skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That cuts to how much of a mess spotify payouts are in general, where the subscription revenue pool is paid out based on global listens, and the people with fewer hours of use don't control which artists get most of their money. But as far as I'm aware the big labels don't like the idea of changing that.
They both did.
> > Even 1000 years would be inconsequential so why fret about it?

Being remembered many years in the future is
very correlated with conspicuous consumption during the individual lifetime

Especially for leaders, but even for artists who get to work for leaders and have their lifestyle subsidised

So even if your goal is just abundance of stuff and experiences then seeking a position that would have you remembered 1000 years from now is the way to go
But hey, it could be even worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6KA6V4T7w
Ah, that was probably it. Gotta admit, I deserved it then, for not reading carefully enough :)
Unfortunately based on the other replies President Ben also invented sarcasm and it was never exported back to Europe.
That's very interesting to hear. This last weekend down here in Florida was unbearable.
I got my first sunburn in like 20 years, just last Saturday.
And I'm out in the sun every weekend wakeskating.
Before virtual threads, Java server would reserve a full OS thread while that code is being processed. OS threads use lots of memory and there might a limited number available. With a single incoming request or low traffic that is not a problem, but with many parallel requests the server would choke on using too much memory or OS threads.

Previously in Java if you wanted to avoid code that blocks the OS thread you would need to use callback based code or reactive programming: https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/how-java-is-used-for-async...

Javascript moved on from callbacks to async/await, which colors the async functions and requires the programmer to be aware of the issues related to async/await.

For Java Project Loom takes a different approach. For example with server applications, the server would start running the code in a virtual thread and most of the code that looks like blocking will actually work like unblocking code. You get to use regular blocking code but you get async performance.

When the code needs to wait for a response, JVM can unmount the virtual thread from the OS thread and then the JVM can run another virtual thread in the OS thread. Once the response is returned and the OS thread is free, JVM can continue executing the original request.

There are some caveats to virtual threads. There is some overhead (but not a lot), some IO calls still block (but you don't get an indication about using blocking IO) and you might stumble on new kinds of bugs related to resource exhaustion (try reserving a million OS file handles).

But no more async/await, reactive programming, callbacks. Mostly just regular imperative blocking-looking code. I'm very excited about that.
Interesting window into the history that likely shaped Microsoft's view of customers for decades since then.

I'd say MS still probably has that attitude baked into their company, treating customers as adversaries that need to be protected against.

They are definitely not known for their customer service, but they ARE known for their complex licensing and sometimes heavy-handed enforcement, that I guess maybe one could draw a line back to this as the source.
This is like cracking down on all e-cigarettes because some people got sick from for some crappy e-liquid, while regular cigarettes kill nearly half a million people a year without anyone batting an eye. Classic misdirection while ignoring the real problems.
Indeed, and that's exactly what I'm using on desktop. But on mobile, I prefer the app, and that one doesn't keep a local history.
of course there's Corporate Memphis art at the top
Your comment is naive. What does it mean to "deal with it"? Life is trying to understand precisely that.
Appreciate your comment. At the moment wind is wreaking havoc but these fires were small for several days before they grew this large. A quick reaction would have saved so much effort and expense and grief.
>I've seen them at $20

Have another look, its more like 50 nowadays, thanks to the new ones having proprietary paper with chip.
Can anyone with access to the actual paper share the treatment regime they are suggesting, preferably with the names of actual devices they used? The summary and conclusion was unfortunately light on details. Please, and thank you!
'England', or the United Kingdom?
Do you blame modern Germans for WW2? Why?
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> This person is basically saying all books are good.

I'm sorry, I really don't see how you arrive at this. I would say the author expresses the opposite of what you're talking about (i.e. "this book has this value to this person in this context.").

I understand what you're trying to say about the inherent effort-bias relationship but I think it's very tenuous at best.
> Their model doesn't support having to pay artists for audio tracks people put on random shuffle while they sleep / game / study / work.

That is literally Spotify's main use case
You wished for Russia to "suffer the complete societal rot it deserves".

Don't you think that is kinda extreme, and makes the comparison with what should USA suffer then reasonable ?
Female genital mutilation, leading cause of death in African countries
Despite the phrase used, this is not whataboutism. They are direct negative results of a practice with benefits in another domain. Weighing then against one another is a real and important thing to do

Whataboutism is more like a redirection / distraction. "X is bad". "Yeah but what about Y that's even worse!" when they aren't even related
Feedback wanted – I wrote a deep dive on Sam Altman
I wrote a deep dive on Sam Altman this weekend. I would love to know if people dig it. Context, forma, writing style etc..

