skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the issue. 10,000 employees vs bad user experience.

Spotify has gotten worse for me as well, I pay for Spotify + SiriusXM. Spotify should be much better, but it's not. I'm thinking of dropping it soon.

Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?
I don't understand why you would get downvotes. Maybe it's because you're making a general point, non-specific to the topic at hand (Fediverse). Or maybe it's because Capitalism is the dominant ideology around these parts (Earth).

It's obvious to many, who've seen through the motive of greed, that collaboration yields more "economic" results. Economy can be a synonym for efficiency, but in modern usage is the definition of a caste system where groups exist primarily to extract the blood of those doing the real work.

But people practice doublethink, equating lord-serf "economies" with effectiveness, because greed (the motive to serve ones own interests) == good, and because profit (the act of taking excess value generated, for oneself) == good. Because somehow a selfish motive makes the work legitimate, because that's how "the world works". Or because there are examples of useful work having happened under this system.

Until they suffer for it many won't be able to see the problem, but luckily the vampires get more and more brazen, to the point where even people living life "the right way" have began stuggling in many cases. So when the previously-sheltered upper castes begin to bleed out into the ever-gaping maw of moloch [0], there will be change in perception. The Capitalists are insatiable (luckily [?]), which I think will eventually undo the idea. It will take more blood, and more time, but I feel it's starting to happen.

All this to say, that you are not alone in your vantage. And here's Ginsberg excerpted, on what I interpret to be this exact topic (which granted, is only my personal interpretation).

"Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!"

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
> One side issue on these studies is there's currently no control group who spent their life solely on electronic devices.

I’m a statistic of one, but I started my digital mobile life on PalmOS/Handspring devices. I still prefer pen and paper for deep-thinking and future planning, despite having them reflected in a digital medium later.

Tactility of paper, plus not being subject to a glowing screen apparently changes something deep in my mind. No, e-paper and stylus is not the same for me, either.

I finish two notebooks per year.
This. They don't give you the same as the original virus code, they give you different code (namely readable one), than apparently compiles to the virus assembly.

It's plausible this took effort, so I think it's only fair if they license it - it seems also ethically fair, since their licence is permissive.
I believed this strategy when I was a kid to think about a problem before you go to sleep and while you sleep your brain will figure it out for you. You’ll wake up with the problem solved. I believed it just like I believed countless other unverified truths. I think it caused me a lot of sleep problems over the years because I’d be mentally grinding away in the dark, trying to prep my brain for all the wonderful problem solving it was going to do, and… ending up never going to sleep because I had worries, ideas, things to do.

I now work hard on meditation-style “make your mind blank” effort at sleep time. Any worry I have, it can be handled tomorrow. (But I have to in good faith have a plan to address it in the morning.) This has made it much easier to fall asleep.
> Azure's vm offering is also highly reliable

Not in my experience. Running just under 100 VMs, they'd randomly fail and restart about once a year. One month, something went terribly wrong with our k8s cluster and nodes were becoming unhealthy and being replaced every few hours to the tune of 500 replacements in a month for a 60 node cluster.

Premium SSD v2 is fairly good released generally about a year ago. Premium SSD was pretty painfully slow.
Exploring Roblox's corporate hell-worlds
> environment is sadly almost unusable if you want to do something saner than REPL/notebook

I work in "one of those industries" where failure can easily cost millions in the space of minutes, and we use Julia almost exclusively. Unfortunately I can't give you details because of reasons, other than tell you you're very poorly informed.

> you're locked in to Julia

You're not "locked in" to Julia any more you're locked in to Python. Arguably less, as Julia can call C natively, Python can't.

My point isn't that you can't interop, and it seems you're intentionally (?) equivocating on this point. Surely you didn't misinterpret what I wrote as "you can't iterop"? My point is that you can more benefits if you don't. Like I said, if you want a slow language that can call fast routines, why not just use Python.
UFCS only works well when the language also supports function overloading, which is a questionable feature by itself because it greatly complicates resolution processes and constrains other type system features. For example, function overloading in Rust will definitely conflict with traits (and Rust trait system is already complex enough). UFCS increases the complexity on top of that, and the resulting convenience is more or less marginal in my opinion.

Yes, it would be great to have a way to turn a method into a function. That doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be unified---an explicit conversion is enough.
You know I almost mentioned that in my original comment but the more I think about it, the more I don't think it's actually bad.

I think a lot of what men might consider "soft skills" in the bedroom (pun intended) would not only transfer to a lesbian context but have more salience there.
Why shouldn't I just use jq?

jq is awesome, and a lot more powerful than gron, but with that power comes complexity. gron aims to make it easier to use the tools you already know, like grep and sed.

