skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The common suggested alternative payment system to fix the "unfairness" of Spotify's current splitting of the pie is "user-centric" payments: https://www.google.com/search?q=spotify+user-centric+payment

It's easier to illustrate that idea with a more extreme example:

User 1 listens to nothing but songs from an obscure independent jazz artist and never any pop songs.

In Spotify's current payout system based on pro-rata streams count, most of User 1's subscription money will still go to popular artists on big record labels like Taylor Swift, Drake, Ed Sheeran, etc. The user-centric model wants 100% of User 1's money to go to that independent artist and 0% to Taylor Swift.

For the author's particular examples...

>Now let's take a different scenario.

User 1 listens to 90 songs by Ariana Grande.
User 2 listens to 10 songs by Billie Eilish.

>How should the money be fairly split? 50:50? 90:10? Something else?

Using "user-centric" model, 100% of User 1's payment would go to AG and 100% of User 2 goes to BE. From the perspective of the TOTAL SUM, this also means that 50% of the total pie goes to AG and the other 50% goes to BE.

>Imagine two users of Spotify. Both pay £10/month.

User 1 only listens to 900 ABBA songs.
User 2 only listens to 100 Beatles songs.

90% ABBA, 10% Beatles ?
50% each ?

Same math breakdown as AG and BE above.
Sorry to break it to you, but your parents are still 100% in on Facebook. Or at least their generation is. And those folks vote like there is no tomorrow (literally).
While there clearly was a lot of hype, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) proved to be an effective technique with LLMs. Using RAG with project documentation and/or code can be useful.
I can't recall the last time I saw an event mention their twitter presence, it's only Tiktok now (and sometimes Instagram).
Can anyone summarize this Platform As A Service idea for someone who doesn't know much of anything about the Fediverse? How would this become Meta's new business model in the event of Facebook's death? (Which the author seems to believe is inevitable?)
>password database, Linux image for installation on a new laptop

Heh. Imagine surviving a plane crash. Everyone is busy calling their loved ones, and I'm busy setting up my new Linux distribution on a laptop bought in duty free, using the Linux image in my pocket.
Shortly before they became obsolete, payphones over here switched to pre-paid cards, which made them less convenient / ad-hoc to use and may have contributed to their decline (mobile phones being the obvious one of course).
I think my grief about the subscription model with streaming services is that the service they provide does NOT remotely justify the addition cost to prop up the platform.

Think on it: pre-2009 (or whenever you first met Spotify), assuming you weren’t illegally downloading, there were really two main entities you were paying for the price of a CD: the label and the artist. I suppose if you wanted you could work in the distributor, like a Sam Goody or Best Buy.

And what happened? You paid $10-20 one time and the music was durably yours forever.

You could exchange CDs among your friends, which as a side note created made finding new music all the more personal.

Nowadays, I’m paying an ever increasing sum of money for music I’ll never own a copy of outright, to primarily pay off the Spotify platform’s AWS bill, c-level salaries, shareholders, and engineer salaries. Then basically the same thing for the record companies. And whatever detritus scraps are left over, dangle in front of the artist and make him do something embarrassing for it.

It’s basically techno-sadism. I sorta hope music just up and dies to teach us all a lesson about what a great bunch of twats we all are.
The Third Edition, the Dotted Half Note of Editions
No. Most customers will tolerate quote a lot of this form of advertising just like other forms. Enough to make it profitable to spend significant effort on it.
Humans have been crushing biodiversity for more than two thousands years now and yet the homo sapiens is thriving by all objective measures like population count, habitat width and dispensable energy per capita.

