skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of smaller independent record labels making good money from streaming - and some making really quite large amounts of money from streaming, often with very small teams.

A lot of people talk about tiny payments from streaming, comparing it to the "old model" where a CD would be sold for $20/€20/£20. However, the actual economics of those album sales are not as straightforward as they seem. The label would get nowhere near $20 for the sale. In fact, the label often got well under half of the retail price, with significant chunks of the retail price going to the retailer and the wholesaler - with another non-significant cost going on manufacture.

This began to crumble with digital downloads - suddenly people realised that they didn't need to stump up for a whole album's worth of tracks, some of which - to a greater or lesser extent may have been "filler". So where before a label could press albums and be relatively certain on the return, with digital downloads a lot of people started cherry picking the tracks they wanted to buy, rather than buying the whole album, and although manufacture and shipping records around the country was no longer required - saving a bunch of cash - it meant labels took a significant dip.

In a software context, the music business simply moved from up front licensing to a subscription model.

That's definitely had impact on the wider economics of how revenues stack in the recorded music business, but it's not as catastrophic as some people might pictured it from the outside.

If you want to run a label, though, looking at streaming payments means you're going to fail, because this isn't the challenge. And it's also not the whole of the business, there are other revenue streams for labels, like synchronisation, public performance revenues, and physical music products which, although a tiny proportion of music revenues overall, can be a significant revenue stream for strong independent labels with an engaged audience/customer base.

The challenge is signing artists who are going to create recordings that people like - and then finding audiences for that music, engaging them, creating content and campaigns to keep them interested, and building long term revenue streams, and selling them stuff. A&R and marketing are more important today than they have ever been - if you don't have great talent, and you don't know how to market that talent, then it doesn't matter if streaming pays a cent a stream or a dollar a stream - you're not going to have a business model.

(My credentials: one of my businesses advises a large number of independent record labels on copyright, digital revenue streams and strategy)
Other replies have covered most of this.

However, I want to point out that sometimes Java can peak its head out. If you rely on Java tooling you will also likely need to have some idea of how Clojure implements things in Java.

So while Java gives us access to a great variety of tools and libraries, heavy reliance on the host can make things a bit more difficult, especially for new programmers.
I ran the 'create a snake' game example using the paper's source at https://github.com/geekan/MetaGPT

The creation process used 11,940 tokens on input and 2,993 tokens on output, which cost $0.35 and $0.18, respectively.

The game it generated consisted of four python classes in four separate files: Main, Game, Snake, and Food.

The game executed without error on the first try, but the snake wasn't able to 'eat' the food. Here's the relevant code for 'eating' food:

# Check if the snake ate the food
if self.snake.body[0] == self.food.position:
self.score += 1
self.snake.grow()
self.food.generate()

The issue was that the snake's body was represented as a list of lists, whereas the food position was stored in a tuple. After changing the food position to a list, the game worked correctly.
You mean something like arbitrary deserialization? That's a logical bug implementable in any language.
Interesting idea, not sure how enforcement would work. That being said, this pretty much already happens in practice. Many people go their whole lives driving (safely) over the speed limit without ever getting a ticket, because they aren't being reckless about it.

Generally police officers will ignore you if you're just going with the flow or slightly faster. It's when you start going a lot faster or weaving or being otherwise reckless that they start to care.
Selling a company for $500 million and buying it back for $1 sounds impressive, but what is he actually buying? Did ESPN roll the actual business and audience into their own system and then just sell him the brand name?

This is also a huge footnote:

> Portnoy also agreed to give Penn 50 percent of the proceeds from any future sale of Barstool Sports
Does garbage in/out really apply to LLMs though? The relationship between input and output is unknown in large LLMs as far as I know . If that’s the case, then you can’t make any claim about “output” relating to “input” when it comes to LLM AI.
Which applies to classical dark matter theories, not ones that naturally reproduce MOND dynamics.
The dazzling ribbons, stripped from the corpses of trees, shot out of the pressurized tube
I worked at Amazon and I didn't meet a single person in the L4-L6 engineering set that went to an Ivy or other top school (except for one or two that went to CMU). The rest went to state schools including myself.

Now I'm at a somewhat well regarded startup and most of the people around me went to Cal States, Arizona State, or UC's.
NTFS itself has not that many forbidden characters (though ':' is one of them, it denotes alternate stream).

What people think about those CON, PRN, AUX, NUL etc are not filesystem limitation.

