skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a vacuum where Spotify is the only income for a musician sure, but it is easier than ever to publish on many massive platforms tying in with revenue from live performances, merchandise, advertising, etc. Sure its not as safe a a 9-5 job but that is a conscious decision in order to do what one loves, what one is good at, or what one can get rich doing - unlike most 9 to 5s...
Are you seriously claiming that the French (and/or EU) somehow orchestrated the Libyan civil war?

Offtopic: You joined yesterday and have gained 160+ points already with only 7 comments. That is very impressive!
I don't know about profesional musician, but in the university we have a small YouTube channel about math exercises for the students.

A 10 minutes video (of amateur level) involves something like:

* 6 hour of preparation: We have to select the topic and the exercise. And also thinking how to split the solution in the blackboard.

* 2 hours x 3 persons for recording: One person for the writing, one for the voice and me. We retake each step many times, and we discuss before and after each take.

* 6 hour of editing: Fix the sound (volume, big background noise, try to fix errors). Fix the writing (typos, recolor part of the writing, move some text). Also, change the speed of some parts, because sometimes writing is boring, but remember to resynchronize the voice.

(Some videos are easier and involve less time, some are more difficult and need more time to be finished.)

After all the preparation and edition (I hope) it looks very natural and it's very difficult to realize how much time it involves. But it is not at all at a profesional level.

So a 3 minutes song is not created in 3 minutes.
The wheel is an uncredited invention that almost all of humanity uses multiple times a day.
The axle needs to be higher than the ledge of the step. So basically that means the radius of the wheel needs to be larger than a normal step height, which would mean a giant wheel which may not fit on the step at all!
I had a Yunnan tea habit of about a pound a month for 26 months then found out my thyroid function went to almost zero. Blood tests a month after I stopped showed heavy metal exposure down in the noise, so was it pesticides? Is it even related to the tea? I may never know. Now I'm on synthroid for the rest of my life.
All else being equal, native apps will always be better. Higher performing and longer lifespans. It’s like Winamp; simple, extremely fast, 21 years old and still kicks the shit out of modern music apps. Of course, if you can’t write well in native you shouldn’t.
What does "the hard problem of consciousness" have to do with biological immortality? We're not talking about downloading our consciousnesses into computers here, we're talking about eliminating aging and achieving biological immortality (which is a real thing: some other species do have this). You don't have to know anything at all about consciousness to do this, you just have to figure out how cells and bodies age, and how to stop it.

Downloading our memories and consciousnesses a la "Altered Carbon", if this is even possible, is an entirely different and orthogonal problem.
How Much Time Is Really Available for XR?
For a very long time (‘30s-‘80s) the subway had almost no funding go to maintenance. It got to the point where parts of elevated structure were falling onto the streets and people below.

It’s gotten much better since then, but the MTA barely gets funding for current maintenance, let alone funding to clear the backlog. Most recent fare increases have been to service debt issued to clear said backlog.
A more appropriate title might be, "Selling a Stair Climbing Dolly..." as this is mostly a story about understanding how to get in front of your target audience and sell through the right channels (Facebook, Costco, Bed Bath & Beyond, Home Depot, Lowe's, and QVC).
I don't see what it is you're trying to point out. It looks like functionally the same product to me. The only difference is that UpCart is collapsible - is that what you were getting at?
I don't mind an app specific folder. The app should do it for you.
That is the research of it, we don't know if existing techniques would work! And surely there are novel improvements that could be made, particularly for this specific application.

Also, I imagine there are many cases where static analysis would not be enough for the JS app.
Depends on your stack and requirements (do you want to know about errors ASAP, or is a 2-5 minute delay ok?), but I personally love NewRelic because of how easy it is to set up (and the number of features that it has).

If you want tools that you can manage yourself, then a combination of StatsD + Grafana for metrics, and Sentry for errors. For logs, Graylog if you want to set up something complicated but powerful, and syslog-ng if you just want to dump the logs somewhere (so you can simply grep them).
The song may have taken 15 minutes to write but I can guarantee it did not take 15 minutes to record, produce, and promote the song.
how about a reaction to the official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTED3GJpVTY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
I hear a lot that WKWebView is an improvement, but all I see are some pretty significant limitations compared to WebView:

- no screenshots

- no printing

- no user stylesheets

- no cmd-F find

- no delegate method for hover-over-link

- no access to container NSScrollView (on macOS)

- harder to customize context menu (AFAICT)

- ignores URLProtocols (10.13 added a new way to implement custom protocols for WKWebViews with a completely different interface than NSURLProtocol/WebView)

I'm dreading the day when Apple is going to require me to 'upgrade' my WebView to WKWebView.