I know grep, but sed is one of those I always have to look up whenever I have to escape a weird character or something.
The X layoffs are too soon to make a judgement call on, look at the advertiser fight X is involved in now. Its up in the air if they kept enough people to make advertisers happy or moderation. Moderation has become a real problem on X, Ive sent reports that were clearly a problematic account, sometimes even fake accounts that are stealing identities, and the X UI sends me a message saying "nah all good"
This is a truly bizarre critique, because it seems completely backwards in every respect.

The ability to not be beholden to the preferences of whoever runs a fedi server is, in fact, the #1 selling point of federated network in the first place.

And all other alternatives are far worse in that specific aspect you bring. There is a very mild barrier to running your own Mastodon/PeerTube/etc. instance (you don't even have to self-host, you can get one on Masto.host or similar services). But it is flat-out impossible to run your own Twitter or Youtube or Discord.

And most cloud services adhere strictly not just to Western cultural norms, but specifically to Bay Area cultural norms, which are even more narrow.
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Finding people who can run infra at Spotify scale isn’t easy. Even if they could find those people, it tough to leave aws (by design).

They could’ve been more careful about avoiding lock-in by building more on something like kube but most startups don’t have that foresight, and the expense of moving to on-prem is compounded even more when they have so much wrapped up in the aws ecosystem.
Yeah this emotional because it makes no sense. The system appears to be not working.
I've been frustrated at it since I was a kid, but no intervention seems to have had an effect on reducing the waste. If I went through with thinking through my thoughts before writing them I'd be stuck for a very long time (potentially days) at best, else I'm back to square one.
Sweden's current inflation rate is 4.2%

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/monetary-policy/the-inflation-...
People who are at home in a memory managed language tend to have little interest in a language that is slightly more low-level, but still memory managed. I believe that this is the main contributor to Rust's rise. Even if I suspect that most production Rust code is from people coming from the memory managed side, looking for a safer way to avoid any performance compromise.
I probably saw it as a right side up penguin first.

(I just went and looked on my phone and they are all more effective when they are tiny squares instead of blown up on a big screen.)
> But looking back at those days where all platform embraced a strategy to "own ALL content",

I don’t understand how that could have ever been a strategy without buying the businesses that own most of the popular music, such as Warner, Universal, and Sony.
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Pringles are owned by Kellogs since about 2012. Wouldn't it be absolutely against the image of 'healthy' cereals if they sold 'junk'? Yum Yum fruity loupz!

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What? I addressed your comment. I'll make it simpler: you are spouting nonsense.

Spotify didn't "plan and execute" anything. The current situation was brought on by 2 decades of quantitative easing and then multiple black swan events and even more cash injection until it all came crumbling down. The amount of blame you place on the board of a single company to combat what is essentially a global crisis brought on by actions taken by world governments is extremely naive. Spotify isn't alone in this. Nearly every big tech company has had layoffs and I don't think we're anywhere close to being done yet. I hear rumors more are coming for mamaa.
The whole point was to move into podcasts for exclusivity so they had something they could put behind a hard paywall to boost revenue - the music service will never be significantly profitable and will probably never be genuinely profitable at all, so they need to move into another area or they will eventually collapse.
The wiki link is good. In the context here it's easy to picture it as how weird a sentence would sound to a native speaker. Low perplexity means what was generated would be unsurprising if you saw it in the dataset.
The magic word is "growth".

For context, I find this artist's explanation of the situation helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU
When an LTR Android system user selects RTL text, the selection markers are displayed LTR (the wrong way).
Fundamentalism can keep going without concern over what is tenable from a capitalist viewpoint. There is Russia, North Korea and Iran right now, to just name some prominent examples.

(Then there is the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the words "self govern" within a country that kept slaves. The slaves of course aren't counted as self governing.)
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Their workforce is a fairly small part of their costs.
Not sure if I’d go so far as saying “greed is good”, but if it weren’t for the expectation by investors that companies would attempt to be as profitable as possible, companies like Spotify wouldn’t exist.
Not Apple, IBM, Microsoft and many other that don’t make money as data merchants
> I don't understand why they are not able to turn this much engagement into profit.

They will never be able to, regardless of how much they pricing the platform, the music majors will renegotiate and ask all of their profits.
https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira
Rust is loved and has momentum. I'm not sure it's universally adopted by pragmatists, partly because it requires replacing pip, Maven, node, yum, or whatnot with cargo.

