skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reply is to the question "Is there currently any music streaming service with an officially supported API?" not "Is there currently any music streaming service that offers an API exactly like libspotify".
COBOL ?
Something I've always wanted from gitignore: a way to ignore changes to a file that is already present in the repo. So, for example, I can commit a config file that should contain secure credentials with the credentials redacted, and then ignore it so the credentials don't accidentally get pushed from someone's working dir.

For now what I do is ignore the config path and commit an "x.conf.example" file, but that is a bit more of a pain to use.
Yeah I notice they push the Joe Rogan Experience on me pretty hard even though I’ve clicked the button to stop showing me that rec. Can’t really blame them for trying after spending all that money on him though.
Perhaps not depressing but certainly unhelpful. If I'm spend time thinking about other more interesting stuff, I tend to get sucked into those things. Which just means I've got zero focus on stuff I need to get done.
Yeah, I read a dismissive tone in your comment but that's on me, your question prompted some good discussion.
> What worked for printed text has no bearing for what works on an illuminated screen.

I find this hard to believe because in both cases what we actually perceive patterns in the light that enters our eyes. It would seem to follow that only aspects of the reading surface that cause difference in the light patterns (color, intensity, phase, coherence) and the time evolution of those patterns can affect matter when it comes to how well something works for reading.

If we determine, whether from printed text on paper, inked text in tattoos, skywriting in smoke, or anything else that certain relationships that some kinds or combinations of the aforementioned aspects of light matter or don't matter, that should remain true when we are reading from screens or from any other existing or yet to be developed form of reading device.
In theory, in practice it's more complicated. USDC usage is increasing, but it will be a while until it can displace USDT.
What is an abomination? It lines up well with my experience using both Qt and open source and also using both in projects. Certainly issues 2,3,4 cause problems for any project wanting to integrate open source into commercial work. And 1 seems on par with experience. For all points they cite decent sources.
The reason OpenSea can't charge 45% is that it's web3, which entails being "open database". Competitors like LooksRare can appear out of nowhere and transact with the exact same data (the ethereum blockchain) and compete on price.

OpenSea does have some advantages of network effects and has been able to mostly fend off LooksRare, despite charging a 2.5% vs LR's 2% marketplace fee. There's no way they could have done so if they charged 25% and users could save 23% on every transaction by moving to LooksRare. Similarly, if Airbnb were "open database" and anybody on the internet could build a competitor that used the same data set, there's no way they could take the high fees they currently do. They don't have to, since they're web2, though. All the data about hosts, guests and ratings is in their database and they don't have to share it with incumbents.

Social media companies would feel this, too. A huge part of their lock-in is that they own the social graph. It would be a very different situation if that data were on-chain and anyone who wanted to could write a different front-end to surface the same data (some cloning the look and feel closely and other choosing to surface different subsets of the data in different ways).
Unfortunately there's little that stops them from just taking your money and then forwarding your query to Google and their response back to you.
An alternative is academic institutions. I'd trust a university-backed government-funded search engine.
It should be using the embedded sdk, unless that manufacturer went particularly rogue.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/commercial-hardw...
4.5G (90K bitrate opus), about 2k songs
Right but this is discussing ethically disturbing experiments, and volunteers freely doing dangerous things is not at all comparable.
I definitely think there's an advertising bubble and it's popping.

Lots of startups' "business model" is "growth and engagement" - pump up user and "engagement" numbers and VCs will throw money at you, and maybe you even get a bigger sucker that outright buys you out. Spend all that money on advertising & marketing to keep these "engagement" numbers going up, all while having no actual product users pay for.

This in turn means there are other startups that specialize in providing advertising/marketing services. For example, there are dozens of startups out there who try to reinvent push notifications, even though in practice they make a lot of tasks harder in exchange of features most probably will never need. Those are overvalued and are only propped up by the aforementioned companies' VC money being spent on them to keep the "engagement" coming. Same with analytics which are used by these companies to measure (with dubious degrees of accuracy) the "engagement", which become less necessary if you have a profitable product and the main analytic becomes "how much $$$ has landed in my bank account today?".

Once the music stops, all of that crap will come crashing down.
Please stop pushing some site thats still in beta, AND requires a login.
It would be so simple for an actual auditor to verify Tether's holdings.

Or, to put it another way - if Tether actually held everything it claimed to hold, it would have no problem arranging an auditor to sign off on it.

