jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Spotify is a company with over 7 billion USD dollar of revenue in 2020. Linux is about 2% of desktop users, or about 1% of users in total.

Nevertheless, they decided not to spend a dime to work on the Linux client ("Spotify for Linux is a labor of love") [1]. The Linux app is an electron app, so there's relatively little effort required to maintain it.

Instead, they paid 100 million USD for Joe Rogan, and added video features that nobody wanted and asked for.

Take a look at /r/JoeRogan [2], and see just the extent of how much reputation damage it caused.

Take a look at /r/Spotify [3], most of the complaints are about basic functionality not working.

MPRIS [4] is a dbus API standard for controlling music players. End-users don't know or care about APIs. End-users care about having music widgets, but you can't do that without it. End-users care about keyboard accessiblity when they need it, but you can't do it without those APIs. And Linux users specifically care about programmability.

Limiting the API means that not only do I have to deal with the buggy app, it's prevents anyone else from building something better.

It's been 10 years since the Linux client came out. One engineer could fix these issues in a couple of months, but it's just not their priority.

The only saving grace for Spotify is that all their competitors are worse.

1. https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/

3. https://www.reddit.com/r/Spotify/

4. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPRIS
Why no income taxes on the employees?, they are part of the community, why arent they paying in? How does the city even fund itself then?
Sarcasm failed to translate, "scientific consensus" is a goofy euphemism for a messaging campaign that has nothing to do with science. You are completely right about the disagreement between scientists at the time, with many pointing out the fact that we couldn't accurately predict these changes - so we had absolutely no hope of attributing cause to effect until that changed. Still good advice.
Yes. Track most breaking changes and broken libraries to the authors and you will see a Google connection.
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Given the immense complexity of the systems that ultimately result in one climate or other on earth, I don't find it impossible that the current trajectory towards a warmer general climate could be broken by some thing or other, to everyone's surprise.

An amateur has however absolutely no way of assessing claims like these, and until there is a fair number of papers pointing to the same conclusion, I won't attach too much importance to a single paper, by a researcher that already has had another paper in the same realm retracted. [0]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61020-3
Really not sure why you’re being downvoted, 1.7% is the correct number per Johns Hopkins https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Also if op was trying to cherry pick lower numbers for certain populations that’s silly, like somehow during your college years you never interact with anyone older than 22. Also there’s many more negative outcomes to consider besides simply mortality rate.
As a tall fat engineer I wish that described my technical ability not my physical appearance.
One could be drinking to lubricate complaining about one's home life! Perhaps the state of society! Ah, I'm only mildly joking...
Really? I've just tried it and it was instantaneous. Currency conversion with ddg from firefox title bar in the UK. The result was visible before I had mentally completed pressing enter.
I mostly use DDG but often switch to google whenever DDG does not return 'good' results. Especially on tech topics and literature search Google results are far superior.
I will never understand this trend where, during your worktime, you do lots of stuff that have nothing to do with work. Be it gaming, playing pingpong, getting drunk, rallying for your favourite political cause, making friends, psychological therapy, or whatever.
You probably installed a kernel update and the nvidia kernel module didn't recompile itself. You can avoid having to reinstall the whole driver package by just running "dkms autoinstall" and then "modprobe nvidia"

You may first need to unload any loaded nvidia modules (built for an older kernel).. So some combination of "rmmod nvidia_modeset" "rmmod nvidia_uvm" "rmmod nvidia_drm" "rmmod nvidia" and then run dkms

I run a ~1000 node server room for a computer science graduate program at a university.. keeping these drivers built and loaded properly has been a nightmare! Nvidia really needs to get things worked out if they want to keep pushing the GPGPU stuff
I’m in Europe as well. Just searched for "200 USD to EUR" on both. DDG felt slightly faster, Google had a white screen for a moment before it loaded which was chiefly what made it seem slower to me. So I’ll allow the possibility that it’s because they do stuff when people have adblockers (Not that Google is even a serious option if you don’t run adblockers). Both of them were almost instant in any way though.
I'll take that as a compliment. I think.
When I click the url of the site, rather then the view file button, I am directed to the site? What os/browser are you using, if you don't mind my asking?
Everything you mentioned is possible but needs a lot of product management level refinement. Also I'd be wary of all kinds of adjustable and adaptive stuff since they create a bubble that may be difficult to escape should you become curious about things you don't know. Adaptive stuff discourages curiosity and it's one of the things I started disliking about Google Search among other things.

