skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you remove the label from the equation Spotify payouts are nowhere close to being enough to support an artist.

1,000 streams on Spotify nets the artist $2.38 in payouts [0]. For an artist to earn $60,000/year that means that they would have to accumulate roughly 25,000,000 streams on Spotify.

And that's assuming that you're a single person with 100% of the publishing and mechanical rights to your record. If you're a band, divide that by the number of band members or songwriters. Less the productions costs, less promotional costs, less expenses for equipment, less your manager's cut, etc. It goes on and on.

[0]: https://soundcamps.com/spotify-royalties-calculator/
> I have to question to the value of looking over existing papers given the current replication crises, is using an LLM to review existing papers just going to enable us to do more bad science faster? Does that do anything for us?

I think the problems with replication are a separate axis to the problem that there is too much being published for anyone to actually read.

AI in general — never mind LLMs, even the much ones running search engines — help with the content overload.

> This sounds basically of just asking a GPT to suggest ideas for experiments?

I think the car analogy here is that if what you've suggesting was google maps, what the article is suggesting is Level 5 autonomy with no steering wheel and an opaque wall instead of a windscreen.

I have absolutely no idea how hard such a level of automation might be to actually implement, not least because of Moravec's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox
Is the bitcoin "government"-equivalent competent? My impression is that it's not, because Satoshi basically left control of the software & network (and thus currency) in the hands of a bunch of randos of questionable competence. The result was all the infighting over stuff like block size changes. It hasn't collapsed at least...
There are paid, non open source forks that support console.

Actual godot does not, and never will.

From their own docs:

“ Godot does not officially support consoles (save for XBox One via UWP) currently.

The reasons for this are:

To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. Godot, as an open source project, does not have such a legal figure.
Console SDKs are secret, and protected by non-disclosure agreements. Even if we could get access to them, we could not publish the code as open-source.
Consoles require specialized hardware to develop for, so regular individuals can’t create games for them anyway”
I wonder if Apple knew about this, or have been blindsided by this - having just teamed up with Unity for Vision (although mostly just because they hate Epic).

Either way it’s interesting.
Well, guess what, transformer is also a "traditional" SVM that assigns a 0-1 label: https://openreview.net/forum?id=U_T8-5hClV

It is interesting that you have cited this paper but did not even correctly acknowledge their contribution. Yeah I get all that "they are doing X and we are doing X+1" narrative, but the fact that you have defined "good" tokens by multiplying Y_i to your head function, is not much different than "assigning 0-1" label to inputs in traditional SVM. Your "Y_i" essentially serves as a 0-1 label in SVM.

Sounds like a mind game of re-branding existing concepts lol.
You forgot to get yourself paid.
For what it's worth, here's what Moroney is saying:

"I’m out on vacation right now, and will respond when I get back. But these allegations are completely untrue, and massively distressing to me, and to others."

https://twitter.com/lmoroney/status/1702695501542597080

How convenient he's on vacation right now. Why didn't he respond sooner if it's all untrue?

(Also why am I not surprised to see this guy paid for a blue check...)
Someone posted me a pdf in the last year! Online even! (But posted!)
LVT also encourages nimbyism from people who don't want to move. If the value of their land goes up they have to pay more taxes, so they're incentivized to ban anything new from being built.
I'd guess that it would take more energy to send all of the samples to a central server over an IoT network (which are optimized for infrequent, very small messages) than to calculate a position fix locally.

Maybe it might be worth it for a complete "from scratch" GPS fix (where the receiver needs to figure out where it approximately is and needs to re-download the complete GPS almanach and ephemerides), though – I have no idea how short a server-side-decodeable sample actually is!

But since we're talking about a network-connected device anyway, I'd guess that downloading the ephemerides via the IoT connection (single-digit kilobytes) would be much more economical in that case too.

