skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Podcasting, like wikipedia, Linux, WWW and a few other relatively "free" objects are such an important counterexamples. There's so much to learn from all of them, like theoretical devices come to life.

The inability of big services (EG, google, apple) to monopolize or gatekeep podcasting relates directly to their failure to make money.(1) the protocol's minimal snooping options relates to the failure to implement digital adtech... and to the lack of good discovery/recommendation services. The unique freedom capabilities podcasting seems to have. The barriers(2) to entry... all so interlocked.

Spotify's big money attempt to make money off podcasting is/was all about buying exclusivity. Paying big podcasters (eg rogan) to remove their podcast from other players... podcasts spotify already had free access to. Not shocking or surprising, but instructive. They very big money... more than anyone would likely invest on podcasting proper.

The market panic when netflix realised it was in a competitive market with price pressure from both consumers and producers because competition. How are you supposed to have 50% profit margins like that! Google would rather walk away from a market than concede anything short of full price setter mode on either end.

There's this point where Peter Thiel and Karl Marx are finishing each other's sentences and drinking Rum. I'm starting to think that point is a certain type of prevailing market condition. The rest is derivative.

"Google says it plans on further increasing its investment in the podcast experience on YouTube Music and making it more of a destination for podcast fans with features focused on discovery, community, and switching between audio podcasts and video. The latter is something rival Spotify has also"

Anyone remember the "HD video race?" Online video was obviously a big thing. Bandwidth & quality were big problems receding as fast as broadband expanded. Google had an in-house video hosting service. They bought youtube. Other services still existed. Google effin plowed forward. They smoked everyone with their ability to implement HD streaming at massive scale. No one could keep up.

Now Google's PR statements refer to breakthrough features like "backgrounding video" as a multi-year effort to reach feature parity with spotify. oy.

Google can successfully do many things. The are capable of making excellent products. I think they're also capable of making many more economically viable products. However... the enormous profit margins they enjoy make anything short of monopoly pointless.

(1)Google literally sell ads on those same podcasts via youtube.
(2) At some point, "barrier to entry" goes negative. Early blogging tech lowered barriers to entry. Referring to modern social media's "barriers" feels like discussing the "challenge" of eating caramel popcorn dusted with coke.
Ask HN: Best practices for safeguarding master password in organization?
How does one protect a master password to a password manager? I am particularly interested in how this is handled in a small organization of under 10-50 people. You can share it among 2-3 top executives but ultimately doesn't there have to be someone who solely controls the changing and sharing of the password, and granting privileges? And what if that person gets fired or decides to become a malevolent actor? Is there any mechanism that would require multiple people to consent to a change in password and admin rights? Would be interested to hear how different organizations have dealt with this or if there are published industry standards on how to handle. Thank you.
Overall fair points, though I disagree with 3 since it's been integrated sufficiently (not a separate install and not a separate executable).
100% both Apple and Google should be on trial. Both the bribe giver and receiver are at fault.

Especially when the latter makes a huge hullabaloo around user privacy that the former does not support.
Oddly, I heard that quote yesterday in a youtube video...about a completely different topic.

What a curious synchronicity
>> I gave up Sublime because of memory usage, but the alternatives aren't much better. I'm getting ready to trade in my 8gb Mac for 24gb to help with this, and if I could get more without having to pony up for a CPU I don't need, I'd get 32gb, or even 64gb.

> To be fair, 8gb hasn't been quite enough for most dev work since containers and VMs became a standard way for local builds and runs.

It's 2023, and as a typical software developer, I think it's pretty reasonable to require a minimum of 16GB of RAM to just edit text. /s
For the record, 'et al' means 'and others', not 'and all the rest'.

You're free to group your favorite cryptocurrency with Bitcoin, or not, as the criticism fits.
>Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification"

Excellent 2023 terminology that we can use going forward.

I used to call it "Ballmerization", which is sadly still taking place at Microsoft in spite of the good percentage of outstanding engineers there who have always tried to work around it.
... Wait, how do you think this works? "I'm going to bring in a visitor, can everyone in parliament please give them the thumbs-up"? I mean, arguably it _should_ work like that, because "parliamentarian shows off someone who turns out to be a milkshake duck" does seem to be a recurring thing, but it is very much not how it works.
Same. I buy my hardware from airgradient, I flash ESPHome onto it, I ignore the airgradient software (sorry airgradient!).

I appreciate that they are open with their hardware, and make it seamlessly easy to do the above, and also that they provide information into the industry like with this article. So I give them my money for their hardware rather than purchasing the components separately.
> No memory is compressed unless pages are evicted due to not being used

It's the same in Windows.

