skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not hard to anticipate how this might play out. I can see how it first becomes the "official" resolver, which in a later steps is maybe "recommended," then required if you want certain kinds of funding or subsidy, or just serve public contracts, etc. Before you know it it's mandatory.
Huh, I have to try this.
It doesn't have to be prohibition which over time would harm HN badly, just slower and delayed approach of earning good access. Or show age and karma of users commenting next to their nick, some scam patterns will become obvious.
That's why the next step will be mandating its use and blocking of DNS servers that don't replicate this one.
I can’t speak highly enough about Protomaps. Took my bill from $200-300+ in my high traffic months to something like <$5/mo. Relatively easy to get started with as well. I’ve been super happy with it.
Show HN: Maybe one of the most advanced and feature-rich Unbound-Docker images?
Heya HackerNews!,

So many changes took place from the last time I was telling you about my unofficial unbound docker image. As you can see I am still very committed to make this image as good as I can and that's the reason I've made a fresh show hn.

What happened?

I was surprised that the image wasn't that secure as I was thinking.

RTFM you say?
You are absolutely right!

Anyway, I bit the pill and moved from chroot'ing to distroless and I didn't regret it. The image is so much more secure now and since I try to work smart, I've also implemented workflows to automatically update my image when an Unbound update was released by NLnet Labs.

Some users were expecting issues regading the changed config parameters but so far it looks nice and I had less to do than I was expecting.

One perfect addition was flanging redis as cachedb onto unbound. The performance is extraordinary via UnixSocket which I made possible by using a proxy image which holds the redis.sock to make it available to the limited _unbound user.

Another thing is that you can set environment variables in your compose file, so the uid and gid ain't hardcoded anymore. Yes @kernbug is a MVP to me.

If you use Zabbix and like graphs in Grafana like I do, check out my unbound-docker-stats: https://github.com/madnuttah/unbound-docker-stats which should be usable with any unbound-docker image with my 'frankensteined' healthcheck script.

I hope you like what I do and I'm keen to hear your constructive criticism.

You'll find the image's sources here: https://github.com/madnuttah/unbound-docker-stats

Cheers and all the best,
madnuttah

Edit: formatting
I grew up in Germany and I don't remember any mention of mythologic literature outside things like "this, but the way, is when the Iliad is set". The optional religion classes of course were full of mythologic literature, but no Iliad there either (geographically it wasn't that far off).

There was a series of youth entertainment books that retold the stories, that were very widely read. Think Lord of the Rings, but kids would then talk of Achilles instead of Aragorn. Fallen out of favor I think, because the good/evil dichotomy, where it appeared, was almost as seeped in racist ideas as in LotR, just without being able to hide behind "yeah, this is middle earth, where wildly different hominid species just exist and look how good some of them can get along anyways"
This is making a sweeping assumption that Americans are a homogenised society, which they are anything but given it's mostly composed of Nth generation immigrants.
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Startup idea: DRM-locked audio files that can only be played once.
> It really is just for general populace who are too gullible to know better

I know you didn't mean it this way but this is an incredibly funny way of putting it. "The globalists don't want you to know this, but the shopping carts at Publix are free..."
This is a great idea. Where do apply this though? The reason I use git at all is because of the support in other systems. It's not the best VCS, it's the best one that I can create a new repo for in Github or Azure Devops, or that I can link with issues in some issue mgmt system.

If I'd need to self host a git repo, it would immediately lose most of its value. That's not to say it's useless longer term though. Other good extensions to git like Git LFS were also once in that situation, but wide adoption quickly meant that it's now a (mostly) integral part of git and every hosted git repository supports it. This would be very useful if it was adopted in the same way by the big repo hosters.
Here's a security researcher's "unrolled" tweet thread of interesting findings contained in the leak: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1759326049262019025.html
$100B in revenues for a country of 3 billion would be absolutely tiny (even for a developed country of 30 million people) and in no way enough to support governance systems even vaguely resembling modern governments.
Generative AI slashes data entry costs by 97% without training
Spotify is a background noise generator. With hard work it can be used to listen more attentively by searching for specific albums by specific artists, although the amount you’re contributing to those artists is ambiguous.
This guy seems to be an amazing teacher. He's gone way beyond the call of duty in the effort he's put into course-prep; what an inspirational seminar.
You may wonder how's that going to work now that DoH is used by default by browsers? For it won't be enough to use the great firewall of communist Europe to filter port 53: they'll have to force browsers to send encrypted DNS traffic to EU-approved resolvers...

Well, the call for proposal linked in TFA mention DoH and explains that they'll need to "engage with the community" (browsers, ISPs, ...).