There may be some room for thinking about bringing unique content above non-unique one. Chit-chat on myriads of forums is probably not interesting unless you are looking for something very specific in which case you'd use the query language. It would also de-rank all non-unique marketing fluff that can be seen everywhere. Of course this might open an opportunity for spammers to de-rank good sites by copying them or to boost others by adding artificially unique content, but then combined with the human review process it might yield net positive results.

Voting... I don't know, Reddit's /all is a result of popular voting. Do we really want the Internet to become all kittens, memes and showerthoughts? :)

But I'm thinking the stereotype of what a search engine UI should look like could also be reconsidered. Google has made a lot of interesting gradual improvements (Wikipedia, IMDB etc. snippets, maps, calculator, dictionary) while leaving the core UI almost intact. For example, when skimming through the search results, do you read the web page titles or the content with your search terms highlighted? Etc, I think there's some work to do for UX folks. Let alone that Google's highlighting functionality has declined considerably to the point of being almost useless most of the time.
I disagree with most of your points and your conclusion. Especially the "create a good developer ecosystem". You provided no examples either, which makes me think you have never been involved with Microsoft as a member of the game development community. My experience, was poor. To say the least.
Netflix in fact 'run on servers' https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/fosdem/looney-netflix_and_fr...
I didn't downvote, but "It doesn't matter if it's true, It's bad that I'm concerned" is used to justify all sorts of alarmist policies. Right now that's what's being used to restrict voting rights across the US and has been used for a long time to justify NIMBY and tough on crime policies regardless of evidence.
I imagine it's not obvious to people.

If the installer offered DNS fallback and let you choose from a list of server options or no fallback it would likely be less controversial.

It is, after all, leaking a list of sites you're connecting with to whoever the dns provider is.
I don't know how it was received (if at all) in the rest of the world, but in Australia at least Facebook is still reeling from their news ban, I suspect the populace would support Apple for a few days, and that's realistically as long as the ban would last if implemented.
I got into it by watching Imphenzia's 10 minute modelling videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/Imphenzia). It's low poly, if that's your style, but "extrude, scale, indent" is pretty powerful as far as low poly modelling goes.
I hope one day there's a "Blender, but it's actually ZBrush" open source alternative to ZBrush.

Once you use ZBrush, you'll never want to go back to traditional CAD-style creation.

I won't claim that Blender can't solve it, but, the workflows are completely different. You end up thinking of models like clay that you can shape and paint, not triangles with textures.

Please, someone, somewhere, spend five years making that an open source project. (Realistically, it's a bit melancholy that such a project probably won't ever get made; there's no incentive to. ZBrush exists, and it has a fine price point. I just love thinking about all the algorithms under the hood that power the whole thing... It would be so cool to see the code.)
The more I learn about Kubernetes, the more I'm happy with our decision to run ECS instead. It seems to give me 80% of the benefit for 20% of the effort.
"Existential threat" means an implied, or perceived threat.

Politicians started using that phrase en masse about a year ago, and the internet has latched onto it and now misuses it all the time.
This is not that great of an article, IMO. A prominent developer of one of the roguelikes mentioned says:

> you can immediately see that this article was stitched together by throwing some wikipedia articles together if it references the Berlin interpretation

> it's also hilarious if the guild of disgruntled adventurers is referenced as fun addition :)

> I'm not sure if I should feel insulted [by the article's description of my roguelike]

I mostly agree with these. I also feel a bit slighted by one of the descriptions. I'm also not sure quite what to make of the fact that they don't mention the two most prominent recent roguelikes: caves of qud, and cogmind.
I’m working on a better SRS-based flash card app. I know there’s Anki and some solutions online, but I have not been able to find a good app-based solution (I.e. make your own cards, with no service subscription). Most of the flash card apps out there have awful UI. I’m trying to make mine the most easy to use and powerful flash card app.
A third solution would be to actively encourage economic development in other cities, rather than cramming more and more residents and businesses into a few geographically constrained areas.
I just finished re-writing my little app, HiFutureSelf, from ObjC to Swift. It was extremely satisfying to remove 10-year-old code.

The original codebase was written for iOS 4. Feels like a lifetime ago.

https://hifutureself.com
Take a hit after? Heck, let's talk about right this second. It's already happening: https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-racks-up-hundreds-of-mil...

Paywall, but even just the headline and first paragraph tell you what you need to know.

And yeah, I don't see how this doesn't completely decimate their business model. The likely coming worldwide recession will see far less spending on travel, not even counting residual behavioral changes re: covid as you mention.

