skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the cost is linear to number of streams, it only matters if the premium subscribers that drop have a lower average streams/month rate than the average premium subscribers.

This assumes, like the post two levels above me, that Spotify don't need the profits for anything and just need to break even.
Isn't Spotify barely making a profit?

I think the real issue here is that people just don't want to pay as much for music like they did during the golden age of the CD.
Most Spotify users are still on the free tier.
Blaming streaming companies isn't gonna change that.
F#'s relationship has been vastly overblown. The truth is that they're about as closely related as C# and Objective-C. In the same way that the overlap between C# and ObjC is basically just the C bit, the overlap between F# and and OCaml is basically just the ML bit. (Actually, even less than that.) You could say that it was inspired by OCaml, but it includes almost none of what makes OCaml OCaml, and adds a lot of its own new ideas.
>Why bother investing in the languages with a much smaller market share when the big boys adopt good bits and pieces from them constantly?

because if you know exactly what you want to do there's no reason to settle for the second best thing. If you want F#, no harm with going exactly with F#.

I talked to a bunch of Jane Street engineers once and the consensus seemed to be that Ocaml, despite its very small footprint, actually helped them attract the kind of people who were super enthusiastic about building really good stuff with a good technology, so it actually made recruiting for them easier.
Totally agree. Maybe spotify should look like an app store with fees in the 30% range at the top end (shopify/apple/steam). Their role is very similar: distribution and discovery. They probably could wi points giving better payouts per stream to smaller artists too, like steam does. Hopefully competition will force it down too (eg epic vs steam vs apple). We might need open access to back catalogues and not exclusive deals, but its a start
It looks like it has been done for a fair bit:

http://jimlund.org/build-to-spec/Setting%20Up%20Libcutter%20...

Cricut's USB exposes itself as a serial USB port, and it looks like the library is there to make SVGs cut for it.

EDIT: It looks like there is some sort of encryption between the host and Cricut as well? So Cricut makes it intentionally unfriendly to make it work with thir party vendors.
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> I'd say it is even worse, because people is paying but the money goes to a middleware company that is not paying the right price

Because of contracts the _artists_ signed, not the consumer.
Unsigned artists don't sign anything with labels but we do agree to Spotify's terms, and those terms take from us and hand it over to major labels.

If a user pays $10/mo and listens to nothing but indie streams, those indies are getting far less than $7.50 (more like pennies) due to the way they calculate their payouts. The major labels pocket the majority of that money.

Spotify have the ability to change this, but not the will to do so, because the major labels own a stake in them. Soundcloud recently launched a payment model that matches pretty much exactly what indies are asking Spotify to do, so we know it's possible but Spotify have been stonewalling indies about how it's too complicated for years.
Why still only 1080p in the year 2021?
> in liberal-thinking circles

In leftist-thinking circles. Let's not forget what "liberal" is supposed to mean.
I agree that #if defined(...) is better but we don't have a time machine so I'm glad that the proposal isn't accepted. If we are going to keep #ifdef in the language (and we don't really have a choice) we may as well make it consistent and usable.
Indeed is Instagram or Snapchat doing possibly something similar?
> Because our solution relies on serializing the DOM state,

In addition to the benefits you mentioned, this also makes your interactive demos accessible with screen readers and other assistive technologies, or at least as accessible as the apps themselves. That makes them better than demo videos.

I also got a good laugh out of the fact that "Improve site accessibility" is one of the sample tasks in your meta-demo. Indeed, the popup dialog, which prompted me for my email and name, should be marked up as an ARIA dialog. I haven't checked out the actual Navattic app, so I don't know yet what accessibility improvements might be needed there.
> making snow tires mandatory

Why is this even necessary at all?

I'd like to see anyone who's got to drive a month or three on compacted snow or snow slush and not willing to switch to winter tires.

The car becomes uncontrollable at like 32 kph / 20 mph.

Back there in Finland they use crushed granite and it works just fine without corroding everything in sight and also killing plant life.
But the investment is directly proportional to the number of people you know and can coerce/bribe in some way. If you know many people, you can rig the numbers in your favor, at least temporarily, which might be long enough to get another position (or whatever it is you're after).
I don't like having my hands off-center. I assume I'm not alone there. Among other things, it causes amplified wrist pain.
Low interest rates means managers of pensions and other large money managers can't put their money in bonds. They would lose money because the interest rate is lower than inflation.

So they need somewhere else to put it.
With system 76 you get not just the processor, but also the other parts. You know System 76 didn't change network interfaces to something new with no linux drivers mid stream. Or Wifi, USB chipset, some BIOS, or one of the many other non-processor parts that manufacture change all the time. If there are drivers the substitution doesn't matter to anyone, but often there are no linux drivers for 3-6 months (best case - meaning that it isn't hard to write the driver, in the worst case linux will never get a driver).

