skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The record industry isn’t as alien as you think.

Music is inherently human and more people than you think show genuine talent at their chosen musical craft.

Hype separates the cream from the milk. Cream here is a value judgment that can best be described as “not milk”, and therein lies the capriciousness of…

…marketing.

Look around your workplace. Do you see an iota of evidence to suggest that marketing is going on? Welcome to the competitive hell of anything akin to the music industry. You and I are brethren here.

Honesty, looking at A&R at least they are open about being 99% hype and 1% talent. Can SNAP say the same?
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>decided that taking a toxic animal dewormer

Please don't repeat known lies. it just muddies the conversation and adds to misinformation, which is already a huge problem.

Ivermectin is a drug designed for humans and prescribed to a hundred million people a year.
Leaseweb, they're a European company but with several US datacenter locations. They offer monthly priced dedicated servers, but are more expensive than Hetzner.
This was predicted in the EPIC 2014 video in 02004. If you haven't seen it, it's a very thought-provoking look at the future of news. The original requires Flash, of course.

It got a few things wrong. It doesn't mention filter bubbles and algorithmic radicalization, for instance.
HomeKit compatibility is a useful proxy for local API, since it's a hard requirement for HomeKit certification.
I agree with most of this, but I suggest a 2nd look at the concept of free market. Free from what? Geographic locality? It's notable that Adam Smith's free market seems to have been free also of monopolies and cartels.

In any case, whether an open internet would have resulted in newspapers' bankruptcy is speculative... even though I share your speculation. What actually happened was that FB & google achieved control over who sees what on the internet, who earns ad revenue and how much. That is how their business models actually died. It makes sense to sue, lobby, beg or otherwise try to get what you can from them. There is no market, just them.

Maybe it would have happened anyway in a free market, but it didn't happen that way. What happened was that big tech took over content delivery and online advertising.
Right -- this makes sense, and you put well into words some of the thoughts going through my head.

But where does this leave players vs bands'/artists' whole catalogs? A club paying for a Ronaldo/Messi/Zlatan has to make that up pretty fast (disregarding brand value/brand management), whereas a Beatles/Dylan/Rihanna catalog will keep bringing in revenue for ages. As (I believe) you hint at, music has a whole different staying value compared to (many/most?) other forms of entertainment.
You can't possibly be serious.

Out of curiosity, I just opened Windows 10 Settings. I see sixteen top level options. I opened the first one and it had 16 submenus, the first of which is two pages tall and has 8 additional settings links from it. Of course, Control Panel is also a place it could be hiding, and it's even bigger.

So, no. One does not simply click on every single thing in settings hoping to find the annoying thing that Windows is doing today that you don't have a name for.

Typing "Snap Window" into search narrows it down to three, which makes it possible to accomplish.

Thanks again to the GP for enabling that.
The Dark Side of Meritocracy
gnome because it is default de with ubuntu
Thank you for your research and insight. I was trying to figure out why both sides stopped being presented.

In the 90s, 2000s both sides were still presented until Omaba, got really bad under Trump. Now a cnn panel of 6 people all have to agree with each other or they won't be back next week.
You are (conveniently or not) incorrectly assuming that the unit price of provisioned vs on-demand capacity is the same. It's not.
It's as close as they can get to suing the internet
Given that the last 50 years have seen an explosion of chronic conditions (inflammation linked for the most part, which isn't nec obvious) tied to unknown environmental causes, I'd start examining those, including occult motion sickness due to sensory conflict (tv panning zooming passive transportation etc.) Even if there's a genetic trait, chances are the environment is involved. Don't neglect pubmed.
> Sure, but that alone can have value.

Yes. It may have perceived value. I mean, people spend money on useless skins in games, and perceive those as having value.

> Especially if it is anticipated that physical settlement demands will not be especially common.

Of course, you're buying wine futures and you're hoping that no one will demand the actual physical settlement of, you know, delivering you the actual wine. Sure. That's what NFT scam is all about.

> It might be simpler to get your single-vineyard wine futures up and running on crypto than trying to get it listed as a new contract type in a traditional futures exchange.

Call me when

1. might becomes is, and

2. it actually requires blockchain, and

3. has any applicability on the real world (like enforcement of contracts)

> Obviously settlement for physical goods is a centralized processes (or possibly a somewhat decentralized process relying on courts and contracts). This is equally true for any exchange, crypto-based or not.

Your so close to getting it.

> like people in countries with failing economies

I wish crypto-peddlers would stop pushing this extremely stupid narrative.
Grave spinning? Sounds like that dangerous Alternating Current malarky. Don't you know that AC can kill an elephant??
How long before Take-Two Interactive sues for trademark?

https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interact...
I considered writing it as a percent but then decided against using it and moving the decimal instead. But good info for clarification.
So, something like AX.25 [0][1] on the amateur radio VHF and UHF bands, which is free (once you have an appropriate license) and there is widespread citizen maintained and managed infrastructure, such as repeaters. [2]

0. http://www.ax25.net/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25

2. https://ukrepeater.net/
Is there a possibility of the cache stampede / dogpile problem?
That's just monthly newspaper subscriptions with extra steps.