UPDATE: Non-paywalled article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airbnb-mulls-cash-infusion-in...
I know that FlashFloppy has MSX and Spectrum support. So adding a cheap GoTek virtual floppy is an option. It's pretty damn handy anyway to be able to use a USB stick as a virtual floppy, and the GoTek drives are cheap.

https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
> There's a third option: the vast majority of persuasion in history doesn't come from sympathy or empathy, it comes from winning.

If true, then...

> The whole framework that... men traditionally exercise greater power than women? That framework which... nearly all humans can at least identify as historically accurate? What a reach to expect you to engage with a nearly universal reality!

No, not reality - not if persuasion comes from winning. The framework that lately is winning, which has nothing to do with reality.

That is, you can't have it both ways. Either "patriarchy" is an objectively correct way to view the world, in which case people can be persuaded by objective truth, or else people are persuaded by winning, in which case patriarchy is just what's winning at the academy these days.
That's good to know, thanks. Although, I will probably still log in periodically, just in case they ever do decide to implement that policy.
> I think ultimately Phoenix and by extension LV just don't have the manpower.

For comparison's sake:

- [LivewWire] Caleb (creator of LiveWire) made 1,000+ commits and added 200k lines of code from Jan 2019 to Feb 2021

- [LiveView] Chris (creator of LV) made 700+ commits and added 80k lines of code from Oct 2018 to Feb 2021

- [LiveView] Jose (creator of Elixir) made 450+ commits and added 25k lines of code from Oct 2018 to Feb 2021

There's even more contributors to LV (207) overall than LiveWire (145) which is interesting because LiveWire is 3x more popular based on GitHub stars.

From that you could say that LiveView has more manpower than LiveWire since Caleb wrote all of that code himself in a shorter amount of time while 2 people are main contributors to LV.

Plus at the same time Caleb wrote a huge amount of practical documentation (focused on building features), created lots of screencasts where you build features you would expect to see in most apps (data tables, etc.) and started a podcast around LiveWire. And on top of all of that he created AlpineJS at the same time.

> LiveWire builds on Laravel which is a massively popular framework on a massively popular language, Laravel itself using components from Symfony that is basically the backend framework with the most contributors in the world.

At a fundamental level it feels like the creator of LiveWire is investing in creating a tool that helps developers build applications better and faster. I think that stems from Laravel giving off a sense of developer productivity for building apps, but don't forget that library creators are making these decisions.

I never really got that same impression from working with Phoenix or LiveView. I think it caters towards a completely different type of developer than myself which is why I struggle so much using it. It always felt like instead of showing you how to do something, it makes you figure it out yourself.

> But LiveView may hit 1.0 this year :)

That would be nice to see but I'm not sure how much of a difference that will make in the short term. In the short term going 1.0 is really just deciding to tag a commit. If Chris and Jose plan to write another book to use LV that could still be over a year or 2 out unless they've been writing it in private, or if they re-write the documentation that's also another long journey.

Neither of them really strike me as the screencast type either. When they do create videos they do an excellent job at explaining things tho. Really wish they did more of them to be honest. But yeah, these things take time. I don't know what their schedules are like too so maybe it's not even fair to compare LV vs LiveWire in terms of how fast the library is being built. Maybe Chris and Jose only work on Phoenix and LV for 2-3 hours a week where as Caleb is working on his stuff full time.
Enterprise-focused companies are often some of the most user-hostile, opaque organizations in the world. I would rather a company post prices and documentation openly (with analytics) rather than requiring me to sign up for at least an account, and more often, a one-hour sales call to get any information at all.
To be more precise most serious business grade wireless access points such as the Unifi UAP series are not actually routers, they're layer 2 ethernet bridges onto a single switch fabric, or a varied set of VLANs in the case of an AP that broadcasts multiple SSIDs and connects users to different network segments.

The routing is done elsewhere, either at the switch that the AP is plugged into, or something another hop or two upstream of that.

The typical $50-100 "router" with built in 802.11ac wifi that you might buy at best buy is indeed a router, with both wifi, some basic routing/nat ability, and a dedicated WAN interface.
Twitter could've been so much better if people could post into different channels instead of dumping everything into one feed. Humans are multi-faceted beings and their communication is multi-faceted too. Not supporting it in communication software is just poor abstraction.

