skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patreon works because everybody's not on there. If I tried to give $1 to every artist that I listen to on Spotify, I'd be paying out hundreds of dollars a month. Throw in books, videos, movies, and TV shows (all of which rely upon copyright), I'd be paying out thousands of dollars.

I could scale back my contribution to each artist to pennies each (which doesn't actually work, given the $0.30 cent/3% CC cut), but then we're back to where we are today.

Patreon (and their ilk) is not tenable at scale.
Sowell is the man. Read his books.
I have no "purpose" when I go to a party besides drinking, eating, and socializing. Yet they rarely devolve into tribal bickering and infighting. Human beings have plenty of natural regulating mechanisms to keep social interactions from becoming sour of hostile. We've even replicated or adapted many of them to work in pseudonymous/anonymous spaces like bulletin boards, IRC, Usenet, etc.
That seems quite long to me. 28 years is half of the average lifetime. Producing a certain sequence of sounds entitles you to own those sounds until people not yet born are full adults?
Level of risk = probability of the harmful event occurring, multiplied the severity of the harm.

granted, the probability of comet-strike in your lifetime is low, but the severity is off the charts high.
The political quadrant model is seriously overrated. It may be that libertarian/authoritarian Left is a meaningful distinction in some contexts and not others; or that authoritarian Left/Right is a useful categorization for some purposes, but not for others.
You can use locally attached SSD instances. Then you're responsible for its reliability so not getting all the 'cloud' benefits. Used them for provisioning own CI cluster with raid-0 btrfs running PostgreSQL. Only backed up the provisioning and CI scripts.
Hey, I was around in times of not even having inline-blocks at our disposal too. It was horrible and I don't want to go back to it. I mean I don't even disagree with you entirely, but I don't really think flexbox or grid (which I know ie supports if you're willing to do the whole thing twice in two different syntaxes, which I'm not) is just a cherry on top, if anything they should have existed years before they did. Especially these days with responsive layouts being a thing, and if you don't want to just cheat and use javascript/browser detection to do it, they are pretty important to support different devices. That's where IE support can really step on your toe

by the way, I read that article at the time and opened my site in safari 6 on an old second generation ipod, and it worked hilariously well. Believe me, I'm not part of the problem, but I still can't wait for ie11 to fucking die so I can just write my layouts without having to worry about it's various idiosyncrasies, and finally use grid without impunity.
> simply relocate all manual labor to states with right-to-work as law

You can't really relocate warehouses and shipping centers without throwing a wrench in the logistics of the supply chain, especially if you are in the next-day delivery business.
Inflation is at historic lows, so why do things seem so expensive?
So the artists have a contract with the record labels to share revenue. How is it possible for Spotify to decide to split that revenue differently? Or is the demand to increase payout to the point that artists make $0.01 per stream?
Turning personal trust in others into what looks like a stock market game strikes me as quite odd. I wouldn't find people trading internet points back and forth to determine my 'value' on a platform as something I would like. I like the trading of points even less considering the target of the website about people representing themselves in the scope of their professions.
> #abolishcopyright

This isn't Twitter. I'm not sure what you hope to accomplish by using hashtags on HN, but it makes you look like an immature child – similar to writing "M$" in the 90s and early 00s.
Not really. The investors will want you to use capital efficiently. If that means hiring remote developers in the Philippines then that’s what they will want but for other applications, hiring away the $500k engineer from Google is the only way to accomplish the task.
Stack-overflow's use case has the benefit of being able to sit behind a Content Delivery Network (CDN) with a massive amount of infrastructure at the edge offloading much of the computational and database demands. This reduces the requirements of their systems dramatically. Given their experience in the segment, its plausible to expect they understand how to optimize their user-experience to balance out the hardware demands and costs as well.
What are some common things entrepreneurs need to take into consideration?
In this case though you could just use an 11-element array as a lookup table which would technically make this branchless.
A seedling costs about a dollar to grow, fifty cents to plant.
Why they decided to change the keyword rules to use "non-sealed" is beyond me. Surely, there might be other choices? Closed/unclosed? Unsealed?
if you want to practice programming and like mathematics, you should try Project Euler *

* heh! https://projecteuler.net
absolutely sick. one of the coolest things I've seen all year.
And this is considering a car not made for this. A longer or van like model would have more surface. I often wonder if slow small buses wouldn't be possible on solar.
Is that really relevant in this case though? The Wikipedia page you refer to specifically mentions that there has to be existing buildings on the property for those rules to apply.
Ok, but does being exempt from building codes mean you have the freedom to fell trees in the forest and build a house with them? What if you sell the lumber? Presumably the land is owned by someone, regardless of how remote it is. If you own the land and you're exempt from building codes, are you allowed to fell any amount of tress without regulation? How do you know that the area you're in is not protected?
Are they shipping their supplies to the countries that are still using it?

