list, given that the "x" in it is a shortening of "eXclusive".
The book needs to talk about those issues and trade offs.

Fp with lisp is only a fraction of fp. I of course am talking more along the lines of pure fp which lisp is not.
what i like about your idea is that it makes everyone a potential candidate. and i think rather than randomness, that that is really the key. don't allow any candidates at all, but allow every voter to select a number of people they would like to see elected from the whole population. no candidates, no promotion of certain people, ..., just vote for the people that you believe are best suited. now this still favors more popular people who are more visible in the public, but it doesn't limit the choices to self-selected candidates.
I haven’t looked at the substr function but is that not similar to how you can `take 5 [1,2,3]` or `zip [1,2,3] [‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’]`
Building and Managing RAG applications requires a new learning curve. I did work on Simple to use RAG APIs that you can use without worrying too much about the complexities.
checkout https://docs.wetrocloud.com
yeah, rust is mainly for developers,and curl are for sysadmins and their derivatives.
Expressing strings as null terminated or in a data structure that includes the size and data has no relationship to it being a higher or lower level language. They still need to determine where a string starts and ends in memory. The means of doing so is different, the assembly language representation will be slightly different, but the language isn't hiding anything behind an abstraction. Contrast that to, say, Pascal where the length of the string is hidden from the developer and can only be accessed through function calls. (It probably should be, but that is beside the point.)
Yeah, networking can give you the world.

Often networking is seen as this robot-like bleep bloop hello, here’s my business card thing and at the dedicated events it very well could be but networking in the most basic sense is just making friends and shooting the shit, only difference is that you can leverage those friends for opportunities in the workplace and vice versa.
5 years ago, by state level actors. How many state level actors are trying to breach the Xbox? Your original statement was “there are kernel vulnerabilities being fixed, therefore iPhones are less secure than the Xbox one”. It’s just not that simple. I can’t make any assessment about which of those are more secure without a serious look, but this isn’t it.
Now do a single class pointer for an array of values...
This is ambitious, and it's refreshing in a way to see someone set an ambitious personal goal like this and then hit it.
Seems easier than getting the same from my colleagues.
Why do you say this? This has only become untrue in recent history. For most of history the man effectively possesses the woman. We have feminism to thank for sexual equality and it's still today controversial and not universal. You're standing in the eye of the storm saying of course the winds are calm.
> If this is so stupid and obvious, why does apparently 99.99% of software designed by professional engineers seem to be designed by people completely oblivious to these ideas and considerations?

It’s similar to why a big portion of the world believes in Christianity and another portion believes in Buddhism. Basically only one or none of these religions is correct rendering at least one population of people believing in a completely made up fantasy concept.

Much of what is preached in software is religion and what is preached by the majority can be completely ludicrous. The majority believing or not knowing something doesn’t mean anything.
Exactly this. You want to turn off bot blocking on all endpoints that are intended to be used by bots.

Really you should probably turn it off for just about everything on your site unless you are worried about scraping.
Apple's AirPods made more money than Nintendo last year
Secure Coding Guidelines for Java SE
This is great! Really polished and fun to run around the map.

Do you have an announce list for the official release?
Normies? As opposed to who?
I use this extension to locally save my Claude chats. It does a great job preserving code blocks.
Who are you responding to? Your comment is directly attached to the story post.
Suspect in Germany attack self-identified as Islamophobic, anti-immigrationist
I hope this LEGO Ideas Turing Machine gets turned into a released LEGO product [1]. It's not the first LEGO Turing Machine, but it is noteworthy because it is fully mechanical.

[1] https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc...
I feel super fortunate to be a part of that generation where screwing around at home could lead directly to employment. I taught myself Atari BASIC on my 800 and took a 286 IBM compatible to college where I was a music major. I dropped out and landed working for an industrial automation company because I knew how to write dumb little programs. A couple years later I was the sole guy programming robots for them in a structured BASIC language.
To discuss whether the dollar has intrinsic value, we need to agree on the definition of intrinsic value, and my hypothesis is that it doesn't actually exist from an economics perspective. We simply have the demand for something (due to perceived usefulness) and the available supply.

If we talk about plain usefulness, then both the dollar and bitcoin are useful as money - they have fundamental properties that are well suited for use as money.

However, the dollar has a great weakness - its scarcity is both poor and artificial.

Poor because its supply doubles every decade (halving the economic value it would otherwise have). This effectively sucks half the value out of the dollars that make up our wages, pensions and savings, and injects it into the new dollars.

Artificial is a weakness because it can be created effortlessly by a select few people (the banks) and it's supply is only limited by interest rates which are set by the same people. This means that the banks can create money effortlessly that everyone else has to work for, making them EXTREMELY rich through the interest payments on the money they print while doing negligible work (they can create billions of dollars at a few keystrokes).

