skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I don't know how you can read something like this and just say "well have you tried selling on Bandcamp?"

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Live Nation’s consolidation of the industry was rapid and aggressive, spending around $1 billion in just 18 months in the late 1990s buying independent concert promoters and venue owners. By 1999, when radio titan Clear Channel paid $4.4 billion for the company (then called SFX), it was the largest music venue owner and concert promoter. Antitrust enforcers took no action to stop the deal.

By 2005, Clear Channel had spun off its live music division into a new, standalone company: Live Nation, the country’s largest artists manager and concert promoter and second-largest venue owner. Today, Live Nation is once again part of a massive broadcasting and live music conglomerate that wields immense power.

Live Nation has since combined with the ticketing monopoly Ticketmaster, satellite radio monopolist SiriusXM, and online radio leader Pandora as part of media mega-conglomerate Liberty Media. Last year, Liberty Media was approved to take control of iHeartMedia, the largest radio station owner in the country; prior to 2014 iHeart was known as Clear Channel. The proverbial band was back together, antitrust concerns and all. Competition and consumer advocates stridently opposed every corporate tie-up along the way; my organization was part of a coalition that argued against the Liberty/iHeart deal last year. Antitrust enforcers permitted every one.

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Further down:

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The company’s power to steer business away from rivals is not theoretical. In late 2019 the Justice Department found that, for years, Live Nation had abused its monopoly by steering its artists and tours away from venues that refused to use Ticketmaster. The government could have sued for monopoly violations but instead simply amended the agreement it struck with the companies when they merged a decade ago.

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As a few others have mentioned this is something that build systems handle since they understand the dependency graph. For example, Bazel is often used to this end.

However... I would strongly advise not going for a monorepo. No, I don't mean something like tensorflow where you have a bunch of related tools and projects in a single repo. I mean one repo for the entire org where totally unrelated projects live.

Every company I've been at that used a monorepo found themselves struggling to make it work since you need a ton of full time engineers just to keep things working and scaling. Many of the problems that monorepos try to solve (simplifying dependency and version management) are traded for 10x as many problems and many of them are hard (incremental builds, dependency resolution).

Google has a huge team in charge of helping their monorepo scale and work efficiently. You are not google... don't be tempted.
Just because they would be better off with it doesn’t mean it’s not exploitative. The problem is the lack of non exploitative alternatives. You can argue a life of exploitation is better than starving to death but I’d say even that is up for debate.
If you want to look at the limits of what physics seems to allow (cost practicality be damned), look at things like americansolarchallenge.org winners. They even have a multi-occupant-vehicle class nowadays.

The 2018 MOV winner (https://www.americansolarchallenge.org/the-competition/ameri...
) logged 1762 miles over 58.4 hours, or about 30mph average pace (with a 16.8kWh battery, but no external charging, just the ability to time-shift some energy).

That's with a vehicle that looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE9gkYsR4TU
Yes, it's like an informal representative democracy. Those who specialize in something should consider they are part of the minority capable of representing the interests of those who do not specialize in it - tech or otherwise.

The nice thing about tech is that it's possible for us to push back by hacking on stuff and opening it up rather than resorting to legislative tools, and this can have the same effect of forcing those manufacturers hand but without the artificiality of law.
> Are these boxes permissions declared by the app

Pretty much. My understanding is that they're self-reported (as opposed to inferred from eg SDK/API usage), but I haven't looked into it super deeply.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600998/apples-privacy...
I struggle to imagine any meaningful definition for LTS that includes "tracking latest" except by coincidence (during the window of time when the most recent release is an LTS release).
Yes but blanket legalization of mushrooms means mishaps would occur at the same rate of alcohol related mishaps, when the shroom drug picks up steam and everyone and their aunt tries it, and continues to use it - mass casualties would occur if the drug became as popular as alcohol. And the shroom related mishaps would be much more weird and nuanced than alcohol-related deaths, in that the shroom-user typically wants to commit suicide instead of being subjected to a (DUI) head-on car collision, and the former (suicide) is a lot more harder to process by relatives of the dead person. At least with alcohol you are numbed, let's give alcohol at least one positive review.
I didn't see anything to suggest that the nuclear family should be abolished.

Just a statement that we shouldn't structure our society in a way that makes it impossible for those not fortunate enough to have been raised in a nuclear family to still succeed.

While I agree we need to communicate that the nuclear family is very important and beneficial to our society, we need to do so without making children of non-nuclear families feel inferior.
> in America when when people say "Free Speech" they mean the 1st Amendment

Isn't it quite presumtive of you to assume that everyone means the same thing by "Free Speech". That seems highly unlikely to me.

