skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Emancipation is shedding dependence. And not just general happiness. Granular emotional needs like acceptance, appreciacion, feeling of being supported.
Ever since the pandemic most coin locks are always unlocked - and people keep them that way.
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What are those problems?
You were still writing here, so presumably alive and breathing, as late as five days ago.
Not familiar with Rossman but with german DM (drogerie markt) & Muller being well represented in my country (and I presumed other ones in Europe) for over a decade or more, I thought this concept had already been established in all of Europe.
Hey, it's nice to post every week the same post, but it would be nicer to share a bit more about the project, or at least a email to people subscribing.
Mandatory TLS in browsers, E2E encrypted chats bypass... I see a pattern there.
Seem like that's common in continental Europe.

In Spain in a "droguería" you would find something quite similar to a DM: cleaning supplies, some chemicals, personal hygiene and cosmetic products and the like. A "drogaria" in Portugal probably would a bit more similar like a hardware store, but also in the theme...
So are you arguing that it is impossible to reduce our civilization's GHG output, or that reducing it doesn't make a difference?

If the latter, well, I don't know what to tell you. I showed you the numbers. Not sure what else I can do.

If the former, that is a matter of opinion. Humanity has overcome problems before, and it is my opinion that we will solve this one too.

> It boils down to a simple problem with two avenues of action.

That is a false dichotomy. Depending on how things play out, it can also be a blend of the two.

> Which to you think is honestly achievable?

Both? We are already changing things at an accelerating rate and will continue to do so. Fossil fuels are getting increasingly phased out. It won't happen overnight, but it is happening. There is already exponential adoption of solar (and hopefully nuclear in the coming years) way beyond estimates from just a decade ago.

Yes, humanity will adapt. But it also gets a lot easier to adapt if we reduce how much we are making it worse.
I don't think disrupting a foreign states propaganda operation falls under censorship.
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but blocking rt.com is something more countries should do.
Not sure what Spotify does, but I gets worse in all kind of different aspects. I don't take a look at the start page anymore, just noise.
I hear quite diverse Music genre, so it was quite nice that Spotify has Mix-Tapes so I could randomly pick one or the other. Release-Radar was a cool mix of new stuff. But lately it feels like they are pushing only on genre.

Verschlimmbessern at its best.
> Instead, my subscription is probably pooled according to some black box formula and ends up paid to some of their top performers like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, or The Weeknd. While the indie artist I have been obsessed with gets literally nothing because they don’t meet a certain arbitrary threshold.

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. If I upload my music to a platform that pays me 100% of the royalties, I will get to keep the most of 0 dollars, because nobody will be there to listen to it.

I would argue that the issue is mainly relevant for indies who are past the "much-needed exposure" phase, starting to blow up, and now don't get a good (fair) share of it. That would be a great moment to go off platform, and take the audience with them, but many can't (won't) do that, because it may mean less exposure. So, after all, Spotify seems to bring something of their own to the table (a pool of listeners) that they want to be paid for. To get more exposure, they need bigger artists, to get those, they need money and crooked deals to convince the big labels to license it. So, while unfair at first glance, comparing a Taylor Swift deal to what I'm getting off of Spotify perhaps (I'm only guessing), I am happy to accept the deal for the random exposure I am now enjoying because of it.

I feel like I am betraying all artists just saying this, but I keep coming back to wondering why everyone feels like they deserve the exact same deal like a big-name artist (who bring their own audience I am benefiting from).
BYD's story to me is more about timing and some experiments paying off.

as a battery manufacturer, it probably took some internal management's push to continue developing on this area despite earlier setbacks. note that they tried developing other electronic devices without reaching this level of success.

china itself had a lot of regional electric car manufacturers in the past decade, out of whom a few have emerged as successful. it would not be completely fair to chalk their success down to getting "unlimited money from the government of the second largest economy".

the current declining economy has forced chinese automotive industry to look outside for continued growth, and i find it to have a similar consequence as the solar panel dumping of the early 2010s.
Apple Music if you're in that ecosystem
Spotify doesn't pay the artists directly. Apple Music doesn't pay the artists directly. Youtube Musice doesn't.... You get my gist.

All those pay to the rights holders. Why does no one ever question the rights holders: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group why the artists are paid pennies?
thank you for the post. The recommendation engine becoming generic and main page of pushed content were also the reason I moved away from Spotify Family to Apple Music family - added I was keen to see apple 3D sound which is not that great today. Pushing the age limit, even Apple Music seems uninteresting and I keep listening to the same music over and over.

