skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the vast majority of code will not have long term implications so long as it reaches a minimum of design, performance, and does its job without bugs. Consistency of patterns is more important than the optimal pattern for most decisions.

There are some core areas of the application that are much more important, but they are often the earliest data structures and built before the problem is known. You will not know how your code will change, so make it as consistent as possible with the rest of the system until you know more.
I replied the same thing in another thread, but Patrick was at Sonos for 12 years, and 14 years at RIM before that, so he doesn't really fit the MO of a "bouncer."
I am actually based in USA, but Shopify automatically localizes the site for visitors in other countries, so maybe you saw localized currency. Sounds like a cool project and yes a lot of people getting this to use old audio software or play Escape Velocity.
How does the top floor of an a380 compare to the top deck of a 747?
Avalon Labs Raises $10M Series A to Grow Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin
> How close to "approximately no one knows about" are we in an antonym association like master/slave?

For some in the US and those adopting this particular aspect of its culture. For everyone else... well, there's some hundred other antonyms that come to mind before:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/master

Apprentice, amateur, loser, subordinate, subject, secondary, incompetent, inexperienced, junior - to list just a few. The only form of "master / slave" association people have - except for in the USA - is with the nomenclature used for IDE/SATA drive configuration in BIOS.

And that's in English alone. Other languages generally have their "master" equivalent disjoint from slavery or adjacent topics.
And legal differences are the only differences that exist, right?
I think it would be against the spirit of the project not to do so
Wiim for one option.
No relation to the <blink/> tag, I presume?
I'd say that any game that has chips, bets, and poker hands

> If gambling aesthetics change to resemble popular game aesthetics, does that expand the list of games you'll ban?

Yes
Spending money to win is synonymous with gambling. virtual money that gets renewed when you start a new game is as much gambling as shooting hellspawn in Doom is murder.
I mean, they were FOUNDED as a fairly turnkey solution -- lock in was baked in from the jump what, 20 years ago?

At that time they had a great product, and were doing something genuinely novel and cool. Then they sat on their hands for too long.
I drew a few frames in this, but it was a real shame to see how little quality control there was in the final cut. Makes it kind of unwatchable.

Progress near the end was really fast, as lots of people had caught on and were racing to get as many frames in as possible.

I really don't think this concept has been worn out yet, and someone could make their own version of this with a small review step and then we'd get some fun, actually watchable hand-drawn movies :)
I think the opposite; I have so much empathy for them that I never created any in the first place. I can't imagine the despair of being young today. I'm not quite old yet myself and am terrified of what we will do to this planet.
> Reading this thread I’m realizing maybe Americans better understand organizational politics

Genuine LOL!

> you don’t want to know what the organization is trying to achieve?

You <------> The point

A 'mission statement' is a load of wank. They have nothing whatsoever to do with what a company is trying to achieve. Indeed, they were satirised as such in the USA by Dilbert cartoons 30 years ago!

In Australia and Blighty (and no doubt many other places with a similar culture) "I haven't memorised the mission statement, because it is wank" will get you points for being honest and direct...... We don't like to play at fakery.
> Better ban Windows, then.

Yes. No need to qualify it. Windows simulates gambling every time a new version comes out and it asks you to upgrade!
also spirou, also theres a lot more franco belgian comics

also books like the le petit nicolas series, little nicholas, by Sempe & Goscinny (who also did asterix) so funny and great for children!
> If you’re an Android user, the limitations are even more frustrating. Playing music directly from YouTube isn’t possible without jumping through hoops

Unfortunately that's due to Google's bullshit. There's a lack of appropri APIs, that's why you'll notice that any "smart" audio device (by smart I mean, integrates directly with music streaming services/locally stored music) doesn't support YouTube nor YouTube Music.

Music Assistant (sister project to Home Assistant) supports it via hacks such as pretending to be a TV or copy pasting auth cookies.