Note that for the above substitutions there often is no part number change so you have no way of knowing if the amazon/costco model will work even if it works for someone else.
Apple has a $2T market cap. Do they truly "need" China? I know, I know, they have a responsibility to their shareholders, blah blah. But Two Trillion Dollars.
It is notable that vaccine acceptance has gone up now that it is widely available, which also coincides with the departure of an influential politician who had been downplaying the significance of the disease.

It's hard to disentangle the two effects, but there is a burgeoning symbol of status in people literally displaying their vaccine cards. It hasn't completely undone the damage, but it does seem to ameliorate it.
If only there was a way to buy your own colocation racks and host it yourself.
We've taken different approaches to this in the past. Through serializing all network requests (from js bundles to api requests), you can reassemble an application on the client in the same way that it would typically appear. This allows you to use any browser tech like canvas / WebGL as normal. From a DOM serializing perspective, although less interactive, you can convert canvas elements into static images (.toDataURL()). This has proved to be good enough for most use cases so far, but we're continuing to experiment with new methods!
>What kind of education, besides the education we already give about being a safe driver is the kind of education needed to be "good" at driving on snow and ice?

You gotta drill into people's heads that "more of what you're already doing" makes losing traction worse instead of better.

If it were up to me the crappy driver's ed videos would have someone who's obviously really high telling people "you gotta just chill and go with the flow, man"
Typically it means children being raised by their biological parents.
Depends on the tenancy agreement, some are bills included, some are not.
Ah, morality and the purpose of existence, topics that are famously settled and not open to serious debate or conflicting interpretations.
It's just my pessimism about greedy American companies, who pass all costs onto the consumer without remorse.
Honestly I don't see why we can't just outlaw HOAs. If you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it. It seems like a simple constitutional right to me.
You're both saying the same thing, statistics are not evidence of guilt
Why Brave??
Russia threatens to block Twitter in a month
This looks great! Is it possible to capture the demo environment once and then create multiple demo variants by editing ui text or data using a wysiwyg editor later? Since this is a static version?
Problem is the cargo-culting. A lot of startups don't have the complex problems

Many are anticipating scaling problems they'll never have and wasting a lot of time, effort and money in that process
PostgreSQL 13 Streaming Replication on Ubuntu
This is really interesting. I use git to manage my deploys. I git pull from my servers whenever I deploy.

I have been toying with using github actions to automate the pull. My workflow would be something like:

1. work locally on a branch
2. test, merge with master
3. git push from local to github
4. a github action would see the commit to master and initiate a git pull on my server.

Something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61447350/automatically-p...

What are the advantages to using polybox or piku?
Servant leadership is a trap
Not a "fan" of Macs but a fanless laptop without having to get 5 year old performance in return and the touch bar is still very rare outside Apple devices.
Why would you use a proprietary browser when Firefox is around?
In most of the United States, you need no permit whatsoever to fell trees on private property. Yes, including clear-cutting your forest and selling it for lumber.

This is not a good thing though.

Exceptions apply in some localities, please check before cutting down all your trees.
From Time's interview (https://time.com/5171270/black-lives-matter-patrisse-cullors...) of Cullors, the "main" founder and the only one still maintaining a leadership position at BLM:

> Cullors weaves her intellectual influences into this narrative, from black feminist writers like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong. Reading those social philosophers “provided a new understanding around what our economies could look like,” she says. Reading Lorde and hooks “helped me understand my identity.”

All the people happily repeating "Black Lives Matter", putting up lawn signs, and donating to them have no idea that it is led by someone who admires and is inspired by Marx, Lenin, and Zedong. They think the accusations of Marxism are a right-wing conspiracy theory, when the reality is that this is the ideological rot at the core of the Black Lives Matter organization, that its philosophies and goals are based around the same principles espoused by some of the most dangerous ideologues of all time. From https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-m...:

> the deaths caused by communist regimes [...] is closer to 100 million. That makes communism the greatest catastrophe in human history
It's always funny to me how proponents of nuclear power use France as their example while ignoring that France is trying to dramatically reduce the amount of nuclear power they have because it's too expensive. If you're going to use them as an example, let's use them as a full example instead of just trying to paint a rosy picture on a nuanced subject.
The other issue that has been raised a number of times is that I believe the revenue is still divided up based on overall listens across the platform, which means it's dominated by artists who feature heavily in popular playlists and automation-driver radio/recommendations.

These listens are often passive and should not be considered as valuable as those of someone listens only a few hours a month, but spends all of that time listening to specific artists (indie or otherwise).

Basically the argument is that if I spend $9.99 on a Spotify sub, the entirety of that cash (minus Spotify's cut) should be directed to the actual artists I listened to.