Cargo is great if you're starting from nothing, but it's not very pragmatic to ignore all your existing code and experience and form another ecosystem within your organization. There's probably a limit to how many code ecosystems you want in your org, even in large and well-funded ones.
The increasing incidents of removal of wisdom teeth seems to indicate the human jaw is getting smaller due to our dietary changes since we moved on from hunter gatherers to pastoral farming.

Sleep apnea is not because you have fat in your neck obstructing your airway but your tongue relaxing at night and the area below the uvula falling backwards then obstructing your airway.
And mine on stone tablets.
Looks like you are using the portrait effect to blur the background. The phone just assumed the legs were part of the background. Happens to hair as well.
Kubernetes Needs an LTS
Largely depends.

For ML workloads anything between 6-8x cost increase for using cloud.

For CDN costs somewhere like 3x (they're pretty smart on discounts here, without those it could be 100's of x)

For compute somewhere like 3-4x (would be 6x before the discounts)

Managed DB is a hard one because the cost is really high but I'm not 100% sure how much time is saved with the solution they chose because while I saw the bill I don't work there.

It gets dicey with humans because it's apples to oranges, expensive SRE's who understand the inner-workings of cloud vs cheap(er) hardware folks who set things up from first principles with a higher up-front cost. -- FinOps with more traditional solutions is easier but you still need people for that.

Spotify's backend load is not entirely elastic. There are some elastic bits but a large chunk is pretty static.
Ten thousand people, to be exact https://xkcd.com/1053/
Where in the article did you see cloud costs being the reason for this layoff?

> Spotify is cutting almost 1,600 jobs as the music streaming service blamed a slowing economy and higher borrowing costs in the latest round of redundancies at big tech companies.

It clearly states later that in a zero interest environment Spotify borrowed heavily and over hired, in this environment it’s no longer sustainable and they had to let employees go.

Did you just assume “costs” meant infrastructure costs like cloud?
> I'm not sure this is working that well for Netflix.

Netflix is pretty much the only service that is profitable, so it is.

Exclusivity works. Netflix made it work pretty well. Spotify can't.
This could be achieved with VR although I don’t know of anything product doing this now.
You have a computer virus. It goes by the name of McAfee WebAdvisor.
I do not know much about other jurisdictions, but in Germany a derived work has its individual copyright. For example, if one is translating a copyrighted work and publishes the translation without authorization, the translation is still prodected. The orginal copyright owner may sue the publisher of the translation, but the translator may sue anyone who publishes the translation without authorization.
Even if it would work, what trickes down are the whims of the rich: I want a yacht, I want a leather bag, I want diamonds on my car and so on. So a lot of people will have unfulfilling jobs. They are esentially slaves (again). This is in contrast to working on future shaping projects, like a bridge, a new type of airplane and so on. When was the last time a billionare wanted a bridge?
They've already managed a switch from AWS to Google Cloud once in their past.
I did not know it, but I think so few changes from the proto-buffer that it is a waste of time.
that is totally wrong, the premise here - as I quote - is that the Earth was already there and then the first leaving things appeared
This is why I'm bullish about Oxide (who are building hardware to make it easy to essentially run your own cloud.) Nobody wants to deal with the nasty parts of running servers but if a company can take some of that complexity away, you could save a tonne of money over AWS.
Spotify basically started as a P2P Grooveshark that promised to pay royalties. Now they are a CDN that pays royalties. The problem is that they refuse to accept the reality that there is an end to growth.
I eat eggs, bacon, beef, and salmon. More than half my calories, maybe more than 75%, come from beef.

One thing you notice is that because there is no fiber or sugar (or carbs of any kind) in the diet, you end up basically never farting -- and the volume of your poop decreases by something like 80%.

You also hold a lot less water weight, your tolerance for alcohol decreases dramatically (although if you were strict about the diet you wouldn't be consuming alcohol anyway), you seem to have much less nasal congestion, and heartburn completely disappears. And your skin feels better.

I've looked into it, and this diet is nutritionally complete -- it is not lacking in any vitamins or minerals. Fresh meat even contains some vitamin C. You can eat some sardines from time to time for extra calcium.

On the whole I can't recommend this diet enough -- you end up in phenomenal shape.
Wouldn’t that be considered a derivative work? You can copyright those.
C++ is pain, numpy is pain if you need a loop, numba and cython are pain if you need any more complex data structures.

Sadly Julia is pain too if you don't do REPL/notebook (which you shouldn't). Julia has the design to solve the two language problem but not the implementation. And will probably never have because Julia community refuses to see this as a problem.
Interesting. I wonder to what extent it's found use at Google over this past decade.

There are advantage to being language-specific, but a lot of disadvantages, as well (speaking as someone who recently had to write some Elixir code to unmarshal a Ruby object...). It seems hard to introduce this since you're forcing all communicating services to be Go-based, which is kind of contrary to the independence that microservices usually affords you.

