skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not but implementing intelligent data access each time can become pretty tedious (sure you can write libraries and tools, but I'm basically asking if those already exist)

For something like AWS CloudTrail logs, 5GB is 40k 100-130kb gzipped json files so hit single-core CPU bounds almost immediately (just reading/decompressing/json parsing off an SSD). CPU scale out model in Python is processes so now you're copying data between processes if you want to parallelize it so now you hit IPC bottlenecks just using the standard library multiprocessing/concurrent futures stuff

5GB compressed /probably/ won't fit in memory so now you have to deal with that, too unless you have a way to keep it compressed (which would come at the cost of additional CPU usage)

tldr; it's non-trivial to actually fully use the hardware
Chinese Tech Companies Testing Tool to Circumvent Apple's Privacy Rules
One of the great public thinkers today for sure.
"sustainable for the artists"

There seems to be some idea of what musicians "should" make that other professions don't benefit from. I would like to make the same money from making furniture as I do from writing code, but I can't. I could blame the furniture stores for not promoting me or taking too big a cut or any number of other factors, or I could accept the fact that I'm not an amazing woodworker. But I still make my art/craft because I enjoy it and it's important to me.

There are plenty of ways for musicians to make a living, but I don't see a problem with the fact that spending a month or two a year recording an album is a privilege available to only the most talented subset of them.
Great piece. I have to admit I'm a bit of a fan when it comes to both Friedman and Sowell. They seem to have the rare gift of understanding subjects so well and intuitively that they can explain those subjects more plainly than anyone else. Where most economists have disappointed me greatly in their understanding of math, Sowell has done to opposite.
How noble, selfless, righteous and pure, for the political party which has just taken power with the narrowest of margins to suddenly take interest in "correcting an injustice" in a manner that secures additional power! Puerto Rico statehood will certainly be next; then, perhaps we can demand justice for cities like, say, Austin, on the premise that their citizens' representation is diluted by sharing senators with the rest of Texas.

Don't worry, we know what it's about <3
The employees didn't pay for their options because the options were "out of the money" and the employees had various confirmations that the shares would not be worth anything, but they still had the choice to.

Yeah I guess cautionary tale is the good word here.

> watching the early employees lose out on their equity because they were told the company was a failure is not cool

eh, they had the choice, this isn't a story of the share class changing or the entity being changed, and you had to write presumably because you don't know and are relying on the financial unsophistication of many tech employees

can be a tough choice to both earn below market salary and then be expected to use that income to buy your shares. sadly this is due to various tax law changes over the last few decades.

but yeah this isn't "egregious enough" for me to garner anything from it.

its a case study about how much you can do with contractors and that you don't need venture capital or the employee structure if you know what you actually want to build
> Some of the best artists I know have day jobs.

Most artists with regular output do not. The problem with a day job is it takes away from what a person can produce. For example, a content creator (i.e. YouTuber) with a day job is lucky to get out one-two videos a week. A full time content creator can produce one to two videos a day, often with better quality since they can focus on the work.
I'm partial to Granada because I grew up there, but it's an awesome place. About 20% of the population is college students, so that tells you about the city life. It's close to the tallest mountain range in Southern Europe, 45m from the beach, food is great and cheap, and it's small enough that you can walk just about anywhere you want, or take transit.
The 8 hours it's parked at work will likely charge the 20 mile round-trip. For some people it will literally never need to be charged or serviced. For other types, like me, I drive about 4 hours a week over 2 trips, but the rest of the time it would just sit at home, probably charging at least half of that drive time. So I would need to plug it in. That being said I'm planning out a 12Kw+ solar for home anyway.
The libertarian way to is to use what-ever you feel like.
> Emacs also has an "undo", but no "redo" command

They don't have default bindings (unfortunate), but try installing a recent build of Emacs 28 and binding these commands to the keys of your choice:

- undo-only

- undo-redo
You didn’t set a 2fa in that account. So they ask for a phone number to correlate the login.
Wow, reading this was really enjoyable and valuable.
I intend to read Sowell more.
@apress
Love hearing these stories, thanks for sharing!

BTW, great profile piece on Keller and impressive portfolio of articles on Fortune.
> Why was this published in Law & Liberty, has he burned his left-of-center media bridges?

No, left-of-center media is under the throes of the cultural far left, and they "de-platform" anyone who doesn't adhere to their ideology.

So conservative media, along with non-traditional dissident media like Quillette, are often the only place dissident liberals like TCW can be published.
Billions of cicadas may be coming soon to trees near you
As I understand, artists haven't made much from record sales or radio deals historically. Most of that money goes to publishers. Instead, artists used those mediums to boost their popularity and made most of their income from merchandise and live performances.