The UX of Apple Music is also terrible:
- awkward Music interface that you keep mixing library and cloud versions, and my kids still don't get it.
- Testing my intelligence and memory on each menu item to find where my Pink Floyd album I keep playing is.
- I don't care about any albums they push on the main page and no way to tell them Beyonce or Rap is not for me AFAIK. Why don't they offer simliar artists I can explore than generic categories?
- no way to remotely access my kids play options when they fall sleep (got Spotify for this feature)
- With the above items, low return value per Euro I invest, listening on the same albums over and over.

Curious if there is a better way...
You can grade harshly and still be fair. The author implies that some might actually get an A on the first draft (though not many).

Is it good teaching? I have no idea. I know it’s not bullying though.
Been using Apple Music for months now after being a paying subscriber to Spotify for nearly a decade.

Very happy I switched. The new windows app is well built, too
Can very well relate to being annoyed with Spotify being an all-encompassing audio platform. I guess there is a market to that. YouTube Music is also bringing podcasts to their app.

But for someone who actually consumed a lot of audio content, that’s a terrible idea. If they had separate apps for these and showed hints to get you to download others, it’d feel way more organised.

I’ve completely moved to Apple Music for my music needs. The search is horrible and the suggestions are okay at best. But the UX and the audio quality is amazing.

I’ve also adapted to searching and listening to Albums instead of searching for one track and letting the platform decide what I listen to for the rest of the day.

Completely unrelated. But what Apple Music does with popular Album Arts is also incredible. I don’t have a problem with existing still image album arts. But there’s a real chance that animated album arts are the future
Put CF in front of that VPS and it is better than S3.
Slavery didn't ended in Rome or Europe because of Christianization. Some 5%-25% of inhabitants surveyed during the Domesday Book census of 1086 were slaves in the thoroughly Christianized British Isles. It took a Pope to mostly end Christian slavery of other Christians but of course the enslavement of non-Christians expanded to fill that vacuum for slaves that Christian Europe didn't seem to be able to shake.
Christianity even provided a moral and ethical framework for these religious slavers to justify their enslavement of Africans and Asians and pretty much anyone they could get away with. It's not the only religion with a history that doesn't match its rhetoric but I suppose I'm not responding to a post making claims about those.
I dunno why people seem to have these weird relationships with commercial companies where they get disillusioned, feeling betrayed even, and then have to go through what essentially is a break up with these tax entities. Is there a term for this psychological phenomena?
> Its going to be an unpopular take, but crypto solves this. As in currency. Make people attest to things with locking a very small amount of money.

So claims Elon on Twitter, a platform that is very obviously to anyone who uses it completely overrun with bots who have found it very profitable to validate their spam accounts and get preferential listings for a mere eight dollars, while scaring off legitimate users who (fairly) do not trust a service with no functioning security department with their payment information.
Honest question from a layman. Why is mandatory TLS bad?
>Things never change, the old generation fights the new one and calls it stupid.

I was with you until here, which I think is the wrong take. That is, this gets it exactly backwards. It's not just that every generation gets upset at the previous generation so let's all shrug and move on, it's that this is really a thing that is unfolding from one generation to the next.

It seems like the reflex of oh well the previous generation said it so let's ignore it comes up a lot, to the point that I have this go to example that I use every time it does. I'm a baseball fan. And one thing you used to hear in the '80s, with a guy like, say, Rob Deer or Steve Balboni, was that they tried too hard to hit home runs and they struck out too much. Then you heard that in the '90s as well. Then you heard that in the 2000s, especially with money ball and guys like Jack Cust. Then it just kept getting even more extreme with guys Carlos Pena and now Joey Gallo.

So one thing you could say is, well, every generation says that there were less strikeouts in third day. But there's actually data on this and..... it's true! Almost every decade, from the 1800s through every decade of the 1900s through now, strikeouts really have been going up year to year. And so that intergenerational commentary, well, it's describing a real thing that really is happening.

The same can be said of other things, like people saying they always used to remember the environment being better. Or people saying attention spans are getting shorter. But, they are.

The instinct here I think is to dismiss these since every generation says it. But I think the conclusion should be opposite, that these are real things unfolding on a multi-generational level. So if you see it happening with software, maybe that's because there's really something to it.
I bet the long path through every department IKEA nudges you to take forces their hand a bit compared to, say, a grocery store.
Yes, you can take measures to avoid your account being marked inactive but A) not as easy as "it's Google, you can trust it" and B) Google could change their minds about this stuff and go on a deletion spree at any moment, or even shut down blogspot entirely, it's not like they haven't shown form previously.
> My comment is ignorant because a large portion of America could care less about defending Europe? I guess I'll try and educate 100 million Americans before commenting again…

No need to be unreasonable. Educating one self should be sufficient as a start, before moving on to the immediate surroundings.