I suspect that the UK would be very happy to take Germany's supply.
Patrons. Sell merch. Sell tickets. Super chats.

Patents and copyrights are literally ideas put on paper that one is claiming legal dominion over. Unless you are making physical media, your products are your ideas.

It’s a tradeoff, not a cure for problems artists face. The current system favors wealthy institutions over artists. No one is willing to donate to a giant record company but fans of the work will readily give money to the artist just because they like them. Patronage is a better system for artists.
I wouldn't consider myself a huge Sowell fan, but I do recognize his appeal. He speaks simply, writes prolifically, uses data generously, and has no issues calling out BS.

For that reason alone is he better than most political commentators.
Minnesotans don't have much time for political nonsense. Taxes in Minnesota are not an issue. We have had the highest voter participation percentage of any state for a long time.

This is a great state to live in that cares about its citizens, people with disabilities and children. We also have great schools but we do have a large achievement gap. Another thing that bothers me are some of the inequities across counties. We also have a lack of affordable housing like everyone else does.

With respect to MNLARS you can read the report rather than speculate: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/dvs/forms-documents/Documents/i...
Alabama is a right to work state. Amazon is telling people at the Bessemer warehouse that they could be forced to pay union dues whether or not they join the union, which is not true under Alabama law.
Neat!

Today I Learned, it's Gregorian Chanting and not Georgian Chanting, and it has nothing to do with the country of Georgia.
They used to avoid certain states for reasons like that (also sales tax), but now that they're going for same day or 1 day delivery it isn't feasible to do that anymore. For example, Amazon didn't have any warehouses in Illinois until 2014.
Why would map have conditions?

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Who are the private organizations buying road salt/salting services to within even two orders of magnitude of municipalities/state govts?
> i'm kinda creeped out by car insurance payments. it just feels less about protecting other drivers and more about enriching the insurance companies.

Yeah, me too! And health and homeowners insurance while we're at it. All systems seemingly meant to exploit statistics for the betterment of us all...and yet the 20 most expensive homes in my city growing up were owned by insurance execs... What an oddity!
Presumably these new brands have to charge their customers more in order to pay the artists more, right? I’m about at the max of what I’m willing to pay for music per month...
A union is like a democracy, it can be elective where you can naively hope that the elected people will be honest and incorruptible or it can be participative where you must participate in the union in order for it to succeed.
> I could blame the furniture stores for not promoting me or taking too big a cut or any number of other factors

not only could you but you should. Of course workers over the last few decades have internalised the mindset that they cannot use their power to bargain and that whatever they get is fair and they should just shut up, which is why we tolerate corporate middlemen eating our lunch.

I don't know if a penny per song is realistic or whatever, but going up against Spotify and record labels and trying to negotiate as much compensation for artists as possible collectively is exactly what they ought to do. Also, on the other end, as consumers we need to stop whining when we have to pay twenty bucks instead of ten bucks per month to compensate artists who we spend listening hours to every single week.
It's not as funny when you get to live under the rule of well trained Marxists. Hundreds of millions of them have been produced over the last century. Look into a history book or just ask around.
So neither you or Nathan have posted what you would like to happen and why.

What is that? Rebrand Gumroad instead? A lower valuation? Different kind of security issued with more rights? Shi should be shut out from the capital markets and corporate sphere forever? PSA to investors who have already 100% subscribed the max raise?

I'm just grasping, what do you guys want to happen?
Energy storage in the form of aluminum.
Ask HN: What are your favourite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
Been asked several times but interested to see references to more recent channels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609584

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24671019

Has any youtube video ever truly changed your perspective on life or technology? Post them please.
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Crushed glass is silica which is a component of sand.
It's curious how the advent of streaming has seemingly resulted in boom times for television and film producers, yet apparently not so for musicians.

Yet we pay roughly the same per month for a Spotify subscription as we do for Netflix or Amazon Prime.

Is this just because when it comes to music, the revenue is spread much more thinly, amongst more artists?
Pick the Right Lane for Growth: Customer Acquisition Playbook for B2C Startups
“It’s time to stop using Medium for anything”
An uninsurable, valueless house that I can't get a mortgage to build nor sell to someone else... I can't imagine why this isn't a more popular option
Believe it or not, lots of people have more important things to do with their computers than dick with them to make shit work.

