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Things I want from Spotify:

- Fix the damn album artwork in the browser. A big part of enjoying an album is viewing the cover and liner art. Let me do that full-screen with zoom.

- Let me create genre-limited radio stations from my likes. Don't just play songs from my likes. If I'm in the mood for , say, 80s hip-hop, I want a radio station based off my liked 80s hip-hop songs which includes related artists.

- Hide the damn podcasts. There will never be a situation now or in the future where I want to use spotify to listen to a podcast. Users should be able to hide them.

- Improve your audio quality. I've shamefully returned to bit torrenting flac files because some of what I've heard on spotify is so bad. Part of that is because I want access to a vinyl mix.

- Your interface sucks. One thing I liked about Google Play Music was easier access to an artist's discography. Please give me an option to hide "Popular releases" or put a quick access button to reach either Albums or a full discography at the top of the artist's page so I don't have to scroll down and hunt for an easily missed label to reach the discography when I use the Android App. When I start the app, there should be a search box ready to go. I shouldn't have to click the magnifying glass and then a search box. Either put a search box/icon on the home screen which goes direct to an input dialog, or make the magnifying glass respond accordingly.

I miss Google Play Music. It wasn't perfect but it was, in my experience, a far superior product. It's regrettable that YouTube Music is such a dumpster fire.
If God is not good then he doesn't exist?

I'm not sure I can follow that logic.

Suffering seems to be part of the life of every biblical hero. Christ suffered horribly as part of his ordained purpose.

The entire book of Job explores the suffering of Gods chosen faithful followers.

It's deeply woven into theology.
Your sarcastically expressed sentiment is correct. Unions play a zero-sum game. They change the way the pie is split between consumers, investors, and workers, in favor of the workers. Among the workers, they act in favor of the incumbents to the detriment of the newcomers. So the folks who are posting on HN will benefit from union power. Young people and especially women and minorities will lose.
> California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who previously said that Democratic politicians should "lean into" COVID-19 policies such as vaccine mandates and issued the nation's first such mandate for schoolchildren, is trying to get the federal courts to halt a vaccine mandate for prison guards.
I used to track “skip counts” in iTunes and would review the most skipped songs every month or so and determine if they needed to be reduced in star count.
Could IRC bots do video conferencing and live screen sharing?

It’d be very cool if they could!
Gosh you are correct on that. My apologies. I don't know why I associated the two, I try to be pretty good on this stuff.

I'll need to review 90s Latin pop again. Sorry about that.
Now everything is ok, thank you and the app is awesome. I apologize for my recklessness if I was.
My place!!

You heard it shut down right?
Now that I've read this comment I find mine redundant.
That’s a very flippant way of disregarding someone who constantly shit themselves and decided that tortured life wasn’t worth living.

I hope fate never touches you so cruelly as to make you reflect on your callousness years from now.
I've written a similar guide that goes into a bit more detail, such as setting up S3-compatible object storage as the primary storage, using a custom domain name, etc.:

[link redacted]

I've enjoyed using Nextcloud so far. Download and upload speeds seem better than my previous cloud provider, despite using the cheapest node available. Having my Notes, Calendar, and Deck all available on the same platform is nice too. It's great having a cloud that isn't chock full of dark patterns; the only thing I've found similar so far with Nextcloud is the server branding at the bottom, which, as you detailed, can be removed.
I think the more likely answer is that podcasts can be produced with exclusivity deals while songs can not.

Spotify is large because they were first and because apple/google music suck. But eventually apple and google will stop sucking and users will drain from Spotify rapidly unless Spotify can create content to keep users in.

