skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad I am not alone hating these kind of user hostile designs which is a trend nowadays.
I departed Spotify long ago but its pair, the Tidal is at least as bad, some may say (me! me!) that is much worse.

It took about ca. 2-3 years for them to get to a state where you click on a song and it plays it. With no long delay, no stutter, ability to skip into a specific spot, almost no crash. With still no decent playlist support (2-3 years more work to develop this cutting edge revolutionary concept to an entry level), but it was enough to switch for HiFi quality. Since then there was a tiny addition to playlists, fairly usefule if you now where the traps are, but they did a bunch of making it flashy and big, with very limited advancement on functionality. In fact, basic functionality got f..d up here and there! Drag and drop makes random things, search bar jumps all over the place, album/playlist info only visible topmost or much scrolled down position, in between just a big emty space. Which ironically can react to click! They introduced the invisible item gets clicked concept. Funny. : / Lists go to the very edge, visually cluttered navigation and item text, invisible title bar to drag (but click slightly elsewehere and it will start some song). And the most bloated search results, yes! They make it exceptionally hard to find what you need, in pair with Spotify. And the same kind of suggestions and trends and lists and whatnot, but your own favourites are pushed back somewhere. Their choices have the prime location not your own! How hostile is that?! (very!)

Looks like they hired the slowest working most incompetent UX/UI designers, turning the usability into an ever descending spiral.

But on the positive side.... well, nothig. It is huge, slow like f..k, bloated, a nighmare to use.

As soon as I pick up building an offline file cathalog again I will go back to the good old days of owning my songs and copying the file I want to have in the centre. This streaming kind of hostile nighmare is not for me. I am thinking about collecting my complaints into a post but it is a long work. And futile anyway. I tried to communicate problems with them but they do not listen. They try to change my behaviour first, also asking about things I already told them, seems like not even reading my mail in full. So likely will just go away while emitting little puffs of smoke through my ears.
I'm a web developer turned digital marketer and I know exactly what you mean here. Even I used to suck at maths to such an extent that it haunted me for a very long time. Honestly, sometimes it still does.

Anyways, I started learning maths through Khan Academy and edx. Also, Math24 is really good as well.
Profit =|= revenue. You pay taxes on profit, if you invest all you operational profits in, e.g., hyper growth you won't pay any taxes at all.

Let's not touch VAT so.
I absolutely agree that Central Market far surpasses Whole Foods. I wanted to add that a major benefit of Central Market is their incredible bulk bin selection. I’m certain that it must be a loss leader, and I haven’t seen one so extensive in any other store. My girlfriend and I go there and pick up spices and tea for dirt cheap. 50¢ to refill a tin with “fancy cumin”, 30¢ to refill a tin with (very high quality, IMO) oregano. $2 to buy a cup (8 oz) of loose tea that lasts us three weeks (and the only other tea they have are expensive tea bags that cost >$6). $1 for some fancy finishing salt. You can shop for a recipe or shop for the pantry. From time to time, their self checkout flags the spices because we’re purchasing 7¢ of something got a recipe. They never complain, though.

They have almost every spice, spice blend, dried chili, dried mushroom, rice, bean, grain, tea, coffee, and flour you could want, in addition to baking odds and ends like powdered cheese, chocolate feves, and xantham gum.

Coming from New England, I find a lot of the dry goods at Central Market to be equivalent to a Big Y (not a Whole Foods competitor). This is because a lot of their “high end” product is just imported Italian food, which is very common in New England (particularly Connecticut). Their produce, meat, and cheese selection is great, albeit expensive. It can also be hard to find “normal” packaged stuff there.

Also, HEB/Central Market in general has been better at weathering supply shortages. During peak COVID, it was the only place in Austin with stuff still in stock.
Ask HN: Website listing interesting pre-IPO startups that are hiring
I remember seeing a website listing interesting pre-IPO startups, but I can’t find it. I even used it to find my current employer, but I somehow lost the URL.

