skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have any hard info, but here's my speculation:

The Spotify most people know (finding and playing songs, creating playlists, recommendations), which obviously very important, is probably a tiny fraction of the complexity for the company.

I would wager the vast majority of the employees at Spotify are working on everything else needed to enable the above. The artists portal, analytics and royalties, paying the labels, paying the artists, legal for every country, etc.

Someone who knows could probably elaborate more than me on everything needed to run a company like that.

Does that require 8000 people? Debatable, but it's certainly more complex than clicking a song and playing it.

EDIT: A quick glimpse at job listing for Spotify on LinkedIn shows:

* Client Partner in India

* Business Operations in Nigeria

* Creator Partner Manager in Mexico

* Artist & Partnerships Manager in Egypt

* NLP Research Scientist in the USA

* Director of Sales in Singapore
Ask HN: Does learning mathematics give you some kind of superpower?
Often people say that learning math changed their lives. They started to see normal things in a different light.

Has it happened to you? Any books you would like to credit for that?
I wouldn't suggest AI making policy decisions, but replacing jobs at the post office or DMV. You aren't entitled to a job. Congress can vote on CoL adjustments for workers, both at the state and federal levels. Right now, its pay to play - the unions, some of the largest political contributors in the US, just pay (bribe) the representatives to advocate for them, in return for donations to campaigns.
Human play was used to bootstrap AlphaGo. But LLMs already have vast amount of data relating to human introspection. The problem is they cannot operationalize it, as they have no analogs of our thinking/speaking distinction. Speaking and thinking is the same for them: producing a token is a prerequisite to produce a next token.

Building a system that can leverage that knowledge to bootstrap "thinking circuits" can prove challenging, that's for sure, but I expect that collecting quality "thinking out loud" data is more challenging.
I like discworld mud, it's loosely based on terry pratchett's books but has drifted a lot over the decades it's been active and is largely its own thing now.

Achaea is still really popular and active but I didn't spend all that much time on it when I was getting back into muds. It's got some freemium aspects to its model that turned me off but I understand is really well-liked by its players so probably worth a try anyway.

I also hear good things about alter aeon and it seems to be really active. I've been meaning to check it out but haven't yet.

---

A quick look makes mudding look more popular than it really is. There are hundreds of unique operating muds, but probably fewer than a dozen that ever see more than 50 simultaneous players. You could pretty easily narrow it down based on that and choose a couple whose theme appeals to you most. But also if you get into it you're choosing a community as much as a game, so observe and feel out the culture a bit before you get too invested.

And IMO skip anything that allows concurrent multiplay. Those look more busy than they are; in reality it's going to be a handful of people who have known each other for years each multiplaying dozens of characters.
But but what if they die upon contact with water though?
What happens when the competent opt out
The teacher union seems to be mostly ineffective based on what I've seen/heard in my county. My county literally hires teaching contractors at a significantly higher rate than union teachers because it is such an unattractive job. Somehow the union still fails to negotiate a salary within $20k of the state median.

--- Tangential Rant:

Look into your county's education budget and it might surprise you. In mine, the yearly budget is $1.5B and only about $900M goes to actual school operations (everything from ~300 principles, ~6k teachers, 64 physical/occupational therapists, IT, TAs, and benefits). Another ~$70M goes to bus contractors that can't accommodate reasonable start times across the grade levels. ~$30M goes to facility maintenance/construction/planning. Most of the left over is bloat that manages useless initiatives, flirts with ed-tech/curriculum grifters, marketers/comms/etc, and weird pork that doesn't belong in an education budget. That's like $300-400M/yr in bloat at just the county level (assuming at least some of the left over provides actual value).

It's embarrassing that these administrators get paid 2-4x the teachers, but still fail to staff schools properly with a $1.5B budget for ~80k students.
What are the alternatives?

- euro

Too many cooks spoil the kitchen, unpredictable policy, serious liability monetization issues. Currently Europe runs the presses about as much as the US. IT is going to be running the presses even more as the entire continent militarizes while the US's share of security agreement wanes and Europe pays for a greater share of its defense.

- yuan

Debt to GDP ratio of 200%, highly manipulated currency (uhh how do you think the evergrande crisis just disappeared one day), *capital controls* where citizens can't take money out of the country... When capital controls are removed, necessary to achieve reserve currency status, the whole system will suddenly be incredibly unstable.

- ruble

Is using the reserve currency of a pariah state really a consideration?

