skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! It's great to read the backstory of how the original Spotify client came to be:

> "Not to go into too much detail here, but at the time, most of the internet was made up of “thin clients,” like web pages or Flash-based clients that ran in-browser, and used more traditional, standardized protocols like HTTPS. Seeing the limitations of that, Ludde and a team of engineers ran in the exact opposite direction, creating a stand-alone “fat client,” building entirely new protocols and hybridizing client-server and P2P technology to suit their own ends. (Check out Episode 01, “How do you steal from a pirate?”, to hear more of that nitty-gritty stuff about persistent TCP connections and how our P2P implementation saved us bandwidth cost.) It was only by rethinking every layer of our infrastructure that we were able to pull Spotify off, to create that magic moment of double-clicking on a new song and having it instantly play. And speaking of magic …"

Having been an early user of the beta I presumed it had to be driven by people with this mindset from rethinking everything from bottom up to provide the best UX possible, would really love to read more about the technology used in the original Desktop client?

EDIT: Currently listening to “How do you steal from a pirate?” which is providing a more detailed backstory on the origins of Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jHRUXkeiUh44CK4KZQb0h?si=d...

Sounds like Ludde Strigeus, the creator of µTorrent was the key hire to make the original Desktop Client UX possible whose Desktop & P2P expertise was able to convince the rest of dev team to go down the path they did. Some interesting insights, they used Ogg Vorbis instead of mp3 using a custom designed TCP protocol because they were better able to strip packet bits down to transport just the audio bits required for playback.

> Michelle: The thing that happened that was kind of pure magic in that meeting was that [Daniel] did a comparison. He started playing a song on the software, and the song played so quick, so instant … I mean, I don’t know if people remember, but playback was slow back then. Even if you had an MP3 on your computer, and you played it via, you know, Winamp, iTunes, this was faster. And we were like, “You have the files on your computer, right?” And he was like, “No, it’s in the cloud.”

I had the same initial experience where I was blown away at how instant and responsive it was, at first I didn't believe it and thought it was doing some sort of pre-caching magic where it'd start downloading before selecting each song. So ran lots of tests where I did first time searches and immediately scroll to songs down the list of search results (to bypass any caches) and could see that it was indeed pulling traffic in real-time, the time from click/scrubbing to audio playing was just unbelievably fast.
They would probably see it like we computers that had memory which did not wipe when powered down. The inconvenience is minor and the benefits large. They will never deal with huge hell balls of cables/headphones. The charging is pretty painless and the airpods pretty much do just work instantly with any Apple device (they can detect which one you are using at the time).
Yes, they'd get access to every photo you've ever taken if you suffer a hash collision.

What court order?

Apple spots the hash collision, snitches on you, and then police get all your photos. Isn't that how this is supposed to work?
All of those energy sources are then somehow converted into spinning rocks (magnets) really fast to convert them into electricity though.
I am surprised - they are ringing your phone/the app vs. just ending up as 'missed calls'? I presume you are also marking them as spam to prevent recurrence and that these numbers are not in your contacts? (Not being sarcastic, just trying to help.)
This seems like such an obvious answer, why isn't it significantly more common?
> In the US, the way we do tip on receipt is a lot more natural

American in Hungary. Here tipping isn't expected like it is in the US. But when you pay, they bring the terminal to your table with the check, then you tell them that you want to add a tip and how much, and they type the total into the terminal before you tap your phone or card. Perfectly natural.
Not sure about Pompeii specifically but from what I've heard of food in the Roman empire, tastes have changed dramatically since then. I'm afraid a historic restaurant would often be either disgusting or very far from historical. There might exist more common ground, but people in the empire ate things like field mouse.
"...they've just won." (that is, the Taliban have won)

Consider:

- the Taliban that G.W. Bush knew are gone. Most of them have died,

- OBL and most of his partners are dead,

- almost anyone who helped OBL and is still alive remains a target and lives in fear for their life,

IOW who "won" might be considered to depend on what we mean by the word "Taliban". The Taliban today is not the Taliban of yesteryear. If there is someone who was Taliban during G.W.'s term and is still Taliban today, ask him whether this feels like victory. He might say yes, but then ask him about his old fighting buddies who weren't as lucky as he.

The term "winner" can also mean someone who is still standing when the game ends. In this sense today's "Taliban" has won.