Does anybody remember/know of such a site?
It’s funny, just a few years ago everyone was talking about the Turkey economic miracle- how Erdogan was a business genius and so forth. Turns out, it was just another financial bubble.
Love before, don't like after.
The economy is global. If you like independence look at Cuba--it is "independent" for decades now.

Thanks to sanctions, Russia is becoming independent (less/no ties to outside economies)--do not recommend.
Oh how do I miss https://n-gate.com/
As a "student" or even a starup entrepreneur, you usually don't have "assets" under your name that your creditors can take over in case of a potential lawsuit.

If I were an entrepreneur and my startup would incur 100 million dollars of liabilities, my assets won't cut it so the more appropriate to say " you are personally liable for damages to the extent of your assets. "
>You're more than welcome to disprove any of it using facts and citations

Here's a citation for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor#cite_note-1
Absolutely. Came here to say exactly the same thing. The first couple of steps were clear and informative. The last step was almost a joke.
You need to be extremely careful with what you mean by “hurt” when you want to compare the economies of EU and Russia.

The EU has about 10x the nominal GDP of Russia. Is a 10% contraction of the EU for one year equivalent to the entire Russian population reverting to subsistence farming for a year?
I preferred The Neverhood, its (spiritual) predecessor.
> people looking for millions of VC money

Startups don't begin with million of VC money which is what we're discussing here.
Yep, price goes down, people produce more, stuff gets cheaper, and they export more. Not us (europeans) though.
Tarn looks like a magical part of the world! Definitely plan to visit for about a month once 5g or other solid internet option is available at the Airbnb we end up at.
For me th worst aspect of Apple Music is that I cannot form a mental model of how it is supposed to work. I just have no clue.
Yes. Question marks, exclamation marks, colons and semicolons take a space character before.

More details: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/should-y...
Definitely not Baba is you. Kid is gonna lose his damn mind.
Because of personal liability? Looking less legitimate to other businesses? Or what other reasons are you thinking of?
In Stockholm, Sweden, two of the largest arenas are named by companies who paid to have the arena named something not associated with their company.

Friends Arena is named after the Swedish anti bullying foundation Friends as part of the Swedbank sponsorship of the foundation.

Avicii Arena is named after the artist by the companies Trygg-Hansa and Bauhaus.
> Why do they recommend plant-based foods when study after study has consistently shown how bad the effects are?
> Why do doctors still prescribe statins when their efficacy has already been proven to be less useful than a diet change?

Can OP elaborate?
ÖVP has better things to do than make life easier for 'the little guy' when they're so busy catering to their chums in big business.
Photon mapping collection :)
When you’re really impatient with prompts.
Any idea how this is playing out politically? Is the public opinion blaming anyone in particular? Erdogan? Russia? The west?
But can you do business without the vat number?
It is. But how is your prospective millionaire entrepreneur with his 100 buck corporation paying his bills? The 12.5 k from a GmbH can be used to pay your own salary for example. Or IT, or pay for AWS,...

Point being, even a dirt cheap corporation will need some money at one point.
I'm in software.

> Anyways, in software, formal methods can absolutely show that an implementation meets a specification. In fact, that has always been one of their canonical use cases in software systems, at least since the 70s or maybe early 80s.

To be clear, I'm talking about systems that go beyond simple property validation. Presumably, we're both talking about e.g. Ada SPARK, Alloy, TLA+, etc. I would hesitate to call a type system a formal method, for example, unless they use some notion of tactics like Idris, Coq and Lean do.

Now there certainly exist formal methods that can show that a program meets a given specification and conforms to certain desirable properties. However, they cannot show that the program is bug-free, because many properties of a formally-verified system may be relaxed in real environments. When I say "sound", I mean the property of being bug-free.

