skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> With Valve's apparent "you can't sell your game cheaper anywhere else" term serving to lock in this state of affairs for Steam

It is "you can't sell Steam keys elsewhere for less", not that you can't sell the game elsewhere for less.

However I have bought Humble Bundles back in the day, and they gave me a steam key so there must be workarounds.
well, if you squint… it is to maintain optimism by softening the blow to the public.

rather than talking about a scary number increasing, e.g. the amount of people living paycheck to paycheck went up, say, 3% next year, instead we can talk about how that 40% only went down a couple points but mostly stayed the same!

two years from now, though… that’s probably free ice cream time.
I commend you for going against the grain and holding onto the stock for so long. Most people sell as soon as the options vest.

Anyway, I don't see much worrisome news about GOOG. It's true that they are not innovating and surprising us anymore, but neither is AAPL or AMZN. Good execution seems to be rewarded better nowadays than innovation. (Yes, some products are stagnating or getting worse, but some are getting better. I'm not sure there's really a trend. Also, to me, all this culture decline talk is mostly noise.)
It can be a huge difference. Say this month I only listen to a completely unknown artist. I am the only person listening (to make the calculation easy). I've listened to 10 of his songs and this is everything I've heard this month.

Now if my 7$ are distributed to all artists I've listened to this artist will now receive 7$.
If my 7$ is thrown in a global pool and split by global stream counts this artist gets almost nothing.

Of course this is a extreme example but it should illustrate why this can matter.
I was in a similar situation a few months ago, in a job that started out amazing but got worse and worse with new management and processes. I quit eventually, after all my feedback was ignored (and even covered up) for months.

Four months of unemployment later, I was almost bankrupt, but it was still absolutely the right decision to have made. My mental health would not have survived much longer.

Now I'm in a much lower paying part-time job at a smaller company, but with a wonderful team that is passionate about what they do and supportive of each other. We're very user-focused and not C-suite ego driven, and it makes all the difference in the world. Tons of consumer interactions, minimal bureaucracy, no overbearing stupidity from on high. It's a night and day cultural difference from my last job, which was cushy but joyless. I'm really happy in this new setup (gotta get more hours soon though, lol).

Life's full of tradeoffs. I could've easily coasted, but I signed up to make a difference, not check boxes. I made the decision to quit, it hasn't been easy, but it was absolutely the right call and things are getting better every day. I'm actually excited about work again.

Side note, you mentioned batteries and inverters? My last job was with a mid sized solar manufacturer Who frankly wasn't that experienced with tech work and tried to clobber together an ecosystem from different small acquihires. It... was messy, to say the least. I've never worked for a more inefficient company, in terms of bureaucratic nonsense and worthless planning. Maybe it comes with the territory (old school manufacturing vs modern software companies)?
It seems plausible you could have the LLM side call upon its knowledge of known problems and answers to quiz the q-learning side.

While this would still rely on a knowledge base in the LLM, I would imagine it could simplify the effort required to train reinforcement learning models, while widening the domains it could apply to.
It's different because if you imagine Spotify only had 2 users, Alice and Bob, and Alice listens to Indie Band X 10 times a month, and Bob listens to Megastar Y 10,000 times in a month, Y would receive almost all of the artist revenue in the current model, but in the model that GP is proposing, both artists would make the same.

Essentially A's money is going towards Y, even though she never listed to Y.

(I'm not expressing an opinion on which of these I prefer)
the greenhouse gases emitted by any conceivable transportation range are an order of magnitude less than those captured

please do the math instead of just posting bullshit without any regard to whether it is true or false

you're right about the mines tho
No. It uses research from a 2013 paper that estimated the total annual flux from volcanic sources worldwide. Search for “2013 review” in the article.
I use Tidal, mostly to support an underdog, though I'm not sure how much that reflects reality nowdays..

However, they are in the process of adding better APIs for developers to use, so at least that's a plus in my books: https://github.com/orgs/tidal-music/discussions/categories/i...

The default recommendations were pretty hip-hop-based for me, though, but nowadays it's better. I also subscribe to di.fm, which probably tells a bit about my music taste.
Christopher Nolan and Guillermo Del Toro on Owning Physical Media
The article reminded me of the old and probably obscure roman de gâre "The North Cape" by Joe Poyer. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3430608

It's set in the 60s with the pilot flying a new supersonic spy plane and dodging Soviet interceptors, eventually crashing guess where.