It's frankly an embarrassment from Google not to have APIs for this, they only lose potential users.
It is the whole cancelation culture, if you want to have some fun, check some stand up comedians about kids from the 1970's were doing playing on the street, and what they are allowed to do nowadays (almost nothing).

Given your example, I am sure you might relate, as a 70's child, I surely do.
Snarky editorials are missing the memo here, that like it or not, history is happening again. Trump's not going to pull a Crimea with little green men, but the Overton window is opening.

Why can't the US pay each Greenlander $1mmm to vote for independence and then ratify joining the US? Nobody can give a good answer what's stopping this. Denmark has already promised to allow an independence vote.
We've all been a young person[0], so it's easy to criticise from that angle.

However, I'd like to think the readership of HN are hacker enough to like to think that, given a desert island (with minor deps like sand and the Friday hardware fab!) and a few spare years, they'd be capable of Robinson Crusoe'ing up a personal development environment.

From that point of view, I find[1] this effort admirable: it's several hundred pages, by Martin Richards, about the port of the BCPL toolchain (language, compiler, bytecode interpreter, libraries, debugger, etc. all by Martin Richards?) to a new system (was it a new arch as well?)... by Martin Richards.

How many among us get a machine with new graphics, decide to write a flight simulator, and then —only as a minor[2] implementation detail mind you— plumb float support through our entire language ecosystem? Who needs a shaved yak when you're pursuing the buttery-smooth shaded yak?

[0] or maybe we even still are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682353

"when I was your age all we had were 1's and 0's, and sometimes not even 0's, so we'd stay up all night xor'ing 1's to have enough for the next day..."

[1] when I did this sort of thing to pay the bills, I had someone else doing the tech writing and someone else providing toolchain and debugger sources, and it was still not a trivial lift.

[2] compare Wirth FPGA'ing up an entire homebrewed arch just so he could have a personal workstation using his favourite mouse.
Yes, and you don't even need to dig into the dangerous bits (microwave transformers are some of the biggest killers of electrical hobbyists), just remove the door and defeat the interlock.
> If you ask a random person on the street about safe motorcycle riding, they'll probably tell you about respecting speed limits, wearing protective gear, only doing it when sober, not pulling stunts / showing off etc. I've never been on a motorcycle, have 0 interest in them, and I know those things.

How did this matter? People may know these things, but they nonetheless ignore speed limits, don't wear helmets, drive drunk, pull stunts, etc. And the motorcycle manufacturer can't stop them. They have the freedom to harm themselves.

> Computers don't work that way. People can't distinguish between a real banking app and a fake banking app that looks real

Guess what, people can't distinguish between the real and fake apps in the crApp Store either. Let's stop pretending that it's safe, when we've seen over and over that it's not.

> That was when people still used Windows a lot, as opposed to doing everything on their phones.

People still use Windows a lot. Smartphones have not replaced desktop computers but rather added to desktop computers. Almost every desktop computer owner also has a smartphone I believe that desktop computer sales are as high now as ever; I know that's true for Apple Macs, specifically.

> I feel like that era of "total freedom" has somehow been erased from our minds, and we're looking at things through rose-tinted glasses.

It hasn't been erased. The desktop never left. It's been surpassed in volume by smartphones, of course, but let's not pretend that desktops were somehow made obsolete and removed from the Earth. The people who have enough money buy smartphones and desktops. Many even have a smartphone, a desktop/laptop, and a tablet. The choice is not about security, it's about money and form factor. When I leave home, I put a phone in my pocket. When I'm on the couch, I use a laptop. When I'm reading an ebook, I use a tablet.
What functionality did Sonos provide that you are after?

I use chromecast audio to play music throughout the house and it works great
> Most people

... from your social / regional bubble.

I know Tennis tournaments since tennis is somewhat popular here. Golf? Nope.