If I had to guess at what's going on here, I'd bet this is driven more by publishers than artists. Music publishers are becoming increasingly irrelevant as platforms like Spotify enable artists to distribute their work more directly at similar margins. Artists are probably just the poster child used to garner sympathy for the cause from the public.
Netscape 4 is one of my all-time favorite browsers. I stuck with it for many years, because it was blazing fast on my older hardware, and cached well, unlike IE.

Like you, I sometimes take it out for a spin "for the giggles". It's comforting and it works well with my own sites.

I don't worry much about mitm for my purposes, and HTTP still works great, a testament to its design.
Yeah, the rules are similar in Finland (hardly surprising since the Nordic countries often try to harmonize laws), but there are specific requirements for buildings if one intends to live there permanently -- i.e. if you're building a shed in the yard then you might not require a permit, but you might need one if you build a small cottage and intend to live in it.

Regardless, it's usually a matter of documenting that the new building adheres to various standards.
If you move to Spain presumably you’re planning to learn Spanish?
Since expanded to even larger dimensions:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attefallshus (link in Swedish)
The real answer is that Spotify will melt under its own inadequacy and the new platform will thrive. You adapt or you die, and I would have no sympathy for Spotify if they couldn't adapt.
What is an alternative that can work in all countries without any problems?
The book Sapiens discusses this at length. Our early hunter gatherer ancestors had a much more varied diet compared to agricultural society
What I don't see mentioned in the article are right-to-work states. While still effective to a degree, unions tend to have much less bite in these states. I'm left to wonder if Amazon would have the heft/ability to simply relocate all manual labor to states with right-to-work as law, or if that kind of move would be outside of union-busting laws.
'You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern.... One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."'
> On the contrary, I argue that it WAS worthless

The founder continued running the company with part time contractors and blogged about their profitability. It wasn’t worthless.
Lets be realistic, that's most people. Everyone thinks their pet causes to get offended about are justified. Even people getting indignant about cancel culture are enjoying their indignation.
The huge problem with SFINAE and most template techniques is that the semantics of the operation are completely different from the intention, and this always shows in error messages for any small mistake, even most of the ones your users make.

Concepts were supposed to help, but based on what I've heard, they sometimes make the error messages even worse, so I'm not sure.
The thing about exports is that they're also imports - and imports are subject to VAT. So if I buy something internationally, I need to declare it and then pay VAT on it.
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Do you have any more details on your application? Sounds like your architecture choice worked out really well. I'm curious to hear more about it.
I never said it's "hard", I said it's glanced over, i.e. never mentioned in these types of videos despite it being (I assume) something that requires a not insignificant amount of time. And no, I don't expect it to be described in excruciating detail, I'm just saying it's usually not mentioned at all.
The ice accretion from a few weeks ago weighed down and broke a couple of branches 8-10" thick in my back yard. When it warmed up, I took a saw, a machete and an axe and converted it into firewood over the next few hours. All together, it's maybe 1/20th of a cord that will need a few months to dry, and a mere evening or two to burn.

This is a preamble to a novel of the world of pain my hands, arms and joints were in afterward, at my age and shape. And yet despite being an overpaid typist like most of us here, I regularly do heavy repairwork and maintenance, such as digging 110' drainage ditches on my property by hand, shovel and mattock. But it was the jarring impacts that don't play nicely with our flavor of carpal tunnel.

From that limited perspective, I can appreciate the amount of work this feller put into this build. He's using hand tools. The tractor is in lieu of logging horses or borrowing a half dozen people to pull. IMO, the sheer amount of time and effort that went into this is to be respected alone.
I think it is household vs personal. The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual real median personal income at $35,977 in 2019.

For a startup founder, or in fact any single person, median personal income is a more relevant number.
Real life impact of Dunning Krueger indeed.
And your suggested way to operate an organisation without money is...?
Neither is close to 1 ha though.
without the power afforded by money to the union, it cannot stand up to the company. the dues are functionally an insurance payment for security in your job.

this comment is similar to saying:

i'm kinda creeped out by car insurance payments. it just feels less about protecting other drivers and more about enriching the insurance companies.

you are right that it does create a new power structure and job roles, that's the point of it! the money you pay is also part of the strike pay you'd get back.
Is that you applying the technique? It's heavy right?!
Who lobbied for this? Churches? I heard there's a lot of booming psychedelic churches on US.
> no environmental impact

How do you know if you don't bother to look it up? Many countries have national parks and entire areas where any "modification" to nature is illegal.
Do we know for a fact that the investors sold the equity back to the founder and not the company (like a stock buyback)? The investors just wanted to get out, so tracking down former employees, deciding how much equity each one deserves, and selling them equity probably isn't what they want to spend time doing. So the only real options would be selling to the company, or to the founder.
I’m specifically talking about the assault on Apple’s stance in the EU, across several fronts, including app store, “repairability”, Spotify vs. Apple, etc. I haven’t yet seen US regulators get excited, only lawsuits and occasional Congress-critters.