- reais

Let's use a currency that has its name because they had to trick people into acceting a remonetization for the Nth time.

The whole dedollarization narrative is like some weird propaganda pushed by china. Look, the dollar sucks, and maybe some countries will flip to the yuan (it's easy to buy off politicians) but those countries that do are going to be utterly screwed because the it's structurally worse than the dollar, and emerging markets will be forced to be shackled to a currency controlled by a competing (producer) interest.
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I found Brave search to be awesome.

search.brave.com

It's working on this idea called Brave Goggles where you can click on a goggle and it tweaks the algorithm to prioritize that type of content or specific sites get higher ranking

It's pretty cool.

All their results have been fantastic as well for me and it's supposed to be private as well.

It's pretty much replaced google for me without even noticing.
AI for Beginners
The Court should not legislate. It only interprets the law. A Court that legislates is a fundamental danger to democracy and the will of the people
FWIW, I've personally experienced exactly that happening too.
you dont
> possibly with extensions to file IO in future - it doesn't suspend if you do file IO today

Wasn’t basically all of the JDK’s file APIs rewritten to io_uring-like calls to support Loom? I have thought that IO was definitely something that Loom handled.
They want the best results but they always get ads and SERP/SEO spam
Music Stats with DuckDB
To follow-up, the author really should have mentioned that access to X is controlled using cookies. In order for this program to work, one needs to temporarily allow any client access to X using 'xhost +'. To put back access control, use 'xhost -' to re-enable.
My comment started a couple threads of discussion, and I learned something new about pure Mathematics. You are getting “useful to me” and “useful to anyone” mixed up.

I think Asimov would disagree with your interpretation.
“I believe that every human being with a physically normal brain can learn a great deal and can be surprisingly intellectual. I believe that what we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning.
We can all be members of the intellectual elite and then, and only then, will a phrase like "America's right to know" and, indeed, any true concept of democracy, have any meaning.”

What level of expertise do you think is required to comment on something? Would you consider yourself well versed in Internet ethics?

Also, your comment ironically expresses a broad opinion instead of asking good faith questions.
All modern medical science is fraudulent. If you believe otherwise you haven’t been paying attention.

Read some arkmedic

https://arkmedic.substack.com/

I may rant off the cuff like I did in that comment, but the evidence is there you should not trust anything in a medical journal.
And business relations in each of the markets. Marketing as well, editorial content, so on and so forth.

I feel sometimes that a lot of the HN folks work on small-scale companies, releasing MVPs and don't have much of an idea about the operations side of a larger operation. It's easy to think in MVP terms, it's really, really hard to understand the nuances (and costs) that scaling that to hundreds of millions of users across dozens to hundred+ countries entail.
Toastytech[1] has a great many early Mac screenshots, as well as many others from around that time.

[1]: http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html
Are you sure you read the article closely enough? These are early career researchers: grad students and postdocs. These are generally roles someone holds for no more than 6 years, often less. They _are_ all new employees.
I'd heard the same, but half-expected a backformation
Yeah, but if they didn't post it, how would I know that I personally could implement a clone of X in a weekend. Two weekends at most.
Isn't it a little telling you're lumping CommonLisp and Clojure projects in together? These languages share parenthesis, but are extremely far apart.
I mean, it started with a confidant hand wave without rigor that 8k is too much.
USD as a percentage of global foreign reserves has fallen 10% in 20 years... from 70% to 60%. If "de-dollarisation" does happen it's going to take a LONG time.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2021/05/05/blog-us-dol...
Forget about e-waste, it's my fucking property. I paid full price for a full product that is now mine. Not partially mine and partially the manufacturers.
At this point I don't think we offer support for VISA but I imagine relocation assistance could be considered for the right candidate.
Outside of the overfunded Ivies, Stanford and MIT, most other state schools and academic institutions do not have the ability to absorb the sheer quantity of researchers employed by NIH.

> It’s also not even remotely true that being an MD is the first choice for researchers

You should try talking to some actual graduates in the life sciences department at your local state school, and not just MD-PHDs. I am willing to bet money that the number of non-medical biology researchers whose number one choice is medicine outnumbers wannabe researchers.
> Is there a recommended "intro to understanding lisp" resource out there for someone like myself to dive in to?

