skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

I have the exact opposite experience on Spotify, I canceled my Netflix subscription because I got tired of being stuck scrolling trying to find something to watch.

On Spotify I have my playlists, including an "Inbox" playlist for sorting later when I find interesting new music. On playlists it used to be able to start a "radio" for recommendations based on the playlist's content, that has moved to the "Enhance" feature which will interleave some tracks on an existing playlist, I can add the tracks I like to the playlist and ignore the ones I didn't like, then refresh the "Enhance" feature to get new recommendations.

When I'm listening to some weird ass music that I want to discover more artists/tracks on a similar genre I will start a track or album radio, when I stumble upon a track that I like I will add to a matching playlist or simply put into my "Inbox" one to sort later.

I've done that for the past 10+ years and have discovered many, many artists and songs this way, even completely new genres that I liked.
> What open source project uses multiple DVCS repositories (e.g. bitbucket, github, sourceforge, sourcehut, etc) for one project in sync with each other? I haven't found a single one that does that.

There are some that have official mirrors on GitHub and perhaps even accept pull request here. But I think that only reinfoces the notion that GitHub is an effective monopoly.
Can you expand on how you code on an iPad? (the IDE, the languages and the kind of compilation you do (or lack of))
> At the end of the day, 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 is a fact you have to live with.

But 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 — if you round both sides to 2 (or however many you need) decimal points before comparing them.
The founding of America was built on seditionist terrorists broadcasting their very violent and hostile speech.

Speech is speech. Only speech deemed non-normative needs defending.

Words can’t hurt you.
Uploading music seems to work fine for Apple Music. It’s been a while since I’ve done it, but all the songs I’ve uploaded in the past are still available on all my devices.
This annoys me so much! Some artists like The Beatles who have so many different mixes I just have to resort to using YouTube instead of Spotify.

I wanted to listen to Please Please Me last week but Spotify gave me some horrible stereo remix that didn't even sound like the same music. I knew there were already two or remasters issued in mono, one from the 80 and two from the 00s, so figured I'd just append "mono" to my search and they'd all come up. Nope, just the most recent stereo remaster optimized for playback on phone speakers. Went to YouTube and I had the choice of every mix that had been published as well as a rip of the original vinyl pressing and a compilation of the outtakes.

They're all published by the same company too and have the same rights holders so I don't understand why they choose to hide so much of their work.
Turkey has a similar thing since about 10 years and the way it works is that if you don't agree with the government censorship you simply use some other DNS. Some service providers go the extra mile and block the ip but it seems pretty random. Even when blocked, you can use VPN.

However, being able to access if you try hard enough is not O.K. Especially commercial operations are not viable if the Government doesn't like you because you instantly lose the non-techies.

Dangerous stuff, even if you completely agree with everything the current government does don't forget that governments change.
As a mostly happy Spotify Premium user I expected to disagree, but OP is actually on point.

I realize I only use "search" and "like" and basically ignore the rest of the app. Spotify on mobile probably has the worst UX out of all the apps that I use regularly.

This might sound harsh but it is actually bad. The home screen is beyond useless.

I literally have a three year old album under "Popular new releases" and it's been there for two years and I have been listening to it regularly. Why is it there?

A section titled "Discover picks" shows me albums that literally have in my library and have listened to for many years.

If I scroll long enough, I get to a weird story-inspired feed that snap-scrolls with content that seems to have no relation to what I've been listening to.
There are also Apps which display HDMI input streams over USB-C. Orion and such.
In modern capitalism, the larger the company, the more it needs to grow in order to exist. Some, like Apple, manage to continuously expand into new markets. For now, at least. Others, like Spotify, are not positioned for that - once they reach their potential, they start to franticly juice their market destroying their product along the way.
"as soon as mp3 arrives, i acclimated and cannot look back"
spotify apps are cancer both mobile and desktop (but the mobile app is the worst), spotify connect doesn't work well, you cannot show / hide lyrics from spotify connect, lyrics are bad and often don't match or have no sync

but spotify also has very few songs missing from its library and the suggestions made me discover a lot of new songs / artists

good content but bad product
For me that wouldn't work, because the impact Slack has is not measured in time loss directly (or at least not only, since Slack is truly a laggy piece of crap), but instead in annoyance and feeling bad about using basically spyware on my system. Basically each interaction adds a bit of pain and questioning, why I am even doing this shit.

Not GP, but they could buy me a 1024 core monster if it exists, it would still not solve the problem of Slack.
It is better to sometimes be hurt than always be hurting. Organizations are so afraid of only 1 person understanding something that they create processes so that 0 persons understand it.
I believe, Spotify is pretty much the best thing ever. I understand the criticism - but to me, this is just a sign of how far we've come.