Maybe as an analogy, consider local vs. cloud QR code decoding: If you can manage to send a single, shart photo of the code, the cloud might be better, but since you can't actually be sure when the camera is pointed at the code and not moving, you might need to take a minute-long video, and look for the one non-blurry frame on the cloud.

Edit: Just saw the other comment – apparently we're talking about a short video moreso than a small JPEG :)

And here's an interesting research paper on the topic: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
What company hasn't reminded their employees not to comment on ongoing litigation in public? This entire story seems so forced, with outlets seemingly pretending that they don't know their headlines are implying ionizing radiation.
It’s all buried in soot. Mining is not free. You have to dig to the bottom of a big pile of fossil fuels to find one.
This was always going to be the natural outcome. Each company knows that the IP they own is key, and why Netflix started making originals vs. having to constantly pay higher prices everytime Friends was set to be renewed.

Now each service wants to own and control their own content and we have just a new version of cable tv that is streaming based, with less commercials, but is going to cost more overall due to lack of ad revenue subsidies.
Wouldn't just using the iOS beacon have sufficed?

Regardless the project looks very cool and informative.
Retool blames breach on Google Authenticator MFA cloud sync feature
Parquet is a level better than csv but difficult to get customers to adopt and transmit in that format.
Well, the existing product already has critical mass, a new product - like the various Instagram clones, then the various Tiktok clones, then the various Twitter clones - all have to acquire their own customer base.

That said, other point: Why not just accept you're no longer growing? The company would've stayed solvent for years yet, with a steady group of users coming in and out over time as the brand becomes synonymous with thoughtful dating profiles instead of the rapid fire hot-or-not that is Tinder.
If the voters are humans (or computers instructed by humans, which simplifies to the same thing) then obviously yes.
> How are the elements of this sequence related

They are not necessarily related

> And why are we only interested in the elements where the index n/m goes to infinity?

If the sequence is finite, then we don’t really care to discuss the “limit” of the sequence.

> Loosely speaking, saying that a Hilbert space is complete means that it contains all of its limits.

For a set S to not contain all of its limits means you can have an infinite sequence of points (a_n) where each a_n is in S and there is no point a in S so that the sequence is eventually as close to a as you’d like.

More formally, there does not exist a in S so that for any e > 0 we can pick an M so that m > M implies | a_m - a | < e.

You can see how “m > M” gives a formal meaning to “eventually,” and “for any e > 0 … | a_m - a | < e” gives a formal meaning to “as close to a as you’d like.”
The U in USB stands for Universal. Doing everything is explicit in the name itself. And compared to how we connected things 15 years ago it's certainly master of all.
> Simple file downloads and CSV files are fantastic. I wish more folks would publish data in simple formats like this.

The document format doesn't seem to have much to do with the problem. I mean, if the CSV is replaced by a zipped JSON doc then the benefits are the same.

> Every time I have to fill a "shopping cart" for a US government data download I die a little.

Now that seems to be the real problem: too many hurdles in the way of a simple download of a statically-served file.
Pretty much. USGS’s EarthExplorer requires a login just to download free files https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

There are other ways to access the data on here, but they’re fragmented. It’s nicely organized here so it’s a bummer they make it hard to programmatically retrieve files once you find what you’re looking for.
Essentially, a number of parties recently have decided their opinions can't win democratically so as a result they will overturn democracy.

The crazy thing is how openly they are telling about it, or how so many of their supporters or those in the fence are denying that is they playbook even when their groups "thought leaders" are openly saying that is their plan. It's this weird partnership of typical authoritarianistic "the ends justify the means", and the naive "yah that's just their rhetoric, but they won't actually do what they're saying they'll do."

There are a ton of parallels with early 20th century happening right now worldwide. Including the growing inequality that leads to societal instability due to a recent technology revolution, and groups feeling that "anything is justified now" because of past actions.

We are literally one economic down turn from the stones of democracy beginning to fall worldwide.

