skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> those stories have always been public domain and you can write a book or movie about them with no problem.

Those stories were retelling of stories which were retelling of stories which were... Disney made it law that no one is allowed to retell their stories but them. Approaching or alluding to their retelling can carry stiff penalties. It's antithetical to a universal human institution that has existed since before recorded history.
The business of music essentially started as a way to sell preaching and alcohol, which in turn monetized real estate investments (bars), and then it was used to sell little blobs of plastic and cardboard with pictures on them, t-shirts, instruments and some lessons, and then maybe matchmaking at concerts and festivals. Music is the sizzle, not the steak. It's the sound of gross margin, but it's not the product. We just keep letting musicians believe it's a problem to be solved and they keep producing music more and more cheaply, while businesses find new tchotchkas to sell into the channel that a listenership creates. Digitization decoupled the attractive sounds from the merch, and now we're trying to find a way to couple them again.

Bandcamp has done some very interesting stuff with merchandising. Same with the resurgence of vinyl records as a luxury item. Selling cosmetics and endorsements is the main play for making money with music I think. I looked into whitelablling cannabis products for bands (like the song? experience the complete vibe with X branded prerolls, etc) and this is explicitly banned in legalization legislation because it's such an obviously good idea.

There was a dating site that matched people based on their music preferences and playlists, and that was one of the best hypoethesis I've seen tested in a product. I don't think it dominated the way one might have expected it to.

I agree with the advice, that discovery isn't a product, and the big question is how to tie music back to merch, or move on to new artforms if that's not going to happen. Otherwise it's like trying to sell math.
Show HN: Free UTM Link Generator
Hi,

Recently I created a free tool to help content writers, marketers, and founders quickly generate UTM tags for their content links so they can better understand which content and channels are driving more engagement.

I know there are already a bunch of these sites out there, but mine is a bit unique in that it allows the user to then create a free (or paid) account and save this link into a UTM management platform.

I'd love to get some feedback (good and bad) so I can improve on this or kill it if no one sees value in it.

You can take it for a test drive here - https://freeutmbuilder.com. You don't need to sign up to try it.

If you don't know what UTM codes/links are, I wrote a page on it here you can check out - https://www.utmcodes.com/blog/how-to-setup-utm-codes

Grateful for any feedback.

Backstory on why I built this –

For over 10 years I've been building and managing UTM links in Google spreadsheets, but overtime they become really messy, large, and difficult to keep organized (enforcing consistent naming conventions, avoiding errors and typos, lack or user permissions), especially when working with a team.

So a few months ago, some friends and I decided to build a platform (UTM Codes - https://utmcodes.com) that would allow us to create, manage, and collaborate on UTM links without the headaches of using spreadsheets.

After a month of the platform being out in the wild, my freeutmbuilder.com microsite was built as a marketing tool to help drive users to the full platform. This was before a free plan was introduced on the full platform (UTM Codes).

Thanks for your time and any feedback you can offer.
Spotify's 2021 Wrapped is bonkers
that’s an update for amazon connect, which is a customer support related service.
Personally I prefer Gnome UX over Windows at any time. Is it due to bugs and lack of support for things?
MergeStat Public API
I own Netgate and run R610s at work and at home, if that says anything.
I read it. You should read it carefully too. He says he read a book. He never says it was an inspiration.

Just because I do AI research and tell someone I watched Star Trek, does that mean I'm saying that my latest NeurIPS paper is inspired by Star Trek? No way.
Back then, their feature films weren’t money makers, as they didn’t make them.

Their first feature film was very profitable, but it was from about 15 years later (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarf...).

However, their next two movies (Pinocchio, Fantasia) cost them money because they were released during World War Two, when they couldn’t show them in large parts of the world.

They needed Dumbo to make up for that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbo#Box_office), then Bambi wasn’t a huge success, either (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi#Box_office)

So, I guess it wasn’t till after World War Two that their feature films became profitable. They survived, so chances are the shorts brought in money.
I was stuck on an air gapped network for 2 years with only vi. It stuck.
Do computer users need blue light-filtering glasses?
Private companies are small centrally-planned economies within larger capitalist systems.
You used to have to recoup the costs of publishing as well as fund the author. Binding books was and is not free, but copying bits effectively is.
That's also a good point. Warships have the thickest armor out of everything in our armory by a significant margin.

The M1 Abrams has 350mm armor, the biggest, baddest tank of the US Army.

The Arleigh Burke Destroyer doesn't have one armor plate like the M1 Abrams: it has multiple plates wrapping other plates wrapping its hull which wraps Kevlar to protect the people inside.