Practical Common Lisp - https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Casting SPELs in Lisp - http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

One of many prior discussions here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913750

... amongst many resources for learning LISP.
You could try the google search console - it gives you a view on what hits/clicks have come in over time.

edit: Hah. I notice it suggests using it at the top of the page if you use 'site:..." - and I only get 5 results for my site when the console claims to have indexed 10 times that many!

edit2: Also duckduckgo returns more like 15 hits ...
O'Caml is heading in that direction. Jane Street are adding more control over memory layout and allocation, and multicore finally arrived recently.
They tried that with Rogan and it didn't go well. Ironically, I don't think the problem was their plan, I think it was that the people that work at Spotify hate people like Rogan and don't want to see him do well. A few execs obviously believe in his content, but the vast majority of Spotify employees I've talked to see him as a dangerous anti-vax transphobe.
Once again the black hats will come out on top. As someone in that industry, there's always a new trick or method to getting your sites indexed en mass before others. If you don't have time to find it, someone in a 2nd world country (probably India) will offer the service for relatively cheap at BlackHatWorld.

On a side note on the SERP (search engine results page) of the foreseeable future, I don't accept the doom and gloom other SEOs have. Google has shown it will give credit to the top 3 links, and to be honest pretty visible credit. This will shift the target from "front page" to "top 3" sort of like Local Seo Map Packs.

Will make difficult keywords more difficult to get clicks for, but long tail keywords could be easier to rank now as a #3 ranking could garner as many clicks as a #1 ranking.
Seems like a newer artist could use the power of the internet and YouTube and directly go to Spotify to negotiate. There is near zero cost to reach a global audience.

But if they want to procure the services of the publishers, then they have to agree to the terms.
As another commenter pointed out, this is obsolete C, however: this is just not how modern compilers work. at all. Compilation is performed in phases, you have syntax analysis, semantic analysis, and then optimization and codegen. It’s trivial for a compiler to handle this code, heck C++ compilers (which your C compiler is under the hood) already do this for struct/classes (allowing member functions to be called before being declared). Pretty much every other language supports this too, but universally and not just in classes. We’ve come a long way since the 60’s.
Maybe a middle ground with a button for "I don't have a subscription for this site, don't show non-free content from it to me again".
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I do communication mostly in teams and google meet for my past and current work.
I had experience working with people in UK, US and India. My manager was from India and Product Manager from UK and US.
I have no timezone issue because we can communicate asynchronously and meeting can be scheduled at the overlapped time.

Hit me up :)
You've put in words what's been in my gut. Thank you.
Knowing science and engineering is the superpower. Mathematics is their language.
Nah, just a shill for the banking or residential property business (or somebody stuck with a number of condo's that aren't selling as well as desired).

5-20% down doesn't grow on trees, people tend to move for employment, residential property can be (very) illiquid, ... Perhaps we should argue that we should forbid property ownership, with housing provided as a general good. This would enable people to use what money they have for more constructive actions than dumping it in a hole in the ground.

Arguments like this go both way and generate a whole lot of smoke with virtually no fire. Edit: was early, should have considered the question as satire as was suggested. Sorry.
Dead Internet theory?
I personally have been surprised to find myself CAPTCHA'd out of google search recently. No idea what's up with that. Regular commercial ISP, no VPNs.
The 4x 2.5 GbE model I have draws 7-8W idle, 12-18W under load, add 1W per active network port.

The Pi draws considerably less at idle, so could be worth it if you just have light or small bursts workloads and don't need the performance.
I like the cookie idea. Thanks.
GBP! There before the USA never mind the dollar! ;-)
That one didn't work for me, here is another:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
After reading this I'm really quite happy Graydon created Rust, but then conceded the path it has taken.

It really is an incredibly language and ecosystem, in large part, because of its performance potential.

To be clear, the only real options in this space were arguably C, C++, and maybe in some circles D in my mind. C++ and C by far had the mind share.

Had Rust gone the way Graydon wanted I don't think Rust would be so interesting in the OS and Embedded space. This is a space that it turns out is really ripe for change.

Embedded application are growing more connected, and more complex all the time. Security is a serious concern perhaps followed by or proceeded by performance depending on who you ask. Rust checks so many boxes off in this space its really hard to argue that it isn't a better solution.

Would you rather write a little embedded http server on an IoT device in C, C++, or Rust? What about an embedded networking stack? What about a mesh network stack? I know the answer I'd have every time for this myself.
You can avoid quite a bit of OOP with Kotlin if you like, and with Arrow make some really nice functional code. Imo it offers a great balance of imperative vs functional, providing powerful tools for whatever style suits the project best.
> And the Foundation's goal is more about access to computing _education_

A couple of months ago I attended a talk given by Eben Upton. He talked through the history of the entire RPi initiative, starting with his observation that Computer Science admissions at Cambridge University were falling away at quite an alarming rate, and how that inspired the whole thing.