You may argue that at some point we have to stop and I agree. However this doesn't contradict the fact that up until now reducing biodiversity (e.g. by replacing forests with monoculture field crops) worked out extremely well.
Most enterprise software is terrible, it's the lowest quality software you will come across. Paying more for good developers won't fix that because the problems all emanate from the enterprise itself.
Or moved abroad where they wouldn't ask questions; the challenge then is moving a lot of money across the border without customs asking questions. This is where cryptocurrencies have probably come in very handy, although, buying cryptocurrency using coins is probably difficult, lol.
>I'm not sure where some folks got the idea that they could say whatever they wanted in whatever community they wanted and not expect any reactions

Usually, historically, if you said something someone didn't like you could expect the person to either confront you directly, or to silently change their opinion of you and possibly change their behavior, perhaps to your detriment. Even before the Internet existed, there was something else someone might have done, which is to send you an anonymous note reading "fuck you". No argument, no way to reply, nothing but a cheap gratuitous offense that serves no purpose other than upset the person who receives it. I argue that downvoting a comment you don't like is equivalent to that.
I think i've mentioned this here before, but a friend of mine (Andrew Steele) is an anti-aging biologist, and has written a book on the subject. He's an excellent communicator, and a while ago did a video examining Bryan Johnson's claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rs_JK-pTTQ
Or... fix your permissions issue.
> Since the advent of ChatGPT, and later by using LLMs that operate locally

Does HN have any favorite local LLMs for coding-related tasks?
take the L
That's an old world, for me. It's how the Windows software ecosystem worked and works to this day.
That’s true, but the number of digits to the right of the decimal point grows rapidly.
Everything Hiew can do, Rizin[1] can do too, and is completely free and open source[2] under LGPL3 license. Moreover, it supports more architectures, platforms, and file formats, as well as GUI in Qt - Cutter[3][4]. If something is missing in Rizin but presented in Hiew, please let us know by opening the issue with details.

[1] https://rizin.re

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin

[3] https://cutter.re

[4] https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter
Maybe it’s just me, but every lossless codec that’s:

1. Not FLAC

2. Not as open-source as FLAC

comes across as a patent play.

FLAC is excellent and widely supported (and where it’s not supported some new at-least-open-enough codec will also not be supported). I have yet to see a compelling argument for lossless audio encoders that are not FLAC.
Why are learning piano?

I mean:

Here is a chord:

C-E-G

Here are two more:

F-A-C

G-B-D

Now go form a band.

[But maybe a piano isn't the ideal choice in that case and a smaller instrument would be more appropriate -- piano-mover is an actual job skill.]

Anyway, mostly it is a matter of calendar time (like all learning). Starting now is the way to get the most time and the details will sort themselves out later.

Because the reasons you want to "learn piano" will change if you are learning.

Good luck.
Yann LeCun: "most books should be freely available for download"
I love my aftershox, totally agree
I wish this also tracked the interview "process".

20 seconds to apply is nice until you then encounter the 10 step interview gauntlet with 5 hours of homework.
The part that is missing is that when you take that money to buy the thing intended with the loan the bank has to give you that money unless it is going to a customer of the same bank; impacting the fractional reserve requirement.

As a thought experiment, if you started a bank from 0, how do you pay out the first loan?

Yes, they create money, but deposits are a requirement to do it. (Unless you are doing some interest rate arbitrage by getting a loan from another source)
That is ok, I do it too - that's why I use tools such as chatgpt. But from that to calling it life changing there's a wide gap. The tool is nowhere near what's advertised, far from it.
And yet, success is higher when others support and reinforce.

So don't use statistics as an excuse to be a dick.
So who is instructing the LLMs on what sort of binaries to produce? Who is testing the binaries? Who is deploying them? Who is instructing the LLMs to perform maintenance and upgrades? You think the managers are up for all that? Or the customers who don’t know what they want?
> So, running litestream on the node and pushing to S3 isn't a good story, eh?

I think it's a fantastic story. But, once you bring people who are responsible for billions of dollars worth of assets and PII to the party, things get a bit tricky.