In OP's case, it would not help the OP reduce the frequency of bugs pushing to production - it would only give them confidence that they meet the spec, which is usually not what people writing internal tools are worried about. For industries where being safety-critical is not necessary, there is simply no meaningful advantage provided by formal methods over regression tests, clean refactoring and validators. While you can certainly use them, the benefits are slim.

> Or aerospace software, or automotive software, or certain financial software, or industrial control systems, or any complex billing/access control, or...

These are safety-critical industries, where things like temporal correctness, multiprocessor safety and other attributes matter - essentially, where you can model your system as process calculi and must demonstrate some invariants hold over the lifetime of the system given a specification. That is absolutely the domain of formal methods and where some formal verification is needed for certification. These industries are also the ones where you can ensure both certified hardware and software, so that formal verification actually does detect correctness bugs beyond what an integration test does.

But OP has not said they are in any of these industries, and I don't think it's incumbent on me to be exhaustive in listing them when it's not core to OP's question. If OP's asking this question online instead of their colleagues, we can safely infer they're likely not in an industry that demands formal certification already.
It has adult themes. OP is asking for a kid.
This is because capacitive touchscreens are inherently a near-field phenomena. They are designed to detect extremely small capacitances (<fF) at relatively low frequencies (<500kHz) relatively low voltage (<5V) at high report rates (>120Hz) in the presence of very significant display noise (5-10V >1nF coupling). They require >120dB of OutOfBand rejection to operate. Cost per transceiver is ~$0.01.

They fundamentally measure the channel between arrays of neighboring electrodes. That makes them self shielding (like a Faraday shield) since they typically are designed to be relatively immune to uniform changes in coupling. From any distance comparable to the size of the touch screen the differential coupling to electrodes falls off exponentially. Near the screen they fall off 1/d then 1/d^n dominates farther out.

In order to avoid interfering with other parts of the device, they tend to be highly encoded narrowband signals and change (to known good) frequencies when they detect interference. That makes most narrow band techniques less effective. High voltage impulsive noise is most likely to have an effect, but triggering ESD detection/rejection might create a sweet spot in amplitude.
Well, isn't that exactly what is happening if you set up a US LLC or a UK LTD? You get limited liability and can set up the company with a couple hundred dollars or pounds. Why would that be a problem in Germany but not in these jurisdictions?
You can make whiskey from it, though.
As opposed to centuries of pushing oil and gas pollutants literally down our noses and into the public air? What's so bad about EVs?
Yet a further example of the absurd economics of sport franchises. Quite nice work.

A minor quibble: not every investment a company makes can have the same GAAP ROI. A small example that comes up frequently on HN is the free drinks for staff, which is a small expense that has a large benefit. At the opposite end can s like these, companies often have complex relationships with their local communities (expanding facilities, traffic, pollution, etc). Stepping in, like Qualcomm did, or just “local boosterism” like Target or AA can be valuable but only appear as a hard-to-quantify avoided expense. Whether a stadium is better than some “keep the highway clean” campaigns and some school programs is hard to determine, though the article manages to touch on it (the rigidity of being locked in).

Of course when the campaign is unambiguously a national or international one (as with crypto.com’s) an analysis like ntoskrnl’s is right on.
Speculating based on both writing large systems from scratch, and joining a group where a large confusing system was being used...

Diagrams are sometimes unnecessary overhead early in a project. Sometimes I’ve used them and seen other people use them for initial design planning, especially if management needs to be involved or approve the plans & schedule. But by a year later, the design has grown and changed, and everyone on board is so familiar with the code, but also so pressed for time and feature delivery, that making diagrams doesn’t make sense: nobody involved at this point needs them. Two years later, when the code is getting complicated and slowing down, and you’re onboarding some new people, that’s when it might help to sketch the flow of code.