He goes into a lot of detail about the plane, and specifically the different modes the engines have as the speed increases, which although fictional sounds very much like what they've actually done here. I think he acknowledged help from an aerospace expert in the plane design.
Because in software we've defined an environment where every sw method of gaining privilege/escalation is hardened. As a result, usually the most reliable way to get escalation is via social engineering.

LLMs exist in an environment whose vulnerabke surface area is social engineering. How do you lock down a system against all possible social engineering?

Oh yah and the "system" isn't any computer system somewhere, it's the entire world itself.

So one of the problems the safetiests are trying to solve is How do you protect a messy system, the size/complexity of the entire world from social engineering? The answer is clearly not using traditional approaches which consistently fail.

And that's just one of the problems they're trying to solve.
I totally agree, and I even think that knowing the lore behind old games helps in keeping the interest alive.
Is there an analagous soap opera or show, or do all roads lead always to HBO'sSilicon Valley?
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a 501c3 and I'd expect that even the most techno-futurist free-market types on HN would agree that no matter what alleged impact it has, it is also in practice creating profitable overseas contracts for US corporations that ultimately provide downstream ROI to the Gates estate.

Most people just tend to go about it more intelligently than Trump but "charitable" or "non-profit" doesn't mean the organization exists to enrich the commons rather than the moneyed interests it represents.
Is that how Humble Bundle works?

That seems pretty high profile for dodgy tactics.
Awesome, thanks. I was getting some sort of version error with the game file I was trying, but https://eblong.com/infocom/gamefiles/zork1-r119-s880429.z3 did the trick (renamed to zork.iml and copied into the vm).

Also in case anyone else is new to simh, you put the files in question in a folder then run path/to/pdp11.exe wherever simh installed it. CTRL+E is how you suspend the VM and can give it further commands from a simh> prompt, then the 'c' command to continue. Once inside the pdp11 vm "DIR" to confirm the stuff you're copying actually exists.

I've actually never gotten anything like this running before, very cool.
The power of convenience is definitely more a thing than I really appreciated in the Napster era. But I also don’t think people would generally subscribe to $50 per month streaming music.
The people inside a cult are not the most trustworthy sources for what the cult is doing.
It’s the weighting. If you listen to very little music, but 1 artist, your $10 (in that scenario) would go to them.

Instead, your listening is not weighted in any special way so it goes into the global pot of money and hours listened and gets diluted by the people listening more.
"The amount of electricity needed to power these technologies would be greater than the entire world’s electricity demand today"

This is where the argument falls off. For what its worth I think they are right in the sense that relying solely on carbon capture is bad economics, but having it in the mix makes a tonne of sense. I do expect carbon capture to become more efficient over time just as much as I expect energy to become more abundant, and part of that energy budget should go towards capturing the carbon output into the environment from legacy technologies.
If you want eyes on something in the next 2 hours, why bother launching a satellite
Impression Formation
Why wouldn't a modern Napster replacement a) run on your phone and b) have music discovery? Doing both P2P is only a legal challenge (as in, it is illegal), not a technical one.
That’s not true. When IE6 launched it was definitely the fastest of its contemporary competitors. The problem with IE6 was not that it was bad at launch, but that it wasn’t touched for five years after launch, and didn’t properly disappear until 2016 or so.
No. If you listen to only a single artist for a month, your payment is still split the same way everyone else’s payment is, by total streamed numbers.

It sounds better if they artist got your entire monthly payment (after payment processors and Spotify’s fee), but probably a nightmare for accountants.
No matter how clear it is, the audio is half-duplex, meaning the small overlaps that are part of normal conversation control-flow instead make it crash and burn. Calls work fine for one way presentation or very structured Q&A, not so much for interactive discussion.
Yes, artists have the wonderful choice of being able to sign for one of three labels, with no meaningful distinction between the deals any of them offer, because that's just how oligopolies roll. And they collude^Whave deals with spotify.

Maybe spotify and the labels suck?

https://www.promarket.org/2022/10/03/why-streaming-doesnt-pa...
How many of your country's prime ministers have been assassinated, and when was the last attempt? What would be the global effect of a sudden large swing in your country's policies?

Johnson became president when JFK was assassinated. This was within forty years of an attempt on FDR's life--the bullet got the mayor of Chicago instead.
> Aspects of black culture

Are you implying pathological cultural appropriation or is there another aspect I'm missing between the lines here?

Like, black culture is part of the larger homogenous culture, no?
Maybe now Affinity Designer can introduce a tracing feature and further catch up to Adobe Illustrator.
Florida has used heat pumps for years
I don’t think that’s the case, but it would explain why the article is so bad. I genuinely have no idea what they are trying to do, but every detail is clearly wrong.
I don't agree that it is unnecessary.

