skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PO bosses thought that there had always been a high level of theft

From the testimony, it seems that is rather likely. PO managers seem to have had a pretty bad attitude to subpostmasters in general. I think the general view was that subpostmasters are essentially village shopkeepers, drawn from a population that would happily engage in grift if the opportunity presented itself, and therefore needed close monitoring.
> Why do they say "nation state actor"

A Nation-State is the idea of a homogenous nation governed by its own sovereign state—where each state contains one nation.
1000 annual listens?
That's likely less than 1$/mo revenue the artists get no?
Even small time musicians I know have about 1000 listens a month

Seems to me just like yt monetization partner program which required like 50€ revenue for payout and 1000 subs+approval for even enabling monetization (some time ago unsure if it's still limited for new accounts )

Unless I'm missing something it mainly just trims out mass produced content
For what it's worth, it helped me a great deal in understanding.
Eep, sorry. I misread the article.
The value you are "keeping" on the truck could also be seen as value that you are not investing somewhere else.
Especially considering that Spotify claims over 500 million users. The traditional bottleneck in the music industry and the entertainment industry has been distribution.

Of course, 500 million users does not mean that 500 million potential fans will be exposed to your work.
Indeed, my bad :/
To be more fair: it is easy to check if they are alive or not. This is not rocket science.
I agree with what you're saying; the problem is that it looks like the UK is trying to give itself the power to force companies to secretly break the laws of the nation the company is based in.

Companies can make themselves the servants of two masters by operating in two jurisdictions with mutually incompatible laws, but they do so at their own peril.

Similar discussion with different details comes up sometimes with e.g. "should Apple do business in China?", but (IMO) the UK isn't as important as China and (IMO) has less leverage to encourage companies to take that risk.
I like the idea of not using heavy electron UIs, but really, I does not matter much nowadays, at least for me.
Important features are synchronized notes, with mobile and desktop support, and syncing should be end to end encrypted. I should be able to link a note to another, include some media, and use markdown, that is easily importable/exportable. I still to this day couldn’t find a good foss alternative to Joplin with WebDAV or Joplin Server (or cloud offerings).
I don't know if I was the first to come up with the idea or implementation, but my contribution certainly ended up in the largest open source music streaming bot at the time: https://github.com/freyacodes/archived-bot/pull/90

Was quite a similar idea: load Playlist from Spotify but play the actual music from YouTube. Still proud of that one, good times when Discord was wild territory.
Yes

But to protect your technology you'd want a big bomb

What could possibly go wrong?
> If everyone who uses this software were to use Spotify direct, ads and all, in the long run it would make pennies for the artists at best.

I'm not sure that "they get paid so little that we may as well stop paying them anything" is an argument you really want to make here? Yes, Spotify pay is crap. Not paying anything is crap too. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Seems a bit out of style to blame the Russians, but I guess that describes Microsoft in general.
Even something very simple like listing piece positions in a given order should result in less. Let's say King, Queen, Rooks, Bishops, Knights, pawns. Give a position for each for both players in 6×32 (192) bits.

If a piece is taken, repeat the position of the king. If a pawn is promoted (and there are more than than the starting number of the piece it was promoted into) repeat the position of the piece it was promoted into.

1 bit for whose move it is. (193b)

3 bits for the en-passant column. (196b)

50 move rule (I suppose 7 bits, as you need it in ply?) 203b.
Then the data for the extra pieces, in the order encountered if any. ?×6b (how many are possible? There are 16 pawns, but I suppose it isn't possible to promote all)
What's the relationship with Veertu/Anka? The FAQ talks about Anka a lot.
Karyotypes Are Not Sexes
Aren't there dedicated certifications for that? Company maturity model, threat model, data handling procedures verified by a trusted third party?
Lots of people already install Chrome on iOS.

I don't think people actually care about browser engines. Maybe they have a notion of 'this website only works on foo browser', but im doubtful that happens a lot on the modern internet.