All I want to do is supply a byte stream containing HTML, and have it displayed in an NSView, with standard features. This doesn't seem like an obscure case, or a difficult problem. I don't understand why none of Apple's web views ever had simply a load(stream:NSInputStream) method. This was hard with WebView, and WKWebView made it a lot harder.
> Just spend years perfecting your art, then years perfecting the promotion of your art, and then you can have overnight success

Oh, and also, be a beautiful woman in her mid-twenties.
Instead of worrying about superstars making only 92k/day maybe you should worry about how much the typical artists makes. In today's winner-takes-it-all world there is a good chance that if Carey made much more the average guy still would make nothing.
That's not what the linked article says, and even if it is true, it still won't do a lookup for `index.mjs` inside the `thing` folder, so it still hurts that usecase.
Try pairing your AirPods with your laptop as well. Now when you put the headphones in to listen to Podcasts on your phone you hear the chime and think you're good to go, so you turn on your podcast and hear nothing.

Wait, you can hear it, it's just really quiet. So you turn up the volume. Ohhhh it's coming out of my iPhone speakers. Now take headphones out to confirm, then put them back in. The AirPods found your laptop somewhere thirty yards away and had connected to that! Don't mind that the lid is closed and its asleep, and your iPhone is activated, in your hand, and playing audio.

Now on your phone:

0. Pause Podcast

1. Home button (close Podcasts)

2. Home button (first press didn't work)

3. Home button (get to first app page)

4. Settings App

5. Home button (because your finger slipped downward 1 pixel when you pressed the Settings App and iOS thought you wanted to search your phone instead)

6. Settings App

7. Bluetooth

8. Tap "AirPods"

9. Wait about 10 seconds

10. Double tap Home button

11. Find Podcasts app

12. Rewind 30 seconds

13. Hit Play

This happens to me all the fucking time.
The article and the comments here are all making it seem like Spotify is the one being cheap. In reality that’s probably the maximum that they can pay to even come close to turning a profit while the distributors are still in the mix: http://fortune.com/2016/05/24/spotify-financials/

That article is from 2016 yet they are still losing money.

There would be a lot more money involved for both Spotify and the artists if they went the Netflix route and cut out the record label middlemen. I’m sure they are trying to do that but for whatever reason they haven’t been successful yet. Probably because the back catalogue of the record labels has a lot more leverage than the back catalogue of a bunch of movies. I wonder if they went the route of churning out a ton of original content if that would gradually increase their influence and get people to sign with them for future releases because they would be paying more. It’s a precarious game, since I’m sure the record labels will be happy to yank all of their music once they get wind of Spotify trying something like this out.
You're absolutely right. There's no way a regular, middling-fame performer can live off of revenue like this alone.

Perhaps it might be worth considering that this signals a model that could be re-thought to the benefit of the artist?
> 20 years ago it would have taken minutes/hours for some of the drops we've seen to materialize.

Twenty years ago was 1998. Ten years before that, Black Monday was faster and more vicious than anything we've seen since. It remains "the largest one-day percentage decline in the DJIA" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
In such a horrific scenario, I imagine the stocks of companies with low-duration free cash flows (i.e., generating profits in the near future and trading at reasonable multiples of those profits) would hold up the best, because they can pay greater dividends, buy back more shares, be more likely to go private at a premium, etc. As for the stocks of companies with high-duration cash flows (i.e., companies for which the majority of profits lies far in the future, trading at optimistic multiples of those distant profits)... I imagine they would suffer the worst declines.

However, I agree with JumpCrisscross (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763124) that such a horrific scenario is unlikely.
the bible
"My favorite statistic this year was Facebook’s claim that 75 million people watched at least a minute of Facebook Watch videos every day — though, as Facebook admitted, the 60 seconds in that one minute didn’t need to be watched consecutively. Real videos, real people, fake minutes."

With all the recent news [0] coming out around FB and their practices, I've only one thing to say now: I knew they were evil, but I didn't think they were stupid too.

[0] 'fake', who knows after this article?
Ultimately you'd be training a net to identify linear features arranged in consistent pattern. The feasibility of such a net depends on the signal to noise ratio in the input data (how subtle are the encoded words?), with the number of images required to train to a minimum accuracy increasing with busier input data. This assumes you're training a net with a suitablly complex and appropriately architected neural network.

For some degree of intuition regarding training data, I like to imagine neural networks as infant brains which will be shown classified training images repeatedly in order to teach associations. Unfortunately we haven't really come far enough yet to give concrete numbers.

tldr: might work, if you have a suitable architecture, and enough training data, in proportion to the complexity of the encoding.
Like most of human biology, this is generally true but has significant variation. My preschooler has always gone to bed later and woken up later than my kindergartener, and neither of them naturally get up before 730a.
Not really sure what your point is. Cycles always happen for the same technical reason - more buyers than sellers lead to rising prices and more sellers than buyers lead to falling prices. Understanding what leads to these imbalances in buying and selling is the more interesting and more difficult part and the details tend to be a bit different for every cycle. Most people find these details interesting and for some people, it is their job to understand these details. The abstract idea that herd behavior is what moves markets is not that useful unless you understand exactly which herds are moving which markets and how they make their buying and selling decisions.
More than 4M US children endured lockdowns last school year
It’s just a timeline comparison/prediction. They’re not related.
Node.js – v11.6.0
Which particular day in 1929 are you thinking of?