And when everyone looks back at history books and says "How did they let this happen? How did noone see it coming?", it's exactly this. People openly shouting their plans, and others having a combination of thinking it's worth destroying institutions to get what they want, people in denial of what's happening via boiling the frog, and others unable to imagine it could ever happen in their part of the world because those things happen elsewhere.

This is the most dangerous time for democracy since the 1930s and I'm hoping people appreciate what they can lose before it's gone.
Who was it that said if you skip ads then you're stealing the content?
+1 for the Apple TV mention. I gave up and ordered one to use Infuse, might try out Swiftfin first though, for my Jellyfin setup. It’s always trade offs with the official Jellyfin clients, can’t get everything working 100% of the time with the same setup. I have an Android TV and keep having to switch between LibVLC and ExoPlayer depending on what I’m watching, not to mention the numerous bugs and clunkiness. Like for some reason I can’t wrap my head around, ExoPlayer Jellyfin can’t play ASS and has to transcode the whole file while ExoPlayer Plex can. When you seek before waiting for a previous seek to finish and start playing you end up with a broken stream where the local progress bar and time doesn’t correspond to what’s actually shown on screen. After trying Infuse on my phone, it seems exactly the kind of “just works” I’m looking for.
Show HN: FilterHN
The long term vision (https://gearsyfounder.substack.com/p/informal-business-plan-...) here is to provide you with a personalized feed. So that you could say things like "show me less posts about politics" or "show me more posts about front end web development".

But right now it's just a redesign of HN. I'd love to hear whether you guys think.

Notes on some design decisions I made:

1. Mobile design where it's easy enough to click things.

2. Larger font; more space.

3. Professional color scheme and font (from https://www.refactoringui.com/ and https://practicaltypography.com/concourse.html).

4. Don't show the author or time since submission (it's visible if you hover over the karma or if you go to the show/comments page of the submission). The more stuff on the screen, the more it takes away from the content you truly want to see: submission titles.

5. Link to HN for features I haven't gotten to yet.

6. Make "More" link more prominent and visually interesting.

7. Otherwise lean towards keeping the original design and personality of HN.
If a pawn moves then you can't repeat a state either, can you? So track the last 75 "moves".

> they can only move forward, except in the case of en-passant

En passant still attacks forward, into the space the enemy pawn just moved through.

> 112 pawn moves without a capture (because there are only 16 pawns and they can only move forward

But pawns can't move through pawns. ~~At most I think you can have 4 of the pawns march all the way forward and get captured, leaving you with with 4 pawns that can move 6 spaces and 8 pawns that can move 7 spaces, for a total of 80 pawn moves without a capture.~~

Okay, if you sacrifice a bunch of other pieces to pawns, then you can get them to pair up without losing any. So that's 8 pawns moving 6 spaces, and 8 pawns moving 7 spaces. 104 pawn moves in a row without a capture.
I honestly don't know how the Big 3 will be able to fiscally handle the UAWs demands all while tooling up for an EV future. They'll have to raise prices of existing profitable vehicles (trucks & crossovers) in order to pay for all this. Meanwhile Tesla will be miles ahead in terms of technology and room to lower prices while still turning a profit, and if any of their foreign competitors are able to successfully come up with an attractive EV crossover (admittedly a big if), then they could be in for some real trouble.
> Merriam-Webster: The meaning of political is of or relating to government, a government, or the conduct of government.

Also, there is no such "voting on which branch to use", I'm not sure what you are referring to or if you're mixed up with another cryptocurrency. In Bitcoin, the valid branch is the one with the most proof of work. There is no concept of voting.
“To the rich, parking fines are just price tags” [1]

While annoying for Google, this is a mosquito bite.

Google Annual Revenue:
$279,800 Million

And today they’ll be fined:
.. .. $93 Million

It’s about “an hour” of their annual income.

At these prices it’s pretty much worth it to be pulling all sorts of unethical moves. This is not even the price to play but rather the price if you get caught.

1. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a6/06/ec/a606ec5c539472182cf126226...