And while we are here - nor backslash, nor forward slash are used in NTFS. It can care less about what char do you use for a directory separator. Just be sure to update your APIs.
Harvard exists for strategic reasons. It helps maintain the establishment (that ambiguously defined collection of people and processes that keep the US running and a major world power). Getting rid of it would likely have a very negative effect in the medium-term.
Because politics, not solutions, drive big tech.
Which is why its usage has declined ever more and more thanks to Discord, which is a pain in itself. Freenode's collapse in particular pushed a lot of people to just say "fuck it" to IRC in general.
Similar to the PythonMonkey project which provides high level bindings to SpiderMonkey from Python. Although its implemented in C++, I wonder if it or other projects like it could benefit from UniFFi

PythonMonkey lets you arbitrarily execute JS code like:

```
import pythonmonkey
pythonmonkey.eval("(() => { console.log('hi from js'); })()")
```
for reference.
> Artificial Inteligence implies that its intelligent and currently, its not

Looking at recent developments, I'm not sure this assertion can be accepted without doubt. I would argue that LLMs like Chat GPT are definitely "intelligent" for many meanings of the word.

They are not intelligent in exactly the same way we are, and they are very limited in what they can do, but there does seem to be some real reasoning going on.

What a system experiences internally can never be confirmed by external entities. So I guess the best way to determine intelligence, reasoning, consciousness, is to ask them if they are intelligent, can perform reasoning and if they possess a consciousness.
Sorry, English is not my first language so I guess I misinterpreted it. What I was replying to was:

> Assuming you've given time to learn it, editing with vim takes less mental effort and is faster.

What gave away that it was a personal anecdote? I interpreted the "you" part as if he was speaking generally about other people and not only himself

In my main language, we would have written something like below if it was a personal anecdote (rough direct translation):

> I was able to edit faster using Vim after taking the time to learn it.
I've never experienced this with Tetris, but there was a stretch of time, decades ago, where when I was driving through cities I'd see the various sections of the landscape tinged with the green, blue, and yellow matching SimCity zoning colors.
Does anyone know how this makes sense? Seemingly barstool must have said no to any deal and it was worth it for Penn to take the loss in order to partner with ESPN?

This also lets barstool partner with another book which will be a massive partnership undoubtedly.
From what I remember, he was a really good teacher too!
Firstly there is the emotional response: I don't want to be followed around in everything that I do for someone else's benefit, and I not at all convinced of arguments that targetted advertising is done for my benefit.

Then there is the fact that a large amount of data about me is being stored, possibly insecurely for people with even less scruples to analyse. I have very little to hide (white, middle class, straight, male, cis, no criminal activity beyond some unlicensed TV/film access, etc – there is little or nothing about me that would be frightening for anyone else to know) but there are many out there who do have things that could be (unfairly) held against them with terrible consequences. Consider women in Texas where there is effectively a reward/bounty program to encourage snitching on those who have had, or are considering, an abortion, or people in law enforcement who don't want certain groups to be able to derive their home address with any accuracy, people in one or more closets through fear of being ostracised from their family/community and left pennyless & without support, and so forth. I grew up with friends who were gay when it was still effectively illegal to be, despite what the Sexual Offences Act (1967) said, and when getting beaten up for being gay was almost acceptable (“act more straight, and it wouldn't have happened”: something a friend was once told by a policeman that saw no cause for arrest) – the fear of consequences from collected information “getting out” and/or being used to derive other information (true or otherwise) is real and for many people not at all irrational.

Back to my icky feelings, which are perhaps a little bit less rational: I wouldn't be happy with someone following me between shops, watching what I'm perusing, then to the pub and noting who I was there with, then back to my home, in order to be able to serve me relevant ads (perhaps for shoes that would be more comfortable for that much walking? or for condoms because they noticed I was accompanied by a female friend, and you never know, right, nudge nudge wink wink), and I'm not happy about the same happening in a more virtual environment. How do I trust that is really (or only) why I'm being followed? And I how do I know who else my stalker is selling news of my activity to?

[actually, the “I have little or nothing to fear” isn't entirely right – any of us could suffer from plain old identity theft in various ways]
neat! any support for efficient spatial queries?
I've also seen neovim plugins written in fennel [0], so if you want something lispy, that's possible now.

[0]: a Lisp that compiles to Lua, https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel
> Most programmers aren't HN level

Oh boy, the self importance here is hilarious
The mod team have made themselves clear.[1][2] I'm not sure what more there is to say, you're not going to "discuss" 'dang into submission.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

2: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
A reading guide for grownups who don’t read
And I thought they have it under the pillow. Thanks for the lesson.
I think they’re just getting ridding of the Sportsbook and partnership so barstool goes back to privately owned content generation rather than content + Sportsbook.
Cool idea. I do think that filtering large batches AI-generated data is potentially a huge market, especially if you get it to filter for certain characteristics. I.e., remove images that are a specific color or contain certain background elements.