Community engagement comrades!
My guess is that the 2u sleds are shipped in separate boxes, but that's a guess.
VPP dev here. Our perf tests for Intel run in CSIT lab consistently shows a perf benefit of 10%-20% since Haswell I believe, so in our typical VPP deployment we usually map 2 VPP workers (dataplane threads) to both hyperthreads of the same physical core.
But that's for VPP, your mileage may vary depending of your workload (eg. FreeBSD kernel stack).
While I'm not the world's #1 Golang fan, this is something that they have. They took a lot of complexity out of the language, so any code you look at will seem very simple & readable. There's not a lot of magic syntactic sugar, you just write things down the simple verbose way.

The flip side of that coin is you have to reimplement a lot of things yourself, so any essential complexity that the language doesn't handle for you is pushed on you to re-implement in your codebase.

Python's decent at this too. At least the simple Python people use in small scripts. It's almost pseudocode, as long as no one tries and overengineers it.
lol…

If you’d ever had to bill millions of customers for precise amounts of electricity and gas at precise prices… you would hate floats and you’d hate that any idiot will act as though excel is gospel truth.
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What's the point ? In France, IAP already block some unlawful websites with their DNS, and you just have to switch to another one.
I can't stand Spotify's redesign anymore. Looking for an improved Winamp-like app with very simple interface and playlists. What should I try?

Apple Music is a joke as well. I can't even play some of my custom audio files (they're not music, custom sounds) because Apple thinks they are not allowed to play in my country. I can't play my own audio files because of some buggy software Apple doesn't care about maintaining anymore.
Spotify is one of the prime apps for "mass consumption", should be given the UI, UX and other aspects are geared towards your average nerf herders - not the tech savvy, independent-thinking-valuing crowd.
> Do tell me what kool aid did I drink?

As I read it, "people can’t drop the kool aid drinking caricature view on iPhone users" says not that people who hold the caricature view are kool-aid-drinkers, but that they hold a view of iPhone users as kool-aid-drinkers. So I don't think there was any claim that you drink anything at all. (Though I'm fairly sure you do: At least water, or you'd be dead.)
This might sounds snarky, but I'm serious when I say if we want to know more about the oceans, Hollywood is going to have to come up with a better ocean competitor to Star Trek than 'SeaQuest DSV'. For better or worse, public interest is driven by popular entertainment, and there's maybe one interesting under the water movie once a decade.
I’ve felt similarly for many years, but remain trapped using Spotify due to a lack of decent alternatives. Tried Tidal, but it wasn’t really any better. Would love to hear what leavers migrate to.
Last time I checked it was a bit clunky to get these working with HTTPS.
I have left another comment. A trillion times this. Floats anywhere give two outcomes: customer accuses you of salami slicing from them or you give away millions.
VPP dev here. Yes, we had support for OpenSuse and RHEL/CentOS in the past, but distro support vanished. We're a small team so we need to focus (note: for OpenSuse it's still maintained by a volunteer, just not in CI/CD), but we're open :)
FreeBSD fundation decided it was important for them and we're happy to help!
Note that the EU forces providers to censor DNS already.

% nslookup www.rt.com - dns01.mnet-online.de
Server: dns01.mnet-online.de
Address: 2001:a60::53:1#53

*** Can't find www.rt.com: No answer
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Stripe may love to write, but it appears to hate its readers. The light gray type on that web page is really hard to read.
I do the same, but for a different reason. In my mind, they are less accessible, as the end of the line usually has metal guardrails, thus leaving the closer and easier-to-reach carts for other people.

On the other hand, in my area, I have never seen a broken cart, perhaps because they require coins to operate.
This is stepping over the line, I'm not even arguing over piracy. The real issue is having the infrastructure in place to control media.

It's concerning this is even attempted to begin with.
So, 2FA would've prevented this? Crazy that 23andMe didn't have one mandatory.
I promise that we have shipped several of them around. We have one parked in a cage in the south bay, and I believe aside from getting the crate on and off the truck, it was almost certainly rolled into the DC on its castors. I have personally helped push one or two of them into the crates we use, which is something of a production but doable. I also occasionally have to shunt a few of them around the office, which I have been able to do on the castors there as well; the floor is relatively flat concrete.
Glass half empty then.

Most vector databases are using some local or external provider to get the embeddings and then using some storage engine to store and retreive the embeddings. Whether it's pgvector leaning on postgresql, or chromadb on sqlite, or pinecone originally being on rocksdb (I believe they've now built their own engine).

This is no different, and is still in it's infancy, so one presumes they might add support for other methods of getting the embeddings much as chromadb has.
I feel this article uses a lot of words to say something very simple.