People already install and use Chrome on iOS because they want the non-rendering engine features, like syncing bookmarks etc.
i love these simple little money makers.
Maybe, maybe not. If an artist makes up 1% of your listening, that goes down to a dollar, and if you factor in more realistic listening habits that goes down further. Consider that this is paid to the rights holder, not the artist, as well -- the artist usually gets even less. Buy one album on Bandcamp for $10 and the rights holder gets $8.50 (on Bandcamp this is usually the artist directly).

Fact of the matter is that in terms of getting artists paid, Spotify's business model and distribution model is inferior to other solutions and the economic cost of circumventing the ads is little to none, and in fact if you take advantage of Spotify's distribution model for convenience and buy elsewhere for economics then you are performing a net social good.
I presume the same way YouTube, Amazon, Uber, etc., did it: by operating in the red and getting funded.

I think there are likely a lot of VCs who would be very interested in having a stake in a serious competitor to YouTube.
> administered by Capita

if you know
We had below -40 in the Norther Finland recently and Teslas and Superchargers have worked without any issues. ICE vehicles have had a lot problems with these temperatures though if they weren't connected to block heaters.
It has access to your Spotify liked songs collection/Playlists and also all the curated Spotify Playlists
Driving with a folding chair in the car seems very dangerous. Is that legal where you live?
I submitted it [1], Desktop Browser Market Share Worldwide – December 2023. Both Firefox and Chrome saw a sharp increase in December.

Edit: Looking further into it, turns out MacOS system market share has a sharp decline in December for whatever reason.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833412

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
I'm not making that argument. I made an argument that you have better options in which the artist is paid more.
They are certainly identifiable from their work. State hackers are professionals and they work like other professionals do; they work 9-5 in their local time zone and they have modular implants with code reuse. Amateurs aren't like this.
This may come a bit as a shocker, but climate in many parts of Norway, especially at the coast where people live, is much milder in winter than in Chicago. Compare climate charts of Bergen or Stavanger with those of Chicago and you will be surprised. Even in Oslo temperatures in winter are slightly highter in winter compared to Chicago.
No one seems to have a problem with Volkswagon.
You can ask Blab (one of two maintainers of the SponsorBlock browser extension and database, the other being Ajay) why not all categories are enabled by default.

There is also a joke branch of the extension called SponsorLock, that isolates sponsors instead of skipping them: https://giveup.ajay.app
This classic [1]

contributed to the sample for this rap classic [2]

and the sample is now very popular on TikTok.

Multi-generational success story.

(this professor listens to way too much rap.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxw1uALKgk&ab_channel=TheSh...

[2] http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOQRCZIfHBw&ab_channel=Capone-Top...
Why is everybody so fascinated by this? You can be both smart, weird and a sociopath.
The responsibility shouldn't change just because it's easier. Should businesses track you (whether that's easy or difficult) and auto-unsubscribe you, or should you decide when to cancel?
I have one and love it! It bravely holds together my intranet dev services :)

For a ceph node would still consider a version with 10gbit eth
I wrote a small python library for searching obfuscated Unicode text by creating regex expressions; our company’s chat was being overrun by spammers.

https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables

From the readme:

E.g. "℮1೦" would match "Hello"

"Hello" gets turned into the following regex of character classes:

[HＨℋℌℍΗⲎНᎻᕼꓧ𐋏ⱧҢĦӉӇ]
[e℮ｅℯⅇꬲеҽɇҿ]
…

Edit: interesting that some versions of the letters are already being filtered by the commenting system here.
> the concept of a function shouldn't depend on what your favourite letter is

On the other hand, you can also argue that the concept of a function shouldn't depend on your favourite ordering of its variables. Thus, if you have a potential that oscillates in time, such as:

V = (1 + sin(t))/sqrt(x^2+y^2)

You may want to take derivatives with respect to each variable, such as dV/dt, dV/dx and so on. Their meaning is clear. What does D_2(V) mean, though? It does depend on your favourite ordering of the letters!