On the other hand, bitcoin has fixed issuance ultimately culminating in perfect scarceness (hard limit of 21M) and the creation of new bitcoins requires work of equal value (just like gold for example), which keeps everything fair.
I was toying with posting this here as "One-Quarter of my Life with Perl" (riffing on Randal's talk title) (16 yrs x 4 was close enough for government work), but I refrained. After surveying popular social media sites (i.e., reactions to this Perl Advent Calendar entry), I now appreciate that some folks may be triggered by the subject matter. Our friend and fellow Perl-er, Lincoln Stein, wrote an article for The Perl Journal (TPJ) back in the day, called "How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project" https://bioperl.org/articles/How_Perl_saved_human_genome.htm...
(Founder) That makes sense. We would eventually host the Kafka layer too - and will be able to avoid a hop by inlining our edge service logic in there.
But with that kind of money stream behind it, the mouse can go back to his investors and purchase a tiny mouse jetpack (or whatever the SEO equivalent is) to gain an advantage. If the cat learns to swat that, he'll come back with a toy car. Google is fairly active but eventually they give up: the mouse is a lot more motivated to get his cheese than the cat is to get the mouse. Google can penalize them 10 times in a row, but the 11th time, they win - and they essentially have the bankroll for infinite attempts.
It’s not great when it conflicts with the system’s default behavior :/

My screen recording: https://streamable.com/gvz68h
"Memoirs found in a bathtub" by Stanislaw Lem. Printouts preserved in mud deep in a fictitious pentagon basement for thousands of years after nuclear holocaust wipes computer memories.
HN ethos is to assume good faith, but my imagination is failing me here as to how you might be sincere and not trolling- can you please share more info to help me out?

What makes you think people have experienced clinically diagnosed or diagnosable PTSD from seeing someone kiss? Has anyone actually claimed that?

You used the word outrage, and again outrage is not trauma- it describes an outer reaction, not an inner experience. They’re neither mutually exclusive nor synonymous.

Your assertion seems to be that only being physically present for a horrific event can be emotionally traumatic- that spending years sitting in a room watching media of children being brutally murdered and raped day in and day out is not possibly traumatic, but watching someone kiss that you politically think should be banned from doing so, can be genuinely traumatic?
All legal docs pages seem broken (at least on mobile).

I’m your target customer but would never use this because it inspires no confidence that when the shit hits the fan (ie: contract dispute) your signing tool will stand up to legal scrutiny. The sales page is all about being cheap and mobile responsive, but it doesn’t mention anything about the legality of document signatures processed through the tool, or the data security/privacy standards you uphold.
A client to gather vulnerability-related information from Bluesky
> only made possible because some other person invented the abstraction of averages then that was collectively disseminated to everyone in education

What I find most fascinating about the history of mathematics is that basic concepts such as zero and negative numbers and graphs of functions, which are so easy to teach to students, required so many mathematicians over so many centuries. E.g. Newton figured out calculus because he gave so much thought to the works of Descartes.

Yes, I think "new" ideas (meaning, a particular synthesis of existing ones) are essentially inevitable, and how many people come up with them, and how soon, is a function of how common those prerequisites are.
It's better to have no community than to be a member of a negative community.

It's always helpful to understand the importance of compassion for one's fellow human beings as being the single most important characteristic of the members of any healthy community.

Compassion and positivity lead to peace and happiness and better outcomes.

Selfishness and negativity lead to strife and misery and worsening outcomes.

There is a polarity to everything in the universe, including and especially human ideals, attitudes, and behaviors.

Every community and culture has a multidimensionally moral center of mass and orientation and velocity. Technology has been shown to be a rather brutal accelerator of the negative, but that's just a reflection of our current cultures of origin and use, which are mired in willful ignorance and stubborn overconfidence.

What are their ideals?
What are their resulting attitudes?
What are their resulting behaviors?

Those dimensions of analysis encompasses the complete description of every single person, ever. Group like minded and hearted folks together, and you just more of the same. Much, much more.

Any person and group can always choose to evolve their way out of their morass, but stubborn ignorance resists us all in making progress.
Pre-Israel Palestinians are mostly of Jewish origin.

Not the 97 percent who were non-Jewish.

Who were a diverse group of folks, including a significant minority (20 percent or more seems a good estimate) whose recent ancestors were non-indigenous migrants in the latter (but still pre-Aliyah) stages of the Ottoman Empire. Including a good chunk from Egypt and other places nearby, as well as from far-off places like Bosnia, Circassia etc.

The long-term resident (i.e. "indigeous") component in turn had also steadily mixed with other populations over time. DNA evidence does suggest that a good chunk of their ancestry pool would probably have been classed as Jewish/Israelite way back when, before converting to Christianity and other religions before the Islamic conquest. A fact which the myth-making industry in modern Israel painfully ignores.

In sum they make for a complex group with a mix of influences. To say that they were "mostly of Jewish origin" smells strongly of overstretch.