Better to do the music subscription route, where the user sub revenue is automatically divided amongst all the newspapers the user accesses for the month.

IIRC Google tried to do this with display ads, where you would see pictures of cats instead of display ads on the news pages and pay the website the few cents they would have made on the impression. Dunno what happened to it but people who are willing to pay for content always overestimate the size of the market of other people who are willing to do the same.
Thanks for the answer and yes, exactly; website visitor statistics.

Just like you, for my own projects, I've been trying to rely on server-side generated analytics till but there are some valid concerns from my team about data sets missing for the projects we work on.

We're going to try and self-host Plausible.io since it's open-source, doesn't require cookie consent, and seem to value privacy while offering valid data points for us to be able to optimize our website experiences.
> They're not all contributing to that specific accident, but they're contributing to the rate of accidents.

> For a more extreme example, imagine a million drunk drivers getting on the road at the same time to drive a significant distance. Nobody has crashed yet, but many of them will. I would say they are clearly "contributing to causing fatal accidents". Would you not?

It's like you are saying Shark Attacks are an externality of swimming in the ocean. That is not an externality, that is a risk of swimming in the ocean. Someone swimming in the ocean and is fine is completely independent of someone else who swims in the ocean and is attacked by a shark.
Dwm because it sucks less https://dwm.suckless.org/
It's possible that they still haven't merged the smallish patch described here:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-h...

The hardware is underpowered because they optimise for people who deploy a hundred routers on mountaintops, with excellent lines of sight but poor access for replacement. Underclocking severely helps reliability.
It could be changed in bitcoin core, as previous changes to rules have been. It would require agreement from market participants.
Good call. I just assumed you could for some reason. I guess the fallback is to devise your own SSO implementation using STS in another region if needed.
Oh Wow! I can't believe how far we've come to where they can finally make MS notepad productive! Totally worth the cost and hardware updates I'll need to commit to! It totally changes the game! - Nobody Ever :/
Very German of them. Do something they don't like once and they ghost you forever lol.
I did not. Thanks, good call. [Edit] Then, later on I did. His graphics and cutaway models are really good.
Why is it so hard to get a t-shirt out of the bands I love? I'd absolutely love to pay $15 for an album again, only this time I want a cool t-shirt instead of the CD :).
Then I misunderstood your earlier comment " ... there is a strong case to be made that it makes the language better and fell out of favor not because it wasn't useful but because it was more expensive."

I don't see how you think there's a strong case.

I don't see why you think ö fell out of favor because of cost.

I didn't get from your earlier comment that these weren't personal beliefs at all but were forwarded from others.

> existing publication style guides to point to

That's not the basis for good pedagogy at the elementary school level. Publication style guides are for people with years of experience.

In elementary school you learn how to alphabetize names. In 6th grade I learned a new rule - the library collated Mac and Mc together card catalog. (This was in 1981, before computers.) Turns out this was A.L.A. Rules for Filing Catalog Cards, rule 13) b), see https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.15145/page/n19/mode... . That link goes into far more detail than anything an elementary student should have to know about sorting names.

For similar reasons, elementary students aren't expected to format their book reports in MLA style.
Is this why goodreads hasn’t been working today?
yeah i am that old :-)
Show HN: I interviewed Arvid Kahl about bootstrapping
I have not laughed to genuinely hard in a LONG LONG time, everything about this programming language rocks! (yes I did it)
My 7 Euro hetzner cloud instance in Falkenstein easily does about 5Gbit (inter-europe).

From my experience, at Hetzner you are very rarely limited by their network. Usually only by poor peering from transits. Peerings with all the big names are great tho, so no reason to complain for me.

And from what I know from someone near Hetzner, they don't cheap out on peering at all.

10G speedtest to a swedish telco provider I ran just now: https://i.imgur.com/9ARZqOP.png
Yea the library I am using noted that people are always trying to write Kicad format parsers from scratch but each time they’ll run in to small issues, so it is meant to be a go-to library for this kind of thing. It’s Python though. I don’t know if there is any way for Haskell to utilize Python libraries.

https://github.com/dvc94ch/pykicad
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Just FYI, this fails to load with the Dark Reader extension installed - you're relying on the DOM position of a stylesheet, which extensions can change. Might want to look in to that. https://i.imgur.com/yqjqrWI_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=gr...
That would be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
"it is actually one of the next features coming up" is one of the most annoying things I hear from enterprise companies that I have issues with. I have received this response and waited for the feature for over a year or have never seen it released at all.