Even if you prefer positional notation for derivatives (à la Spivak), it must be recognized that the naming-based notation has its merits, and sometimes is clearer.
https://github.com/mozilla/platform-tilt/issues/3

> JIT Support on iOS

This has been such an under-commented on factor of the whole "EU is going to force third-party rendering engines on iOS!" bit. Would Apple allow apps to support JIT? A new entitlement browser developers must apply for? It'll be interesting :)

I doubt it.
For the leadership of large companies it is a matter of (sometimes probably mistaken) trust. They trust Microsoft, Amazon, ... enough to use their cloud services. In general such a trust does not exist with small startups. I do not think that is specific for the AI era, though.
> The contempt for their staff is insane

Subpostmasters are not Post Office staff; they are self-employed shopkeepers, who sign a contract with the PO to run the office in a part of their shop. I suspect that part of the contempt is precisely because the subpostmasters are not PO managers who have struggled up the greasy Post Office management pole. They are "civilians", and bureaucrats often despise civilians.
Is there a difference in audio quality between Spotify and YouTube?
> Reaching a human at Amazon is a Kafkaesque experience that we haven't yet managed to do.

It indeed is, I had the same experience. Good idea to asking here, you might just find some
Why won't this follow the same pattern with the 3rd party providers? You give a good point that they already have their data on Notion/Slack/Zendesk etc. of which they have no control over the databases (just promises embedded in a Privacy Policy)

Maybe the worry is that their data will be trained on a model that will be open to consumers and an API key might get leaked through?
In these times, it is only easy in-person.
Greed makes people do things that are hasty and stupid. Love makes people do things that are hasty and stupid. ... All emotions are by definition impulsive and irrational and thus hasty and stupid. You are cherry picking.
These numbers may be good enough for your use case but from what’s possible with SSDs these numbers aren’t great. Please note, I mean well. Still a cool setup.

I’d like to see much more latency consistency and 99th even sub ms. Might want to set a latency target with fio and see what kind of load is possible until 99 hits 1ms.

However, I can say all of this but it’s all about context and depending on workload your figures may be totally fine.
What if someone does a hit and run against your unattended car?
If you look into the job market a lot have moved to the Netherlands. The UK is gradually becoming irrelevant. A 1 bil $ investment is negligible in the grand scheme of things. If you spoke with people in finance then you’ll learn things are bad. Really bad.
How would you enforce the three repetitions rule this way?
You said "Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this." but that's not the problem this specific software can solve. However the authors of this software can work on adding reporting the plays back to Spotify. (And I believe they should)
Sounds like the Seagate Kinetic HDD: https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/hdd-fam/...
I missed the launch. Was only a 3 hour drive for me. Last time I went there, the people who lived in Titusville, FL told me it was so routine to see rocket launches, it’s become normal part of their life.

SpaceX has almost 300 re-usable rocket launches.

That’s incredible.
I wonder if the previous tenant removed the fuse to stop the box broadcasting a wifi signal. In an apartment block the 2.4ghz band will already be congested!
After some more thinking and feedback:

2 bits per square
00 empty
01 white pawn
10 black pawn
11 other piece
=128 bits

4 bit index of white king on board (one of the others)

4 bit index of black king

for each "other piece" on board that is not a king: 1 bit color + 2 bit type

1 bit for current player

2 bits for each king if they moved (optional, only exists if king is at thair initial square. Otherwise it is moved)

1 bit for each pawn if they can be captured en passant (optional, these bits only exists for their pawns if there is a pawn at 4th row for white or 5th row for black)

(And i will ignore the draw rule)
This went from "these ISOs are impossible to find" to "ok, but the packages are impossible to find" to "yeah, but they're not in the regular repos anymore."

