skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the whole thing is flawed.

Why?

Because criminals and other people who do overall negative things to society as a whole are obviously going to skew averages of dark personality traits down, decrease their average "success/happiness" score.

This means that there might exist productive people with "dark personalities" who might very well be much more productive than "light personalities", but this won't come out since average will be skewed.

You can have dark view of humanity/people and use people for your means, but still do great things for society. You could also use other people on an individual level to do great things for society in general. Also you don't have to be happy while doing it, and I would consider being influence on the world to be a definition of success. And arguably you would be able to have more influence if you were willing to use some "dark personality traits".

Essentially to understand whether "dark traits" can be more productive and achieve more you would have to exclude from results anyone who is fine with doing activities that generally harm society.

Take Bill Gates for example. He obviously has "dark traits", but as he got older he got better at hiding them and now look, what kind of positive influence he has had over the world. And arguably there aren't many people out there that are more successful than him. Same with Elon Musk, yadayadayada.
interesting info.

I'm sure visual sensory input factors somewhat into how audio positioning is being processed by the human brain.

However an audio experience w/o visual input via physical surround sound sources provides convincing and precise positioning of audio sources. So that indicates visual input is just a tiny factor.

What I struggle with given all audio enters the two years, regardless of headphones or multiple speakers, why is the latter so much better at conveying "surround" sound than headphone? Does this distill down to a simple scenario of sound waves entering the two ears?
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Systems with positive feedback loops tend towards power law distributions. If some success can help increase the likelihood of later success, then for participants they'll reach a level where there's a snowball effect that runs away to enormous returns. Most won't get enough to get the snowball growing.

If you're a musician and you have enough fans, they'll start creating more fans as they tell people about it, large numbers of people will be going to your shows and other people will hear about you, you get on the radio, you get listed as "trending" on Spotify, etc. There's also nothing to slow it down, since once you record a song once, people can listen to it effectively infinitely more times without you having to do anything else.
Yeah, Devin Townsend (who I would consider a successful musician) recently discussed how much he makes in an average year - and it was something like (going from memory) 70K per year before you factor in all the expenses associated with being a musician and creating records (which are quite large!). Touring is where much of his income comes from and he had recently “invested” in creating a new album and setting up a tour, but COVID wiped that all out putting him in a less-than-ideal financial situation.

I think that much like working at McDonalds or dealing drugs most people don’t make much - the financial rewards are fairly concentrated to a few individuals.
> those working for the company get considerably more say and control than outside contributors

As someone who knows little about open source politics, I'm genuinely curious about how people expect this should work. What are the large open source projects that have the gold standard for this that I can learn about?

My initial reaction is that if a company contributes considerably more to a project, shouldn't they have considerable more say? For example if they have 20 full time engineers working on it and have contributed 95% of the code, then if I come along and make a few changes should I have equal say and control over the project?
DOOM when?
It is not true that traits that are not advantageous are unlikely to be maintained over many generations. For example, many genetic diseases have survived for many generations. This may happen because, for example, they correlate with some other more positive traits. Or, because of other indirect, external factors.
From the article:

>The figures come from a survey of members belonging to songwriters’ body The Ivors Academy and the Musicians’ Union

Combined membership of the two organizations is around 32,000 [0][1] dues-paying members in the UK. We can safely assume the survey response rate was not 100%.

I believe that most musicians make little to nothing from streaming. I would be shocked if this survey data was representative of professional musicians more broadly.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ivors_Academy

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians'_Union_(United_Kin...
Ars Technica commentary on this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/secur...
TLDR- There is a strong correlation between Q-tip use and wax plugs but it might be reverse causality and this possibility hasn't been studied.

I wouldn't exactly call it "basically no evidence" as he says in the article, the correlation is very strong and the mechanism seems plausible.
Overall revenues are still below 2000 levels[1] and split between more artists thanks to streaming. It's probably worse for the "middle class" who are not getting millions of plays per month but also losing some of the potential income to the "long tail" of artists getting a few hundred plays each.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272305/global-revenue-of...
RFCs have a terrible reading experience. Especially on mobile or on a wide screen.
Because Linux isn't perfect. It can be improved upon.

* All code in the kernel including all drivers is 100% trusted. This is very bad for security.

* No stable driver ABI, so writing out-of-tree device drivers is very difficult.

* GUI is an afterthought, which means it is very difficult to do things like graphical secure attention keys, and frankly graphics/display support on Linux is very janky as a result.

* Many of its features are firmly stuck in the 80s.
Exactly this. No need to drag Pareto out of the barn just because you see 80%. The fundamental issue is a huge supply of wannabe musicians. If the distribution were completely flat, nobody rather than a small percentage would be making a living from Spotify. Not exactly new or groundbreaking stuff.
> Any thoughts about [GPS accuracy]?