Thank you for the response, but, at the end of the day, people are going to judge Cloudflare on how quickly and accurately they can solve these issues.
I have long said the problem with paying for news is that it is rarely worth paying for. When I was in grad school there was a program that gave us "free" copies of the NYTimes and USA Today (I'm sure part of our tuition paid for it but all we had to do was swipe our student id to open the newspaper box). I would get them every day and there were rarely more than one story in them that I would actually read.
As a construction engineer, content with the word "erection" is very common but not very easy to get by the filters.
I hope they put in some way to search Bing using Edge, with no way to change the search provider or browser I use.
Follow your own advice, it was designed for treating parasites, not viruses.
From your link, I found this a bit odd:

> As video games get more photo realistic (...) the demand for rendering is going to grow immensely.

I don't see what a decentralized render farm has to do with video games, it's never going to render at real-time rates.
don't go for trendy, if you like programming in python search for jobs in python there are tons of them out there.
Yep, that's a consideration of going with cloud tech: if something goes wrong you're often powerless. At least with on-prem you know who to wake up in the middle of the night and you'll get straight-forward answers about what's going on.
It's the "grandma got run over by a reindeer" of AWS outages. Really no outage thread would be complete without this anecdote.
> we may not watch much 1920s movies but we do watch movies from the 50s and 60s.

When you take the time value of money into account, an expectation of big amounts of revenue multiple decades out is worth very little at the time of production. And on top of that, those old movies tend to be licensed at very cheap rates, so now it's a small amount of revenue getting exponentially discounted.

Cutting copyright after a couple decades won't have a big impact on profits.
At least in Chrome it works as advertised: https://twitter.com/fabiospampinato/status/14683093104804741...
Sure, but higher up, the post is spouting technically incorrect information.
I use Sway.
The main reason is because I'm used to tilling WM, I've tried to switch back to stacking ones a few time but I really don't like it.
The second reason is that it's light.
The third reason is that I have less issues with Wayland (I know some people would say the opposite, but I never found a way to have no graphical glitch with X11)

Now, if there would be a mature dynamic tilling manager like DWM or AwesomeWM under wayland I would switch to it (I'm gonna play with RiverWM soon I think).
To add to your point, the futility of copyright enforcement in the digital age created a new industry in the form of DRM and YouTube auto-takedown algorithms.
(This was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473759 but I've pruned it to make the thread less top-heavy.)
Arch with Wayland and Sway.

I'm fucking around with it on my ancient Surface Pro 3, and it's been a wonderful experience so far. I haven't even got XWayland. Helps that I'm only using it to use Firefox and write some code in vim.
At work, i3 on Plasma. At home, plain i3 (with polybar). Simple, and amazingly practical.
They are really into breaking things that didn't need fixing over the past year or so.
Pray tell, which version of music business history elides the countless musicians worked for peanuts playing -- inventing -- ragtime and jazz to fill bars and brothels; the jukeboxes run by the mob as a pivot from their gaming machines; the revival tents, be-ins, and desert festivals?

Music has always been in partnership with other passions and vices, and since the time cynics and nihilists have been able to capitalize on that relationship, they have.
Many news websites won't paywall the first article from a Google Search (WSJ is one though).

I'd be willing to bet in these instances you're using a traffic blocker or privacy extension that's clearing HTTP referer or some other means by which the website detects you're from Google instead of being direct (paywall) traffic.
I remember hearing that Google really downgrades the search rankings of .xyz domains. Not sure how it goes for email though.
They could have formed a joint venture to build a Craigslist killer, go after MLS listings, any number of things that would enhance their traditional business with desirable services. Instead they just stood by and watched the world change.
Thanks for this suggestion, I'll have to keep an eye on this the next time I need a router. Definitely on the pricey side, but given that it's fully open source, that's a con I can live with.
These lectures look fantastic — thank you for making and sharing them! I've been looking for a good foundational treatment of optimization to digest over the holidays.
Organizations 2.0
Your should have a look at sigma point Kalman Filters.
Yes.

"Hardware is just crystallized software"

-Alan Kay

[1] http://yosefk.com/blog/its-done-in-hardware-so-its-cheap.htm...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/e53pwa/compiler_...
I live in London and I can't launch my Roomba vacuum to clean up after dinner because of this. Hurry up AWS, fix it!
Given that this is a transcript of a video, and that video has pictures and diagrams to help illustrate what is being discussed, I would have really liked to be able to see those pictures and diagrams interspersed with the text while I was reading.
https://archive.md/EIXMx
> maybe the COTR should've rejected the work if it was unacceptable.

That would require the spec to have been written to allow that kind of rejection. I strongly suspect the spec was not written that well.
If you wanted to learn to play the piano, how would you do it? You'd get lessons, or watch videos, or read a book. You'd definitely practice. Treat interviewing the same way.
(Opinions are my own)

You can actually operate Google maps with no internet connection: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?hl=en&co=GENI...

