skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad design is slowly becoming an industry trend, which is surprising because Twitter today has more design influencers than ever before. Personally, I feel that the marriage of design with data has created such a huge mess that there’s just no good escape hatch.

It’s all about simplicity and the 80/20 principle today, which means that designers are bound to look at usage metrics and clicks as evidence of a successful design. Upper management doesn’t have to care as long as the bottom line is doing well and they’re able to kill competition in other ways.

From a user standpoint, though, once you get attuned to the basic functionality you want more power features that cost a lot of effort to build but don’t really make you pay more for them. You just can’t win.

This is why we need competition.
I got pissed off by their product, so I just stopped paying them. Now I just hear ads every 10-20 minutes, which pisses me off even more. Now I really don’t wanna pay for Spotify anymore.

…it’s probably not the best business relationship, but hey, I didn’t start it.
It's not an accurate claim either.
Hard disagree. I think it's the most essential freedom of speech there is: to be allowed to read and speak wrong, dangerous ideas.
For context, this looks to be https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-05-19/the-joe-rogan-experi...

> should've been yours too

Different people like different things. That's okay.
Bitcoin (BTC) is attempting to break the crucial $55,000.
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Today, Bitcoin’s (BTC) price is attempting a fresh surge above the $52,000 resistance mark, showing a 1.82% increase to trade at $52,295, with a market cap exceeding $1.02 trillion. This surge comes after Bitcoin rallied above $52,900 last week, marking its highest point in 26 months. Currently, BTC trading between $51,500 and $52,500 hints at possible additional upward momentum. The question is, will the bull run continue?

The largest cryptocurrency has seen a 12% increase over the past week, continuing its steady climb from $38,500 at the end of January. This rally coincides with substantial inflows into U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF), notably with BlackRock’s IBIT accumulating over 28,000 bitcoins last week.
Love Spotify, saying that as a UI guy as well as a music lover. I've tried Apple Music, Deezer & recently Tidal - but find Spotify's music discovery alg. is killer for what I listen to.
I think they mean mandatory CA
From what I've heard the Spotify UI is made by multiple teams. Each team makes their own section and other teams don't need to (nor can they) interfere.
Year 2024, Humanity's in its golden age. Real problems? Extinct. War, crimes, poverty, hunger, even diseases: all banished into history textbooks. The only tear in this utopian tapestry? A handful of folks getting their knickers in a twist over the replication of certain patterns of zeroes and ones.
> Wearing out of the physical medium makes music more valuable

In what way? It adds an extra monetary cost to replace the playback medium, and an environmental cost to produce that medium, but does it actually make the music itself any more valuable?
>I feel like I'm in a weird alt-universe.

>I've heard frequent complaints about spotify pushing podcasts but I've never once had spotify show me a podcast above the fold that I haven't myself followed.

That you have followed or listened to a podcast in Spotify is what makes you different here.

I have never listened to a podcast on Spotify, despite being a user since the invite-only days, yet the UI recommends podcasts at the same frequency as you've described.

I imagine many of the other people here do not want podcasts to appear anywhere in the Spotify UI.
I teach a class on basic web technologies to Marketing students, and I always enjoy talking about DNS there. It is a fun concept to explain, that a text file, quite literally, is the backbone (phonebook) to the entire internet as we use it today. Anyone who gets to mess with the phonebook, has power. At the same time, nobody stops you from using your own copy of it. If the government decides to mess with the phonebook (like it does in many countries around the world), you simply use someone else's phonebook, or your own copy (or even just the edits/overwrites - i.e. the hosts file).
Heh, I decided to go back and look at the first time this was posted (4 pages of reposts now!)

>> That's interesting and all, but why do we get a mildly-interesting wikipedia article every couple of days without any context or commentary?
I've half a mind to write a bot that submits a random article every 48 hours.

> This particular one was taken from Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p56pz/til_st...

Thought I'd go take a look, and... yeah. Currently on the front page of r/TIL.
VLC is great for that. Just hit Ctrl+L to open the playlist view.
Werkbund Exhibition (1914)
Did the USSR have TV channels in the West during the cold war?
You may not use it at home, but it can easily become the default in managed environments.

I just wish that the focus is really on protecting citizens (e.g. block domains known to serve malware) rather than just filtering "illegal content".

The latter would just be a waste of EU money with very little added value for the EU citizens. I'd bet that blocking "illegal content" will be mostly blocking DMCA takedowns. I.e. EU will be spending from their own pockets to have the "privilege" to serve takedowns for US-owned IP from an EU-controlled DNS infrastructure.
The only way this could work would be to force OS vendors to have "trusted" DNS servers and ban the use of any custom setting.