Spotify is in the position of Firefox 15 years ago right now. Eventually the built in apps will take over.
The author doesn't have kids I guess :) that turns the world around. Especially if you have twins or more.
I think there are a number of fallacies in this white paper. For one, energy consumed by pow is just spent energy, it does not contribute to societal development. Also, this sort of consumer specific investment disregards society because it disregards where society needs the energy (since society is not the target group).
On another hand, this whole paper seems very short sighted and rand-ish. The fact of the matter is that the only effect that scaling PoW more will have is scorching the earth, so why not just invest in tech that actually can make a difference like all the working PoS projects?
"Everything I had wanted for years was right in front of me. I was going to get my J.D. and a Ph.D. in philosophy. My plan was, among other things, to be a philosophy professor for at least a while. I believed I had a special gift and could be not only a good professor, but an absolutely wonderful one. But I also needed adventure and the law degree would give me the ability to easily get fun and exciting jobs all over the world. On the weekends I would climb mountains and jump and play in the ocean. I would take months off at a time- travel, adventure, girls, fun, rowdiness, freedom! Sounding my barbaric YAWP across the rooftops of the world!"

Based on that I'm assuming this guy comes from wealth?
I agree - but I think you're grandizing engineers way too much. I highly doubt "a couple" or DevOps engineers at Uber not showing up to work would do anything at all. Maybe if the entire DevOps team striked.
I have heart failure. Without medical treatment and very invasive medical treatment and I would die with in a matter of years.

Fear is highly motivating to get the treatment, because I don't want to die
Forcing? Really?

And if, after forcing your trendy medical blandishments on him, if he still wanted to die, would you let him?
Are Humans Turing Complete
MiSTER hits a similar beat, just with less marketing.
Most workers are not software developers. None of the people in the article were. The comment you were replying to didn't mention devs.

Unpopular opinion: Silicon Valley is not the center of the universe.
> but because they're distributed it's hard for them to organize.

How's that? In 1991, maybe. In 2021? If a movement like BLM can form today, if in the 1960s Dr. King could organize, then a seemingly simpler union organizing effort can't be excused due to distribution.

To the extent that the problem is one of distribution at all, surely that's a pretty minor problem.
In tech, this happens quite often. People like patio11 will explicitly say that you should always negotiate as it has net positive ROI [0] [1].

Just wondering, do you not negotiate? If so, you might be losing out on many multiples of your current compensation.

[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

[1] https://github.com/vlvagerviwager/salary-negotiation-tech
What if Unit<T> is an enum? Where do you put the PhantomData?
It's unfortunate that these ETF's track the price of Bitcoin Futures and not the actual spot price of Bitcoin. It will be interesting to see how they trade in the first few months and how well they do at actually tracking the price movement of Bitcoin.
Concur; for most of human history, societies have been governed by warlords. There are multiple sub-societies in the United States itself governed by gangs and warlords. Democracy and rule of law is the exception, not the rule.
I think that neither enhances or dilutes my point.

Modern microstates are the nearest analog. But they are on more kinds of maps, lists of countries, and the people currently on reservations should have something more similar to that.
Presenting an alternative perspective, I have a high pressure job that requires deep thought (I'm in infosec) and my hobbies are pretty much all about skill/intensity. No judgement if that's what you like, but I find chill/relaxing games to be boring and can't play them for very long without having to go find something more meaningful to do. I enjoy being alone with my thoughts, I just find low-stakes games to be a weird in-between area and while I know they're super popular I just don't get it.

As a sibling comment says, ego depletion research is pretty low quality in terms of reproducibility. Anecdotally, I have never found it to be true for me.
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/
Analogue’s marketing is infuriating the retro gaming community more and more. Their products are nice but they always take a lot of time to deliver their products, even before the covid. Their marketing is always misleading, talking about « no emulation » although it is some kind emulation of the systems. It is better than software emulation as it allows better accuracy and far less input lag, but it is emulation through FPGA.

I’m quite interested in the Pocket, but if you want to jump in FPGA emulation of old computers, consoles and arcades, I’d recommend the MiSTer project which is open source, delivers constantly, do not use shitty marketing terms, has a great community and allows to play a lot of old systems already.
That sounds like a badly designed co-op, surely the better approach would be to swap the shareholders for the workforce and keep executive power centralised in a CEO?