It turns out that boats can just have much much thicker armor than any tank, because floating is much easier than moving with an engine.
Because if you want to make something there will be customers in the US.

And if you are making something interesting that utilizes the internets USP, it will have real-time communication between your customers.

And in the US if users from the east coast connect to something with the same latency as users from the west coast that evens out the advantages.

If you are making a static homepage then of course it doesn't matter because what you are making could also be a book or even a stone tablet.

The content always comes from the older medium until the new medium figures out it's own content at which point the old medium dies. See opera, theater, radio, television, youtube, twitch, etc. etc.

The final medium is the open 3D action MMO, be it in VR or not.

5 years ago i decided to never work on something that could not be sold globally, it's a good decision because it leans into the future.
Whatever amount of time was in the regulations before everything was thrown out the window in the past year and a half.
Department of Justice Sues Texas for Violating Voting Rights Act
Hey be careful what you wish for!

Check out "I am the Edison phonograph" from 1906 https://youtu.be/EQC9CjFezrQ

I'd use that, totally would.
On the other hand, generational wealth below obscene amounts is a vital stabilizing force in a society. A middle to upper middle class family passing on a boost to each subsequent generation is a good thing. Grandparents help pay for their grandkids' schooling, kids have some sense of stability and a safety net, etc.

We need many layers of safety nets and stabilizing forces, because every layer is prone to different types of failure. There is a natural and desirable support structure of individial -> family -> community -> state -> humanity that allows society and individuals to survive and thrive through changing circumstances. Too much reliance on any one layer, especially the state, is a recipe for fragility or tyranny.

When every individual has an emergency fund, every family has a nest egg, every community pulls together in time of need, and every state provides a safety net of last resort, we can weather any storm.
Authore here. Python is for the build system. Plug in any front end you want. If you want to turn it into silicon, you will need to go through commercial tools which interface through proprietary tcl. How would you solve that problem? We solved it using python.
Amazon Connect is a call-center product, so that report makes sense.
Warp in this case I believe is referring to bending space time or traversing something similar to a wormhole, it’s not talking about Star Trek and tachyons and FTL. Hence the discussion points of exotic matter that exudes negative mass, which is what is required to stabilize mathematical models of Einstein Rosen bridges.
No way. RF doesn't go anywhere in water. Besides, an entire hydrophone array is at least 60 dB quieter than propulsion systems in terms of EM emissions and will be on par with life support systems, which I assume do not ever get voluntarily shut down underwater.
I'm right in the middle of an AWS-run training and we literally can't run the exercises because of this.

let me repeat that: my AWS trainign that is run by AWS that I pay AWS for isn't working, because AWS is having control plane (or other) issues. This is several hours after the initial incident. We're doing training in us-west-2, but the identity service and other components run in us-east-1.
Regardless of market conditions, DINK still offers a huge economic advantage because, well it's in the name: two incomes, ~half the living expenses compared to a single. It's popular because it's meta.
DAOs, distributed autonomous organizations. Since you can script contract behavior on a blockchain, you can prefigure and automate the governance of an open organization in any way you desire: Cooperatives, worker ownership, covenants, voting by shares, etc. BBLLC (Blockchain-Based Limited Liability Corporation) laws are becoming a thing, for example Vermont recently legalized them, meaning that a DAO can now be legally binding and not just an organizational novelty.

I think that over the next decade or so this will become the greatest impact of blockchains outside of finance.
The status page is as much a political tool as a technical one. Giving your service a non-green state makes your entire management chain responsible. You don't want to be one that upsets some VPs advancement plans.
Wasmer-JS: A New Hope
Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook
That was literally 12 years ago and is not in effect and doesn't even have a German wikipedia page and the federal court would have nicked. Ist alles von der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt!
> Copyright do not protect physical hardware or goods. […] almost all copyrightable works can be transferred electronically

Don’t conflate “can be” with “are”. Copyrights absolutely protect books and posters and phonograph records; physical goods is how the law originated, and physical copies is a big part of what the law’s language still protects to this day. There are big problems with copyright law because it hasn’t yet been adequately adapted to the invention of the internet.

There is plenty of overlap when it comes to the business of physical goods. Copyrights do protect parts of the designs of many physical goods, and the sources and driver software of computer hardware, for example. Copyrights also protect marketing and advertising material and many other parts of a fledgling business.