Most people don't really know how their car works, and shouldn't have to. Same goes here.
Both a "Friggebod" and an "Attefallshus" requires the building to be built on "a land lot with a single-family or a duplex house", as you mention, which hardly applies for a house built in the middle of the forest. While I can't be sure, I don't think land lots with houses on them are merged with kilometers of owned forest. And even if it is: there are regulations on how and where you are allowed to fell trees.

I want to clarify that I'm not saying this building is illegal, which is what some people seem to choose to read: I simply said that a large step in this process often seems to be omitted.
how do you think they got that trillion

it wasn't by repairing every gadget they sell
> people who don't know how to run a business

I submit that if business can't exist without a government subsidy that allows them to pay their employees less than a living wage, then the people running the business do not, in fact, know how to run it.
Render.com is like Heroku but cheaper and handles static sites as well as distributed applications (nodes can talk to each other).
I was just listening to a podcast and the CEO was talking about how he wants 1 million artists to be able to live off Spotify[1]. I always find it interesting how far the company implementation of the vision diverges from what the founder says the vision is. This was also something that I saw with Uber. A question i have is what leads to this disconnect?

[1] - https://castro.fm/episode/I2SAkl#47:19
I think it is sustainable if we can cut out the middle man, the royalties go mainly to labels and less so to artists. E.g. if an artist doesnt use a label on Spotify im sure his revenue will be higher and the current price would be sustainable. I think the royalties that go to labels are unsustainable
This is true in less and less areas, even rural. For example Tennessee adopted state-wide building codes, and counties/cities have to explicitly opt out, otherwise they too are constrained by the codes.
I'm happy to not pay 200€ of Spotify per year:
https://www.last.fm/user/Kuinox/listening-report/year
But then what is its purpose?

Management has no reason to oppose changes that cost them nothing with or without a union. In an industry with thin margins, anything that does cost them money puts them out of business. Meanwhile a union that can't achieve meaningful concessions is collecting dues for no benefit, requiring the company to pay more to retain talent and thereby putting them out of business just by existing.
Live Picture was the first to use what I think are called image proxies, where you can have an arbitrarily large image and only work with the screen-image sized image. Once you have applied all the changes and click save, it will then grind through the full size image if needed.

A feature that Photoshop has since added, but it appeared in Live Picture first.
I think you're pointing out the double-edged sword that is Docker; it's very easy to run and experiment with new technologies, even ones you might not be organizationally ready for. The "local" kafka that you used for a proof of concept is now AWS MSK in production.
In my experience, the union's interest is more in keeping the union alive.
Neither cost nor plausibility are the key criticisms here. The key criticism is about usefulness. If you want useful solar output in cities and don't have space or desire for rooftop panels, a better starting spot is the roofs of bus shelters or even the buses themselves. Both are large enough to generate useful solar output and are already higher than the majority of cars.

Also, what are "average" conditions? The website doesn't say. Stockholm or the Bay Area? This car will work much better in one of those places while in the other, PV panels on a car's roof are a gimmick. A relatively inexpensive and barely useful gimmick but still a gimmick.

Are you certain your panel costs are that low? Even NREL's estimates [1] put them much higher. Assuming that panel cost is roughly 30% of the US$ 2/W figure, that's still double what you're quoting and that's assuming cheap, mass-produced PV panels which the ones on this car most certainly are not.

[1]https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/72399.pdf
Am I the only one that thinks JavaScript is living on borrowed time? Once webasm matures and has a consistent story for DOM interop, JS will lose its status as the language we all have to know and be forced to compete head to head based on its merits.
I wouldn't bet on JS in that scenario.
While I agree more money should be sent towards small artists and I really hate to see myself defending a giant tech company, the demands of "x per stream" always makes me a bit confused.

Since spotify already pay out the vast majority of their revenue, there is not really much more room for increase there, at best 5-10% which likely wouldn't settle the case.

Reasonable suggestions would be that either: 1. labels should get less, 2. top artists should get less or 3. consumers should pay more.

Or am I missing something?
He didn't mention the semi ? The large flat area, long time under the sun, difference of market (no need to integrate it pretty, a simple flatbed on top would do)
You’re essentially not helping the YouTube creators from the numbers they’ve given on their payout from Premium. It is incredibly small.
and the clients are open source[0], so unless the close source it, the arms race is mostly in commit speed. :)

0: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master
Great to see , so far this looks like Node's best answer to Wordpress. Had a ton of fun writing a blog with Ghost.
It can do fitness tracking while swimming, but the main input is a touchscreen so it's not really made to be operated while wet.
I'm not aware of any scientific consensus supporting fad diets. Sounds like "bro science".
As a citonhub user, being able to share code within a conversation, while maintaining functionality and formatting is one of perk of the platform that endears it to me.

