skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why shouldn't they? Forget the names and the details of this situation for a moment.

Spotify is a business that offers a catalog of content for a fee. Their value proposition is that they provide content people want to consume. Perhaps some content has fallen out of favor for some reason. Could be objectionable or just stale, public opinion is always shifting. If someone with more appealing content comes along and says "you have to get rid of that other thing in order to distribute my content" then how is there some moral choice Spotify has to make? They can do anything they want, and as a business they will probably choose based on what will make them money. This is a proxy for doing the thing that best aligns with their customer's interests. It is impossible for any one organization to satisfy everyone's opinions. This is literally the point of freedom of expression.
You might be better off getting a fixed power profile from the brick and regulating down to your desired voltage separately. While it's possible the brick will be well regulated, it's likely to have some noise and output voltage variability. Even for a hobbyist, the DC supply should be clean and well regulated, or you might be stuck debugging your hobby design only to realize it was a power issue all along.

A small board/box with a DC to DC regulator, knob, and display, could still be quite a bit smaller than a big bench supply, and provide reasonable performance. USB-C in (at a fixed power profile) to an output from a variable buck supply, for example.
It's not going to help much though. People like that will also try bullying sellers into not selling stuff by someone who says or believes something they don't like. Sure, you can still enjoy what you've already got, but good luck getting anything new from your favourite artist.
I once came in on a project where one dev used "func( arg )" and the other used "func (arg)". They would reformat each other's lines when they changed something, so the diff had a lot of whitespace changes. The two were not on speaking terms any longer, so I was tasked with cleaning up the mess.

First step was to run an autoformatter. I used stock presets so neither of the two would think the other was favoured in the cleanup.
This needs to be drilled harder: People can express their views until cows come home. Knock yourself out.

But, that's precisely what Young is not doing. He wants to silence (and deny the FoS) Rogan. That is the distinction that keeps being ignored in this thread and elsewhere.
For me there is a cultural question of - what kind of heterodox should be considered normal as part of a broad based distribution service.

For example, there are a number of artists who seem to glorify killing police. Should we consider it normal that big time artist XYZ would feel the need to remove their music from the service? Yes, it would be their right (I don't think anyone disputes that)... but... is that a good cultural trend?

To my eyes, this looks more like tribalistic posturing than some sort of principled stand for something.
Anyone has copy of the answers? Seems that it was interesting but was edited.
We say 'developer' not 'Bob'. The actions are typically things that are not for one person, but rather our scrum teams as a whole. For example, had a junior tasked with a 'rush' action for modifying an index. They botched the script and dropped all documents when they attempted to modify an index. Took down everything.

The chain that got us there... Developers had drop access to the prod system - all of them. That got fixed. The account that they were using had more permissions then should be used. Reviews were not done, because rush rush and vacations, the developer did some stack overflow that had unintended consequences. Tests matter. A few other bits that were slipping became checklist items for the change control.

It was far more important to fix the processes and gaps than say 'Bob' screwed it up. The other bit was when folks were chewed on, they hit the mistakes. It consumed so much time, when someone would log in and 'fix' something with a system account, and we had to guess what broke the system.

It takes time. I was so, so very skeptical when we started. It sounded like someone just avoiding responsibility. First few, were. Looking at what broke, why it broke, and how do we avoid it in the future.

At the end of the year, I'll also use these writeups to see where our emphasis areas should be. 2021's top - humans suck at keeping x509 certificates up to date when manually added.
> (than SMS, not necessarily than authentication apps)

Very dubious. The trick to phishing is that humans are easily confused about what's going on, and WebAuthn recruits the browser to fix that completely. Your browser isn't confused, the browser knows it is talking to fakebank.example because that's the DNS name which is its business, even if this looks exactly like the Real Bank web site, perfect to the pixel and even fakes the browser chrome to have a URL bar that says realbank.example as you expected.

I don't see bank authentication apps helping here. It's very easy to accidentally reassure the poor humans everything is fine when they're being robbed, because the authentication part seemed to work.

I'm somebody who really cares about and would like to think they understand security very much, and I don't think it's strictly worse at all.

One of the things banks have an ongoing problem with is insider facilitated crime. Which means secrets are a big problem, because the bank (and thus, crooked staff working for the bank) know those secrets. Most of these PSD2 "compliant" solutions rely on secrets, and so are vulnerable to bank insiders. FIDO avoids that because it doesn't rely on secrets†.