Unless I'm missing something, couldn't you just fetch the GPS location and truncate the precision to 1/2/3 decimal points? There are subtler ways of doing this that mitigate

A: Oscillation of a user on the border between X,Y and X,Y+1

B: Distortion of precision area near the poles

but I'm sure you get the gist.
Thanks. If I'm understanding correctly: with Isolated (which is still being built), any given object is reachable from only one thread. It can be used for message-passing but not shared memory.

It looks like they've talked about shared memory as important for efficiency, eg https://nim-lang.org/araq/concurrency.html (from back in 2013 apparently, and I don't know if it's a "canonical" project view or not) says:

> For real CPU efficiency on commodity hardware shared memory is unavoidable. Message passing doesn't cut it and ultimately doesn't address the same problems. (http://www.yosefk.com/blog/parallelism-and-concurrency-need-...) Also shared mutable memory is unavoidable in a systems programming context.

(I agree with that statement, fwiw.)

It sounds like they haven't built support for shared memory yet; correct? and as this Isolated construct is also in progress, I think there's basically no threading support in Nim yet?

Are they still intending to build shared memory as well as Isolated? Is it intended to be memory-safe (as in the Rust terminology) or not?
One aspect that's often left out in conversations about earwax (cerumen) is that there are basically two very different types -- and they're determined by genes.

> There are two distinct genetically determined types of earwax: the wet type, which is dominant, and the dry type, which is recessive. While East Asians, Southeast Asians and Native Americans are more likely to have the dry type of cerumen (gray and flaky), African and European people are more likely to have the wet type (honey-brown, dark orange to dark-brown and moist).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwax

So, the effectiveness of any tool is going to be wildly different for a 'wet' type vs a 'dry' type. And, the ability to be "impacted" will vary as well.
It is inevitable given the network effects, the scale, and the limits of human attention. Specifically:

1. A single consumer has the attention span to follow/support only a handful of performers.

2. Performers with higher number of followers are more likely to get recommended, hence get new followers.

3. Having 100 vs. 100000 followers doesn't change the performer's costs. Hence, once a few superstars are established in a niche, you have very low chances of outcompeting them.

If you want to realistically make a decent amount of money, you need to either look at the markets where your costs scale up with the number of clients (e.g. doctors, lawyers, consultants), or at emerging/rapidly moving niches where the dominance has not been established yet.

Of course, the human brain is bad at natively feeling linearity at large scales [0], so a tiny chance of a huge payoff will always feel lucrative, even if the actual chances are against you. There are whole industries relying on people NOT calculating the chances [1] and the whole "become a streaming superstar" thing appears to be one of them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law

[1] https://theconversation.com/designed-to-deceive-how-gambling...
The new system only works because smaller bands are subsidising the bigger ones.

For example. I only listen to smaller indie bands on Spotify for a month. I give Spotify my £10 for the month.

Does my £10 go to those smaller bands? No. It gets given to Lady Ga Ga because she got 100 bazzillion listens that month. Even though I never listen to her music.

Spotify should work out who you’re listening to and give them a direct slice of what you have paid, rather than putting everyone in a pot together and dividing by number of plays.

It would be fairer, but it would mean the bigger bands earn less, and expose the fact that streaming really isn’t making anyone enough money.

How could it when I’m now paying only £10 a month for what used to cost hundreds?

But it’s better than piracy!
https://www.eadan.net/blog/german-tank-problem/

With python code.
> As always, most of their money comes from gigs and merch. Streaming is advertising more than it is an income source.

It hasn't _always_ been this way, though.
Sometime around smart pointers, or "managed" pointers. If I can't figure out how to use something in a few minutes, it's probably going to cost more in overhead than it benefits.
The Bad Habit That Even Productive People Keep Falling Into
Do you bathe? If you wash your skin, you are potentially removing anti-bacterial and foreign-object protection.

(I rather suspect that having a buildup of stuff in your ear is more likely to host bacteria and other such.)
Actors are paid very well, on union scales, when they do get gigs. I suspect well over 80% of actors who get at least one gig per year are going to make at LEAST 10 x $200.

Startups are a different situation, but in fact so different it seems silly to compare.

But the real reason this is on HN is because this is the consequences of applying technology (smartphones, cellular data, cloud scale web services) to an industry (music sales).
If you fail MCAT or LSAT you can't even study for a medical/law degree. If you throw random samples into FL Studio and publish the result on iTunes or Spotify you can claim to be a part of the oppressed 80% that earns less than £200 a year.
> I'm not sure why this is different.

There isn't an industry with a handful of corporations like Spotify making billions of dollars off your friends' pottery while millions of people spend hours gazing at it.
Except, as demonstrated by Snowden, those laws simply don't matter; the agencies can just ignore them and you can't do anything about it. Also, there are "secret courts", giving their cangaroo "secret verdicts", which, again, you can't do anything about.