FWIW, sometimes a good profiling tool will show you and let you explore call stacks, call graphs, execution charts, etc. I often reach for a profiler when I’m new to a codebase. Flame charts are a fave of mine. You can find flame charts in Chrome’s debug tools, or in compiled language profilers like vtune or valgrind. Here’s a decent article on how to use them https://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html

Another issue is that well designed code bases diagram themselves by their module structure, while diagrams for poorly designed code bases may not help understand them at all. When code has too many side effects, or things are poorly or misleadingly named, when class boundaries aren’t well defined or the code has a lot of spaghetti, diagrams might not really help.

IMO two things worth doing are: get a mentor in any new codebase any time you can, and 2) start building your own arsenal of code diagramming tools, rather than wondering why or waiting for others to do it. Demonstrate the value of diagramming code to people around you and see if you can get it to catch on.
Applying limits is a catalyst for creation. Not having to deal with limitless colors, in Panic's Playdate example, frees up to think about gameplay, mechanics, and story instead.
Can you pay cash?
If you need a new GmbH really fast you can just buy one. There are companies and lawyers that are specialized in this kind of business and they keep a pool
of registered GmbHs for founders to buy.

If you look up GmbHs in the central registry (Handelsregister) you will notice that many of them were founded by law firms and sold after a couple of months to the real founders. This is true even for (now) bigger and reputable companies.
Can we use some wilderness phrases like “Pack It In, Pack It Out” or “Leave No Trace”?
The listen count is huge for checking out new artists. Find a new band, try the first four or five tracks to see if they're a band you're interested in. At least YouTube still has view counts... for now.
It's difficult to make a video game that's engaging without conflict. It's difficult to make conflict compelling without at least aggression. I'd consider sports games to have aggression. Stardew Valley or Mario Tennis don't even reach this lofty bar.
It’s a HN thread on an article about the problems with ________; I’m not sure what else you expected :)
Lots, of course. Authoritarians are attracted to militias and militaries. Even in the US: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/inside-u-s-military-s-.... https://www.vice.com/en/article/akv4qp/oath-keepers-us-capit... has examples from more western countries (I don’t really know what particular evidence you’re looking for that would convince you, but there’s lots out there.)
I’ve been playing games most of my life, and it quickly became an all-time favorite. Exploring that solar system and piecing together the story was an incredible experience that I still think about, over two years later. The ending was also profoundly moving for me.
This sort of makes the whole premise confusing to me. The way to use the alternative to the "dead" product is to use the dead product.

This isn't a critique of your comment. Just, that I don't understand what's going on here. Maybe this whole issue is a non-Linux kind of thing?

Test stuff out with wither docker compose, or minikube, and otherwise deploy to k8s has worked great for me.
Is there even an equivalent situation in the UK, given that it's extremely easy and cheap to form a company in the UK?
I have worked with both professionally in team environments.

I have got into technical discussions to back up my anecdotes. As I've mentioned I've blogged them before. I've even at this point built open source libraries to work around Angular technical flaws.
Struggling with the growth, need guidance for my agency
I have recently started an agency that makes the early age startups/businesses a brand. It's been 5+ years, since I have been working as a freelancer or providing services to clients. But this time, I am really struggling with growth.
I don't know if it's my filter on what type of clients I want or my approach, but I really am under the water in getting new clients. Would love if someone can guide me out.
Would definitely be curious to know the font name
It’s 175B over (presumably) 20 years, so only something slightly less absurd like $10B/year. Still a major drag on free cash flow.
I might be having rose tinted spectacles but I remember when Spotify first launched in the UK, maybe 2010. The app was _screaming fast_ in comparison to iTunes at the time, and I think it had a similar interface to itunes as well (although could be misremembering) with a table-like layout [1]

I really don't understand what happened between then and now, it was really a big deal at the time where the UI was snappy and playing a song was almost instantaenous. Nowadays, while the playback speed is still just as snappy, the UI feels much worse

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/102309/spotify-will-launch-in-the-...
Rewind is the best feature to make roms casual. It can be configured in a lot of the retroarch emulators. I've been using it on snes lately and it's so much better than freezing and loading states.
I guess HN automatic filter eats the marker part of the URL. https://github.com/jjneely/elrepo/blob/master/xorg-x11-drv-i...
I have a friend who moved on some land near Holbrook, Arizona and it is challenging from what he says.