> When two people are communicating using common words the definition of those words need to be common otherwise communication does not happen. Otherwise you are just using jargon.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that words or phrases have a single globally umambiguous meaning. Typically maintaining productive communication means avoiding using contested/controversial terms like "free speech" in an unqualified way entirely and creating and exaplaining new terms to disambiguate exactly which version of the concept you mean.
> compromise

This is not an inherent compromise. iPhones could be just as safe and issue-free if they were rootable, just as cars don't need hoods welded shut to prevent their owners from messing with the engine. If you find the compromise acceptable, simply don't root your phone.
The fewer people interested in taking those "shitty jobs", the more they would get paid. Then the jobs would cease to be shitty.

This is what we should push for, not artificially and undeservedly reward those jobs more and thus trap ever more people into them.

My grandmother was illiterate. That condemned her to a hard life of struggle and hard work. But she stayed on my father's ass to study. My father stayed on my ass and I am staying on my children's. The lesson was so strong, three generations are benefiting.
Google cutting Play Store commission to 15% on first $1M in annual revenue
love paint!! and Joseph from roboflow was super helpful in helping me understand the game and use the AI the way they did.
Nvidia accidentally releases driver that removes limit on crypto mining
Someone on here yesterday suggested a Lenovo Slim 7, which seems broadly comparable, this review covers a few other similar models https://www.theverge.com/21423498/lenovo-ideapad-slim-7-2020....

Note, I'm in UK "slim 7" here is used by Lenovo for a "Yoga" model whilst the poster mentioned an "IdeaPad". I assumed that as I searched for the latter and got the former that they must be different regional names. But, no. They're very different with very similar model names. Lenovo seem to do this a lot and it's very annoying.
I think that's risky because then there's some process that puts you in one of the two buckets, and there's probably going to be a valley of suck between them, where you're big enough that you don't qualify for the indie special treatment, but not so big that you're raking it in like Taylor Swift.

The nice thing about the proposal from the article is that in theory it should be something where everyone's incentives are aligned, since it rewards artists and genres for having fans who listen to their stuff a lot.
I always had the impression GitHub was not preemptively investing in the fundamentals like that. So yeah, agree it's bummer but also not surprised.

And hey, at least that means a post GitHub FOSS world won't be leaving fundamental improvements behind!
I’m curious what counts as a “large” monorepo?
How do you handle fraud, feedback and dispute resolution?
Will wikipedia pass any of that $ onto the original sources for any of the knowledge its comprised of? Much of it of course public domain, but a lot not: news stories, published books etc.

In the case of of professionally reported news stories, which I suspect in the end form the core of many of the most trafficked wikpedia pages, obviously the creators are getting squeezed, laid off etc & could use as much support as wikipedia!
A StackOverflow / Discourse alternative:
https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal-frontend
https://github.com/denysvitali/dev-portal

Porting Linux to the Surface Pro X (and failing doing that due to my lack of kernel experience):
http://github.com/denysvitali/surface-pro-x-linux/

Creating a Microsoft Teams library + client (WIP):
https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api

Unfortunately my free time is quite limited :(
My biggest privacy concern with Google is how search result URLs contain user identifiers.
Thanks! Serves me right watching it muted...didn't even consider there was audio [or CC]!
I don’t remember if he’s ever said anything publicly about UBI.

Milton Friedman was on the record saying UBI is far superior to current welfare because it forces personal responsibility and choice while completely eliminating the massive welfare bureaucratic overhead.
Order a few pairs of backup glasses from an outfit like Zenni. You can enter any prescription you want - just use your most recent one. Optometrists like to leave off the distance between your pupils, so you need an optician to measure that, but there are easy ways to find it yourself. My method is just look at a distant object through binoculars, adjust until the image circles merge comfortably, and then measure the distance between the centers of the eyepieces.

The price is so low you can have several pairs of good quality backup glasses, and then just have one with you, at the same priority as, say, your medications.

I've used this scheme to also acquire a set of weakened glasses - I just fudged the prescription numbers myself - for use at the computer (I'm 54 and don't have much focusing ability left).

Aside from that you can also try Costco. No-BS optometry and very competitively priced eyeglasses.
> However, with COVID-19, I think the general risk is worth keeping the global economy from complete collapse (if that is even possible).

We could simply reopen the economy at any point. There are more than enough counterexamples around to demonstrate that lockdowns do not eliminate Covid-19, and that a lack of lockdowns does not lead to endless piles of dead bodies in the streets. Lack of sufficient vaccination is not what is keeping the economy closed -- its usefulness in driving forward certain agendas is. The vaccines aren't even promising anything close to 100% effectiveness, particularly not among the highest risk groups (who were excluded from the clinical trials).