I've always found motor skills very interesting. I'm naturally good at symbolic reasoning but pretty poor at motor learning. For symbolic reasoning tasks, like maths or programming, I just roll stuff around in my head and get better at it. But motor skills I have to physically practice and there is an inaccessible (at least to me) level of unconscious processing where improvement takes place. E.g. performing a handstand is conceptually trivial (stack your weight over your hands) but actually doing it is another matter. In learning to handstand I found I have gradually become more aware of my body's position when upside down but the process of doing so just happens without any conscious oversight. I do handstands and the next day I'm magically better at them.

Anyway, for learning about learning motor skills I've been enjoying the Perception & Action podcast: https://perceptionaction.com/ One key take away is importance of exploring the movement space. In a musical context this would be, I think, jamming. Take a theme and explore. In the context of handstands this would be different entries, movement within the handstand, other related balancing (e.g. headstand).
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I'm also not a fan of the direction Spotify is going, but if I want to keep listening to music, I don't see a way around it - and I don't think other music services are materially different. I support the artists I care about most by going to their concerts and/or buying merch. I use services like last.fm for better discovery. Spotify doesn't have to be the only way you interact with music.

The author doesn't say how they're going to keep listening to songs. Are they going to start buying/torrenting all their music? Are they going to switch to a different service, and does that service address any of the listed issues? Or are they simply giving up on listening to music (in the quantities/variety available through a catalogue like Spotify's)?
Counterintuitively clouds are heavy, in a way, because they're so large.

The Sun is another interesting (size * density) example. The Sun's "power per unit volume" is only about the same as a compost pile. But because it's so large, this is enough to keep it glowing brightly.
Winamp still works.
My Spotify has only one row of podcast recommendations (in the All tab). The rest are my type of music or the last album I was listening to. Am I missing something here?
Useful list of tricks: http://www.plunk.org/~hatch/rightway.html
Nerf herders were totally fine with Winamp. I remember old people using Winamp back in the days.
> It keeps pushing playlists that feel generic, bland, more based on demographics than my years of consistent listening history.

I don't really agree with this point. The personal playlists (both Discover Weekly and the Daily Mix ones) are very close to what I usually listen to and have made me discover dozens of artists I didn't know before. Maybe they work better for some than for others, but they don't feel like being based just on demographics at all to me.
The new Winamp has nothing to do with the spirit of the Winamp we loved and used.
There is no point in running your own indexer if it's only for your own music though. If your goal is to run a more "communal" indexing point, it also makes sense to build it cooperatively with other artists, listing only content you all care about and want to distribute (rather than doing a filtering after the fact with a general indexer)

I like your idea of giving its name back to a technology that just works better, and I think it pairs really well with giving back a humane touch to how we use the internet, computers, and putting people back at the center rather than thinking about tools first !
We see the stars every night, but rarely dip below the surface of the ocean.
I'm thinking about canceling it as well but note sure about an alternative. What are you migrating to?
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> Metal is of course more shatter resistant than polymer.

Yeah, but that doesn't help when the phone lands with the glass hitting something. And a heavier metal phone will have accumulated more kinetic energy during the fall than a lighter plastic one, so have a greater probability of shattering the glass.
Not sure if that's a render, but from what I understand the cables are integrated into the rack.
This is no different from yacc files being prefix by "yy". It makes it easier to spot which files are castle files and avoids collisions with files/units from other libraries.

Meaningless nitpick.
Use the old one? I still do...
I miss the Spotify 3rd-party apps, I discovered some great music through them.
I feel the same way about Spotify. It reminds me of Netflix in that it's hard for me to find interesting content to consume. I wish there was a way to become a power user, enabling me to better organize my audio library and delve deeper into their extensive collection to uncover new, intriguing music.

Moreover, the fact that artists seem to be paid so little makes me increasingly inclined to consider leaving their service for something else, like Tidal, or simply using YouTube Music.

By the way, if anyone is working on a Spotify killer, feel free to reach out. It would be fun to help out.
Same, even if music is available freely through YouTube or else, Spotify's recommendations are the reason I am still subscribed
I dread the interface of Spotify. What do they employ massive numbers of UX people for? Nothing regarding Spotify's interface is any better than 2012. Cards, auto-play TikTok'ified video bullshit, weird navigation of menus and playlists, hidden core functionalities, lack of customization, funneling of user flows into garbage marketing content...

It's like they are sitting in a lab and professionally try to find out how to annoy people and make their lives harder.

In the end, I understand that they need to bullshit their way out of shareholder expectations but it's sad to see the enshitification of Spotify over the years. Let's see how long it takes them to nuke account sharing like Netflix and now Disney.
I am fascinated by these very high-end machines and their more direct competition. My feeling is that they are gunning more towards the Oracle Exacta and M8 and their Fujitsu counterparts and IBM mainframes than to racks full of generic Dell boxes (or OCP equivalents).