In these settings, I cannot make the argument against the incumbent hosted RDBMS providers if we need a geo replica for business continuity purposes. Hypothetically I could push for it and maybe force it through, but then I'd be left with not very much political capital to force the next thing. I'd also have to be a little bit dishonest about certain aspects and would on the hook for something that not as many engineers could assist me with.

Reliable persistence of data is but one small problem for us and I won't die on this hill anymore. Simply getting everything into the same tenant is table stakes. The hard parts are reducing the # of moving pieces (complexity) and 3rd party vendor count.

Again, for many domains I think litestream can be an easy win. Gaming, AI/LLM state tracking, lesser-regulated SaaS, more flexible RTO, etc. No reason to pay (with money or time) for something more sophisticated than dumping WAL in S3 if you genuinely don't need it.
Once you are off the dopamine needle, you start seeking for options to get the most relevant and compact content.

And you start understanding that algorithms are playing against you, they are made to keep you scrolling. Not to deliver the most relevant stuff in shortest time
I agree, using the word miracle is an expression that can be either religious or anything you want. The people complaining probably love to pick fly crap out of pepper too. (sorry, an old expression the old timers used to tell me.)
The complainers are not publishers themselves, there's nothing to take down.
It's possible to get into a cycle where your body naturally wakes up.
And it's equally and inversely harmful to junior developers who keep prodding it until it generates an abomination they don't understand that manages to pass the build. People who are learning need help, but the kind of help that LLMs in copilot form provide aren't the right fit.

It would be interesting to train a copilot model that is specifically intended to ask clarifying questions and be a partner in determining a solution, rather than doing its best to generate code for a vague or incorrectly specified question from a junior.
Option C to hose down the peasants as they entered the tube station so they didn't scuff the walls was not used.
This one isn't clickbait, so probably not.

He complains that losing the "Copy, Acquire, Kill" context hurts the people who never read the post(??), which is a tad rich considering his post's success hangs on aggregators like HN.

But I'm guessing he's really salty that his breathless exaggeration "How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history" was changed to something that's actually descriptive of the piece.
You don't file a dmca takedown against a video, you file against a URL. All you're claiming is that your copyrighted content is somewhere in that url.

But even if you were filing against a video directly, it doesn't mean you're claiming ownership of the video. It could just be one song on the soundtrack, Or a still photo shown without authorization, Or one of the actor's tattoos (seriously) that is the subject of your claim.
Yeah I really never got why people were mentioning it. It seems like Elon Musk is just good at hype, because it never had much exposure to me at all even when he bought it and I am very online and advertiser friendly.
Just spread a hoax that Meta is going to shut down because Zukerberg thinks he has earned enough money and there is no need to earn any more. Plenty of people will buy it.
Sometimes the indicator LED acts as a voltage reference for some circuit. In that case, destroying it is a bad idea.

Also, I think most hotels would object ;-)
It's been so long, I think people may have forgotten just how unstable Netscape actually was. 4.x was also incredibly bloated for the time. At one company, I remember a guy rebooting his Mac daily because NS would crash it. In the late 90's, I also briefly worked at another company with tons of ex-Netscape people. Even they preferred IE.
Maybe they want to sell it to a streaming service or something.
5 people died. I wouldn't call it a miracle.
The funny thing about LLMs is that there's no rush in adopting them. They're semi useful but not really right now, but you're not gonna be 'left behind' if you don't make use of them. Everyone involved is working their hardest to make them more capable so when that day comes, you'll just use it to prompt what you want. But there's no rush to try to squeeze out anything out of the current generation which mostly lowers productivity rather than increases it.
Of course. Tommorow they will be dead, and we will be the one paying the bill

Congrats on their generation. They deeply convinced me that democracy is one of the worst systems.
I've not seen any evidence either way, but I'm not sure you'd get an RCT of this past an ethics committee anywhere.

For now, I'm inclined to err on the side of caution and not enable perverts.
I didn’t say that anyone should enter anything manually into a computer, nor did I claim that a human reading a computer screen is how an automated runway system would ensure safety.

