skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, as a musician who recently released a record via both decentralized and legacy services:

I'm seeing so many people in this thread ask why this is happening, eg - is it just greed?

And it seems to me that the answer is very simple: the silly state-propped notion of "intellectual property" has caused an almost unfathomable cottage industry to rent-seek around it.

Have you been to Nashville lately? I'm headed there Monday. And I love a lot of things about Nashville - especially the lovely collaborative bluegrass vibes of East Nashville and Madison. But as much as it's a music town, it's a finance town, and it's depressing how palpable this is. Much of the skyline are bank skyscrapers - literal artifacts of decades of vampiring music profits away from struggling musicians.

The system of copyright is basically, "if you acquire my music through any means other than the legitimate one, I can call the cops to stop you, violently." And believe me when I tell you: none of us have that view of our music or our fans.

Make all bits copyable. No such thing as an illegal number. And watch as the crony systems of UPC/ISRC/CdBaby/Streaming retreat, while massive archives of stellar music, available for free everywhere, bloom. In such an environment, it will be much easier from musicians to make a living, not only from direct contributions from fans, but from our live shows, merch, etc. Obviously something also needs to be done about ticketmaster also, but that's another discussion (that is still unresolved decades after Pearl Jam gave such eloquent and spot-on testimony in congress).
We absolutely can, it's just easier to start from a distro image, install everything you might need, build the software, and call it a job done.

Multi stage images into a scratch final stage fix this, but you have to care about the problem first, and many people don't. Software with many unpredictable dependencies also makes it harder (it's a lot harder to make a really thin image if your program is python, for instance, than if it's compiled).

Edit: actually reading TFA, it's a really good description of the issue. It focuses on nix, but the problem and difficulties are much more general.
I mean if we want to be pedantic, the buffer has to be copied from main memory into whatever the HW uses for staging to generate the PHY signal. But that’s typically an DMA operation not an CPU memcpy. Even with io_uring though, afaik there’s inevitably a memcpy to create the sk_buf to hand off to the network driver no? I’m more fuzzy on how that stuff works but I don’t think the sk_buf is implemented as a list of iovecs.

You could go the DPDK route but that has downsides of your application needing exclusive access to the network interface. AFAIK, any network stack that supports multiple simultaneous applications typically involves at least 1 copy but I could be off.
> I've also debated just starting to mail checks in envelopes

What about downloading music normally and buying merch?
Your spelling of the word “chequebook” makes me think you aren’t American, so it could be a cultural thing but checks are readily available and still somewhat commonly used for large purchases and rent payments in my experience.
The Bandcamp weekly podcast (now bandcamp radio) was (is?) great for discovery.
That error you got the first time means your query contains words that triggered the OpenAI content filter.

I agree with the other comments on the hallucinations in the content, hence why I did include a disclaimer at the bottom of every page. This project is something I did to just test out the idea of an encyclopedia-like UI on GPT.
55% of Americans wrote a check last year.[0]

I get being adamant, and I couldn't agree more -- i'd have to be really convinced to mail a check, but let's not act like it's unheard of.

[0]:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/almost-half-americans-not-wri...
Then you obviously only learned about them from Fox News themselves. They are very much not frivolous lawsuits, and the information contained within them more than made a rock solid case.
"Small amount of isopropyl alcohol (cleaning fluid) was trapped in a sensor dead leg & ignited in flight"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1252985622219960327
>Beginnings of support for ARM64EC target.

I'm so ready for this.

Windows has a compatibility layer for x64 applications on ARM. If Wine can utilize this it'll be a game changer.

IMO I don't think x64 is a good mobile platform. I'm waiting for a ARM Steam Deck that has something like Rosetta built in.
California is drought-free for first time in years. What it means
I am very good at googling and other online resource discovery, but that is no replacement for a knowledgable practitioner pointing you towards known good, high quality online resources. You don’t know what you don’t know. "Unknown unknowns."

I will even pay subject matter experts when necessary to bootstrap the research and autodidact process. There is no speed limit when learning, but rails and direction have value until you have enough foundation in a domain. I will absolutely let someone teach if they’re willing to set me on the right path, one of the reasons this forum is so valuable: highly knowledgeable people willing to bestow knowledge for free. And asking is mostly free (assuming you are polite and receptive).
> it will be much easier from musicians to make a living

Do you really believe this? My fear: if I can get an AI, personally reactive, front-seat simulated concert in my living room (with my friends), what value does supporting the artist provide beyond personal connection? The latter is a real market. But it reduces artists to something closer to baristas than what they are now.
There are a lot of open questions here but yes I hope my kids and grandkids would be afforded the same rights as native Turkmen.
this one absolutely is though - people were happy using bandcamp to directly pay for music but the owners got greedy and sold the site
> doesn’t want to learn how windows services work, they just want to do their work

Is that actually true or is the company just so focused on short term metrics that it actively discourages this behavior?
The neat thing is, you're not actually conscious, you just think you are.