If you want to do something unusual, you should expect to jump through a few hoops.
They're actually Microsoft's logfiles, see? You're just licensing them
From my dated experience, Ceph is absolutely amazing but latency is indeed a relative weak spot.

Everything has a trade-off and for Ceph you get a ton of capability but latency is such a trade-off. Databases - depending on requirements - may be better off on regular NVMe and not on Ceph.
> What environments do you see this benefiting?

Anywhere where you have visual content that needs to be "consumed" in a large variety of possible viewings conditions, from low to extremelly high DPI 5 or 6-inch smartphone screens, to 10-inch tablets, to 60-inch TVs, and all at possibly variable quality.

Suppose your application uses a carousel-like UI for viewing photographs, so you need small (say scaled with correct aspect ratio to fit in 128px by 128px) thumbnails for the scrollable list at the bottom, a preview (1024px) for the center of the UI, and then the actual full size image for when the user clicks the preview. Codecs designed for progressive transmission allow you to use just one high-quality version of each image and obtain lower quality versions of those by simply sending only part of that file, or, conversely, allow you to refine the preview you've already received by simply sending more bits from the complete file, without the need to retransmit everything again. So you don't need 3 or however many versions of the same image encoded in different files with a format that doesn't have this scalability.

> However, what’s the overhead for this? How well does this “encode once, read many” style scale compare to the typical “encode many, read many” in terms of server resources?

That's the thing, you reduce the overhead with these scalable formats, either by reducing storage cost by not having to store multiple files per image, or computational costs if you planned on just transcoding on-the-fly to a lower quality and serving that, to a bit of both as you'd expect from a CDN that caches transcoded versions.

This isn't to say that such scalable formats are without downsides. The server still needs to know how much of the full quality image to serve based on the requested client needs, but this is usually trivial and of much less computational costs. The main questions are always if the compression ratio is heavily impacted or not, and whether the perceived visual quality remains acceptable when extracting heavily compressed representations for downscaled viewing, i.e., what is the useful range of this scalability. That is why I tuned SQZ to attempt to preserve as much detail as possible early on in its bitstream, so that when downscaling you still get good looking images. No downscaler is magically going to recover the details that were blured out by the heavy filtering that modern codecs do.

If you check out the discussion in the forum I linked in the description (don't be scared by its TLD, it's a great resource in this field, an old "hidden gem" in today's frivolous web) you'll find example images and analysis describing such questions.

And please bear in mind that SQZ is just a little fun thought experiment that I decided to implement, it has no grandiose ambitions. But if you need something like this for a quick side project, and don't want to use a 250k LOC library with who knows how many dependencies, then maybe try it out and let me know what you think.
I’m sort of surprised it’s considered a good thing. Some of my favourite programs use electron, like visual studio code. I haven’t used Spotify though, so maybe that is one of the many electron apps that suck?

I was very unimpressed by flutter when we PoC it at work, but that was years ago, so maybe it’s gotten better since.
I'm gonna guess their language police bot took issue with the word "bastard".
This software is not trying to solve the problem of getting artists paid, and the suggestion that people should listen to Spotify ads and all is not really going to solve that problem, either.
You can, in fact, with the right equipment, talk to NFC chips from a distance. Easier with 125kHz than with 13.56MHz but still possible. See, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9f_TiKHIY

Security of NFC applications is complex, and generally a layered approach. Yes, physical distance is a mitigating factor. Using smart cards (rather than keyfobs) and encrypted communication mitigates the risk of skimming. Using sensible financial limits and good monitoring limits the impact of any issue that does occur.

In the end, security is not a black and white 'you need to be at a distance thus things are secure' story. It's about reducing the risk, which is a combination of reducing probability _and_ reducing impact.
So your gut reaction is overriding any capacity for actual thought?

I guess I can empathise — when I don't get enough sleep or if I drink too much caffeine my emotions can overwhelm my ability to reason.

And that one time a heart transplant was shown explicitly on a TV documentary. As a mere memory that's fine, but at the moment the heart came out of the chest on TV? Nopenopenope.