Some of the benefits are simply design goals (e.g., top level arrays) which could also be done in a language-independent protocol. And even performance questions probably could. Like, Cap'n Proto I think is designed so that users of the protocol don't have to serialize/deserialize the data, right? They just pass it around and work with it directly.

I can see Rob Pike being frustrated with Protocol Buffers at Google, and I don't begrudge anyone for taking a big shot like this, but I wonder if he's found any success with it.
Can't you use build time variables for this? https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/#pass-an-environment...
I tend to think the overhiring was not a "mistake" but planned. They still get to keep all the intellectual output of the people they let go.
I had a good chuckle at this
No, people who follow a meat-heavy diet simply have higher cholesterol, not an increase in cardiovascular health problems.
Cost's don't exist in a vacuum.

it's easier to lay people off than to save millions in cloud spending when you've already committed to $x-billion over 5 years.
Couter example would be Republic of Rhodesia - from the breadbasket of Africa to a meme with zeros not fiting on the bill of Zimbabwean dollar.
Maybe now they will be able to focus on what matters instead of enshittening UI every few months
There have been a bunch of posts about teaching it, might be interesting:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/12/23/teaching-d-from-scratch-is...

https://dlang.org/blog/2022/02/19/how-i-taught-the-d-program...

https://dconf.org/2023/slides/shah_and_students.pdf
Just came here to say that Alexander helped me through some difficult times this holiday season. Couldn't be more thankful!
This is nonsense. They hired people to grow users, usage revenue, not to brag about employee counts. Companies brag about maximizes revenue per employee.
re: the autocomplete attribute.

It would have been nice to include a brief explanation of all the ways this feature is likely to break what you expect.

For example, recent versions of Chrome will autocomplete against a table of values across all domains for the given field "name" attribute, regardless of what you put into the autocomplete attribute [0].

I suppose this would be a fine decision if all form fields in all forms represented a global, singular datum (i.e., My Account), but it is not fine at all when dealing with collections of things (i.e., Cars, Parts or whatever).

I managed to recently work around this by generating unique-ish ids for name fields and autocomplete attributes, then fixing them before submission.

I'm obviously still salty.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...
This article breaks down some of the best practices and supplements them with examples so that one can make good documentation great.
I used to study in a small school in a village with 30 students. we used to do the all the work there play with teachers and many other fun stuff. sometimes when i think about that time i feel really sad about how my life has changed.
For sure. Even my wifes grandmother has quite a good history story with the Spanish civil war :) I love hearing those stories.
What's the two language problem? One language for a high level interface and one language for low level, high performance computations?
> Spotify was a stand-out, almost no large tech company bought into cloud like they did

Isn't this what made Spotify success? Yes, they could have build their own datacenters, but someone else could outcompete them in the meantime.

They have traded off something for another thing.
These are not DC power supplies, thats whats inside the car, a boost DC power supply converting 240v AC to 400v or 800v DC, thats what regulates current and voltage to the batteries.

If the AC "charger" attempted to regulate current by varying voltage the actual onboard charger would just attempt to pull more current to make up for the voltage drop and probably trip the whole thing.

There would be no point in regulating the AC current, it would make the charger very complicated and expensive replicating much of whats in the DC converter/charger in the car.

A full DC charger like at a charging station does do this because it is the actual charger bypassing the cars small internal DC charger with DC leads going directly to battery at full pack voltage.
Because managers that manage managers need more people to justify hiring more managers.
This is really well done. And it works well in Firefox too
Julia is great for numerical simulations. Companies such as Google and Facebook should have supported Julia for machine learning, in my opinion.

Numpy is OK, but verbose and a bit of a pain.
How is running your own cloud different than traditional bare metal?
Oreos are vegan -- they would count as plant-based calories in my system. I don't eat any calories that are not animal-based. That includes fruit, nuts, vegetable oils, etc, along with standard vegetables.
I was a bit shocked when I learned that reinforced concrete only has a lifespan of about 100 years. That means that if you buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s, the building will become unsafe and need to be demolished in your life time. I don't know if people are pricing this consideration.

It also means there will be pretty much nothing left of our architecture, all those appartments, offices, museums, bridges, will all need to be destroyed and rebuilt. Not that modern architecture is really worth preserving. But it feels the only thing our era will leave behind is financial debt and bits in the cloud!
Ah that makes sense then! So in this context it is used in the same sense as evolve. Thanks that not only makes sense but lead me to search with both terms and get this

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/adaptation...

Evolutionary adaptation, or simply adaptation...
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