I think Spotify's aesthetic and design is one of the things that keeps people from moving over to other platforms.

Nobody wants to use programmer art software. And these things are more carefully considered than most people would believe.

Granted, I have this opinion about shovelling money at podcasts creators, and I'm sure someone could tell me the same. But you know, 200mill for Joe Roegan. Ugh.
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> The information provided here is being provided as a courtesy to Roadster enthusiasts and was created during the design phase of the Roadster for research and development. It isn't manufacturer reference or repair and maintenance material, and may not accurately reflect the actual production models or parts sold. If you use this information, it's your responsibility to ensure that you follow all laws and safety protocols as we don't provide any warranties on any work done by non-Tesla personnel whether or not you use the information provided here. You also understand that if you make or design parts or create new repairs or procedures based on this information, we won't be responsible for them and they won't be genuine Tesla parts or accessories or Tesla-approved procedures.

that lengthy disclaimer sure seems to disagree with el(on) jefe.
The gamma ray burst didn't just fry things (or at least half the planet would have been completely untouched), rather it fried the atmosphere. That set in stage a domino effect. If you strip the ozone introducing ultra high UV radiation everywhere, and then life starts dying from that including plants/animal in shallow water, creatures that depend on those creatures start dying, oxygen levels start shifting, and you get this lengthy domino effect everywhere. The 15% that survived were primarily from sea life that was deep enough to not just be shielded (which doesn't need to be that deep at all), but also to have a self sustainable cycle of life untouched by the life that was affected.

And this zero sum notion of work is a bit off. Nearly all work is spent doing completely pointless to harmful tasks. Unimaginably vast sums of money and manhour are spent doing things like trying to make people watch ads they don't want to see, or far worse. Yet, somehow, this sort of 'optimization of labor' only seems to come up when talking about doing petty things like make humanity a multiplanetary species. I find it to be neither compelling nor made in particularly good faith.
That's true.

And incredible that episode when Jesse's girlfriend died :-(
Where is the discovery though? I don't follow how you got to the point where you think it's CDN's that are throttling you. For all I know it could be something like a faulty router, right?
Revenue is NOWHERE NEAR what it was - you’re neglecting to click on the graph that says “value (adjusted for inflation)”. The graph is a clear indication of an industry trying to transform itself by whatever means having been repeatedly decimated. If the entire US music industry was a company, it wouldn’t even make it into the S&P 500.
So you think he left a (very) well paying job, working on a project that he created and has been building for nine years, one that he is now working on for no pay, just because a black woman became his manager? I dare say you are subconsciously biased, perhaps consciously biased. Subconsciously biased in that you won't even allow yourself to consider the possibilty that a black woman could be a bad manager, so bad that it would cause a prolific engineer like Ian to leave, and consciously biased in that you then actively jump to resolve your subconscious bias' flaw with reality with racism.
The anti-nimbys prefer organic, bottom-up growth and detest top-down megaprojects imposed on the people, so no.
The biggest difference you'll find is that when you phone support you'll probably be having a conversation with someone who knows more about networks and routing than you do. Doing first line support.

I figure the only way this is economic is because they have a technical customer base who phone support maybe twice a decade.

Years back I had a conversation with someone who had done a couple of ISP mergers, and his opinion was that techie-focused ISPs look fantastic on paper because their support costs are really low. Then someone buys them, tries to expand their userbase to "regular" people, and their support costs fall in line with the rest of the industry (eg Demon -> Thus -> Vodafone).

So far, A&A have avoided that fate.
I agree and I see it with my own music habits. I do listen to Apple Music stuff all the time, but really there are a handful of artists I value personally and can recognise by name. Even today, I continue to buy their vinyl records not really for the purpose of listening but just because it's a cool way to support them outside of streaming.
We can capture just as well as we can recycle plastic.
I wonder what stories they don't want told
YouTube Premium for both YouTube Music and ad-free YouTube without caring for any adblocking hoops? I've been considering it. Their family deal shares price with Spotify Family here and it's much better value. Some people also claim that it offers better sound quality despite similar bitrates than Spotify. Besides, more automated mixes (even an offline mix), better recommendations, and plenty of music videos and good music video discovery.
Ask HN: What don't you like about remote work?
I've been working fully remote as a software engineer for the last 4 years and on the whole I mostly enjoy it. However, there are some characteristics of remote work that I don't like, and there are other areas of in person that I miss or find much more difficult to replicate when remote.