I don't think anyone has an argument in favour of a committee making every single decision. The advantage of the co-op model is that the shareholders are all domain experts and the workforce would be maximally incentivised to pursue profits.
Yeah, I went off-topic a bit here. My point was that the dangers of violence and porn and other poorly expressed forms of sexuality are not that different from each other. Your presentation read like (b) would be specific to sexuality for other reasons than culture treating it as taboo. The nuance you describe is not a given.
This would upset many librarian and archivist
I know lots of people who both have kids and engage in tons of the items on this list. One of the most active, well-read people I know is a mother of 5.
Why is this flagged? We just don't criticize Tesla?

The whole video on YouTube is a disaster. The car turns left across facing traffic on a red left arrow. Easiest machine-vision problem you can imagine: chroma-keyed directional signal.
The downside of not having a LIDAR.
i dont quite unerstand this. does this imply we are forced to give out our verifiable home address? i remember buying domains and just putting "001, abc street, 892032, india" in the fields. is this forcing me to change that to my home address?
> People don't tend to discuss this much, but in fact Lidar has somewhat limited horizontal resolution and a ton of noise in the signal.

This was probably true in 2016, but not anymore. Waymo’s 5th gen lidar and Argo AI’s lidar all show massive performance and resolution improvements. They have been game changers. Anyone not using lidar in 2021 is just handicapping themselves, as we are seeing with Tesla FSD performance.
No, keep starting chats with support asking how to disable podcasts. Draw it out. That costs them $.
You haven't addressed any part of this argument at all.

Managers can and do stack rank their employees, and pay them differentially according to that ranking, I'm sorry if you're learning this just now. If anything, you've validated my point by agreeing that employee value is a holistic assessment -- i.e. it has non-quantitative elements.

That understanding is what makes it possible for someone who produces less value for the company to argue that they actually produce more. Once they understand exactly how much is available to bargain over, the manager has no leverage to push back, and there is no reason not to make the case that one's non-quantitative competences are worth all of that gap. It costs approximately nothing to keep asking for more money.
IATSE and the industry just settled.[1]

Terms are generally favorable to the union.

• Living wage achieved

• Improved wages and working conditions for streaming

• Retroactive scale wage Increases of 3% annually

• Employer Funded Benefits for the term

• Increased meal period penalties including prevailing rate

• Daily Rest Periods of 10 hours without exclusions

• Weekend Rest Periods of 54 and 32 hours

• Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Holiday

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives

• 13th and 14th checks for pre-August 2009 retirees

• Additional MPI Hours for On-Call Employees

• Expansion of Sick Leave Benefit to the entire country

[1] https://iatse.net/landmark-tentative-agreement-reached-for-i...
Panic-Buying Toilet Paper Is a Bad Habit We Can Break
So you know that you don't have equivalent data for Tesla but that doesn't stop you from claiming that Waymo is better than Tesla? Based on data that neither you nor anyone else have?
The pretreatment plant is for extracting pure methane from natural gas. That is in the document.
Oh for sure, just an example to demonstrate the compiler coming to the party to help out. Definitely not a person class tutorial haha! Thanks for your link though, interesting read!
Egyptian culture certainly evolved, but I don't see that having new gods and a new leadership cast means that the civilization is new. The basic precepts are still there. They share the same religious and technological linages.
New Artist on the Rise
EyyDee - Get at Me
I also suspect that these companies have tuned the algorithms to emphasize content that is cheaper for them to play.
You'd think that reduction in IRS budget would actually do the opposite - make them concentrate on high value targets such as the "ultra rich" rather than small time business owners such as myself. If that's not what's happening, then adding more IRS agents won't increase their propensity to go after the "ultra rich".