And in any case they definitely were not "Jewish" by the time the Nakba rolled around. So what this (or footnotes about the origin of the term Palestinian) has to do with the Israeli government's continuing to hoard their stolen ("abandoned") posessions is unclear.
You can find the collected information, in real-time, on Vulnerability-Lookup:
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/sightings/
actually, not everybody gets PTSD in for example a combat situation, and Gabor Mate says that people who do develop PTSD are the people who have already suffered traumas as children; in a sense, childhood trauma is a preexisting condition.
Can’t because fp is in itself basically a design philosophy that can be explained in 3 axioms.

Segregate mutation from logic

Segregate IO from logic

Eliminate procedures from logic.

The third axiom is sort of for free as it falls out automatically when someone enforces the first two. That’s basically imperative shell/functional core design philosophy which is basically identical to the rules of pure functional programming.

https://medium.com/ssense-tech/a-look-at-the-functional-core...

With fp you can think of these rules enforced as a language. Outside of fp we call it functional core / imperative shell and these rules can be enforced in an imperative language as a core design philosophy.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/lifestyle/are-iphone-users-pet...
> But German energy policy?????

Yeah that already was a mess before 2022 and only turned worse since then. And remember, what I outlined is only the surface of the electricity generation debate. It gets even worse when you turn towards mobility and heating. Oh you will hear some wild takes there!
Wouldn’t happen to have been a big healthcare company in Boston whose assert-anything function to validate that functions were called with correct signatures was called AssertFields?
You can do that with string interpolation too. In python it would be:

print(f"{foo:8.2f}")

compared with C-style printf:

printf("%8.2f", foo)
Also hard to be more cryptic. The amount of times I regoogle that syntax, or what exactly those numbers mean is basically uncountable.
I'm happy to have my identity verified to get a reservation at a nice, popular restaurant without having to pay on the black market, and most of the people I know are the same.
Nitpick: I'd ask for NITPICK at the end of output instead of the start. The model should be in a better place to make that decision there.
The usual C mythology continuously spread since the mists of UNIX epoch.
> No hidden cost

I couldn't find the price per document in the home page.
If there's mutual interest, certainly, but in most cases networking feels shallow and forced. If the only thing in common between us is the weather, I tune out quickly. Networking is mainly for those who truly like people.
I love it. I love it so much.
The timer is what gets me anxious.

I've never felt quite like that playing a video game, this is a whole new experience. I'm not sure I'd even call it a game. Well done.
Also by now the number of people killed in Gaza by Netanyahu is very close to the number of Ukrainian people killed by Putin. Did anyone suggest sanctions against Israel for that genocide? Nope, they enjoy their full immunity and keep going forward with a massacre that has the same exact motivation as the Russian invasion: rob other people of their territory and resources.
Two war criminals, two rogue terrorist states, yet two completely different weights.
Instead of saving them as PDFs, I started saving web pages using a Chrome extension called Single File [1] (after testing it, of course).

To my dismay, some saved files (.htm extension) didn't open when I wanted to open them.

So I'm glad people are discussing ways to archive web pages while that reproduce the original page faithfully.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/singlefile/mpiodijh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickey_Henderson
Don’t worry, Google will cancel the service at some point. Just have your marketing campaign and onboarding process ready for those fleeing the sunset Google product
> True, the twice-annual time changes — you know the drill: spring forward, fall back — are annoying and associated with some tangible consequences, such as an increase in traffic accidents because of sleep deprivation. But to be honest, those consequences are pretty minor. One estimate is that they only amount to about 30 extra traffic deaths per year in a country of 335 million people.

Is more than that, and is not just traffic. How many deaths would be caused by losing losing a few minutes of light in summer?

You should move to DST like lives depend on it. Because they actually do.
I too write FP code but I found this book very valuable in how he treats complexity and his concept of "deep modules".

I acknowledge that he does not cover purity and mutations as a source of complexity (and they are big sources of complexity) but I don't think that merits dismissing the entire book on those grounds.
I tried to generate a color palette using the phrase "your mom," but that failed with no error message.
None of these are a problem anymore since the advent of Nix.
I create a blog where I post the fixes to common issues I encounter while developing: https://softuts.com

In the future I might write more in-depth technical posts, but for now it's more like a notebook of fixes for specific problems.
that link is the main developers site, you must have miss-linked the link
For those looking for something similar in an app “Serial Reader” splits up books, mostly public donation, into 10 minute nuggets a day. Works pretty well!
Depending on the Pascal implementation, the length might be accessible actually, but better not mess directly with it.
No, this just leads to more censorship without any option to appeal.
Tile Tracker already has that. I wouldn't relying on Apple being merciful.
I find it ironic how capable LLMs have become, but they're still struggling with things like this. Great reminder that it's still text prediction at its core.