> Everyone knows the NBA basketball league

I don't, apart from those 3 letters. And not because it's a popular sport around here, only because of US popular culture influence.
It's easy to miss! The only reason I know is because of all of the research I've done into my Idiopathic Hypersomnia diagonsis. Mignot is well-respected because of his research.

It seems it's possible to get it from hypocretin deficiency via other routes like brain trauma, but they are confident enough to put this explanation in the DSM-5:

> Narcolepsy-cataplexy nearly always results from the loss of hypothalamic hypocretin
(orexin)-producing cells, causing hypocretin deficiency (less than or equal to one-third of
control values, or 110 pg/mL in most laboratories). Cell loss is likely autoimmune, and approximately 99% of affected individuals carry HLA-DQBl06:02 (vs. 12%-38% of control
subjects). Thus, checking for the presence of DQB106:02 prior to a lumbar puncture for evaluation of CSF hypocretin-1 immunoreactivity may be useful.

https://ia800900.us.archive.org/0/items/info_munsha_DSM5/DSM...

pg 374, par 4 (pg 409 if using a PDF reader).
Reading this (and looking at the dates), it struck me that Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) was a shill for Project Russia's narrative. The dates fit well, too.
As someone that an Android user, and has been a user (and formerly, major fan) of Sonos for about ten years now, it honestly seems worse than that. For a while, Sonos speakers appeared as Google Cast targets, which was a phenomenal (if slightly overcomplicated) way to use them without opening up the Sonos app. Then, the cast functionality became really unreliable. Then, it just went away one day. Then, the Sonos app itself became basically unusable.

So, a decade or so ago, I spent $1k+ on speakers. Over time, due to software changes, they've become more or less unusable for me. My recourse on this is.. pretty much nothing.
Check out Wiim. A few amp options that are half the price of Sonos.
I think for some (not all) folks writing code there is a sort of built in "this should actually work" mentality and that keeps A LOT of things running.

Granted not all, I've worked with some widget makers who would rather just take tasks, do EXACTLY what it says, and move on regardless if it works or not. They love the certainty of process and want to just do that.

Steve Jobs ran into that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Cz49MLh4o

Granted as Steve mentioned, people worried about the end result are more work to deal with.
There’s companies hosting GPU’s in Singapore. There’s also probably places without export restrictions to Singapore that have GPU’s to sell them. They might also buy them in smaller quantities from many suppliers online. Finally, they could try distributed training on the various, low-cost clouds.

A higher-risk option would be to build or buy FPGA accelerators. They’ve had lots of FPGA’s over there. They might be able to do A.I. on them. It would also be easier for their engineers to port published designs to FPGA’s than to make ASIC’s. Then, maybe make their own FPGA like some academic teams did.
And yet the twitter files shows an interesting case, what you posit as the platform executing their own will (their platform), was in fact heavily influenced by government threats of removal of section 230 protections. Platforms should be free from undemocratic, top down influence from our highest officials, surely you would agree?

That would skew platforms far to the right from their current (2020-2024) political leanings though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
> C uses conventions to produce an "interface" (ala a header file with declarations). Java uses compilers to produce an interface, which i do really like. You can ship that interface without an implementation, and only at runtime load an implementation for example.

You can do this in C as well, since it has separate code declarations and definitions. You conventionally put the declarations in the header and definitions in the source file. A C program can link against declarations alone, and the implementations can be loaded later using dynamic linking.

> And these are all othorgonal concerns. A private interface is for the internal organization of code, as opposed to a public one (for external consumption). That's why you might have a private interface.

But these are profoundly overlapping concerns. Interfaces also hide the internal organization of the code, and on top of this, you also have project jigzaw's modules (that absolutely nobody uses), but which also caters toward separating private implementations from public interfaces.
Enter a game that simulates what genshin impact does but without the money element. To be banned next?
How is that simulated gambling?
Apple airplay works flawlessly. Or you can buy an old Amazon fire and connect them to your own hardware.