What are we discussing at this point? I agree with you that copyright should probably end with the author (though I would say there should be a minimum term, to account for the many reasonable possible scenarios like being part of a business, accidental death, old age, etc., etc.). I don’t think 10 years is enough, and I don’t think that tech moving quickly is a valid reason to shorten copyright. There are valid reasons to shorten copyright, so we should discuss those instead.
I teach a class on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdkTDauaUnQpzuOCZyUUZ...

Understanding optimization at this level and being able to formulate your own problems in one of the canonical forms gives you super powers.

You don’t even have to build your own solvers. The commercial/open source ones are typically good enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer absolutely perform air-defense roles.

England's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer are primarily in an anti-air and anti-missile role, even.
That doesn't really sound like the deal size that makes you a CEO.
Fair enough. Perhaps something like doing checks after the plans have been manually computed, and then errors/warnings are flagged and used for evaluations and training. But then again, how is the culture of the Navy? Would such data be used exclusively to punish people?
Cloudflare is industry leading when it comes to facing those kinds of attacks, though, and it's supported in the "Cloudflare Image Resizing" [0] product.

Also, using a fixed number of sizes might be best practice when it comes to a website you have full control over, and can plan the content for. When it comes to user-generated content, where you want to give the user the opportunity to select a custom crop for an image, you don't necessarily have that kind of control.

The alternative we considered was doing the crop on the client before uploading the image, but that ensures loss of information, and makes it impossible for the user to edit their selection at a future time without re-uploading the image.

[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/image-resizing
> Over a messaging app?

Who said a messaging app? The Vice story says Google Meet video chat.

> How is that normal or better?

Most people don't want to be entirely impassive spectators while someone who can't see or hear them upends their career plans with uncontested fluffy business jargon.

> So, is it better to push this layoff responsibility to the hiring manager?

Yes, I've been laid off once and a colleague twice, and that's how it's gone each time. The whole reason there are articles written about this incident is that it's so sensationally exceptional.
Fair enough, I suppose. The article author was comparing submarine nav software to phone nav software though and google says there are 5+ billion mobile users. That's another couple of order of magnitude more. That'd explain why mobile software is more polished. I guess any kind of mass market product would be higher quality. The same argument ("number of eyeballs") has been used with open source software vs closed source.
Google disrupts Glupteba botnet, sues Russian operators
Thanks for the feedback. I'm on the CF Images product team.
We will allow the download of the original images, it is actually one of the next features coming up. Also we will introduce webhooks and Images Analytics next.
Gab Has a ‘Porn Bot’ Problem. and Its CEO Blames MAGA Rivals
Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150B over Myanmar violence
I see as the key point of this post the following point:

> I believe we urgently need a new process for working remote.

I do believe the same. Working remotely forces agile processes to be adjusted.
Information radiators are no more the same.
I can no more notice that 3 guys are arguing since an hour in their corner.
I can no more notice that 1 guy is struggling alone with his compiler.
It's more difficult to agree on a design on the whiteboard.
The pace of our days has changed too, with more strict alternation between meetings and individual activities.

We need other channels, more written communication, and a bit more of planning.
In no case a whole up-front plan. Definitely not. But the minimum of planning that will help to cope with the distance and the changed pace.
Yes, because when you read about the great failures of the U.S. military for the last 100 years, it usually boils down to political reasons rather than a failure of military planning. For example, the U.S. military understood vietnam and afganistan to be unwinnable years before politicians were willing to admit as much in front of the American public. The stunts in central america were all dictated by politicians for political reasons as well, mostly in effort to protect American corporate interests who had their assets seized by communist governments.
I mean, I worry about "drones" like the DF-21. Except most people call the DF-21 a "ship-killer hypersonic missile" (with big questions on whether or not it actually works as China claims)

That's the thing: "drones" that most people are talking about in these discussions are just really bad Tomahawk cruise missiles or really really bad ICBMs.
> I wonder if the ex-Amazonian you're referring to did not leave AMZN by their own accord?

Entirely possible, and something I've always suspected.
What issue? There's nothing wrong with being offensive, and again, in this case that was entirely the point. He's being offensive to Apple's implementation of monitor settings. He's not even wrong about it since it's a rather big pain point if you're mac user who wants a multi monitor setup.

Posting the definition won't change anything. You're tone policing the guy with literally 0 legitimate reasons to do so.
Expressing a complex project succinctly enough that all of HN will get it within 5sec is an np hard problem...here are the full docs. https://docs.siliconcompiler.com/en/latest/
For midway, you might want to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo

> Ineffective dive bombing at Midway? It was the only thing that was effective!

Poorly executed would be a better term. They succeeded by almost pure luck.