Then again that would be a nightmare for large corporates that have customised internal DNSs, so I don't see it coming anytime soon.
I use Doppler on Mac/iOS:

https://brushedtype.co/doppler/

It's not perfect (adding and syncing music from Bandcamp could be smoother; it requires their Doppler Sync app to sync over Wi-Fi/AirDrop instead of syncing via cloud storage, which would be my preference).

But the UX is decent, it supports playlists, and it just works offline. If you can see your music you can play it which — oddly — has not been my experience with apps for streaming services that are supposed to let you download playlists for use offline.
> At the end of the day, 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 is a fact you have to live with

That is the one example that floats around a lot, but its also imho not very good one. '0.1', '0.2', and '0.3' are not floating point values, so the premise is flawed.

0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625
+ 0.200000000000000011102230246251565404236316680908203125
!= 0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875

is far less surprising.

Also `round(0.1 + 0.2, 15) == 0.3` is true (in python), so being conscious about rounding things appropriately goes long way. And I imagine that correct rounding is relevant in monetary calculations no matter what sort of numbers you are using, so while while floats the situation might be more pronounced I don't see it being such fundamental problem.
What ecosystem? It’s on Android and Windows too, and has a web version for Linux use.
The article is greatly exaggerating. It's been years since I've encountered a broken cart.
> The one major gripe is not being able to upload my own songs, I love listening to remixes and covers, youtube, spotify or tiktok has plenty of songs I’d love in my library. But it’s a nightmare for a business model that respects artists and a cost structure that needs to be covered. Again, no real good alternatives that do this well + have a normal library + be legal.

But you can, if you have the audio files you can use them as local files [1] in your Spotify library.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/us/article/local-files/
From the AWS/Azure perspective, their "large" system is an AZ

Cloud providers use logical abstractions to draw a line around the "system"...beyond the crush HN has on Oxide, it isn't clear to me how their product is a gain. Who is their customer? Someone with needs bigger than one server but smaller than one rack?
Because then some process on the server has to fetch/checkout the clone each time there's a push?

Whereas reading directly from the repo gets around that.
It isn't just the big labels. Apple Music has a list of distributors they work with:

https://artists.apple.com/partners

CDBaby is popular where 91% of revenue from Apple, Spotify etc goes to the artist.

So then it seems that the price per stream does make a difference.
Nah, a generation grew up with the MCU films, they will remain in their minds for the rest of their lives. The films you mentioned are probably the ones you grew up with and the ones that you use as benchmarks. The generation before that was Star Wars, before that it was historical epics, etc etc etc.

Just like with music, "the best" is often the things you experience in your mid-teens to mid-twenties. And when you grow up you'll develop some more critical thinking and may appreciate older or newer things.
I know this isn't a practical option for many, but there are still many simple audio players for self managed music collections.

I use VLC on Android, and Amberol on Linux. They're both folder oriented, and stay out of the way.
I would rather not be a hypocrite - we call it "censorship" when other countries block us from broadcasting our propaganda into their countries.

It's not different this time or when we do it or any of the usual contortions attempted to maintain a barely passable facade of intellectual honesty.
Titanic isn't just any random 1997 movie... it may well be considered a classic some decades from now.
A good diet should be 60% of the efforts you put into your weight loss. the other 40% should be put into sport. My source? My dietetician.
Yes, I request various bands from the 70s and I get live versions, bootlegs, covers. Never the original.

Going the artist link, it doesn't even list all the albums.

YouTube Music on the other hand has everything and more.
In my case, I signed a part of my shares off and received an XL check (after paying XL taxes). That was a "take it or leave it" kind of deal, no platform was used.
Funny thing people says the EU is a communist state when it has been ruled by right-wing conservatives since its inception
> I think the parent might be a new user.

I've been using Spotify since 2015.
I’ve moved to Tidal and Bandcamp.

Tidal has roughly the same catalog as Spotify plus high quality / lossless playback options if the album / artist supports it.

Tidal also integrates with a lot of DJ software like Rekordbox and Djay. These apps let you play from Todal but disable recording when using a streaming service.

Bandcamp is the real way to support labels and artists by buying music directly. You download the files and own them and can use them in DJ software and record, take them to the club, etc.

Spotify is a bummer. I made a jukebox app https://jukelab.com with their SDK but the SDK, developer TOS, catalog and whole experience continually is trending away from giving you control over the music.
Oh man, I visited NYC recently and was shocked when I went into the local CVS and Walgreens in Williamsburg. Almost all shelves had plastic covers with locks on them, so you can't pick up anything by yourself. Coming from a relatively safe country in Europe and to see something like that, not a pleasant experience at all.
> Love Spotify, saying that as a UI guy

Really?
No, they can't "just" do it in one fell swoop, that'd be too much and meet way too strong backlash. Even in autocratic regimes the "tightening of the bolts" has to be done gradually and step by step, nevermind the (still mostly) democratic ones.
As a guitarist, that's partly why I prefer actual effects pedals to adding a new plugin to an application. Physical cables to plug in and knobs to turn somehow improves the experience for me.