"We can go back to normal soon if everyone just does this one thing" has been the carrot dangled in front of people's noses to get them agreeing to measures of dubious effectiveness since the start of the pandemic. If the virus mutates in the fall and winter and boosters have to be rolled out again, we'll either "have to" shut the economy back down until everyone gets shots in their arms again (in which case these vaccines are a poor preventative against economic damage) or we'll accept the need to live with some amount of endemic Covid spread (in which case it was certainly not lack of vaccines keeping us from reopening).
I’m sorry if it came across this way. The snarky comment highlights pretty well that we magically expect almost without a second thought that GitHub is free.

Support SourceHut and pay for hosting git if people want to break away from ostensibly free services. Or pay for Github. SourceHut is also open source.
Sorry, but there are plenty of developers on here (myself included) who can easily confirm that "too computationally expensive" is just BS so they don't have to change.

Proof: Soundcloud is doing exactly this, so it's absolutely possible.

https://community.soundcloud.com/fanpoweredroyalties

This is all so they can keep major labels happy (several of whom own a stake in Spotify) because the labels don't want to lose the free money gravy train they're making on the backs of artists they don't even represent, and Spotify doesn't want to lose the majors.
I'm not sure you get how the music industry works. Getting a record contract isn't quite like getting a CS degree, passing a coding interview, and being handed 125k and benefits by HR. But sure, all these musicians are just dumb idiots. Have some respect for artists (unless you hate music, I guess).
Curious would beet juice create red stains om the road?
“We call it the Boomer Remover”
Without insurance (mine doesn't cover vision) and seeing an optometrist at Costco (independent, so no motivation to sell you glasses), my last prescription cost around $90.
Aren't your listens to an indie artist still driving up their listens across the platform? It's an interesting point that Spotify's algorithms probably drive more listens to popular artists, but I think overall listen-count it still the most equitable metric.
"..though they would use more electricity and therefore cost more to run than heat pumps and gas boilers. "
and
"The rollout of electric vehicles already means the national electricity grid needs to be bolstered to accommodate the extra load, and the very widespread adoption of microwave boilers would add to that challenge, the experts said. The microwave boiler is not able to provide instant hot water, as gas boilers can, so it has a hot water storage tank inside the unit."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/16/first-mi...
Thanks for explaining. That's unbelievable. That's a really stupid law right? I mean elementary-school-kid-bypassable kinda stupid.
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It does not need a "higher flux of energy" to do damage. Exciting a system at its resonance frequency can increase the amplitude of its vibrations to the point that it gets damaged.

This does not take lots of energy, it does not take large amplitudes, just periodic input of power at the right frequency. Knowing that a system is fine at one frequency does not say (that) much about other frequencies.
I use Blender all the time; it's a great tool. What I mean is that its default keybindings, UI manipulation metaphors, etc. are notably different from the applications that live closer to 3DSMax and Maya on the family tree of 3D editors.

* Moving an object in Blender: Select, press 'G', now the mouse floats the object without the need to hold a mouse button down, optionally hit 'x', 'y', or 'z' to constrain to those axes. You can also take advantage of the 3D cursor.

* Moving an object in 3DS Max: Select to bring up manipulation widgets, click and drag the image of the widgets to move the object.

Starting to learn Blender if you learned 3D scene creation in Max is like starting to use emacs if you learned word processing in Microsoft Word. The metaphors aren't categorically better or worse; they're very different.
PC gaming alone wastes the same amount of energy. There are also consoles and the whole industry of game creators surrounding it. In my eyes they are both useless and pollute. Some get kick out of games, some out shitcoins.
> I don't know why we should say that is the only valid definition and ignore the validity of the other three.

For "trademark UNIX": very few of the systems within are small, comprehensible or elegant.

For "heritage/genealogical UNIX": Windows 10 may have the heritage of DOS, but I wouldn't call it "DOS with a GUI."

For "UNIX-like/UNIX-compatible": nothing is really UNIX-compatible or all that UNIX-like. Do you define it as "source compatibility?" Nothing from v7 or before will compile; it's before standardization of C. Do you define it as "script compatibility?" UNIX never consistently stuck to a shell, which is why POSIX requires POSIX sh which is in many ways more limited than the Bourne shell.

I personally take McIllroy's view on the UNIX philosophy:

A number of maxims have gained currency among the builders and users of the UNIX system to explain and promote its characteristic style:

* Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features."

* Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input.

* Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.

* Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you've finished using them.

Throwing out things that don't work is a good idea, which is why the modern backwards-compatible-ish hell is far from UNIX (in this regard, I'll admit illumos doesn't qualify).