Now, I have no idea whatsoever what it looks like in China, but... do you have any source? What I meant writing my previous comment was data protection laws, ie laws that control what various bodies (eg companies) can do with your personal data, and for how long.
But, that doesn't explain why he never mentions titanium, which is the other half of the question. If you even mention aluminum, the titanium question is clearly more relevant.

And, if these things are to be re-used, up-front material cost is less relevant than value. Titanium maybe doesn't get stronger at cryo temperatures, but is it still stronger than steel at such a temperatures? I couldn't find numbers. If it is, the dry weight of the vehicle could be much less, with large follow-on benefits.
That is standard peak practices, trust me I have seens trucks so full you can barely open any of the doors. It looks disorganized but is not as bad as you think.
Especially for users of in-ear speakers. Nasty as heck using them with dirty ears.
It hasn't. I've seen numbers for folks like Dolly Parton. She makes less in a year than I spend on coffee in streaming revenues. It is several orders of magnitude less than she makes in music sales.
Are you sure she isn't being paid for her notice period?
You spend hours in a coffee shop? Are you in Australia?
Like many my first reaction was shock, but at the same time not surprised. Have even emailed the address provided with feedback as I work for a University which like many use a mix of RHEL and CentOS.

As per the FAQ though I suspect there is more to this than meets the eye. Two things strike me: 1. The suggestion that low or no cost options for RHEL are coming for certain categories of user. 2. As much as Stream will be a rolling and "beta" channel, Fedora/CentOS/RHEL already have testing repos within their release process so Stream may not be as unstable as this might first suggest.

With local staged repository mirrors Steam may end up being less volatile than the existing point releases which were notorious for breaking things at times.
It reads like a brochure written by a marketing department, "top-tier offensive capabilities... world-class... operated clandestinely... They used a novel combination of techniques not witnessed by us or our partners in the past... nation-state cyber-espionage".

It's way over-the-top.
The vast majority of musicians have nearly no one playing their music.
It is based on our Code Search tool, that is also used internally to index and browse most of Google's source code: https://developers.google.com/code-search

The best part is the cross-references: try clicking on any identifier in https://cs.opensource.google/fuchsia/fuchsia/+/master:src/li... for instance.

I'm not sure how rendering works, I'm only a happy user :-)
People who love boring and ugly plain text sites are bound to be over-represented on a forum with an absolutely bare-bones plaintext-like design.
> A rough google reckons a PRS royalty for a Radio 1 play to be about £38 for the song. The Radio 1 breakfast show is 5.13m listeners. I'd hazard a lot of the plays on Spotify are just as passive as the radio (and it's probably replaced the radio for a lot of people). If you're working to the same metrics, Spotify pays considerably more per play (again, based on some Googled numbers).

I don't disagree with your whole point, but I have to point out that Radio used to be a marketing channel for a product (a record), and any profit was secondary, while Spotify streams are the end-product itself, which replaced both the marketing channel and the previous products.
Organizational Charts of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google
From my experience the more touristy cities might have a handful (e.g. Amsterdam yes, most other Dutch cities no), so for me it's way more rare than "a metric ton" in "most European cities", but maybe I haven't been in the right places, I wouldn't know if it's more common around the mediterranean for example.

Also, on the street it's much louder and more bustling around than in a subway (or on a train or even in a bus for that matter).
Scott Aaron son’s paper “The Busy Beaver Frontier”. https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/bb.pdf

It’s fairly accessible to anyone who vaguely remembers their CS theory, and quite fun!
> This reflects the trend that large, rich companies will sideline GPL projects in favour of liberally-licensed ones, or create their own.

If they never intended to contribute then nothing is lost. It’s not a popularity contest.
Compose can also be implemented easily:

extension NullableExtensions<T> on T? {
R? map<R>(R Function(T) transform) => this == null ? null : transform(this!);
}

V Function(V) compose<V>(Iterable<V Function(V)> functions) =>
functions.reduce((composedFunction, function) {
return (V value) => composedFunction(function(value));
});

num add3(num val) => val + 3;
num multiplyBy10(num val) => val * 10;
num subtract5(num val) => val - 5;

final doABunchOfMath = compose([add3, subtract5, multiplyBy10]);
final optionallyDoABunchOfMath = (num? value) => value.map(doABunchOfMath);

doABunchOfMath(10); // 98
optionallyDoABunchOfMath(10); // 98
optionallyDoABunchOfMath(null); // null

The nullable syntax (${Type}?) also makes it clear to readers that this is a type which may or may not contain a value. If you don't supply the trailing '?', Dart will enforce that the value must exist at compile-time and you can write your functions without worrying about nulls sneaking in where they're unwanted.