Before attending the talk, I had understood the proposition to be that a cheap home computer put into the hands of kids might spark some natural curiosity, like what happened during the 80s and early 90s home microcomputer era, which would then ultimately lead to more tech-literate kids who would go on to study Computer Science and ultimately have careers in the field.

I'm not sure this was wrong, but it definitely wasn't the whole story.

Eben described the work of the foundation, and it's far more extensive than I had any appreciation for whatsoever. For example, both domestically and internationally the foundation are heavily involved in teacher training, and have played a role in developing curriculum across the globe to further or even initiate IT/CompSci education.

The structure of the Foundation and Trading, he explained, was the most appropriate vehicle under UK tax rules for funding charitable educational work with commercial enterprise. I'm probably simplifying this massively but in essence the flow of profits/dividends/whatever up from the for-profit Trading arm to the charitable Foundation helps to pay for the significant amount of educational work that Foundation does around the world.

I hadn't appreciated many of the forms of educational work that the foundation are involved in at all.

From this perspective, it is perhaps easier to hold a charitable view of Eben's comments around preferential stock availability for small businesses. In the position that they have been in, whereby they're going to sell every unit produced easily whatever the channel, and keeping in mind funding the education goals of the foundation, I think it's entirely reasonable to also help keep some small businesses afloat along the way at the expense of hobbyists.

Prior to this talk, I think my blind spot had been that the entire mission was to put cheap home microcomputers into the hands of kids around the world. I can understand that throttling this home or hobbyist supply in favour of commercial sales takes a bit more to interpret charitably.

But the Foundation is doing so much more than that, and that was entirely lost on me, that failing to fulfill hobbyist market demand no longer looks to me like failing in the original mission.
My wife is nearing the end of her postdoc (cell biology). I’ve known her since she was 18 years old. She never wanted to be an MD. Neither did the colleagues of hers I talked to.
"The Russian Bear" is a term that's been in use for centuries to refer to Russia herself, not necessarily her military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Bear
They’re all Lisps, which was the question.
I work for a national lab and in my experience it will take a lot for someone to give up a place like the Eastbay for East Tennessee. If the national lab were near Nashville that might be different. Los Alamos has to give software developers a sizeable bonus each year just to keep them from flying to greener pasteurs in a less remote location. I know I left partly because my wife had such a hard time finding work and the remoteness made the area too expensive for what we were getting out of it socially and careerwise.
I don't think this is "typical". I don't know a single parrot owner that does this. The majority of us only have our birds in their cages during bedtime or when we're not home.
Is this satire? What option would someone have if they’re:

1. Unable to commit to a location long term (students, seasonal workers, people trying to find their fit)

2. Unable to fiscally purchase property (not everyone can just buy a condo

3. Unable to fiscally commit to a property/location - many people have dynamic incomes over time. What they can afford one year may not be the same the next.

Many people have unstable living situations one way or another, and I put myself in this category. People like the verbiage of “landlords do nothing” but in reality they take on the risk of property ownership so people forced to think short term don’t have to.
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>Seems ridiculous to me, why would teens even have peer-reviewed papers, or even papers, to their name?

Pretty much only because of this scam - so an automatic 'fraud' signal IMHO.

For reference the comment I was responding to implied that the ONLY way for a teen to be an author on a paper was because of this scam. I was pointing out that that is obviously not the case.
Thank you. That's just an off-the-shelf template from https://tailwindui.com!
so what? companies run on command and control, as much as they try to soften that image. how did the employees hating the product affect their work? I agree work can be better with passionate and invested workers doing it, but workers disinterest or disdain for the product of their work is the norm when they have essentially no ownership over it. they're not a bunch of children who will spin the hamster wheel faster for their boss when it's hillary clinton on their work

by essentially no ownership what I mean is that the amount of ownership granted to workers via equity is negotiated as part of overall compensation in wage labor market (market means it's as low as each company can competitively get away with, so just saying the share exists does not mean it's of the same class), the majority ownership is elsewhere and there are a lot of non-workers who need to get rich off their work. commenting that ESOPs give workers and their owners the same sense of stakeholder ownership is as interesting as saying america has a universally flat ownership class structure because everyone can buy a share on the market
Why do I think it's not population decline but melanin increase that's being discussed?
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