I fully agree with you that Plan 9 is closer to UNIX than Linux and FreeBSD!
No, a foster family is not a traditional family. That's not a value judgement, it's a basic classification. Is there a point to your line of questioning?
Not sure what you mean, SideQuest (sideloading apps and mods, like custom beatsaber songs) has been working for the last 2-3 years. I haven't seen any of this hostility you refer to.
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> OPNsense is criminally underrated.

When I came into FW distros, my practical choices were MonoWall, SmoothWall and pfSense. IPfire wasn't even on the scene yet. pfSense won me early. I figure there are a lot of similar stories of pfSense being there for us when not much else was.
If $5/hr is an exploitative rate, then it's exploitation regardless of whether the the area is worse off or not
It adds cost and complexity to the cars, so that's one reason not to do it.

Still - I have an EV that's sitting idle most of the time because of the pandemic. I had to plug it in a handful of times this year, that would mean plugging it in zero times.

Also, if it is very sunny, it means the car is hot. One common thing to do is to start climate control before getting into the car so it will be at a comfortable temperature. We would get this heat rejection for free?

Is it worth it? Not sure. Maybe. Everything else being the same (including price) I would pick a car equipped like this versus another car without this feature.

By the way, some Nissan Leaf trims had a small solar panel to charge the 12v battery. That was useful. Mine has to periodically connect the traction battery to do the same.
I'd also like to know more about this, since for smaller to medium sized deployments (think 1-100 nodes, maybe running between 1-1000 containers) Docker Swarm does seem like a pretty reasonable solution, especially with tools like Portainer ( https://www.portainer.io/ ) for a web based UI to manage it.

I guess some of the reasons for the popularity of Kubernetes could be:

- Kubernetes had Google as a big name behind it, so there was a lot of development resources put into it and eventually, lots of learning resources available, in addition to overall publicity; for example, i don't think anything like this exists for Docker Swarm https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes
- in addition to the marketing and PR, it got picked up as a solution for many managed offerings by cloud hosts (managed Docker Swarm has almost none), a bit like what happened with serverless and AWS Lambda
- Kubernetes allows for CRDs, has a pretty good API and has a large ecosystem built around it, to help manage its complexity (even distros like K3s and MicroK8s could be mentioned), as well as many to implement additional functionality (Istio + Kiali come to mind)
- this further snowballed into turn-key offerings like Rancher and OpenShift that had financial incentives behind them, the idea of building a new distro that vendor locks clients into a particular company's offering, resources, support etc.
- almost everyone (oftentimes incorrectly) believes that they need to be able to scale a lot and therefore chased the hype
- FOMO further motivated a whole bunch of developers to use Kubernetes for their projects, instead of looking at the alternatives like Docker Swarm or Nomad
- however, knowing Kubernetes can help to be more easily onboarded and to work with deployments in many different companies (except for when it isn't), the skills carry over nicely

Of course, some of these may be my subjective views and not at all accurate.

Personally, i think something between Docker Swarm, Nomad and K3s would be the sweet spot for containerized app deployments and orchestration, but personally i just like the Docker Compose manifests more than i do Kubernetes' and it feels like the popularity of Helm (or Kustomize) supports this line of reasoning.

Ideally we wouldn't even need containers and something like FreeBSD jails with a user friendly API around it would be sufficient. But the popularity that Docker gained seems to highlight that perhaps something was missing from those older technologies.
My stimulus check is paying for a new drysuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_suit
Imagine going to Germany and warning that “neo confederates” were planning on storming the capital.

People actually think there is a nazi movement here in the united states. It’s one of the Big lies in our culture and media now. Sad.
Pre-Internet: capitalism is bound by the physical constraints it was developed under

Post-Internet: capitalism has to turn evil to survive
>This is not a good thing though.

Serious question. Why does the government have any business telling me what I can and cannot do with my own property if it does not impact others?

I'm not saying i support clearcutting, from a purely environmental and aesthetic point of view, but I really disagree with government or any other associations telling me what I can do with my own property.
Still a ton cheaper for those people than having their cars rust out on them, which is a larger lump sum even if it's a comparable cost over time (which it's likely not).
>I wonder why they haven't been bought out by Microsoft or Google, if nothing else then just for the talent.

Because they received an insane valuation years ago and probably aren't even worth break-even on their funding rounds. Google already has far more K8s knowledge internally than anyone at docker, so what would be their gain?

MS did try to buy them back in 2016 but Docker pulled an Jerry* Yang and said no [1]. I don't see why MS would bother at this point, they are also headed down the k8s path, and anything they needed from an expertise perspective they likely already received through their partnership agreement [2].

[1] https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/sources-microsoft-t...

[2] https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-microsoft-partnership/

*I incorrectly said Andrew Yang initially, my apologies for my bad memory and any confusion it may have caused. Thank you Hexcles for the correction.
Add it to your home insurance? Buy a separate policy?