In effect, int? is almost nearly Option<int>, except you cannot represent Option<Option<int>> with Dart's nullable syntax.

Check out https://nullsafety.dartpad.dev/ to play around with the possibilities!
Law and medicine aren’t winner take all fields so that’s not a fair comparison. Should 80% of authors be able to make a living from their book sales? Athletes? Social media CEO’s?

Fair or not fair is subjective. In my opinion you shouldn’t go into fields with heavy power law dynamics unless you’re comfortable with a very high likelihood of coming out a ‘failure’.

At least it’s gotten more meritocratic than in years past.
Is there any hope besides choosing to stand in any situation where we would normally be sitting for a prolonged period of time?

I just got into a cardio routine for the first time in my life in the hopes of becoming healthier, and this has all but destroyed my optimism.

If not even exercise and a good diet can save your life if you are still sedentary, then the advice should be clarified to also suggest sitting as little as possible. I ended up believing that checking both those boxes was enough.
I finally started to really learn JS/React by building a real webapp, one to help my girlfriend give her online spanish classes.

She's been using it ever since, basing her entire classes on that tool. She prepares the classes, she makes exercises, and her students fill out the homework exercises.

Now I'm preparing real time document editing and proper user management so I can open it for more teachers.

I'm learning so much on a day to day basis. It has actually been great. In that sense. Only in that sense.
How much did they earn from their music prior to streaming?

Musician for most isn't a job that sustains your livelihood, to speak the truth. Most musicians takes it a passion driven side gig besides their regular day job.
The central message that they are caving in to some nebulous group of potentially cash-rich projects because those devs whine about GPLv3 is understandable if not exactly admirable. I mean, who does not read the following and think "you could make that 4 out of the top 20"?

Maybe if MySQL, its offshoot MariaDB, and our graph brothers Neo4j weren’t the only GPL flag flyers in the top 20 databases, it might be easier to gain adoption with GPL

That compounded with the following trite slogan actually detracts from what should have just been a simple announcement instead of extended squirming:
code freedom is being overtaken by developer freedom
An APT group was doing this up until ~2016 under the name 'Combi Security'

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/13/fin7-sysadmin-pl...
Not sure why I was downvoted. Are the moving pintle injectors separate from a throttle vavle?

I have studied a lot of pintle injector designs and it can go either way. Reguardless, a moving pintle injector typically only has two moving parts.
Best in life is to crush your enemies, see dem driven before you, and to hear da lamentations of da vemen.
If you'd like to learn more about Advanced Persistent Threats check out Florian Roth on twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/cyb3rops

Edit: For the downvoter, this isn't spam. It's an insight from a former CTI analyst.
But if you don't need them to be less boomy or clear up the mids, and that is the filter that you want, then there is no problem.
This seems completely unethical to me. While I understand and agree that minorities have been clearly the subjects of clearly unethical medical experimentation:

for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

it seems a terrible disservice to suggest that any group opt out of potentially life saving treatments. There is already far too much mis-information surrounding Covid and vaccines in the US to be sending persons from historically marginalized communities mixed messages.

A year from now people will rightfully say "I didn't get vaccinated when everyone else did because there was some suggestion that people of color did not need to be vaccinated".

On Pine Ridge, 10% of the community currently has Covid at this very moment : 10%!!!. Is it ethical to say to them:

"We have a vaccine and all whites are going to get it and I guess you can as well, if you don't feel that would be exploitative. You remember the shitty things we did in the past right..."

Add that message on top of messaging from Trump and Fox that this is all a hoax and that having Covid makes you stronger then compound it with persistent anti-vax messaging prevalent in the USA and you basically have a recipe for convincing marginalized communities that they would be better off not being vaccinated.
Companies do this all the time especially when there's an acquisition or change in management. In some cases they may technically still support it but with ever growing bugs, security issues and so on.
RUR-5 Asroc
Wouldn't negotiating a "better deal" for the 80% of artists earning less than £200 likely just raise costs on the already-expensive streaming platforms to help pay for it?
OKay, how many trucks are rolling coal in SF and Oalkand?
> the GPLv3 was simply far too scary for companies.

The FSF made a huge effort to make GPLv3 not scary. They tried to involve absolutely everyone, and tried to take everyone’s concern into account. The GPLv3 was made to be not scary.

The GPLv3 instead became “scary” not because anything scary in it, but because of a huge FUD campaign from large companies who didn’t want people to switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3, since the companies wanted to keep exploiting the loopholes in the old v2. For those old enough to remember, this was mostly the same old FUD campaign against the GPL (any GPL) versus a permissive license, many years before that. But, largely thanks to Linux, the GPL slowly won over that old batch of FUD. With the GPLv3, however, the opportunity was there to start it all up again. The GPLv3 is slowly winning against the FUD this time too, but it hasn’t prevailed yet, and Linux is not here to help this time.