I use Midjourney quite a bit and I end up using the creation process itself as an ongoing filtering process, but on a per image basis. It would be a lot more efficient to generate 1,000 images at once, filter out the images that are deformed/not fitting the requirements, then see what you've got to work with.
"I'd say for 90% of what I do" and there immediately the point is invalid. What you do is not what everyone does.
I've used xmplay and modplug, but specially xmplay don't always produce the best sounding output. I've also seen a few modules just play corrupted on xmplay... I've also used stuff like audacious to play those files with wathever tracker decoder they provide, but they don't allow much flexibility in the playback settings nor associating an specific decoder to an specific module. They usually also lack a variety of different decoders..
Like what if there was a summer camp for 20 students, and each was randomly assigned a conjecture to programmatically test, and only one found something surprising?
The final frontier?
> If you’re a startup there’s a strategic advantage in trying to look for talent where others aren’t and leveraging your own subject matter expertise to do so.

That's the huge take-away, and why startups and other small to medium sized businesses are so critical for class mobility.
Winlator is an Android app that lets you to run Windows applications even games
SponsorBlock is basically mandatory to watch YouTube now. I can’t even imagine what it would be like without Premium.
NASA Head Concerned That China Will Steal Lunar Resources
The evolutionary history from «able to make complex useful stuff» to «overflowing wealth» was probably too short.
> Having taken math courses for math majors at both an Ivy school and a decent non-Ivy, it is my experience that while they teach roughly the same subjects, they do not teach the same things within those subjects, nor at the same pace, nor to the same level of rigor. Nor are the students in those classes equally good at math. So, while sorting those students can and does contribute to injustice (especially with the actual way it's done!), it's also not a completely pointless just for the sake of giving gold stars.

OK, and? How does this change anything? You have to be a PhD to be a mathematician anyway.

I've become negatively polarized against this rigor fetishization, which serves exclusively to otherize normal folks in increasingly esoteric ways
> Harvard ... gating function developed over time and is unfortunate.

You're not quite arguing that it doesn't do that gating function.

"The purpose of a system is what it does"
AWS has character restrictions on virtually everything.

The message bodies of SQS messages has restrictions on which whitespace characters can be used.
> No, they won’t, because I’m nobody to them.

Maybe today. Who knows about the future though? :)
I appreciate your statement in support of my argument :)
When I first watched the XPrize flight in 2004 (!!) on a tiny pixelated video over an ISDN connection, I thought we would only be a couple of years away from regular space tourism. I never would have dreamt that chatbots would pass the Turing test before Virgin Galactic became operational. Predicting technological advancements is hard.
I am skeptical about that being the root cause. Competitive endurance athletes undergo a high level of oxidative stress during daily aerobic workouts. This doesn't seem to trigger mental disorders.
The Nobel prize self disparaged when they gave the Peace one to a guy that later went to bomb seven countries: https://theintercept.com/2014/09/23/nobel-peace-prize-fact-d...
I would expect changing the size of the court to have more impact.

And BTW, 3 of 9 is 33%.
"Making this bread really takes me back to growing up with the funerary pyres at Grandma's house"
Updates to Storage Policy
Nice, they even have Guitar Slinger (GSLINGER.MOD from my memory) as a loadable example. Brings back memories...
The commit history does not accurately reflect the contributions to the code-base. As I understand it, contributors would write and provide patches to Bram who would then commit the changes to the code-base.
Both of those would be trivial to see on the data, though?

I have no doubt these things can and will be gamed by more than a few folks. But I also have no doubt it would be rather easy to figure out most of them.
I don't think so, but life will be harder. Life is harder if you are born poor. I graduated from an unknown university (in the US) overseas, so I started in lower places and climbed my way up through hard work, study, luck and skill development (which include social skills). You are not destined to be inferior, but if the cards are not stacked in your favor, you will just have to make up for it somehow.
It’s one of the defining cultural cornerstones here.
Working at NYT isn't as gated as the article suggests. I know two people who work there. AFAIK, neither went to an Ivy. (Old joke: How do you know if someone went to an Ivy? They tell you.) You do need a college degree, but you can work at a smaller paper first and get recruited from there.
Wow. Not a peep here.
Is Distributed Ledger Tech "dead"?
You said L3 so I was curious. I looked up the guy's LinkedIn [0] and honestly an L3 engineer would have a lot more context about Google's search. Danny, what do you even do?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannysullivan/
Is it saddled with debt, because that's the only way I can imagine it being sold for that much.
Users in Sweden should use <https://www.bredbandskollen.se/>.
Train Your Own Vicuna on Llama-2
Does mathematics contain a lot of theorems that rely on unproven assumptions?
This already exists and is called Windows S mode.