Here's an articulation of this perspective from 2014: https://medium.com/cuepoint/how-to-make-streaming-royalties-...
It’s simply not possible to be a good human being and also downvote this. It’s absolutely on-topic, absolutely critical to the subject of Trump’s deplatforming, and absolutely irrefutable in terms of the facts of what the man has said and done.

Anyone downvoting should be ashamed and sickened by their behavior, no matter what rationalization they are attempting to hide behind.
Managed 500 physical machines over the course of 20 years, no UPS, never had a problem where power loss caused data corruption or loss.
The Great American Eye-Exam Scam
Massachusetts had to go for round 2 of their legislation because Tesla in particular was using a loophole to get around it: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wy8v/newly-passed-right-to...
I used Java a lot and like some aspects. But I think C# is way ahead in some important ways and Java is playing catch-up
GM builds some 2021 pickups without certain modules due to chip shortage
Elon Musk is Selling his Tweet as an NFT – Highest bid is Over $1.1M
That’s a horrendous hack. The security provisions of immediacy and liveness offered by SMS 2FA are rendered moot.

That one needs to do this to work around the limitations solidifies in my mind that SMS is a poor 2FA solution and should be discontinued.
Not realistic if you want a globally distributed highly reliable architecture.
It's better than Chrome and FF imho. Lacks the tracking BS from Chrome, and FF has gone downhill..

Any reasons not too?
Here at Quobyte, we're developing a distributed file system that is partially written in Java. The JVM is rock-stable, fast, and developers are very productive in Java.
This is a rather brittle concept. I certainly don't want someone judging me based off of my occasional use of a professional profile. I would feel very hesitant to allow a proprietary value algorithm to judge me in my professional life. And as a recruiter that value would essentially be mostly meaningless, I'd want to look at recommendations, and experience first. A score based on trading simply measures how good you are at trading, not how good you are at doing your job.
Removal is not likely, nor is major change. Most likely some minor changes.
I have never seen a capitalist positioned against pleasure. Why would they bother otherwise? Merely surviving can be done for nearly zero money.
Well musicians do voluntarily sign the contracts with major labels. And they do get payed for it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/943818966/bob-dylan-sells-son...
Laptops with offset keyboards are difficult for me to deal with. The keyboards qwerty (or whatever layout) section should really be centered under the screen
I honestly can't understand how anybody sleeps at night writing software for Amazon, at this point. Maybe it's easier to justify to yourself if you work at AWS and not directly on the retail side of things, who knows.

I'm not going to try and cast judgement on individuals' circumstances, I just experience genuine confusion that Amazon can (apparently) still attract top-ish talent.
Interest rates have been low for quite some time, though.

Maybe it is also driven by perception of overvaluation among publicly traded equities?
Filter Bubbles vs. Divisiveness
They are aware of it, I've contacted them multiple times about it, they just don't care.
And that is part of the problem space we are addressing. How do you find and select people to work with? Whether that is a plumber, accountant or software developer. It's great if you have a referral from a trusted friend. But what if your trusted friend does not have a referral? Or, if the referral is busy at the moment. The need still exists and you need to find a provider.

Perhaps the TRU Score is not the "perfect" solution, but I think it's far better than a simple star rating. How many times on HN do we see posts about people "buying" ratings or followers. As a result, people lose trust in the value of the rating system. So, we have created an alternative that we think people can trust.

A future release has planned to use Stripe Identity. Whereby, you will have confidence in the profile you are viewing and can make an informed buying decision. As designed, manipulation of the TRU Score [when combined with Identity], will be difficult.
You're completely correct. It's never too soon to think about accessibility, and this is high on my immediate road map!
Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard
Mmmn, HN stripped out the half of the double asterisks, now I made it confusing myself... Too late to edit my comment above, but it needs to be like this:

** stands for exponentiation: so [expr {-2**2}] results in 4
Still have no idea who pays for Docker
Hum... No, Kubernetes is not a HA solution.

One can certainly create an HA cluster over some infrastructure set up by kubernetes, just as well as one can take a bunch of physical servers, set them up by hand, and create an HA cluster with them. K8s isn't adding anything to the availability.
The primary focus of capital deepening is deep-sixing workers. Capitalists capitalisming looks a lot like robots.
> First: I can't imagine not finishing Zen -- it is among my top ten books.

Well, I'm making a second attempt. I really liked it the first time, but it requires a certain state of enjoy -- skim reading it just won't do.

I think Pirsig would understand why it took me years. He makes a point about slowness and not rushing things, the journey vs the destination.

> I also don't want the kind of phone right to repair would force me to have.