Given they've resisted so much, the only reasonable inference is that some percentage is bullshit. The real question is how much.
I like phones that fit into my pocket and allow me to sit down. I refuse to wear a belt clip.
If there is nothing shady going on, then why wouldn't they want to share these documents? Are these trade secrets or something similar?
Kagi is trying to build a better mouse trap. I quite like it. Open beta is coming along with subscription model. I will be a subscriber.
Woah, let's not start holding ourselves to the same standards as we hold others, that would be crazy!
> causes me to immediately leave

There is no strict need to leave: you view client-side material and there exist tricks to modify page styles.
To be honest this is a very expensive route to go.

I started recently using an alternative using droidcam on an old Iphone 5 I had laying around, with a battery that could not hold charge.

If your are in Mac you have to use virtual camera in ops, but works great with linux and windows. I still use a headset mic, but provides great image quality with the benefit of being wireless.
I was trying to find pre-made hand railing mounting plates, I thought to try and use google shopping because I didn't have an existing part number.

I enter my search term hit enter, for a split second I can see the exact products I want to browse but those results are quickly swapped out for a bunch of unrelated products.
> How else will they keep their "information monopoly"?

Because the simplest explanation is a media conspiracy perpetuated by…finbold.com.
How is that wrong?!

Basically what they are saying is that "there is more to look than just sticker price. It's not just because the software is open source that TCO is lower."
The irony of people treating banking like some big scam someone cleverly invented is how easy it is to accidentally invent a bank.
Yeah they are bots really. Humans bots. 90% of population of whatever forum, pages, etc.How in the hell is plagiarism to "copy" ideas? Those people never have been read Sh.?
Ask HN: How do you organize your home directory?
I'm interested in hearing about how others organize the following:

- Source code repositories (personal and work)

- Extra git workspaces

- Virtual machine images

- Documentation and manuals

- Books

I've been iterating on this for many years and have yet to find something "perfect". For source code I've tried the Golang approach of organizing by git repo, using a flat hierarchy under a Source directory, and organizing by work/personal. I've built tools using fzf to quickly switch between projects. I've also made auxiliary directories in home for things like ISOs and qcows. What are other people doing?
Yep, those are my two modifiers i often use -- that and since:2021
Well, Tether periodically breaks down their assets a little more, so we know that on December 31, 2021, Tether held ~$5 billion in cryptocurrency. Given that at the same time, Tether had just ~$140 million excess assets over liabilities, we can already conclude that Tether is probably insolvent solely from the subsequent rout in cryptocurrencies.

My suspicion is that a large fraction of Tether's claimed assets aren't valuable at anywhere near Tether's claimed value, and so Tether has actually been insolvent for years, and this is the main fuel for their reluctance to be precise in what their asset pool looks like.
>There is value in "making a decision" for each untracked file, of whether to explicitly add it or ignore it.

I would argue that you should decide between explicitly adding it or ignoring it, or deliberately doing neither.

>This combines well with things like a PS1 that indicates if you have any unclean state (including both changes and untracked files).

If you intend to keep untracked files in your directory, choose a PS1 that does not bother you about untracked files.

You are losing important information from git status when you exclude untracked files that you are actually working on and not just some random junk your ide generated. What if you look at the git status and conclude that there are no unchanged files worth tracking and then with that false sense of safety decide to run 'git clean -fdx'? You would lose those files permanently!

I honestly don't understand why the presence of untracked files in your git status is such a bother to you!? Like how exactly does it hurt?
A lot of gophermaps and files served on gopher have ASCII art headers that expect fixed-width text.
How is the git status "polluted" by reporting untracked files that you don't intend to commit?

If anything, I would say that such tricks make git status lie to you. What if you look at the git status and conclude that there are no unchanged files worth tracking and then with that false sense of safety decide to run 'git clean -fdx'? Sounds like an easy way to lose work.

Why is presence of untracked files in git status bothersome to anyone, especially when that is exactly what they are intentionally doing?
I believe sometimes a song become unavailable for some reason (license issues or whatever) and they replace it with a similar version. Most times it's just the exact same song in a different album, some cases it's a different recording from the same artist, but in the rare cases the algorithm may find a cover version to offer as a suitable replacement. I think the main issue is they don't keep track of the original song that received the like, so when it comes back, it's not restored to your library.
The Synesthesia Battery
Yeah now that I think about it youre right :D

It would only "purify" your nix dependencies, but wouldnt purify your environmental ones necessarily.
While some points are valid I am compelled to comment on this quote:

"[Cars suck] They’re big, loud, smelly and basically the most inefficient form of transportation someone could imagine. They’re the most expensive thing a person owns after their home, but they don’t create value"

This is some hyperbolic ideological statement which is very lazy and contradicts the most basic reality of modern life.