I wish it was more popular, but as soon as it was announced blogs like verge and Engadget started a crusade against it and more or less killed it off
Looking at the list of characters and character ranges the omission of 7F is curious.
I really don’t think our current crop of chat bots can pass a Turing test.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057043
Thats a lot of words just to not mention actual altitude.
> Also, for the people complaining they only have 300 Mb/s -- unless you are streaming multiple 4K movies there is nothing faster about having more bandwidth. You should care about latency, packet loss, and cache hit rate.

Haven’t downloaded any 150+ GB games (or patches even these days) off of Steam lately I see
Well, they didn't make up the rule just for kicks. It was bound to be enforced eventually, and that's what they're doing now.
nerve gas as they would say on 4 chan
nerve gas, as they would say on 4 chan
"As Smart"

I don't think it needs that at all. It just needs to 'Code' 1.01 times better than the average programmer to enter a self improvement cycle.
Congratulations on the new feature release! It's impressive how Signadot addresses developer pain points with microservices testing. I'm curious, how do you ensure that ephemeral databases or schemas maintain the stability of a shared Kubernetes cluster?
I'm no expert but I don't think there's a way to use the leverage of them desperately needing you sustainably. If you plan to leave in the next year or so then just hit them for the best sounding job title and the most money you can. But if you do anything to instill resentment then your days there will be numbered.

Personally though I see the opportunity to do the work and define your own career within the company as the biggest opportunity here. If you like what they're doing, figure out what you want in terms of role and responsibility and ask for it. Tell them you want to be the chief of this or the director of that - not just the title but the responsibility too. If they say no, do the work anyway. When they see your level of ability and commitment they'll probably start to worry that you'll seek the role you want elsewhere, and so they'll give it to you.
Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists – Dynomight
Because higher education is objectively not a meritocracy. The mere existence of legacy admissions proves this.

Of course those with degrees from Ivys and other selective schools don't want to acknowledge this - it devalues their degree. Same for those who aspire to attend these schools - whether they have an 'unfair' advantage or not.
I'm not sure how you missed OP's joke, and then decided the proper course of action was to insult them rather than refuting them.
A language being popular or competitive is not a particularly good reason to avoid a language. However, you should learn more than one language. If you’re worried about competition or saturation, being flexible and having a wider set of tools/experiences to draw from is more useful than picking the “perfect” language.

Start somewhere (JS is a decent place to start) and become proficient in it, and once you have concepts down the others become easier. Then branch out from there. Learning C# or Java is an accessible next step from JS.

Always be trying new things. Don’t know where to start with the new thing? Try rewriting a project you know well from scratch in the new language/platform. Don’t have a project? Try the ubiquitous todo example app, or reconstruct some site, service, or app you like. It doesn’t have to be something you sell or put out there, you just have to make it work and understand how you did it.
How does it advocate for eugenics and how it is classist?
I noticed this recently too. We set up alerts on cloud watch logs and I tried to put an emoji in the alert message, which delivers to an SNS topic, which goes to an email. And cloudformation complained loudly that there was an unsupported character in the alarm message.
Did you square 1000 to get a million, in 3 dimensions? I'm not following the calculation.

BTW Americans learned metric in school as kids (I did late 70s) and didn't learn the "Imperial" system, which I still don't know, but it seems that signs and so forth never got switched over. I have wondered for 40+ years if it's a laziness thing, and I don't know.
> This is a typical "let's be all equally poor/bad" argument.

It’s not, and I think your view ignores a really important fact about our society. Ownership of wealth in America is relatively diffuse. The top 1% owns only 32% of the wealth. And even the top 1%, which starts at about $12 million net worth, covers a lot of people who aren’t exactly the ownership class.

Much of the power in society is therefore held by a class of non-owner managers that run these enormous institutions. Folks like Jamie Dimon and Tim Cook are billionaires, but they made that money by being very highly compensated employees of institutions in which their equity interest is negligible. Many layers of managers beneath those executives also wield tremendous power.

Institutions like Harvard serve as gatekeepers to those roles. They also serve as gatekeepers to adjacent industries, such as finance and law, that not only are lucrative, but also exert tremendous power.

And as credentialism has overtaken society, the same class of Harvard-educated professionals have come to run everything else as well. When an expert agency sues a corporation over some important issue, it’s highly likely that the agency expert policymakers, the agency lawyers, the corporation’s lawyers, the corporation’s management, the judge, and the journalist reporting on the case all went to Harvard or one of a handful of other elite schools. They all went to school together, they attend reunions and weddings together, their kids end up marrying each other.
This article carefully avoids mentioning how high they went, is there any information on what actual altitude they reached during the flight?