You can't enable memory compression in Windows unless a page file is present (have not used Windows in 10 years, but that's what I gathered from researching the topic)
Then throttle everyone equally. Don't throttle your competitors while exempting your own subsidiaries, that is unfair.
Updates outside the quarterly feature drops on Pixels are pretty much exclusively security patches so I have no idea what you're talking about.
Yeah, I thought exactly the same thing when I watching Contact again a few months ago!

There are all kinds of fascinating places where you can gain mental leverage by thinking in higher dimensions. For example, the definition of a monoidal category, which includes various equivalences (or for a strict monoidal category, equalities), can be seen as telling you about the existence of certain 3-dimensional "sheets", 2-dimensional slices of which are equivalent (or equal) ordinary functorial string diagrams[0]. This is just a higher dimensional extension of the fact that chaining 1-dimensional slices of functorial string diagrams give you particular paths in an ordinary commutative diagram. see Marsden [1] for more on that.

Unfortunately the computer tools for generating and manipulating these kinds of topological constructs are in their infancy, which is probably why they aren't used much by mathematicians.

[0]: https://twitter.com/nathanielvirgo/status/126201964172083200...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7220v2
Oh, absolutely; I was just responding to the claim that smoke isn't filterable.

If you have an intentional fire, you can maintain your filters and run them; spot checking particulates and VOCs.

If you are worried about unintentional fires, you address that with a $40 smoke alarm, not a $6k AQM.
How are you supposed to help it if _you’re_ the authority?
I think it’s that Unity actually isn’t that big and evil that (unfortunately?) makes it so they are more likely to pay a price for their egregiousness than truly Machiavellian entities operating at world scale.

I wish the world would get likewise up in arms at being similarly abused by the likes of true industrial titans (in and out of the tech sector).
Re:2

Corporate finances are complex, but not a mystery at their base.

If you work in a public company, join your earnings calls and listen to the presentations, questions, and answers.

Nobody likes surprises -- CxOs, investors, analysts -- so you'll be amazed how often RIFs are telegraphed to anyone who's paying attention.
I think the point about separation of Music and Podcasts is an important one for me as well.

I really don't like mixing the two, they have two different use cases imo. Drives me nuts how much Spotify pushes podcasts when I just want to listen to some tunes.
Pointing any weapons at civilians is always big news. It just doesn't happen as often with conventional weapons. Based on my own experience in the information security space, targeting civilians is both encouraged and intentional by actors including the US.
By the way, we have worked with the Plantower A003 and saw much more failure rates than with the 5003 model. So I'd not really recommend it.
2023 Founder Salary Report
Do as we say not as we do.
Perplexity.ai and a whole bunch of other companies are doing this.
It's the WSJ. I'm old enough to remember when they shifted from being the stewards of the economy into a mouthpiece for the Bush side of the Republican party. Any opportunity to dunk on the Democrats will not be missed.
For my home server, I have a flat 2507 line docker-compose file that automatically configures and boots all of my 85 containers. I still have some complexity: .env files in /opt/<container>/, a systemd process that automatically runs

docker-compose -f /<dir>/docker-compose.yaml -d

on boot, and it's only a little irritating to have use absolute paths for everything instead of relative. But, after having to update all of my services manually for 3 years, I will never be able to go back.
I think the actual weight of this incident over long term will fall on whether or not Unity reports noticeable losses of revenue after this. If they don't, the industry wont care and wont learn from their mistake.

The people making these decisions dont really pay attention to anything else besides quarterly reports and stock movement, and they rarely actually know much about the industry they work in(from my observations). these are broad generalizations, there will be exceptions definitely.
It's far more likely that Apple launches their own search engine (which they're already working on) and displaces Google Search in the same way they displaced Google Maps.
In other news, A turkey did really well till a day before thanksgiving.
Understanding Htmx
LinkedIn search has a "NOT" operator. For example "software engineer NOT Affirm NOT Dice NOT Jobot"
Odd, in a sense. I've dug into more academic journals recently, than I did in the past when Google
et al, were effective and good.

For sure, the internet is entering it's
daytime TV and stale soap operas phase, like television did.

Half of everybody will probably abandon ship for more exciting content elsewhere.
A stretch? Nearly every single outlet was clinging to the notion that Trump's victory was the result of russian interference in the election. Even after the investigation showed like, $150k? in ad spend associated with russia netting a laughable few million "impressions" on facebook.

Where have you been the last 8 years?
Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States
Google care about ads. Search has lots of, android dont.
Do you have a link to your NixOS router config? Been thinking of doing this for a while but never got round to it.
Furthermore, a 180 implies that you go the other way onwards. As in: they pay you to use Unity. Which of course is ridiculous, just like the headline.
This is the sort of thing that will have a LARGE impact on the ecosystem for updating from one JDK to the next.