I want to be able to choose which facet of a person I'm interested in, and which not. Instead, Twitter proposes the "all or nothing" approach. Either you follow everything, or nothing. No wonder we have strong social polarization and social bubbles.
A slight inclination to protect consumers from the worst excesses of the regulated stems from a desire to prevent the public from getting mad enough to demand change. The distant second, therefore, follows the first.
Modelling long sequences has always been hard for transformer-based models. This paper proposes a super innovative way for the transformer to cache previously processed tokens. And it makes generation 9X faster. This is truly mind-blowing

Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15832

Code
https://github.com/ofirpress/shortformer
Got a "This is not available to you" page.
No, the questions the security professional should ask are these:

1. Which resources are held by the company?

2. Which actors are interested in these resources (both benign and malicious)?

3. What could threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of these resources?

4. How likely are these threats?

5. What would the impact be if these threats would occur?

6. Given the likelihood and impact of each of these threats, form a method to handle these threats.

7. Execute on the plan.

Furthermore, the results of each of these steps should be documented and periodically reviewed.

That is what a security professional should ask.

An even more professional security professional should model the network of threats. For example, one disgruntled employee might have a relatively small negative impact on many different resources, but causing a large impact as a whole.
An observation that someone on HN pointed to when the Parler take-down originally occurred:

> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

* https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
Don't necessarily disagree with you, but seeing as "the r word" is no longer used to refer to mentally disabled people it seems a little late...

That is a hilarious take. You must be a lawyer.
Tough to compete with Apple after they began duplicating their success in UI design to hardware, manufacturing, elegant chip design with a pointed purpose, etc.

Apple's most underestimated strength is their continued march towards vertical integration - buying make the right processor company (PA Semi) and a team of 150 processor gurus to minimize power use, developing a proprietary manufacturing process to make seamless aluminum notebooks, etc, etc etc.

A good read from 2008 about Apple's strategy . . . http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/24/mitra-apple-pasemi-tech-ent...
There is a joke that goes more or less that any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from 'just' statistics. But statistics (the unreasonable effectiveness of data) and the philosophy of probability are very profound topics that delve into the very fabric and nature of the universe. The same things keep appearing everywhere too. Bayesian networks and quantum mechanics. Entropy. Monte Carlo. So many.

I have a personal theory that we learn physical actions from statistical models more than modelling physical variables. Otherwise training how to do something as easy as a back flip (from a physics perspective) or flare would not be so hard.

Another problem is that nobody knows what the I part of AI is. So from the get go saying what AI is and isn't, is a failed experiment. I don't know what I is but i bet there are times you will know it when you see it and i won't. and vice versa. I also contend that modern systems do learn in a very basic sense. But I suspect we will also disagree on what learning is.
Well... it kind of is. This article (now dated, from 2007) shows the cost of the "right to build" in various US cities. 4 of the top 5 are in California:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/a-tale-o...
In 1985, much of what we could look back on of 1955 was in black and white. Much of what we look back on in 1985 is in color. Personally, I think that plays a pretty big role in how we look back at stuff. Even much of the 60s is still in color, but the 50s - TV shows, movies, etc - the artifacts we have are largely B&W.
Both. By raising the cost (punishment * chance of getting caught), you prevent it. Sure, many of those who flaunt the law have to learn the hard way, but there's no question raising either or both of those inputs will reduce the overall amount of crime.

I don't believe the death penalty does much to deter murder or is cost-effective (although I still consider it just in most circumstances), because the perpetrator often doesn't value their own life that much. When you have to live with the punishment, I believe it is a deterrent for most, analogous to the prospect of living with a lot of debt: the price of stuff affects our behavior.
I see, you have no evidence for sweeping claims of "Billions and Billions". You only have some 'just-so' stories and intuitions. But in each of your cases, a person checking compensation at just a few non-cartel places would do just fine.

So, if the cartel employees and their friends in your conversations stay slightly-drunk/stupid/lazy, they'll keep working at rates lower than are available to them. Meanwhile, anyone shopping around gets paid a competitive rate, unaffected by the non-poaching agreements.

I can believe there's some localized harm there, especially for long-tenured people at the cartel companies, but any damage is self-limiting. It's not massive on an "entire greater Bay area technology job sector" basis.

Also note, these cartel companies were also constantly hiring from non-cartel sources, and there was no coordinated "cap" or "ceiling" on such offers. They had to win such employees in unrestricted competition versus both cartel and non-cartel companies – and they often did!

Since employees talk (as in your examples), even long-tenured in-cartel employees would then get info about fully competitive compensation offers, and up their expectations for the next compensation-review. So again, any damage from non-poaching collusion faces practical checks on its magnitude.

If you're an Apple/Google/etc employee who wishes you'd been cross-recruited with a big compensation offer, you have a right to be angry. (But, you're still probably not that angry, given how well things have been going for top employees at those places in the relevant era!)

But if you've been employed elsewhere, your anger is misplaced. The non-poaching agreements didn't hurt you... and maybe even helped for the reasons I gave above.