As an aside, humans are not doing a good job at driving cars and should leave that to the computers.
Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-fla
Another solution would be to hire some folks with proton packs to lasso the ghosts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_pack
Thanks for highlighting this. Internally we're mostly avoiding the parts of the std Reader interface that impose significant runtime costs if you use them, but it would be swell to upgrade the stdlib implementations to do something like golang interface upgrades for buffered readers.
They're illnesses for which age is the biggest contributing factor of whether you'll get sick, and how sick you'll get. Nearly every disease affects you more severely the older you are.
Digging a tunnel through a rock wall with a tiny hammer over years, as in The Shawshank Redemption, seems very similar.

Both sound like a lot of work though.
> I can also tell the llm to write tests for the code it wrote and i can validate that the tests are valid.

If I don't trust the generated code, why should I trust the generated code that tests the generated code?
Do I really need to sign up to see prices. What is the logic behind that?
Anyone wanting to build that circuit should do a quick search, it has been much improved over the years, and there are even off the shelf PCBs that fit right in the case for cheap.

Personally, it is still cool. I think I have three or four of them in the house, and I have built countless CMoy-BB versions for my friends when they were selling the PCBs. It is pretty impressive, I still have one powering my very large Sony headphones right now.
> Hyper-local social network

NextDoor?
On the other hand, Spotify is objectively a better offering for what most music listeners want -- access to music.

They don't want to think about whether a particular song or artist is on a particular CD.

They want to play one of anything, as the mood strikes them.

Generally, they're probably fine with leasing (cheaper) access to (more) music, versus (more expensively) owning (less) music. Ownership just doesn't confer enough utility to make up the price gap.

I'm as anti never-ownership-trend as you'll find, but it's hard to fault Spotify for "winning", given the huge disparity in user utility.
The hostile architecture in this instance is the choice to use benches instead of seats with back support.
your print should be x', not x!
It isn't a fraction. The bottom number just refers to the size of a beat, with the added convention that certain time signatures imply a hidden 3x on the size of a beat. 6/8 has two beats of three eighth notes in a measure. It is just an idiom.
Make sure no one is behind you though, I have heard of people being pulled over for doing that due to inducing temporary blindness at night.
In a recent talk[1], Bill Dally of Nvidia suggests using actual logarithms, as they're more consistent in relative error than floats, which is especially relevant at low precision as increasingly used in AI. Multiplications then become simple additions, but then addition becomes more complicated, as in general it needs lookup tables. This is the same mechanism as a slide rule, and also reminds me of the way the Yamaha DX7 works. The lookup tables can be expensive, and the talk contains an idea how to batch them when adding up the results of many many multiplications (as is also often the case for AI workloads).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLiwvnr4L80
deepseek-coder has been decent for my purposes
> As long as P != NP, verification should be much easier than producing a solution.

Perhaps so. I guess it depends on how long it takes to code up property-based tests.

https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
What's a better system?
Wow that live video really puts the size in perspective. The firefighters are minuscule compared to the plane
I enjoy antirez's work, and I enjoyed this essay, but I disagree with many of its conclusions. In particular:

> this goal forces the model to create some form of abstract model. This model is weak, patchy, and imperfect, but it must exist if we observe what we observe.

Is a completely fallacious line of reasoning, and I'm surprised that he draws this conclusion. The whole reason the "problem of other minds" is still a problem in philosophy is precisely because we cannot be certain that some "abstract model" exists in someone's head (man or machine, do you argue it does? show it to me) simply because an output meeting certain constraints exists. This is exactly the problem of education. A student that studies to answer questions correctly on a test may not have an abstract model of the subject area at all. Even they may not be conducting what we call reasoning. If a student aces a test, can you confidently say they actually understand a domain? Or did they simply ace a test?