But Walkmen? Nah, give me my MiniDisc any day ;-)
This is not about “allowing”, but actively blocking.

The European Union bureaucrats can keep their filters off my packets.
> I believe the solution to this (and the reason we don't have it) is no longer technical, it's societal.

Yes and it involves not letting effective monopolies dictate the rules for unhindered participation in society.
Curious why? I've never heard court ordered blocking of it.
I remember EU wide sanction mentioning RT in the context of finances and (re-) broadcast, while web traffic was never mentioned.
I mean they are revenue-share deals. So each label will get paid a % of Spotify's total revenue according to the number of listens they have and how well they negotiated the deal.

So labels like UMG are going to get a better deal than some indie artist who just has to sign up normally. How much the UMG artists end up getting paid is up to UMG.

The problem is really that 90% of people listen to a few big artists that are owned by these mega-labels. And that distorts the entire economy of the sector.
I'd like to point out the particular enshitification of the left side bar on the Desktop app.

I do not understand which human is able to understand the logic of this thing or navigate to a particular item in O(1) without exhaustive search.
Much of this article is bullshit, to be honest. There's a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about how you can only have one version of python installed at a time, but obviously that's patent nonsense: lots of OSes shipped a python2 and a python3 binary for many years, and some are only just giving up the former now as it it's all totally EOL.

Also the idea that everything has to go into a flat /bin directory is nonsense too. My experience is chiefly with illumos, but we have inherited a number of separate trees for compatibility with different standards; e.g., /usr/xpg4/bin had some POSIX binaries where they were incompatible with the default /usr/bin binaries. There were also SunOS (BSD) compatibility binaries in /usr/ucb for a long time. Commonly different JDK versions could be installed alongside one another under /usr/jdk/$version. Unbundled software from many other places would find its way into trees in /opt. Even shared libraries can be installed alongside one another without conflicts, provided you do the right thing with ABI stability and sonames etc.

I have no doubt that other OSes have made a set of similar decisions to provide various levels of binary compatibility and evolution over time, depending on how important it has been to their respective user communities and customer bases.
Really. :)
That is a good point you made

I will say though that one difference is that Skyrim and Fallout 4 were deeply beloved by most Bethesda fans when they released. Starfield on the other hand seems to have had a more negative reception than them.

That being said....everything you said could very well be true! I guess we shall see what happens.

One final point: Other Bethesda games are known to have highly memorable atmospheres. I strongly remember the emotions I felt when I played Bethesda's other games. Starfield, on the other hand, has a very bland atmosphere unfortunately. That was the biggest dissapointment I had with it. I don't know how Bethesda can"fix" this issue even if they fix all the other issues with Starfield.
During the golden age of mp3/flac KDE's Amarok was awesome, later it had a subpar upgrade to 3.x and was forked off as Clementine, and now Clementine is also becoming creaky...
> If it becomes too costly to operate in the EU, multinationals will eventually leave.

Good.
In which country are you living ?
> but if I want to keep listening to music, I don't see a way around it

Buying albums works. It’s what I do. It is markedly more expensive than Spotify, though.
I can half-agree with this, but I would measure it differently.

It's not the words themselves that are surprising, but the range of language features used.

I have a friend who produces particularly readable (TypeScript) code - at least in my opinion. For a long time I couldn't figure out what was so special about it, then it dawned on me that he simply doesn't use the more fancy and recent features of the language - by recent I mean stuff that came out in the last four years or so.

I wouldn't be so radical in my approach, but I believe feature usage should obey a power law, with more advanced parts occurring less frequently. I'm sure there's a balance to be struck between terseness and using as minimal a subset of the language as possible.

Also it doesn't hurt to have whitespace here and there. We use paragraphs in written speech for a reason.
Recently my girlfriend was sick and after seeing multiple doctors in Germany who all had long delays, unfriendly assistants, little time, and conflicting conclusions, I have high hopes for AI. It’s easy to improve the situation from where it is now.
I use bandcamp, which is vastly materially different from spotify (at least for now) in both its value proposition to me and its commitment to fairly compensate artists. It offers phone apps on which I can trivially stream any music I've bought there as well as lots of music I haven't (though artists can also opt out of allowing this).

I can also purchase the music, which the artist gets a fairly significant cut of, and which the apps start yelling at you to do if you're repeatedly listening to the same albums. Doing this also lets me download it, either to local storage on one of the proprietary phone OSes so I can play it when I don't have signal, or as actual files I can put on my computer, which I personally then use to also stream it to myself on any linux device using freely available tools (mpd and shoutcast, often through an ssh tunnel)

I get that the last part of my use case allegedly requires me to be "technical" (IE set up a config file and use a command-line application or two), but the baseline use case of bandcamp provides streamable music without that, and it's not like it's some obscure thing no one's heard of either. What are you talking about?
High budget artistic vision does not translate to financial success though; it's ultimately a tradeoff.