Well, you think you think you are.

Think you think you think you think you... and yep, this is what we call consciousness.

I finished reading Strange Loop recently, I think 'Being No One' by Metzinger is more pithy though.
Haikus about Effective Altruism
tildes.net makes the internet great again
Installing another browser is way easier than changing the search default.
A thing that always comes to mind with these kind of news is the claim that octopi have comparable effects from MDMA as humans. For anyone that have an overview of evolutionary history that should be interesting to say the least.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=octopus%20mdma

Another interesting source I have found lately is this talk by Nicholas Humphrey (How did consciousness evolve?). If I'm interpreting him right, being a crab is nothing. The experience of "something" evolved a couple of hundred million years ago at the earliest, in our lineage. Assuming he is right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QWaZp_2I1k&t=2064s
I usually download the FLAC just because space is cheap but I would be fine with just 320kbps MP3, I can’t tell a difference between them and MP3 is basically universal.
Since mice are mostly herbivores (they do eat insects and worms and stuff, but apart from that mostly grain, seeds and plants), I wouldn’t really expect them to thrive eating large quantities of an amino acid found mostly (in decently large quantities) in meats anyway… So don’t put too much stock in this being directly applicable to humans.
If the wall is going to move a little shotcrete ain't going to stop it.
The only ones that I know of which do so are Planarians [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarian
I disagree. Use value is useful. Consider that in modern countries, energy is less than 5% of GDP, as is agriculture, and domestic water less than 1%. If you only take into account exchange value, you're missing that information. Production value is useful too. It explain the production cost. Crude oil production value is very low, but it's exchange value is high.

I will say that sign value is sometimes declined from exchange or production value (it's pricy/handmade, hence a good status symbol), but I like to use it because I find it useful to understand the price of representation (and it triggers some Marxists)
There’s so much good dialog in Aliens that I’m always amazed was written in the mid 80s and would play just as well if it were new today (mostly spoken by Hudson): “Game over, man!”, “yeah, but it’s a dry heat”, “ Somebody said "alien" she thought they said ‘illegal alien’ and signed up!”
Thank you for asking the question, it may one day have relevance for me.
Chase Bliss/Goodhertz Lossy pedal makes your guitar sound like a crappy MP3
Lately I've found browsers no longer let me click past SSL errors (at least, not without digging deep through the settings panel first).
Meh.

Back when they called containers "jails", I did both distroless/single-binary and full-install containers. I like the former a lot. They really make it difficult for attackers to live off the land. On the flip side, they're a huge pain in the ass to maintain, particularly if your programming language of choice doesn't make static linking easy.

Nowadays, where system admins aren't usually programmers, doing a full install of an operating system's userland into a chroot---sorry, I mean "layer"---is pretty damn handy. If you're careful about what packages you install, you can get most of the benefits of a distroless container (e.g., making LoL hard) without having to know too much about how the runtime environment works.

It's all a balance, how much time and money you waste engineering the perfect `FROM scratch` container versus getting actual work done using a "fat" image that's good enough. And I think we all know, deep down, that fat OCI images make the Docker world go 'round.
Yes, it is a slow death as the OP pointed out

Neglect can kill a company, and if it doesn't kill it, then it can leave it lurching on, even while its soul has been banished to the shadow realm.
Most of the CDs I've bought online in the last few years have been through Bandcamp. It was convenient to get the FLAC immediately after ordering, and the CD soon after.
Do elaborate! I thought antirez is a pretty well respected programmer.
The relevant word here is 'stay'. Obviously a loaded fridge will take longer to reach the required temperature, but once the correct operating temperature is reached the only work the fridge needs to do is remove any heat that percolates through to the inside of the fridge from the outside of the fridge. That is solely dependent on the heat-conductivity of the fridge walls, and has nothing to do with whatever is inside the fridge itself.
Can we just for like five minutes try to not turn every single thing to shit? One time? This race to flood the world with trash is absolutely maddening and utterly disgraceful.
Some form of equalisation is applied in most audio systems. Ideally this should correct the system and transducer response only. Attempting to EQ a room will make things worse as the response will differ across listening positions.

For addressing room resonance, physical acoustic treatment (bass traps, diffractive and absorptive materials), or in the case of new construction optimising the structure of the room itself is the general approach, with DSP used to augment this.

There's an interesting intersection of this once you start diving into the world of active acoustics too. In the venue space you have systems like Meyer Constellation or L-ISA that use a distributed set of speakers and microphones to be able to change the room acoustics in real-time, or even emulate a different space.
>Frames are made out of the details that seem important to you.