I think we made our point and overstayed our welcome. And now we're going home. We're late but we are leaving Afghanistan.
The IQ figure of 230 can't be calculated on the usual scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, because if so it would mean that a world with our current population only had a 1 in 57 million chance of containing someone as smart as him. How could we possibly know enough about population statistics to know such a thing? Especially given that we do in fact have him in our world.
It just shows what a mess US taxation is. I am in Australia and we have a single federal income tax and GST and I am glad for that.
I am definitely going to check this out. I use the Spotify snap under Ubuntu as I never got Spotify client working when I upgraded to the lastest Ubuntu and they keep working on the main stable. I do not hate the UI of Spotify but having alternatives is really nice. I also have Spot installed. It is also a simple and native application to listen to your music. I am a very heavy Spotify user. We have a family subscription so my kids have their own premium. Last year I listened to 60K songs; I really like the yearly review BTW. Yesterday I was talking to my wife and we just swallowed the pill completely and we will be throwing out our CD collection to make room for a new cabinet (I currently own around 1000 CD's).
It doesn't matter if that rotating loading indicator icon is rendered at 120hz or how fancy the boot animation is presenting latest commodities of the company shop...

When I open a software, I did so for a purpose, and I expect to actually do the thing as fast as possible and be done with UI...that's the reason why TUI apps are popular with power-users
I don't do a ton of contract and I don't like CA taxes. But this seems slightly antagonistic. Hiring a CPA will make taxes easier, both of these can mainly be solved with more money.

Why are recruiters negotiating with you about whether or not 13% is a far increase for being in CA? To me it seems like the high end for comp in Silicon Valley is much higher than the high end for comp in Texas. And 10-20% salary adjustment for an internal move between a MCOL city and Silicon Valley seems normal.

I don't know your situation, but a 15% bump for working in CA sounds cheap in general.
97% of scientists agree that society has to switch to Socialism within the next 12 years, or we will all be killed by Capitalism. The models prove it.

Seriously: consider that when you read "scientists say this or that", that "scientists" also includes people like the guy from this article.
Windows Phone came three years after the iPhone. At the time of Balmers rant it was Windows CE, which was crap.
For me, working alone remotely and Zoom calling all day has totally killed my passion for the field.

I’ve always had a percentage of remote work, but with no in person work, events, travel, socialising, it’s just not enough to hold my attention and passion.

I’ve drifted into taking a year out of the industry and thoroughly enjoying stepping back for a while.

I’m mentally waiting for things to “return to normal” but feeling like I might be waiting for a long time.
You are right - the MMS functionality is only supported by their web app so far: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/MMS . Is Google Voice an option for you or are you (understandably) hesitant to use their services for a critical/sensitive/family number? Based on my limited use, GV appears to support MMS including in group texts.
Natural immunity gives "ultrapotent" antibodies that works for 23 variants, including delta. That´s what will end this pandemic. Everyone will get infected, vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Ultrapotent antibodies against diverse and highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants

”Wang et al. identified four antibodies from early-outbreak convalescent donors that are potent against 23 variants, including variants of concern”

”The B cells isolated from donor-derived blood samples were sorted for antibody identification. This led to the identification of four potent neutralizing antibodies targeting the spike RBD. These antibodies showed a high affinity for the SARS-CoV-2 spike even at nanomolar concentrations.”

”The findings revealed that of 4 antibodies, two bound to RBDs in the “up position” and two bound to RBDs in the “down position.” Moreover, three out of four antibodies directly blocked the RBD – ACE2 interaction, and one indirectly inhibited the interaction through steric hindrance - the slowing of chemical reactions due to steric bulk.”

”By conducting multiple rounds of selection using combination treatments with two antibodies, it was observed that antibody combinations might reduce the risk of escape mutation acquisition and subsequent development of resistant viral variants.”

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...
Unless you were on cusp of retirement, I too believe that people will return back to work.

I also think that there will be some price to pay in terms of inflated pay packages and promotions people are getting these days. Some are warranted, some not.

While I've pay disequilibrium and imbalance before, never to this extent. When business cycle shifts and economy turns, the extent of layoff will be far greater.
Lol, this guy gets it.
Judging by the dismissals of performance concerns seen in typical online discussion threads, I'm not sure that developers working on performance tuning in any meaningful way still post online.

On the contrary, I have the impression that people snubbing performance while claiming that user satisfaction or business goals are the only things that matter do not care about performance or dare I say technical brilliance at all.
This might sound like a stretch, but I wish I could just pay without having my phone or card or cash or anything else on me. In general I'm growing weary of authentication hell, but specifically with how it all seems to come back to requiring my phone. I really wouldn't mind just keying in my account number and pin to make a payment, but of course that's just username + password and I suppose unacceptably risky. The solution I expect is for Amazon to recognized my face and bill me.
Thanks for the link. This was helpful.
That’s not what I mean when I say 60 Hz. I’m referring to performance navigating about the app. There was a small startup latency to populate the store but it was smooth sailing after that. Even that you could probably optimize out today with a talented team given all the new PWA tech.

I will say though that I’ve yet to work anywhere else that held themselves to a comparable performance standard.
Rolls Royces equivalent software would cost at least 10x if the cost ratio is analogous to the vehicle prices.