If, in the USA, consumers are suddenly (2020Q4) preferring Apple’s philosophy, that also seems ok, and those who bet the other way with a majority slice for a decade (Apple is shown as minority on your graph until Q4 which seems such a jump as to be suspect) don’t get to have sour grapes that they were mistaken and try to claw away consumer choice.

So long as any consumer believes paying less(!) for an “open” handset you fiddle with yourself to assemble and maintain from multiple sources is better than paying more(!) for a closed curated one, and as long as devices are available for that choice, it seems the choice is a market choice that remains available and fair, without need of regulation to take away the right of the 15% or 40% or even 60% to make it.

If one day so few consumers make that choice that it’s no longer available, then it’s time to decide whether that choice was mistaken, whether a digital phone may be more like a digital watch, where you do not want PC-era maintenance responsibilities and security concerns interfering with your enjoyment of the appliance for a frictionless job to be done.

Tech paths dead end or mature all the time, it’s ok. Almost seems inevitable that Phone Shack will go the way of Radio Shack and we engineers will find a new thing to hack instead of building radios from transistors or phones from bits.
It's for European countries to decide from whom they want to import energy and not, isn't it? But for some reason the biggest opponent of this "reliance" is the US, not the affected European countries.
The places with higher supply of housing or land and lower demand.

To be less snarky, about 80% of Americans live in urban or suburban areas. Those tend to be more expensive due to the higher demand. The other 20% live in rural or exurban areas where land is extremely cheap.

However, access to education and healthcare outside the urban/suburban regions can be very bad.
Music publishers work for the songwriter. Songwriters hold the publishing. Record labels are the copyright holders. Streaming companies license from the latter.
They do, in fact, help on ice. There are plenty of youtube videos showing winter tire demos on hockey rinks.

And again, yes, they help substantially in 2 feet of snow.

I agree that properly treated roads are necessary, but we treat roads for the lowest common denominator. If we as a population properly prepared (say that three times fast) for poor road conditions, we and our environment would be way better off.
Hi everyone, I'm Tola and I'm a co-founder of Citonhub. my team built Citonhub because eight months ago, we decided to teach a group of people how to code online, but we couldn't find a platform that had all the features we needed in one place.

We would have to teach on WhatsApp, share our screen on Zoom, review projects on Codepen. This was difficult and inefficient. I'm open to hearing your feedbacks and suggestions. Thank you!
The requirements for Swedish citizenship are clearly spelled out here: https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...
The solar towers do work better in hotter environments but only marginally. When you are heating things to above 500c, whether the background is 0c or 30c doesn't make much difference. The mirrors suffer the same issues as PV panels (dirt/dust/scratches). Solar towers work best at lower latitudes where the sun is more overhead. Many of those latitudes are in deserts but the desert conditions are secondary to the angle of the sun.
FTC lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming. Their bosses refused to sue
Imagine being in a position where you have to choose between putting up with this hostile bullshit or going hungry/evicted.

Most of us here could tell our bosses to f off and either have enough savings for months (or even years), or at the very least get another job within weeks or days. Even having grown up lower-middle class with zero, often negative, extra money, going years without vacation, etc., it's hard to wrap my head around being forced to deal with abusive supervisors and coworkers because the alternative might be homelessness within weeks.
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> This might end up getting a lot of hate.

Why should I care whether you choose to use Docker (or other piece of software)?

If your use-case doesn't require it, then you probably shouldn't use it. I do take issue with your evidence however:

> Deploying the app is as easy as:
> scp app user@host:
> ssh user@host “nohup ./app”

Not if you're deploying to production it isn't, unless this is Hello World. I've conceived quite a few from-scratch deployments for Go applications. Yes, it's simple, but there are a lot of complicating factors in an application of any substantial complexity:

- ENV files

- credentials for deployment

- database migration

- supporting files (eg. web assets)

- something to actually make sure your application stays up (eg. systemd)

Those are the first things that come to mind, and overall it's probably a lot less complex deployment than stacks other than Go allow. Let me tell you why I do use Docker - for dev and deployment, but not production:

- Reproducible builds for all apps on the correct version of Golang

- No dependency issues among members of the dev team. Everything you need is in the docker images.