1) Cars are the most efficient (cost and environment wise), and safest compare to all other personal modes of transportations for daily use, in any weather, with capability to have a cargo [materials, goods, groceries, kids, etc] as well (compared to horses, bikes, etc) [I am now aware of a single example to the contrary].

2) They are naturally second most expensive as they have such a high value as having a roof over your head (which is a priority number one)

3) A car creates value for the owner despite depreciating in value itself. I do not get the argument here. Personally without a car I could not function (I do not live in a metropolis to rely on public transport)
its fundamentally not then not different than any other DeFi algorithmic stable coin.
The top two organic results for that precise query are pretty informative articles from Wirecutter and Good Housekeeping. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you are expecting something better than this: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home-products/a25473658/bes...
You know that went the other way? The precedent is that businesses don't have to bake cakes based on religious viewpoints.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44361162

Precedents have been set exactly the other way. This law looks like conservatives having a hissy fit that this time around market forces are keeping them from dominating all conversations, so they're making laws to enforce their social dominance.
I lost a root filesystem twice, on OpenSUSE in a one-disk system (i.e. what should have been the most stable well tested configuration), around 2018-19 IIRC. It now appears most likely that the system ran out of free space (suse ships snapper set to snapshot on every package operation, and the partition was smallish), and that apparently triggered corruption that ... at least, I couldn't figure out how to fix. Power loss may have been involved. Details fade from my memory, but the violent aversion to ever trusting it remains.
twitter as a corporation is woke enough to cancel a terminate this employee, or is it
That is very culture dependent, I think. I don’t know a single woman who usually carries a purse! (I live in Norway. And maybe my acquaintances are unusual. But still.)
> why wouldn't they want to share these documents? Are these trade secrets or something similar?

Playing devil’s advocate, their users clearly don’t care if they’re backed. As such, they’re running a hedge fund with zero cost of capital. Those typically have good reasons for treating their strategies as proprietary.
It also lets the candidates talk about it even if they aren’t extended an offer - someone they mention it to might be the candidate the company is looking for.
Bernie Madoff paid out when people wanted to withdraw, too. Until he couldn't.

Fruads often look healthy on the outside right up until the collapse. No one's arguing Tether holds no assets, but they've been very cagey - and frequently, outright fraudulent - about whether they hold enough for their stated model.

If Tether was backed 1:1 with Bitcoin, and Bitcoin sank 50%, Tether'd be able to redeem half of their Tethers without an outward indication of issues. "See! We're fine, we're paying out all requests!"

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> The OAG’s investigation found that, starting no later than mid-2017, Tether had no access to banking, anywhere in the world, and so for periods of time held no reserves to back tethers in circulation at the rate of one dollar for every tether, contrary to its representations. In the face of persistent questions about whether the company actually held sufficient funds, Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’

> On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.

That's not good.
If other content that doesn’t have those annoyances matches my search query then I would absolutely want to see it first.

This would also put pressure on content creators to tone down the ads or explore alternative monetization models.
I haven't seen a single comment (at time of posting this) touching on the cost aspect

The cost of the assessment typically varies between $10,000 -$75,000 (or more) depending on the size and complexity of the application

As he says, even if Google classed his as a small app (unlikely)

"Regrettably, these kinds of fees are far beyond what I can afford, given that I rely on donations from my users to make ends meet: even the $4,500 fee is well beyond what I could find on an annual basis. "

I get that doing proper auditing is expensive and the costs are within industry rates but to me it reeks of slowing turning the screws by boiling the frog on the slow path to monetization. (many mixed metaphors I know)
Ask HN: How to get better at software design?
I know there is no alternative to having actualy experiencing designing and coding software by working at a company like Aamzon or Spotify but if you are stuck at a B2B enterprise company you barely deal with complex challenges at scale and distributed system. At a senior (Staff/Pricipal) level its a deadlock between getting into a roll which does it and learning hands on. Guess "Design a uber" design questions in yourtube is not enough. Any comprehensive resources or habit that can help ?
The Fed is hitting the breaks on demand in order to slow down inflation. If they slow the demand side too fast then we enter a recession, if they manage to do a soft landing the pull back demand enough that supply can catch up bringing inflation back down to a 2% range with many a small downturn or short recession.