Two different squadrons managed to accidentally attack in different directions at the same time while the Japanese carriers had fully fueled and armed airplanes in their hangars waiting for an opening to launch an attack.

Their hit ratio was terrible, but one bomb on a carrier was enough to destroy it given the conditions.

> And, what was poor about the navigation at Midway?

USS Hornet's Flight to Nowhere. The carrier completely screwed up launching their squadrons and then went in the wrong direction. Their torpedo bomber squadron mutinied and went in a different direction. The torpedo bombers found the Japanese but without any friendly fighters to protect them, all where shot down.

All 10 Wildcat fighters ran out of fuel and ditched in the ocean. The other groups aborted to Midway after getting critically low on fuel and not finding any targets. At least four planes lost from the other groups.

Blog post: http://pilotpropwash.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-flight-to-nowh...
The history of heavier-than-air flight is pretty similar.
This is no longer a partial outage. The status page reports elevated API error rates, DynamoDB issues, EC2 API error rates, and my company's monitoring is significantly affected (IE, our IT folks can't tell us what isn't working) and my AWS training class isn't working either.

If this needed a CEO to eventually get around to pressing a button that said "show users the actual information about a problem" that reflects poorly on amazon.
There's a difference between being an anonymous owner of a domain registered at a central authority which can be compelled to turn over the domain and an anonymous contributor to a codebase which cannot be compelled to modify code if their identity is not known.

The default judgment to me is a flaw in the legal system, if an anonymous party cannot defend themselves, how can an anonymous party be sued? This default judgment is a shame. The proper default judgment should've been "who exactly are you suing?"

He can't demand coins he doesn't even know exist, he can't even prove the coins exist to a court without keys to show that they exist. Being private would absolutely prevent this vector, he'd have to have the keys to prove to a court he owns the coins, which means he wouldn't have to prove anything to a court, he would only have to move the coins.

Interesting vector with impersonation sites, I'll have to roll that one around in my head for a while.
So you're okay with a dozen of Bitcoin's longest standing developers being personally bankrupted?
Yes my experience is dated and my memory none too good, thank you for expanding.
My experience is all with "perfect" high clay soils and I'm sure many of our jobs were "under-engineered" to put it politely.

We had some crazy operators who would do things like chaining the dozer to a trackhoe at the top of the hill so it would not roll over, to do the final grade of the slope. There's more laws now, and/or fewer fools with earth moving equipment.
It doesn't have to be. I once made a julia->verilog transpiler that even recompiled your julia functions with verilator, so you could verify that the code was correct.

https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/Verilog.jl

Of course, gaining traction on something like this is tricky.

I actually think Erlang/BEAM would be a great choice for making EDA tools, because it has concurrent execution model that you could probably very easily make play nice in rudimentary simulations of circuits that have triggers (`always @` sort of stuff.
Opposition to High Density Development
I've had the opposite experience; OVH are much better, Hetzner support is absolutely awful and unskilled.

I'm a big fan of OVH, they've never let me down.
Yea, I think GDPR is a bit of "national government trying to govern international commerce" and not doing it very well, yet it's still at least there in theory.

Thanks for clarifying that for me.
> do you know to what extent the various applications (from making artificial bays to sealing wells) depend on it being a nuclear bomb versus "a big bomb"

Well, any of them where emplacing a million tons of TNT might be problematic
I also use PC Engines Alix with Debian as home router and it is in many ways superior to commercial options, but quality of wifi drivers in Linux is long-term issue.

Also note that in unpatched hostapd channel bonding (40MHz and more channels) does not really work. There is a check whether neighboring channel is crowded (which always is due to overcrowded spectrum) that disables channel bonding. AFAIK Openwrt has patch that allows to override this check, but Debian does not.

As a result, i get consistently higher wifi speeds from commercial wifi APs than from my Alix router.
Original style Mickey himself is mostly just a traceover of Oswald with different ears.
What the fuck are you talking about?

Music is one of the most powerful elements of the human experience. It's common to all cultures across all periods of history and it has the capacity to inspire people, enrage them, and cause them to fall into tribal affiliation with each other. A large percentage of the largest mass gatherings of humans that have ever occurred have had music as their draw. Entire generations are defined by their music choices, or even a single music festival.

It's something our soul needs, it's as essential to to being alive as love, or sex. Pretty sure the business of music is driven by that need.
Ah so because it's flagged as offensive you can't use it in an offensive manner on the internet. Got it. Makes perfect sense. THINK OF THE POOR APPLE MONITORS.