While reflecting on this, I thought it would be interesting to hear your opinions on what, if anything, you don't like about remote work?
I have heard this many times about many places.

It seems so perverse to a layman, so why is it apparently so widespread? Are there contexts in which it's the best system (ie. better than any reasonable alternative)?
> 1. It's cheaper to buy coffee, tea, or soda at LAX than it is to buy water itself.

It's funny how the world evolves: i always thougt at "Idiocracy" [1] as a work of fiction.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
there is a natural gas variant of that where instead of using steam in the steam reformation process to generate hydrogen and CO2 you use more of the energy contained in the gas to cook it off into atomic carbon and hydrogen. you can then bury the carbon.

I think it would be fabolous if you could use up all the natural gas that way.

If you want to know more Google "natural gas pyrolysis".
MP3 isn’t as popular due to its inherent poor quality but the iTunes Store (not Apple Music) still gives you non-DRMed AAC files (I don’t believe any lossless files are available that way).
Depends on the notation. Sometimes Q* is used to denote optimality, for example here : https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jlucas/teaching/csc411/lectures/...
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Any reason fast.com couldn’t stream a video as the test content?
Same, I've went back to Bandcamp and buying CDs (used and new) and I rip them to my storage. I also upload them to my Airsonic server. I use the Substreamer Android app to then listen on the move.

I get discovery via Youtube and some friends, but it's way less than before with Spotify. I don't mind it though, as I've always tended to listen the same artists over and over again instead of new ones.

Considering that the Airsonic server also hosts bunch of other stuff for me, I think that the cost is similar to the 12$/month cost of Spotify (6$/month + buying 5 CDs per year). Also I get to own my bought music.
The true value of music is pretty much zero, anything someone can get for the "reproduction" of their work is a plus. Now Uruguayan musicians will get the true value for their work, when Uruguayans go to the piratebay to listen to their songs.
My number one feature request for maps (Apple and Google) would be to intelligently scale labels like street names.

At the moment they don't scale at all when you zoom in. This is especially a problem with far-sightedness in outdoor situations where near-vision glasses and varifocals are often not worn.

I acknowledge that this is not as easy as linearly scaling with zoom because you also have to avoid cluttering and clashing labels, but no scaling is too simple in my opinion. When I zoom in, there is often enough room for the label to expand a little and make it readable. As a last resort there could be a zoom toggle that switches zoomable labels on and off.
Does my conflation here make any sense or have any applicabillity even tho the system is far more distributed or...I don't think I have a sufficiently robust mental model of any of this but I just don't know enough to dispute it.
The UK government is adopting a slight variant of this schema that turns it from net-neutral to net positive: have somebody else do the chopping, buy the already chopped wood, prevent the wood you bought from turning into emissions. Now you're emitting negative carbon/s.
In what world would Apple allow a piracy app on their AppStore? This may change with the EU demanding other AppStores - but as of right now it would be unworkable.
I debated even including the disclaimer. It's been ages since it was shut down, and it's been 13 years since I was even there. However, I didn't want to violate some HN netiquette by not being transparent.
Sorry about that. The maximum upload size might have been set too small. It should hopefully work now.
Doesn't really seem like an internal chess model if it's still probabalistic in nature. Seems like it could still produce illegal moves.
> Revenue is broadly in line with what it's been:

More precisely revenue has just caught up to the level it was 30 years ago
Be interesting to see how it plays out here

> days long flame wars
Illegal things are harder to do on phones because the app stores act as enforcers in a way that desktop OS vendors don’t. Most people don’t sideload or jailbreak.
> Current prices are an incredible bargain and only so because they don’t reflect the true value of the product.

Seems like many artists are okay with the price, that’s why they stream on Spotify.

There is no true value. That is indeed decided by the people who are willing to pay for it.
Consider yourself lucky, I ordered mine November 2021 and didn't get it until August 2023.
The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace
While you can do flawed things in R&D, the dangers start when people start to deploy the flawed things you did.
While I'm sure that would change things too, I'd really be interested in the vote if the employees "PPU/shares" weren't a factor. In the end, if this ends up being a struggle between the OpenAI non-profit vs the for-profit, my money is on everyone mostly voted for their wallets.
You just explained why it’s ok for a company to require employees to use a particular OS and then said “but (the requirement) is not a requirement which I don’t understand. As a prospective employee I don’t want to make “dealbreaker” demands because realistically almost any concern on my part can be solved by just paying me more money. If, OTOH there are hard requirements by the employer they should be stated (in office work etc)