† Technically a typical Security Key has a "secret" key [typically 256-bit AES] baked inside it, but a better word would be symmetric rather than secret, there is no other copy of that symmetric key, so it isn't functionally secret.
It would be my instinct to hoist the walk() function out of the parse() function but that's because my compiler writing experience is limited to C and Pascal. What is the thinking behind this decision? Not criticism, just trying to learn Javascript better
In fairness the amount of money these artists are making from spotify and they are retired makes it really easy to drop spotify. Surprised they agreed to join in the first place.
> That doesn’t change the fact that one can disagree with that decision.

Obviously, but that's not the topic at hand.

> I were Spotify the move is to take the free speech position

There is no "free speech position". Spotify, Rogan, Young, and Mitchell are all exercising their right to free expression here.
Maybe many of these organizations are already dead, metaphorically speaking. "Bullshit jobs."
Perhaps but there is no parallel between the polio and the COVID vaccine. The former reduced the incidence of polio by more than 99% while the latter, well it does not.
The pakleds vs. borg OSS:v binary blobs w:video
the pakleds were the first open-source enthusiasts in ST:TNG, the borg just acquired binary blobs

https://youtu.be/KeFoGo3N_4g
> Ethereum was not designed to be a super fast computer to calculate things. It was designed to decentralized money and enable smart contracts.

Those are counter to each other. Money transactions are fast and free. Crypto transactions are sow and expensive. To handle being money or contracts, it has to be a super fast computer
> […] while the Linux kernel team advised the only real solution was for Postgres to move to direct I/O (DIO) instead, something that is still ongoing work?

Or the Linux folks could have done what McKusick did on FreeBSD back in 1999:

> Don't throw away the buffer contents on a fatal write error; just mark the buffer as still being dirty. This isn't a perfect solution, but throwing away the buffer contents will often result in filesystem corruption and this solution will at least correctly deal with transient errors.

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/e4e8fec98ae986...
Neil Young doesn't have a GMO podcast nor any kind of political show on Spotify, nor is opposition to GMO technology an immediate grave threat to public health. Your point is completely irrelevant.
Aren't you just saying a single threaded human voice interface is better than machine to machine and HCI to solve this one problem? You have at least 2 FA or 3FA with the phone call: your callerID # looks real, you respond appropriately, your voice sounds real too. Everyone wants one basic item from the pizza shop, so little interaction is needed. Sure, you could be a prank caller, but you both implicitly agree to conditionally trust each other.
> The fact that you left out the part of the sentence that says "The fsync() function is intended to..." suggests that you may be intentionally hiding this fact to support your point.

No, that was not my intention. I just started the sentence "the job of fsync() is" and then went and looked for the portion of the quote that fit. I don't see a semantic difference, but I edited that back in, since you think I'm pulling a fast one on you.

> You're quoting a sentence fragment of a non-normative section of the spec, in other words you're half quoting a part of the spec that is not intended to be interpreted formally, literally, or even required to be adhered to. The rationale section of the POSIX spec is strictly informative.

Would be nice if you could include which part of the standard claims the rationale is non-normative. Moreover, the justifications against it are themselves based on "history" rather than anything in the text, so even if we assume it's non-normative, you can't really use this as an excuse to dismiss it as if it's somehow less valid than arbitrary tidbits from history. At that point you could try to agree that the (purportedly) non-normative text in fact does contradict the current behavior, but argue that you should have the latitude to ignore it. That's quite a bit different from denying its meaning in the first place.

> "The fsync() function shall request that all data for the open file descriptor named by fildes is to be transferred to the storage device associated with the file described by fildes. The nature of the transfer is implementation-defined."

The "nature of the transfer" is implementation-defined, yes. They don't care if you do it all at once, in parallel or sequentially, in bursts or uniformly, by boat or by rocket, or whatever. The question of which data is to be transferred is completely unrelated to that. If I say "please take my family to the airport, the nature of the transportation is up to you", you don't get to leave half my family behind and then justify it by claiming I left the choice of family members up to you. I did not leave that up to you. I just said you can choose the nature of the transport. Not the whether or whom of the transport!

> It would be unwise to dismiss the wealth of resources that have been provided to you in other comments to better understand this issue, all of them quite extensive and written by experts on this subject, just because of an informal section of the standard

If experts claimed the standard was clear but perhaps inconsistent or self-contradictory, that would be very different than what's going on right now. Or if they argued "we agree this behavior is actually inconsistent with the rationale, but we don't believe the rationale is normative", then that would also be a different scenario. But when people are just saying the standard says something other than what it actually says, what am I supposed to do? Agree with them because they're "experts", despite the fact that the standard says the opposite in plain English?
Like Op, I also have been tinkering with USB-C PD and found another hobbyist tool on Tindie that does exactly like you describe! You can specify the voltage and current needed, and it'll then make sure you get that power from a compatible charger.