Cheers!
There is simple physics: warmer air holds more moisture, pulling it from the ground and holding it longer. Explains drier conditions and more extreme rainfalls when they do occur
The same way the US didn't install the Taliban as the rulers of Afghanistan. Twice.
Are current cars driven by humans also death machines?
Nit: one generation is the time between birth and reproduction. So depending on culture 20-35 years. 70 years is more than 2 generations.
> I'd wager $20 that the carbon Footprint of this thing is much higher than a farm raised (not factory raised) real chunk of meat.

Thanks? And you think you'll get away with that? ;)

> a farm raised (not factory raised) real chunk of meat

Farm raised is in fact worse for the climate than CAFOs (because it takes longer), not talking about other aspects.

> I'd wager $20

Just joking, of course. Try some good vegan restaurant instead (happycow.net).
> which the US tried to install a more westernized leader

Taking issue with your use of "westernized" here - it's either misleading or deliberately ambiguous. The US just wanted a less "socialist" leader, similar to how they favored autocrats in Central and South America over communist/socialist leaders, democracy be damned.
Digital feudalism at it's finest.

"You wish to park on Lord Absentee's land? You must enroll yourself in his service, then, peasant!"
They are all tropical cyclones.

In the North Atlantic and Northeastern Pacific, the strongest tropical cyclones are called “hurricanes”, while weaker ones (at least in the US) are called “tropical storms” and “tropical depressions”, in declining order of strength.

In the Northwestern Pacific, the strongest are called “typhoons”.

Elsewhere (South Pacific and Indian Ocean), they are just all called tropical cyclones or cyclonic storms, with additional adjectives denoting strength.
I agree it is impossible. I don't like their claims that they don't have access to the decrypted keys and we can prove it by looking at the code. They could have access to the keys and looking at the code wouldn't prove they don't.
At a glance, it's for people whose fetish is watching beautiful women look at their phone.
I've always found that ruling so bad. Who pushes the button is the least important part of photography and can be easily automated. It's choosing the subject matter, getting the camera to that location, angles, exposure, lenses, and taking the time to do it all that is the creative part.

For the sake of argument, if a camera had 5 years of storage and battery life and was left running from the factory, should canon own everything it produced? Is pushing the shutter button really the most important question?
Try the built-in Shortcuts app. It can create pseudo-apps out of many iOS settings and toggles.
Imagine if it's designed like this:

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and you're seated here

--------|-------

Uh pardon me, excuse, pardon me... to get out
> multiple initiatives have sprung up to ensure that porn is moving in a more ethical direction. For example, sites like Proof of Peach are advocates of block-chain porn which gives creators better control of their content.

Because that worked so well when we did it with money, right?
Modern parking lots always seem ripe for physical phishing, whats stopping someone from sticking up a couple of QR codes that link to a fraudulent payment page or some other malware?

This is one of those things that tech really didn't "fix" and now I have to select from one of 20 apps instead of just paying with cash or even a credit card.
> You are now claiming that they are useful when you must discard them as useless when the error is non-nil.

Is it that you've confused implementation with interfaces? I would have to reject the values if received through the TextUnmarshaler interface, which defines MarshalText, as the implementation being called then becomes unknown, and therefore may not be idiomatic. If I was knowingly working with the three concrete types mentioned above then their function is documented.

> That's odd, because you've contorted yourself into defending absurd positions based on personal definitions no one else shares, including the Go authors, just to avoid admitting you were wrong

I mean, all you have to do is show some code which is reasonably considered idiomatic that does not return a useful value when in an error state and I'll be convinced; something you agreed was pertinent and useful when you brought up MarshalText.

The slog package is definitely reasonably considered idiomatic, so you are on the right track. Now you just need to be more specific at to which MarshalText method you are actually referring to. You called attention to it for good reason, no doubt. All we need, as there is more than one, is to know which one you meant specifically. It is a little odd you didn't do that in the first place, but I'm sure it was an accidental omission.
> How cool would it be if we had a great GUI for ZFS (snapshots, volume management, etc.).

How cool would it be if we had a great TUI for ZFS...

Live in the now: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm
I'm surprised to see you downvoted because I absolutely agree. It seems like a common-sense opinion that C# and Typescript are unnecessarily verbose in comparison to F#. (I don't know Clojure so can't compare.)
> Forests shouldn't really

Forests naturally burn. In California (at least) trees have features specifically evolved to fit into an environment with periodic natural fires. There are written reports of fires in North America going back many hundreds of years, and I believe the natives experienced fires before that as well, as evidenced by cultural practices and oral history.

So you can either not manage the forests and avoid building into areas that would be affected by natural fires, or you can build into those areas but you do need to manage the forests.