Thus far they tried to go after me twice in 3 years, both times unsuccessfully because I have a kickass accountant. The largest amount they tried to go after was $16K. Hardly a match for Powell's money printing skills.
Why call it "AnalogueOS" if it is digital?
Well "rigged" is a bit much, but if people spend large amounts of their money on things that are not included in the CPI basket, then the CPI is an incomplete measure.
Good to see Simon is getting promotion. It's interesting to watch someone have an authentic and deep passion for something which they enjoy sharing in a down-to-earth manner. For example the vocal shift video was quite revealing. Maybe one day he'll have his own BBC documentary series.
Wow, exciting to see Simon on the front page. My background is in linguistics so I've known this guy for a while on Youtube. He adamantly claims his background isn't in linguistics but he's legit. Go Simon!
Microsoft released windows 11, so, no, they have no shame. Microsoft is a company without leadership, without direction, and without a central vision. The only feature of windows that people like, is that it continues to run the software they need. Other than that the OS itself gets in the way, stops your workflow, and makes your life harder. And the only other commercial alternative is just as bad in other ways. The natural result of letting the computer marker be controlled by a few big players.
I'm Irish. I didn't know this stuff. I found it interesting. Calm down kid.
Modern Europe is not a good comparison. Something like Papua-New Guinea is probably closer. Not even sure how far into Europe's past one needs to go to find an ethno-political system similar to B.C. circa 1800. Medieval Europe? The era of Greek city states?

https://www.muturzikin.com/cartesoceanie/oceanie2.htm
The patent you linked says "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "FPGA" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN". From what I understand, that is just a trademark for the logo showing "FPGA" within their square design.

The tweet you linked is promoting their newest product, so of course it's marketing it as something fantastic. FPGA emulation isn't a miracle, but it does provide some benefits over software emulation. I find it hard to believe that people would be misled into thinking this is some scholarly source of information.
> Though that pasta would be pretty bland without any tomato sauce!

Fettuccine alfredo.
HN is a very niche audience. Most of the global population is in China, India, Africa, and the Muslim world (including Indonesia and Pakistan) and the majority of these people do not want nudity everywhere.

As usual, a small segment of Western society deems itself morally superior to the entire world. New century, same old mentality.
Right, and imagine if somebody invented a simple injection that reduced road deaths...how many people do you think would be interested in this?

Do you have any idea how many millions of dollars car companies invest every year into making cars marginally safer?

Even if you somehow assume everybody working at a car company is somehow immoral - imagine the profit motive if they invented a car that reduced your risk of dying by 75%? People would be clamouring to license the technology.

Yes, we all want to drive, but if you could let us still drive, and be safer...

The amount of crazy conspiracy theories around COVID, and how it's about government control, or big pharma is mind-boggling.

It's a pandemic - we've had them before, except this time, we have science, and invested billions of dollars into research to get a vaccine. Sure, it's not 100% effective, but by this point in time, we have a fairly good idea that it's benefits heavily outweigh the risks across the population.

And the vaccine is free...
Kids go to bed early. There’s time in evening.
Even, predictable difficulty is key. Too easy and it's boring; too hard and it's frustrating. Suddenly, surprisingly difficult is so challenging it's the kind of thing that gets you riches and fame.
> There are plenty of places with pay transparency (Congress staffers for example)

Imagine thinking Congressional staffer, a job

- whose main value are the connections and opportunities available immediately after finishing a successful tour, and

- for which your current employer is approximately the only possible employer for you (if you want to be rep X's staffer you need a connection and endorsement to rep X, it won't help you much to have worked for rep Y unless Y is endorsing you to X)

imagine thinking these dynamics have anything to do with the common person's (or even a software engineer's) working situation. The pay is transparent precisely because there is nothing you can (or would) do about it, and the salary is not the point of the job anyhow. The reward is a lifetime of milking valuable connections and endorsements, and getting to one day feed at the same publicly funded trough as the other pigs, not a $3,500 salary increase.