So you're in John Sutherland's camp, with his trusty BMW R60 that requires no involvement on his part -- till it does, of course, and it frustrates him.
We've been through this argument, recently, and I'm a little disappointed that you're framing this observation as if that discussion hadn't occurred already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23766155

The implication of your comment is that the alternative to "the nuclear family" is "single-parent families". But the other alternative to nuclear families is "extended families", which you yourself have written about on HN numerous times.

There is an important racial justice issue involving nuclear vs. extended families; to wit: high-status municipalities (and their school systems) discriminate against them, both by mandating single-family housing and by working to exclude students who reside with extended family care networks. That's a thing we're grappling with in Oak Park, where I live just outside of Chicago, right now. It's not random; it's in fact a lot more legitimate than other BLM grievances (against, for instance, capitalism writ large).
Plants discovered beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
This doesn’t make sense to me, it’s not that they are eating into profits, it’s that they are eating into average margin; they presumably still at least break even on free users. And I would bet dollars to donuts that those free users are not going to convert to paid when piracy, YouTube videos, and free trials of other services exist.
Chromium is open source and Firefox collects quite a bit of data by default as well.
Is there a reason not to disallow type inferences altogether?
You willingly handed over your work to Spotify, you signed the contracts, now you're unhappy with the deal.

Spotify is a recent creation and it was nothing without musicians yet they willingly went forward with it even though it was obvious what would happen and now the obvious has happened they want a better deal.

It's hard for me to muster up sympathy, they could have collectively stopped Spotify from happening but they willingly became part of it.
I don't think you're deprived of any nutrients. Sticking to a well-chosen, consistent diet is a feature, not a bug. Most of us living in modern cities have a dizzying array of options to the point that today more humans die due to obesity today than to malnutrition.

Heck, even more than 2000 years ago, people were conscious of too much food variety. Here, look at Seneca riffing on it in a letter to his friend (titled 'A beneficial reading program'):

"You must stay with a limited number of writers and be
fed by them if you mean to derive anything that will dwell reliably with you [...] 'But I want to read different books at different times,' you say. The person of delicate digestion nibbles at this and that; when the diet is too varied, though, food does not nourish but only upsets the stomach."
It's similar for me. I was less motivated and could grasp less as a college student over now with 10 years experience.
>When Westerners see an absurdly profitable company, they think, "why aren't they paying their employees more??!" and start a union to parasitize earnings.

Saying that employees expecting a livable wage is "parasitizing earnings" is a pretty outrageous claim.

>It's an important difference for manufacturing physical things and it's why the West loses out to Asia in manufacturing outside cutting-edge tech.

The West lost out to Asia because their standard of living was so much lower that it was basically slave labor for a decade. You apparently have missed out on the repeated protests at factories across China with their workers demanding better working conditions and wages.

Expecting to be able to be able to do something more than just not starve to death isn't a western ideal, it's a human ideal. When the company you work for is printing money and you're living in poverty, something eventually gives. As has happened at literally every point in human history to date. Sometimes through violence, sometimes through government intervention. But the "unwashed masses" won't stay ignorant forever.
We have to separate micro from macro. At micro, there are many succesful families of all kinds. At macro, families where biological parents raise their children are happier, wealthier and safer.
Cars need a lot of peak power. They don't use anywhere near that peak power during normal operation.

A typical electric car averages 4 miles per kWh. At a speed of 40 miles an hour that's an average power of 10kW - 10% of that 100kW peak power output.
Look into Spring Boot for cloud applications, it’s a big ecosystem
Key point:

“ The lack of the active fuel management/dynamic fuel management module means affected models, equipped with the 5.3-liter EcoTec3 V8 engine with both six-speed and eight-speed automatic transmission, will have lower fuel economy by one mile per gallon”
> and I can't think of any desktop applications that use Java anymore.

The desktop application everyone has to use to report the income tax in my country is written in Java. Which is nice since it runs anywhere that has a recent enough JRE; in a distant past, before it was rewritten in Java, it was first a DOS-only and then a Windows-only desktop application.
In much of the United States (and I assume Europe), there are a variety of environmental regulations which restrict what you can do with your land. I don't know them in detail, but I know that tree removal, wetland removal, changing watersheds, drilling/mining, storing toxic chemicals, etc. often require permits. This is the price of environmental regulations.
And people here wonder why I think weapons research is immoral! It's because it doesn't just stay a military weapon.

If you research weapons, they'll be used on innocents, no matter what. Your research into targeted weapons or less than lethal turns into your neighbor's problem later.
E. g. Backend services for webapps or HFT.
I hate nuclear. Its stupidly expensive, potentially dangerous, and produces radioactive waste we have no way of dealing with. Its also the only currently available technology that can produce the amount of electricity we need if we want to mitigate the worse affects of climate change.
Brave uses Chromium.
> zero-cost | privacy-focused | ad-free

Where does the money come from?
You'd still need to bootstrap the metal with a VM/container environment, anyway.