One of the big headaches we see with moving up JDK version is bytecode generation/manipulation libraries choking on newer versions of the JDK. It's generally a simple update, but sometimes it's not (for example, when someone is shading asm).

Having bytecode generation as part of the JDK will mean all libraries, including asm, can migrate to that and benefit from a perpetually supported API that updates as the JDK does.

This is probably 80% of the headaches I've experienced going from the likes of Java 11 to 17 and 17 to 21.
This has happened many, many, many times throughout history. What happens is the status quo is shifted, usually via revolution. All people are doing is identifying the stressors causing the next big revolution. Society will endure because we're social animals. The power structure will be different. You'd think those in power would be wary of this, but throughout history they always seem to be caught by surprise.
I don't really see a problem with this. Bandwidth is finite and if you have a little more money, you should be able to pay for it.

The alternative is that everyone has data caps
Wait -- I'm genuinely curious -- does that mean that data-throttling plans from mobile providers do not exist in California? All the plans I see (in New York) say things like "unlimited but video will be SD instead of HD" which seems a frank violation of the principle of net neutrality (not to mention a bit of a technical marvel).

Are these plans legal in California, or is the California law not sufficiently specific to rein in this kind of thing?
Or someone may have postulated that people would quit over this change, and that wasn't considered a deal breaker at the time. Depending on how cynical we feel, they may have viewed people quitting as a positive; people who won't play ball with the new vision leave the company.
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Which specific inefficiencies would they be forced into as common carriers? Would they be ones I'd notice as a customer, or merely vague "reduced incentive to innovate"?
You don't understand how the HF industry works. If his benchmark (HFRI Event Driven) returned 4.47% annualized from 2007 to 2023 and he averaged 11.1% then it is literally anywhere from an "amazing" to an "extremely exceptional" hedge fund.

Put it another way: Over the last 16 years, you have more than twice the money if you were with him all the way as opposed to with the "average" event driven fund(represented by the index).

There are some particularities due to how HF indexes work(you submit performance voluntarily etc) but these numbers are literally exceptional.
It should have been clear enough from reading the abstract of Khan's law review note https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p.... Quote: "This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust policy--specifically pegging competition to “consumer welfare,” defined as short-term price effects—-is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy." In other words, the current law is wrong, and it should be this other way instead.

Courts, especially U.S. District Courts, apply the law as it is, not the law as the FTC chair wishes it to be. If I was a hedge fund manager with a law degree, I would draw the same conclusion, and make similar bets.
I think this take is a little overtorqued. Like, yes, this has caused more people to pay attention to Godot. But for those of us with upcoming projects in the next year, we’re all just gonna have to train up on Unreal because Godot is years away from parity with the big engines. So really the outcome here is going to be that Epic/TenCent is going to massively consolidate the gamedev market.
Is there any literature on what kind of attacked are possible apart from ASAT & cyberattack on satellite?
Sure, but much like the high seas, Space-X trying to acquire the space version of a "modern missile destroyer" will likely violate many laws, so their ability to "defend themselves" will be fairly limited.

Could they on paper start launching satellite destroying drones into space? Yes. Would the US military and political apparatus ever allow them to do so? Absolutely not (unless they're launching them FOR the government).
You don't need to build a game engine, though. Just build a game. Game engines exist basically to be able to reuse code across the development of many games.

If you don't worry about writing an engine, and just write games without one, then as a side-effect you'll also be developing the core of an engine that's more specifically optimized for the sort of work that you actually do.

Eventually, it may become advantageous to make that into a formal engine, or it may not. Either way, you're still creating games.
I would like to respect Oz decision to close the issue and his desire to see gameface succeed. For those that are uninformed please read the issue.

Imoroney what can we do as a community? This project is still in need of a measure of Google support to be handed off to the community. The project needs fostering to develop community lead maintainers.

This project could be useful as a library, not just as a front end. Accessibility must scale to its users needs. For instance, integrating with speech recognition, eye tracking, and other peripherals allows people to have the most interaction with their environment.

I for one would love to work on hooking into gameface with C#, python for integration alongside grammar based speech recognition.
Russian translation would have been quite useful
Not only this, but a user who understands how to switch their default search to Google is likely not being fooled into clicking on search ads anyways.
This response is becoming so tiresome
Your way of thinking is how we get into useless campaigns like stopping plastic straws.
I second this. Sublime text is one of the faster text editors out there. It boots fast enough that I use it as my go-to notes app.
It's also mentioned in the article body:

> Until now, about 80 different PET-degrading enzymes were known, most of which were found in bacteria or fungi.
I haven't been following closely and find the rest of the paragraph good to know, if not entirely reassuring.