This will not have the same feature set but the UI will let you know that this is operating with reduced data. Route planning is still very good offline. I had to use this feature because for some time part of my route home had no cell signal.
What do you mean by that? Isn't the Pine64 stuff supported by mainline Linux?
The story this year has you descending into the ocean in a submarine.
Google has an official policy against this sort of behavior.
This is how Advent of Code day 7 solution looks like in Rockstar [1]:

My plaything is your mind
Cast my plaything into the void

Listen to my heart
Shatter my heart with the void

Natsuki is frightened
Yuri is gentleness
Poems are invaluable
Rock reality
While my heart isn't mysterious
Roll my heart into the world
Burn the world into my hope
If my hope is less than Natsuki
Let Natsuki be my hope

If my hope is greater than Yuri
Let Yuri be my hope

Let Sayori be reality at my hope
If Sayori is mysterious
Sayori is hereabouts

Build Sayori up
Let reality at my hope be Sayori
Build poems up

My end is justifying
My thoughts are knowledgable
Let the volume be poems over my thoughts
My hope is accessible
Turn down the volume
Build Yuri up
While my hope is less than Yuri
Let my target be reality at my hope
If my target is not mysterious
Let the volume be the volume without my target

If my end is nothing
If the volume is less than my end
Let my end be my hope

Build my hope up

My hope is accessible
My passion is literature
My heart is courageous
Knock my heart down
While my hope is less than Yuri
Let my poem be reality at my hope
If my poem is not mysterious
Let my fear be my end without my hope
If my fear is as weak as my heart
Let my fear be my fear of my heart

Let my fear be my fear of my poem
Let my passion be my passion with my fear

Build my hope up

Shout my passion

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_d...
Having occasionally worked with pen-tests, I think perhaps a different lesson is in order. If you can find it in a pen test, so can your adversaries. You have no way of knowing if they've done so already. The best way forward is to address the issues as quickly as is reasonably possible.

Secrecy protects the pen-test findings document, but not your vulnerability. The map should never be confused for the territory.
I understand it's reasonable to be cynical about Windows, but is it really appropriate here[1] when the changes of note are support for dark mode and multiple undo steps? At least wait for someone to find an actual problem.

[1] When I post this, the only other comments are complaints. The ones that are at least complaining about notepad are complaining that MS had the gall to change notepad without pointing to anything specific.
Well, I started at the small company I'm currently at around day 7300, where "source control" consisted of asking the one person who was in charge of all source code for a copy of the files you needed to work on, and then giving the updated files back. He'd write down the "checked out" files on a whiteboard to ensure that two people couldn't work on the same file at the same time.

The fact that I've gotten it to the point of using git with automated build and deployment is a small miracle in itself. Not everybody gets to start from a clean slate.
I have been running either sway or i3 (both tiling window managers) for the last couple years. I used KDE for a couple years before that. One day I tried a tiling WM plugin for KDE and decided to give it a shot and learn it how it worked. Using the KDE plugin preserved the ability to float windows and do everything the way I had in the past if I couldn't figure out how tiling worked. It was a nice easy transition and I'm really glad I gave it a chance! I quickly grew to love the ability to use all my screen space efficiently and the organization of workspaces.

The lightweight footprint that something like sway or i3 gives is really nice too. Now I like to start with a fedora minimal install, install sway & just pick and choose all the applications I want to use. It really feels like my OS stays out of the way and is just the way I want it. If/when I reinstall I just backup my .config folder.... everything is back to how I like it once restored. Very easy.
Wait, what? How does the fact that it's undermined not have an impact on how useful a US right is to me?

DMCA, and in general the US legal system are extremely relevant to me as a user. If I have a theoretical right to free speech, but in practice any big US media company could kill it then I'm much better off in another country where maybe the theoretical right is 10% less but I can actually practically enjoy that right.
The CTO Journey: Mark Porter of MongoDB
Because it keeps being hobbled, on purpose In my industry we rely on mail. A few years ago it got bad around this time, but we'd still get mail. Now we go months without getting important documents in the mail. It gets worse every year. Look who's managing the current postmaster general and how political the appointment is. But somehow in these conversations people forget about these specific issues that bring things down, and feel instead it's just some impossible herculean task that has become entire impossible. Many of the common issues people complain about, are on purpose
First, if i get paywall page instead of the article then it is not relevant, because it is about paying and not about the original query.

Second, it does not make sense - if i use a public search engine, i expect publicly available information. If i have subscription to specific newspaper i would use search dialog in that newspaper. If a public search engine returns me paywall for a specific newspaper, it is minimal chance that it is the same newspaper i am already subscribed to.
I would describe these plants as large, probably seasonal weeds. So it’s not like they were woody trees or anything. Just seemed kind of shoddy.