This is the one I got a while ago it and it works great: https://www.tindie.com/products/clarahobbs/pd-buddy-sink/ though there's several other options out there
"I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them ... They can have Rogan or Young. Not both."

I read this as if you want me get rid of him, but I’ll paste it here for clarity. Others may see it differently.
The numbers are just examples. This is a qualitative explanation and it rings true to me.
I don't know what happened to it, it used to be pretty good but these days I feel like my feed is ruined.
Beforehand [0] the author of this text, Butler, the most respected general in the US at that time was offered to lead a coup d'etat to overthrow FDR and then to become effectively a dictator.

[0]https://bigthink.com/the-present/fdr-coup/
I'm always sad when I can't find on Bandcamp a band I just heard on Youtube. I'd just pay them outright, with rather few intermediate layers, and no DRM.
> Why didn’t the capitalists (if they are so powerful) bring America into the war sooner?

Plenty of them were selling products to Germany, including many that would end up being used by the German war machine. If the US entered the war against Germany, all that would have had to stop.
Survivor bias | Authoritative
How to prevent blackouts by packetizing the power grid
I'm just annoyed that

Spotify is showing a podcast UI in the app, even though I'm not interested.

Spotify is trying to corner podcasts which is a thriving, free, relatively decentralized ecosystem.

(I cancelled my spotify when the 2021 rewind showed how little I use it)
Speaking of not being able to cope with human races:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Political_beli...

>Eric S. Raymond: Political beliefs and activism

>[...] Raymond has claimed that "Gays experimented with unfettered promiscuity in the 1970s and got AIDS as a consequence", and that "Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist."[28][29] Progressive campaign The Great Slate was successful in raising funds for candidates in part by asking for contributions from tech workers in return for not posting similar quotes by Raymond. Matasano Security employee and Great Slate fundraiser Thomas Ptacek said, "I’ve been torturing Twitter with lurid Eric S. Raymond quotes for years. Every time I do, 20 people beg me to stop." It is estimated that as of March 2018 over $30,000 has been raised in this way.[30]

[28] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26

[29] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7239

[30] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundr...

http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.php?p=129

>"In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color." -Eric S Raymond

http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2002_09_15_armedndangero...

"A clash of civilizations driven by the failure of Islamic/Arab culture (though I would stress the problem of the Islamic commandment to jihad more than he does). I think he [Steven den Beste] is also right to say that our long-term objective must be to break, crush and eventually destroy this culture, because we can't live on the same planet with people who both carry those memes and have access to weapons of mass destruction. They will hate us and seek to destroy us not for what we've done but for what we are." -Eric S Raymond

https://quotepark.com/quotes/1862991-eric-s-raymond-when-i-h...

>"When I hear the words "social responsibility", I want to reach for my gun." -Eric S Raymond When receiving an award from an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. "Geeks Win: A survey of the oddballs who write the codes that make the 21st-century world go round". The New York Times Book Review: p. BR18. 4 November 2001. ISSN 03624331.

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/780839196231630848

>"The average IQ of the Haitian population is 67... Haiti is, quite literally, a country full of violent idiots." -Eric S Raymond

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

>"... The minimum level of training required to make someone effective as a self defense shooter is not very high... unfortunately, this doesn't cover the BLM crowd, which would have an average IQ of 85 if it's statistically representative of American blacks as a whole. I've never tried to train anyone that dim and wouldn't want to." -Eric S Raymond
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4934755/
Exactly. Those artists have been in favor of free speech only as far as it suits their own agenda. Not much has changed.
> All of these tools are strictly regulated specifically to avoid that collapse. Because we learned from when they collapsed before not to let them run wild and do whatever they wanted because it's a bad time.

But regulations didn't come before the credit card did right? Only after they were invented were regulations built. Let builders build.

> Only some fraction of the data is open.

We're talking past each other here. I'm talking about a subset of algorithmic stablecoins

> They're not good investments because they're overpriced, but they're not zero-sum. They have customers and the intrinsic value of the shares increases (ideally) through dividends, buybacks and capital reinvestment over time.

They're not zero sum. AMC, GME do not make money, so profits don't cover corporate expenses. They are quickly bleeding money.
"they're all full of lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc."

So...people like you?
you sound really judgemental man.

Since you have no friends(so nothing to hold you where you are, right?), and apparently a good source of income, I'd advise you to go remote, travel, try digital nomadism, go to meetups, meet other travelers, maybe try coworking spaces? hacker houses/airbnbs with people from lots of different places?
Front page of HN yesterday: Facebook/Google/PayPal/Apple/Whatever took down my page/email/account/app and irreparably harmed my business.