Wouldn't they be vulnerable, BTW, to an OCP integrator offering the same functionality with plug-compatible parts?
> I don't think other music services are materially different

They very much do if you care about audio quality.

Spotify still doesn't support high-res audio e.g. CD quality and above.
Or use GitLab and you can use a private repo
> The only exception might be one-off scripts.

Agreed, but if you're writing in J, Forth or Factor then it's hardly likely to make it into production anyway.
Yeah, but at the first sniff of it happening you're gonna get sued, and then it's going to appear in discovery and there's no chance you can claim you didn't know what you were doing.
Thanks for these thoughts. One point of departure is that our western
concept of authoritarian is incompatible with benevolence. The rest,
as you say is uncomfortable for many of us to contemplate as
necessary.
The post notes that Spotify pays $0.003-$0.005 per stream, and compares that to the average exec making $200k/year.

If Spotify diverted all that exec money to artists, I wonder whether the $0.003-$0.005 figure would change, or if that would be too only amount to <$0.0005 difference.

It might be fair to criticize Spotify's deal with rights holders of music, but the above line of critique doesn't hold so strong to me.

As it happens, $200k/year for an exec seems low?

Disclaimer: I don't use Spotify and instead manage my own collection.
there is still QMMP
I don't use Spotify anymore for random listening either. I use it only for very specific cases where I search for one particular song (and that's usually because I'm looking at a score at the moment and want to listen to it too, i.e. a very specific use case).

For everything else I only see a mess, basically what the author described. Bluntly speaking, it's become useless. Now I actually put on a CD at home when I want to listen to something.

However, I do listen to a particular podcast, on podcasters.spotify.com (10-minute Japanese listening practice), and at least there aren't any ads there.
My Spotify use is 99% mobile. Am I missing something or is the reappearing Winamp comparison simply misplaced?
I don’t agree with the author too. My Release Radar is totally on point with my type of genre, it has been this way. I’m curious if author has a generic taste in music?
r/iamveryrich leaking?
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For people that used to enjoy Spotify, such as myself & the author, this was never a main concern.
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Spotify's suggestions are horribly bland and insultingly unoriginal compared to Apple's.

I keep getting Black Sabbath's Paranoid, the song, in various "deep cuts" and "new music" themed lists and suggestions. It's from 1969.

Apple's lists and suggestions may actually have new music.
Using raw ChatGPT for complex coding queries is just poor tool use.

Custom GPTs exist for a reason. Grimoire (custom GPT) outperforms raw ChatGPT by miles.

My workflow is usually Grimoire to get a broad overview of things, then a model that can use my repo via tools like Cursor.
Accredited investors sign up to private market brokers such as EquityZen, Forge or FlexTrade to match sellers of company stock (typically employees) with buyers (mostly outside investors).

Depending on market conditions there can be private fundraising through those marketplaces which employees are able to directly sell their existing shares if they want to. This also depends on the company as well to allow this.
The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal
They can make it “mandatory” but if it sucks then people will just change their DNS to something else. The people who don’t know how to do that probably don’t leave the mainstream internet anyway.
The crux of Spotify was the acquisition of Echo Nest back in 2014: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/06/spotify-e...

I tend to think whatever good bits we see (Discovery being good) is sitting on the shoulders of that base work.

Yet, the product values of Spotify do not align with these people or musicians anymore.
I feel like both of you are correct. It feels to me that Spotify's recommendations easily gets stuck in a 'local maxima' where it just keeps recommending the same music over again with little variation. I found much more variation from other music streaming services where the playlists are supposedly actually human curated. Music just ends up feeling a lot more bland with Spotify, in my experience.

I don't even know what the Discover Weekly playlist is supposed to be. It frequently puts in not-new songs from not-new artists Spotify know I've been listening to.
UX people just do what they think is right and follow trends. They don't do real research like how it was done in the 80's and 90's. And there's also dark patterns...
It depends what is defined as exec. If there are hundreds in the company, that could make a difference.

In 17% layoff, the numbers was around 1500 employees fired. It means there are around 7300 employees left.
So that includes some execs.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/04/tech/spotify-layoffs-thir...
threadreaderapp version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1759326049262019025.html
I think the idea is to:

1) force ISP to use them as source DNS

2) force ISP to block ip of non EU DNS

3) add laws that forbid individuals and association to maintain an uncensored DNS

4) Force browser vendors to point to DNS over HTTPS server whose source is EU DNS

Not sure how they could limit people from using DNS over HTTPS with forked/reconfigured browsers but I guess that would at least limit the majority of non tech savy users.
Which services would you recommend as alternatives for higher quality audio at similar price points?