And they would expect you to have an assistant to work the software for you. ;P
Living in America?
Wish.com Scam or Legit?
Why Brands Need to Rethink Fintech Marketing: Pivot and Persona
This comprehensive resource equips marketers to educate consumers on how their app works and motivate them to use the app to achieve their financial goals.
Yes, it rings my phone. Most are annoyingly early in the morning, and 90% of the time it comes from random numbers in the same area code as my phone number.

I haven't been marking the numbers as spam, but maybe I'll try to do that to see if the number of calls reduces.
I was really surprised that Podcasts on Spotify became that popular. Thats what exclusives can do, iI guesd
Bush the Lesser specifically emphasized revenge in his famous petulant rant from "ground zero". Did you somehow miss this great modern American oration to which we are subjected on every 9/11 anniversary?
This throws me for a loop every time I interact with them. FTB folks on the phone are always very nice and helpful.
Endless Sky is truly excellent. I've been playing it for the last couple of months. It's even possible to explore the whole galaxy playing pacifist and never firing a shot. It's wonderful to be able to play a game in a completely peaceful way.
TCS employs more than 500k people. It's ready to ditch office life in India
And like moths to a flame, any mention of electron on HN spurs complaints only this community cares about.
S is not a multiplier; it's a call of the successor function. The distributive property doesn't apply.
""Oh… and we don’t sell your data."

I have conflicting feelings about this. Closed source codebase; but even if I trust you, what if you get acquired?

In fact, because the risks are unknown this seems even riskier than a regular browser (for privacy conscious people). What's being captured, how safely is it stored, can you read it, etc.
I dont think the US can help war mongering. Its the basis on which it was formed and came to be a superpower through war. It figures. Almost every US diplomatic relationship is tied to their military in some shape or form. Which is absurd.

But yes. The US has been in decline for a while, possibly propped up by tech and financial markets but there too is a paper fire. The rest of the world has the skills to run their own financial markets and tech but without the excess central bank printed money that passes as capital in that part of the world.

The solution really is simple though. Stop spending so much money on the military, get your house in order, and make some real friends. Sortie when a real war is threatening peace. Might take a while to do but its simple and easy.
There are plenty of people smart enough to know this, and to have reasonably foreseen this. The critical question is whether enough of those people have enough power to intentionally do this.
Warp – Next-gen terminal for developers
It's more convenient if you need to pay more than 25 EUR (or whatever the limit is where you live), where you need to use your PIN with contactless card.
There was a pretty good reason to get off the gold standard. Going to a type of digital gold standard is just a horrible idea
It was mentioned during the announcement of Fallout Shelter that the adventuring was inspired by Progress Quest: https://youtu.be/P14x1alnaF8?t=5955
Right, so still no evidence despite continuing to claim otherwise. Lets start off easy, what's the best example of a publicly downloadable Electron App that has the snappiest UX?

Having experienced the original Spotify App myself and having used many Electron Apps daily for years I'd posit that it's naive to claim the responsiveness and snappiness of the original Spotify App could ever be reimplemented in Electron. You're claiming it is, so lets hear about some examples we can actually use?
Singapore’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Insects - VICE Asia
Better enjoy and save up while the going is good then. I'm very happy to have upgraded to market rate
>The current mRNA based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are effective at preventing severe outcomes like hospitalization and death

According to this very article this isn't even really true any more. Of the currently hospitalized population in Israel 60% are fully vaccinated. With 78% of the population vaccinated that implies the protection is actually surprisingly weak.

" “There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,” says Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) who has consulted on COVID-19 for the government. “One of the big stories from Israel [is]: ‘Vaccines work, but not well enough.’”
Get one of these.. halo ring

https://www.bankwest.com.au/personal/ways-to-pay/bankwest-ha...
Interesting. Both focus on inpainting occluded areas, and both schools are in Hong Kong.
Google Maps prices are now outrageous https://geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-google...

Not to mention respecting the privacy of your users.
The Biggest Heist You've Never Heard Of: Apple's Double Irish
YouTube age restricted videos are pretty much made impossible to view without revealing to YouTube your identity (they ask for a credit card transaction or a copy of your id) if you have a European account.
Also register to vote in your state of residence, and vote.
>Unfortunately macOS will be going down that path soon, once they remove the ability to install from any source (and they will do it, no doubt)

People have been saying that for ten years now and it hasn't happened yet.
That setting is on by default.
Void Linux

https://voidlinux.org

Alpine Linux

https://www.alpinelinux.org
Everyone hates slow, laggy, shitty software. The average consumer just has no insight as to why their software experience is bad. But don’t be fooled. A snappy, smooth experience does matter to consumers. Even when they can’t even quantify why one app “feels good” and another “feels bad”.
I just now realised that's the meaning behind name Stripe (the payment processor)
Check out spicetify cli[0]! It patches the Spotify (desktop) client and makes it better. It also adds support for extensions, one of which[1] disables the podcast features. I haven't used the extension so I'm not sure how well it works.