I was born in 1984 and, from a very early age, was really into Metal. That was a problem - since there were literally zero ways to discover new songs. The radio and MTV didn't play Metal. None of my friends shared my taste in Music. The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember those - the headphones hanging from the wall with 5-10 albums pre-loaded) never had Metal Albums.

My entire strategy was based on going to a record store and buying whatever had appealing cover art in the metal section. And I did this A LOT. The entire backwall of my room was taken up by a stereo and an ocean of CD stands.

That was expensive. Really expensive. At somewhere around $15-20 dollar for an Album, buying an Album a week took up about all my allowance - and most of the measly income from side jobs I've made as an adolescent.

Would you have told me back then, that for just 11$/month I could have all the music. ALL OF IT. And I would have a super knowledgeable entity that suggests new stuff to me. And I could just listen to a track or two without buying an Album. And it wouldn't take up space. And it didn't have CDs that could get scratched - I think I would have fainted.

Long story short - yes, Spotify isn't perfect - but dear god, is it (and related services) amazing relative to what I had when I was tiny.
Great resource. Thanks for this.
I've been using pc computers for nearly 30 years and they are faster today than the've ever been. Of course not thousands times faster. Just slightly faster. The biggest kick was SSDs.

My computer could be way faster but it's fast enough that I don't care to remove from autostart the software that doesn't need to be there.

I think that's the reason of software not keeping the pace with hardware in terms of speed. It's just fast enough and if you make it faster people just pile up stuff to make it as slow as tolerable for them.
Yep. I'm a very happy Overcast user, so I will never use Spotify to play podcasts. The podcast panel in Spotify UI makes that part of the screen useless for me. It bothers me about the same as an ad banner would.

Furthermore I'm annoyed at them calling whatever they are doing 'podcasts'. To me, a podcast means an open RSS feed. Even Apple, the king of walled gardens respects this.
That's the other thing to keep in mind, seeing things in perspective for the time; these movies were literally groundbreaking, like Wizard of Oz' transition to color film (compare with e.g. Avatar which popularised 3D film), Jurassic Park's use of CGI blended with models and live actors, the unfortunately one-off Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Toy Story's full CGI film that revolutionised animated filmmaking (arguably for the worst since it eventually came at the cost of "traditional" western cartoons).

It feels like it's getting harder to do something new.
It’s regulated everywhere with sensible health regulation. If you intent to have your software to make decisions about diagnosis or treatment. You are a medical device with all that follows from that.
It takes several seconds to load 100 results from a list of 1000, with no search term used. I don't know how that's even possible. I think half-baked is a mild way of putting it, particularly if the excuse is that it hasn't been in the oven very long.
That would have been a convincing argument, if we hadn't been collectively bitching (as West) for the Great Firewall of China.

Or if we at least didn't call ourselves "liberal" as we're slipping down the slippery slope.
We'd know about them if they existed as a company today.

Remember that what became Google was Larry's and Sergey's PhD project that no one wanted to buy.
Whoever did that, did Germany a solid by speeding up its decoupling from a murderous dictatorship.

> I wonder when countries on the macro scale stop acting like fifteen year old boys fighting over the same toy. Not in our lifetime for sure.

Maybe it would help if we properly sanctioned the countries who are starting the wars. By, I dunno, no longer sending them Billions of dollars for their stuff. And by helping the victims to defend themselves.

Incentives matter.
Of course. Or in the US during WWII, etc. Censorship is part of conflicts and confrontations.

Maybe better to say there are two different forms of censorship: 1) the government doesn't like something, 2) society reduces it attack surface

The two can coincide or not.
San Francisco is trying that right now, aren't they? How's that going for them?
I recently started using Navidrome to stream my old music collection and it's been a pleasure. It's also nudged me to actually download the music I've purchased on Bandcamp -- before that option inevitably goes away.
It depends if your revenue scales as fast as abuse scales.

Amazon should be able to keep on top of fraud easily, twice the sales means twice the revenue means they can afford twice the fraud checks, if they want to. That fake $30 "2tb microsd card" puts $30 of real money in their bank account.

But for something like Twitter, revenue is only vaguely related to number of tweets. That "elon musk wants to give you free dogecoin" tweet doesn't make them a cent.
I thought it became pretty clear last year already that the evidence trail pointed to Ukraine.
See e.g

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-p...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/11/ukraine-officer-ha...

Apart from the evidence, the motive for Ukraine seems to be pretty obvious as well.
I've had the same exact experience. I had to stop relying on Spotify-generated playlists because they just kept giving me the same familiar songs over and over again.
Yes it's a worrying trend you see in the laws proposed/created over the past few years.

ISPs in france already comes with censored DNS servers probably due to regulation for a few years now. I guess this is a suggestion to make EU wide not just for some countries.