Both of these solutions allow you to use any speaker/amp setup you choose. And if you truly care about sound quality, this is the only path.
They're openly pro-Russia on here; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586470
> Is it? I've never played volleyball

See, I've never played basketball or golf.

> Fair, but that's a little different from "regional".

"regional" is very vague. The point is that these sports are far from global.
I'm imagining exactly who makes these calls, if a human is even involved, as someone spending five seconds on a moderation app looking at screenshots and immediately pushing the "gambling" button so they can go on to the next task more quickly.

It doesn't have to be a human, either, at this point it could be AI trained on the same bad answers.
>Typical run of the mill USAer mindset. Ah yes, we are "better" than them, so our problems don't really exist.

No, we just have higher level problems to deal with. Running global trade, providing the reserve currency, generating nearly the entirety of high tech IP, outputting the vast overwhelming majority of culture and media, and continuing to provide the only real sustained economic growth in the entire developed world is a lot more complex and nuanced than LARPing as a 19th century imperial power bullying neighbors or submitting their citizenry to full obedience and worrying about grain imports. It requires more complex systems with greater levels of feedback and autonomy than any centrally commanded ideological fantasy regime could ever provide. The drawbacks of such a system are that they end up seeming messy and imperfect from the outside. But it's the only way such an organization can actually work in the modern world.
You raise good points. I’m optimistic because i think the quieting of some voices (while bad) is much better than their complete silencing, as has happened through deplatforming, shadow banning, and even White House requests in the past.

I also think the gruellingly slow death of legacy media and rise of bluesky and X (and mastodon) is a net positive for society, if only for the reason that ~tweets can be immediately and transparently rebutted, whereas brainwashing ‘news’ programs can’t.
It's still early days in my use, but I've been quite happy with AudioPro (yeah, shitty name). Their devices look nice, sound really good, support a variety of protocols and integrate with a ton of steaming services directly (but you don't have to because you can just Bluetooth/Cast/Airplay/AUX to them). Their app is a tad ugly but it does everything I need it to.
Which shows the importance of in-store purchases over sight-unseen.

> Popular high-quality brands include Levi Strauss & Co

I regards that as highly suspect advice.

I stopped buying jeans because even name brand jeans weren't durable.

Another quick quack finds https://www.thebubble.org.uk/culture/the-decline-of-quality-... saying "A recent experiment demonstrates this decline in quality over the last 30 years, through testing Levi’s jeans, whose slogan states (ironically) that ‘Quality never goes out of style’ . Two pairs of Levi’s jeans were put to the test – a pair manufactured between 1985 and 2000, and a pair manufactured between 2017 and 2018. The experiment found that the older jeans were stronger and wore less quickly than the newer ones, even through the fabric was much older."

It links to https://thecorrespondent.com/416/fashion-unravelled-why-you-... which adds "Even high-end brands sometimes seem like they don’t last much more than one season."

Ha. And "The most expensive pair seemed to be primarily intended for people who value style more than sustainability."

Disgusting.
Not much. It's an 85 watt power supply.
What the author calls "double standard" could be reframed as "consumer choice." A vendor sells different devices. Some have provisions to make changes to the bootloader and some don't.

The phrase "have provisions to make changes" is on purpose. It has not yet been proven to me that a change to an iPad's bootloader function is impossible. It certainly isn't as easy as that of Mac, but the skill/effort required is a gradient.

This is similar to "soldered" storage. This was commonly thought of as impossible until it was demonstrated that a Mac will happily accept updated storage changed out with a hot air rework device. This method is certainly higher skill/effort/risk than remembering when to terminate 50pin SCSI, but shows that when a hacker has a will, there is a way.

Is it ironic that as computing devices become easier to use, they also require higher skill to fix and modify? No, more likely there is an iron rule that when a device's external complexity is contained, the inner workings of that thing become more complex. Complexity did not decrease but was hidden.