Beautiful, and explains so much.
Causal Machine Learning for Creative Insights
Probably don’t stress about it too much (or really at all), unless you are a mouse.
This is one of my favourite "errors" of human thinking: mistaking something false for reality, and then making it real based on the confidence gained from that initial mistake.

An example I heard was that one of the programmers working on the original Unreal engine saw a demo of John Carmack's constructive solid geometry (CSG) editor. He incorrectly surmised that this was a real-time editor, so he hurriedly made one for the Unreal game engine to "keep up" with Quake. In reality, the Quake editor wasn't nearly as responsive as he assumed, and in fact he had to significantly advance the state of the art to "keep up"!
I assume artists do get a bigger cut on Bandcamp but unfortunately it looks like Bandcamp is in dire straits.

So I'm doing my best to support the remaining independent music stores.
This sounds pretty straightforward using sendfile(); you shouldn't even need io_uring.
The technical reason is that while chroot does limit filesystem access, it does not limit or isolate other types of system calls. So for example even though said Apache with PHP would not be able to overwrite your /etc/passwd, it can still interact with the network (incl. localhost and LAN). Of course there are new ways to mitigate this with capabilities and seccomp and BPF and so on, but this didn't exist back in the "netheryears" where chroot was still the state-of-the-art. Adding SELinux was quite a bit better, and Android even runs on SELinux to this day, but it still doesn't reach what Docker can achieve now, with things like cgroups.

To be clear, Docker doesn't exist because it's impossible to properly configure a contained environment for applications already; Docker has to be implemented somehow, after all, and you could just do what it does and have yourself a container. Docker exists because people want a simple way to launch a container that is already fully contained - filesystem, network, CPUs/GPUs, etc - and doing this configuration manually is Work™.
It looks like with Qobuz you only get one chance to download your purchased downloads? If you lose the files there's no way to download them again?
hn@theuniverse.today
Music.app not supporting FLAC is kinda weird, because the rest of the OS has been able to handle it for a while now. Quicklook (spacebar preview), Quicktime Player, etc all handle it fine, but Music doesn’t despite using the same decoding and playback facilities.
The best option may be to sell the business to one or more of the employees. Of course this is contingent on you paying your employees well enough for this to be viable, as well as your employees believing in the business, but I've seen it work well once before. A diner near me was sold to a waitress who worked there for 20 years, who's now been running it successfully for about 10 years. Obviously she knew the business inside and out, understood the customers and the business side as well.
And it's not like it's hard to get travel or event insurance from actual providers. You can even get multi-trip monthly or yearly travel insurance.
What are you talking about, it's the second link on the page called try now.

https://github.com/aliireza/packetmill
This is what the folks at Chainguard are solving with their Wolfi OS: https://github.com/wolfi-dev/os and tools like melange: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange
Often a lever, or joystick motion, per function.
And site plans can be input to bulldozers and excavators, and with precision sensing they do cool things like preventing operator from digging below grade. Those 'sticking pipe' in trenches, and those putting in landfill cells rave about it because it avoids rework. The old guys don't need it, but they are aging out of the workforce.

https://www.komatsu.eu/en/Komatsu-Intelligent-Machine-Contro...
I write checks a couple times monthly to a housekeeper and other service people and my bank writes a few more. Writing a check is higher friction than other payment schemes but it’s pretty routine in the US.
I'm working on a desktop music player for Mac that does support flac. It should be ready for release early next year.

FLAC is great because it's future proof. You can transcode to other formats as needed but keep a lossless archive.
Yeah, I'm serious. Lots of people were happy throwing money directly at the people who were making the music they enjoyed, either through live jigs or Bandcamp.
> I dig that idea, I'll have to think of the best way to pull that data while keeping the app stateless and fast.

Reverse DNS lookups are usually pretty quick:

```shell

> time dig +short -x 2600:dead::beef
customer.my-isp.net.
dig +short -x 2600:dead::beef 0.00s user 0.01s system 1% cpu 0.882 total

```
A significant minority do. Bandcamp cleared $20 million in profit in 2022:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...
The issue of course is Bandcamp is the method most artists use to sell vinyl to fans who can’t make it to their live shows. I assume the pandemic led many to support their favorite artists through Bandcamp, but Bandcamp planned for a new reality that was really just pandemic-induced. The issue is Bandcamp enables smaller artists to sell like bigger artists and anything like your “mail a check” solution is so far from the kind of support Bandcamp could provide. I’m more interested in thinking about what “sustainable business model Bandcamp is” than going back to 1990s music industry.
I found a disfigured hand https://vectorart.ai/3a9041f4-8303-4696-ba11-15d016e9327f
You keep using programming languages instead of programming as an analogy. Is that thought through or do you just throw these two concepts in the same basket?
I spent some time in India on a business trip and this kind of thing is extremely common there, to the point that it's a whole category in food/grocery delivery apps.
Traffic is bad enough in two dimensions, I can't imagine what insane things people would come up with to try in three.
Whichever is losing two billion a year unstoppably, due to the chairman, owner and ceo in shadow being unable to close his big mouth and engage brain.
Check out soulseek.