Not to talk about the vast array of functionality it has including live coding, community creation and management, and many more.
I do hope everyone would be at least sympathetic towards other human beings wanting justice and equal treatment.

I would be wary about that website and I would take whatever you see about a central organization relating to BLM with a grain of salt. I've been involved in local protests and other events in Chicago and I've never once been directed to or heard of a centralized website.

I hope you reconsider your stance with the knowledge that BLM is a very decentralized movement, and (while anecdotal) no one I've known who's been involved has been "disruptive" towards the idea of nuclear families. If I can make any other supporting statements or answer questions that might sway you please let me know.
Looks like there's also two Redis servers with half a TB of RAM sitting in between web and SQL. I'm sure that's a huge load off the SQL server.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/306604/2489265
No. The reason nuclear has a hard time isn’t because of technology. It’s because of paranoia and poor scicomm. And because no one really cares about climate change enough to make it a priority. People won’t say out loud “climate change is less of a priority than phasing out nuclear (or removing hydro dams or saving a few bucks on upfront cost of postal trucks, etc),” but that’s what they’re implying. In that sense, Greta Thunberg is right that leaders just don’t care that much about climate change.

Storage technology is capable of powering cities. Heck, the largest grid storage sites in the US are for backing up nuclear power plants on the East Coast (matching day/night loads with baseload supply). This silly infighting between different clean energy technologies (storage, nuclear, renewables) needs to stop.
This is good analysis. Small quibble with the last part - we don't know how much the price charged to consumers needs to increase to be able to afford $0.01 a stream. Any increase in price will see a drop in subscribers, dropping revenue. An increase in price could reduce revenue, making it harder to afford the increased payout.
Collaborative Editing API As-a-Service
We've had two decades to envision alternative funding models for music production, and all of them are substantially worse for the musician than "assign a creator's monopoly to the musician and civil liabilities for those who fail to negotiate proper licenses to it". Free markets are designed to allocate scarce goods; with the corollary any person whose work is not scarce does not get to eat. Ergo, if you want certain kinds of nonscarce goods to be made, you need to make them artificially scarce for some limited period.

This is particular to creative works. Free Software gets around this with lots of subsidies, commodified complements, corporate investment, and occasional labors of love. The fact that software is highly collaborative and that licenses like the GPL exist helps. A handful of collaborating developers can produce a spare-time project that is actually useful to other people who will sponsor development of further improvements to the project. Music does not work that way.
Add in the shared state cache as #8. It makes it very easy to bootstrap new developers since there's no need for them to rebuild glibc, etc, when they are mostly interested in adding new recipes or customizing images.
C++ resolves certain kinds of tricky function calls via a remote procedure call that sends an SMTP mail to the ISO committee, and waits for a reply. (It's compile time though, no biggie.)
The founder might've earned more at a FAANG or different companies, just like the other early employees presumably did. He didn't contact the investors to buy them out for $1 - the investors did, because the tax cut was worth more to them by that point.
Even if public transport goes out into nature, it's going to be a tiny fraction of the places that you can reach with a car. To reach nature in the same extent with public transport as with a car, is impossible. The few nature spots that are connected by public transport around here are completely overcrowded on any weekend with nice weather, and the trip itself takes more than twice the time of driving, making day trips not even feasible anymore.

Even just getting around in inside the city, driving takes on average half the time of public transport. Shopping is much more convenient. It IS impossible to have public transport that delivers the same usefulness, speed and flexibility.
Sure, as long as they live near the equator and it's sunny 365 days a year.
Maybe, but worth noting that both Vermont and Colorado (maybe more), have banned the use of salt on roadways due to environmental concerns. So to ops point, there are alternatives to using salt, even with near-freezing temperatures.
I agree with this. Knowing what we know now, there should be a plan to get everyone moved to higher ground while we have time. Perhaps a tax incentive program and a land buy-back program. The governments can use that land for non civilian purposes. Maybe let nature reclaim it to some degree. I realize this is not easy, given people won't want to give up their expensive coastal homes.
> who do dangerous and underpaid work so a few guys can become very rich

If it's underpaid, why do it? If you do it, what makes it "under" paid?

By taking the job, you confirm the wage is right.
Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)
true - but would require modifying the proposed solutions. Besides, it does not remove the branching issue of mod ... unless you use a lookup table for that too, but then you might as well have the lookup table for the whole FizzBuzz solution space.
Now I'm tempted to hold my phone under a stream of water to test this out.
And how should someone write a comment about that they intentionally forgot about some corner-cases?

Or if they did add a similar comment and in the meantime someone implemented it, but didn't remove the comments, how many people will only read the comment and not look at the code?