The goal is too slow down the aggregate demand in the market - whether or not we believe that it is a recession is irrelevant. Money will get more expensive, companies will be more shrewd on their spend & hiring. Whether the economy contracts and enters a technical recession - doesn't really matter - there are actual physical realities to the world and we can't just will our way into a bull or out of a bear market as nice as that sounds.
Netflix lays off 150 employees
Hacker News has a really good dedicated search engine:

https://hn.algolia.com/
I like Kagi too, and I will be a subscriber. It actually kind of reminds me of early google. Just the feels of it.
So many teams have told us similar stories: that access is a "tier 1" service (i.e. it can't go down!). Most tools involving a single point of failure end up trading off reliability for security, whereas reliability is of equal (or sometimes even higher) importance to infrastructure & SRE teams. A great book that talks about this is https://sre.google/books/building-secure-reliable-systems/
Psychology?
It is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
It's just Bing under the hood so doesn't fix anything, unless you say Bing is actually better.
The $15000 personal loans that banks make are liquid?
Yes. Spammers/advertisers won't be able to resist externalizing the cost of their compulsive lying. This kind of law is the death of topical forums.
I think the market is just normalizing. The overall climate was pretty insane. Free money (interest rates), stimulus money etc.
I found it pretty fascinating that during a time that was pretty tough overall (global pandemic + supply chain issues) the stock market was basically saying we are in a golden age. That felt "wrong" to me but if I had acted on it, I'd be broke now because the market certainly outperformed my wildest expectations.

As a value investor at heart, I still cannot rationally fathom some valuations (Tesla >100 PE). However, most tech companies seem pretty solid fundamentally and not close to .com bubble times. I cannot speak for crypto since I live in a bubble were I ignore it completely.
And so it is time to relegate my Gmail account to an auto-forwarder.
No capitals and useless cussing. Didn't make it past the first 2 sentences.
That's a fair point and one of the most consistent criticisms of CIG. Right now servers are limited to 50 players at a time. If you look at reddit or the CIG forums you'll see a lot of people talking about the goal of 'server meshing'. This is really just offloading as much work as possible into their own services, so the server side application doesn't fall over under load. Server meshing is the outcome of this work, which lets them scale up to larger populations more easily.

They've been working on this for a long time now and trying to communicate the technical challenges and complexity of converting a monolithic game server into a bunch of microservices in k8s doesn't really go over well with their target demographic. Gamers aren't really known for being able to maintain a well balanced and nuanced discussion and CIG has been burned a number of times, so we don't really see them communicate much news about this until something is actually done and noted in the patch notes.

Once this work is done, in theory, the server side engine should scale up fairly well. I'm sure that they'll end up with some regional sharding, but you can't escape physics and high latency space battles are a lot less fun.
1% of people who use Google is a hell of a lot. Also, Bloomberg doesn’t just search, it also provides data
>Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.

Sorry but what is this? Does anyone watching Matt Damon in a superb owl advert think "Oh Matt Damon is personally in favor of this" and not "Matt Damon is being paid to read this script".

Does this author think that George Clooney just really fucking loves Nespresso?
Thanks - there are a number of these actually. I guess my title of "no electron alternatives" should have been "no native alternative to popular electron apps such as slack or discord"

There is jitsi - but it doesn't have a native client.

There's also iced.rs
That's the ultimate problem - Google has a conflict of interest with their users which is why the quality has gone to shit.
While I suppose this is true, I have never needed to examine a core dump from a container, I don't believe our Kubernetes deployment can collect them at the moment (or at least I would need to ask our ops team where to put them / how to get them once dumped), and to a first approximation zero of the services I run containerized produce helpful core dumps in the first place. It's not even out of the question for us to have more RAM used by one process than free disk space.

(I do have a lot of experience with helpful corefiles, it's just been totally orthogonal to my experience with "at-scale" backend deployment. Different languages, different dev/ops relations, different attitudes towards abends in general.)
I think the .conf.example approach is probably better, but the answer to your implied question is here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-index

If you use --assume-unchanged on a file, then git will stop noticing changes at that point. I believe this only applies to your copy of the repo, though.
This is why I left Google to join Neeva. Check us out. Unlike the alternatives, we are truly investing in our search stack.

Unfortunately there’s just too much inertia with the ads-based business model making it too hard for Google to not let itself get this way. Similar challenges with other ads supported businesses.