> Thanks for explaining that every country has motives behind its actions. I'm familiar with realpolitik it has nothing to do with what average Americans feel about Europe.

Of course not. The average anyone is not guided by theory. That wasn't my point.

My point was that the comment clearly did not come off as being written in good faith as an objective statement of the sentiment of the general public in the US alone. And as such it deserved to be answered in tone.

> You might not like it or agree with it(I don't) but lecturing Americans on how bad they are probably isn't the best way to bring them around to your side.

Persuading citizens of the US to the benefits of their own government's policies is not on the priority list for me. Frankly if anything, it should be the task of those citizens with knowledge of the theory that guides the making of those policies to educate their country men of the benefits. Yes, further military spending is not popular. But boots on ground is even less so.

To be honest I do not like the way the US conducts it self on the world stage, and believe that the world would be much better for it if the playing field was more even (rather than the modern day hegemony we have).

Cooling European/US relations with the EU taking steps to become more self reliant militarily, but still with the US as an equal partner, can only be considered a good thing.
I find Apple Music materially different on some of these. The UX of the music app for Mac sucks, but I use other software to interact with it (Raycast) so rarely touch the app itself – you can't do that with Spotify with anywhere near the same success. The Music app for iOS is really nice in my experience. The Podcast experience is entirely separate, and based mostly on open standards (although Apple have an opt-in additional proprietary layer). And Apple pay ~2x what Spotify do for streams. Lastly, it syncs my music that isn't on Apple Music, which Spotify cannot do, so I can still buy music elsewhere (like Bandcamp) and have it all in the same library.

It's not perfect, I'd still prefer streaming money to be distributed in a better way, and the apps could be better, but for me it's noticeably better on many fronts. I've also heard good things about Tidal in a few different ways – they pay even more for streams and have higher bitrate streaming I think. Both are good ways of pushing back against Spotify's control of the industry.
I can't judge the sequels, I don't like them very well myself. But, 20 years ago the prequels came out, and at the time people were like "wtf is this?"

But now, 20 years later the movies are still very much in people's minds, they get memed, their actors make (re)appearances in contemporary Star Wars related productions etc. So they must've done something right?
In the EU if a software is influencing diagnosis decisions of a doctor in any way it needs to be registered as a medical device software. Probably a similar regulation can be expected in the United States too.
Nah, too complex. Just use BLE with an app and this will unlock the cart. Very low friction and it does the cart <-> customer matching.

And make usage of carts mandatory ( door will not open.... )
That was always true. Iphone with 128gb, Mac with 8gb ram, etc.

And MacOS in some cases says to user "fuck you! Next time buy apple device instead". Like to write to NTFS pendrive.

But then in many cases the solution is to open Unix terminal to do what you want.
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. Only if I scroll really further than I've ever scrolled before could I find it.

Spotify shows me:

"Made for xnorswap: ": 5 "daily mixes" which have always been a bit rubbish because they're not really mixes, they seem to pick a song I like then they're that song's radio. The "Discover Weekly" mix is decent, the daily ones are not.

"Jump back in:" Continue listening to various playlists or albums.

"Recently Played": Similar, but for things I finished the first time.

"Your Shows": Podcasts I've actually subscribed to.

"More like bdrmm": Picks an artist I've recently listened to and suggests similar.

Only then we finally get to suggestions for things I haven't actually engaged with:

"Audiobooks for you": recommended audiobooks.

"Editor's Picks:" Suggested playlists

"Episodes for you": Episodes of podcasts to which I've subscribed.

"New Episodes": More episodes of podcasts to which I've subscribed.

"Shows you might like": Finally the recommended podcasts, about 5 pages down, and similar to podcasts I've listened to. Still no sign of Joe Rogan.

"Popular with listeners of Battleground": More recommended podcasts, again similar to a podcast I do listen to. Still no sign of Joe Rogan.

"Popular with listeners of Oh God What Now": More recommendations based on a podcast I rarely listen to.

"popular with listeners of TRiP": More similar podcasts.

"Popular with listeners of Scott Hanselmann": ditto.

"Spotify Original Podcasts": Finally, deep below anywhere I've scrolled outside of an exercise to look for it, I finally get linked to the Joe Rogan podcast, under a section where they link a bunch of Spotify podcasts.

Is Spotify UK totally different? Or has spotify put me in a "Likes music" category that has all the music recommendations above all the podcast recommendations?