Free downloads, tons of rare music, and its like "old napster".

Might as well pirate, since you're getting screwed by paying anyways :/
You almost have to get to people before they learn bad habits. When I started creating containers for my company’s projects, I started with alpine and managed to sneak it in as the standard for everything. The developers didn’t care how it worked and it wasn’t hard to get our systems critter on board with the plan to keep images small. Requiring a justification for a non-alpine image helps keep people honest.
> I'm working on a desktop music player for Mac that does support flac

There's already a whole bunch of them
100% this. I shop almost exclusively on digikey at work when I can because their search is *so much* better then everyone else's.

It's certainly not great, but it's definitely the best of any electronics component vendor by a large margin. Mouser's filtering facilities are dramatically worse.
It's astounding how some of math's first practical applications is to calculate movement of the stars. Absence of frictions and close bodies make physics much easier to approximate than anything on earth. Maybe to have students appreciate math, we should have them predict eclipse one again. God create astronomy to teach humans mathematics.
I accidentally ended up posting the link to the actual game instead of the "Details Page" of the game so it's kind of an abrupt transition for people without context.

Here's the link to the game with some context: https://www.fretboardfly.com/play/FBG-201

And no, you don't need to "just be better", that's what the app's for: Here's a
course to go with the game: https://www.fretboardfly.com/learn/FBG-201

And here's the link to all the games and courses in this series (Intervals/Scale Degrees): https://www.fretboardfly.com/themes/intervallic-functions-gu...

I have similar ones for learning the fretboard notes and I'm building one for scales, triads and chords as well
The shotcrete I have been around was sprayed onto hogwire (already on the rock) and then bolted. It was not just coated onto existing rock as if it was a cake icing.
I posted this to the child comment but here's some context:

I accidentally ended up posting the link to the actual game instead of the "Details Page" of the game so it's kind of an abrupt transition for people without context.

Here's the link to the game with some context: https://www.fretboardfly.com/play/FBG-201

And no, you don't need to "just be better", that's what the app's for: Here's a
course to go with the game: https://www.fretboardfly.com/learn/FBG-201

And here's the link to all the games and courses in this series (Intervals/Scale Degrees): https://www.fretboardfly.com/themes/intervallic-functions-gu...

I have similar ones for learning the fretboard notes and I'm building one for scales, triads and chords as well
If the plan was literally just "leave the role" they could just pick a capable successor and hand it off. Or set up a co-op (or some other non-faceless-investment-firm ownership/operation structure) and sell to that, if at a lower price than they'd get from someone who plans to "drive it to shit in all the ways you would expect".

But if the owner's retirement plan is to sell it at the "drive it to shit" price, isn't that just money?
NSFW on one of the images.
So a guy drive drunk and aleneryboyldy pays the price ? Some phone scammer calls a old lady and steeals all her retirement money, now because of that the government can hear all your phone conversations? Nice try glowie.
There's a cable channel, Heroes and Icons, that Sunday - Friday shows back to back TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, starting at 8:00 Eastern.
To be fair, the Telegram bot API is amazing and speaks for itself, and this bot framework is such a thin wrapper around it that being written in C and the resulting idiosyncrasies are the points of interest.
Portal: Revolution will be released on January 5
Not that you’re using it this way, but I find it incredibly disheartening that the HN crowd almost uses “idealist” like a pejorative. It was pretty rampant during the openAI stuff, where the majority opinion seemed to be bemoaning the “idealists won.”

You can stick to your ideals while still making money. You can even make really good money without selling your soul. You just cant make “all the money” without being evil.
So I accidentally ended up posting the link to the actual game instead of the "Details page" and that page has some context: https://www.fretboardfly.com/play/FBG-201

"For simplicity 9ths, 11ths and 13ths are considered 2, 4 and 6 respectively"
We honestly even have a better version of this these days with systemd-nspawn, and it's OCI runtime-compatible.
This actually seems like just a very clever market segmentation solution since the GPU was already limited to 8x PCIe lanes (its a laptop GPU see https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4060-Laptop...). The 'addition' of the M.2 SSD makes it a unique offering. Limiting it to only one drive is another way to keep the thermal envelope down. Kudos to the Asus design and product development folks.