That said, good films don't need high budget.

I don't agree with your last take, either; the MCU was when the superhero movie formula was perfected. We're now in a post-MCU phase where what is being produced just can't reach the same appeal anymore. Morbius and Madame Web are outright flops. They seem to be rebooting Fantastic Four for the 4th time. Any sequel to established MCU characters seem to be independent / standalone films, sometimes a bit gimmicky like Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange horror crossover episode or Thor's 80's glam rock direction.
>> which means to sneak in the AI needs to be pretty much perfect

That's status quo. Because right now artificial art is easy to distinguish form "natural art". Besides that I consider this - no offense! - as some kind of "arrogance". Galleries accept what they think what art is. Why can't I, the art consumer, decide for myself, what art is?
Spotify did a good job until lately. Apple is quite unusable for me, since they can't distinguish between me and my partner - whoever starts something on a HomePod, it's done with my account. We tried to reset Siri often, but gave up on it.

Another downside is the ~4000 Songs shared Spotify Playlist with some friends&co-workers which is not available on Apple Music, and sadly they make it (IMHO) ridiculous hard to import Playlists from other Platforms.
I'm pretty sure there are many many individual things that have been lost/forgotten, even very important ones as concrete.

There was indisputably a loss of tech and a regression in many fronts. But technology and progress is not a one-dimensional thing so you shouldn't just focus on the cases where the regression happened and extend that to imply that there was no progress anywhere.

Progress is tied to the socio-economics climate. Advances in agricultural efficiency continued and perhaps even surpassed the roman era.
It is regulated in Europe via the AI Act, effective in 2026 (iirc).
Yes. Mandate Google to follow EU’s restrictions when they respond to 8.8.8.8 on a EU address, or pay a huge penalty.

After all, it’s EU’s freedom which is at stake.
Yup, I quit spotify for similar reasons.

Overall, it seemed like with every update, it more aggressively was trying to strongarm me into listening to what they want me to listen to, making it harder and harder to make my own choices and have my own tastes.

Really sucks. Spotify used to be pretty good.
Yeah, had to LOL at "War, crimes, poverty, hunger, even diseases: all banished into history textbooks".

That's with several major wars going on, including talks of nuclear escalation, worsening crime stats (in the US, but also elsewhere in the west), poverty on the rise (and thus hunger), and after the COVID pandemic toll (regarding diseases)...
Why do you extrapolate the situation of the US to the world? I want to understand your USDefaultism.
I've seen slides from marketing agencies where they're called Brand Fanatics. Apparently if customers are emotionally invested in a company, they pay 3x more or something like that.
This isn't about "reading/speaking wrong or dangerous ideas". You can stand infront of one of the EU parl today and read whatever manifesto of ideas you think true, in fact some people do, hell you can even do that inside the parliament, in fact some people do.

What you cannot be is a foreign state at war with an ally and freely distribute state propaganda aimed at furthering your war goals. This isn't a hard line to draw.
AIUI the 15kW power limit per rack is going to be a constraint down the line, since it appears that newer AMD hyperscale hardware will be built for a higher level of power density, one that pretty much relies on the use of liquid cooling. To some extent, that was the point of those new Zen 4c and 5c core designs. Even with Oxide's use of rack-scale fans, I'm not sure that they'll be able to shed the amount of heat that these newer chips are going to be designed for. Of course there are very similar concerns if you want to do HPC with CPU+GPU compute, too.
> Well, as a musician myself, I often feel a bit conflicted reading statements like these. After all, as uncomfortable as it may be, it is <insert big pop artist> that brings _most_ people to a platform, not the indies, typically.

I'm confused by your argument here. If the big popstars bring people to a platform, then presumable there will be more than enough people to listen to those popstars and their share of the revenue will be naturally very high, no? Let's say there are 1 billion music listeners worldwide (I pulled this number out of my ass). 90% of these want to listen to pop music and will subscribe to a platform that has the major pop artists. It then follows that these pop artists will naturally get 90% of listeners on the platform too, no? The only difference is the marginal 10% who want to primarily listen to indies.

In other words, a "fair" revenue distribution model would still direct most of the money to a handful of popstars, but now it wouldn't be so extremely skewed. Instead of 99%, they'd only get 90% - which should IMO be more than enough and crucially at least it's fair.

As it stands, indie musicians who need to money are basically subsidizing the extremely popular artists who don't need subsidizing anymore. It's completely the wrong way around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Soviet_Union...

That was censorship too ...
Every so often, someone shares a picture where NaN got printed onto a price sticker.