Because I didn't even know Spotify Original Podcasts were a category until I scrolled 10 pages down to look for it.
Picking up a game engine without prior knowledge and making something on your free time, I assume that would be the aim.
My understanding is that most carts aren't broken but something is stuck in the bearings/bushings that allow the wheels to rotate on both axis. Just desmantling the wheel once in a while, cleaning it and regreasing it would do the trick.

It is just that shops do not care nor are willing to pay someone to spend the 15 to 30 minutes[1] every day to it takes check and fix them.

[1] if they were checked daily, most of them would stay in shape so a very little amount of them would need a fix per day.
The day I cancelled was May 19, 2020 and should've been yours too.
Just in case you didn't know, there is https://geizhals.eu which is the same as https://skinflint.co.uk which has very, very detailed filtering and sorting capabilities. Plus an android app (maybe iOS too). My personal go-to app/site when searching for computer hardware. Check it out.
Well, not everywhere in the world is electricity cheap. In Germany (Munich) I pay around 70 cents for kWh. That's close to what a full tank of gas would cost.
What do you think does fall under censorship?
> Smalltalk and Lisp machines

Lest we mention Plan 9!
> But that _should_ be easier in the digital world than the physical one.

Permanent bans without a chace to appeal are vanishingly rare in the physical world but extremely common in the digital world.
25 years ago I also had a lot of trust in freedom on the internet, because it would just "route around censorship" and all that. I don't have the same confidence anymore.
I feel the same like, I cannot get away from some songs even when I dislike them.

I got some AirPods and have a few Apple Music subscription I’ll try instead.

I’ve also just started listening to some good radio stations like FBI in Sydney Australia. Best way to find new music in my opinion. I add what I like on Spotify and it spices it up a bit.
Those are political outcomes. They're the result of deliberate choices by people and enacted by policies.
No. part of the whole value prop is that you take it out of its box and plug it in, then it works.
"Most people"? I very much doubt that.
What? This is exactly what censorship is. Censorship is censorship even if it aligns with your opinion.
I don’t think that living in a liberal society means you must allow every hostile foreign actor free reign in your society.
Apple Music pays artist pretty much double per stream vs. Spotify.

Just that alone is enough for me to support them rather than Spotify.

Along with the fact that Apple's discovery and new music playlists have gotten a lot better than Spotify's in just a few years.
Same experience for me.

I think the parent might be a new user. It was good for me for a few years but now it’s just stale as shit.
I stopped reading at this point, realising how different this person is from me and how much less likely I am to vibe with any of the other tips.
I do find Tidal to be a little better. I migrated due to comments on here and found it to not be the "no bullshit" experience that I hoped for, but it is a bit less obnoxious at least.
I don't find Spotify that much different from Winamp. Everyone says they hate the interface but apart from the suggestions or the front page (which I don't use), what are the problems exactly? I have playlists with songs that I can double click to play. What more is there to it?
I have Tidal HiFi-Plus (19.99 Euro/month [up to 24-bit, 192 kHz]), but i can't really say that i would recommend it.
There is also HiFi (10.99/month [up to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz]).

My biggest problems with Tidal (except for the price) are:
- Music suddenly becomes unavailable (greyed out), only to be become available under the same name later again (but you need to manually re-add it to playlists).
- Sometimes it just stops the playback and if i resume it always jumps to one specific song.

I cannot say anything about the mobile player, as i only use it on PC.

Alternativly: Just buy the music you like as FLAC.
My parents and me were living near a large supermarket in the very early 90s when coin carts were introduced. I spent the first afternoons with my little BMX bike at the parking lot, looking for carts where people, unused to the new system, forgot their coins. Or I simply offered to return the cart. If I remember correctly, in one afternoon I made somewhere around 25 DM. I invested the proceeds into LEGO pirate sets, of course.
I prefer multiple times to buy an album each month, and make the conscious decision of what I am going to listen instead of relying in algorithms. There's time for random playlist based in genre. But really, in this case, less is more.
Long article for a single comment: I quit Spotify because I can’t customise the home page which pushes podcasts and music I’m not interested in.

For me I navigate my music via My Liked songs + my own playlists for particular moods. If I open the app and press play it defaults to where I left off.

The fact there is a home page which shows options similar to what I like is fine, sometimes useful. Yes I’d prefer to customise it. Yes the recommendations aren’t perfect. Not a reason to quit, I love Spotify and haven’t found a better alternative.

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.
I never use spotify's suggestions at all. I don't even see them in my client (spotify-qt). I don't want "discovery". I just want to listen to the stuff I already know I want.

Which is one thing I really like about Spotify, if you have a subscription you are free to use whatever client you wish <3

It also seemes to have avoided enshittifying itself, moving from free with ads to paid with ads like many TV streaming services have done. They still get a thumbs up for me.
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