The real problem is when they will ban and make it illegal to change from a list of censored ones.
+1 discover weekly consistently delivers a few new songs to my like list - I actually look forward to it each Monday when I start work.
well that's actually the definition of a liberal society , and the opposite of "free reign" is not "completely blocking"
Um, no. That's what they spent on bri^Wlobying. /s
Side note: Why do people add

site:...

to their search query instead of just ... the name of the website?

I do the latter and it works perfectly well, for example "apple vision pro hackernews" or "apple vision pro reddit".
as a synth enjoyer I also love effects pedals, but my bank account doesn't :(
Spotify pays out ~70% of their revenue to the rights holder.
It's like if income tax brackets were inverted and the higher your income the less taxes you pay.
Cloudflare's Security Incident Response a.k.a. Code Red [video]
I've been considering cancelling my subscription as well.

It first started some months ago with the fonts being corrupted on Linux, and more recently they removed the "I don't like this song" button (or made the program ignore it in other instances).

I'll agree with the sentiment of "we know what you really want" UI-wise... going really wrong. I might give them a couple more months to turn things around, but to be honest, I really don't want to go back to downloading music.
Probably the fate of each popular product.
ISPs will block DNS traffic to harmful DNS servers or reroute it to approved servers.
Alternative suggestion: instead of showing the target number, show instead the difference between the current sum and the target.

So 0 would tell me the line is complete. A negative number would show there's an error and I need to remove a piece.
Note to the author, if reading: the page is marked as German language which makes some browsers prompt to translate from German, despite being in English.
> something stuck in the bearings/bushings

This is tracks with my experience. I used to work for a mid-sized US grocery chain in the Midwest (Farmer Jack if anyone remembers those, gone now) and I once got reprimanded for cleaning the cart wheels. I didn't even have to take the wheels apart most of the time, just get in there with some WD-40 or pop out the small bits of concrete or rock with a screwdriver. Apparently that was a waste of time in my manager's eyes since "the carts were always broken anyway" and I was supposed to be unloading stock.
It really can’t be this hard to understand such basic sarcasm?

Or I’m actually the one doing that here (and your comment is sarcastic as well)?
I sometimes feel people overestimate the ability of doctors as a final decision maker. I used to make voting software for a large medical conference, and spent over a decade or so attending these events. Doctors would often present two (nearly) identical scenarios, i.e. a severe condition a patient has, and then proceed to try two different approaches in treatment. The follow-ups on this are presented at these conferences, to educate others and continue figuring out which procedures may be better in certain scenarios. The most shocking part about this all, to me, was the fact that they often just have their "own opinion" about the best treatment, only to get lectured (if not roasted) shortly after (in the Q&As) about why the method was long outdated, or not a good choice because of the patient showing X, Y and Z, etc. — all while two photos are up on the projector, of two children, one with "less than ideal results" and one with "perfect recovery" — two stories that could have been identical, but weren't, because we humans need to experiment and figure things out, slowly. And two other doctors present afterwards, doing the exact same thing, slightly differently, and thanking the first person about sharing it so they can also try it next time. Long story short - it felt SUPER ancient and error prone, at the cost of human life (and quality of life), and I often found myself thinking about what would be possible if we could let computers work with collective data and suggest based on probability rather than "winging it based on an (educated) hunch" the doctor has, just to have something to present next year. Side note: they were all absolute experts in their fields, of course, I am painting this a bit more black than it may be, but I remain quite shocked when I learned how doctors come to decision making in medical procedures.
And this is a good thing. I know MANY doctors who are getting out of healthcare and going into business in the USA due to the many problems that range from regulation to BU problems to - well, many other issues. People should be able to take risks as long as they know what the risks are and regulatory clamps need to be released.
i'd genuinely rather take my chances with an unregulated AI than what is currently available in the UK.
I might cancel it just because they keep showering Rogan with money, been testing alternatives already.
For some anecdotal comparison on the pressure on the main lines on the other hand: Recently a gas main near me sprung a leak. It sounded like a low flying jumbo jet right overhead while I was over a kilometer away. The pressure on those must be absolutely bonkers.
Things you can do on your personal website
Blocking RT has little to do with the opinions spread by it (though highly correlated for a variety of reasons), other people in Europe are allowed to say and spread the same ideas without any repercussions.
It is about fighting the intelligence operations by a country that is quite literally invading a bordering allied state. RT isn't being blocked because it spread ideas that are contained in some EU law to be illegal and dangerous opinions, they are being blocked because they are owned by the Russian state.
I get Spotify for free because my dad's phone contract comes with a family plan, but right now I'm trying free Apple Music that I got for a few months for reasons I can't quite remember, and it's really not much better, in fact it's worse in many ways, particularly in terms of buggier UI and lack of remote control functionality. I don't think I'll switch to it any time soon. All of the music apps seem to suck in their own ways.
rt.com - isn't that blatant censorship?