> The free Unity Personal will stay free, and the revenue ceiling above which users must upgrade to the next tier has been raised to $200,000. And above $1 million, users will be able to choose between a per-user fee or a 2.5% revenue share, whichever is lesser.

If this was the first and only news delivered with the users' concerns in mind, none of this would be such a big deal--that whole retroactive version value extraction play was going too far. The net effect is that the current crop of near-completion Unity-based games may be completed and supported with the now current version.
> In Finland and AFAIK all Nordics, all invoices must be VAT inclusive. If you are selling up until 15k EUR year you can do it VAT free, which is too small to be considered a professional business. Alternatively if you are selling services outside the EU (freelancing internationally).

There's also VAT reverse charge for invoices when selling goods & services between EU countries where you don't include VAT on the invoice.
These last a long time, FWIW. >1 year at surprisingly high flow rates.

https://terra-bloom.com/collections/carbon-filters
I've got AT&T fiber in Texas and yes there are also no caps. I was speaking of their mobile service.

I'm not sure if they still do this zero rating or not now that they no longer own the TV service.
It breaks them down into their atomic components and enables bacteria that can straight up digest plastic. The issue from this is that we rely on plastics not being degradable for a lot of the properties we use it for. Imagine if bugs got this enzyme in their gut bacteria, and started eating the food wrappers instead of just nibbling through them. Plastic used to seal sterile equipment in medical settings or for implants? Useless. The plastic waste would only last a few years relative to the decades+ now, but it would also ruin plastic's ability to seal stuff, which is why we use it.

Overall, probably a good thing to reduce our reliance on plastic, but it will come at a cost, it's not just "we can dump plastic in the ocean now"
How much of Wikipedia Wil eventually become AI generated? I don't mean through an official integration like Quora, but how do you stop someone from using ChatGPT and submitting it as a user edit? What if they see that their favorite artist or tv show or flower is a stub article and ask ChatGPT to extend the article?

Facts on Wikipedia are supposed to have a verifiable reference, but most articles don't follow that rule.
I think this conflates logic and mathematics. Some would dispute that logic underpins mathematics. Counting can be analyzed logically, but it does not in any meaningful sense seem to depend on logic.
How many resources would be taken away from which issues?
Slowing human aging is now the subject of serious research
"Modern HTML and JS APIs" were designed by Chrome for Chrome, so unsurprisingly work better on Chrome.
I recognize the sarcasm in your first sentence, but I am not super hopeful. The question is always, "so now it breaks down...into what? And what happens to that?". If that gives rise to the equivalent of some kind of algal bloom that then kills off other life, it might actually be worse than the microplastics themselves.

I for one do not hold out hope for recycling plastics. We had more sustainable materials in the past, and in places we still do that. For example, reusing beer bottles with the Pfand system in Germany, or milk bottles, crates, durable packaging. We're still going backwards with this consumerist throwaway culture.
https://www.purecycle.com/who-we-are. ?
Ahem ahem, that is the theory, yes. Not what I and many others are seeing practically. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPIGDSY_xBs
The dumbest thing about Microsoft's "no game sharing" fiasco was that they let it be PR spun into "no game sharing" and people remembering that fight that way. It was never about no game sharing: it was about building a robust digital game sharing system (because Microsoft knew digital game sales were already the majority).

The original Xbox One plan would have been an unprecedented amount of support for digital game sharing. They were working on something a lot like "Steam Family Sharing" but taken to an extreme: you didn't have to prelink Xbox libraries with your friends and manage a "family" of accounts, you just "email your buddy" a loan of a game you owned. You could even sell it to your buddy directly there in your game library while they were borrowing it (and Microsoft would get a small cut).

Microsoft's mistake was tying all these new digital game tools system-wide to physical purchased games too. They decided that discs would just be digital unlocks and disc loans/resales would have to go through the same digital system as every other game. (Similar to Steam making all Half-Life 2 sales just Steam unlocks; but Microsoft's mistake was making it console-wide rather than just their own games.) They thought it would be easier (for themselves, and conceptually for users) to manage one combined system of digital loans/resales than the confusion of mixed cases like someone buying a disc for the base game but then a bunch of DLC through the digital store.

When the physical stores went angry that physical copy resales would need to be tracked in Microsoft's digital systems and resold through that and that Microsoft would get some or all of their cut, they spun the whole plan as "no game sharing" and won on that PR. But that original plan would have been the largest game sharing system on any digital goods platform if it actually had been delivered as promised. It's just incredibly sad that Microsoft didn't figure out a better answer to that "hybrid" problem, didn't have a great PR fix for the spin from the pawn shops that at the time still owned too much of the game sales market, and had to kill the digital game sharing system in its infancy to "fix" the physical disc resale "problem".