Where do you get the idea that forests don’t need to be managed if we are to live in and around them? It seems like magical thinking to me.

Note that this is orthogonal to the effect a warming earth has on severity. Qualitatively, you needed to manage forests in North America 1,000 years ago, and you still need to manage them today.
I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?
It is hell even for tech savvy android though.
For some people it is. A tropical storm doesn't even shut down schools here.

Some folks are being ignorant and dismissive with "just", and some are relating their personal experiences.

I have caught myself saying "just 2 inches of rain" since we get that frequently, sometimes in an hour or two. For many people that is a dangerous and life changing amount of rain... and that can be easy to forget if it isn't for you.

tldr; hanlon's razor
I tend to read obituaries of everyday people (as opposed to the long form for famous people) when I see them. They are almost always a cruel distillation of what was certainly a far more complicated life. I think the tradition has evolved so they are written so that the people who knew them best can fill in their own memories. Especially when I don’t know the person they feel callous and lacking.
If you want to get to the point of the story, +/- summary :

An old lady in Seattle couldn't understand how to pay for parking using confusing parking apps.

The author helped her, but the process was complicated and not user-friendly.

He guided her through scanning a QR code and using parking apps, eventually helping her pay with the Park Mobile app using her credit card.
Seeing as how the entire internet doesn't still block youtube: no. It routed around it.

The quote has nothing to do with automatically and invisibly routing around censorship, e.g. a techno-system that somehow always works to oppose censorship. It's just that people will reconnect stuff eventually, bypassing any block somehow. At worst there are always sneakernets.
If a developer says "The blocker for me is IntelliJ supporting Java 21",
clearly there's an IDE dependency. Powerful enough for a developer
not to adopt a new framework.
IIRC LLMs also use common crawl data for training. Are they also blocking common crawl?

Another thing is that chatgpt 4 can do live retrieval of websites in response to users questions. That is a different crawler doing that I imagine. Are they going to block that too?
I’m surprised this is on the NYT site, as I thought it was first published in the homebrew computer club newsletter or creative computing.

I do remember that letter, not from 1976 when I was too young to grok it (or even encounter it), but from a couple of years later when it was still controversial and I was just starting to get into S-100.
If you aren't literate, life is hard.

If you aren't digitally literate, life is hard.

The problem is some people were 50 years old when the the 2nd statement became true. For nearly everyone alive, the first statement has always been true. I think the government is failing its citizens by assuming digital literacy is commonplace.
Attention is all you need!
A software engineer friend has a common refrain for situations like this: “all software is terrible.”

It is only a very slight exaggeration.
Profiting from content production is obviously not rent seeking, but this is currently coupled to content distribution which is absolutely rent-seeking. You’re charging money for something that costs nothing to distribute, what else would it be? That’s a rent absolutely.

It is a rent that secures the production aspect, but we could also have patronage models that fund the creation separately. If your game is kickstarted or you get a monthly donation to produce a video there is no need to profit from creating artificial scarcity in the distribution.
Free parking is theft
Author is a tech-savvy Android user, so no.
The iPhone has generated white noise since iOS 2015 [0]. How difference is the effect of the Spotify lists you use vs ios’ white/brown/green noise?

[0] https://www.rd.com/article/iphone-white-noise/
Sort of, if you skip the Google Ads, Google Instant Apps, Google Pay, and Google Location Services problems, which are all one company trying to collect data to use to serve ads.
Russia would fall like Iraq if we were to attack. Their ground-based anti-air would be hit as soon as even one missile is fired, every radar would be hit within minutes of powering on, their aircraft wiped out as soon as they were within range. With air supremacy we'd be able to fire a precision strike on every piece of active artillery and supply truck. They'd be left with nothing but men starving in trenches and running out of bullets, waiting for death as the sappers close in. It's a crying shame we don't send Ukraine even a tenth of our equipment.
It depends how far back your "back in the day" is.. for me, the meme bad hard drive manufacturer was IBM with their Deathstar^W Deskstar drives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
It's been pointed out elsewhere that the $40,000 of computer time referred to was largely on their utilization of government/publically-funded computers.
>At some point something had to give which is now why you have decades of Erdogan.

What gave was the usual brilliance of Brussels. The generals were plotting to kill him on national TV as they usually did, but around 2005-6 EU leaders started pearl clutching about religious freedom and how Turkey would never enter EU if not human rights or similar bullshit - so Turkey is still outside of EU, no chance of getting in, but they enjoy serious regress in freedoms, Islamization and a monkey with a wrench in charge of their economy.
I thought that was the point GP’s comment is making, but a reply to a parallel comment to yours suggests otherwise.
The tone of your oversimplification sounds like you have something against the author's opinion, which, if true, would be much better stated than sarcastically implied.