Likewise the existence of horror as a genre. The mere adverts for the Saw franchise left me disgusted at humanity, so obviously I never watched the films.

Irony, you write as if rationality throws away something that we need, but I think you've lost something…
I feel that your comment is poorly articulated and ignores the primary reasons that many people use adblockers (malware protection). However, your point is very valid and I 100% agree. Compensate with your time or compensate with your money. I personally still have a large collection of compact discs. The sound quality difference is amazing, though people listening to music produced in the last decade might be less affected as that most of that music was engineered to be played over highly compressed lossy streaming and a half cm mono speaker that cannot reproduce anything below 100 or above 16000 hz as found on a smartphone.
David Bier discusses visa delays contributing to the labor shortage
That, combined with that it appears to be aimed at "depressed, disabled, and broke folks" (their words, from that link) and I can imagine some people took offense and reported it.
Getting it wrong implies they cared to investigate the cause to begin with, before coming up with those headlines. It's not the first time they're putting out such misleading pieces when it comes to Tesla.

Without knowing anything about EVs, a layperson can see that when most Teslas (and other EVs) are fine, and the problematic cases are with folks trying to charge at public chargers, it must have to do with those chargers and not the "batteries dying in the cold".
Taking the music without compensation and pretending that you're totally going to buy some music or merch from some other artist doesn't actually lead to artists being compensated. While in the plan where you buy music and only listen to the music you bought you don't need this app at all.
> Ahh, it's an Associated Press article reposted. That explains the clickbait headline.

The AP is the furthest thing from clickbait I can possibly imagine, and their original headline[1] is completely different.

1. https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicle-charging-tesla-f...
This. The state only cares about maintaining order in order for itself to survive. Justice is a concern only insofar as it contributes to that goal. You can see this most blatantly in rape cases where the victim is better off not reporting the rape at all than going through the justice system to get restitution.
Not only such a DB exists, but is provided by Unicode itself. [1] There are also additional rules for internationalized domain names, because well, IDN would be an instant no-go without such measures.

[1] https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp
That means it should ease demand for the 3nm node so we can see more non-Apple chips on it?

I'm just curious where'd does TSMC find free real estate in Taiwan for so many fabs. At this rate Taiwan will be all TSMC fabs.
If you care about the artist here pay them directly either through bandcamp, by going to the physical shows and buying merch, ordering physical copies of their music at the label, patreon, or whatever form of direct support they have set up.

Spotify is just leeching of the culture and as drew pointed out you will be 10000 times more effective if you use one of those options.

Spotify is more or less just a signal booster nowadays - because you have to be on there since everyone uses it.

I for one would never put my music on Spotify, even if I get what like 20$ out of it, what a horrible company and service.
FWIW, they start counting function arguments from 0, so _2 is indeed the velocity.

But I do agree with your main point that the order of arguments is irrelevant, and it is a mistake to make it a first-class citizen of the notation.
The headline here is verbatim from the story, but reads better as

"TSMC 2nm Update: Two Fabs in Construction, Third Awaiting Government Approval"
I'm not going to watch the whole video but it doesn't seem like it supports the point you're trying to make.

> How long does it take for your 400mA multimeter fuse to blow at 600mA?

> The amazing unpredictability of fusing current ratings at low overloads.

It makes a point of saying that fuses are imprecise, i.e. that a fuse likely won't blow when 600mA of current passes through a 400mA fuse for a few seconds.

What Rossmann discovered was that fuses from Amazon took 4x the rated current for minutes. That's many orders of magnitude out of spec.
>dx is a differential one-form. You can think of it as a generalisation of a gradient, if you like. These are very important in Differential Geometry.

This really doesn't help beginners. At all.

There are formal contexts where we can reinterpret division by zero and have it make sense. Should I start telling students that division by zero is allowed? Should I start teaching intro calculus students that 1+2+3+...=-1/12?