Furthermore, LLM's lack of consistency and inability to answer basic mathematical questions, and their limitation to purely text based areas of concern and representation are all much stronger arguments for siding with the notion that they really are just sophisticated, stochastic, machines, incapable of what we'd normally call reason in a human context. If LLM's "reason" it is a much different form of reasoning than that which human beings are capable of, and I'm highly skeptical that any such network will achieve parity to human reason until it can "grow up" and learn embodied in a rich, multi sensory environment, just like human beings. For machines to achieve reason, they will need to break out of the text-only/digital-only box first.
Yeah, I thought the answer was going to be a reference to winning the cas-9 lawsuit.
> Nowadays, I’m paying an ever increasing sum of money for music I’ll never own a copy of outright, to primarily pay off the Spotify platform’s AWS bill, c-level salaries, shareholders, and engineer salaries. Then basically the same thing for the record companies. And whatever detritus scraps are left over, dangle in front of the artist and make him do something embarrassing for it.

Spotify only had one price increase in its history and it was in 2023.

Also, check the financial reports, 70+% of all revenue goes to paying royalties, so the majority of the revenue is disbursed to labels, not the scraps, the scraps are paying for engineers, editors, designers, lots of legal resources (try dealing with licencing across 100+ markets), all the infrastructure, C-level, and so on.

Just calling out because I do agree there are many problems with subscriptions in general but not the ones you brought up.
More people will get to age 80 if we tackle the causes of aging
You should pick any index/ranking you find modestly convincing and ask yourself which of the bottom 50, i.e. least democratic countries you would rather live in when compared to any one single top 10, most democratic country.

Democracy has its problems like any other system with imperfect components, but that doesn't mean it isn't the best system we've discovered.
> Why have a bass and treble cleft be different? We could just standardise one.

This has been tried, the sub-bass clef is just the treble clef two octaves down. But then the notes sit too high on the staff, with too many ledger lines. Most musicians find that learning a different clef is doable with a bit of effort. The meaning of relative intervals on the staff is the same, only the actual pitches are different.

> It’s unnecessary to have the second number in a key signature.

3/4 has different style implications than 3/8, same with 6/4 wrt. 6/8 or even 2/4 wrt. 2/2. These distinctions are quite convenient, that's why they're kept around.

An octave or etc. has seven or twelve distinct pitch classes, but if you want to linearly write out a full octave in sheet music in a way that can be heard clearly, you need eight notes--similar for other intervals. It's useful to be aware of both notions--the written-out 'interval' one usually finds and the zero-based 'distance', which is what you reference here.
JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames
First A350 hull loss
Agree, I'm certainly not trying to minimise the effects of real addiction, but I do think for a lot of us it's more crutch than dependency.
they sure ain't 82k now. $482k for somewhere near the LRT might be a good start
Keyword search leads to things like every website would put meaningless words in the meta section of their website so it would be picked by Altavista
For better or worse (ok, worse), Twitter is the current intellectual trend-setter. You may not be there but many a youtuber/podcaster/academic/politician are scrolling through hot takes as we speak. The cultural power of Twitter vastly outweighs its raw number of users (relatively low).
I wrote about tracker notation. Not tracker software. Just as Tantacrul was talking about piano roll notation not physical piano rolls. [1]

[1]: or just as strawmen are made from words not straw.
Fun fact, related:

Julia has a function to give you the next greater floating point number for any floating point number, nextfloat(x), and it is basically implemented by casting x to an integer, adding 1, and casting it back.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/3120989f39bb7ef7863c...
I have a musician friend that had a fairly successful (locally) independent band from around 2008 to 2012.

I've talked to him a couple of time about the business side of it - when the band started they managed to create a nice community of people that liked their music, even before they released their first album. People would go to concerts and buy a lot of merchandise and their CDs and even vinils when they recorded and released their music.

He shared that with the popularization of streaming services, they lost a lot of their identity and this community lost a lot of force. At the same time, a lot more people were listening to their music (and still are), but the return to them was really low, both monetarily and in the sense of accomplishment of the band.