Edit: The parent has been edited since I commented.
So.. what's your argument here? That the coup didn't happen? That it wasn't backed by the US and Britain? That is was good actually?

this is the general strategy of people who don't want to face up to factual terrible things that contradict their ideology. They speak in generalities to avoid confronting any inconvenient truths.
Also, the best viewing is typically at landing and takeoff when everyone needs to be seated anyway, so I expect it'll end up as a selection of outdoor camera feeds that are available from your seat-back display.
My brand new economics textbook in college smelled like vomit. I since noticed other new textbooks now and then with the same smell.
Such a good opportunity to link to https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Seems like a good avenue for parking protests. All you need is a small buzz for people to never trust the app-based systems.
One would think this would happen pretty often, but at least my cursory search didn't turn up many specific examples of it happening in the US. I wonder why that is?
I see how that works once your neighbors have your phone number, but what about that first introduction?

> I've had neighbors come over to introduce themselves, some even with welcoming gifts when we bought the house and moved in.
I don't use spotify but I wondered how a length limit would work for some esoteric bands. Shpongle is another one with extremely long songs that wouldn't work if they were chopped up.
> My guess is that it's far more likely that major labels start their own music streaming services

They can't. Unlike movies, there's great value in back catalogs. If Die Hard isn't available on a movie streaming service you will likely not care. If Pink Floyd (or Beatles, or Aretha Franklin) isn't available on a music streaming service, a huge number of people will care.

There are ~4 big companies that control 70-80% (by different estimations) of music. But individually they own different chunks. Sony can't start a streaming service if they don't have music owned by Warner etc.
There is one already, it looks like a little ear. I get to it by swiping up and it’s next to the remote, flashlight, and calculator app icons.
BSD Now – Episode 520 “4 months BSD”
The Cascades didn't always consist of endless acres of Douglas Fir and sword ferns. As the glaciers receded, the indigenous tribes and the natural fire ecology maintained oak savanna where there is now dense forest and fuel buildup. I agree with your point, but just wanted to point out that the land was manageable before we allowed most of it to turn into forest.
I'm working for one of the top energy companies. Have a BS and MS in Geology and worked in that for over 10 years, but have since moved towards data science. My title is now data scientist but I assure you I'm no where near a FANG DS.

I started just learning python, learning and implementing Azure tools, taking more ML classes, taken bootcamps, working on projects at home, and working with auto-ML like data robot. I've only ever been able to actually implement simple analytics and basic NLP from scripts I wrote and packaged them up into PowerBI or such. Our company isn't really a tech company and it's easy to impress with simple improvements.

So I feel like a phony data scientist and that I couldn't pass a heavy duty pure data scientist interview at another company.
However, it seems so clear that there is a big need to bridge this space with a pretty good understanding of DS concepts and approaches wit subject matter expertise, plus a lot of user friendly auto-ML or Azure tools.
And it's pretty easy to get chatGPT to build boilerplate code that I can't figure out. Really not too hard to work with the OpenAI API in python. I just need a decent team to work with to help bring things into the system of production. Which is a horrible problem and mess here.

I'm sure I could float around inside this company for years but now I wonder what can I do outside? Am I a data science informed imperilment? Am I a low-level data analytics generalist?
I have a strong work ethic, great personal and project management skills, and can eventually do anything I set my mind to. I feel like any company could benefit from my skills but I don't fit the bill for hiring typical DS roles.
Product management seems like a path, although not the most fruitful if you want to actually do some work.

Maybe others find themselves in the place or have made these self-taught transitions to the grey areas. Other thoughts?
The horrors of bad urban design; solved by many competting apps.
Even easier, use a physical camera and take a very good photo of your laptop screen. You'll own the copyright of the photograph.
What you are homing in on is the problem of trust.

And yes. It is a problem. If your upstream does skulduggerous things, you can't "route around it" from the standpoint of being an endpoint. Your packets will go where your ISP says they go.

Unless...

You take a bit of the routing decision out of their hands, which takes a bit of footwork on your part. For instance, setting up a VPN to a network zone unpolluted by the faulty prefix announcement, which is basically going to be any non downstream of the hostile ISP provider.

Once you're out of that routing zone, normal network visibility is restored. Odds are even a national scale backbone provider is not going to be able to effectively block traffic that's routing out to a proxy, so all the the ISP has really done is made life more difficult for people unaware of how to set up such an arrangement.

Which now that you know about this, it is your duty to spread the knowledge of how to do so far and wide. If someone wants to block it, then that's all the justification needed for frustrating those efforts.
I love this comment. Would it be OK if I quoted this in my profile?
I paid this booth last night, wasn't even sure if they were legit