Heads up though, the original developer is MIA at the moment and the latest few versions of the client are incompatible. There's an effort by someone to fix the issues and there are other maintainers who mostly just seem to address PRs. Personally I just downgraded the client and it works perfectly.

[0] https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli

[1] https://github.com/3raxton/spicetify-custom-apps-and-extensi...
Afghans are racing to erase their online lives
Some useful wrinkles for wine ecommerce
Taxes are based on where the work is performed, not where your employer is located in all US states in aware of. So remote work solely out of your home in Reno, NV for a California company would have no state income taxes (since Nevada doesn't have state income tax).
> it is quite obvious that comedic, meme-packed ...

I don't understand why comedy and memes should be a problem if the overall content is trying to communicate some thought.

> ... popular culture nostalgia driven YouTube videos ...

What you call nostalgia I see as a history reference for comparison to today.

Your comments give me an impression that you have a problem with YouTube videos. There are blog posts filled with jokes, memes and "popular culture nostalgia" which get to the top of HN every day. As I said videogamedunkey's videos are mostly humorous but from time to time he makes an essay with suprisingly good observations about video game industry. You don't have to like his way of humour as a lot of people don't but at least he has been consistent and not afraid to call out some people for their bullshit.
> It just isn't a thing users would demand.

Hi, user here. RSS is absolutely something that I would demand, if I could.
some companies are starting to produce systems in volume though, still pricey but it's probably gonna change
Aside from the initial load that all Electron apps suffer from, Insomnia feels pretty snappy to me. Granted, I only have a few dozens of API that load 20KB of JSON max.

https://insomnia.rest/
Modifying street signs isn’t actually hard, though, and whoever did it could leave right away. I’m not sure how noticeable to humans the modifications need to be? A minor disadvantage is that it leaves evidence.

The hotel room thing seems like a lot more work than quickly done vandalism, and I’m wondering how close to the sign they would need to be.
> alone costs ~200 USD

Right, but I'm not really buying a Pinenote machine to strip it for parts. It's possible to build something that's worth less than its component parts.

The extra input, compute, etc... don't really matter if they don't work well together. My point was that optimizing for those things working well together is more important than trying to minimize the price tag. If it can be turned into a good notetaking device, and it's running an Open Linux distro, then $400 is completely reasonable, it's honestly pretty cheap. They could go higher.

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That being said, on reflection I probably could get some use out of a Linux-enabled remote e-ink monitor on its own. Maybe just as a wall mounted display for reminders/notes? People have retrofitted other tablets to support that, but being based on Linux and supporting wifi/bluetooth is a real selling point. But I'm just not certain I could get $200 (or even $100) worth of use out of that. Maybe $100?

Another way of looking at this is that even by itself, a 10.3" E-Ink raw display may not actually be worth $200 to most users, and it really only justifies its cost when it's combined with other hardware and drivers to make a compelling reader/notetaker.

Obviously other people will have different uses in mind and prices they would be willing to pay, but I'm thinking about "what functionality does this enable that would be worth $100/200 to get." If I can't come up with an answer to that question, then the raw hardware cost is kind of irrelevant to me, since I'm not buying a device in order to scalp parts, I want to actually use it.

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I guess also to be fair, there's a component to this of just paying Pine64 as much money as possible and buying all of their products to encourage them to keep working on the Linux ecosystem, and to encourage hackers to build on top of the devices. And that is also completely reasonable, and just the general attention from the Linux community towards E-ink displays and notetaking might be worth $100 regardless of anything else.

But I think that's a separate thing from "what is the device itself worth on its own?"
Because that will also self-select the audience to be really small.
I'm familiar with it as extensions, and not completely happy with any - lacking keyboard shortcuts, losing some of my tabs/groups, no synching across devices, multiple backgrounded tabs still running and killing performance and other issues.

Was it added to the core browser?
We know that the spike protein itself causes damage. For adults that’s almost never an issue, but I feel like the overarching recommendation that pregnant women get the vaccine is misguided. It doesn’t make much sense to get it if they’ve already had COVID or are still working from home.

If those aren’t true then the risk is probably worth it as a raging infection would almost certainly be worse for the baby. I just wish there was some nuance in our government’s recommendations.
This sounds like it might help against DNS rebinding attacks, — at the cost of breaking interchangeability between DNS names and IP addresses.

Not sure, if such policy is a good idea, especially if the permission prompt automatically appears upon network activity without explicit developer intention. This will simply condition users to click "OK" without understanding what's going on.
I was getting 404s on some youtube RSS feeds last night. Figured it was a fluke but this makes me wonder.

Didnt see another comment mentioning this below, scary stuff though