- Easy imitation of production stack (again, correct versions, etc)

Those are the main reasons. I think the most important part is to make sure everybody is building the same application. Here is an example:

Suppose my colleague is using Debian and installed Go with apt. He's stuck on 1.13, but I'm using Arch and got 1.15 as soon as it came out. Now our builds are different. This is why we use docker to run applications in dev, and build for production. Or suppose a colleague is using Windows or Mac to build. There are still differences! Using Docker means everyone is building in roughly the same environment.

I realize certainly that some organizations control more tightly what OS an employee is using for this sort of thing. Mine doesn't, and Docker helps to keep us all on the same page (the Linux page, of course).
Not all preservatives deserve to be called poisons. BHT is a preservative because it's an antioxidant. It's available as a dietary supplement for that reason. Alpha-tocopherol is a preservative additive but is often used to fortify foods with additional vitamin E. Salt, vinegar, and ascorbic acid are all also preservatives.
Taking a look at their most recent financial statement we can do some quick calculations.

(All figures in million euros)
Revenue Cost of Revenue Profit
Premium : 7135 5126 2009
Free (ads): 745 739 6

Overall : 7880 5865 2015

Now currently the claim is that they are paying out $0.0038 per stream and we want to raise that to $0.01 which would be a 2.63 multiple.

For spotify free that would mean that they just have to include 2.63x more ads, this is doable but I'm sure it would hurt adoption and maybe people would move from the platform.

For spotify paid they could cut down their profit margin and pay 39% more per stream than they currently do (ignoring that they have more than 2B eur in other business expenses currently). But even after that they would still have to raise their prices by a multiple of 1.91.

This would mean they would have to charge about $19.10 a month to not loose money on licencing in the US market.
Yeah, but that's not Spotify's problem to fix.
Agree. It's also one of the annoying websites that breaks scrolling with yet more javascript crap. It's a lot of cruft for a text-with-images page that hasn't changed conceptually since 1995.
I think part of the appeal of crypto's crazy returns comes from the loss of faith people have that the economic system as it is will provide stability like it did for their parents' generation.

Millions of kids in college are wondering how their school is getting away charging regular tuition when classes are via Zoom. Older kids are wondering how a house their parents bought for $100k is worth 15x now when salaries haven't increased by anywhere near that.

Putting money into an index fund that offers 5% (ballpark) seems ridiculous when you consider what things cost today. Why not take a punt on something that could appreciate 10x in a week? It does sound too good to be true, but in an economic system distorted by endless quantitative easing and effectively interest rates for savers, maybe this is the new normal.
I don't get what make him popular around certain crowds in HN. He is very polemical (I mean he was arguing that Obama would lead the US to live under Sharia law), is not a particularly good scholar, nor very insightful. Certainly, nothing he wrote as articles gave me a desire to read some of his books.

There are tons of smarter, more interesting people in the conservative sphere, especially around libertarian/conservative "brand". I don't get it.
Assuming parent meant median income for a person, not for a household. $35K is correct. Here's the data: https://datacommons.org/tools/timeline#&place=country/USA&st...

Dual income households are pretty common these days, so a median household income of $65K with a median income of $35K makes sense.
Turning to IBM or Oracle for moral reasons is about the funniest thing I've read in a long time. One enabled the holocaust and the other made 90s-era Microsoft seem downright communist.
Music rights are split into two traditionally, the songwriting copyright and the mechanical reproduction right. Previous to the internet, media sales mostly went to the labels who held hte mechanical rights and songwriting copyright was earned directly to the artist. So if you bought a CD the label gets paid, if you play a song on the radio an artist gets paid.

The music industry lawyers were incredibly smart when they passed the DMCA back before online music was much at all, and got internet streaming defined as mechanical reproduction so they got dealt in on streaming.

ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC, et al, which give large blanket licenses to cover most copyrights for songs charged well known quantity for licenses, and early music streaming services paid those. Harry Fox (at least at the time) was the clearing house for mechanical rights and there was actually no set rate or anything. DMCA created a compulsory license that Harry FOx would have to give, but the rates were not known at the time, so everyone was getting VC funding without knowing what anything would cost.

That rate is probably much higher than the songwriting royalties, so the music industry has succeeding in getting ahold of most of the money in a new format that was poised to benefit the artists directly.

I guess we should just be glad it didn't happen like video streaming and there are actually rights clearing houses so companies like Spotify and others can make compelling streaming services with very large catalogs, unlike the city-state video steaming where you need 3-4 services combined to get access to most of the mainstream stuff.