October 24 - 11% drop, followed by some recovery.
October 28 - 13% drop
October 29 - 12% drop

The lowest point in 1929 was reached on November 13.
The bottom of the crash was on July 8, 1932.
passive funds hold a disproportionate amount of sp500 like indexes. if that was the only explanation, those would have to fall always much more in price than all the rest.
Writing, and in particular the Arabic numerals.
Deno (a program for executing JavaScript and TypeScript outside of web browsers)
The problem comes primarily from systems that allow identifiers (or other semantically meaningful concepts like format strings) to differ only by case. This could be considered a side-quest of the naive implementation of case-sensitivity.

"Case-sensitive but identifiers cannot differ only by case" would be a reasonable compromise.

"Martin" and "martin" are obviously not different names. Martin may be more correct, but allowing "martin" as a separate name is worse.
Personally, if I were just starting something (assuming non-aws), I would use a free pinging service or write a quick cron to do it. In the event that it did not come back healthy, I would either send myself an email or an sms - the health check can also report error counts or use storage to track number of restarts per unit of time. Logging would just be some basic logging rotation and stdout piped to that file. Basic metrics could be as simple as a metrics table that you can query with SQL. When you eventually need fancy graphs (maybe a bit later), there are lots of options.

I'm not overly familiar with aws services, but I'd be very surprised they don't give a basic good-enough solution to this with cloudwatch, which is even less work than outlined above.
Mutually assured destruction or a similar self preventative measure will not emerge in this case
You know what, I had completely forgotten about that, and it completely changed my view.

Sure, we can have webservers serve up different thing based on parsing the url (a GET for `/users` could return `/users/index.mjs` if it wants), but having that required by the spec would be a mess, and not having it in the spec but still allowing it in node would cause annoying bugs when trying to use a library on both sides.
The Music Industry did this to itself - because it disliked the amount of power the iTunes music store had, it decided to allow Spotify's frankly obscene business idea to float.

Well, one of those partners earned them lots of money and the other massively devalued their goods.

What's even more laughable is that the iTunes Music Store represented a massive 'save' for the industry - prior to that they'd earned ~$0 on digital music thanks to rampant piracy.

I wish this could be seen as the high-water mark of stupidity for the industry but I know it well enough to be sure that's not the case.
Ask HN: Ideas or resources for ownership in exchange for running a site?
I'm a non-technical co-founder who had a site built (contracted) a few years ago. The idea was great (imo), but just never had the time to commit to managing it. It was a almost a reverse reddit type idea, so it required weekly topics.

Any thoughts or resources on places to exchange ownership for management of something like that?
It's clunky as hell and requires a lot of zooming on Firefox for Android (among others).
It's about getting 5 REM-NREM cycles of sleep. [1][2] The exact time varies from person to person and situation to situation, but roughly speaking the cycle takes 90 minutes and 5 * 90 min = 7.5 hours. Add some minutes lying in bed but not yet asleep, and you've got the 8 hours.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle

[2] http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/what/sle...
Picasso is sketching at a park. A woman walks by, recognizes him, and begs for her portrait. He agrees and a few minutes later hands her the sketch. She is elated about how wonderfully it captures the very essence of her character. What beautiful work it is. She asks how much she owes him. "5000 francs, madam," says Picasso. The woman is incredulous, outraged, and asks how that's even possible given it only took him 5 minutes. Picasso looks up and, without missing a beat, says: "No, madam, it took me my whole life."
At this point, piracy only makes any sense if you can't meet the requirement of accessing their servers monthly to maintain access to locally stored songs.
While it is interesting to see how much a superstar makes off a ubiquitous Christmas classic, it might have been nice to see how irrelevant and immaterial streaming royalties are to normal musician,

For sheer resourcefulness (and humor) I enjoyed seeing the band Freezepop include a $3 royalty check in their Kickstarter music video, and offer the check itself as part of $400 backer reward.
This is appealing, but I think you're only going to have full utilization for a short time? Many of your partitions of the problem are going to come back unsatisfiable, and then those cores go idle.
It always amazes me how much load servers can take these days.

I guess the only thing you couldn't handle well would be large spikes in demand.
It might be more interesting to limit answers to historical times.
One has to be careful here. Lots of internal details may give trolls and conspiracy theorists fodder to generate controversy and fake news, often by taking things out of context. It may slow work-flow because workers will be hesitant to write anything without expensive pre-vetting.
Look at it from the other side: I like reading political reporting to a certain extent, but I don't give two shits about sports. So why would I subscribe to a sports magazine to read political articles?