You do that job because it's a pipeline to lobbying and other influence-peddling scumbaggery, not because you get rich or even make a reasonable living.
Can you quantify the improvements for us?

As far as I know the specs for Waymo's 5th generation lidar are not publicly available. Can you link to them?

How much work did you do with Waymo's 5th generation lidar? Or any lidar for that matter?

Do you have any qualifications to claim that a lidar that isn't even available to you is capable of doing a very specific task?
Yes and very much so. Look at the GPU market: probably crypto has stimulated some GPU additional capacity, but overall crypto has been highly net-negative for non-crypto GPU uses. Imagine if crypto did to the solar market what it has already done to the GPU market.
Even if energy was free to mine, the hardware manufacturing for the GPUs would be problematic.
Not an American. I want to understand college debt. Is the situation so binary that if people don't take un-returnable debt they'll be stuck in lower end minimum-wage manual jobs? I understand state colleges are relatively cheaper.
Good luck with that. Financial markets are not pRNG's -- they are more like an adversary you are playing poker with. Think game theory, rather than pattern matching.
McDonalds Canada leaks names and locations of promotion winners
There’s no evidence for Tesla FSD having a better safety record. When they used to report to the DMV, they were still nowhere near Waymo and Cruise. Since then, we all know how “capable” FSD really is. There are tons of videos showing FSD screwing up the most basic of scenarios. So it’s a very reasonable conclusion.
When the Irish (and I think Scots) went to university back in the day, they took a barrel of potatoes with them for the semester as their "meal plan."

So they ate potatoes two to three times per day, every day.
Joe Manchin's Dirty Empire
Spotify dynamically injects ads into podcasts. I was listening to an episode of the Conan O'Brien podcast from 2018 and got an advertisement to be safe from Covid by enjoying an ice cold Miller Lite at home.

It was extremely unsettling until I realized what they were doing.

They replace the ad breaks that would normally be in a podcast. (Like when the hosts say "we're going to take a quick break to talk about our sponsors for this episode"). It's not an unskippable ad like you get when listening to music using the free tier. It's inserted directly into the audio stream.

Edit: I guess it's possible the Conan podcast is doing that somehow and not Spotify, but I've never had something like that happen when using the Apple podcast app.
FSD = Full Self Driving

I kinda figured something like that from the context, but not hanging on the days and lives of our Tesla future, this is the first time I heard this particular acronym.

Can we (HN community) please recommit to spell things out on first use unless the abbreviation is long and established and unambiguous?
Somehow I remember that Rowan fruits taste more palatable (even sweteer) after the first frosty week.
In c++ there are some hacks that can start to help getting someswhere close (https://ossia.io/posts/reflection/) but this solution with attributes is what everyone dreams of
This isnt true at all, theres tons of stranded energy production sources that are not being used now that would be made viable through mining crypto and transferring that "work" electronically rather than over wire.
This article touches on something that remains very true today: if you want to study genetic disorders you look at closely-related populations. If the condition you want to study is linked to a recessive gene, you want to find (or create) an isolated population with that gene.

In animals/plants this is why inbreeding can serve a useful function. If you want to detect a recessive gene, but either don't have access to genetic testing or are not sure which gene is involved, you in-breed until you see individuals who express the recessive gene. These individuals inherited the recessive gene from both parents. You then know which parental lines carry the gene, which lets you select for or against it.
Intentional user input has fairly consistent characteristics, as do each of a variety of noise/drift/interference sources. The key is to safely and accurately recognize/estimate each of those to remove or report them. I suspect now people would prefer to use some form of machine learning, but realistically there are fairly low expected power requirements, which make that difficult. There's also a battle between low latency stateless techniques and more stateful techniques that require rapid recovery when they get something wrong.
Agreed, it's like he thinks being paralyzed instantly makes him interesting.
Theres a lack of concrete details but it seems like he was a privileged, callow, entitled, thoughtless man before the accident, and nothing really changed.
People would dislike "woke" music and podcast, we can not have that.