Of course the site is biased, but probably less than BBC.
But spotify has human curated playlists for different genres, does it not?
It was when the war in Ukraine started, RT was expelled from Europe (its name means “Russia Today”). A hundred or so employees in France were fired.
There is real thing happening. But the dissatisfaction from that thing happening is what's the criticism is all about. And those are two separate things. Things changing might be real or not. But the dissatisfaction of older generation is constant for thousands of years.
Cyclomatic complexity is much better for code analysis than pure entropy analyses.

Using linters and automated code formatting deals with entropy on level of words/characters rather well. So it is not useful metric for current state of art development.
The best Spotify playlist in my world was curated and constantly updated by a small business I had bought things from.

It lasted about a year or so - I don’t think Spotify wants that sort of thing to be created.

Today there’s a certain DJ at a certain community radio station that streams online from whom I discover much of my new music.

That said I do catch new things via Spotify but only by creating “radio” feeds for songs and artists I like.

I ignore the home page, I interact with Spotify via my liked songs and library.
Never listened to a podcast on Spotify and on my Home screen i have to scroll quite a lot (its like 10 row, pretty much in the middle of Home screen in my case) to see one row "Episodes for You" and one row of "Shows to try". Don't see how it is "pushing podcasts".
>Not only was the welfare of millions jeopardised, as Europe would've probably plunged into crisis if the winter of 2022 wasn't particularly mild

Dude, Russia had already cut Nordstream months before it blew up. No gas was flowing through it (the gas that leaked was the gas remaining in the line).[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_pipeline_sabo...

>Countries investigating the disaster have been worryingly silent [2]

Uh, no, Swedes closed their investigation because they did not have jurisdiction. That's all.
I was born in 1986 and we have the same story but my road leads to punk and hardcore. Which I believe the records (CDs, cassettes) are very hard to find compared to metal. I listened to a lot of Dead Kennedys when I was young, so I really don't mind if the quality is lossless or shitty. I am just glad that I could listen to it on repeat.
This seems to be a rather superficial article:

> When the FDA approves drugs and medical devices, it doesn’t need to keep tabs on how they evolve.

The FDA clearly keeps an eye on ongoing developments.

If your company produces an FDA approved drug, be aware you might get a visit by them to check on you, especially if you reported - oh yes, that’s mandatory - an unexpected deviation from your normal FDA approved processes.

And from the reactions I have seen by such companies, those FDA visits are no fun thing to look forward to either, even here in Europe.
That's a really low bar we're setting for our "liberal" "democracies".
Or, put your files under html/ in your repo, and push to /var/wwwroot (using the common /var/wwwroot/html setup)
It's also exposes your growth metrics. When using sequential id's one can tell how many users you have, how many users a month you are getting and all sorts of useful stuff that you probably don't want to expose.

It's how the British worked out how many tanks the German army had.
One can also have CloudFront before S3, IIRC.
... Because Spotify is an app to consume music, not to listen to it. They don't want to disturb the casual user who just want to listen to "that tune from the beatles". FLAC and Ripping groups/individuals is where you have to go if you care about mixes or little differences from a medium to another. It's such a joy to dig into an artist and find perfectly crafted rips of early 80s Japanese CDs of Michael Jackson and compare it with the vinyl releases, for example.

I feel your pain, and it's partly why I'm more and more moving from those platforms. It was very useful at first but useful is not how we want to deal with our music.
It's a boiling frog situation, next step in that scenario is making illegal to change the DNS.
You'd need a lot more money. Microsoft paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn in 2016.[1] You'd probably have to offer them quite a bit more than that to convince them to sell it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn#History
If you were basically born with Spotify, like many of us here (or at least, had it or something like it from a young-ish age), then unfortunately there's no way we will ever appreciate it. It's like someone from a century go saying how amazing it is that we all having flushing toilets in our houses and refrigerators. It's just life now, it's the new normal, not amazing.
Maybe it's you indeed. Spotify shows me Podcasts I should listen to supposedly based on the ones I currently listen to, but... I don't listen to Podcasts, and I don't subscribe to any. I listened to two episodes two years ago on vacation with my girlfriend in the car, and didn't even finish them, and now I need to listen to all this great stuff!

In addition to that:

"Jump back in" and "recently listened" are basically the same list of albums. I have tried to understand the logic behind them, but it makes no sense to me, and could very well be just one section.

I listen two some very much non mainstream media. I do have two or three sections of "please listen to random German Rap, or maybe Taylor Swift, everyone likes that". If they base everything on data, they really should know that this won't make me listen to what they propose, so why do they do that?