2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...
I think you’re grossly trivializing the effort needed.

Let’s take art as an example. Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s targeted to explicit engine behaviour. It’s symbiotic with the code. You can’t just go from Unity’s universal pipeline to Unreals.

And code is even harder. Forget language choice for a second, but logic itself is very tied to the engine. Unity’s monobehaviour architecture is very different to how one would write it in Unreal or Godot. That’s not even getting into engine specific optimization.

what might be fast in one render pipeline will be slow in another. Scheduling is different.

Also many developers rely on third party tools that aren’t engine agnostic either.
curl -s https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip \
| gunzip \
| sqlite3 ':memory:' '.import /dev/stdin stdin' \
"select Date from stdin order by USD asc limit 1;"

SQLite can read and write zip files.

https://sqlite.org/zipfile.html

Is it possible to use sqlite3 instead of gunzip for decompression.
I was thinking the quote should have been: CFO thinks we deadbeats should profit from the work of someone's grandparents"

Because a lot of the content out there is from shows made in the 20th century. And a lot of the better content imo...
Books for Game Developers
As someone unfamiliar with graphic novels, can you recommend some good ones that have more "adult" themes? I don't mean porn, but like storylines that are more interesting than bam bam pow pow. Maybe more like a typical novel than a comic aimed at younger readers, if that makes sense?
I was really happy about the first one, "spontaneously", including the quotes, this is such an apt description!

Alas, for me it seems to occur mostly on eye movement/focus change.. which happens to happen... spontaneously
There are numerous summaries of that right available here: https://www.google.com/search?q=california+right+to+unsubscr...
Why?

Not disagreeing, just curious. My Pixel 6 Pro seems fine, but I don't have much to compare it to.
Yes, it can. If your Synology model can run docker, running a minio instance is a good option.

https://kopia.io/docs/repositories/
french elite tries to educate big US company after failed colonizarion. (I am french)
Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI
>If they can't reproduce, then feeding them actually reduces the harm they cause because they won't need to go out hunting for food.

That's completely unfounded speculation and wishful-thinking.

Would you like for cats to deposit their parasite-laden (human-infecting, incurable) feces in your herb garden, where your children play, or directly outside of a window you need for ventilation? If so, than there are certainly others who would not. Basic decency demands that you don't facilitate this.
Google nears of release of end of Gemini AI
It was a pretty great time to be alive.... for the 4-5% that weren't slaves
Imagine if someone came along and bundled all the streaming services into one.
So your argument breaks down to "once I get access to the closed source console SDKs and spend money for devkits, I will need to use a closed source fork of Godot to ship my closed source app on consoles"? What is the alternative? The console vendors do not allow console ports to exist in the open.
The ban was in late 2018. Tumblr monthly unique visitors dropped 41% in 2019, from 512m to 370m. You be the judge.
I would say almost all do, especially the larger ones. Looking at you wells fargo with your tabbed and nested record csv's.
We are still quite far from being able to implement these kinds of things at scale.

For the literature review piece the key problem is that LLMs are exquisitely bad at working with even the simplest kind of scientific evidence: citations [1, 2]. They will get better, but it is not clear that LLMs can deal effectively with the very sparse kind of evidence that appears in the literature. Also, generating hypotheses isn't exactly the rate limiting step, the bigger issue tends to be when you get people with pet projects/hypotheses in positions of power that dictate funding priorities (e.g. the decades long Alzheimer's Aβ disaster).

For automation and instrumentation of labs the vision is on point and there is interest, and active work, if not large amounts of funding, to bring that vision to reality [3, 4, 5]. However, we simply don't have the tooling needed to be able to express the full complexity of experimental protocols in a way that can be verified. Sure you can write a python script to control a robot, but it is exceptionally difficult to extract the scientific meaning from that.

My PhD work was to develop a formal language for scientific protocols, and I'll be continuing to develop it, but there is still a long way to go.

1. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39238
2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcpdig.2023.05.004
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXiVOmaVSo&t=865s
4. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2020.2995323
5. https://ccc.ucsf.edu/sites/ccc.ucsf.edu/files/Marshall_W_CCC...
I wonder if they will find more evidence of the lunar dot motif

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cave+painting+lunar+dots+animal+fe...
You can compress that JSON with a pre-trained dictionary and get a massive discount.
Arguing for unit testing, is the worst?

Come on, look in the mirror.
> Someone who valued it more than us got to use the vehicle. Was that greed?

You sold it because you could get more money for it. That’s what greed is - you chose more money. You could make the case that you weren’t behaving immorally -not everything in life has to be a charity- but you acted out of a selfish desire for more money.

I’d also argue that “value it more” is pretty flimsy. Yes in a shortage the buyer clearly needed a car and was willing to spend more to acquire it instead of waiting for prices to drop. But you clearly didn’t value it beyond the 2019 price based on your stated desire to sell then, it was just an inconvenient transaction.
Who could afford the upfront costs of fighting this stuff for years, even if you claw it back at the end?
Bertrand Russell – The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed
Agree, clickbait headline.

A more dispassionate (and informative) newsletter I like about the economics of Hollywood is https://entertainment.substack.com
1984, Orwell: ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’
Yep. Regardless of whether it is positive or negative, you don't want your general employees commenting on the safety of the companies products. On such sensitive topics, you want to leave the floor open to SMEs and recognized industry experts.
This author has a habit (in this posts and prior posts) of the content of the paragraphs not connecting the dots for the claims made in the headings.

> Rust is (over)hyped

Whether it is or isn't, the content of the following paragraph does not justify the heading. It cites the StackOverflow surveys that says people like Rust and then cites adoption, but doesn't connect these points. It's possible for something to be hyped but not adopted much if it's new-ish.

The heading itself is also unclear. Is the author saying "overhyped" or "hyped"? Pick one.

Additionally, the author doesn't connect this heading to the overall article. They should explain why something being (over)hyped means you should not pick it.

> Rust projects decay

The rest of the paragraph talks about the Rust release cycle but doesn't connect the dots to why this causes Rust projects to decay.

Any Rust code written after the v1.0 release is guaranteed to compile forever. If you upgrade your compiler by 30 versions your code will still compile. A new release of Rust doesn't mean you have to drop everything you're doing and upgrade. If you want to upgrade once per year, you can do that.

The same points were raised on the author's previous article ("Programming Languages are Platforms") which was another article that raises points in the headings that are not described further in the paragraphs.

> Rust is still beta (despite the 1.0)

This paragraph says "related to the point above" but it's not related. In this section they say that Rust is missing features (it is) and in the previous section they were implying that it's bad that Rust is adding features.

This heading is also obviously intentionally inflammatory. If Rust not having async Traits makes it "beta", would the author have considered Go to be "beta" for 10+ years when it didn't have generics. Generics as a feature are *much* more integrated with fundamental parts of the language and cause ecosystem churn & split. See also Java and C#.

(For the record, I wouldn't consider either of those situations to be "beta" and think the suggestion is preposterous)

> The standard library is anemic

Meh, "anemic" is a pretty inflammatory word and I wouldn't go that far. It's intentionally bare bones to avoid bad design decisions that can't be removed in the future and so far that's been pretty successful.

Does the Go standard library even have map/filter yet?

It seems like this author's idea of a non-anemic standard library is that it has a builtin HTTP server. They also suggest in other articles that Rust needs to have a builtin templating language as well. They suggest that not having this builtin leads to bugs, as if a standard library can't have bugs as well? The link between these points is tenuous at best.

> async is hard

These paragraphs are pretty good.

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All in all, it's a provacatively written article that's sure to generate discussion, and especially discussion unrelated to the article itself, but unfortunately there's little to no logical flow in the points that it's trying to make.