Front page of HN today: Why Web3 is a scam and has zero real world use cases beside grifting.

Surely this is getting old? Can we get an article about Ethereum straying from it’s mission of accessibility? About “low-fee” blockchains consistently grinding under load?

If blockchains are low bandwidth by nature how can the DeFi movement claim to be the future of finance? Do large VC allocations of projects purporting to be infrastructure threaten the future legitimacy of Web3? I don’t know, but it seems the only people that care about these questions are the frauds and suckers referred to in the article.
What evidence is there Young or Mitchell would deny Rogan the right to pull his podcast from any platform with their music?
Several versions of this post already:

Joni Mitchell Joining Neil Young in Protest over Spotify (apnews), 11pts, 8 comments[0], 8 hours ago

Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young's Spotify protest over anti-vax content (theguardian), 7pts, 5 comments[1], 8 hours ago

Joni Mitchell says she will follow Neil Young by removing her music from Spotify (cnn), 46pts, 72 comments[2], 10 hours ago

Joni Mitchell wants songs off Spotify in Covid row (bbc) 3pts, 0 comments[3], 18 hours ago

Joni Mitchell Says She’s Removing Her Music from Spotify(pitchfork) 1pt, 0 comments[4], 19 hours ago

Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young (thedenverchannel?), 42pts, 84 comments[b], 21 hours ago

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128604
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128437
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127232
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30124600
[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30124292
[b]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30123710
He makes 600,000 a month from his own streaming service. Some protests are commercials.
Youtube is showing me a lot of stuff I don't want to see. I frequent a bunch of genres, mostly tech and games. But I got a lot of recommendations for things like fashion and influencer type channels, which I find really weird because I always take "do not recommend channel" or "I don't want to see this" - yet I still get them.
The problem with all of the commercial blockchains you mentioned is that their security properties are more akin to having a shared Git repository with the ledger data in it rather than Bitcoin. The fundamental property that people think of when they say "blockchain" is that all of the ledger data can be validated by any suitably-equipped network participant. This 100% trustless design is interesting, but the security model it relies upon prohibits pretty much anything more than tracking tokens issued entirely on-chain.

The moment you want a blockchain to interact with the real world, you need to introduce trust back into the system. Which removes much of the claimed benefit of blockchain. Such systems might still be useful to people, of course; but that's not what the blockchain/Web3 people actually want to sell. The elevator pitch of blockchain is "trustless decentralized finance", and Web3's is "replace advertising with financialization as the funding mechanism for online media". Both concepts do not hold up to the marketing hype, even if there are use cases for them.
Neil Young has, as far as I’m aware, made a point of arguing against GMO policy, not science. He’s anti-corporate, greed and an environmentalist, and Monsanto and glysophate are credible threats to farmers and the environment, respectively.

I know less about the plight of farmers being forced to use GM seed, but I am intimately familiar with the decimation of insect life in the last decade.
Isn' t there another kind of GMO whose sole purpose is IP so farmers can' t reuse seeds from one season to the next ?
AFAIK boycott is temporary but de-platforming is permanent. -- closing a contract.
How to Break up with Spotify, by Violet Blue https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-break-up-61760779 This article explains how to remove your linked apps and devices from Spotify, and transfer your library to a different service.
How to Break Up with Spotify, by Violet Blue
You left out the important part. "I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform". Probably he would reconsider if they dropped Rogan. He didn't expect it or ask.
Thank you!

So a bar/bat mitzvah is a title or a state of being, and not a party/ritual?
No fear in general. You can sense when people are fearful. No one - not one single person - is fearful in Europe (hyperbol of course, but not so far off). Again, it is the very visceral lack of fear that hit me when I returned. Hit me really hard (in a good way!). Visceral is exactly the word.

It doesn't mean it is paradise, but it is a good start.

I suppose in Europe the land and the people are one, in a way that doesn't really apply to our historical now completely out of hand 'camping trips'.

I do really miss the US though, there are many good things - like your trucks with snouts!
yeah, you must have a hand shape that works well with it.
I noticed the CBC today finally gave some reasonable coverage of the protest in terms of the peaceful nature and size of it. It was clear for days that they were downplaying it, only covering “problems” (radicals might be hiding in the convoy!) and in general trying to ignore it. This morning some commentator tried to suggest “Zee Russians” might be behind it.

My guess is the international coverage was clearly ramping up, so the CBC had little choice but to join in or else their bias would stick out like a sore thumb.

My guess is the coverage will quickly snap back to all the “problems” with the convoy, entirely ignoring the actual purpose of it.