I think you have a point here: if I want to read about sports, I'm not going to read The Atlantic, I'm going to read some sports magazine. If I want to read about politics, well sports magazines and nude-women magazines aren't exactly what first comes to mind... but somehow, decades ago, this seemed to be the thinking for some odd reason.

What I see here is things being corrected to the way they should have been all along. You want to look at pictures of naked women? Find a publication that specializes in that. You want to read about politics? Find a different publication that specializes in that. The two have no business being in the same magazine.
TrueCrypt.
Snapchat Stories Coming to WeChat in ‘Time Capsules’
HN - latest technology updates and discussion
Domainr - finding domain
Namecheap - registering domain name
Digital Ocean and Heroku for hosting
Github
Django and flask
Bootstrap
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675371 (video link in comments of dupe)
I think the point is an elite artist tops out at 92k, meaning unknown artists will be making peanuts for their contributions. You're not supposed to pity that top tier artist, only realize that the ceiling is relatively low for everyone.
It's $5 per VPS, each just running a redis database. One is with OVH, the other is with ip-projects.
Pennies per play is a hard metric to grok. Let's compare this to CDs.

Assume a CD costs $10, and half of that goes towards the distribution of the physical media. It has maybe ten tracks. If you listen to it every day for a few months that's roughly the same "price per play" if I'm doing my math right.

Maybe that's a little high for an estimate, but streaming is still within an order of magnitude, and probably reaches way more customers than a given CD track ever did.
Flutter does this. https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding looks for your local version of chrome. Curious if anyone has thoughts on it.
Cmon, having a phone with a headphone jack is like having a computer with a CD drive...

OK sure it can be annoying that 0.1% of times when you want to read a CD to your computer, but then you can get a USB CD drive. Same with the headphone jack, it's an old piece of shit port that nobody really needs, but if you need it, get a dongle.
Christmas Pi Projects: Top 18 for 2018-2019
> a smaller working-age population supporting a larger dependent population (absent massive technological advancement in care) = lower standard of living for everyone

On average, assuming nothing else changes. In reality, we have the levers of immigration and workforce utilization (e.g. making it easier for ex-felons or non-violent drug convicts to re-enter the workforce) to juice labour inputs. And we have education and R&D to juice productivity. On top of that are random factors like natural resource utilization, falling energy and material intensities of GDP, et cetera.

> That would imply an S&P 500 of about 370 (down ~95%) and interest rates in the 10% range

One cannot so neatly connect demographics to interest rates, let alone the S&P 500. Demographics map to certain consumption sectors (e.g. durables) very well. They map to others (e.g. luxury or entertainment products) quite badly.

To illustrate one of the many confounding variables between demographics and stock prices, consider what a small shift in asset allocations in a single generation from real estate to equities would do to prices.
Can anyone tell me if it's reasonable to think this technology might substantially replace or augment movie CGI in the future? I have no domain experience with CGI or graphical simulation, but I have a passing interest as an occasional admirer of what shows up on /r/simulated.

Does modern CGI make use of machine learning like this? If not, what does it have in common aside from significant use of GPUs? What are the computational intensive parts of CGI, and what are the heavily manual and labor intensive parts of the CGI development workflow?
moves the leverage point across the step edge
The App Academy (top rated) boot camp has open sourced their curriculum
Patents are weird:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3450219A/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10131374B1/en

EDIT: 1906 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US849270A/en
> Many (if not most) quantitative hedge funds are dollar neutral

Delta neutral. And this is very difficult (and expensive) to attain in real life. Most funds are long biased because it's cheaper to be long than short.
Why is this romanized as "qiou" and not "qiu"? Did they make a new pinyin too, is that just the post breaking the rules for an English-only audience, or am I forgetting?
Placeholder doc for where the code+data will be hosted: http://stylegan.xyz/code

Explainer video for the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA
The DotA "creator" / last maintainer, IceFrog keeps his identity hidden. It did leak because of a Blizzard lawsuit, but people respect it and don't talk about it.
Ask HN: Do you know any free bootcamp for Python?
How do I run that on web, the most important platform today? I'm also not aware of any comparable community like Node.js has.

And I say that as someone who was writing Pascal professionally ~5 years ago.
The first shots of the next world way where fired decades ago. Nobody saw them light up the sky, for they where delivered by paper. No one read the news, for the catualtiea would not fall until several decades later.
There is so much more choice in music now than even 10 years ago. Spotify or not, the monopolisation of your hearing time by a few chosen musicians has been significantly reduced. Less pie for each to share around.
Also, spotify is not the only way musicians make money. Its only one of the ways they reach there audience and monetise it. Madonna for example would expect to earn 50 thousand a day from youtube, not to mention all the other less talked about revenue channels.