Does a grandfather clock and a tourbillon wristwatch encapsulate the same/similar general principles of timekeeping? Sure. If one has the skill to update parts of the grandfather clock, are those same skills sufficient for the wristwatch? Probably not. Should wristwatches be banned because people who update grandfather clocks do not have the skills to modify them? Surely not, that would be absurd.

Likewise, demanding root in a form you find acceptable is absurd. If you can't take root one a device you possess, it's a skill issue for you to address not the vendor.
My team didn't add new members to the oncall rotation for about 6 months to ameliorate this issue. But starting oncall at first is rough and even with months of context on our systems people usually take a few rotations before they really figure it out. We expected new members to have to escalate.
I don’t think (most) queer people nor (most) religious people should be called mentally ill at work or on social media. However, I also don’t think a standalone policy should address either case specifically. Professional decorum and the typical “no hate speech” should cover it. What say you to that position?
>Most recently, Conrad served as chief product officer for the ill-fated Quibi streaming service.

Failing a product launch and replacing the CEO with the Chief Product Officer of a failed product launch sounds like it'll be just as disastrous.
The other thing to bear in mind is that it’s undergone literally decades of evolution while still being backwards compatible.

The shells weren’t originally intended to be Turing complete. They were just a job launcher. What you use today would have been unimaginable when these shells were first designed.

Whereas all other programming languages have had a drastically smaller evolution in comparison and yet still had a worse compatibility story.

It’s very easy to be critical of the Bourne shell (and compatible shells too) because they are archaic by modern standards. But they weren’t written to solve modern problems. So it’s like looking at a bicycle and complaining how the designers didn’t design a sports car while ignoring the fact that technology didn’t exist and still push bikes are good enough for millions to use daily.
If by discredited you mean incorporated into many of the most used languages as well as several of the hot new ones then yes.

Furthermore part of PLT is learning the past and what worked and what didn't.
Yeah you mean he takes control of the plugin on WordPress.org? But if we all move to a different domain, you don't have that problem?

Only problem is that existing WP installations would need to be manually patched to the new domain name. As long as users don't do that they'll still be in Matt's control.

But yeah, can't we create some bots that scan the internet for WP sites and send the webmasters an email informing the corruption going on inside WP and the option for them to move to the new community.
Sonos Fires CEO
I have similar peeve about the "Spanish inquisition" metaphor. I wouldn't really write blog about it though.

I'm of the opinion that attempts to police language in cases like this, is at best a waste of time.
Thanks. The original data set, as provided by the VA, has all sorts of data errors and oddities in it. The major ones involving surnames include the inconsistent use of apostrophes in names like O’BRIEN, often written as O BRIEN, and/or vice versa — or the inconsistent formatting of MC and MAC names like MCMAHON as MC MAHON, and/or vice versa. There are also some names where the VA includes an errant dash, not meant to be a hyphen, and other mistakes, as well.

So we try our best to help a user find the veteran even with the dirty data we have. For example, there is code here (using a common NPM package) to convert a user’s potential typed accent marks to a non-accented version of the same letter. In compound surnames we will also break up the surname on a space or a hyphen and search both parts, but not if a surname part is three letters or fewer. It’s imperfect but we have to work with the data we’ve got and can’t and shouldn’t normalize or clean the underlying file.
Someone’s personal conclusion can be summed as “you should feel bad”? I think that’s if you feel bad for using the metaphor after reading this, that’s on you. The author just wrote up a deep dive into the problem and concluded that it’s not a great metaphor, in their opinion.
You've walked into a pretty innocuous conversation here, and tried to start a culture-war argument even though nobody present has actually taken the position you want to argue against. Please consider not doing that in the future.
Ok. So what do you think are the reasons that IRC has lost marketshare to Slack and Discord?
Tintin is notable in that the series was not continued by other artists after the desth of Hergé. While the estate is critized for guarding the IP too zealously, I greatly respect this decision, which is part of what makes it such a classic.
> The number of true things we can't say should not increase. If it does, something is wrong.

Word.