No electricity, has to truck in water, nearest paved road is 45 minutes, closest big box store (Costco) is in Phoenix, dirt roads flood when it rains and he has to camp out in the post office parking lot when it snows so he doesn’t get stuck trying to go work.

And he loves it…
I agree with the post. I should be able to set how I view my search results. Not everyone has the bandwidth to download all of the album art.

My most recent, frustrating bug is setting an album or podcast to be available offline and then having to wait 30 seconds to 1 minute for the iOS app to give up on finding the network while in airplane mode.

Like another top comment mentions, there seems to be no cohesive vision.

If a true competitor ever emerges, I’m happy to jump ship. I enjoy the subscription experience a lot.

p.s. - I never want ads or popups for new album drops. I’d take a “feed” with search available over whatever “Home” is.
Which is why it’s optional.
But they do have more investor money than 25k, don't they? Plus, proper incorporation serves your investors as well. Guess why YC ibsists in a Delaware corporation? From what I know, those are totally free of charge neither.
That post is also full of pre-indieapocalypse charm. It assumes that a decent, finished game will get its author the recognition
Wandersong
But they're not subsistence farming, they're doing the stuff they did before, export their stuff to countries like india and china, and buying stuff from them too. Replacing their iphone with a Xiaomi/Huawei phone will hurt them a lot less, than possible power outages and no heat will hurt us. If we read between the lines, we're also at the brink of a massive food crisis (wheat and fertilizers + of course fuel cost) that russians have enough of.
Of course, these Russian minority casualties died as collateral from Russia and Russian backed separatists as well as from Ukraine. And more saliently, Russia is the aggressor so none of those people would have died if they hadn’t put Ukraine into an existential position.
Something with scopes? "Scoped resources" ?
My point is that Apple Music payouts are an identical percentage of their revenues to Spotify's; that means that any campaign to make people switch to AM will just mechanically make AM payouts decrease, and Spotify payouts increase until they converge.

Right now, Apple pays more per stream either because they may have more users in richer countries (Indian users don't pay $10/month), users who listen to less music, maybe older users (fewer students on student plans) and because they have no free tier.

So: the "AM has higher royalty payouts" is objectively a false Apple marketing point, because it's zero-sum. It's a pure accounting gimmick. Royalty payouts are pro-rata; there's no such thing as "Spotify's chosen royalty payout". For Spotify to get as high as Apple's, they'd need to make discoverability terrible (fewer hours listened per month = fewer streams = higher payouts per stream), get rid of their free tier, etc. They can't just "decide to increase payouts" because that's 52% of revenues, same as Apple Music, by contract.
> America is wrong to start wars

And? Did anyone did anything so America wouldn't start wars? Why America has a free pass?
Price per barrel is lower if it isn't going to Europe too - EU was the whale customer.
Shops have assets, small startups often don't. That makes the thousands of euros you need for reserves kinda pointless.
Let me add:

1. The playing song's time elapsed and time remaining are only displayed when you hover over the toolbar and disappear otherwise. WTF?!?

2. Sometimes when I press play, the app goes into an endless shuffle where it keeps selecting new random songs and doesn't play anything. I have to quit the app and start over.

3. The delete key stopped working in a selected song in a playlist on Monterey.

4. The Filter field doesn't appear in the window unless I press option-command-f first. Sigh.
Target protein for diabetes drug linked to reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease
It's about appealing to broader market. Missy people have no idea what ffmpeg is and even if they did, there is no way they can productively use it.
In central america most things are built with cheap cinderblock and concrete and the vast majority of them leave rebar exposed and coming out of the top floor/roof.

I've been told its for tax reasons, something about not needing to pay taxes on a building that is still "under construction"